Transcript Highlights:

• And the third is changing up their peer group.
• Let me, as you know—I think most of you know, some of you maybe knew—we are the third-largest prison
• What I'd like to point out, and I'll read a few statistics in a moment, is you have to be very careful
• And third, and most importantly, like... The second is to monitor compliance of that condition.
• And if you haven't read it, you really need to. It's a great piece of work.

Summary: The Justice Budget Committee heard detailed presentations from the Department of Juvenile Justice and the Department of Corrections on staffing, services, and budget needs. DJJ Secretary Hall emphasized that the agency’s main public safety strategy is education, along with prevention and recidivism reduction. He described major staffing improvements after pay increases for probation, detention, residential care, and prevention workers, and outlined DJJ’s mental health, aftercare, and education continuum, including the Florida Scholars Academy and Florida Youth College. He said the new statewide education model is showing early gains in progress monitoring, high school graduation, and postsecondary enrollment, while also noting ongoing operational issues such as IT connectivity, rural staffing gaps, and the need for geographic pay adjustments for teachers. He also discussed detention center replacement plans in Hillsborough, Broward, and Palm Beach, and said DJJ would transition the Broward JAC to a security contractor after the sheriff’s office pulls sworn officers from the site. Members asked about campus performance differences, teacher pay, detention education quality, and concerns about the rollout and leadership of the Scholars Academy. Hall said some campuses face rural access and infrastructure problems, but the blended learning model provides continuity when internet or staffing issues arise. He defended the superintendent’s qualifications and said early problems with inappropriate online content were addressed. Representative Porras raised concerns about educational quality and the superintendent’s past disciplinary history, while Representative Barrera urged more mentorship and fatherhood-focused programming in juvenile facilities. DOC Secretary Dixon said the prison system is under pressure from rising inmate populations, staffing shortages, and overtime costs. He argued that the system needs funded posts for every functioning housing unit, noting that the department has added housing units without enough staff and now relies heavily on overtime, mobile officer deployments, and shift conversions to keep facilities operating safely. He highlighted that many officers are new, that outside-hospital transports have risen sharply, and that mental health units require additional staffing. DOC’s mental health chief described a large and growing treatment system with outpatient, inpatient, intensive outpatient, and court-ordered services, saying about a quarter of the prison population has a diagnosed mental illness. Community corrections staff described treatment programs, employment specialists, mobile probation and reentry units, and a new mental health first aid training initiative. Reentry staff reported expanded substance abuse, education, CTE, chaplaincy, and digital learning programs, including Edovo and a forthcoming Work Bay platform. No votes were taken.

Transcript Highlights:

• I would like to read a quote from one of the Food Bank's outreach associates... This rule for CFAP.
• Third, AB 1049 will reduce administrative burdens in the face of unprecedented...
• And I've read you two bills on consent, not one bill on consent, so two bills and consent is your third
• And I've read you two bills on consent, not one bill on consent, so two bills and consent is your third
• Statewide, about one-third of our children in foster care are placed with relatives.

Keywords: 987, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• I encourage you to read the testimony in your packet.
• Because of the bill's wording, it would need a third-party vendor to be hired in order to have the risk
• I'll read straight from some studies from the Journal of Applied Ecology.
• <00:30:44.399> I'll<00:30:44.720> read negligible to no benefits.
• I'll read negligible to no benefits.

Keywords: 1183, house

Transcript Highlights:

• The chair has read the journal of the preceding day and approves the same.
• Senator Richards, who is not going to read every name, but submit them so we can enter them to the journal
• is<00:02:22.600> not<00:02:22.840> going<00:02:23.000> to<00:02:23.120> read

Bills: HB1800, HB2095, HB1158, HB1518, HB1752, SCR23, SCR24, SCR25, SCR26, SCR27, SCR28, SCR29, SCR30, SCR31, SCR32, SCR33, SCR34, SCR35, SCR36, SCR37, SCR38, SCR39, SCR40, SCR41, SCR42, SCR43, SCR44, SCR45, SCR46, SCR47, SCR48, SCR49, SCR50, SCR51, SCR52, SCR53, SCR54, SCR55, SCR56, SCR57, SCR58, SCR59, SCR60, SCR61, SCR62, SCR63, SCR64, SCR65, SCR66, SCR67, SCR68, SCR69, SCR70, SCR71, SCR72, SCR73, SCR74, SCR75, SCR76, SCR77, SCR78, SCR79, SCR80, SCR81, SCR82, SCR83, SCR84, SCR85, SCR86, SCR87, SCR88, SCR89, SCR90, SCR91, SCR92, SCR93, SCR94, SCR95, SCR96, SCR97, SCR98, SCR99, SCR100, SCR101, SCR102, SCR103, SCR104, SCR105, SCR106, SCR107, SCR108, SCR109, SCR110, SCR111, SCR112, SCR113, SCR114, SCR115, SCR116, SCR117, SCR118, SCR119, SCR120, SCR121, SCR122

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

Transcript Highlights:

• The clerk will read the resolution.
• Read them.
• The clerk will read the resolution.
• Clerk, read the resolution.
• Read the resolution.

Bills: HCR158, HCR159, HCR160, HCR161, HCR162, HCR163, HCR164, HR174, HR427, HR790, HR810, HR857, HR866, HR882, HR883, HR962, HR966, HR1001, HR1045, HR1085, HR1097, HR1127, HR1138, HR1141, HR1150, HR1152, HR1292, HR1296, HR1304, HR1305, HR1306, HR1308, HR1309, HR1310, HR1311, HR1312, HR1313, HR1315, HR1317, HR1318, HR1320, HR1321, HR1322, HR1323, HR1324, HR1325, HR1327, HR1328, HR1329, HR1330, HR1331, HR1332, HR1333, HR1334, HR1335, HR1338, HR1340, HR1341, HR1342, HR1343, HR1344, HR1345, HR1346, HR1347, HR1348, HR1349, HR1352, HR1353, HR1354, HR1355, HR1358, HR1359, HR1360, HR1361, HR1362, HR1363, HR1364, HR1365, HR1366, HR1368, HR1369, HR1370, HR1380, HR1383, HR1384, HR1385, HR1386, HR1387, HR1388, HR1389, HR1390, HR1392, HR1393, HR1396, HR1397, HR1398, HR1399, HR1400, HR1402, HR1403, HR1404, HR1405, HR1406, HR1407, HR1408, HR1409, HR1410, HR1411, HR1412, HR1413, HR1414, HR1415, HR1417, HR1418, HR1419, HR1420, HR1421, HR1422, HR1424, HR1425, HR1426, HR1427, HR1428, HR1429, HR1430, HR1431, HR1432, HR1433, HR1434, HR1435, HR1436, HR1437, HR1438, HR1440, HR1441, HR1442, HR1443, HR1444, HR1445, HR1447, HR1448, HR1449, HR1450, HR1452, HR1453, HR1454, HR1455, HR1456, HR1458, HR1459, HR1460, HR1461, HR1462, HR1463, HR1464, HR1465, HR1466, HR1467, HR1469, HR1470, HR1471, HR1472, HR1473, HR1475, HR1477, HCR132, HCR154, HR17, HR49, HR170, HR275, HR355, HR356, HR364, HR369, HR672, HR690, HR755, HR756, HR759, HR762, HR763, HR781, HR785, HR848, HR1240, HR1265, HR1303, HR1307, HR1314, HR1316, HR1319, HR1326, HR1336, HR1337, HR1350, HR1351, HR1367, HR1371, HR1372, HR1373, HR1374, HR1375, HR1376, HR1377, HR1378, HR1379, HR1382, HR1391, HR1395, HR1451, HR1457, HR1468, HR1474, HR1476, SB1637, SB2878, HB2885, HB2017, HB5246, SB8, SB2308, SB1405, HB 119, SB3059, SB15, SB568, SB2900, HB3642, HB3909, SB268, HB493, SB2217, HB2516, SB650, HB2963, SB1610, HB705, SB2972, SB1540, HB40, SB2753, SB1660, SB2024, HB1545, HB46

Keywords: World War II, V-J Day, Victory over Japan Day, Japan surrender, atomic bomb, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, USS Missouri, Douglas MacArthur, Harry S. Truman, Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, Potsdam Conference, Pacific Theater, Greatest Generation, veterans, military history, commemoration, concurrent resolution, Texas Legislature

Transcript Highlights:

• A third party when does that start?
• <02:02:59.840> party that you have somebody a a third party that you have somebody a a third
• We read it to be payment option.
• It we read it to be of repayment option. It we read it to be payment<02:33:49.439> option.
• Hang on, let me read this.

Keywords: 1189, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• So I'm going to read off the following names.
• So I'm going to read off the following names.
• Third, the cost is significant, estimated at over $500 million annually.
• And a third. Okay. We have a motion and a second.
• I'll be very candid: that's not the way that I read the statute.

Keywords: 988, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• chair M speaker I move that the reading chair M speaker I move that the reading of the journal at length
• objections hear no objections reading objections hear no objections reading the journalist dispense
• time hey the it a second time third time hey the it a second time third time hey the disruption you
• a second or subsequent second third a second or subsequent second third fourth whatever okay offense
• it's on the legislation um I can read it's on the legislation um I can read it's not particularly long

Keywords: 1136, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• If I read this correctly, do I read it that you're not proposing to change the appeal process?
• Was I didn't read any objection or comments from the BTLA on this.
• Because if I read reval is happening?
• <01:12:51.920> party appropriate to go to a third party appropriate to go to a third party
• So, um based on my reading of the bill.

Keywords: 1189, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• years and it's the lowest uh third years and it's the lowest uh third lowest<01:14:14.880> tax
• That's a third of the tax burden compared to the national average, less than a third of what employers
• That's a third of the tax burden compared to the national average, less than a third of what employers
• That's a third of the tax burden compared to the national average, less than a third of what employers
• That's a third of the tax burden compared to the national average, less than a third of what employers

Keywords: 928, house, all

Summary: The committee heard testimony from Insurance Commissioner DJ Bettencourt on the New Hampshire Insurance Department budget. He said the department is self-funded through assessments on insurers based on New Hampshire premium volume, with about $8 billion in premiums written in the state and a department budget of roughly $15.5 million. He explained that the department has 88 authorized positions, eight vacancies, and that three full-time positions were unfunded after the governor’s requested 4% reduction exercise. He also said the department is trying to balance staffing needs with not overburdening carriers during a hard insurance market. A major topic was the department’s $2.6 million rebate to industry from the prior fiscal year, which Bettencourt described as a credit against the next assessment rather than a direct cash payment. Members questioned why that credit was not reflected as a reduction in the upcoming budget, and Bettencourt and staff explained that the budget assumes full staffing and full spending, with any year-end surplus returned to insurers. The commissioner said the department had added staff in recent years for succession planning and to preserve institutional expertise, and that the rebate reflects careful budgeting rather than excess spending. Members also asked about staffing changes by division, including positions unfunded in fraud, property and casualty examinations, life and health examinations, and tax. Bettencourt said fraud investigations remain strong and that the department can use outside contractors for examinations, with those costs billed to the company being examined. He also described the department’s examination process, including periodic financial exams and targeted market conduct reviews triggered by consumer complaints or trends. Additional questions covered OIT transfers, the department’s oversight of fully insured health coverage, the insurance premium tax and fines going to the general fund, and the department’s limited role in auto repair reimbursement disputes, where he said complaints have recently declined.

Transcript Highlights:

• And as they take the exit ramp, it looks like a third-world country: crash everywhere, broken-down fences
• Representative Brown made a substitute motion to not adopt the amendment and allow for further reading
• amendment representative Brown substitute motion to not adopt the amendment and allow for further reading
• The third is in the capital bill. Maintenance, equipment, and other funding to DOT.
• The third is in the capital bill.

Keywords: 996, all

Summary: The committee met with quorum and took up only HB 3, the Department of Transportation Appropriation Act of 2026 for FY27. The bill was presented as an amended budget that would increase NMDOT’s operating budget by about $132.6 million, or 10.2%, using available cash balances, additional projected revenue, and contingent revenue tied to Senate Bill 2, the highway bond bill. Staff walked through the amendment section by section, explaining changes to project design and construction, highway operations, program support, modal programs, federal and interagency transfer lines, corrected performance-measure language, and added budget adjustment authority for the current and next fiscal years. Several members raised concerns about the late circulation of a revised amendment and the appearance of multiple bill versions, arguing the committee had not had enough time to review the changes and that the process may have violated the 24-hour rule. Others asked for clarification on how the budget distinguished between rehabilitation and maintenance, and DOT staff explained that major rehabilitation is generally tied to STIP projects while maintenance is handled through district-level plans and contracts. Members also discussed the use of cash balances for non-recurring spending, the impact of electric vehicles on road revenue, and the need for more maintenance, litter cleanup, fencing, and beautification funding. DOT and executive representatives noted the amendment includes a significant maintenance increase and said additional non-recurring funding could also come through House Bill 2 and the capital bill. The committee first rejected a substitute motion to delay action, then adopted the amendment and later voted due pass on HB 3 as amended. Public comment was opened, but no one spoke in support or opposition. After passage, members explained their votes, with some supporting the bill as a needed transportation investment and others objecting to the process and the compressed review timeline.

Transcript Highlights:

• Well, as it turns out, one third of them go to the community colleges, a third of them go to the regional
• universities, and the third of them go to a research institution.
• including curriculum development, staffing, advising, assessment, and instruction, to strengthen reading
• This year's state readings are requesting $56.3 million for the next phase in that remediation effort

Keywords: 914, all

Transcript Highlights:

• But then later did because I read the fine line.
• You may have read about that at an FIR.
• I read those in the context of this.
• If I read it correctly, there's a membership fee that you would go...
• Over a third of customers have never tipped. There's no... $1.19 tip.

Transcript Highlights:

• So, we look to it, by the way, this is the third year running.
• <00:32:07.480> year way, um uh this is the third year way, um uh this is the third year running
• it's the information that the third it's the information that the third party party party rating
• <01:55:57.720> it<01:55:57.840> off wanted to read it off wanted to read it off in<
• them off in reach, but I'll just read them off in list<01:56:08.720> form.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• I'm not going to read in the meeting.
• Uh, please, uh, we've read the letters in the packet.
• Uh we've read the letters in the packet.
• Please state your name for the third.
• Carol, would you please will be third.

Bills: HF3676, HF3593, HF3785, HF3774, HF4111, HF3513

Keywords: Safe at Home, address confidentiality, domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, harassment, victim privacy, survivor protection, confidential address, protected address, secret address, identity protection, residential confidentiality, program participant, nondiscrimination, court disclosure, protective order, service of process, driver's license, state ID

Transcript Highlights:

• The third provision is NAIC...
• For the most part, people don't read through them, which, you know, I think is a challenge in itself.
• I think that a lot of times people assume that you shouldn't, that you won't read it, and so then they
• I'm concerned that that might cause confusion for people who are reading the bill or trying to apply
• It'll read, "The licensee shall notify prior to any private catered event," so we'll have a single sentence

Bills: HF2601, HF2607, HF2027, HF2608

Keywords: financial institutions, insurance regulation, insurance holding company, group capital calculation, liquidity stress test, NAIC, National Association of Insurance Commissioners, insurer solvency, affiliate transactions, groupwide supervision, internationally active insurance group, lead state commissioner, policyholder protection, hazardous financial condition, deposit or bond, contract for deed, conventional loan, cooperative apartment loan, mortgage interest rate cap, average prime offer rate

Transcript Highlights:

• The Secretary will read. April 27, 2025. Mr.
• Further message, Secretary will read. April 27, 2025.
• Further message, Secretary will read. April 27. Mr.
• Third order of business, message from the Senate. The clerk will read. The President, Mr.
• Clerk will read. Mr. Speaker, the President has signed substitute Senate Bill 5194.

Summary: The transcript covers end-of-session floor action in both chambers of the Washington Legislature. Messages were received announcing that the House had adopted Senate Concurrent Resolution 8404 and that the Speaker had signed Senate Bill 5161, while the Senate President signed open session substitute Senate Bill 5194, substitute Senate Bill 5195, Senate Concurrent Resolution 8404, and House Concurrent Resolution 4404. The Senate also moved all measures on the floor calendar or held at the desk back to the Committee on Rules, and the Senate journal for the 105th day was approved. In the House, the Speaker reported signing the same measures and took a brief point of personal privilege to thank legislative staff. The House also dispensed with reading the journal and approved it by consent. Staff were invited to the floor for a sine die ceremony, indicating the close of session. The final action was a motion to adjourn sine die for the 2025 regular session of the 69th Legislature. After clarification of the motion, the Legislature agreed and adjourned sine die without objection.

Transcript Highlights:

• Second reading of House Files. Second reading House File number 4074.
• Second reading House File number 4598. Second reading of Senate bills.
• Second reading of House Files. Second reading House File number 4074.
• Second reading House File number 4074. Second reading. reading. reading.
• Second<00:06:02.680> reading. Second reading. Second reading.

Keywords: 919, house, all

Summary: The House convened with prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance, then established a quorum after remote roll call. The journal of the previous day was approved, comparison reports and standing committee/division reports were adopted without objection, and several bills were advanced to second reading, including House Files 4074 and 4598 and Senate Files 2373, 4476, and 4282. The House also received first reading of House Files 5128 through 5133. A report from the Committee on Rules and Legislative Administration designated House Files 1597, 4017, and 4138 for the calendar on Tuesday, May 12, 2026, and imposed a pre-filing requirement for amendments to those bills. No substantive debate on bill content occurred during the floor session; the transcript mainly reflects procedural business and announcements. Under motions and resolutions, Representative Olsen moved to suspend the rules to recall House File 4987 from the Transportation Finance and Policy Committee for immediate second and third readings, but discussion shifted to scheduling and caucus announcements. Representative Niska then moved that the House recess to the call of the Speaker, and the motion prevailed, sending the House into recess.

Transcript Highlights:

• Watson would like to please read the oral amendment: On page one, line 13, after “nasal,” strike “naloxone
• Amendment uh Mr Watson would like to Amendment uh Mr Watson would like to please<00:01:53.680> read
• <00:25:09.039> of plummeted with just over one-third of plummeted with just over one-third
• in March of 2024. future our third systemwide support future our third systemwide support strategy<00
• We need it to happen. maybe am I reading it quite right but maybe am I reading it quite right but you're

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• And it's not available for public consumption as I read it.
• The way I read that, it seems like we were not in a good position.
• It reads like we did good, it reads like we did bad, or we were not doing good.
• The way I read that, it seems like we were not in a good position.
• It reads like we did good, it reads like we did bad, or we were not doing good.

Summary: The committee met to adopt prior minutes and reports from its executive and standing committees, including counties and municipalities, educational institutions, and state agencies. Those reports covered routine audit activity, delinquent private water and sewer audits, municipal accounting compliance issues, education audit findings, and several state agency audit items. The committee also reviewed and adopted the State of Arkansas annual comprehensive financial report for fiscal year 2025 and the related single audit report, both presented by Legislative Audit staff. The state financial report showed unmodified opinions on the state’s financial statements and described total assets of about $41.9 billion and liabilities of about $11.1 billion, along with retirement system assets of $39.9 billion and a net pension liability of $9 billion. Two material weaknesses were identified: insufficient internal controls at the Office of State Technology to monitor threats and unauthorized access, and a Division of Workforce Services methodology change for unemployment-related estimates that was not properly documented or approved. The single audit covered $12.4 billion in federal awards across 469 programs, with 16 major programs reviewed; it resulted in 33 findings, 14 with questioned costs totaling $16.6 million, and qualified opinions for the Summer EBT program, the Coronavirus Capital Projects Fund, and the Child Care Development Fund cluster. Members questioned agency officials in detail about the Summer EBT questioned costs, DHS unresolved findings, broadband grant documentation, cyber security controls, workers’ compensation liabilities, and child care funding and reporting. DHS explained that the Summer EBT issue involved drawing federal funds in advance rather than as benefits were redeemed, and said the process has been corrected. Broadband officials said the questioned $6.6 million reflected documentation-detail disagreements across many invoices rather than missing payments. OST officials described new logging, endpoint detection, and phishing-training efforts, and DFA and Education officials addressed specific audit findings and corrective actions. The committee ultimately moved to hold the two large statewide reports over until the August meeting for further review, with discussion continuing on whether to release some agency staff in the meantime.