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• There are ways in which borrowers are disadvantaged by that language, and it duplicates our language.
• So that we understand that, okay, if it's duplicative, like we're saying today, are we sure it's duplicative
• So, Madam Chair, I would also mention that it duplicates most of the tax code as well.
• So it also duplicates that. Okay, thank you, Madam Chair.
• All of those different pieces are provided at a very reduced rate, but they do not have any say over

Committee: House New Mexico Finance Authority Oversight Committee

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• The Legislature's College Grant and College Bound cuts don't just reduce aid.
• Last year, the College Grant was also reduced for students at public schools.
• We are deep into that, and our education rules started in December with significant changes to reduce
• barriers, decrease duplication with accreditation agencies, and support quality education across the
• Importantly, though, I agree that the workforce pipeline needs to be streamlined and barriers reduced

Bills: HB2498 , HB2443 , HB2567 , HB2363 , HB2422

Committee: House Postsecondary Education & Workforce

Keywords: nursing education, nursing program standards, board of nursing, state board, national accreditation, accreditation body, nursing school, nurse educator, clinical simulation, simulation director, lead nurse educator, NCLEX, licensure exam pass rate, corrective action plan, technical assistance, higher education, program approval, Washington RCW, professional development, nursing licensure

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• are required to coordinate increased enforcement of traffic laws within the accident risk zone to reduce
• You know, so we’re not duplicating, but we’re getting the right information where it needs to go.
• You know, so we’re not duplicating, but we’re getting the right information where it needs to go.
• Trees help slow, absorb, and filter rainfall, reducing polluted runoff, supporting healthier waterways
• , and reduce heat, which is an increasingly deadly threat in our region.

Bills: HB2267 , HB2183 , HB2174 , HB1529

Committee: House Local Government

Keywords: urban forestry, local government, environmental policy, tree management, community planning, heat response, counties, public health, emergency management, climate action, crash prevention, traffic safety, roadside regulations, emergency zones, public safety, state legislation, infrastructure, county resources, road construction, maintenance

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• schools that benefited from this investment showed significant reductions in chronic absenteeism, reduced
• To streamline and minimize the duplication of effort, the state must strive to align such reporting with
• It is critical that any accreditation process be streamlined with existing systems to avoid duplication
• Well, there are a lot of rural districts that came in when we reduced the...
• schools that have been implementing California MTSS and that are in high-poverty and rural areas reduce

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• Interference Restriction and Enforcement Act, which amends and establishes numerous statutory provisions to reduce
• Why does your bill seemingly duplicate an existing federal program with another layer of bureaucracy
• Why does your bill seemingly duplicate an existing federal program within a does your bill seemingly
• duplicate an existing federal program with another layer of bureaucracy at the state level?

Summary: The committee first took up Senate Bill 1178, the Foreign Interference Restriction and Enforcement Act. Senator Grohl explained that the bill expands state restrictions and disclosure requirements related to foreign countries of concern and designated foreign terrorist organizations, including foreign-agent registration, gift bans for public officials, ethics training, procurement limits for IT and critical infrastructure, restrictions on sister-city/sister-state affiliations, changes to linkage institutes and in-state tuition provisions, and new criminal penalties for certain offenses committed to benefit foreign governments or terrorist organizations. Senator Polsky raised questions about higher education, election technology, federal FARA overlap, and whether the bill would affect candidates or events involving CARE; the sponsor responded that the bill focuses on foreign countries of concern, ownership/control, and gifts, and does not prohibit speaking at events. An amendment clarifying definitions, willful violations, and ethics-training content was adopted, and after supportive testimony from Kelly Curry and Robert Pierce, the committee reported CS for SB 1178 favorably. The committee then considered Senate Bill 1622, which provides a one-time waiver of the automatic fine for a late-filed financial disclosure if the filing is made before the maximum fine accrues and the filer has not previously received such a waiver or accrued the maximum fine in prior years. Carrie Stillman of the Commission on Ethics testified that the bill supports transparency and makes the fine and appeals process more efficient, noting it was a commission recommendation. The bill was reported favorably. Finally, the committee held confirmation hearings on appointments in Tabs 3 through 26. No senator requested separate votes on any appointee, no public testimony was offered, and the block of appointments was approved and recommended favorably to the full Senate.

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• 08.320><c> for</c> outcomes and also reducing the need for outcomes and also reducing the need for additional
• Increase supports reduces the need.
• Um, it things it reduces the need. Um, it reduces<01:11:26.480><c> the</c><01:11:26.719><c> need.
• Increase supports reduces the need.

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• If we are serious about reducing violent encounters and saving lives, we should be focused on giving
• They were bureaucratic duplication—years of lost time before construction can even begin.
• THEY WERE BUREAUCRATIC DUPLICATION, YEARS OF LOST TIME BEFORE CONSTRUCTION CAN EVEN BEGIN.
• They reduce unnecessary delays that drive up costs.
• THEY REDUCE UNNECESSARY DELAYS THAT DRIVE UP COSTS.

Bills: HCR74 , HJR72 , HR1042 , HR1048

Keywords: joint session, Congress, communication, President, HCR74, national emergency, government authority, Executive Order, legislative action, rule, special rule, House resolution, floor procedure, procedural resolution, firearms, gun laws, less-than-lethal weapons, weapons technology, National Marine Sanctuaries Act, undersea fiber optic cables

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• This would reduce the undue burden that's placed on grieving parents who face different requirements
• They incur an inflationary penalty that reduces the 340B price. Thank you, Lisa.
• But here's what most people miss when they reduce 340B to a discount program only.
• The second is duplicate discounts, which was mentioned by my colleague.
• We have to reduce services. It's a circling-down-the-drain effect.

Summary: The Senate Health and Long-Term Care Committee held a hearing on several bills. SB 5904 would prohibit non-human entities from using nursing titles; the sponsor and nursing groups said it is meant to increase transparency around AI and ensure patients know when they are interacting with a real nurse. SB 5915 would change Health Technology Assessment Program review criteria and timelines, with supporters arguing it would better account for Medicare coverage and national guidelines, especially for rare and life-threatening conditions. SB 6025 would update the definition of fetal death to allow gestational age to be determined by the best clinically accurate method rather than last menstrual period, and medical professionals and the sponsor said this would reduce emotional, financial, and legal burdens on grieving families. SB 5933 would require near real-time sharing of overdose data into ODMAP; public health, local government, and recovery advocates said it would improve overdose response, while one witness asked that poison center data be included and clarified separately. SB 5990 would allow APRNs and physician assistants to serve as local health officers in counties under 100,000 population; rural county officials supported the added flexibility, while public health groups and naturopathic physicians raised concerns about qualifications and asked that naturopathic doctors be included as well. SB 5981 would restrict drug manufacturers from limiting 340B drug access through contract pharmacies or requiring data as a condition of discounts; safety-net hospitals, community health centers, pharmacies, and patients said it protects access and reinvestment in care, while manufacturers, employer groups, and industry representatives argued it increases costs, lacks transparency, and may not ensure savings reach patients. No votes or final committee actions were taken in the transcript; each bill was heard and testimony was closed. Sign-in counts were reported for several bills, including strong pro support for SB 5904, SB 5915, SB 5933, and SB 5981, and mixed or substantial opposition on SB 6025 and SB 5990.

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• We would suggest at a future date shifting that language and duplicating it in 62M so it applies to all
• c> in</c><00:12:58.560><c> 62M</c><00:12:59.519><c> so</c><00:12:59.760><c> it</c> language and duplicating
• it in 62M so it language and duplicating it in 62M so it applies<00:13:00.160><c> to</c><00:13:00.399
• At the same time, we oppose barriers to innovation that can improve health outcomes and reduce costs.
• At the same time, we oppose barriers to innovation that can improve health outcomes and reduce costs.

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• When payments are delayed, organizations are forced to dip into reserves, reduce services, or postpone
• This duplication consumes valuable staff time that could otherwise be devoted to serving Californians
• We also recommend reducing the frequency of reporting where possible.
• Hey, this is really interesting, and I sort of hope that we can duplicate the kind of success you've
• Hey, this is really interesting, and I sort of hope that we can duplicate the kind of success you've

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• Additionally, the bill requires mutual water company-only assessment by the State Water Board, duplicating
• Additionally, the bill requires mutual water company-only assessment by the State Water Board, duplicating
• There's an ongoing consolidation study, for example, in the author's district, that this would duplicate
• SB 1089 will help cut costs to CalPERS by reducing the vulnerability to cancers and comorbidities related
• This would result in more people becoming healthier and reducing overall health costs.

Committee: Senate Appropriations

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• One was the treasurer wanting to change the word, like, accept to receive, and then a duplication of
• That grant program was reduced in last year's budget from $10 million to $9 million, and Governor Ferguson's
• supplemental budget reduces it further in the second year of this biennium.
• I think the suggestions I've made here would strengthen the effectiveness of the bill and reduce ambiguity
• These reforms would reduce costly delays, improve coordination with districts and agencies, and accelerate

Committee: Senate Local Government

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• What are the costs of this inefficiency that we... ...of what is sort of the cost of this duplication
• side, which many of these federal funds you receive, is going to get more and more pressure to be reduced
• It wasn't about reducing the caseload.
• It wasn't about those kinds of things because you can reduce the caseload by making eligibility changes
• It wasn't about reducing the caseload.

Committee: All ALC-HOSPITAL, MEDICAID, & DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES STUDY SUBCOMMITTEE

Summary: The committee met to hear an update from consultants Mason Bishop and Cameron Christie on Arkansas’s “one door” or “no wrong door” workforce and social services modernization effort. The discussion focused on moving the state toward a work-first system that better connects job seekers, employers, education, and public assistance programs, with goals of increasing upward mobility, improving labor force attachment, reducing inefficiencies, and adapting to changes such as AI and other economic disruptions. The consultants argued that Arkansas’s current system is fragmented across multiple offices, portals, agencies, and funding streams, and that people often have to navigate separate doors for workforce services, TANF, SNAP, Medicaid, and related supports. Bishop repeatedly pointed to Utah as the model, describing how that state integrated workforce and human services into a single department, used cost allocation to blend funding behind the scenes, and saw improved customer service and outcomes after reform. He said TANF should be treated as a workforce program, not just a benefits program, and suggested that Arkansas could use TANF and other tools to cross-train DHS staff, co-locate services, and create a more unified service delivery model. Members asked about federal flexibility, waivers, and whether the state could use one large waiver or a broader restructuring to simplify the system. Bishop explained that a federal pilot authority proposal failed in Congress, so the current approach relies on waivers, cost allocation plans, and possible state-level changes. The committee also discussed the relationship between DHS and workforce offices, the role of local workforce boards, how disability and vocational rehabilitation cases would be handled, and how the governor’s Restore Hope/Hope Hub and faith- and community-based initiatives might fit into the broader plan. Bishop said Arkansas already has rehabilitation services within the workforce department and emphasized that case managers should focus on people rather than programs. No votes were taken. The chair said the committee would revisit case management at its August meeting and adjourned the meeting after thanking the consultants.

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• There is one amendment offered by Senator Short, labeled G, I believe, which reduces, for the purpose
• that cover the full cost of serving the facility, provisions requiring the facility to curtail a reduced
• They also provide weatherization services, which reduce home energy usage by an average of 25 percent
• is already available, and the state should seek to understand what it has before imposing these duplicative
• centers to make in-kind, flexible contributions to the electrical grid, even when they cannot help reduce

Summary: The committee first met in executive session on Senate Bill 5941, which would exempt certain school districts from a Washington State Energy Code requirement for onsite renewable energy systems on large new commercial buildings or additions. The committee adopted Senator Short’s amendment narrowing the eligible school district definition from 1,000 or fewer students to 500 or fewer students, then approved the bill as amended and sent it to the Rules Committee with a do pass recommendation. The committee then held a public hearing on Senate Bill 6171, a proposed substitute addressing emerging large energy use facilities, primarily data centers. Staff explained that the bill would require utilities serving such facilities to adopt tariffs or policies to protect other ratepayers, require long-term contracts and full cost recovery, allow curtailment during emergencies, add reporting and sustainability requirements, create a fee to fund energy assistance, weatherization, and higher education programs, and impose new clean energy and labor-related requirements. The prime sponsor said the bill is intended to protect affordability, reliability, transparency, and the public interest as data center demand grows. Testimony was mixed. Supporters, including community action groups, environmental organizations, some utilities, Ecology, and student representatives, argued the bill would prevent cost shifting, improve transparency, support low-income energy assistance, and help manage grid and climate impacts. Opponents, including data center representatives, public utility district and business groups, and some local government and port officials, said the bill was too prescriptive, could raise costs, threaten competitiveness, duplicate existing utility practices, and interfere with existing CCA/CETA provisions and local flexibility. No vote was taken on SB 6171 during the hearing, and the meeting adjourned after public testimony.

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• establishing minimum section size expectations that make better use of instructional resources and reduce
• unnecessary duplication.
• unnecessary duplication.
• Our enrollment strategy and reduce unnecessary duplication.
• And there's also duplication so we can overlap and help each other.

Summary: The committee met at NDSU and approved the April 9 minutes. The main purpose of the meeting was an informational presentation from NDSU President David Stewart and university leaders on the university’s priorities, including enrollment, student success, research, commercialization, and use of New Horizons funding. Stewart emphasized a “One NDSU” approach, thanked legislators for past support, and said the university will focus on recruitment and retention, a new strategic plan, and growing research and tech transfer while serving North Dakota’s workforce needs. University leaders said NDSU is using tuition waivers more strategically and will work to reduce them over time through scholarship optimization. Provost Sherry Vale described academic portfolio reviews, program closures or consolidations, strategic hiring, and workload policies aimed at aligning resources with demand. They also highlighted student outcomes, including high completion rates, strong employment placement, and NDSU’s role in producing a large share of the state’s engineers, nurses, and agriculture graduates. Several students testified about how NDSU’s mentoring, internships, research, and support services helped them succeed. The committee also heard from partners on New Horizons-related collaborations: Gateway to Science described K-12 STEM outreach in rural and tribal areas, and Sanford Research discussed joint research efforts, including COBRE-related work, obesity and GLP-1 studies, and a joint biostatistics hire. Later speakers highlighted Governor’s School and NDSU’s research and commercialization efforts, including growth in research expenditures and invention disclosures. No additional votes or formal actions were taken beyond approving the minutes.

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• Well we are providing some resources as a mentioned we're we're we're reducing funding to the pretrial
• That we're reducing costs? No, that program is separate from your general health care budget.
• overtime hours that we can reduce based on how often we send folks out into the community for medical
• And so we are gonna have to look at those duplicative services and where we can save costs.
• the CDCR in by reducing that or eliminating it? Not in the next year.

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• The changes are that we've actually reduced it a little bit more from what was out there.
• After that, it is so duplicative it will exhaust you. Senator Albert, did you have something?
• in the industry, and I understand putting it on the Workforce Development, but you would have to duplicate
• You'd have to duplicate all what all these... ... have to duplicate all that these boards do over at

Bills: SB174 , SB180 , HB196 , HB25 , SB193 , HB25

Committee: Senate County and Municipal Government

Keywords: business taxes, annual reports, Alabama Tax Tribunal, tax appeals, local government, media monitoring, government contracts, state agencies, local agencies, media regulations, transparency, juvenile detention, county management, legal procedures, juvenile justice, county commission, supervision, administration, emergency services, local districts

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• ensure that school districts are filing for reimbursement from the federal government for free and reduced
• efforts and spend more money duplicate efforts and spend more money than<00:12:42.560><c> is</c><00:
• ><c> Is</c><00:14:44.480><c> there</c><00:14:44.720><c> any</c><00:14:44.959><c> way</c> free and reduced
• Is there any way free and reduced lunch.
• </c> government for free and reduced lunch? government for free and reduced lunch?

Summary: The committee first approved the June 20, 2025 minutes, with several members abstaining, and then adopted the consent calendar after removing items 223 and 224 under tab five, item 222 under tab six, and item 231 under tab seven. The committee also noted that an old business item related to YDC claims administration would be removed at a future meeting because the fiscal year had closed and no further committee action was needed. The main substantive discussion centered on Department of Health and Human Services requests. Item FIS-223 would fund a shared database between the Department of Education and HHS to identify children eligible for the summer EBT program; members asked whether it could also help with Medicaid or school reimbursement tracking, but the witness said the item was specifically for summer EBT and that broader integration questions would need follow-up with Education and Medicaid staff. The committee then adopted the item, with Representative Mooney voting no. Item FIS-224 concerned the phrase "high quality services" in child care-related funding; HHS said the standards come from the federal Office of Child Care, and the committee adopted the item. Item FIS-222 related to Money Follows the Person; HHS explained it is a 100% federally funded program that supports transitions from institutions to community living with services such as housing navigation, furnishings, and case management. Members questioned the scale and cost of the program, and HHS said the initial federal award was $5 million, with additional federal IT funding later approved; the committee adopted the item, again with Representative Mooney voting no. Under tab seven, the committee discussed item 231 involving ARPA funds and the YDC project. The Department of Administrative Services explained that recent Treasury guidance allows leftover ARPA dollars from approved projects to be repurposed only for additional work on already approved projects, not new projects. Members asked about whether the project was over budget and whether some items had been in the original plan; officials said the work reflected add alternates from the original bid and that the project was on track to meet the deadline. The committee adopted the item. The meeting then moved to the audit presentation on the New Hampshire Liquor Commission’s fiscal year 2024 management letter, which identified 13 internal control comments, including two material weaknesses, largely tied to the new NextG system. Recommendations included strengthening controls, formal risk assessment, reconciliations to New Hampshire First, cash receipt controls, subsidiary ledgers, SOC reports for vendors, internal audit functions, lease accounting, gift card breakage reporting, and IT security and access controls. The Liquor Commission said it concurred with most findings, described the system transition as successful overall, and said remediation would continue; committee members asked for estimated completion dates for audit findings and discussed the need for more regular follow-up on audit issues and budget monitoring.

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• So some complaints are duplicative.
• Some are duplicative.
• So we're really trying to focus on reducing vacancies in the mental health program.
• .vacancies and, you know, reducing our reliance on more costly position coverage.
• And again, it comes back to my previous question of duplication.

Summary: The committee heard an overview from the Office of the Inspector General and California Correctional Health Care Services on prison oversight, medical care, reentry, and related budget requests. The OIG requested $275,000 General Fund for two additional intake analysts, citing a sharp rise in complaints from 3,200 in 2022 to 7,860 in 2025 and explaining that the unit reviews and routes complaints, including PREA and staff misconduct allegations, within 30 days. Its medical inspection unit reported on cycle seven prison health inspections, noting generally adequate case-review performance but weak policy-compliance results, especially in medication management and health care environment indicators, and said it was beginning cycle eight with revised inspection methods. Members questioned the OIG about what kinds of complaints were driving the increase, whether the office tracks validity or systemic patterns, and how it distinguishes duplicative complaints from those already handled by CDCR. OIG said the largest categories were prison conditions and staff misconduct, that it does not determine whether complaints are “valid” in a statistical sense, and that it forwards issues to CDCR or other entities as appropriate. Senators also asked about the medical inspection findings, the remaining prisons not yet delegated back from federal receivership, and whether more detail should be provided in future reports. LAO and Department of Finance staff said they had no concerns with the OIG proposal. The committee then reviewed the correctional health care budget, including staffing, pharmacy, contract medical costs, and the state’s progress toward ending the Plata medical receivership. CDCR said it is trying to reduce vacancies through hiring events, social media outreach, new classifications, and more on-site care, while also using CalAIM to improve reentry services; CalAIM officials reported 89% Medi-Cal activation at release, 87% managed care assignment, 88% reentry care plans, and 59% warm handoffs, with about $14.7 million in reimbursements to date. Members pressed staff on the cost of receivership, the pace of delegation, whether more care could be consolidated into fewer facilities, and whether the state should seek more federal reimbursement or alternative staffing models. Finally, the committee discussed the new mental health receivership and a telemental health staffing proposal. The receiver’s office requested $33.9 million from the Mental Health Special Deposit Fund, including $8.2 million for the receiver’s office and $25.3 million to make court-ordered bonus payments permanent; CDCR also sought about $8.9 million for telemental health staffing, growing to $13 million ongoing. LAO recommended approving the action plan and portions of the telehealth request, but urged the Legislature to monitor progress, consider out-of-state recruitment and expanded telehealth, and avoid across-the-board salary increases; Finance cautioned that out-of-state licensure would require major statutory changes and that staffing-ratio changes would need receiver approval. Senators raised concerns about the high cost of receiverships, vacancy-driven fines, the need for more detailed benchmarks, and whether the state should consolidate mental health populations and better target recruitment to fill hard-to-staff positions.

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• Um, and then the third main high-level takeaway is that we would like to see licensing further reduced
• So those things stay in licensing, and then the other pieces that are often duplicative.
• So we look at parent AARE, often duplicative now of what's in licensing.
• So we look that are often duplicative.
• aare often duplicative now of what's<00:51:57.680><c> in</c><00:51:57.920><c> licensing.