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• The redistricting commission gave me one of the most beautiful districts in the state, and they gave
• So you heard earlier Senator Blakespear talk about the congressional delegation securing almost $600
• You may have heard about this in the news, but $600 million have been secured and appropriated to expand
• , talk about the congressional delegation securing almost $600 million.
• Together, our congressional delegation has secured more than $650 million in federal funding through

Summary: The joint Senate and Assembly Environmental Quality/Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials informational hearing focused on the Tijuana River Valley sewage crisis, with members from both parties emphasizing that the problem is long-running, cross-border, and severe enough to require federal, state, local, and binational action. Opening remarks described the crisis as an environmental and public health emergency affecting beaches, air and water quality, marine life, tourism, and residents’ quality of life in South Bay communities. Assembly Member Boerner and Senator Jones both stressed the need for continued funding and cooperation, while Senator Padilla said the issue is underappreciated because of where it occurs but has major public health, economic, and educational consequences. Congressman Mike Levin’s office reported more than $650 million in federal funding secured for infrastructure and cleanup, along with federal legislation and requests for CDC and EPA involvement. Supervisor Paloma Aguirre gave a detailed overview of county efforts and the scope of the crisis, citing decades of sewage flows from Tijuana, nearly four years of beach closures, and the county’s expanded water-quality monitoring. She said the county is pursuing warning signs, an air purifier distribution program, an epidemiological study, soil testing, an economic impact study, and a feasibility analysis to remove the “hot spot” near Saturn Boulevard, which she described as a key local source of airborne pollution. She also pointed to binational funding for treatment plant upgrades and said the county is seeking state support, including from Proposition 4 cross-border river funds, to expand relief and mitigation efforts. Scripps researchers Dr. Sarah Giddings and Dr. Kimberly Prather presented scientific findings on water and air transport. Giddings described a high-resolution forecast model that predicts wastewater movement and beach closure risk up to five days ahead, using real-time observations and showing about 72% accuracy against county measurements. Prather said the main exposure route is through air, not just water, and reported that turbulence at the river hot spot aerosolizes pollutants, with hydrogen sulfide and other gases spiking at night and dropping when river flow is diverted. She said the team has identified thousands of gases and linked measurements closely to odor complaints, while also noting that air purifiers can reduce indoor exposure but are not a permanent solution. Dr. Paula Stigler Granados added that community health surveys and CDC assessments show widespread symptoms, sleep disruption, anxiety, and daily life impacts, especially during nighttime odor events. She said her team has found more than 900 contaminants in river water and 106 chemicals uniquely associated with the Saturn Boulevard hot spot, with passive air sampling showing similar chemical fingerprints in nearby homes. The panel discussion ended with questions about standards and accountability, and witnesses and legislators agreed that the crisis requires updated air-quality standards, more health research, and continued coordination to reduce exposure and address the source of pollution.

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• </c><00:16:57.800><c> to</c> the state fire prevention commission to the state fire prevention commission
• House Bill 640, Mandated Reports, Boards, and Commissions Revisions.
• </c><01:05:16.560><c> revisions,</c> boards, and commissions revisions, boards, and commissions revisions
• The next bill, please. meetings, data collection, and secure meetings, data collection, and secure record
• If they are safe and secure environment.

Keywords: House streaming session for Tuesday, March 10, 2026, 957, house, all

Summary: The House convened with 124 members present, offered a prayer, and recognized foster youth visiting the chamber. Members then adopted two House resolutions honoring Dr. Sonja Santelises for 10 years as CEO of Baltimore City Public Schools and recognizing Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Incorporated, for 104 years of service, scholarship, and sisterhood. The House also received Senate bills and began taking up committee reports. Several bills were reported favorably and advanced to third reading, including measures on higher education grants, public safety pay restrictions, retirement and pension system work group extensions and cost-of-living adjustments, synthetic turf and aquaculture studies, rail crew requirements, Howard County speed limits, election address confidentiality, IT investment fund uses, ethics financial disclosures, Public Information Act divorce records, aging-in-place grants, judicial assignments, clerk and register salaries, and firearm literature distribution. House Bill 428, concerning temporary assignment of former judges, was special ordered until the next day after the minority whip requested time for an amendment. The chamber also considered and adopted amendments on several bills. House Bill 437, the Transportation and Climate Alignment Act of 2026, was amended to exempt the Chesapeake Bay Bridge project and then special ordered after questions about greenhouse gas impacts on major highway expansion projects. House Bill 457 on menstrual hygiene products at higher education institutions, House Bill 538 on student enrollment disclosures, House Bill 561 on child care credential funding, House Bill 720 on a veterans scholarship, and House Bill 212 on out-of-state vehicle registration all received amendments and favorable reports as amended. HB 212 drew extended debate about Maryland residents using out-of-state tags, with supporters saying it would help enforce registration laws and opponents raising concerns about legislative вмешательство in vehicle regulation and enforcement discretion.

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• With your support, we have already secured funding for phase one and phase two, totaling 9.7 million.
• So our minimum request is 4.7 so that we can secure the funding from the county.
• </c> commission for several weeks on end. commission for several weeks on end.
• </c><00:36:47.359><c> or</c><00:36:47.599><c> is</c> million been secure or is million been secure or
• </c> evidence handling upgrades, security evidence handling upgrades, security upgrades<00:43:02.079>

Bills: HF604 , HF1972 , HF578 , HF1951 , HF629 , HF864 , HF874 , HF1155 , HF884 , HF2365 , HF643 , HF234 , HF2655 , HF2637 , HF2535 , HF2530 , HF2344 , HF584 , HF524

Committee: House Capital Investment

Keywords: airport funding, bonds, transportation, capital investment, Karlstad, community center, Breckenridge, state bonds, economic development, HF578, Faribault, River Bend Nature Center, bonding bill, bond proceeds fund, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, DNR grant, nature center, visitor center, environmental education, multicultural center

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• And their primary duty is going to be security, or— Representative, those details are being worked out
• My understanding is the Capital Commission is moving forward toward some end here as it relates to the
• Medium security staff would receive a 75-cent stipend. The NDI is $8,945,629.
• They explained that the medium and maximum security prisons there are cited 802 feet apart in a town
• Casey Crime Commission is the organization that received the money.” “Okay. Ready for page 377?

Committee: House Budget

Keywords: 959, house, all

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• Senate File 683 is in front of us; it's all yours. commission establishment and commission establishment
• </c> be established a legislative Commission be established a legislative Commission on<01:05:27.319>
• They submit that to the commission for its approval and recommendations.
• appoint staff to provide research assistance to the commission.
• Should we go to State and Local Government because of the uh commission?

Committee: Senate Human Services

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• safety and security.
• safety and security.
• And then, of course, the Federal Trade Commission, and here in California, we get complaints.
• Other reporting that I've done has shown serious security problems with some of these cameras.
• A YouTube video that we made about Flock security problems has over a million views.

Committee: House Privacy and Consumer Protection

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• reasons as well as for national security reasons as well as other<00:11:14.120><c> reasons.
• And they'll be making a subsequent filing soon with the commission to effectuate that.
• <00:29:55.600><c> could</c> Commission could Commission could approve<00:29:56.960><c> that</c><00:29
• And I think at that time you Commission.
• , which, by the way, the acronym is Energy Planning and Inventory Commission.

Keywords: Meeting Start 00:00:00 Attendance Roll Call 00:01:28 Introduction of Guests 00:02:08 American Electric Power and Kentucky Power Presentation 00:03:31 SB 89 Discussion 00:53:55 SB 89 Roll Call Vote 01:07:46, 958, all

Summary: The committee met for an initial natural resources hearing with a quorum present and introductory housekeeping, including prayer, roll call, and recognition of guests. Chair Smith outlined ground rules for questions and then invited Kentucky Power and American Electric Power representatives to the table to discuss a proposed plan involving the Mitchell Power Plant and future generation needs in Eastern Kentucky. Witnesses Cindy Wiseman, Alex Vaughn, and AEP CEO Bill Fehrman said the company’s goals are to stabilize and lower rates, reduce rate volatility, and expand generation in the Commonwealth. They explained that Kentucky Power seeks legislative authority to securitize its 50% interest in the Mitchell coal plant, describing securitization as a refinancing mechanism that would lower annual plant costs by about $34 million and help offset roughly one-third of the expected cost of adding new generation in Kentucky. They emphasized that the proposal is not intended to close Mitchell, and said Kentucky Power currently has no plan to divest its interest; the company still needs the plant to serve customers while it pursues additional dispatchable generation in Kentucky. Members pressed the witnesses on the plant’s book value versus fair market value, whether the Mitchell interest had ever been assigned a nominal value, how any divestiture proceeds would be handled, whether Kentucky Power owns Wheeling Power, and how long Mitchell can continue operating. The company said it values Mitchell at net book value for accounting purposes, not fair market value, and explained that Wheeling Power is a separate AEP affiliate and that West Virginia affiliates have already proposed securitization of their share. Witnesses said Kentucky Power’s interest cannot technically operate past 2028 without additional environmental control investment, while the West Virginia side is depreciating through 2040. They also described the financing timeline, saying securitization would require enactment of legislation, a PSC financing order, bond issuance, and then parallel work to acquire or build new generation, with any reinvestment terms to be addressed through the regulatory process.

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• And the commission here is a public utilities commission.
• And the commission here is a public utilities<01:02:04.920><c> commission.
• The commission utilities commission.
• <c> commission.
• </c> public utilities commission commission. public utilities commission commission.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• Also, don't forget next Thursday is the Capitol Commission.
• Also, don't forget next Thursday is the Capitol Commission.
• </c> Alabama Forestry Commission. Alabama Forestry Commission.
• Uh, HB 267 deals with updating some obsolete code with the Forestry Commission.
• Uh things uh the forestry commission.

Keywords: 1136, house, all

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• bipartisan concerns, that there should be a separate meeting of the Legislative Budget Oversight Commission
• uh again that's a oversight commission uh again that's a commission<00:10:26.079><c> of</c><00:10:26.320
• </c> statement for the premium Security statement for the premium Security account<00:58:30.480><c> which
• Budget Office Oversight Commission will be looking into this further.
• Budget Office Oversight Commission will be looking into this further.

Committee: Senate Finance

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• We have a national designation from the Department of Homeland Security and the National Security Agency
• So we've talked quite a bit about the Higher Learning Commission.
• So I'm not going to read this slide, but this is out of the Higher Learning Commission.
• It reads my security to log in and see that.
• It reads my security to log in and see that.

Committee: Joint Higher Education Institutions Committee

Keywords: 908, all

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• You see, having served on a city commission with no term limits, and a county commission where I term
• It represents a level of security.
• And create their home where they have a level of security.
• So Representative Stark and I invite you today to join us in making sure that we vote yes in securing
• This clarifies that the board or commission can promote an elected member of that body.

Keywords: 998, house, all

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• In terms of training, I'm happy to report that since I presented to the Legislative Audit Commission
• </c><00:42:49.040><c> in</c> to the Legislative Audit Commission in to the Legislative Audit Commission
• , and you list privacy and security, and you list sort<01:05:40.359><c> of</c><01:05:40.560><c> what<
• , you know, so this is audit commission, you know, so this is so so so um um um the<01:10:00.040><c>
• </c> Security Act. Security Act.

Committee: House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy

Keywords: 1183, house

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• Um, I appreciate your patience as we get more acclimated to the changes around security that we're going
• This is a new program for us, farm to food security.
• We did rename it to farm to food security just to make sure there was no confusion with the existing
• Um you uh allocated food security.
• just to make sure farm to food security just to make sure there<00:18:44.799><c> was</c><00:18:44.960

Committee: Senate Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband, and Rural Development

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• </c> enforcement agency such as the security enforcement agency such as the security forces<01:12:21.280
• So, this bill requires firearms to be securely stored in homes and locked.
• Now it's um looking to be a commission.
• ,</c> first of all, it's just a commission, first of all, it's just a commission, but but but &gt;&gt
• We need to figure we need a commission.

Committee: House Criminal Justice and Public Safety

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• achieve a durable peace and greater regional stability in Artsakh offer the possibility of a more secure
• The Armenian diaspora wants an Armenia that is secure, democratic, and a strong partner of the United
• If they are putting chips on human brains in the physical world, we want them to be secure.
• So funding sources and support in securing this funding would be the best, I think, support from the
• I know that as a member of one of our state commissions, there was a directive to say we cannot travel

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• On February 24, 2022, Bakersfield coverage did not one, but two stories on incidents of campus security
• We respectfully ask for an aye vote on this important measure that protects the privacy and security
• We respectfully ask for an aye vote on this important measure that protects the privacy and security
• Most families assume the children's education information is secure. Unfortunately, current...
• Most families assume the children's education information is secure.

Committee: House Education

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• </c><02:13:36.719><c> watches</c> in neighborhood security watches in neighborhood security watches Community
• watch he also neighborhood security watch he also serves<02:15:15.000><c> as</c><02:15:15.119><c> a<
• and SA in a greater sense of security and SA in our our our communities<02:29:22.200><c> fifth</c><02
• Today, imported pests and a changing climate now threaten what little food security we have.
• </c> now threaten what little food security now threaten what little food security we<02:34:57.600><c

Keywords: House Agenda:, 910, house, all

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• </c> loans secured by a mortgage. loans secured by a mortgage.
• So I Professional Services Commission.
• Senate Bill 275, an act relating to securities, Senator Carpenter.
• </c><01:10:51.240><c> Senate</c> securities, Senator Carpenter.
• Senate securities, Senator Carpenter.

Keywords: 958, all

Summary: The Senate convened with an invocation and Pledge of Allegiance, then established a quorum, approved the prior journal, and excused absent members. The chamber received second readings of several bills and resolutions, including measures on ad valorem taxes, planning and zoning, tax-dollar restrictions, provisional medical licensing, Medicaid oversight, environmental regulations, municipal financial reporting, nuclear workforce development, and county law libraries. Committee reports advanced bills on economic development, education, judiciary, and veterans/public protection, and the body also received a list of newly filed bills and resolutions covering topics such as rural revitalization, athletics, SNAP eligibility, diaper tax exemption, domestic violence, middle school math, pedestrian bridges, constitutional amendments, education, and several honorary resolutions. The Senate then took up House Bill 314, which would reorganize the Kentucky Communications Network Authority (Kentucky Wired) by moving it under the Commonwealth Office of Technology, restructuring its board, and adding members representing cities and counties. Supporters said the bill was an administrative change, not a funding measure, intended to focus the network on students, teachers, and public users while awaiting an audit. Critics argued the project has been a costly taxpayer burden and called for stronger oversight. The bill passed final passage 32-6. The chamber also passed Senate Bill 157, which aligns Kentucky law with federal mortgage rules so that certain rate buy-down payments do not count against borrower fee caps, with supporters saying it would help housing affordability and reduce costs for borrowers. Senate Bill 214 also passed unanimously; it allows the Kentucky Department of Agriculture to accept non-federal funding for grants without routing those funds through the Department of Finance. The Senate later adopted several resolutions, including Senate Resolution 61 recognizing Links Incorporated Day, Senate Resolution 114 commemorating the 80th Southern Legislative Conference, and Senate Resolution 118 honoring Joseph H. Mattingly Jr. Additional remarks highlighted a Black History Celebration event and a lengthy floor speech criticizing the Kentucky Hospital Association’s reserves and urging investigation, followed by consideration of Senate Resolution 55 on Profound Autism Day in Kentucky.

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• We urge you to work with the finance committee to develop a strategy for securing short-term revenue
• Therapies gave him back his life, and the investment means that he no longer is on Social Security.
• Given the failure of the House to advance HB 1152 to secure its storage law, the funding this office
• Recovery Cafe provides recovery support and mental health wellness services for people to secure and
• I'm the executive director of the Columbia River Gorge Commission, testifying on behalf of the commission

Bills: HB2289

Committee: House Appropriations

Keywords: appropriations, budget, fiscal matters, state spending, general fund, supplemental budget, biennial budget, substitute bill, public defense, civil legal aid, courts, judicial branch, homelessness, supportive housing, affordable housing, behavioral health, juvenile rehabilitation, youth services, child welfare, foster care