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• I ask the advice, consent, and confirmation of the Senate with respect to the following appointments:
• What it will do is take much more of our local budgeting process to the ballot box.
• She was not very familiar with the voting process, and she was excited about voting.
• They don't have the time to come up here, maybe once in a while, but to really learn the process.
• It's a very complex and complicated legislative process that we have here in our state capitol.

Bills: SB 10, SB 8, SB 15, SB 12, SB 6, SB 13, SB 9, SB 7, SB 17, SB 4, SB10, SB8, SB15, SB12, SB6, SB13, SB9, SB7, SB17, SB4

Keywords: sex designation, restroom access, civil penalties, private civil right of action, women's privacy, law enforcement, department file, employee records, misconduct, confidentiality, Texas occupations code, election laws, attorney general, prosecution, criminal offenses, criminal prosecution, jurisdiction, hemp, consumable hemp, hemp-derived cannabinoids

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• That is due process.
• That is due process.
• This process is complex.
• <06:13:00.400> Therefore, This process is complex. Therefore, This process is complex.
• Now, imagine federal process.

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• would have to be that enrollment process would have to be that enrollment process and<00:13:34.279
• um I first encountered this process um I first encountered this process in<00:31:58.960> Louisiana
• I don't have a lot of love for that process, but anyway, thank you.
• <02:26:23.160> of um I am still in the process of um I am still in the process of appealing
• He said, "You made this appointment. You showed up for this appointment. You're articulate."

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

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• And then four members are appointed by the governor Four appointed by the legislature.
• It's something that's been a long ongoing process. You could see back in 2021, we were at 25.39%.
• They don't have to go through the BAR process before they're able.
• And the third is for not processing invoices in the health benefits fund.
• Let's see if the new finding for not terminally processing invoices for the health benefits fund can

Keywords: 996, all

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• We seek to protect the rights of all who participate in the legislative process so that we can have effective
• First, I have a letter from the Speaker appointing Assembly Member Don Addis to replace Assembly Member
• of ballots in Riverside County, which raised serious concerns about interference in our democratic process
• The law allows observers to challenge whether processes are being followed.
• really appreciate the work that you're doing to protect our communities, to protect our elections process

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• I'm sure we'll have more conversations as the process moves on.
• The process. We went through the pathways to licensure.
• As far as the fee increase, we are currently in the process.
• If an individual is denied certification, what is the review process or the appeal process?
• , appoints its own membership, and runs off members who dare to shed a light on their internal processes

Summary: The joint sunset oversight hearing reviewed five regulatory entities: the Board of Behavioral Sciences, the Board of Psychology, the Physician Assistant Board, the Podiatric Medical Board, and the California Massage Therapy Council. Across the hearing, each entity described recent accomplishments, licensing and enforcement workload, workforce shortages, and efforts to modernize processes. Common themes included streamlining licensure, expanding access to care, addressing telehealth or emerging technology, and balancing consumer protection with workforce needs. For the Board of Behavioral Sciences, members discussed workforce shortages in mental health, supervision barriers, telehealth confidentiality, AI in therapy, interstate compacts, school-based services, and military spouse licensure. The board said it has expanded outreach, improved licensing processes, and created temporary practice authority tracking, while also expressing concern about counseling compacts and emphasizing California-specific law, ethics, and cultural competency. Public commenters supported the board’s work and the possible move to a national MFT exam, while also urging more resources. The Board of Psychology highlighted fee adjustments, streamlined licensure pathways, enforcement process improvements, new CPD requirements, and proposed changes including a psychotherapist-client privilege exception for investigations. Committee members and public witnesses focused heavily on that privilege proposal, with some members opposing it as too broad and privacy-invasive, while the board argued it is needed to obtain records in bias and sexual misconduct cases. The board also discussed workforce shortages, processing improvements, and the use of inactive status for psychological associates. The Physician Assistant Board reported growth in the PA workforce and education programs, SB 697 implementation, and financial pressure from rising enforcement costs. The main policy debate centered on physician-to-PA ratios and practice agreements, with board representatives and many public commenters arguing that current restrictions limit access to care, especially in rural areas, while the California Medical Association defended the need for explicit ratios and agreements. The board also discussed AI, fee increases, and tracking temporary practice authority. The Podiatric Medical Board described licensing and renewal reforms, residency expansion, enforcement support, and budget constraints, while public testimony raised concerns about a proposed fee increase and about reimbursement parity and practice recognition for podiatrists. Finally, the California Massage Therapy Council defended the certification model over licensure, citing lower costs, local government collaboration, anti-trafficking work, and its role in vetting applications and disciplining bad actors; no formal votes or final actions were taken during this portion of the hearing.

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• We pray for these appointed. Who are about to begin or be reappointed to these positions.
• Appoint Michelle Eisenberg and Chris Langley. I believe Miss Eisenberg is here with us today.
• Hearing none, your appointment is.
• Hearing none, your appointment is approved by committee and we'll now move on to the Senate floor.

Keywords: 923, senate, all

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• I'm new to the Arizona process. My apologies. Mr.
• So once you change the process and move to a synthetic... ...it's made in yeast.
• So once you change the process and move to a synthetic process, you're also going to get a completely
• What does that process look like? How do we know that they're doing it correctly?
• I think the stakeholder process will sort this out.

Bills: HB2746, HB2750, HB2765, HB4036

Keywords: trade offices, committee, Arizona commerce authority, stakeholder input, efficiency, Arizona-Sonora, Sonora, Mexico, trade commission, cross-border trade, bilateral trade, international trade, economic development, foreign relations, border economy, investment, infrastructure, business exchange, academic exchange, legislative commission

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• So, and then internal processes for approval, external processes for approval.
• And so that is a process.
• I don't even know how to process this.
• So that is a baked-in part of our process.
• So there's a two-step process to resolving any disputes.

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• This process can be a barrier for patients, especially for those in rural areas.
• What’s the process?
• The court attorney takes it into kind of the formal process.
• Our process does not change.
• And so that worker then is a part of our pre-I process. They're a part of our teaming process.

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• I hereby appoint the Honorable Mariannette Miller-Meeks to act as Speaker pro tempore on this day.
• You know, the legislative process is supposed to have all of us here in the light of day, you know, on
• You know, the legislative process is supposed to have all of us here in the light of day, you know, on
• it that practice was banks to process it that practice was costing<05:47:53.280> American<05:
• <06:19:20.280> and makes us more able to uh process and makes us more able to uh process and

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Wednesday, February 12, 2025, 1012, house, all

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• and just a message, please make a And just a message, please make a decision in completing the appointments
• During his nomination process, Mr. E. T.
• Uh through that process, he's committed Uh through that process, he's committed to emphasizing that electric
• Then Ben was appointed Senate Sergeant at Arms in 1979, and he's worked through five of Hawaii's nine

Bills: HB1800, HB1860, HB2250, HB472, HB649, HB1391, HB1481, HB1509, HB1511, HB1515, HB1518, HB1541, HB1548, HB1576, HB1618, HB1642, HB1643, HB1661, HB1667, HB1678, HB1682, HB1688, HB1692, HB1707, HB1710, HB1711, HB1713, HB1718, HB1721, HB1728, HB1737, HB1740, HB1741, HB1785, HB1801, HB1802, HB1804, HB1810, HB1815, HB1824, HB1838, HB1839, HB1853, HB1854, HB1864, HB1870, HB1881, HB1888, HB1890, HB1891, HB1894, HB1920, HB1959, HB1960, HB1969, HB1973, HB1974, HB2023, HB2050, HB2078, HB2094, HB2095, HB2104, HB2137, HB2152, HB2158, HB2171, HB2207, HB2218, HB2246, HB2270, HB2271, HB2272, HB2279, HB2282, HB2289, HB2293, HB2297, HB2300, HB2309, HB2310, HB2314, HB2319, HB2329, HB2338, HB2339, HB2344, HB2361, HB2385, HB2395, HB2417, HB2429, HB2443, HB2452, HB2474, HB2475, HB2498, HB2505, HB2547, HB2576

Keywords: supplemental appropriations, state budget, Hawaii budget, biennial budget, capital improvement projects, CIP, general fund, special fund, green fee, special land and development fund, clean energy revolving loan fund, agricultural development revolving fund, community grants, nonprofit grants, Office of Community Services, housing, affordable housing, homelessness, health care, mental health

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• accepted a fully qualified appointment accepted a fully qualified appointment to<00:18:09.600>
• accepted a fully qualified appointment accepted a fully qualified appointment to<00:18:58.080>
• bureaucratic process demands today. bureaucratic process demands today.
• tell the government contracting process tell the government contracting process is<03:40:43.200>
• Just one the reconciliation process.

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Tuesday, June 3, 2025, 1012, house, all

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• for the and clarifying that the mandate for the commission<00:01:33.960> to<00:01:34.080> appoint
• <00:01:34.400> inspectors,<00:01:35.080> making commission to appoint inspectors, making
• commission to appoint inspectors, making technical<00:01:35.760> non-substantive<00:01:36.600
• <00:57:35.880> So, and that is exactly that process.
• So, and that is exactly that process.

Keywords: 912, senate, all

Summary: The committee first took up SB 2045 relating to combat sports and recommended passage with SD1. Members adopted requested changes from DCCA and the boxing commission, including clarifying that the onsite medical professional must be a licensed physician, specifying when a deputy combat sports commissioner must file a written report, removing the combat sports registry language and ambulance requirement, clarifying promoter payment requirements, and requiring advance coordination with the nearest emergency room or hospital. The bill also makes technical amendments and sets an effective date of July 1, 2050. The measure passed unanimously among members present, with Senators Fukunaga and Kim excused. The joint hearing then considered SB 2187 relating to the Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism. Testimony was brief and largely in support, and the committees agreed to pass the bill with SD1, making technical non-substantive amendments and changing the effective date to July 1, 2050. The committees voted to adopt the recommendation, with members present voting aye and some senators excused. A longer portion of the hearing focused on several economic development measures, including SB 2072 on tourism, SB 3049 on a trade-oriented production capacity grant program, and SB 3166 and SB 3167 involving technology development and the blue economy. SB 2072 drew questions about cost, benefit, and the practicality of promoting Michelin-star restaurants in Hawaii. SB 3049 received broad support from DBEDT, HTDC, chambers, and industry groups, but members questioned whether a new grant program was needed, why DBEDT could not do it without legislation, and whether the state should instead use existing entities like HTDC; the discussion also covered matching funds, likely beneficiaries, and administrative capacity. SB 3166 and SB 3167 were supported by technology and ocean-sector witnesses who said the state needs coordinated planning, specialized expertise, and support for advanced manufacturing and ocean innovation, but members raised concerns about relying on third-party consultants, duplication of existing public capacity, ethics, cost, and whether the work should instead be done by state staff or existing institutions. No final votes on the later bills were captured in the transcript excerpt.

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• need to have to start that process? need to have to start that process?
• We've even had a couple of those people come back after they left for follow-up appointments because
• We've even had a couple of those people come back after they left for follow-up appointments because
• We've even had a couple of those people come back after they left for follow-up appointments because
• and intake process around an ACE<01:08:24.080> assessment?

Keywords: 958, all

Summary: The Joint Committee on Families and Children met with a quorum, approved the August minutes, and received an update that the number of children in out-of-home care with active placements was 8,647 as of September 7, 2025. The first presentation was from Isaiah 117 House, a nonprofit that provides a home-like setting for children on removal day so they do not have to wait in a state office. Speakers described the mission as reducing trauma for children, lightening the burden on case workers, and easing transitions to foster or kinship placements. They said the Kentucky home in Logan County opened on August 15 and had already served 10 children in its first six days. Committee members asked about logistics, including whether children placed with kinship caregivers would still come to the house, how long children can stay, who remains responsible for them, and how volunteers are screened. The presenters said children are brought to the house regardless of whether they are headed to kinship or foster placement, that 72 hours is not a hard cutoff, and that a case worker remains in charge at all times while volunteers provide support. They also said volunteers undergo background checks, trauma-informed training, confidentiality instruction, and annual continuing education. In response to questions about funding and expansion, they said Isaiah 117 House is community-funded without state or federal money, and that new homes are opened only when fully funded, with construction costs typically ranging from $80,000 to $150,000 and first-year budgets around $180,000. The committee then heard a presentation from Remy Eastep Homes on its Family Centered Integrated Healthcare and related services. Leaders described the organization’s history from its origins as separate orphanages in Boyd County to residential treatment, treatment foster care, prevention services, and outpatient behavioral health. They said the organization shifted about 15 years ago toward engaging families more directly because family involvement improves outcomes and helps keep children safely at home when possible. The presentation continued into program details, but no votes or formal actions were taken on either presentation.

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• I greatly appreciate your time, attention, and patience in this process. So thank you very much.
• like it was when we laid out the bill, Madam Chair and committee, the head of Cyber Command will be appointed

Keywords: 1185, senate, all

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• The Lessard-Sams Council consists of 12 members: two appointed legislators from the House and two appointed
• from the Senate, eight citizens, of which two are appointed by the House, two are appointed by the Senate
• ><00:16:15.040> immediiacy competitive process in which immediiacy competitive process in which
• <01:17:52.560> and has eroded trust in the process and has eroded trust in the process and
• It's a consensus project process. It's a consensus building<01:20:34.400> process.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• enacting clause and inserting in place thereof the text contained in Senate Document No. 3054, and has appointed
• The House has appointed Representatives Michlewitz, Diggs, and Suezia [questionable] on the part of the
• Durant, moves that the Senate insist upon its amendment and appoint a committee of conference.
• The Chair will appoint Senator Rogers of First Bristol and Plymouth, Senator Comerford of Hampshire,

Keywords: 995, all

Summary: The Senate opened with the pledge of allegiance and then took up a committee report from the Committee on Rules of the Two Branches recommending suspension of Joint Rule 12 for a petitioned bill by Michael D. Brady establishing a firefighter staffing grant program. The Senate also suspended Rule 36 to consider the matter forthwith and referred the bill to the Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security. The chamber then acted on several bills from the Orders of the Day. It ordered to a third reading a Senate bill authorizing the grant of easements or takings of certain parcels of land to the City of Boston, and it passed to be engrossed House Bill 4602, which increases the membership of the select board in the town of Monson after a title change by the Committee on Bills in the Third Reading. After a brief recess, the Senate received House Bill 5280, a fiscal year 2026 supplemental appropriations bill. The House had non-concurred with the Senate amendment and appointed a conference committee; the Senate voted to insist on its amendment and appointed its own conferees. The Senate also took up House Bill 5317 concerning easements or takings of certain parcels of land in Boston, suspended the rule to consider it forthwith, and ordered it to a third reading. The session ended with adoption of an adjournment order and adjournment until Tuesday at 11 a.m.

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• After I retired, I was appointed to be a tax commissioner.
• Through the processes, I'm looking forward to serving on this commission. Thank you, Mr. Hamburger.
• Do you anticipate there would be some due process here before the speaker pro tem, etc., would be informed
• don't want to accidentally paint with a broad brush, something that needs to have some specific due process

Bills: HB1170

Keywords: fiduciary responsibility, proxy voting, public finance, Oklahoma statutes, pension plans, pecuniary factors, nonpecuniary factors, financial risk, Attorney General, 914, all

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• There was confusion at nearly every level of the process. You'll ask yourself why?
• the first woman My name is Gloria Leal and I'm a national LULAC General Council, the first woman appointed
• It creates people being deterred from participating in the process at all. >> Representative.
• Republican county judge seems if you saw the rebuke in Williamson County was very frustrated with the process