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• It was originally a hydro facility for the paper mill that was in town at the time.
• It was originally a hydro facility for the paper mill that was in town at the time.
• <00:10:51.360> recognizing maintenance on the facility recognizing maintenance on the facility
• up in the Iron Range at a a mining facil up in the Iron Range at a a mining facil or<00:27:07.360
• And this bill today does that. don't want to invest in facilities that don't want to invest in facilities

Keywords: 1183, house

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• c><00:03:27.840> between inter facility transports, so between inter facility transports, so between
• and the inter facility transports. and the inter facility transports.
• So, to equipment or facilities.
• Where’s the closest facility to take them?
• I mean, it it's facility to take them?

Bills: HB0004

Keywords: medical assistance, birthing centers, healthcare, Medicaid, Wyoming, 916, all

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• First up, SB 2932 relating to state facilities.
• Yeah, we're going to facilities only.
• This is state facilities.
• This is state facilities.
• This is state facilities.

Bills: SB2094

Keywords: toxic chemicals, environmental action levels, public notice, environmental safety, pollution control, Hawaii State Constitution, public participation, government transparency, environmental health, 912, senate, all

Summary: The committee first took up SB 2094, which would require state agencies monitoring environmental toxins and pollutants to establish environmental action levels and limit changes to those levels without meeting procedural requirements. The chair recommended passing the bill with amendments, including inserting estimated costs for a secure portal website and webinars into the committee report and deferring the effective date to July 1, 2050. The motion passed unanimously among those voting, with excused members noted. The committee then considered several other measures and adopted recommendations to pass them with amendments, generally adding technical and clarifying changes and setting a defective date of 2525. SB 2862 was amended to broaden the preamble, make additional appointees confirmable, clarify reporting requirements for gubernatorial appointees, and was held for further discussion. SB 2781 on lei production created a working group to review existing studies and conduct a statewide study of Hawaii’s floriculture industry. SB 3015 adopted California’s definition of PII, applied it to government agencies and political subdivisions, created a private cause of action, and required a compliance report. SB 3230 removed a categorical prohibition on certain third-party project management procurements while preserving state oversight responsibility, in line with procurement office requests. The joint GVO Health and Human Services agenda then focused on two related bills requiring universal changing accommodations in public restrooms. SB 2932 would apply to new state building construction beginning July 1, 2026, and testimony from disability advocates, the Hawaii State Council on Developmental Disabilities, and others supported the measure while asking for language clarifying that the requirement applies only where technically feasible and, in some cases, only to state-managed buildings. SB 2268 was described as broader, extending beyond government buildings into the private sector and including a private right of action; witnesses supported the concept but raised implementation concerns, especially for smaller businesses, and requested the same technically infeasible language and other clarifications. Both bills were advanced with amendments, and the committee noted adoption of the recommendations.

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• Because of the facilities funding. And so I don't So I want to ask why why is this the priority?
• But, yeah, the facilities funding is one that, you know, it takes the cap off.
• Facilities funding for a charter.
• I think it's largely the small and mid-sized adjustment. and the facilities funding.
• We hope to see the state recommit to supporting district facilities needs.

Bills: HB2, HB2

Keywords: public education, teacher compensation, certification, funding, school finance, educator rights, education funding, charter schools, staff compensation, state aid, retention allotment, disaster preparedness, emergency management, flooding, mass fatality, mass casualty, fatality tracking, body recovery, autopsy, justice of the peace

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• Finally, facilities. We've had a lot of time to investigate our facilities in northern Minnesota.
• Finally, facilities. We've had a lot of time to investigate our facilities in northern Minnesota.
• <00:39:39.200> maintenance repairs long-term facilities maintenance repairs long-term facilities
• <00:59:21.920> maintenance um facility maintenance um facility maintenance Revenue<00:59:24.839
• uh the uh um ltfm or long-term facility uh the uh um ltfm or long-term facility maintenance<01:42

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• And does Medicaid not pay, like, in other types of treatment facilities, the private type facilities?
• services, mental health services, and in psychiatric hospitals or in psychiatric residential treatment facilities
• services, mental health services, and in psychiatric hospitals or in psychiatric residential treatment facilities

Keywords: 1204, all

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• Governor's message numbers 719 and 720 withdraw nominations to the School Facilities Authority, file
• 11.760> school 720 withdraw nominations to the school 720 withdraw nominations to the school facilities
• :13.640> file<00:02:14.640> on<00:02:14.879> page<00:02:15.120> two facilities
• Authority file on page two facilities Authority file on page two Senate<00:02:15.879> Communication

Keywords: 912, senate, all

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• They operate seven troop stations, the Marine Patrol facility in Guilford.
• we have one here in conquer facilities we have one here in conquer and<00:18:59.679> another<
• <01:37:38.360> in equipment in each of those facilities in equipment in each of those facilities
• There are about 89 miles of Interstate freeway facilities that comprise the turnpike system.
• So it's a self-contained, self-managed system, self-funded by the tolls on those facilities.

Keywords: 928, house, all

Summary: The Transportation Committee met for an opening/orientation session in which members introduced themselves and explained their interest in the committee. Several members noted backgrounds in trucking, piloting, boating, motorcycles, road safety, or constituent concerns about transportation issues. The chair also noted several absent members and said the committee would first hear agency presentations before covering committee procedures. The Department of Safety gave the main presentation, outlining its seven divisions and how they relate to transportation policy and the Highway Fund. The assistant commissioner emphasized that Highway Fund revenue supports both the Department of Transportation and the Department of Safety, with collections coming largely from the road toll/gas tax, DMV fees, and the new electric vehicle surcharge. He also noted that 12% of Highway Fund revenues go to local road repair through the DOT Betterment Fund, and warned that the fund has had a structural deficit for several biennia, requiring General Fund transfers that may be uncertain this session. He said the department aims to provide data and fiscal context on legislation and fiscal notes. State Police then provided a detailed overview of its structure and operations, including the Operations Bureau, Investigative Services Bureau, and Justice Information Bureau. Testimony highlighted Troop G’s role in vehicle inspections, commercial motor vehicle enforcement, fraud investigations, and consumer complaint handling, as well as statewide staffing shortages. The division reported rising calls for service, motor vehicle stops, DWI arrests, and other arrests despite a vacancy rate of about 17%. It also described aviation, K-9, bomb squad, special events response, SWAT, narcotics, major crime, forensic laboratory, and other specialized units, with statistics on drug seizures, investigations, and lab workload. No votes or formal committee actions were taken during this portion of the meeting.

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• The short-term goal of the initiative... ...quality oversight initiative for nursing facilities.
• The short-term goal of the initiative shall be to stabilize performance of the facilities by identifying
• and advocacy associations, and individuals engaged in the daily operational practice of nursing facility
• And, you know, there were some members on the floor last night that it's ready to build new facilities
• I had the opportunity to say on a number of occasions... ...new facilities.

Keywords: 974, senate, all

Summary: The Senate Committee on Health and Welfare met on May 6, 2026, with five members present. After adopting the April 28 minutes, the committee heard a brief presentation on the new Leadership Louisiana Health Fellows Program, which is intended to bring together health care, business, policy, and education leaders to study Louisiana health challenges and build a network for action. Members expressed support for the program and its potential value to health policy work. The committee then advanced several bills, often with technical or substantive amendments. SB 57, a nutrition-labeling bill, was amended to push its effective date to December 31, 2028 and reported as amended. HB 62 increased the membership of the Louisiana Women’s Policy and Research Commission to 27 members and was reported as amended. HB 193 updated membership rules for the sickle cell commission foundations so long-serving executive directors would not have to reapply repeatedly, and it was reported as amended. HB 815 would allow financial institutions to receive death certificates to help families manage accounts after a death; it was reported favorably after a question about state-licensed banks. SB 405 was substantially revised to codify LDH’s new Ascend nursing-facility quality initiative, including statewide quality oversight goals, stakeholder involvement, reporting requirements, and tools such as dashboards and surveys; after reconsidering prior action and adopting the new amendment, the bill was reported as amended. The committee also approved HB 222, which provides Medicaid dental coverage when needed for another covered medical procedure, and HB 420, which requires background checks for all DCFS employees with access to sensitive information. HB 475 requires verbal consent when AI is used to record or transcribe a medical visit and was reported favorably after a technical question. HB 246 updated membership of the Children’s Cabinet Advisory Board and the council on grandparents raising grandchildren, including replacing an inactive coalition seat with the state police superintendent or designee. HB 486 would enter Louisiana into the psychology inter-jurisdictional compact to expand access to mental health care, and HB 574 updated outdated board names on the Mental Health Advisory Services Board; both were reported favorably. Later, the committee reported HB 949, which creates a licensure framework for radiologist assistants to help address imaging workforce shortages, especially in rural areas, and HB 584, which requires foster children to be provided luggage instead of trash bags for their belongings and restores “rights” language in the Foster Youth Bill of Rights. The committee also reported HB 1214, restructuring certain LDH facilities into a single system under the secretary’s office; HB 1092, a technical renaming/terminology cleanup bill; and HB 203, which adds members to the uterine fibroids commission. Throughout the meeting, members and witnesses emphasized access to care, workforce shortages, child welfare, and quality improvement, and the committee repeatedly adopted amendments and reported the bills favorably or as amended before adjourning.

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• Provider has a facility. You're working at the facility. Without you, their facility is worthless.
• Provider has a facility. You're working at the facility. Without you, their facility is worthless.
• insurance carrier, for the provider’s liability insurance, why they’re not putting pressure on the facilities
• It's the intellectual property that has got to man those facilities.

Bills: SB1063, SB1118, SB1153, SB1154, SB1209, SCM1001

Keywords: appropriation, transportation, safety improvements, Route 70, infrastructure, housing, zoning, middle housing, urban development, duplexes, triplexes, fourplexes, townhomes, historic preservation, Grand Canyon, Grand Canyon National Park, special license plate, special plate, license plate, vanity plate

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• executive-level management experience with specific areas of expertise in leadership development, facility
• Particularly, he's actually real military, because you served with the Navy Facility Engineering Command
• Houston and Dallas are beautiful facilities, and we have room to grow there, but Denton. ...and will
• We have facilities, and I'll get to Andy. But we're having facilities that have to be vacated.
• Which it does in West Texas pretty often, and we have to vacate those facilities.

Keywords: 1185, senate, all

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• We've actually walked down that facility and seen what they can do for veterans.
• We've seen veterans that have come out of that facility.
• Uh, outpatient facility, mental health facility, but the blue herring can.
• For that reason, we've toured the facility.
• Um, this is a, a sober living facility where, you know, there's a house that's dedicated to veterans.

Bills: HCR7

Keywords: memorial, tribute, military service, community contribution, Texas legislature

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• technical change to delete Section 10 of the bill as it incorrectly subjects access to nursing home facility
• >> The same recourse that they would today to hold the healthcare provider or facility accountable if
• Every time your loved one steps into a healthcare facility.
• We regulate over 50,000 facilities and my vision is that we execute that duty with fairness, timeliness
• So in certain areas you can get to facility within an hour and a half, but it could be in a county that

Keywords: 999, senate, all

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• revocation of the farm's registration and the DNR's ability to seize and destroy animals on the facility
• While some breeders have successfully added barriers to their entire facility, others have had to sell
• Whether an individual facility complies with the relevant statutes and rules will be determined on a
• Whether an individual facility complies with the relevant statutes and rules will be determined on a
• Chair, Representative Hansen, yes, that is very common at these facilities. And, Mr.

Keywords: 919, house, all

Summary: House File 40, authored by Representative Burkel, was heard and laid over. The bill would remove the statutory requirement that farmed deer/elk facilities maintain a physical barrier preventing contact with wild deer, and it would also strike language allowing revocation of registration and seizure/destruction of animals for fencing or escape violations. Burkel argued the current law is unfair to deer farmers, treats them differently than other livestock producers, and amounts to a regulatory taking of a legal agricultural enterprise. Supporters from the Minnesota Elk Breeders Association and Minnesota Deer Farmers Association said the 2023 secondary-fence requirement is expensive, difficult to implement on long-established properties, and has pushed some breeders out of the industry. They described costs ranging from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars, said the DNR’s guidance is case-by-case and unclear, and argued that the penalty structure is too harsh for what they view as minor or unavoidable escape incidents. One testifier said the industry is being driven out of business and that the state should help pay for the fencing if it remains required. The DNR opposed the bill. Its enforcement representative said the physical-contact barrier is intended to reduce the risk of chronic wasting disease transmission and that removing penalties would leave little incentive for compliance. He said the agency continues to work with the roughly 10 noncompliant whitetail farms and that the DNR provides case-by-case review because farm topography varies. In committee questions, members discussed whether wild deer commonly travel along fence lines, whether ear-tagged deer have been found, and whether there is a standard approved fence design; the DNR said there is no single standard fence, only suggestions and review. Representative Burkel closed by reiterating his support for the bill and the committee then laid it over.

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• There is a rule regarding the intermediate care facilities for the developmentally disabled.
• There is a rule regarding assisted living facilities.
• The assisted living facility rule includes definitions for that assisted living facility, admission procedures
• There is an administrative hearing procedure associated also with the health facilities and certificate
• a rule on payment methodology for nursing home services and payment methodology for services in facilities

Summary: The Joint Administrative Procedures Committee met on February 3, 2025, with a quorum present and took up three main items. First, the committee considered a large set of recommended objections to Agency for Health Care Administration rules, all centered on sunset provisions stating the rules would expire after five years. AHCA asked for another deferral while it reviewed the rules, arguing the sunset language was a form of self-restraint rather than an invalid exercise of rulemaking authority. Committee leadership disagreed that further delay would resolve the issue and moved to a single vote covering all objections. The motion passed by roll call, and the committee informed AHCA that an objection would be filed unless the agency amended the rules within 30 days. The committee then heard an informational briefing from the Department of Environmental Protection on its Outstanding Florida Springs rule and stormwater rule. DEP explained that it did not prepare a statement of estimated regulatory cost for the springs rule because the proposed standards largely mirror existing water management district rules and the Central Florida Water Initiative framework, so DEP said there was no new regulatory burden. Members asked about permit authority, costs, and whether the rules were functionally different from prior rules. DEP maintained the rules set minimum standards and did not add costs beyond what regulated parties were already doing. DEP also described implementation of the stormwater rule adopted under the 2020 Clean Waterways Act and later ratified by the Legislature in 2024. DEP said the rule was the product of years of workshops and technical advisory committee meetings, and that the final version included lower-cost alternatives, grandfathering, and phased implementation. DEP estimated the rule’s cost at about $2,600 per acre in the revised CERC, while industry witnesses said the real cost could be much higher, especially if land costs are included. A home builders representative argued the estimate understated impacts, while a stormwater engineer said the rule gives more flexible, performance-based tools and could become more cost-effective over time. Finally, Senator Graal presented proposed Chapter 120 changes in SB 108, aimed at tightening and modernizing rulemaking. The proposal would require five-year rule reviews, annual agency reporting, faster notice of proposed rulemaking after authorizing legislation, electronic filing, public access to incorporated materials, clearer tracking of technical changes, and limits on how long rules can remain pending ratification. Members discussed whether the Legislature should be more specific in statutes about rulemaking deadlines and whether agencies should be more accountable when rules stall. No formal action was taken on the Chapter 120 proposals, and the committee adjourned after discussion.

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• search warrant on a rural Sonoma County property suspected of operating as a cockfighter feeding facility
• When these vapes do make their way to a facility, It's not considered to be created by a household.
• When these vapes do make their way to a facility, they're unable to process them cost effectively.
• We're focused on school safety and cost savings for our facilities.
• So it's a safety issue for our facilities as well.

Keywords: 987, senate, all

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• So, we can expect these facilities to contribute to skyrocketing out-of-pocket costs and health insurance
• <00:37:18.200> to So, we can expect these facilities to So, we can expect these facilities
• HB 1442-FN, as amended by the House, limits the use of certain facilities on the basis of sex, redefines
• HB 1442-FN, as amended by the House, limits the use of certain facilities on the basis of sex, redefines
• to talk about what this bill actually does because the title says, "Limiting the use of certain facilities

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

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• He said the chair of the School Facilities Board is an architect with the firm that bid on and won the
• The chair said he believes the School Facilities Oversight Board has to continually monitor and oversee
• It's very similar to what we've seen the universities do with their stadium facilities district, for
• They pay a lease payment to ASU's Stadium Facilities District.
• Unfortunately, that was not known at the time that the school facilities board approved the purchase

Keywords: 1182, all

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• This recognizes a fundamental principle: communities deserve a voice when a permanent waste facility
• This would be the largest carbon sequestration facility in the world.
• facility is proposed in their backyard. facility is proposed in their backyard.
• sequestration facility in the world. sequestration facility in the world.
• [applause] If we require local approval for well-understood waste facilities, we must require it for

Bills: HB61, HB176, SB12

Keywords: 1136, house, all

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• With regard to the new facility, my understanding is that there is a great deal of elevation work at
• that facility that is the source of a very significant additional capital request.
• One of the larger items you'll see on here is for the Facilities Management Division on line 316.
• One of the larger items you'll see on here is for the facilities management division online 316.
• Now, this time, it's a public school facility authority and early pre-kindergarten classrooms when we

Summary: The Department of Public Safety presented its FY27 budget request, emphasizing three priorities: improving community engagement through a redesigned website and outreach, expanding statewide data and intelligence integration through intelligence-led policing, and improving emergency response and officer safety through fleet replacement, a driving track, and a requested helicopter. DPS said much of its increase is driven by rising health care premiums, and it is also seeking special appropriations for fleet replacement, the website rebuild, and an Honor Guard program created after the 2022 helicopter crash that killed four public servants. Members asked about vacancies, fleet costs, cybersecurity compliance, the real-time crime center, EV fleet participation, and the Metro DPS facility. DPS said its vacancy rate is about 9%, its fleet replacement needs are driven by mileage and condition, it is compliant with federal CJIS standards even though DoIT has raised concerns, the real-time crime center would be built as a regional model to complement Albuquerque’s center, and the Metro facility is moving toward a January groundbreaking. Committee members also discussed several DPS-related capital and IT requests, including the intelligence-led policing data lake, recurring maintenance for critical systems, and a $5.6 million reauthorization for state crime lab DNA backlog work and a $900,000 reauthorization for fingerprinting equipment. DPS explained that the website request is high because the current site must be rebuilt from scratch to support missing-person alerts, memorial updates, ADA compliance, and better communication with law enforcement and the public. Members also raised concerns about speed enforcement, construction-zone cameras, and whether EVs are practical for patrol use; DPS said it is not pursuing speed cameras and is only partially participating in the state EV initiative because patrol needs make full electrification difficult. The committee then received an LFC quarterly update on non-recurring appropriations from the 2025 General Appropriation Act. LFC reported that of the $1.4 billion appropriated in Section 5, $164 million had been expended and $333 million encumbered, leaving $897.4 million unspent, which is a slower pace than the prior year. Staff highlighted a number of reauthorization requests and slow-moving projects across agencies, including AOC cybersecurity funding, DFA housing and public safety grants, DoIT cybersecurity and higher education funds, EDD economic development and energy programs, OSI mitigation and malpractice funds, EMNRD energy and geothermal grants, Health Care Authority behavioral health-related appropriations, DPS crime lab and fingerprinting funds, PED career technical education and special education initiatives, and higher education loan repayment and technology funds. Members questioned why some large appropriations had little or no spending, discussed the need to monitor reauthorizations more closely, and asked for follow-up on several specific line items and project balances.