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• The clerk is instructed to record the action of the House and convey the bill to the Senate.
• The clerk is instructed to record the action of the House and convey the bill to the Senate.
• Clauson, which held that schools may release students during instructional time for religious instruction
• instruction.
• Now, as it relates to being given instructional credit, I don't know about you, but the Being given instructional

Keywords: 1182, all

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• As I said, this bill does not prohibit schools from teaching courses or instruction in the areas related
• in the areas um as provided instruction in the areas related<00:04:51.120> to<00:04:51.240>
• helps me see myself see who instruction helps me see myself see who I<00:13:55.519> really<00
• All kids are struggling to be proficient in math, reading, and writing, but especially kids of color,
• Some of them may have even bought new textbooks or a writing curriculum as they speak.

Bills: HF29, HF921, HF922, HF1048, HF1049

Keywords: railroad, infrastructure, transportation funding, environmental remediation, capital investment, HF921, tax increment financing, TIF, excess tax increment, school district aid, levy adjustment, property tax levy, education finance, Minnesota education aid, decertification, local government finance, school funding formula, state aid reduction, referendum equalization aid, debt service equalization

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• Whithouse is a professor of rhetoric and writing and director of the writing program at UC Davis, and
• So I'm Carl Whithouse, a professor of writing and rhetoric at UC Davis.
• instruction.
• And again, what is done in STEM fields is different than what is done in writing, which is different
• Plus, writing skills are similarly deficient, but not quite to that extent.

Keywords: 987, senate, all

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• . instruction. instruction.
• There is no instruction, recitation, or endorsement.
• recitation, There is no instruction, recitation, There is no instruction, recitation, or<00:37
• organization scheduling instruction organization scheduling instruction hospitality<02:58:16.960
• <03:10:06.960> the plan, shall specify in writing the plan, shall specify in writing the condition

Keywords: 920, all

Summary: The meeting included a Senate recognition ceremony honoring the Winona High School boys basketball team for winning the 2026 Alabama High School Athletic Association 5A state championship. A resolution was read commending the team for its 101-40 victory over Silicag, noting the team’s record-setting performance, Brendan Davis’s MVP honor, the contributions of other players, and Coach Cedric Lane’s leadership. Senators and the lieutenant governor praised the players’ sportsmanship, the school community, and the team’s historic season, and copies of the resolution were presented to the team, coaches, and administrators. Several guests and school representatives also spoke briefly, including the coach and principal, who thanked the Senate and noted the team’s success and the principal’s retirement after 35 years. After the recognition, the Senate returned to session and adopted the Committee on Rules report setting the special order calendar. The calendar included Senate Bill 99 on the Ten Commandments, Senate Bill 298 on Class 3 municipalities, House Bill 381 on camp safety, Senate Bill 370 on tax increment districts, Senate Bill 363 on the Department of Economic and Community Affairs, House Bill 466 on firefighters, House Bill 95 on elections, House Bill 259 on stablecoin, and Senate Bill 342 on education. The chamber then took up SB 99, sponsored by Senators Kelly and Sessions. Senator Kelly described the bill as requiring local school boards to display the Ten Commandments, together with founding documents such as the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Bill of Rights, and Alabama Constitution preamble, in certain history classrooms and common areas for grades five through 12, using donated displays and funds when available. He said the bill was intended as a historical and educational measure, not religious instruction, and emphasized the inclusion of a disclaimer stating Alabama is not establishing a religion. After extended debate and a petition to close debate from the Rules Committee, the Senate voted on the bill by long roll and passed SB 99, with the recorded vote announced as 30 yeas and 4 nays.

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• said, we write several reports, updates, violations, supplemental reports, none more important than
• Okay, so you think you could fairly judge a case and apply the evidence as instructed by the judge?
• Okay, so you think you could fairly judge a case and apply the evidence as instructed by the judge?
• Okay, so you think you could fairly judge a case and apply the evidence as instructed by the judge?
• It's not like we just write the pre-sentence investigation and we're done. We do the supervision.

Summary: The Assembly Judiciary Committee heard three bills. AB 250 by Majority Leader Aguiar-Curry would extend a limited window for survivors of sexual assault to seek civil recourse against perpetrators and entities that allegedly covered up abuse. The author and supporters, including survivor Maya Alexander and Equal Rights Advocates, said many survivors need years before they can come forward and that the bill would improve accountability and public safety. One member raised concerns about the bill’s application to private employers and the exclusion of public employees, but the bill was advanced on a motion to Appropriations and later placed on call until additional votes were added. AB 373 by Assemblymember Rubio would require appointed counsel for non-minor dependents in extended foster care to represent the young adult’s expressed wishes rather than substitute the attorney’s judgment. Supporters from California Youth Connection and the Children’s Law Center said 18- to 21-year-olds in foster care are legal adults and should have their voices fully respected in court. Members discussed how the bill would work in practice and whether it applied only to appointed counsel; the bill was moved to Human Services and later cleared after additional votes were added. AB 387 by Assemblymember Alanis, as amended, would exempt probation officers from criminal jury service. The author and supporters argued probation officers are deeply involved in the criminal justice process, often get dismissed anyway, and should be focused on supervision and court-related duties rather than jury duty. The Judicial Council opposed the bill, warning that categorical exemptions shrink the jury pool and set a bad precedent. After debate over fairness, precedent, and the role of probation officers, the committee voted the bill out on a do pass motion.

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• Campers shall be instructed on their actions.
• This is the emergency instructions plan. You all have seen.
• This is the emergency instructions plan.
• Campers were not instructed.
• I think the answer to that, Senator, is it wasn't in writing.

Keywords: 1184, house, all

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• school does not have a nurse, school counselor, or librarian assigned to the school during all instructional
• bill directs TEA to make available, at no cost, to school districts. ...districts high-quality instructional
• This will be House Bill 824 by Representative Jolanda Jones, relating to the inclusion of civics instruction
• Education Code which... ...outlines curriculum requirements for public schools by adding focused instruction
• This will be House Bill 824 by Representative Jolanda Jones, relating to the inclusion of civics instruction

Bills: HB178, HB1551, HB1939, HB2040, HB2354, HB2674, HB3029, HB3460, HB3631, HB3662, HB5201, HB5381, HB178

Keywords: Texas education, public schools, curriculum, social studies, high school graduation requirements, State Board of Education, Education Code, ethnic studies, world history, world geography, U.S. history, government, economics, personal financial literacy, free enterprise, religious literature, Hebrew Scriptures, Old Testament, New Testament, ninth grade

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• We provide advice and instruction to library systems, regional systems, and school libraries, as well
• responded that they provide instruction to<00:35:46.960> students<00:35:47.760> they<00
• time that I say 50% of the instructional time that I had<00:57:39.400> as<00:57:39.520> a<
• I can find journals and academic studies that I can incorporate into my essays to improve my writing.
• in their high schools including writing in their high schools including writing science<01:26:21.800

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• So here, this language here is just simply allowing the superintendent of public instruction.
• In alignment with physical guidance, but you'll still have to probably write rules, because you have
• So I would move to further amend just to add those words, which the Department of Public Instruction
• Schedule I, you can't even write a prescription for.
• I just was listening to voices while I was writing. Thank you. That we adopt as amended.

Keywords: 908, all

Summary: The committee first took up Senate Bill 2401, which would require physicians to complete continuing education on nutrition and metabolic health as part of the state’s rural health transformation effort. HHS supported the bill, saying it would help physicians better address chronic disease and preserve federal grant points tied to the state’s application. A member of the public also testified in favor, arguing that better nutrition education could improve diabetes outcomes and reduce costs. The committee then adopted an amendment to add the Board of Occupational Therapy Practice to the background-check statute so the occupational therapy compact could proceed, and it passed the bill as amended on a roll call vote. The committee next heard House Bill 1621, which would require the Presidential Fitness Physical Fitness Test in elementary, middle, and high school physical education courses. HHS said the bill was part of the rural health transformation application and could help preserve federal funding, but members raised many questions about the test’s criteria, adaptive options for students with disabilities, equipment needs, and whether the bill should apply to non-public schools. Senator Clemens offered an amendment to limit the requirement to public schools, but it failed. Senator Hogan then offered an amendment to clarify exemptions and allow DPI to align implementation with federal guidance; that amendment passed. A further amendment adding language allowing DPI to establish criteria for and exceptions to the test also passed. The committee then approved the bill as amended on a roll call vote. The committee also considered House Bill 1622, which joins North Dakota to the physician assistant licensure compact. HHS said the compact would improve access to care, especially in rural areas, support military families, and help preserve rural health transformation funding. Members noted the compact had been discussed in a prior session and that many earlier concerns had been resolved. After brief discussion about the compact process and its consistency with other interstate compacts, the committee voted to do pass the bill. Finally, the committee began Senate Bill 2402, which expands pharmacists’ prescriptive authority and therapeutic substitution powers. HHS and the Board of Pharmacy supported the bill as a way to improve access to care and maintain rural health transformation funding. Senator Roers introduced a detailed amendment negotiated with the Board of Medicine and Board of Pharmacy to narrow and clarify the bill, including notification requirements, limits on certain drug categories, and patient-protection language for therapeutic substitution. The Board of Pharmacy then testified in support of the broader bill and explained the CLIA-waived testing provisions and the repeal of the older, narrower pharmacist-testing language. The hearing and amendment discussion were still underway when the transcript ended.

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• <00:26:12.240> in in in in literature in writing in in in in literature in writing in biology
• to follow the simplest of instructions to follow the simplest of instructions are<01:10:08.440><
• <01:10:13.840> it's follow the simplest of instructions it's follow the simplest of instructions
• extracurriculars they write extracurriculars they write extraordinarily<01:10:29.520> well
• She writes: I'm a disabled parent of disabled children.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• that would be considered material to communicate in writing.
• Are you doing the Department of Public Instruction as well? Yes. Okay, thanks, Michael.
• to you the Department of Public Instruction Audit for the biennium ended June 30th, 2025.
• I'm Director of Child Nutrition and Food Distribution at the Department of Public Instruction.
• I helped write it.

Keywords: 908, all

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• They made us freeze in place, instructing us not to move, not to touch anything, and to keep our hands
• That includes storage instructions and cautionary instructions or statements, including any hazardous
• So you don't think we should just write blank checks? I don't. I don't. Okay. Any others? Okay.
• Our standard here is writing a prescription for a year.
• You write a big check for it, you own it, but you don't own it. That is true.

Bills: HB46, HB35, HB4490, HB4454, HB2188, HB3078, HB4743, HB2556, HB46, HB5342, HB4783, HB3785, HB5278, HB1639, HB2581, HB4224, HB4070, HB4099, HB4882, HB3794

Keywords: local government spending cap, expenditure limit, political subdivision, property tax, ad valorem tax, budget cap, taxpayer protection, spending restraint, inflation adjustment, population growth, voter approval, supermajority vote, county budget, municipal budget, school district finance, junior college district, hospital district, special district, attorney general enforcement, local fiscal limits

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• The clerk is instructed to record the action of the House.
• The clerk is instructed to record the action of the House.
• The clerk is instructed to record the action of the House.
• The clerk is instructed to record the action in the House. Senate Bill 1100.
• The clerk is instructed to record the action in the House.

Keywords: 1182, all

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• So we will need that in writing up here. The Secretary will require that.
• Secretary, instruct the record to transmit the bill to the House.
• The Secretary, instruct the record to transmit the bill to the House.
• The Secretary, instruct the record to transmit the bill to the House.
• You're in the process of writing another book? I'm not sure.

Keywords: 1182, all

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• <00:31:50.920> position<00:31:51.640> and instructional facilitator position and instructional
• Teach core teachers, paraprofessionals, tutors, instructional aides, and they can adjust that.
• all of these teacher these instructional all of these teacher these instructional individuals.<00
• It's about other parts of the education system that are outside this instructional piece.
• I'd really like to get that in writing.

Keywords: 916, all

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• Oh, and she writes about local news and puts it all on social media.
• Speaker, gentlelady, the waiver is allowed for instruction and general projects.
• Who is the person who writes that check to get it to them?
• Speaker, gentleman, as in the bill, the bill details out deep instructions So, Mr.
• I was trying to write all that down while you were saying it.

Bills: HB111, HJR1, HB61, HB8, HB30, HB43, HB156, HJM2, HM7, HM17, HM4, HM22, HM23, HM24, HM26, HM2, HM16, HM11, HM14, HM21, HM34, HM50, HB70, SB3, HJM3

Keywords: water law, state engineer, civil penalty, compliance order, water rights, overdiversion, illegal diversion, groundwater storage and recovery, well license, permit violation, water enforcement, New Mexico water code, irrigation district, conservancy district, water diversion, unauthorized water sales, measuring device, district court appeal, water resources, water compliance

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• Secretary is instructed to record the action. We're not voting.
• Secretary is instructed to record the action and transmit the bill to the House.
• Secretary is instructed to record the action and transmit the bill to the House.
• Secretary is instructed to record the action and transmit the bill to the House.
• Secretary is instructed to record the action and transmit the bill to the House.

Keywords: 1182, all

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• You could theoretically write a bill to basically require dental insurance to cover medical anesthesia
• What we deal with is that we already have a lot of moratoriums on businesses where we can write it, so
• our ability to write insurance with a wide array of companies is limited already.
• Some of those challenges are, well, The insurance companies don't write monoline auto; they want you
• They won't write monoline business, and they have their reasons for that, and I respect that.

Bills: HB813, HB1680, HB3569, HB4074, HB4635, HB5178, SB527, SB1307, SB1822

Keywords: autism, health insurance, coverage, medical treatment, health benefit plan, HIV prevention, prescription drug, prior authorization, health benefits, insurance coverage, insurance, contract termination, property and casualty, insurance agents, discrimination, appraiser, umpire, licensing requirements, continuing education, admin penalties

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• so if you'll just regards to instruction so if you'll just regards to instruction so if you'll just
• that they should be with the instruction that they should be with the instruction that that's before
• not while they're doing instructional not while they're doing instructional time I understand that I
• time I applaud you on that instructional time I applaud you on that instructional time I applaud you
• day but if you during the instructional day but if you during the instructional day but if you keep

Bills: HB 9, HB 22, HB 908, HB 1392

Keywords: property tax, ad valorem tax, tangible personal property, income-producing property, business personal property, tax exemption, local government finance, appraisal district, chief appraiser, rendition statement, property tax relief, small business, commercial property, leased property, related business entity, unified business enterprise, tax situs, Texas Tax Code, local taxing unit, constitutional amendment

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• Members, following motion in writing, Secretary, read the motion. Motion in writing: Mr.
• Their duties include recommending the number of hours of instruction to be provided in health education
• And so when Senator Hall decided to write this particular bill, he took students off of the board.
• Following motions in writing and in the presence of the Senate: Motion in writing. Mr.
• Motion in writing. Mr.

Summary: The Senate first adopted a motion to move the intent calendar deadline to 4 p.m. and then took up several bills by suspending the regular order of business. Senate Bill 2031, concerning removal of high fences around breeder deer release sites, passed after an amendment shortened the testing period from five years to three, tied visible identification requirements to the date Parks and Wildlife began requiring them, and made the bill effective immediately. Senate Bill 1490, a cleanup to adult charter high school funding, and Committee Substitute Senate Bill 2227, creating a process for delayed birth certificates and renamed the Charles E. Barton Act, both passed unanimously after floor amendments. Committee Substitute Senate Bill 1964, regulating artificial intelligence systems used by state agencies, also passed unanimously after the author described guardrails for high-risk AI and disclosure requirements. The Senate then considered Senate Bill 2877, which increases penalties for election fraud and related attempts; after debate over whether existing law already covers some conduct and whether the bill was necessary given the small number of convictions, it passed to engrossment and later final passage on a 21-10 vote. Committee Substitute Senate Bill 2658, on brackish groundwater production and study, passed after four amendments, including one giving water districts authority to stop production if monitoring shows harm to freshwater supplies or subsidence and another returning a portion of transported water revenue to districts. Committee Substitute Senate Bill 648, strengthening recording requirements for real property instruments to help prevent deed theft, also passed on a 26-4 vote. Other measures approved included Committee Substitute Senate Bill 401, making it easier for homeschool students to participate in UIL activities through local district opt-in/nearest-district participation rules; Committee Substitute Senate Bill 407, requiring health care facilities to honor conscience or religious vaccine exemptions for employees, despite extensive questioning about patient safety and immunocompromised patients; Committee Substitute Senate Bill 2117, creating a Texas Committee on Foreign Investment to review risky foreign acquisitions; Senate Bill 1718, adding the NRA annual meeting to the major events reimbursement program after a failed amendment seeking equal space for gun-control advocacy; Committee Substitute Senate Bill 1626, clarifying limits on censorship and interference with digital expression by social media platforms; and Senate Bill 2206, updating the state R&D franchise tax credit and related sales tax treatment, which passed 31-0. The chamber also debated Senate Bill 1395 on school health advisory councils. An initial amendment to restore voting seats for teachers and school employees failed, but a later amendment by Senator West added students back in an advisory, non-voting capacity. The Senate then handled routine motions, committee scheduling, first-reading referrals, and adjourned until April 29, with the session ending in memory of two constituents.