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• Thus relying on strong partnerships with our community colleges. early college high schools, P-TECHs,
• Yes, I know that right now with, like you said, COVID impacted our high schools. students and including
• our high school students that are graduating so then that causes them to have to take remedial classes
• . school and changed the trajectory of my life.
• And when we visit these independent school districts, we go to the- and say yeah we need we need help

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• Hello, my name is Ola Gonzalez with Innovate Public Schools, part of the Digital Equity L.A.
• Hello, my name is Ola Gonzalez with Innovate Public Schools, part of the Digital Equity L.A.
• I'm a mother leader with Innovate Public Schools. Good afternoon. My name is Saida Vega.
• I'm a mother leader with Innovate Public Schools, and I'm in the coalition of Digital Equity, and I'm
• And I think this is an example of moving out of your comfort zone to make sure that we are doing this

Summary: The committee first heard AB 470, which would change California’s carrier-of-last-resort rules and allow a phased transition away from copper landlines in areas deemed well served by alternative phone options. The author and AT&T argued the bill would protect consumers, preserve 911 access, require public notice and CPUC review, and direct investment toward modern fiber and emergency communications. Supporters included a wide range of business, civic, tribal, and community groups, while opponents from TURN, rural counties, labor, digital equity organizations, and local governments warned the bill could let AT&T shed service obligations too quickly, weaken protections for rural and underserved households, and harm workers. After extensive member discussion about CPUC authority, rural carveouts, labor impacts, and reinvestment, AB 470 was passed do pass as amended to Appropriations, with one no vote and one not voting, and the roll left open. The committee then took up AB 1532, a committee omnibus bill extending funding and surcharge authority for the Deaf and Disabled Telecommunications Program and the TNC Access for All program, while also adding CPUC accountability provisions. Chair Boerner Horvath explained the bill would not raise consumer costs and would require the CPUC to appear at hearings when requested and adopt rules for commissioner attendance. There was no opposition testimony, and the bill was moved do pass and re-refer to Utilities and Energy, though the roll was left open because it had not yet reached the threshold for immediate transmission. Finally, the committee heard AB 353, the Affordable Home Internet Act of 2025, which would establish an affordability floor for home broadband for low-income Californians after the expiration of the federal Affordable Connectivity Program. Supporters said broadband costs remain too high and that families, students, and vulnerable communities need a state solution now; opponents from the wireless industry and rural county representatives argued the bill would amount to an artificial price mandate and could complicate existing rural broadband buildouts. Members generally supported the goal but raised concerns about impacts on small ISPs and rural areas, and the bill was moved forward with a motion and second while discussion continued about possible exemptions and amendments.

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• United States, uh, thus relying on strong partnerships with our community colleges, early college high schools
• So those sorts of initiatives for a, for a school.
• But I need, I want to go to school and change the trajectory of my life.
• Going back in school, it's based on competency.
• And, uh, we, when we visit these independent school districts, we go to the principals and say, yeah,

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• aware of that, and what I could share with the body is that the overwhelming majority of Big Ten schools
• aware of that, and what I could share with the body is that the overwhelming majority of Big Ten schools
• , um of which the of Big 10 schools, um of which the University<00:37:22.720> of<00:37:22.880>
• Senate Bill 936, Senator West, Vehicle Laws Bus Obstruction Monitoring System and Bus Stop Zones, is
• President. and Bus Stop Zones. Senate Bill 936 is and Bus Stop Zones.

Keywords: Senate streaming session for Monday, March 23, 2026, 960, senate, all

Summary: The Senate convened with a quorum present, opened with an invocation, and welcomed guests including the doctor of the day, a Johns Hopkins student, and visiting scouts. The chamber then moved through first-reading introductions of several House bills, including measures on bullying and harassment reporting, the Family and Law Enforcement Protection Act, Baltimore County nuisance actions, parole hearing commission procedures, a blockchain technology task force, and a task force on deed fraud, all of which were referred to standing committees. The main floor action centered on layover bills. Senate Bill 932, concerning social media platforms displaying a user’s usual location, was amended to broaden the protected location reference and to protect participants in the Secretary of State’s address confidentiality program; after discussion about whether minors and child-abuse victims were covered, the amended bill was ordered printed for third reading. Senate Bill 623, creating a premium cigar lounge alcoholic beverage license, drew multiple county-specific amendments. Howard County and Baltimore County amendments sought to give priority to existing local tobacco businesses for the new licenses. Supporters said the changes would protect established local shops from out-of-state entities, while opponents argued the bill should remain statewide and not be amended county by county. A motion to special order the bill failed, and the amendments were adopted before the bill was ordered printed for third reading. Senate Bill 84, on collective bargaining for graduate assistants, also advanced after a committee amendment was adopted. A District 2 amendment was offered to clarify that graduate assistants are employed as teaching, administrative, or research assistants, but the floor leader opposed it, saying the bill’s definition was already clear and the change would create confusion. The minority leader questioned the definition and the relationship between graduate assistants and employees, prompting discussion of collective bargaining as bargaining by employees through representatives. The transcript cuts off before final disposition of that amendment.

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• <00:43:19.440> uh help them with uh uh after school uh help them with uh uh after school uh
• program after school learning program. program after school learning program.
• school districts.

• are attributed to school districts. are attributed to school districts.
• they're um uh not including school they're um uh not including school districts.<01:56:35.440>

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• Thousands of our consumers in the Independent Living Centers network live in high fire risk zones.

Summary: The Assembly Aging and Long-Term Care Committee met on April 21 and heard three bills. AB 1819 by Assemblymember Sanchez would require buildings serving 50 or more people to have an automated external defibrillator on site. Sanchez said the bill is intended to protect older adults and other community members by improving access to life-saving emergency equipment; supporters included recreation and park districts and respiratory care professionals. The committee members present voted in favor, and the bill was passed as amended and re-referred to Appropriations, with the roll held open for absent members. AB 1983 by Assemblymember Blanca Rubio would create an optional sequential repayment method for continuing care retirement communities, allowing entrance fee repayments to be made in the order residents leave rather than waiting for a specific unit to be reoccupied. Rubio and Erickson Senior Living argued the change would make repayments more predictable and equitable while preserving consumer protections. Support also came from LeadingAge California and the California Assisted Living Association. The committee approved the bill and sent it to Human Services, again holding the roll open for later votes. AB 2037 by Assemblymember Patterson would establish a pilot grant program to help seniors and people with disabilities harden their homes against wildfire risk, with Patterson describing it as a way to support property maintenance and reduce wildfire spread. The California Foundation for Independent Living Centers, AARP California, and local officials testified in support, and committee members accepted amendments to add another county to the pilot. The committee voted to pass the bill as amended and re-refer it to Appropriations. After the initial votes, add-on votes were recorded and the committee adjourned.

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• Of course, one example of this is the Texas Association of School Boards, which is arguably one of the
• Since 2018, when Children at Risk mapped illicit massage businesses alongside public schools, the number
• pools that I had a problem with because I had schools that were in these school pools and then when
• They've gone to a CODA school.
• The bill requires utilities operating in wildfire-prone zones to develop and implement comprehensive

Bills: HB111

Summary: The committee heard a long series of House bills, with most measures laid out by Senate sponsors and then left pending after brief public testimony. Early bills focused on construction and licensing issues, including HB 305 on prompt payment for public construction audits, HB 5093 on restoring public access to notary contact information, HB 2037 on updating landlord-tenant repair and security deposit rules, HB 4214 on a centralized public information request contact database, and HB 5435 exempting higher education institutions from a 90-day notice requirement for certain public-private partnership projects. Testimony was generally supportive on these bills, and no votes were taken; each was left pending. The committee also considered several transparency and regulatory bills. HB 111 would expand the Public Information Act to certain nonprofit state associations and narrow some attorney-client and working-paper exceptions, with supporters arguing it would improve oversight of public funds and critics questioning the scope and thresholds. HB 5129 would protect occupational license holders’ personal identifying information from disclosure without consent, HB 4350 would allow peace officers to redact personal information from online real property records, HB 4748 would authorize multiple-award state purchasing contracts, and HB 4765 would clean up code enforcement officer licensing rules. HB 4134 would allow motor vehicle creditors to charge limited fees for electronic payment options while requiring a free alternative, and HB 1043 would direct a study of blockchain-based property title records; both drew testimony, with some concern about the practical effects and vendor implications of the blockchain study. Several bills addressed insurance, workforce, and digital-asset regulation. HB 3520 would reduce the insurance coverage required for transportation network companies during the period when a driver is en route to pick up a passenger, drawing support from Texans for Lawsuit Reform and opposition from trial lawyers who argued the higher coverage better protects the public. HB 3320 would create a self-insurance pool for religious institutions, with TDI explaining it would still be regulated but operate under a special statutory framework. HB 4233 would modernize rules for digital asset service providers by removing certain auditor-access requirements and updating reporting and licensing provisions. HB 3923 would reduce bachelor’s-degree requirements for some state jobs, though Every Texan argued low pay, not degree requirements, is the main driver of turnover. HB 4518 would create a legal structure for decentralized unincorporated nonprofit associations tied to blockchain governance; business law experts opposed it as unnecessary and potentially risky, while crypto advocates supported it. Finally, HB 1803 would join an interstate compact for dentists and dental hygienists, with supporters citing workforce shortages and opponents saying Texas already licenses quickly and that the compact could weaken state oversight. Throughout the hearing, the committee repeatedly closed testimony and left bills pending, and a quorum was eventually established before later items were heard.

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• They have medical school acceptance quality. Their GPA average is a 3.8, and their MCAT is a 5.0.
• Right now online pet sales gray zone.
• According to a Johns Hopkins survey, only about 20% of medical schools include menopause in their basic
• But a module on menopause and grad school is not enough.
• We are a nonpartisan academic and advocacy center at USD School of Law.

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• I'm going to go to high school junior high school, high school grants, high school, Valley Middle School
• , middle schools, schools, and high schools in the state of New Mexico, and we can also benchmark data
• Again, the 2% for locally chartered schools is held by the local school district or the school board.
• schools.
• So what's really great about our school is every single one of our middle school through high school

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• Miss Nolan graduated from the University of Vermont and then Boston College Law School.
• Immediately after law school, Miss Nolan clerked for a federal judge in Massachusetts for a year and
• He went to law school at Northwestern University School of Law and graduated in 1995 in the top 10% of
• going to try explaining the committee vote without sounding like we're on an episode of the Twilight Zone

Keywords: 927, senate, all

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• They actually do pick up waste and food waste in all of our school districts as well.
• Madam Chair, Senator, an expert, my concern here, I can see where the hospitals or schools or this building
• Schools had a problem with that because of federal law, and so that became an issue.
• with farmers expanding operations across the state to provide local food to our communities, our schools
• Does it rise in zones? Is that how it does it, or how does it spread?

Bills: SB47, SB110, SB122, SB143, SB168

Keywords: food recovery, composting, waste management, solid waste surcharge, organic waste reduction, environment, grants, advisory group, bosque management, Rio Grande, environmental protection, water resources, fiscal appropriation, drinking water, well owners, water testing, water treatment, public health, agriculture, New Mexico Department of Agriculture

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• The Army Corps is also cleaning debris beyond homes that were lost, but also for schools, commercial
• County and political subdivisions of the state, but also there are nonprofit organizations, there are schools
• , there are school districts, there are individuals.
• have an invitation number when specifically, like, specifically you guys are saying I'm in the burn zone
• both upgrade... ...the existing receiver boxes and invest in new boxes that could be deployed in schools

Summary: The committee heard a broad public safety budget hearing focused on youth justice funding, probation incentive grants, and disaster response and recovery. On the youth justice item, the Office of Youth and Community Restoration described a proposed change to the JJRBG funding formula that would shift resources away from a DJJ-based measure and toward county youth population, serious offenses, and step-down placements in less restrictive programs. Members asked about data on Native American youth; OYCR said statewide data are limited, but its SYTF data show about 1% of youth in secure youth treatment facilities were Native in 2024. The Department of Finance had no objections, and the item was discussed as a way to support alternatives to long-term incarceration. The committee then reviewed the community corrections performance incentive program for county probation departments. The Department of Finance proposed stabilizing the program with a maintenance payment, updating the performance baseline, and adding a growth factor; the LAO agreed the formula needed changes but recommended using 2022-23 data instead of 2021-23, using marginal rather than average cost assumptions, rejecting the growth payment and minimum guarantee, and adding stronger oversight through the BSCC. Finance said it was open to some technical changes but opposed a new BSCC audit framework, noting Judicial Council already surveys probation departments and that evidence-based practice use has increased over time. Members and staff indicated the proposal still needed further work. A major portion of the hearing focused on the January 2025 Southern California wildfires and state disaster response. A resident of Altadena gave emotional testimony about evacuation failures, loss of home, and the need for accountability. LAO and Cal OES outlined the disaster response and recovery system, including mutual aid, alert and warning, debris removal, FEMA and state funding streams, and the long timeline for reimbursement. Cal OES said it had pre-positioned resources, temporarily took over the county’s wireless emergency alert function for about three weeks, coordinated debris removal and recovery operations, and had already allocated more than $286 million in state funds. Officials also discussed the 100% federal cost share for emergency work for 180 days and the uncertainty created by changing federal processes and the cancellation of the BRIC resilience program. The committee also heard two smaller Cal OES items: a request to reappropriate about $22 million for the law enforcement mutual aid reimbursement program, which the LAO said should be placed in statute with clearer goals and reporting, and an update on Victims of Crime Act funding, where Cal OES said federal VOCA allocations have fallen sharply and that roughly $224 million would be needed to maintain current service levels if federal funding does not improve. Public comment included a request for funding to expand datacasting and emergency alert receivers for wildfire and earthquake warning.

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• He was only days away from his high school graduation.
• He was only days away from his high school school school graduation.<00:32:51.679> He<00:32:51.919
• Even though he was the newest crew member, he was said to go to the deepest part of their work zone.

Keywords: 1183, house

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• constituents who has to drive every day on their commute to work or to pick up their children from school
• Ponyo partnering with VIA changed zoning rules near bus stations, trying to incentivize developers to
• and biking are options that many new families are now seeking when choosing a home in proximity to schools
• opposition to the idea of tolling Fairmount Parkway as it serves as a vital roadway for work, communities, school
• camped in parks, on public property, on doorsteps of downtown businesses and buildings, or even their schools

Bills: HJR58, HJR63, HB263, HB542, HB905, HB 1288, HB1402, HB2003, HB2262, HB2323, HB2429, HB2876, HB3019, HB263

Keywords: healthcare, insurance, elderly, retirement, benefits, transit-oriented projects, constitutional amendment, state highway fund, funding allocation, voter approval, highway fund, funding, public transportation, transit projects, transportation, local transit, fund allocation, voting rights, election integrity, ballot access

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• School District.
• My school had the same base funding as my wife's school, which was one of the five richest schools in
• New Mexico International School is a different school.
• schools in the state.
• My name is is Todd Nowson, the head of school at New Mexico International School.

Keywords: 996, all

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• So, that $11 billion is going to be taxed at the local level by the school systems, by the state.
• Maybe there are planning and zoning questions about you...
• School system, and the state. And that's just one project.
• <00:19:53.440> And<00:19:53.600> that's school system, and the state.
• And that's school system, and the state.

Keywords: Meeting Start 00:00:00 Attendance Roll Call 00:00:10 Approval of Minutes 00:01:19 Helping Power Kentucky's Growth (LG&E/KU) 00:01:39 Update from Kentucky's Electric Cooperatives 00:47:35, 958, all

Summary: The committee met with a quorum, approved the minutes from the previous meeting, and then heard a presentation from LG&E and KU representatives Caroline Clark and John Bevington on economic development, energy demand, and the utility’s role in supporting Kentucky’s growth. Bevington described the company’s service territory, generation fleet, and recent economic development activity, including 76 projects supported in 2024, more than $2.8 billion in private investment, and over 3,000 new jobs. He emphasized that data centers are now the dominant driver in the pipeline, with 22 data center projects representing about 8.7 of the 9.7 gigawatts of potential demand, alongside other manufacturing and commercial projects. A major focus was how data centers choose sites and how utilities respond. Bevington explained that hyperscale data centers typically approach utilities first because they need transmission-level access, and that utilities then conduct internal analyses, estimate infrastructure needs, and require financial security before proceeding. He said the company is working through formal transmission studies and long-lead infrastructure planning, and noted that Kentucky’s sales tax exemption for data centers helped attract interest. He also outlined the economic benefits of data centers, citing an announced Louisville project of 525 megawatts and about $11 billion in investment, with an estimated $500 million in new tax revenue over 10 years, plus broader job and GDP impacts. Members asked about whether data centers could generate their own power, the reliability of the pipeline numbers given confidentiality and nondisclosure agreements, and cybersecurity concerns. Bevington said the company does not assume all pipeline projects will materialize in Kentucky and instead assigns probabilities to avoid overbuilding. He also said he was not the right person to address cybersecurity in detail but offered to return to a committee focused on IT or security. In response to questions about future supply, he said LG&E and KU are adding generation through a 120-megawatt solar facility in Mercer County, a 120-megawatt solar purchase in Marion County, and a 645-megawatt natural gas combined-cycle plant in Louisville, with PSC approval recently granted for additional generation and related system upgrades.

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• school year.
• school year.
• school year.
• school year.
• last school year.

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Thursday, June 5, 2025, 1012, house, all

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• He is an agriculture teacher at Greenwood High School in Perry County, Pennsylvania.
• He is an agriculture teacher at Greenwood High School in Perry County, Pennsylvania.
• Additionally, Arden was the longest-serving volunteer school board member of the Elk Lake School District
• More recently, he helped get whole milk back in schools.
• MORE RECENTLY, HE HELPED GET THE WHOLE MILK BACK IN SCHOOLS.

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Monday, February 23, 2026, 1012, house, all

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• . school. school.
• things the school does for our town. things the school does for our town.
• Shaw's comment about his school.
• Shaw's comment about his school.
• med school. med school. >> Okay. >> Okay. >> Okay.

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• <00:15:54.680> after schools and tracking the schools after schools and tracking the schools
• High School.
• Schools, schools, schools. Yeah, I understand, but isn't it part of ACM, your role, to do that?
• :32.199> school schools school schools school yeah<02:05:35.119> colrs<02:05:36.119>
• Do you go out to the high schools? Do you talk with the schools? I do.

Keywords: 912, senate, all