Video & Transcript Research : 'priority schools'

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HI
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  • easier just to eliminate the school easier just to eliminate the school effect<00:10:43.120>
  • , >> from the whole area or a high school, >> from the whole area or a high school, &
  • school then? school then?
  • Your district to which elementary school you can go to. Another elementary school you can go to.
  • agenda is HP 1713 relating to school agenda is HP 1713 relating to school impact<01:47:37.679>
Summary: The committee heard testimony on HB 1604, which would create an agricultural workforce housing group within the Department of Agriculture and Biosecurity to address shortages of farmworker housing. The department said it supported the bill’s intent but emphasized that the group’s early work should focus on gathering data and surveying farm operators to assess actual demand, to avoid “mission creep.” Testimony from the City and County of Honolulu Office of Economic Revitalization, Hawaii Farmers Union, Hawaii Farm Bureau, Housing Hawaii’s Future, and the Maui Chamber of Commerce was in support, with one witness suggesting a housing advocacy nonprofit be added to the working group for balance. The committee then discussed HB 1713 on school impact fees, which would clarify exemptions for certain affordable housing projects and exempt new residential developments of fewer than 100 units. The Attorney General’s office said the bill should define “low to moderate income households” because that term is not defined in chapter 302A. HHFDC, the School Facilities Authority, Grassroot Institute of Hawaii, and others supported the measure, arguing it would reduce administrative burden and remove barriers to housing. Members questioned whether the bill should instead repeal the school impact fee entirely; supporters said they also favored full repeal but viewed this bill as a more feasible step. The School Facilities Authority also explained that about $28 million in school impact fees had been collected across four districts and none had yet been spent, and discussed how recent nexus requirements limit how the funds can be used. HB 1722, relating to residential condominiums, drew extensive testimony and questioning. HCDA supported the bill and explained that it amends the 99-year leasehold pilot program created by Act 97 of 2023 by reducing owner-occupancy restrictions from 100% of units to 60%, allowing some rental or subleasing flexibility for the owner-occupied units, and permitting up to 40% of units to be sold to qualified residents after being on the market for more than 60 days. HCDA said the original restrictions, combined with rising construction costs, higher interest rates, and competition from nearby projects, made the pilot project difficult to market and finance; it said the changes are needed to make the project feasible and competitive. Supporters including AP Hawaii, Kila LLC, and project representatives said the amendments would help make the demonstration project in Kakaʻako viable. Some members raised concerns that the changes could weaken long-term affordability and questioned why certain ownership language was being deleted if rentals would still be restricted. No votes or final committee actions were taken in the portion of the hearing provided.
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Rules Feb 10th, 2026

Rules

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  • Tab 4, CS for CS for SB 178 on athletics in public K-12 schools, by Senator Jones.
  • Members, SB 178, Athletics in Public K-12 Schools, directs the Florida High School Athletic Association
  • Next, we're going to take up Tab 7, CS for SB 420 on patriotic displays at public schools, by Senator
  • This bill updates the exemption to include district school boards and public schools.
  • The bill also This bill updates the exemption to include district school boards and public schools.
Summary: The committee heard and advanced several bills, beginning with CS for CS for SB 54, which requires district medical examiners to perform toxicology screenings for psychotropic drugs and intoxicating substances in autopsies of violent offenders and report findings to state agencies. It was reported favorably after brief discussion about how the data would be used. CS for SB 176 also passed, requiring public postsecondary institutions to make campus safety reporting and response procedures clearer and more accessible for students, faculty, and staff who receive threats. Both bills were approved without opposition in the meeting. The committee then took up the large Florida Farm Bill, CS for CS for CS for SB 290, which drew extensive testimony and multiple amendments. The bill includes changes to fair associations, a preemption on local restrictions affecting gas- and diesel-powered farm equipment, surplus of certain state-owned lands for agricultural use, a food animal veterinary loan repayment program, permanent authorization for Farmers Feeding Florida, expanded Florida Forest Service training, a ban on signal jamming devices, tougher CDL English-proficiency penalties, protections for food safety inspectors, biosolids provisions, and contractor payment enforcement. Amendments expanded veterinary loan eligibility to equine veterinarians, merged citrus research entities, made technical corrections, and revised contractor payment language; a late-filed amendment removed the bill’s disparagement clause after significant First Amendment concerns and public testimony. A separate amendment delayed biosolids compliance deadlines. The bill was reported favorably as amended. Also approved were CS for CS for SB 834, which repeals a restriction on health care sharing ministries partnering with licensed insurance agents, while adding a disclaimer requirement; SB 936, allowing temporary door locking devices at any height above the floor and directing the Building Commission to add standards to the code; and CS for SB 50, expanding veterans’ courts statewide. Later, CS for CS for SB 1004 advanced with a strike-all regulating dog and cat sales, requiring disclosure of medical records and financing terms, a three-day waiting period for financed purchases, and consumer protections against deceptive pet sales; an amendment removed an appropriation section. The committee also approved CS for CS for SB 178, which directs the FHSAA to adopt rules allowing coaches to provide limited good-faith support to student-athletes, and CS for CS for SB 198, regulating virtual currency kiosks with registration, warnings, transaction limits, receipts, and refund protections. Each of these bills was reported favorably by recorded vote.
TX
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  • Change at once, disrupting continuity and making it harder to sustain long-term priorities.
  • This is a priority bill for the Commissioner's Court. It came about, about a year ago.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Human Services Mar 11th, 2025

Human Services

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  • with providers and caregivers, including kinship caregivers. across the state to inform our policy priorities
  • a child in violation of ICPC, they don't... qualify for Medicaid, we can't register for them for school
  • And we look forward to working with your office to advance these priorities.
  • I really I love this bill because I have a school apply giveaway every year and I see all the kids come
  • and you know sadly you can tell that there are some kids that are unhealthy and then you go to the schools
HI
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  • Land and Natural Resources to collaborate with the Department of Education and State Public Charter School
  • State the Department of Education and State Public<00:32:25.200> Charter<00:32:25.520> School
  • <00:32:25.760> Commission<00:32:26.200> to Public Charter School Commission to Public
  • watershed protection as top priorities watershed protection as top priorities and<00:41:28.840><
  • You know, on your own staffing, would you be able to partner with the high schools or something?
Summary: The Committee on Water and Land met on March 31, 2026, and heard testimony on several resolutions. HCR 13/HR 50, which asks DLNR to work with DOE and the Public Charter School Commission on a student coral stewardship program, drew comments from DLNR, which said it stood on written testimony and had proposed amendments, and from supporters in the room. HCR 61, urging investment in reforestation policies, workforce, nursery capacity, and related support for public and private lands, received strong support from DLNR and multiple testifiers, including members of a reforestation policy hui, a resident, and others who emphasized watershed protection, flood and fire resilience, and the need to upgrade nursery infrastructure and staffing. Committee members asked questions about nursery modernization, staffing, island-specific needs, and whether reforestation could reduce wildfire impacts; the DLNR witness said all islands need investment, with especially large opportunities on Hawaiʻi Island, and that healthier forests improve resilience though they cannot eliminate climate-related risks. The committee then heard HCR 136/HR 128 on wildland-urban interface safety standards for Maui plantation towns, but no one testified. It also heard HCR 185/HR 175, which urges denial of permits for ICE detention-related warehouses; Chris Coffey of Immua Alliance testified in support, saying migrant survivors of exploitation are harmed when ICE detains people and that Hawaii would not be the first place to take such action, citing examples from other states and cities. In questioning, members explored whether a local facility would keep people closer to families and services or instead increase local detention; Coffey said detention generally cuts off access to services and can intensify fear, and that a local facility could incentivize more detention and make survivors less likely to come forward. Finally, the committee heard HCR 155/HR 147 supporting the Hawaii Water Safety Coalition’s Hawaii Water Safety Act. Testifiers included Allison Shapera, who described the statewide water safety plan, Hawaii’s high drowning rate, the economic and human costs of drownings, and her personal loss of her daughter in a preventable drowning; Kirsten Hermstead and Kalani Vierra of the Hawaiian Lifeguard Association said the plan’s recommendations need legislative recognition to help with implementation and grant funding; and Jessamine Town Horner testified by Zoom as a co-founder and bereaved family advocate. The transcript provided does not show any votes or final committee actions on the measures discussed.
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama House Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee Jan 21st, 2026

Public Safety and Homeland Security

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  • If a teenager quits school, you want to suspend their license.
  • And I just want to make sure that when they reach that age of 17, if they want to quit school and go
  • Uh, if a teenager quits school, you want to suspend their license.
  • Uh, if a teenager quits school, you want to suspend their license.
  • Uh, if a teenager quits school, you want to suspend their license.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

89th Legislative Session May 29th, 2025

Texas House Floor Meeting

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  • Bill and Ann met in high school at Cottonport High School in Louisiana.
  • After law school, Parker planted roots in Georgetown, Texas.
  • allotment to further support our most rural schools.
  • So nearly $1,000 below what our schools needed to catch up to 2019 funding levels.
  • When is the last time the legislature passed a comprehensive school finance bill?
OK
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  • public school system.
  • It will be up to the charter school, virtual school, char, virtual charter school, or homeschooler to
  • I am sure that public schools have needs just like private schools have needs.
  • So, my school, my local public school district, they built some tennis courts.
  • Or, so they can designate the school, and the school can request it for that.
OK
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  • It's the expectation that our schools are going to follow the law.
  • It's not prescribed in the bill, so that's left up to the local school.
  • There are very few prohibitions that would stop schools from doing it.
  • So, we probably have schools right now.
  • on the district's website and indexed by school site.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

06/10/2026 - Joint Appropriations

Appropriations

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  • . $200 million is appropriated from the School Facilities Division to the School Facilities Division
  • that has between 80 and 85 schools.
  • district that has between 80 and 85 schools okay I think we call five schools okay I think we call that
  • was that around 60% of the people that don't have a high school of high school diploma are on access
  • ...the school safety resource officers and social workers and school counselor positions.