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• We have responsibilities in the Central Valley where the state has a liability and responsibility to
• We have small communities throughout the Central Valley, and we have partnerships with local agencies
• Central Valley for our farming needs. What are the rules on those water flows from the Delta?
• The State Water Project System and the Federal Central Valley Project.
• There is a need for water by other water users through the central part of the Delta.

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• comments, we are accepting written testimony through the position letter portal on the committee's website
• California currently has no centralized record of where these puppies are coming from, making enforcement
• relieves local agencies of paper-based, largely ignored reporting systems and replaces it with a centralized
• often through online ads that present them as local, reputable, and healthy, but behind the polished websites

Summary: The Assembly Business and Professions Committee heard several bills, including SB 788 by Senator Niello, which clarified that CPAs and CPA firms, including employees and out-of-state CPAs authorized to practice in California, are regulated by the California Board of Accountancy rather than subject to Tax Preparation Act registration requirements. Supporters said the bill would reduce duplicative regulation and confusion; there was no opposition, and the bill passed to Appropriations. The committee also heard SB 351 by Senator Cabaldon, aimed at strengthening enforcement of California’s corporate practice of medicine rules as they relate to private equity and hedge fund involvement in medical and dental practices. The author and physician supporters argued that private equity can interfere with clinical decisions and patient care, while opposition from the American Investment Council said the bill could sweep in legitimate business practices and requested a narrow amendment. The bill passed to Judiciary. SB 312 by Senator Umberg was heard next and would require health certificates for imported dogs sold in California to be submitted to CDFA and made publicly available, with supporters describing it as a transparency and consumer protection measure to combat puppy mills and misleading online sales. There was no opposition, and the bill passed to Agriculture. The committee also approved a consent calendar containing SB 291, SB 387, SB 517, SB 602, and SB 773, all moving to their respective committees. The meeting ended after additional roll calls and adjournment.

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• It's basically where all the staff that I don't have currently for the administrative website, public
• , developing and executing websites, developing and executing websites, communications<01:25:11.679
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• Spoofed bank email addresses, fake websites being promoted on social media, lotteries, too good to be
• And educating customers is something that we try and do every single day. websites being promoted on
• that look exactly like your bank website or, you know, the gentleman had talked about the scam text
• Are you seeing based on that website? Is that what the scammers are using?
• A lot of that is coming out of Asia, out of the Middle East, and out of Central Europe.”

Summary: A joint House-Senate Insurance and Commerce meeting focused on the growing threat of financial fraud in Arkansas, with members hearing from bankers, regulators, law enforcement, AARP, and mortgage and insurance industry representatives. Witnesses described a wide range of scams, including spoofed bank calls and texts, fake websites and social media impersonation, romance and investment scams, business email compromise, gift card fraud, check fraud, wire fraud, reverse mortgage scams, and crypto kiosk schemes. Several speakers emphasized that fraud is increasingly organized, technology-driven, and amplified by artificial intelligence, and that seniors are disproportionately targeted and often suffer the largest losses. Testimony highlighted both prevention and recovery efforts. Bankers said institutions spend heavily on training, customer education, and fraud detection, but often cannot stop losses once customers have been convinced to authorize transfers. The Attorney General’s office described its Consumer Protection Division, a new Financial Fraud Task Force, and examples of recovering funds quickly from crypto kiosk and wire fraud cases. The State Bank Department and Securities Department said Arkansas’s 2025 crypto ATM legislation and related education requirements have helped, and they urged continued public education. The Insurance Department reported major insurance-fraud trends, including fake insurance cards, forged policies, premium-finance schemes, and staged auto accidents, and said it prosecutes these cases aggressively. Members asked about reporting scams, the security of tap payments, how fraud losses are tracked, the role of crypto kiosks, and whether Arkansas should pursue model legislation or stronger action against telecom and social media companies. Witnesses said tap payments are generally safer than chip or swipe, that crypto transfers are often unrecoverable, and that spoofed caller ID and impersonation ads remain major problems. Paul Benda of the American Bankers Association urged state and federal action against telecom and social media platforms and supported national scam legislation. No new bills were voted on at the meeting, but members approved the November 3, 2025 minutes and several witnesses offered to share model legislation, consumer education materials, and state-by-state fraud data with the committee.

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• We have eight issues as listed on the agenda, which is available online on our committee website, and
• I wanted to check on, or just express, how important the abortion.ca.gov website is at this moment.
• I'll have to get back to you specifically on that website, but I do want to mention and highlight that
• So we'll have to get back to you on that website, but we're also, of course, committed to reproductive
• The County Health Executives Association of California (CHIAC) published impact stories on our website

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• DHS currently has a website up crisis.
• DHS currently has a website up that<00:07:08.479> states<00:07:09.039> that<00:07:09.440
• So, it's really about that central independent inspector general that we will build in those types of
• <00:42:47.680> inspector about that central independent inspector about that central independent

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Summary: Senate Republican leaders held a press event to roll out a package of anti-fraud proposals focused on state welfare and human services programs. Mark Johnson opened by citing recent fraud scandals, including a shuttered housing program and reports of vulnerable adults being left without care while providers billed for full services, and said Republicans want top-down reform, stronger accountability, new technology, and tighter oversight of taxpayer dollars. Michael Kreun said Republicans support an independent Office of Inspector General and argued the Senate-passed bill should not be weakened in the House; he also said the Senate should restore its role in confirming agency commissioners, especially at DHS, which he described as central to the fraud problem. Jordan Rasmusson outlined a plan to stop “blank checks” for DHS and DCYF services by requiring legislative audit review when a program exceeds budget by 5 percent and legislative approval for additional spending at 10 percent over budget. He also said DHS should adopt basic integrity tools such as electronic visit verification and client sign-off. Steve Drazkowski described two bills: a statewide “do-not-pay” list to block payments to ineligible people or entities, and an “I’m Not a Robot” proposal for Medicaid managed care that would require enrollee verification forms, with a 2 percent payment withhold used to encourage compliance and potentially fund county system upgrades. Mark Krueger said the state should improve technology and data use for eligibility determinations, citing other states’ rapid fraud-fighting systems, and proposed penalties for false reporting to the Legislative Auditor after a DHS audit found falsified site-visit records. Steve Gruenhagen said his bill would require DHS and DCYF to resume annual fraud-prevention and oversight reports to the legislature, which he said had stopped after 2017 despite rising fraud cases. Michael Holmstrom proposed unannounced site visits for all DHS and DCYF providers before enrollment, reenrollment, and revalidation, funded through provider service fees, and cited a recent case involving a woman with autism who was billed for far more care than she received. In the Q&A, Kreun said House Democrats’ delete-everything amendment to the inspector general bill removed the law enforcement division and stripped the bill of its “teeth,” and he suggested the governor’s office may have been involved in efforts to replace the bill with a weaker coordination council model. No votes were taken in the press conference.

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• I grew up in the Central San Joaquin Valley. I have lived and gone to school in San Diego.
• I've lived on the Central Coast, and now I call the capital region home.
• I grew up in the central San Joaquin Valley. I have lived and went to school in San Diego.
• I've lived on the Central Coast and now I call the capital region home.
• We have Orange County, Inland Empire, Los Angeles area, Central California, and NorCal.

Summary: The committee held an information hearing on California’s economy and household affordability, with the first panel focusing on inflation, housing, energy, wages, and the likely effects of new federal tariff policy. PPIC’s Sarah Bone said Californians remain deeply pessimistic about the economy, with inflation the main driver of concern; she noted prices are still about 23% higher than in January 2020, with especially large increases in food, energy, and housing costs. LAO’s Brian Euler emphasized that housing is the largest household expense and pointed to insurance, electricity, gasoline, and health care as other major cost pressures, urging the Legislature to review whether existing policies are actually reducing costs and to consider studies of why recent housing laws have not produced more units. UC Davis economist Catherine Russ warned that tariffs on China, Canada, Mexico, and potentially broader imports could raise consumer prices, disrupt supply chains, and hurt California exporters, farmers, and small businesses; she suggested monitoring prices, strengthening food assistance, and preparing transition support for affected workers and producers. Members pressed the panelists for concrete, near-term policy ideas, especially on housing and tariffs. Questions centered on whether accessory dwelling units are making a meaningful dent in affordability, how to improve implementation of pro-housing laws at the local level, and how to measure the impact of tariffs on consumers, health care, and agriculture. Panelists said ADUs help but are limited, that state laws can be undermined by local implementation and litigation, and that tariff effects may show up quickly in prices and later in hiring and investment. Several members stressed that the tariff issue is not a minor disruption for constituents and asked for more data on consumer impacts, food aid needs, and crop-specific farm losses. The second panel shifted to regional economic development and small business support. Go-Biz’s Derek Kirk described California Jobs First and the state economic blueprint as a first-in-decades, regionally informed strategy to create good-paying jobs, support key sectors, and align workforce and business development across 13 regions. The California Association for Local Economic Development’s Gerbach Sahota argued that local governments need practical tools, stable policy, and stronger partnerships with the state, while warning that prosperity is not always perceived as shared and that rural communities can be left behind. He urged the Legislature to use hearings, local input, and existing funding streams more effectively, including for recovery and infrastructure. David Fitzgerald of the Small Business Development Centers said California’s SBDC network serves hundreds of thousands of clients, many of them women and historically underrepresented entrepreneurs, and has generated billions in economic impact, capital access, revenue, and jobs. He said the biggest gaps are outreach to the state’s many self-employed businesses with no employees, better labor data on those workers, and more flexible support for direct services. Committee members then asked what small businesses need most in the face of inflation and tariff shocks, including lower licensing costs and other relief, and the discussion continued on how to better target state support to businesses and households under pressure.

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• By registering via the meeting that is posted on the GA's website, instructions for providing public
• comment are posted on the General Assembly's website under this committee meeting's notice and will be
• So this fits to work within that existing structure and allows central portability initiatives to be
• So this fits to work within that existing structure and allows central portability initiatives to be
• Establishing a dedicated Title IX coordinator within the Department of Education will provide schools with centralized

Bills: SB293, SB279

Keywords: SB 293, youth camp, child care licensing, Office of Child Care Licensing, OCCL, American Camp Association, ACA accreditation, Purchase of Care, POC reimbursement, summer camp, school-age child care, child care exemption, Division of Public Health permit, Title 14, Delaware Department of Education, health and safety standards, child care provider reimbursement, summer child care, camp licensing, license exemption

Summary: The Senate Education Committee approved the June 10 minutes and then heard House Bill 447, which would create a framework for voluntary child care cost-sharing partnerships among the state, employers, community sponsors, and families. Supporters said the bill is meant to help make child care more affordable and support workforce participation by using the existing Interagency Resource Management Committee to coordinate planning and funding. Committee discussion focused on how the tri-share model would work, who would participate, and whether it would reach lower-income families; no public comment was offered on the bill. The committee then took up House Bill 300, as amended, which would establish a statewide Title IX coordinator within the Department of Education to provide training, technical assistance, data collection, and oversight for interscholastic athletics in grades 6 through 12. The bill’s sponsor and supporters said the position would help schools comply with Title IX, improve consistency, and make athletic participation and spending data more transparent; opponents or skeptics questioned whether a new DOE position was needed and whether districts were already meeting their obligations. The sponsor and witnesses responded that existing federal data are delayed and incomplete, that some Delaware schools have participation gaps, and that a state-level coordinator would provide needed support and accountability. Public comment on HB 300 included testimony from the Delaware State Education Association, the Delaware Association of School Administrators, the Delaware School Sports Network, and the Office of Women’s Advancement and Advocacy, all generally supporting the bill or its goals. DASA noted it remained neutral but appreciated changes made in House Amendment 1 to reduce reporting burden. After public comment, the chair asked members to sign the bill release forms for the two bills heard, and the committee adjourned.

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• The public would be able to go to a website and see live data, so they would be able to see, you know
• The post was then shared on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and other websites.
• All of his information was available on the Hennepin County website.
• available on the henpen County website available on the henpen County website he<01:20:19.480>
• I work in a small town in north central Minnesota, about 1,400 people. I only have four officers.

Keywords: 1183, house

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• for this $500 million dollars of revenue that is centrally assessed, not what the city and counties do
• We centrally assess these entities as part of the new process.
• Those are the primarily what I would say is what we do every day-to-day, we centrally assess work with
• Our website has a dashboard, which you all have in the packets that we sent out or gave out here a moment
• tribal monies, when you have the FCC, which they have called enhanced ACAM monies, If you go to our website

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• , And whether that goes to a centrally collected facility, I don't know.
• Okay, the statistical report is posted on our website.
• And then centrally assessed property is about 7% of the property tax collected, at $106.8 million.
• And then centrally assessed property is about 7% of the property tax collected, at $106.8 million.
• The centrally assessed property change in the five years was 2.68. That's 2.68% per year, correct?

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• WE ALSO CREATED A NEW WEBSITE DEDICATED TO THE PROGRAM WHICH PROVIDED INFORMATION RELATIVE TO THE PROGRAM
• AND THROUGHOUT THE PROCESS WHETHER IT IS THE POSTCARDS, THE INFORMATIONAL LETTERS, THE WEBSITE WE RECEIVED
• OPPORTUNITY TO GET QUESTIONS ANSWERED THAT THEY MIGHT HAVE THAT THEY MAY NOT OF BEEN ABLE TO GET FROM THE WEBSITE
• BUT THERE IS SIGNIFICANT GROWTH HAPPENING IN CENTRAL FLORIDA AND THEN THE NORTHEAST CORNER AND WE ARE
• WE ARE WORKING TO IMPLEMENT STARTING NEXT YEAR THE PROVIDER SERVICES MODULE THAT WOULD HELP CENTRALIZE

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• on the road, right, especially in today's day and age where, you know, you can build an e-commerce website
• , you can go do things that you build a website and then operate it. do things that you build a website
• Central Florida has been designated the the number one, if not maybe number 2 market for this new technology
• So we have the University of Florida University of Central Florida UCF and Embry Riddle Aeronautical

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• So we have reports and dashboards on our website. We have a number of annualized reports.
• Our website has a number of annualized reports and a dental utilization dashboard.
• We do know that those are being used for grants, and we highly encourage folks to go to the website to
• And according to the American and Central Association, it's safe at any time. So, um...
• American and Central Association, it's safe at any time.

Keywords: 962, all

Summary: The MAPOC Women and Children’s Health Subcommittee heard a presentation from Kate Parker Riley, executive director of the Connecticut Dental Health Partnership, on the Husky Dental Program and efforts to improve oral health during pregnancy. She reviewed the structure of Connecticut’s Medicaid dental benefit, the ASO model, provider network, utilization trends, and member barriers to care. She noted that children’s dental measures remain above the national median, but adult utilization is lower and the dental provider network has been shrinking, with longer wait times in rural areas. A major focus was the state’s goal to raise the rate of oral evaluation during pregnancy from about 17.5% to 25% by 2030. Riley described planned outreach to OB/GYN practices using a draft “snapshot” report showing each practice’s pregnancy oral-health rate compared with the state average, along with education materials based on ACOG and AAP guidance. Committee members and guests discussed barriers such as lack of provider training, workflow burden, access to dentists who will see pregnant patients, and the need for stronger referral bridges. Suggestions included adding simple oral-health screening questions in OB settings, using human support to make appointments, and exploring co-located dental hygienists or other embedded models. Riley also highlighted partnerships with DSS, DCF, Head Start, WIC, Read to Grow, YMCA programs, refugee resettlement agencies, and school-based and hospital partners, as well as data-sharing and navigation efforts. She said pregnant members newly identified through HUSKY will now receive outreach and navigation support. DSS dental director Carolyn MacArthur introduced herself and said she supports the initiative, noting the literature linking untreated maternal dental disease to poor child oral-health outcomes. No votes were taken; the meeting ended with thanks and a preview of upcoming July presentations on integrated behavioral health and home visitation programs.

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• And so our hope is to educate more on that through our website and resources.
• I'll also direct you to their website. It has a lot of good information on it.
• At Coinflip, consumer protection is central to how we operate.
• The project in Central Texas is closer to more densely populated areas.
• You know, two of those projects are in Central Texas and then in Brownsville that are 98% covered.

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• It would allow them to post notices on a public website.
• and in addition to the counties website designated for publishing legal notices.
• There are 20 different websites you can look at, whether it be Monster, so on and so forth.
• or the county website if doing so is less expensive than publishing in a newspaper.
• The Florida Press Association operates the largest public notice website in the state.

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• that any .com or .org could be a real government website.
• You're able to just point to the .gov website also.
• Those residents are the most susceptible of all when an agency is on a .org website.
• easy to spoof that website.
• And you go online to their website, get the tickets, and there's no reselling.

Summary: The committee first heard AB 56, which would require social media platforms to display a warning label about potential mental health harms from prolonged use, with amendments shortening the initial warning and allowing immediate access to the platform. The author and supporters, including a parent who lost a daughter to suicide and a therapist, argued that social media contributes to teen anxiety, self-harm, and other harms and that families need clearer public health information. Opponents from tech and civil liberties groups argued the bill would be ineffective, burdensome, and likely unconstitutional, saying it would create warning fatigue and should be replaced by more targeted tools and digital literacy measures. Several members discussed emergency access concerns, language access, and whether the warning should be more actionable; the bill was moved on a 9-0 vote to the Judiciary Committee. The committee then took up AB 358, which would amend CalECPA to allow law enforcement, with the victim’s consent, to inspect certain abandoned tracking or surveillance devices found in a victim’s home, vehicle, or personal property without first obtaining a warrant. The author and a San Diego prosecutor said the bill is narrowly tailored to devices used solely for spying and is intended to help stalking and domestic violence survivors act quickly before evidence is lost. Opponents from EFF and the ACLU warned the bill would weaken warrant protections, create a loophole around CalECPA, and reduce transparency and accountability. Members debated Fourth Amendment issues, abandonment, and the practical need for rapid access; the bill passed the committee on a 9-0 vote to Appropriations. The committee also heard AB 1137, which builds on last year’s CSAM reporting law by allowing any user to report child sexual abuse material, requiring clearer reporting mechanisms, adding human review in some cases, and mandating third-party audits and public reporting. Supporters, including survivor advocates and a parent of a child victim, said the bill would reduce the burden on survivors and improve removal of abusive content. Tech industry opponents said they support the goal but objected to the human-review mandate, public audit disclosures, and enforcement provisions, arguing they could create security risks and compliance burdens. Members generally supported the bill’s intent but raised questions about audit frequency and human review; the bill was moved on call with seven votes at the time of the transcript.

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• Senator from Chittenden Central.
• Senator from Chittenden Central. Central. Central.
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• Senator from Chittenden Central Central. Senator from Chittenden Central Central.

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• They have a website; you know how they get that information.
• The website is designed to link researchers to active studies to promote awareness.
• It's a website, like you mentioned, that they implemented.
• So yes, a website. The idea with our caregiver...
• initiative is if we could get even physician's offices to just have posters about it, creating a central

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• Emails may be sent to the address found on the committee website, which is agri.committy at assembly.ca.gov
• I'm the Executive Director of School Nutrition and the Central Kitchen at Sacramento City Unified.
• Across California, especially in the Central Valley, we are seeing a troubling rise in abandoned or neglected
• Taylor Triffo, on behalf of growers, shippers of Central California, Neesay Farmers League, Western Plant
• California is the breadbasket of the world, not just of California, and particularly here in the Central

Summary: The Assembly Committee on Agriculture met with an initial quorum delay, then heard four items: AJR 6 on protecting federal funding for the Local Food for Schools and Child Care program, AB 732 on abandoned agricultural land, AB 1042 on honeybee health, and consent item AB 1506. The chair reviewed hearing procedures and public comment rules before moving through the file in order. AJR 6, authored by Assemblymember Aguiar-Curry, urged federal officials to preserve funding for local food programs that connect California farmers with school meals and food banks. Supporters, including a farm owner and a school nutrition director, said the program benefits children’s nutrition, helps small farms, and strengthens local economies. There was no opposition, and the committee members who were present voted to adopt the resolution; later absent members were added, bringing it to eight votes and sending it out. AB 732, by Assemblymember Macedo, would give county agricultural commissioners a faster enforcement tool against abandoned or neglected orchards and vineyards by allowing civil penalties instead of relying only on liens. Testimony from growers and a county agricultural commissioner described pest infestations, economic losses, and high abatement costs tied to neglected land, and the bill was presented as a response to SGMA-related fallowing and low commodity prices. The committee voted due pass to the Judiciary Committee, and after absent members were added it also reached eight votes. AB 1042, by Assemblymember Ransom, proposed a Managed Honeybee Health Program with grants, research, technical assistance, and an expanded advisory committee to support pollinators essential to California crops. Witnesses from the fresh fruit and beekeeping sectors emphasized that bee declines threaten crop production and the broader agricultural economy. The committee voted due pass to Appropriations, and the bill ultimately received eight votes. The consent calendar item, AB 1506, was also approved and sent to Appropriations.