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• to the emergency program.
• :02:15.280> run supplement the program that had been run supplement the program that had been
• Program.
• creates a local food purchasing program. creates a local food purchasing program.
• That was our plan, but program.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• The problem this bill solves is that we haven't created a program for it yet.
• This program is being run through Rutgers, and we should have Rutgers' MBA program provide these services
• Reed Funk, who was the father of this revolutionary program.
• Recognition isn't symbolic when people's safety and dignity are at stake.
• Recognition isn't symbolic when people's safety and dignity are at stake.

Keywords: 1146, all

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• We have about 77,000 businesses that are actually running the program.
• We have about 77,000 businesses that are actually running the program.
• This is why the Dogwuf program is so important.
• , to get them signed up, to get them into the program, to get them the classes they need.
• And then come March, June of next year, July—that's the end of the program.

Keywords: 987, senate, all

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• They can't even go to programs.
• Instead of supporting communities through investing in schools, after-school programs, job programs,
• Communities through investing in schools, after-school programs, job programs, housing, and mental health
• The program, you know...
• The programming then, coming out and doing the additional programming out of the prison, we moved the

Keywords: 995, all

Summary: The committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight held a hybrid hearing covering public construction, business regulations, and honorary designations, with most of the discussion focused on two matters: a five-year moratorium on new jail and prison construction (S. 2114/H. 3422) and a bill designating June 7 as Tourette Syndrome Awareness Day (S. 2152/H. 3305). The chair emphasized that the hearing was public, testimony would be recorded, and speakers should generally keep remarks to three minutes. Senator Comerford introduced the prison moratorium bill, saying it would pause new construction while allowing renovations, and Senator Friedman introduced the Tourette awareness bill and a separate Tuskegee Airmen commemoration measure, asking for favorable action on both honorary designations. A large portion of the hearing featured remote testimony from incarcerated people at MCI Framingham and MCI Shirley in support of the prison moratorium. Witnesses repeatedly argued that Massachusetts does not need a new women’s prison, that the incarcerated population is declining, and that funds would be better spent on mental health care, addiction treatment, vocational training, pre-release programming, housing, and repairs to existing facilities. Several speakers described poor conditions, limited programming, and the need to address trauma, domestic violence, and substance use as root causes of incarceration. One committee member responded to testimony by noting that incarceration numbers are going down, that the state is working on housing and workforce opportunities for people returning home, and that the committee wants to expand pathways to employment and reentry. The Tourette Syndrome Awareness Day bill drew testimony from the bill’s young sponsor, Owen Rosenthal, his parents, medical professionals, and advocates. They described Tourette syndrome as a misunderstood neurodevelopmental condition, said awareness would reduce stigma and improve diagnosis and support, and cited the need for education in schools, workplaces, and the medical community. The Tourette Association of America supported the bill, noting underdiagnosis, co-occurring conditions, pain, and mental health risks associated with Tourette syndrome. Committee members praised the youth advocates and asked that written testimony be submitted electronically. The hearing ended without any recorded votes or final committee action in the transcript provided.

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• Two is public safety.
• The bounty program ended, but the killing did not.
• The program is peer reviewed by PACO.
• You may have heard concerns about safety.
• If not safety, perhaps it's something else.

Keywords: 995, all

Summary: The committee hearing covered a wide range of animal, wildlife, hunting, and environmental bills. Early testimony focused on deer management, with Rep. Markey urging creation of a deer commission to address crop damage, vehicle collisions, and Lyme disease, and Sen. Durant supporting bills to allow Sunday bow hunting, expand crossbow use, and reduce the 500-foot dwelling restriction for archery hunting. Supporters framed these measures as practical wildlife-management tools, while questions centered on how they would differ from existing Fish and Wildlife authority and whether they would allow hunting closer to residences. Later, Rep. Sena also spoke in support of a bill to increase protected wildlife management areas and another to require non-lead ammunition, arguing both would benefit biodiversity and reduce environmental harm. A substantial portion of the hearing addressed animal welfare and commerce. Multiple witnesses supported bills to ban or phase out the retail sale of dogs, cats, rabbits, and guinea pigs in pet shops, arguing that pet stores rely on puppy mills and obscure the source of animals, while opponents said the bills would hurt responsible breeders, small businesses, and consumer choice. The committee also heard strong testimony for bills to ban the sale of cats and dogs in pet shops, with supporters citing sick animals, consumer deception, and the need to cut off the puppy mill supply chain. In a separate animal-testing segment, witnesses backed bills requiring non-animal testing methods for cosmetics and household products, saying alternatives are more accurate and humane; biomedical research representatives opposed those bills and a related research-animal measure, warning of unintended restrictions on research institutions and arguing animal models remain necessary for many studies. The committee also heard testimony on horseshoe crab conservation, with supporters of H. 898 urging an end to taking horseshoe crabs for bait because of population declines, shorebird impacts, and the species’ importance to biomedical science. On wildlife trafficking, witnesses backed bills to ban intrastate sales of ivory and rhino horn, saying Massachusetts should close loopholes that aid poaching and align with federal law and other states; one antique dealer testified in support, saying he avoids such items and still sees them in the marketplace. Additional testimony supported bans on fur products from factory farms and on force-feeding birds for foie gras, with advocates emphasizing cruelty, public health, and environmental concerns. The hearing was lengthy and heavily attended, with the chairs repeatedly limiting testimony to three minutes and inviting written submissions; no committee votes or final actions were taken during the transcript excerpt.

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• Upbring connects youth with families who can provide them with safety, support, and compassion until
• He has led a team of 144 sworn officers and 53 civilian personnel, ensuring the safety and well-being
• HB 3727 by Patterson relates to the grant program in which certain railroad grade separation projects
• At medical educational programs for the Committee on Higher Education.
• HB 3849 by KAA is relating to program categories and the unified Transportation Program for the subcommittee

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• <00:10:41.040> thank million to continue the program thank million to continue the program
• Yeah, so a grant program under ADC, they could administer a grant program.
• <00:16:42.040> the responsibility this grant program the responsibility this grant program
• program or the cover crop pilot program program or the cover crop pilot program exist<00:19:36.679
• It's going to impact Hawaii and a lot of these programs, uh, healthy soils conservation programs.

Keywords: 910, house, all

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• Happy Super Bowl Monday for the Senate Committee on Public Safety and Military Affairs.
• education programs.
• provide for Community safety education provide for Community safety education programs<00:14:26.959><
• <00:16:39.000> education<00:16:39.560> programs for Community safety education programs
• for Community safety education programs to<00:16:40.639> be to be to be ex<00:16:42.959> expended

Keywords: 912, senate, all

Summary: The committee heard testimony on SB 540, which would make the most recent state building codes supersede county codes beginning in 2028 and limit county changes without State Building Code Council approval. Grassroot Institute testified in support, while IBEW Local 1260 strongly opposed the bill as written, warning it could let counties weaken state minimum standards and create problems for fire code and sprinkler requirements. Members discussed the need for consistency in building codes and the impact of the State Building Code Council’s status, and the chair said the measure would be deferred indefinitely. The committee also heard SB 626 on disaster preparedness, which would prohibit planting large trees along evacuation routes and require HEMA to identify and remove obstructive trees. Testimony included comments from DLNR, HEMA, and others, with HEMA opposing the measure. The chair said more coordination was needed between DLNR and HEMA and deferred the bill. SB 692, regulating retail and wholesale spray paint sales and assigning jurisdiction to the Department of Law Enforcement, drew opposition from the Retail Merchants of Hawaiʻi, which said the bill would impose costly storage and reporting burdens on small retailers and raise identity-theft concerns. The committee deferred that measure as well. In a separate decision-making segment, the committee considered SB 9 on fireworks and recommended passage with amendments. The amendments narrowed or removed several sections, increased certain penalties from $500 to $1,000, adjusted forfeiture allocations, accepted an Attorney General amendment, added an appropriation for community safety education programs, and changed the effective date to July 1, 2077. The motion to pass with amendments was adopted by a vote of 2-1. Later, in a joint hearing, SB 1102 on the aircraft rescue firefighting unit drew support from DOT but opposition from the Hawaiʻi Firefighters Association, which asked that the bill be held. SB 41, establishing Hawaiʻi Disaster Drill Day on August 8, received support from HEMA and a public testifier. SB 1570, addressing Molokaʻi air service disruptions and a possible runway expansion, drew strong public support from Molokaʻi residents and service providers, while the Attorney General raised separation-of-powers concerns about the emergency declaration language and DOT noted the high cost and feasibility issues of runway expansion.

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• The LEAs started a program with federal money.
• The federal program ran out, and now they can't support the program.
• I know Superintendent... ...program.
• We have modestly increased an airport development grant program and the site development grant program
• Totally revamping the Foundation program. 3.

Keywords: 924, joint, all

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• , and outdoor nature-based programs.
• Our school-age programs are definitely increasing month by month.
• So do you... ...find, so DCYF has its own safety standards and licensing standards.
• What's the current street program?
• What's the current street program?

Summary: The committee held a work session on form-based codes, child care facility siting, and street standards/frontage improvements. On form-based codes, Commerce’s Dave Anderson explained that these codes emphasize building form, orientation, and the public realm more than traditional use and density tables, and that they are typically applied in specific districts rather than citywide or statewide. Lacey’s Vanessa Dolby described the city’s Woodland District code, developed through community charrettes, fiscal and market analysis, and subdistrict-specific standards to create a walkable downtown. She said the approach has helped produce a more desirable built environment and more flexibility in permitted uses, but also noted it can be less user-friendly for applicants and still requires some use restrictions; both presenters said a hybrid approach is often best. The committee then heard from DCYF and multiple providers about barriers to opening child care facilities. DCYF officials said Washington has more than 6,500 licensed providers and that a new pre-licensing support team is helping applicants navigate licensing, but local zoning, building, fire, parking, utility, and occupancy requirements still create delays and confusion. Testifiers described long permitting timelines, inconsistent local interpretations, costly upgrades, and utility hookup delays; one Yakima provider said county requirements, a floodplain-related elevation certificate, and a private well issue stopped her in-home child care proposal, while others described traffic impact fees, parking mandates, and zoning barriers that made projects infeasible. Enterprise Community Partners highlighted examples of successful local reforms, including fee waivers, expedited permitting, and zoning changes in several cities, and DCYF said it is working toward a 2026 action plan and a resource guide for providers. In the final section, planners and developers discussed how street standards and frontage improvement requirements can undermine infill and middle housing. Poulsbo’s planning manager said current standards were designed for greenfield subdivisions and often force costly curb, gutter, sidewalk, stormwater, and utility upgrades on small infill sites, sometimes adding tens of thousands of dollars and causing projects to be abandoned. A Seattle-based developer made similar points about small middle-housing projects being burdened by frontage work, curb ramps, buried standards, and EV-ready parking requirements that can trigger expensive undergrounding. Committee members asked about possible state-level changes, including whether child care should be treated as an essential public facility and whether parking requirements had already been reduced; one senator noted that minimum parking requirements for child care facilities were eliminated in prior legislation, with implementation phased in over the next few years.

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• funding available to such programs.
• School District vocation programs programs with our college programs and other like programs, we do
• We have two basic programs, capital post-conviction representation in this program we represent.
• So in my most restrictive program.
• Amount of time that you spend in normal programming, can you explain a little bit about what normal programming

Keywords: 1184, house, all

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• It is similar to how we regard those who are enrolled in medical programs, to the tribal medical program
• uh program um with their tribal medical uh program um with their with<00:26:55.360> their<00:
• <00:52:00.920> was when the medical cannabis program was when the medical cannabis program
• enroll in the medical cannabis program enroll in the medical cannabis program I'm<00:53:37.599><
• ><01:36:12.119> our impacting the health and safety of our impacting the health and safety of

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• I support those programs.
• rid of programs like Medicaid, FMLA, or ADA, because those programs are necessary to ensure workers
• issue this is a worker this is a safety issue this is a worker safety<00:23:48.000> issue<00:
• we have plenty of government programs we have plenty of government programs and<00:24:40.039>
• <00:24:44.360> like should uh get rid of programs like should uh get rid of programs like

Keywords: 1183, house

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• The Committee on Homeland Security, Public Safety and Veterans Affairs will come to order.
• I want to welcome you to the, uh, organizational meeting of the Homeland Security, Public Safety and
• Last session, we appropriated $30 million for the grant program.
• So it's a, it's a grant program. We apply for it every year.
• In this state and every police chief in this state and the Department of Public Safety.

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• House Bill 2303 requires that the State Treasurer only invest in safe investments that prioritize safety
• Madam Chair and members, House Bill 2395 establishes the Arizona School Fitness Program and directs the
• The school participating in the program may include the program designation in its school report card
• The school participating in the program may include the program designation and its school report card
• It's designed to keep that technology focused on safety.

Keywords: 1182, all

Summary: The meeting covered a large number of bills and resolutions across education, federalism, government, health, commerce, and judiciary-related topics. In education, members heard bills on moving the statewide testing window later, allowing paper-based testing in more cases, posting school administrator compensation data, expanding who may receive student directory information, reviewing duplicative ADE reporting requirements, requiring religious excusals, creating a school fitness recognition program, and a proposed ballot measure on sex-designated school sports and private spaces. In federalism, the committee discussed banning foreign nationals from funding ballot-measure committees and a proposal to eliminate voting centers and return to precinct-based voting. Other items included memorials urging the U.S. to withdraw from the United Nations and the IMF, and a government bill penalizing agencies that fail to submit financial reports on time. Health and human services bills focused on lactation care, a state certification program for lactation providers, prohibiting gender transition procedures for minors, requiring chief medical officers at state agencies to hold active licenses, clarifying air ambulance statutes, seeking a SNAP waiver to restrict non-eligible food purchases, and collecting hospital patient immigration-status data for reporting. Sponsors generally framed these as consumer protection, public health, or administrative cleanup measures, while some members raised concerns about cost, privacy, and possible legal conflicts. In commerce, the committee heard bills on digital goods disclosure, protections for child content creators, liability limits for river outfitters, landlord utility billing transparency, appraisal management company definitions, unemployment eligibility verification, and association-based health plans. Several measures were pulled from consent or flagged for amendments. The judiciary portion included bills creating a civil cause of action for violations of anti-DEI laws, expanding hate-crime-style penalties to include political affiliation and expression, adding reporting requirements for name changes by sex offenders, penalizing possession of falsified commercial driver’s licenses by unlawfully present individuals, adding penalties for mailing abortion-inducing drugs, allowing speed-limiting devices as an alternative to license suspension, extending inmate transition services, increasing penalties for sexual extortion involving older teens, requiring legislative approval to close state shooting ranges, and advancing an Article V convention resolution for congressional term limits. Several sponsors emphasized public safety, parental rights, election integrity, or government accountability, while some members raised constitutional or implementation concerns, particularly on liability, voting systems, and the term-limits resolution. Multiple bills were reported as being on consent calendars, with some pulled for amendments or further discussion.

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• the UI program is now.
• As you mentioned, the High Road program is a one-time funded grant program. Right.
• several years: the youth apprenticeship program, the women's apprenticeship program.
• several years: the youth apprenticeship program, the women's apprenticeship program.
• Not only does our program save the state of California money, but it promotes public safety.

Keywords: 987, senate, all

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• Your springs restoration programs, your alternative water supply grant program at $60 million, as well
• This program has been wildly successful.
• Those must stay within the program according to the 340B program.
• My understanding is the ADAP program is a federally regulated program that we receive hundreds of millions
• It's earmarked for this program, only for this program, and for no other program.

Bills: S7010

Keywords: Roth contributions, deferred compensation, retirement savings, Florida Statutes, tax benefits

Summary: The Senate Committee on Appropriations met to take up SB 7010 by Senator Mayfield, which would authorize Roth post-tax contribution options in state and local deferred compensation plans. The bill was briefly explained, received one appearance in support, had no debate, and was reported favorably by roll call vote. The committee then heard a lengthy presentation from the Governor’s Office of Policy and Budget on the governor’s recommended $117.4 billion “Floridians’ First Budget.” The presentation highlighted major spending areas including education, health care, public safety, transportation, environmental restoration, and economic development. Key proposals included increased FEFP funding for K-12 schools, teacher salary funding, higher education support, Everglades and water quality funding, emergency preparedness reserves, corrections staffing and pay increases, law enforcement recruitment bonuses, cybersecurity, and affordable housing and infrastructure investments. Members asked extensive questions about property tax reserve planning, litigation funding, emergency response fund balances and expenditures, the use of federal reimbursement for the Everglades detention facilities, the animal abuse hotline, Hope Florida, corrections staffing, and the proposed reduction in ADAP eligibility for HIV/AIDS medication assistance. A member of the public also testified at length about concerns that the ADAP changes would harm access to life-saving medications and alleged improper shifting of program funds. Committee members and the presenter acknowledged follow-up questions on several items, but no additional votes or formal actions were taken beyond the favorable report on SB 7010 and adjournment.

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• Matt, thank you with resilient for safety. That's about what we want. Off 91.
• And Clare, thank you for your dedication to 911 and public safety.
• Please visit our website under the programs tab. Ok.g go/91.
• So, it's it's a really great program.
• The International Public Safety Consortium is basically public safety software vendors that will be in

Keywords: 914, all

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• re-refer to Judiciary and Public Safety re-refer to Judiciary and Public Safety Committee<01:07:
• They do need this program. We have a lot of people living in Twin City. They do need this program.
• She was at the nursing program.
• I recruited her from the nursing program into the PACE program, and ever since she stayed in the program
• > page her from the nurs program into the page her from the nurs program into the page program

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• Just one question for now: does the bill provide any provision for public safety, given that public safety
• Safety isn't partisan; it's not political.
• Either exclude public safety from the calculation here or create a specific purpose M&O for public safety
• Needs of public safety alone.
• And for public safety. It's just essential.

Bills: HB17, HB23, SB 10

Keywords: property tax, school funding, enrollment changes, inflation adjustment, tax rate notice, property tax exemption, ad valorem tax, Texas Tax Code, nonprofit corporation, charitable organization, educational nonprofit, scientific nonprofit, agriculture support, youth programs, community education, county population threshold, large county, local government revenue, leasehold interest, possessory interest