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• with the PC and we did receive some funding for technology last session, especially to develop a low-code
• states case management system 3.9 million for the legal, office of policy and docket management, compliance

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• Was the suspension of our construction codes because there are innovative housing solutions in the 2021
• forward into the 2021 code?
• as long<05:01:48.280> as<05:01:48.400> it<05:01:48.480> meets<05:01:48.798> code
• /c><05:01:49.200> it's<05:01:49.718> it's<05:01:49.920> safe long as it meets code
• and it's it's safe long as it meets code and it's it's safe and<05:01:50.400> good<05:01:51.360

Keywords: 910, house, all

Summary: The House Finance Committee held an informational briefing with the University of Hawaiʻi, led by new President Wendy Hensel and Vice President for Budget and Finance Calbert Young. Hensel outlined the university system’s scope, student demographics, research activity, and campus missions, emphasizing four strategic priorities: serving Native Hawaiians and Hawaiʻi, student success, workforce development, and economic diversification through innovation and research. She highlighted the system’s enrollment, research funding, and the roles of Mānoa, Hilo, West Oʻahu, the community colleges, and specialized institutions such as JABSOM and the Cancer Center. Young then reviewed the budget request, focusing largely on making prior one-time appropriations permanent and supporting recurring needs. Items included funding for Mānoa athletics, the Hawaiʻi Institute for Marine Biology, K-12 teacher education, Pamantasan Council support, Hilo programs, Windward’s mental health technician certificate, Maui’s practical nursing bridge program, and student support positions such as financial aid and admissions counselors. He also described workforce-related requests tied to nursing expansion at Mānoa and West Oʻahu, as well as facilities support at West Oʻahu. A major portion of the testimony addressed the university’s two Kakaʻako medical facilities. Young explained that declining tobacco settlement and cigarette tax revenues are no longer sufficient to cover debt service for JABSOM and the Cancer Center, so the governor’s budget includes general fund support to supplement those obligations. He also described a regents-approved request not included in the governor’s proposal: expanding the Hawaiʻi Promise financial aid program to the four-year campuses, estimated at about $11–12 million. No votes or formal committee actions were taken during the briefing.

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• It creates consistent expectations statewide, which makes compliance easier and law enforcement more
• It creates consistent expectations statewide, which makes compliance easier and law enforcement more
• <00:15:11.440> easier statewide, which makes compliance easier statewide, which makes compliance
• by and in compliance with the reference<01:58:10.480> uh<01:58:10.719> code<01:58:12.159
• and who are employed reference uh code and who are employed by<01:58:13.920> by<01:58:14.320>

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• My name is Nancy DeFina, and I am the Director of Human Resources and Compliance from Nitch Hospitality
• state-by-state basis would lead to regulatory fragmentation, resulting in confusion, increased compliance
• In short, Senate Bill 205 would raise compliance costs for merchants and processors, undermine consumer
• We support initiatives to strengthen the criminal code, as others have recommended.
• . ...bill ignores the rigor of our training, of our curriculum, of our standards, and practice and codes

Keywords: 995, all

Summary: The committee opened a hearing of the Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure and reviewed a broad agenda including credit card fees, event ticketing, music therapy licensure, senior psychologist licensure, CPA pathways, school mental health licensure, and a bill regulating alternative healing therapies. The chairs explained hearing logistics, including three-minute testimony limits and submission of written testimony, and noted that more than 70 people had signed up to testify. Legislators and advocates were heard out of order throughout the day. A major portion of the hearing focused on credit card surcharge and interchange legislation. Restaurant owners, the Massachusetts Restaurant Association, NFIB, and other small-business witnesses supported bills allowing merchants to add convenience fees and, in one proposal, preventing card companies from charging fees on tax and tip portions of transactions. They argued that swipe fees are a major and growing cost, especially for restaurants, and that Massachusetts is one of only two states that bars surcharges. Opponents from the Cooperative Credit Union Association, the Electronic Payment Coalition, and the Electronic Transactions Association warned that the proposals would create compliance burdens, fragment the payment system, raise legal preemption issues, and disrupt a system they described as efficient and secure. The committee also heard competing testimony on ticket transferability and ticket resale. Supporters, including the National Consumers League and Sports Fans Coalition, said bills on ticket transferability would protect consumers who cannot attend events and would increase competition and savings in the secondary market. Opponents, including United Musicians and Allied Workers and theater owners, argued that mandatory transferability would weaken artists’ and venues’ ability to prevent scalping and predatory resale, and that some ticket sellers should be exempt from the broader ticketing regulations. Separate testimony supported music therapy licensure, senior psychologist licensure, and new CPA education pathways, with witnesses saying these measures would expand access to care and strengthen the workforce while maintaining professional standards. The hearing also drew extensive opposition to S.261 on alternative healing therapies, with practitioners and clients arguing it would overregulate spiritual and holistic practices and was not an effective response to human trafficking concerns.

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• early care and learning field, which targets both the framework built upon for this sector, within compliance
• the California Early Childhood Online, SECO, to continue to collect that to ensure that we are in compliance
• statute to provide this report, a five-year report that they update also yearly, that provides the zip codes
• statute to provide this report, five-year report that they update also yearly, that provides the zip codes
• And with the increase in workload, not only meeting federal compliance, as well as the expansion of slots

Summary: The joint hearing focused on California’s child care, preschool, and transitional kindergarten oversight, with chairs emphasizing the state’s Master Plan for Early Learning and Care and the need to break down silos between programs. CDSS and CDE reported progress toward the plan’s goals, including universal access to TK for all four-year-olds next school year, expanded access for low-income three-year-olds, and more children with disabilities being served in state preschool. They also noted ongoing work on quality rating/review reform, funding structure changes, and the need to address rates, workforce shortages, and federal uncertainty around Head Start. Testimony from advocacy groups and providers largely supported expanding access while simplifying the system. Children Now, Every Child California, and the California Budget and Policy Center argued that California still has uneven access, especially for infants, toddlers, and three-year-olds, and urged investments in mixed delivery, inclusion, full-day options, and a cost-of-care rate methodology. Every Child California recommended consolidating part-day and full-day contracts, streamlining eligibility priorities, making the two-year-old option permanent, and funding staffing incentives. Parent testimony highlighted how child care gaps and county-to-county transfer delays can disrupt work, safety, and children’s stability, and providers described low reimbursement rates, the need for health and retirement benefits, and support for delinking subsidy rates from private pay. The second panel addressed universal transitional kindergarten. The Learning Policy Institute reported rapid TK expansion, with most districts now offering TK, but said access still depends on facilities, staffing, and whether programs are available at all school sites. The Department of Finance said the governor’s budget would fully implement TK by adding funding for all eligible four-year-olds and lowering the adult-to-child ratio from 12:1 to 10:1. The Legislative Analyst’s Office said the administration’s enrollment and cost assumptions were optimistic and estimated lower TK enrollment growth and lower costs for the ratio change. CDE supported the expansion and urged continued funding for UPK coordinators, teacher development, and mixed-delivery planning grants. Members questioned facilities shortages, staffing competition, and how to ensure TK expansion does not displace CSPP or Head Start classrooms. No formal votes or actions were taken in the hearing.

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• The simple answer is we are operating under a number of different rules and regulations to be in compliance
• The simple answer is we are operating under a number of different rules and regulations to be in compliance
• We can do the DNA coding of fish when they're in our hatcheries. It's less intrusive.
• But that change in the water code didn't come with any new programs, didn't come with new funding or
• were at one moment 700,000, and importantly, have brought 300,000 drinking water systems back into compliance

Summary: The Assembly Budget Subcommittee on water and coastal resilience heard an overview of the governor’s Proposition 4 spending plan, with presentations from the Department of Finance, the State Water Resources Control Board, the Department of Water Resources, the Legislative Analyst’s Office, and later coastal agencies. Members discussed the water chapter’s major allocations for drinking water and wastewater, recycled water, tribal water infrastructure, groundwater recharge and SGMA implementation, dam safety, flood protection, integrated regional water management, Salton Sea projects, and water data/stream gauges. The LAO noted that many programs are established and have clear funding processes, but some newer or less-defined programs may warrant more detailed future budget requests and reporting. No votes were taken on the agenda items. Members raised concerns about groundwater subsidence, water deliveries from the Delta, the pace of water storage investments, instream flows, and whether bond dollars were being used to backfill General Fund reductions. Administration witnesses said groundwater recharge spending is being paced because prior years already funded substantial SGMA work, that Delta operations are governed by water quality, salinity, and species requirements, and that Proposition 1 storage projects have moved slowly because they are locally led and require permitting and financing. The Water Board and DWR said they use public needs assessments, annual plans, and existing grant processes to prioritize projects, and Finance said some General Fund programs were shifted to Proposition 4 to help balance the budget. Members also asked for clearer public tracking of bond spending and more concise future reporting. In the coastal resilience portion, the Ocean Protection Council and Coastal Conservancy described Proposition 4 funding for sea level rise adaptation, coastal flood management, habitat restoration, public access, and San Francisco Bay projects, with a multi-year rollout based on project readiness and recent large state investments. The Conservancy said it would use its existing rolling grant process, while OPC said its sea level rise grants would build on existing programs and new technical assistance. The Department of Fish and Wildlife explained its proposed use of bond funds for climate-ready fisheries, hatchery modernization, salmon monitoring, whale- and turtle-safe fishing gear, and a specific hatchery operations request tied to the Friant settlement. The LAO said the coastal chapter’s proposed first-year spending is relatively modest but generally reasonable given staffing and project readiness, while members emphasized oversight, transparency, and coordination across agencies and jurisdictions.

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• The second panel is New Hampshire Code for medicine standards of conduct.
• Association Code of Medical Ethics. Association Code of Medical Ethics.
• The second panel is New Hampshire Code The second panel is New Hampshire Code for<00:16:03.720><
• And this is writes the code of ethics.
• And so to ensure compliance.

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

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• we're asking for $3 million for repair and renovations, that is to bring that facility somewhat up to code
• facility<00:15:30.000> somewhat<00:15:30.320> up<00:15:30.560> to<00:15:30.720> code
• <00:15:31.600> Our facility somewhat up to code. Our facility somewhat up to code.
• psychiatrist and the nurse practitioners, would need an RN to run their clinic and to ensure med compliance
• psychiatrist and the nurse practitioners, would need an RN to run their clinic and to ensure med compliance

Keywords: 910, house, all

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• So Tom Fennel, the ambulance compliance officer at Mayo Clinic, is here, along with our friend Buck to
• So Tom Fennel, the ambulance compliance officer at Mayo Clinic, is here, along with our friend Buck to
• So Tom Fennel, the ambulance compliance officer at Mayo Clinic, is here, along with our friend Buck to
• <00:43:15.760> that<00:43:16.079> you regardless of your zip code that you regardless
• of your zip code that you have<00:43:16.720> an<00:43:16.960> ambulance<00:43:17.520><

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• And I want to be clear: our farmer and rancher members are in full compliance with that law.
• Our farmer and rancher members are in full compliance with that law.
• original legislation in 2011, The original legislation, in 2011, amended the International Residential Code
• , and therefore the California Residential Code, to require fire sprinklers in all occupancies, meaning
• In the last item in the set of amendments, we are adding a new Labor Code provision, which of course

Summary: The committee heard SB 921, which would create a tax credit to help agricultural employers offset overtime premium costs for farmworkers. Senator Grove and supporters, including farmworkers, the California Farm Bureau, and agricultural groups, argued the bill would restore lost hours and take-home pay after California’s agricultural overtime law reduced schedules. Opponents, including the California Federation of Labor Unions and CRLA Foundation, argued the proposal would subsidize employers with taxpayer dollars and undermine the principle that employers should pay overtime themselves. The bill was held in subcommittee until more members arrived. The committee then took up SB 1083, a cleanup bill to the prior year’s school employee misconduct database law. The author and supporters said it would add due process protections for classified school employees, require an administrative law judge review before placement in the database, and improve notice and vetting rules for contractors and non-permanent staff. School employer groups and other opponents warned the bill could slow investigations and weaken child-safety protections. The committee approved the bill 3-0 and sent it to Senate Appropriations. Members also considered SB 1089, which would require CalPERS health plans to cover GLP-1 medications and expand access through CalRX for chronic weight management and related health conditions. The author and supporters, including the American Diabetes Association and medical groups, said the drugs can prevent diabetes and improve health outcomes but remain unaffordable for many. Pharma representatives expressed concerns about the bill as drafted but said they were open to continued discussions. The bill passed 4-0 to Appropriations. The committee also approved the consent calendar 4-0. Later, the committee heard SB 954, which would narrow and add guardrails to last year’s CEQA exemption for advanced manufacturing, including environmental review near disadvantaged communities and labor standards such as prevailing wage and skilled-and-trained workforce requirements. Labor, environmental, and community groups supported the bill as a cleanup of an overly broad exemption, while business and manufacturing groups opposed it, warning it would discourage investment and worsen California’s competitiveness. The bill passed 3-1 to Appropriations. Finally, SB 1299, a fire sprinkler fitter certification bill, was heard and passed 3-0 to Appropriations with support from the sprinkler fitters and building trades and no recorded opposition.

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• And just a reminder that the agency's other divisions and P codes were covered in October and November
• Members, just a quick reminder, this is Agency Code 690, so just a little bit further beyond where we
• That hearing will be where we are with compliance of both remedial orders.
• you and the committee, and you could see exactly which counties in which areas are in caseload compliance
• and doing some research for A client, I discovered that there's some language in the public school code

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• procedures governing risk management, internal control, cybersecurity, business continuity, and compliance
• , and fire code compliance.
• checks to the Office of Cannabis Management to help the state better understand where compliance is
• is working and where it needs compliance is working and where it needs to<00:59:26.720> improve.
• <01:47:52.440> with methods of entry, and compliance with methods of entry, and compliance

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• Going forward, it will be vital for PED, school districts, and charter schools to develop consistent coding
• There's a QR code there for you to, if you're savvy and want to click on that QR code at some point,
• and collaboration, refining our instructional infrastructure as needed, we're able to move beyond compliance

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• This bill looks thick, but a lot of this is already language that was in the code. Thank you, Mr.
• that you're telling the truth, but it's not exactly Miranda because there's often not criminal compliance
• And I think we can get a quick amendment to where if there is a hearing and criminal code would be considered
• Subpoena power in the administrative... we'll say the administrative portion by code or an administrative

Bills: SB324, HB395, HB222, HB310, HB285, HB144, HB251, HB380

Keywords: Morgan County, judge of probate, legal qualifications, equity jurisdiction, constitutional amendment, campaign finance, electronic notifications, civil penalties, Fair Campaign Practices Act, Secretary of State, sex offenders, treatment programs, electronic media, post office box restrictions, Class C felony, parole, probation, human cloning, criminal penalties, embryo

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• 10.8 million parcels go on the roll, and at that point in time, they have to be in substantial compliance
• is that value of market that they put on every one of those parcels in aggregate in substantial compliance
• when they receive a notice of noncompliance from the department is that they will re-advertise Compliance
• That will bring them back into compliance if they have made an error on either of those things.
• For all that, too, they've all been brought into compliance almost immediately by reholding hearings,

Summary: The Select Committee on Property Taxes met for an educational session focused on how Florida funds public schools and how property taxes are assessed and levied. Dr. Jim Zengali of the Department of Revenue explained the FEFP school funding formula, noting that it is built on weighted student counts, a base student allocation, and programmatic add-ons such as transportation, exceptional student education, school safety, and mental health. He said school funding is roughly split between state general revenue and local property taxes through required local effort, with additional discretionary and capital outlay millages contributing to total school funding. He also described the Department of Revenue’s role in certifying property rolls at fair market value and reviewing them for substantial compliance, including the so-called “nuclear option” if a roll is not approved. Members asked about trends in millage rates, county-by-county funding differences, the effect of growth and enrollment changes, and how property appraisals are reviewed. Zengali said aggregate millage for school funding has declined over the last decade while revenues have still increased, and he agreed to provide additional data on county trends, parcel strata, student growth, and enrollment impacts. He also clarified that school funding is equalized so students receive similar resources regardless of county wealth, and that federal funding plays only a small role in the FEFP. Amy Baker of the Joint Legislative Office of Economic and Demographic Research then discussed existing homestead benefits. She said about half of Florida’s parcels are homestead properties, most fall in the $250,000 to $500,000 value range, and many seniors without mortgages pay property taxes in lump sums rather than through escrow. Baker explained that Florida’s homestead tax burden is middle-of-the-pack nationally and that the main benefits are Save Our Homes and portability on the differential side, plus the $25,000 homestead exemption and related exemptions on the exemption side. She said these benefits reduce taxable value substantially, with homestead properties receiving a large share of the reductions, and noted that the committee requested follow-up data on exemption usage, portability timing, senior exemptions, and county-level patterns. The final presentation, by Lizette Kelly of the Department of Revenue, covered millage rates and the TRIM process. She reviewed the history of truth-in-millage notices, required taxpayer mailings, public hearing notices, and later changes that tied local millage resets to rollback and majority-vote rates. Kelly explained the difference between proposed and adopted millage, the rollback rate, and the majority-vote rate, and described how taxing authorities include counties, cities, special districts, and MSTUs. She also outlined how county taxable value is calculated from just value through assessment differentials and exemptions, and how certain exemptions, such as the additional senior exemption, apply only to the taxing authority that adopted them. No votes were taken during the meeting, but members requested several follow-up data reports for later discussion.

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• <00:26:21.279> I getting these compliance reports. I getting these compliance reports.
• not secret code.
• They're still codes are being met.
• Civil rights compliance. >> Athletics.
• :19.680> specialist civil rights compliance specialist civil rights compliance specialist report

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• an MMIP summit a few years ago where the Attorney Journal's office rolled out a survey through a QR code
• Moving to child welfare, our office remains committed to supporting and advocating for ICWA compliance
• And so people need to understand that MMIP is also a matter of child welfare. ...compliance throughout
• Tribe as a participating tribe and are working closely in partnership to support implementation, compliance
• Our compliance—and I prefer not to use the word compliance because I think compliance is a floor.

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• folks were thinking about a potential tax package, that may have already been spent with how our tax code
• Well, that policy isn't a suggestion, not a statutory compliance issue.
• We're assisting entities with audit compliance reviews right now.
• Who's going to do the audit and compliance? That's a humongous issue across the board.
• The burden is on them to prove that they have the financial controls, they have the audit compliance,

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• payers of last resort in a way, but in this it's even more like you cannot just go if there's a CPT code
• payers of last resort in a way, but in this it's even more like you cannot just go if there's a CPT code
• like you cannot just go if there's<00:15:33.519> a<00:15:33.920> CPT<00:15:34.399> code
• <00:15:34.560> or<00:15:34.720> an<00:15:34.880> ICD<00:15:35.360> codes<
• /c><00:15:35.920> and there's a CPT code or an ICD codes and there's a CPT code or an ICD codes

Keywords: 958, all

Summary: The Health Services Committee heard a presentation from Dr. Steven Stack, Secretary of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, on Kentucky’s Rural Health Transformation Program. He said Kentucky received about $213 million in federal funding, among the highest awards nationally, after a fast application and negotiation process. He emphasized that the grant is time-limited, must be used for the specific goals in the state’s application, and cannot be treated as a general bailout or replacement for existing funding. He also noted the state will use a website, ruralhealthplan.ky.gov, to share the full application, award terms, and future opportunities. Dr. Stack outlined five focus areas: maternal health and prenatal/early childhood supports; EMS and trauma response workforce and transfer capacity; behavioral health crisis care through the EMPATH model and mobile crisis services; oral health access through more hygienists, telehealth, and hub-and-spoke models; and rural community hubs for chronic disease prevention and innovation, including food-as-medicine and healthier lifestyle interventions. He stressed that the program is meant to be transformative, not duplicative, and that it cannot pay clinician salaries, fund new construction, replace EMR systems broadly, or duplicate billable services. He said the state will work with community partners, hospitals, universities, and others, including the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky, to begin implementation. Members responded positively overall. Senator Berg praised the award and the goal of integrating care across the state, but raised concerns about access to prenatal care and about possible future changes to water fluoridation, warning both could harm children and rural families. The chair and other members thanked Dr. Stack for the update and congratulated him on the award. No votes or formal committee actions were taken during this portion of the meeting.

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• Under the code, it requires public bodies to adopt a policy regarding remote participation by members
• commission members may participate in meetings electronically as permitted by § 2.2-3708.3 of the Code
• commission that it may hold all-virtual public meetings pursuant to subsection C of § 2.2-3708.3 of the Code
• is really guaranteeing access to no-cost school meals to all Virginia students, no matter their zip code
• present a report on SNAP enrollment and other things that we need to do to make sure we are in compliance

Keywords: Virginia Commission to End Hunger, 976, house, all