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• I'm Joe De La Rosa, the Chairman of the New Mexico Border Authority. First of all, welcome.
• Thank you, Chairman De La Rosa and Chairman De La Cruz.
• Thank you, Chairman De La Rosa, Chairman De La Cruz, and Rep. Borrego.
• My first question, Mr.
• First, we get an AI option as our first option that pulls up on Google.

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• someone who rode with me in that first someone who rode with me in that first term, term, term,
• happen for la raza." happen for la raza."
• first first for<00:07:48.400> many.
• puede, la lucha palante. puede, la lucha palante.
• <00:10:07.320> Minnesota wanted funding for the first Minnesota wanted funding for the first

Keywords: 919, house, all

Summary: Representative Perez-Vega delivered a farewell-style floor speech reflecting on her service representing District 65B and thanking colleagues, staff, and community members. She spoke about her Puerto Rican heritage, her family’s activism and military service, and the importance of public service and teamwork in the House. Much of the speech was personal and celebratory, with repeated thanks to staff and fellow legislators for their support. She highlighted several policy accomplishments and priorities from her time in office, including passing driver’s licenses for all, advancing housing justice and tenants’ rights to organize, supporting workforce development, and backing the READ Act and dual-language education. She also mentioned efforts related to ethnic studies, healthcare for type 1 diabetics, and securing funding for a future Minnesota Latino Museum. She emphasized that these achievements were collective efforts and credited Speaker Melissa Hortman’s leadership and encouragement. No formal vote or committee action occurred in the excerpt. The speech concluded with praise for collaboration across the aisle, a call to continue serving Minnesota communities, and applause from the chamber.

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• Representative De La Cruz? Representative Fernandez? Here. Are you— is that?
• Representative Armstrong, I have you up first.
• Next, we will go to Representative De La Cruz.
• Representative De La Cruz, for a second time. Thank you, Madam Chair.
• Representative De La Cruz? Representative Armstrong: Yes. Representative De La Cruz: Yes.

Keywords: 996, all

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• First, I just want to say publicly to my team, they are amazing.
• So my first question is around the conditions.
• That's not the first time we've done that.
• I've been with the Las Cruces Police Department for about 10 years.
• So again, in that instance, they're driving in Las Cruces.

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• Let's start first with Assembly Bill 326. Let's start first with Assembly Bill 326.
• Seeing none here or in Las Vegas, AVH, is there anyone online?
• Seeing none, and none in Las Vegas? Back to the phone lines.
• The first part addresses private insurers.
• Seeing none here in Las Vegas, AVH, is there anyone online?

Keywords: 909, all

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• We'll introduce those first before the certificate.
• at Visit Las Cruces, which is our Visitors Bureau.
• Las Cruces. So now, thanks to Visit Las Cruces, we get to experience that.
• So if you are down south on April 26th, we have Mira Las Cruces.
• Heart, being one of the first Big Brothers in Grant County.

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• Viva la tourism. With that, I renew my motion.
• Hey, is this not our first inquiry, is it? Oh, no. Okay.
• The lady from La Clede closes.
• Louis County and the lady from La Clede.
• It expires at the end of that first year.

Summary: The House convened with prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance, approved the House Journal for the 64th day by a 125-0 roll call vote, and then spent much of the morning on personal privileges and introductions of guests, interns, students, and special recognitions. Members welcomed school groups, interns, a Savannah Bananas guest, and several family members, and also noted birthdays and Mother’s Day greetings. On legislation, the chamber first agreed to go to conference on Senate Substitute for Senate Bill 1421, appointing a House conference committee. The House then took up Senate Bill 1000, which reauthorizes the Missouri Tourism Supplemental Revenue Fund and updates outdated tourism funding language; members from both parties spoke in support of tourism as an economic driver, and the bill passed 136-6. The House also considered House Committee Substitute for Senate Bill 1020, an omnibus Department of Revenue bill addressing fee office contracting, vehicle registration and related penalties, Real ID document retention, five-year license plates, and emissions-related provisions. Members adopted amendments reducing late-registration penalties, making document retention opt-in, restoring a five-year plate option, and removing cosmetic damage as a basis for rejecting rebuilt vehicles; despite debate over emissions testing and air quality, the bill passed 130-10. The chamber then moved to House Committee Substitute for Senate Bills 835 and 1111, a combined judiciary/civil legislation package. Members described it as a vehicle for several vetted measures, including anti-assignment-of-benefits language for insurance claims, the Uniform Public Expression Protection Act, and court administration changes such as workers’ compensation procedures, judgeships, automation fees, law library surcharges, and expungement fund provisions. Amendments were offered and adopted to adjust attorney-fee language in the anti-SLAPP provisions and to add a St. Louis police legal-expense-fund provision, though the latter drew objections over procedure and whether it had received a hearing. The transcript cuts off while debate on that amendment is still underway, and no final vote on the bill is shown.

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• I don't see anyone in the hearing room in Las Vegas.
• I'll start here in Carson City, then we'll go down in Las Vegas. Good afternoon.
• We are just checking to make sure we haven't lost our connection to Las Vegas.
• I'm not seeing anyone else in Carson City, and I don't see anyone in Las Vegas.
• There's no one in Las Vegas.

Keywords: 909, all

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• Hola, mi nombre es Enrique Farias, y me pongo la Proposición AB-928.
• Luis Oliz, California, Meopongo, La 928. Magdalena Martinez, De Salinas. Me opongo a la 9-28.
• Antonio Pintor, vengo de Salinas y me opongo a la 9-28.
• Buenos dias, Gustavo Valdovinos de Sacramento y me opongo a la AB 928.
• Me opongo a la AB 928.

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• So in Georgia's program, for instance, they're uncapped, you apply, first come, first serve, very different
• I'm local 724 La Juna. I am a third generation La Juna member.
• My wife and I are expecting our first child.
• I'm first-generation American.
• So will be LA. That's not even for the Bay Area.

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• I'm the president of the Las Vegas branch of the NAACP.
• It does say AB 381 R1 for first reprint down at the bottom.
• First, it changes the appointment process.
• First, it changes the appointment process.
• I don't see anybody coming forward in Carson City or Las Vegas.

Keywords: 909, all

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• Amy Cortina with Unite LA and Digital Equity LA in strong opposition.
• Can I answer your first question?
• I'm going to do this one first, I'm going to do this one first. Do you want me to do this?
• This one first, or this one first? I've got one, guess who? Who got it?
• Hello, Liliana Edemonje with Unite LA in strong support, also Digital Equity LA.

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• La causa sigue, la lucha sigue. Gracias.
• La causa sigue, la lucha sigue. Gracias. I have contacted the mayor's office and St.
• La causa sigue, la lucha sigue. Gracias.
• La causa sigue, la lucha sigue. Gracias. Gracias, Ramona del Rosales.
• La causa sigue, la lucha sigue. Gracias. Gracias, Ramona del Rosales.

Keywords: 1183, house

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• The first year was in Las Cruces, last year was in Albuquerque, and this year will be in Las Cruces.
• Gonna head to questions, and first, Ms.
• The first request I have is send out these outcomes.
• First, of course, is prices.
• Okay, so similar to my comments when we were down in Las Cruces...

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• I apologize, my very first slide, the bullet points.
• So with that being said, I know when I first got on, did some inquiry.
• My first question is for Ms. Martiz.
• So the first thing I'd want to do is...
• So, what's the first step I would need to take, Mr. Chair?

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• Other, es como dice una mano lava a la otra.
• I'm from the San Antonio de las Fuertes land grant in Placitas.
• My name is Ana Maria Armijo Glen Pertonesco, a la Acequia Madre de Las Vegas.
• I belong to the Acequia Madre de Las Vegas.
• De Valdez La Seca and La Seca de los Frandos were most infamously known to be situated at the mouth.

Keywords: 996, all

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• My name is Helen Foley, and today I'm representing First Med.
• We are happy to support our member First Med.
• Las Vegas, no one.
• No one here in Carson City, no one in Las Vegas, AVH, one more time.
• No one in Las Vegas. A.V.H. one more time.

Keywords: 909, all

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• Juro lealtad a la bandera de los Estados Unidos de América y a la república que representa una nación
• Today is La Vida Llena Senior Day and New Mexico Highlands Day at the legislature.
• January 29th, beginning promptly at 8:30 a.m. on a first-come, first-served basis.
• First of all, New Mexico Highlands University We are one.
• With that, I'm going to yield first to the Sergeant-at-Arms. Mr.

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• And first of all, I had prepared notes that I wanted to read, but first of all, I want to go back to
• I am a resident of Las Vegas.
• During wildfires, ranchers are the first responders.
• I don't see anyone else in Las Vegas. Thank you. I don't see anyone else in Las Vegas.
• During wildfires, ranchers are the first responders.

Bills: AB93, AB204, AB414, AB504, AB598

Keywords: public employees, police officers, benefits, appropriation, law enforcement, medical debt, collection agency, healthcare, consumer protection, financial assistance, occupational safety, air quality, greenhouse gases, employee monitoring, safety program, hemp, hemp products, cannabidiol, CBD, cannabis

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• And let's turn it over then to our first panel.
• So I'm really excited for this first panel.
• First, I want to...
• Arts for LA is an... much for the opportunity to be here today.
• I think they had the first school; this is the second.

Keywords: 987, senate, all

Summary: The Joint Committee on the Arts held an informational hearing on California’s first sector-specific creative economy strategic plan, “California’s Future: Creative Strategies for Cultural Resilience, Economic Growth, and Global Leadership.” Chair Allen opened by framing the creative economy as a major state asset and urged support for arts funding in the May Revision, including California Humanities, museums, public media, cultural districts, LA28 arts programming, and AB 2319, which would create a $100 million post-production incentive. He also emphasized the need for next-step funding to implement the strategic plan and noted concerns about federal headwinds and declining creative-sector jobs. California Arts Council Director Danielle Brazel, Institute for the Future’s Rachel Hatch, CDE’s Allison Frenzel, and Workforce Development Board representative Michael Weoff described how the plan was developed through AB 127 and related legislation, a 30-plus-member work group, and an interagency process. They outlined the plan’s phased approach and six priority areas, including preparing the workforce, stabilizing businesses, increasing revenue through cultural tourism, leveraging state incentives, defining and tracking ROI, and building state capacity. Testimony highlighted workforce pipelines, apprenticeship and pre-apprenticeship programs, digital badging, and cross-agency coordination, with speakers stressing that the sector is shaped by AI, climate change, affordability, capital access, and social cohesion. A second panel of artists and advocates described on-the-ground implementation and the need for better data and support. Ricarlo Handy discussed the Handy Foundation’s apprenticeship pipeline into film and TV jobs and the difficulty of capturing freelance and 1099 creative work in state data. Joanna Reynolds described Arts for LA’s Creative Jobs Collective, which aims to create 10,000 living-wage creative jobs in Los Angeles County by 2030. Alejandro Gutierrez Chavez urged the state to embed artists in health, aging, behavioral health, and climate resilience systems, and Roxanne Messina Kaptur spoke about the need to treat arts careers as viable professions and expand residency and school-based artist programs. Senator Rubio, who joined the hearing later, shared her own background in teaching and the arts, supported arts education and small theaters, and raised concerns about AI, asking how schools and educators can adapt. In the final panel, Rebecca Ratzkin reported on 26 town halls across eight regions, where more than 1,100 people attended and generally affirmed the plan while asking for better access to information, new financial models, clearer definitions and data, and stronger networks. Julie Baker of California for the Arts and California Arts Advocates argued the plan is an urgent blueprint for a sector that generates $288 billion and more than 820,000 jobs, but remains below pre-pandemic employment levels and is losing market share. She and others called for funding, statewide definitions, better data collection, and cross-agency implementation, while committee members and witnesses repeatedly emphasized that the plan will require political will and resources to move from strategy to action.