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• Here at OES, our replacement cycle is 15 years.
• Fire engines are typically replaced every 15 years.
• He said the state cannot replace fire apparatus fast enough.
• Well, what's happening is they're not being replaced.
• And, as I said, the batch that we're trying to replace is from 2007.

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• , there were less and less of the original people in the apartment, and they would find people to replace
• Uh, $1,500 or even a $2,000 apartment, you get $240 in a year and it could easily be $1,000 to replace

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• prescribed in law as well, that when we perform these calculations and we're reporting the funded status
• from a long-term assumption, the volatility impacting our contribution rates and reported funded status
• Have no pension and only an affordable care IRA savings to replace less than 10% of their pre-retirement
• The Employment Security Department collects premiums and wage reports, determines contribution status
• I'll also point out that keeping things status quo remains our recommendation regardless of the outcome

Summary: The Pension Funding Council met on October 8 with introductions from council members and staff, then received a detailed presentation from the Office of the State Actuary on long-term economic assumptions and the state pension systems’ financial condition. OSA reported that the combined pension systems are currently 100% funded on a smoothed basis, with open plans above 95% funded, and that legacy Plan 1 systems remain on a path toward full funding under current policy. The actuaries recommended updating assumptions to 3% inflation, 3.5% general salary growth, and a 7.25% investment return, while keeping Plan 1 membership growth at 1%. They also explained asset smoothing, the role of recent strong investment returns, and the expected budget impacts of the recommended changes. Representatives from the Economic and Revenue Forecast Council and the State Investment Board offered supporting perspectives, generally describing the assumptions as reasonable and consistent with their own outlooks. The council also heard an overview of the Long-Term Services and Supports Trust Program (WACares) from DSHS and OSA. Program staff described the program’s social insurance structure, premium collection, benefit eligibility, and upcoming implementation milestones. OSA reported that the program’s first actuarial valuation showed a positive actuarial balance under the base scenario and recommended no change to the current 0.58% premium rate during the program’s early learning phase, noting that future changes would depend on experience and the program’s risk-management framework. OSA also said the recommendation would remain the same regardless of the outcome of the pending ballot measure affecting investment options. During public comment, a representative of the Washington State School Retirees Association urged continued work on Plan 1 funding and related legislation, while the Association of Washington Cities cautioned against increasing pension assumptions in a way that could raise future employer costs and reduce flexibility for current local government services. In action, the council adopted a motion to maintain the current long-term economic assumptions by a 4-2 vote, adopted the recommendation to keep the WACares premium rate at 0.58% by a 6-0 vote, and then elected Katie Chapman as council chair by unanimous vote. The meeting then adjourned.

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• , disability status, religious or political beliefs, make predictions about the employees beliefs or
• ,<00:02:07.240> disability<00:02:07.800> status, like health status, disability status
• , like health status, disability status, religious<00:02:08.840> or<00:02:08.960> political
• We even have to have changed our online status if we get up to use the bathroom.
• c> their status, their veteran status, their status, their veteran status, their sexual<00:13:05.040

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• So it protects the status that you can't use their status as a patient in the medical program as the
• So it protects the status that you can't use their status as a patient in the medical program as the
• And it's similar, you status actions.
• Uh these replace sections kickbacks.
• that the original statues that the original statues notwithstanding<03:16:42.880> the<03:

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• in Lowell, and the Route 28 bridge replacement in Dennis and Yarmouth.
• The first is the Community Culvert Program, which funds replacement, preservation and rehabilitation,
• And ultimately, that does lead over the years to that unfortunate need to replace a facility.
• And any update you can provide on the status of it would be appreciated either now or offline.
• We've suggested they get the standard while they're waiting for that updated status.

Keywords: 995, all

Summary: The Joint Committee on Ways and Means held a hearing at UMass Amherst on Governor Healey’s fiscal year 2027 budget, focusing on energy/environment-related transportation issues and the Massachusetts Department of Transportation. The chairs and members opened with thanks to UMass, university leadership, court officers, and legislative staff, and Chancellor Javier Reyes highlighted UMass Amherst’s research, workforce, sustainability, and transportation contributions, including energy research, transit operations, and partnerships with MassDOT. The hearing then moved to MassDOT and MBTA testimony on the administration’s transportation funding package, including House 2, the FY26 Fair Share supplemental, and a proposed four-year Chapter 90 authorization. MassDOT officials described the budget as part of a broader multi-year transportation investment strategy, citing funding for operations, snow and ice removal, regional transit authorities, the MBTA, the Merit Rating Board, sustainable aviation fuel credits, micro-transit and last-mile grants, unpaved road improvements, bridge and pavement work, and housing-related transportation infrastructure. They emphasized workforce expansion, capital delivery capacity, safety improvements, and local aid, including the new lane-mile-based Chapter 90 formula intended to benefit rural communities. Officials also discussed major projects and programs such as Grant Central, culvert and unpaved road grants, work zone speed cameras, congestion hotspot fixes, the Sagamore and Bourne Bridge projects, and MBTA operating support and safety upgrades. Testimony from the MBTA and rail/transit staff focused on improved ridership, service frequency, accessibility, and safety, including progress on the Green Line Train Protection System, reduced delays, expanded bus and commuter rail service, and the South Coast rail extension. Regional transit authorities reported increased ridership and described new fare-free, connectivity, and community transit grants. Aeronautics testimony covered airport capital work, drone and data programs, sustainable aviation fuel efforts, and workforce development in aviation maintenance. Committee members then asked questions, especially about Western Massachusetts priorities, Chapter 90 funding, bridge repairs, snow and ice costs, Cape Cod bridges, Buzzard’s Bay rail, and Compass Rail/West-East Rail. Officials said several federal rail grants were moving forward, that Sagamore Bridge procurement would begin soon, and that the administration remained committed to pursuing federal funding and multi-year transportation investments.

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• They will have the same employment status, same job status, same unions, and same salaries and benefits
• They will have the same employment status, same job status, same unions, and same salaries and benefits
• They will have the same employment status, same job status, same unions, and same salaries and benefits
• state workers got on the vaccine status state workers got on the vaccine status where<00:23:37.080
• Do we need to have something happening that's replacing it? What is happening with Carlton?

Keywords: 1183, house

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• <01:23:55.840> and/or concerns about their visa status and/or concerns about their visa status
• The proposed federal rule replacing duration of status with fixed date admissions creates significant
• As state lawmakers, we cannot replace those billions of federal dollars being stripped away.
• As state lawmakers, we cannot replace those billions of federal dollars being stripped away.
• <02:16:30.960> those state lawmakers, we cannot replace those state lawmakers, we cannot replace

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• It categorizes deficiencies and establishes estimated costs for repairs, replacement, and upgrades.
• The Kentucky State Reformatory Correctional Medical Facility Replacement is a $256 million project.
• Then the Eastern Kentucky Correctional Complex building envelope and HVAC repairs and replacements is
• . replacements. replacements.
• Um though we their mental health status.

Bills: HB60

Keywords: geoengineering, weather modification, environmental safety, atmospheric pollutants, criminal pollution, Meeting Start: 00:00:02 Roll Call: 00:00:08 26 RS HB 60 - AN ACT relating to geoengineering: 00:01:35 Department of Corrections Update: 00:32:59 Kentucky Parole Board Update: 01:19:21, 958, all

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• replaces or does replace educational replaces or does replace educational discretion.
• opinions sometimes try to replace opinions sometimes try to replace professional<01:39:10.639>
• It replaced principal amendment did. It replaced principal with<01:42:55.280> superintendent.
• the committee, we can always replace the committee, we can always replace members,<03:23:33.120>
• In light of the severe budget status In light of the severe budget status facing<05:07:23.920>

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

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• families and child care providers who are making progress toward a system worthy of California's status
• I'm very much concerning that we're discriminating based on the immigration status.
• The expansion is specific to serving individuals regardless of their immigration status.
• Item 29, provisional language on ongoing temporary protected status deadline extension.
• . which everyone agrees needs to be replaced as soon as possible.

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• So I'm just asking that we keep the status quo in place until the 62J process can be completed.
• So you're saying this doesn't change the status quo and it avoids some harm.
• Well, to me the status quo is the problem for a lot of patients. Mr.
• saying this doesn't change the status saying this doesn't change the status quo<01:36:20.320>
• quo is the problem for a lot the status quo is the problem for a lot of<01:36:24.639> patients.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• It doesn't change the status of the program. They could still operate these programs.
• The individual kid is not losing their status. Thank you. Representative Vaught?
• The status of public education funding, like I said, is largely a product...
• The status of public education funding, like I said, is largely a product of Lake View.
• We'll talk tomorrow about the new accountability system that has replaced academic distress.

Summary: The meeting began with approval of the prior minutes and then shifted to an update from Department of Education Secretary Jacob Oliva and Deputy Commissioner Stacey Smith on early childhood education, especially the state-funded Arkansas Better Chance (ABC) program. They said Arkansas had received a federal Preschool Development Grant and described ABC as a large state program with about 23,800 funded slots and roughly $114 million in annual appropriations. Department officials said they are reviewing slot allocations because about 1,000 seats are funded but unfilled, while more than 2,000 families are on waiting lists, and they plan to reduce or reallocate slots from providers that have not filled them over several years. They also said they are examining whether income thresholds, curriculum expectations, daily rates, and summer programming should be updated, and members raised concerns about access, local control, transportation, and whether the program should better align with K-12 choice and school readiness goals. The committee agreed to form an early childhood subcommittee and asked the Bureau of Legislative Research to help gather historical data and other information for future discussion. The committee then received a legal presentation from BLR attorney Taylor Lloyd on the constitutional and statutory framework for education adequacy in Arkansas. She reviewed the Dupree and Lake View cases, explaining that the state must maintain a general, suitable, and efficient system of free public schools, and that adequacy and equity are distinct but related concepts. She emphasized that the General Assembly is responsible for defining adequacy, studying whether the system meets that standard, and reacting to the evidence, while the courts ultimately decide constitutional compliance. Lloyd also explained the current adequacy definition, the role of the matrix as a funding tool rather than a spending mandate, and the distinction between unrestricted foundation funding and restricted categorical funding. BLR’s Elizabeth Bynum followed with a historical overview of how Arkansas responded to the court cases and developed the current adequacy process. She traced major legislative actions from the 1980s through the Lake View litigation, including the creation of funding formulas, categorical aid, isolated funding, declining enrollment funding, and the 2003-2004 adequacy study that led to the Continuing Adequacy Evaluation Act and the matrix used to set foundation funding. She also described later changes to the adequacy statute, the financial reporting requirements for districts, and the ongoing use of surveys, stakeholder testimony, and consultant studies in the biennial adequacy process. Members asked questions about whether private or homeschool programs could use public funds for expenses like utilities, whether stakeholders should include those groups, the difference between average daily membership and attendance, and whether school board members are surveyed; staff said those issues would need further research or were outside the scope of the presenters’ role.

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• I want to make sure that we communicate a veteran's transition status to the State Veterans Facility
• We've got to get out of this uniqueness status, and how is it different than the largest health care.
• The Indianapolis Medical Center is due for a total replacement.
• We'll take care and make sure that the veteran is taken care of with their status when they get here.
• This way, we can finally have a seamless transition from active status or reserve status to veteran status

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• authorizes counties to require contractors to disclose employee wage, benefit, hour, and employment status
• It establishes a process by which an owner or developer may replace a non-compliant contractor and transfer
• the building permit to replacement contractors.
• authorizes counties to require contractors to disclose employee wage, benefit, hour, and employment status
• the building permit to replacement contractors.

Bills: SB2057, SB2109, SB2400, HB1752, SB2599, SB2930

Keywords: immigration enforcement, sanctuary policy, detainer, ICE, federal immigration authorities, 8 U.S.C. 1357(g), 8 U.S.C. 1373, 8 U.S.C. 1644, deportation, undocumented immigrants, noncitizen, migrant rights, local police cooperation, law enforcement cooperation, hold request, judicial warrant, probable cause, civil immigration enforcement, county police, state police

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• It replaces that with a measure of chronic absenteeism.
• It replaces that with a measure of chronic absenteeism.
• It replaces that with a measure of chronic absenteeism.
• It replaces that with a measure of chronic absenteeism.
• It replaces that with a measure of chronic absenteeism.

Keywords: 958, all

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• Congress has honored Douglass with a portrait and plaque in the gallery and a statue in Emancipation
• Congress has honored Douglass with a portrait and plaque in the gallery and a statue in Emancipation
• Congress has honored Douglass with a portrait and plaque in the gallery and a statue in Emancipation
• Congress has honored Douglass with a portrait and plaque in the gallery and a statue in Emancipation
• Congress has honored Douglass with a portrait and plaque in the gallery and a statue in Emancipation

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Monday, June 9, 2025, 1012, house, all

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• The first half of the presentation is basically an overview of the dams and what the status of the dams
• What is the status of that dam, and how have those problems been corrected, Madam Chair?
• Okay, so we are on the presentation: Hermit's Peak Calf Canyon Fire Recovery and Funding Status.
• How do you clean up and how do you replace something if you can't handle the debris?
• Current status of the mine: Westmoreland is the current owner and operator.

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• Chairman, I have no doubt that some members of the community are already familiar with the status of
• I have no doubt that some members of the community are already familiar with the status of the tribes
• We have put those appropriated dollars to good use, installing new infrastructure and replacing aging
• We want to Replace as many of those jobs as possible.
• We want to replace some of the economic development that was going on too. we.

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• We collect and aggregate the land and building data, the sales data, the confidential parcel status.
• Exemptions and our classified-use status are also determined as of January 1.
• Property owners have to apply for this exemption status.
• We need to know that you're requesting the exempt status, and the legislature has put in the statute
• So cost approach, which is your replacement cost new less depreciation plus land value, works okay on

Summary: The Committee on Finance and Tax met with a quorum present and heard a presentation from the Property Appraisers Association of Florida on ad valorem valuation, exemptions, and the property tax process. Lauren Levy reviewed the legal and historical framework of Florida property taxation, including Save Our Homes, the 10% cap on non-homestead assessments, portability, tangible personal property exemptions, TRIM notices, and the distinction between taxable value and millage rates. He emphasized that property appraisers are independent constitutional officers who assess just value, administer exemptions, and are overseen by the Department of Revenue, with values and exemptions generally determined as of January 1 and subject to challenge through the Value Adjustment Board or circuit court. Mike Twitty described the mass appraisal process in Pinellas County, explaining how property appraisers value large numbers of parcels using the same core approaches as fee appraisals but with statistical testing, field reviews, aerial imagery, and technology. He discussed the importance of budget, staffing, and the January 1 valuation date, and noted that recent hurricanes caused significant damage, increased petitions, and required new procedures to help property owners with value reductions and FEMA-related issues. Paul Polk focused on Department of Revenue oversight, explaining sales ratio studies, uniformity measures such as COD and PRD, time adjustments, sales qualification reviews, and in-depth studies that can lead to corrective action if assessment standards are not met. He also noted that the Department reviews property appraiser budgets to preserve independence from county pressure. Senators asked about the supersized homestead concept, DOR review and rejection standards, value trends, and the impact of storms and new construction on taxable value. Twitty and Polk said value growth has been driven by a mix of new construction, market appreciation, cap resets, and storm-related adjustments, while noting that some counties saw market value decline even as taxable value rose. They also said some property tax relief proposals would be easier to implement than others depending on how local tax bills are structured, especially where law enforcement millage is separately identified. No votes were taken on legislation, and the committee adjourned after the presentation.