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• We aren't collecting all that we should.
• <00:06:43.039> in<00:06:43.199> three collection in three collection in three ways<00:06
• <00:08:27.199> and already are required to collect and already are required to collect and
• recovery rate of 20% direct collection recovery rate of 20% direct collection on<00:48:22.559>
• <01:15:26.280> sorting Administration collection sorting Administration collection sorting

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• household hazardous waste collection household hazardous waste collection days<00:56:01.280>
• waste facility that's for um collecting waste facility that's for um collecting hazardous<01:23:
• and sign them up as collection and sign them up as collection locations.<01:29:37.679> And
• <01:45:27.360> to money totally collected to money totally collected to cover<01:45:29.440
• <01:55:21.199> site, collection site, collection site, but<01:55:23.199> everybody<01:55

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

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• Emily, who had a student walking down the street and she said, "Hey, you know, I noticed you got your garbage
• Um, after the miscarriage, she had um thrown the remains of her miscarriage into the garbage.
• the remains of her miscarriage<01:55:25.119> into<01:55:25.360> the<01:55:25.599> garbage
• c><01:55:26.719> Um<01:55:27.040> so<01:55:27.199> that miscarriage into the garbage
• Um so that miscarriage into the garbage.

Keywords: 919, house, all

Summary: The House adopted the conference committee report on House File 1141, the housing bill, and repassed the bill as amended by conference. Representative Howard said the compromise bill would help build thousands of homes, keep Minnesotans housed, and improve transparency and collaboration with the Minnesota Housing Finance Agency, while remaining budget-neutral by using MHFA interest earnings and fund transfers. He highlighted investments in housing infrastructure bonds, greater Minnesota workforce housing, manufactured housing, FHPAP, supportive housing, and added transparency for MHFA board meetings, while noting that some Senate provisions such as a manufactured housing bill of rights and a ban on private equity home purchases were not included. Several members spoke in support, emphasizing housing as a basic need and linking the bill to homelessness, workforce shortages, and health outcomes. Supporters praised the bill’s funding for supportive housing, first-generation homebuyer assistance, tenant hotline services, and manufactured housing, and said the bipartisan conference process improved the measure. Representative Kosowski and others argued the bill would help people stay housed, reduce pressure on schools, hospitals, and emergency rooms, and support communities across all 87 counties and tribal nations. Republican members raised concerns about spending and government growth, arguing the state should prioritize taxpayer relief, school safety, fraud prevention, and asset preservation instead of housing investments. Representative McDonald questioned the growth in MHFA staffing over the past decade, and Representative Howard responded that the agency had taken on many new responsibilities since the state’s larger housing investments and needed staff to administer programs effectively. After the motion to adopt the conference report prevailed, the bill moved to third reading, where further discussion continued in a generally supportive but divided debate.

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• It says it does not include trash, garbage, or incidental fallback resulting from excavation activities
• Because it says it doesn't include trash, garbage, or incidental fallback.
• On page 42, we added all fees collected pursuant to Section 74-6-4. So what does that do?
• gentlelady, I believe the fiscal impact report says there's a potential of $37.6 million in annual fees collected

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• <00:10:00.080> um They're not things we want in our garbage incinerators, and there's valuable

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• SO WE ARE LIKE IN THE GARBAGE COMPACTOR AND STAR WARS WHERE THERE WE GET 10,000 DOLLAR FINE IF YOU DON'T

Keywords: 999, senate, all

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• The interaction of H.R. 1 with Prop. 35, which capped the tax revenue that could be collected from commercial
• So this is simply modernizing our tax collection system for software to match what many, many other states
• distressed hospitals that are going to have to pay this additional cost because, say, somebody empties the garbage

Keywords: 987, senate, all

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• Mass Law Reform is starting to do training for new lawyers, and MLAC is beginning to collect data.
• And MLAC is beginning to collect data and establish reporting systems.
• These include health insurance, transportation, and collective bargaining agreements.
• Just wondering if you're just a concerned citizen or if you're part of a collective organization.
• Collectively, we process almost 1,000 intakes annually.

Keywords: 995, all

Summary: The Joint Ways and Means Committee held its final public hearing on the FY26 state budget, with chairs and members emphasizing that public testimony would help shape the budget and asking speakers to keep remarks brief. Committee leaders introduced members, explained the hearing process, and repeatedly thanked residents, students, and advocates for participating. No votes were taken during the hearing. Testimony focused heavily on education funding and the Chapter 70 formula. Students from Amherst, Northampton, Gateway Regional, Chester Elementary, and other districts described budget-driven cuts to electives, special education supports, paraprofessionals, counselors, transportation, and building maintenance. They urged higher Chapter 70 aid, increased minimum aid, rural school aid, and a reopening or restructuring of the funding formula, arguing that current formulas leave many districts unable to meet student needs and force local layoffs and overrides. Other speakers urged funding or protection for a range of programs and facilities, including the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute for homicide survivor services, the Museum of African American History, the Massachusetts Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing and CART/interpreter services, the Access to Counsel housing legal aid program, the Department of Mental Health and Pocasset Mental Health Center, and Pappas Rehabilitation Hospital for Children. One speaker opposed offshore wind-related spending and urged a reset of the state’s energy approach, while another advocated ending the aircraft sales tax exemption. Committee members responded sympathetically to many speakers, asked a few follow-up questions, and several expressed support for maintaining or expanding the programs discussed.

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• One of our GOP colleagues, Representative Chip Roy, described their one big beautiful bill as garbage
• One of our GOP colleagues, Representative Chip Roy, described their one big beautiful bill as garbage
• One of our GOP colleagues, Representative Chip Roy, described their one big beautiful bill as garbage
• One of our GOP colleagues, Representative Chip Roy, described their one big beautiful bill as garbage
• One big beautiful bill as garbage.

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Wednesday, March 18, 2026, 1012, house, all

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• didn't have a good tool to ensure that if we gave that, if we released them from the obligation to collect
• didn't have a good tool to ensure that if we gave that, if we released them from the obligation to collect
• A budget is more than a collection of numbers. It's a statement of our values.
• preemption of any local ordinance that requires a distributor or retailer to establish battery collection
• I'm going to sell garbage to feed my family.' And that's what she did. That's why today I'm here.

Summary: The House convened with prayer, a moment of silence for former Senator Don Childers, the Pledge of Allegiance, and recognition of Officer Antonio Richardson as law enforcement officer of the day. The chamber announced it would take up 11 budget conference committee reports, with no third-reading bills or special-order calendar items. Members were reminded that conference reports were subject to debate but not amendment, and that the required review periods had been satisfied. The first major action was on HB 7031E, the tax package. Representative Duggan explained that the conference report included a mix of retained, modified, and new tax provisions, including sales tax holidays, property tax and homestead-related changes, reductions in certain gaming and carbon-related taxes, changes to child care and documentary stamp tax credits, a new refund process for public works construction tax paid by universities and colleges, and other tax administration changes. Debate focused on the bill’s consumer impact, the reduction of the child tax credit from three years to one, the inclusion of firearm accessories in a sales tax holiday, the absence of gas tax relief and combined reporting, and the homestead exemption provision for certain deployed diplomatic and foreign service personnel. Critics argued the package favored niche or corporate interests over broad affordability relief, while supporters said it provided targeted tax relief and reflected conference negotiations. The House adopted the conference report and passed HB 7031E by a vote of 88-11. The House then began presenting the conference report for HB 501E, the state budget, which totaled $114.5 billion for fiscal year 2026-27 and was described as below the prior year’s spending level while maintaining reserves. Subcommittee chairs outlined major budget areas: pre-K-12 funding included an increase in FEFP, salary increases for veteran teachers, stabilization funding, and support for declining enrollment; higher education included full Bright Futures funding, workforce programs, college operating support, university initiatives, and school guardian expansion; IT funding focused on Palm, ACCESS, APD’s I-Connect replacement, corrections systems, emergency management systems, and cybersecurity grants; health care funding covered Medicaid, nursing home rates, waiver provider increases, ADAP funding and restructuring, child welfare, and behavioral health; transportation and economic development included housing, cultural grants, jobs and rural infrastructure, Visit Florida, Space Florida, highway patrol equipment, and local transportation projects; justice funding included correctional construction, juvenile justice facilities, law enforcement grants, and clerk and due process reimbursements; state administration included fire stations, constrained counties, building maintenance, and Safe Florida Home; and agriculture/natural resources funding emphasized Everglades restoration, water quality, land acquisition, Florida Forever, state parks, and citrus research. Members then began questioning the budget details, including school voucher accountability, school funding formulas, public defender parity, prison technology, wastewater monitoring in prisons, ADAP policy, SNAP fraud controls and AI-assisted verification, Florida Forever funding, school lunch funding, and coral reef restoration. No final vote on HB 501E appears in the transcript excerpt.

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• That could go into a collection.
• collection. Correct. collection. Correct.
• the town collects it. the town collects it. >> Okay?
• waste collected pursuant to RSA 318E. waste collected pursuant to RSA 318E.
• collect these substances. collect these substances.

Keywords: 928, house, all

Summary: The Environmental Policy Subcommittee took up HB 1621, which would require a baseline environmental impact study before development of certain manufacturing and storage facilities. Members said the concept had merit, but they could not resolve major drafting and implementation issues, including how to define covered facilities, what the study would require, and how enforcement would work at the municipal or county level. Several members expressed concern about unintended consequences and said the proposal was not ready; the subcommittee voted unanimously to recommend inexpedient to legislate (ITL), and the full committee later adopted that recommendation on a 16-0 roll call vote, placing the bill on consent. The committee then discussed HB 1053, involving electronically submitted pesticide use reports. Representative Comtois presented an amendment creating a department database and protecting confidential information, but said she still needed to check whether it was germane and to review administrative issues with the Department of Agriculture. After hearing from David Russo of the Division of Pesticide Control, the committee agreed to continue work on the amendment and took no action that day. The committee also reviewed HB 1186 on egg labeling and producer exemptions. Representative Comtois offered an amendment exempting small producers from most requirements except labeling, but Commissioner Sean Jasper asked for more time to review the impact and suggested the state might not need the existing egg law at all if federal USDA rules already cover the field. Members agreed to hold action until the following week. Finally, the committee began discussion of HB 1780 on penalties for violations involving seeds, plants, and nursery stock, focusing on labeling rules and germination-date requirements; testimony from industry and department representatives indicated they were working toward a compromise that would allow multiple relabelings, add production dates, and set a 36-month sale limit, but no final action was taken in the portion provided.

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• Well, how often do you collect that data?
• We still have to pay some garbage and all those things.
• Yeah, so I just want to add in that that's how our collection funding for collection purchases is based
• Yeah, the city, they just collect it for us, and West and Big Island has refused to collect it for us
• Yeah, the city, they just collect it for us, and West and Big Island has refused to collect it for us

Keywords: 912, senate, all

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• didn't have a good tool to ensure that if we gave that, if we released them from the obligation to collect
• A budget is more than a collection of numbers. It’s a statement of our values.
• preemption of any local ordinance that requires a distributor or retailer to establish battery collection
• preemption of any local ordinance that requires a distributor or retailer to establish battery collection
• I'm going to sell garbage to feed my family. And that's what she did. That's why today I'm here.

Summary: The House convened with prayer, a moment of silence for former Senator Donnell C. Childers, the Pledge of Allegiance, and recognition of Officer Antonio Richardson as law enforcement officer of the day. A quorum was announced, the journal was approved, and the Speaker said the chamber would take up 11 budget conference reports, with debate and final votes on each report. The first report considered was HB 7031E, the tax package, followed by HB 501E, the state budget appropriations bill. On HB 7031E, Chair Duggan explained that the conference report included a range of tax reductions and tax-related changes, including sales tax holidays, property tax and homestead-related provisions, reductions in certain taxes and fees, and new exemptions or administrative clarifications. He said the package also added items such as sales tax relief for certain university construction projects, a tennis admissions exemption, and changes to agricultural property tax treatment, and that the amendment reduced state and local tax revenues by $272.2 million. Members questioned the bill about the child care tax credit reduction from three years to one, the homestead exemption provision for certain diplomats and foreign service personnel, the absence of gas tax relief and combined reporting, and the inclusion of firearm accessories and tennis tickets in sales tax holidays. After structured debate, the House adopted the conference report and passed HB 7031E by a vote of 88-11. The House then began the conference report on HB 501E, the $114.5 billion budget for fiscal year 2026-2027, which was described as below the prior year’s spending level and leaving more than $14 billion in reserves. Subcommittee chairs outlined major allocations across education, higher education, IT, health care, transportation and economic development, justice, state administration, and agriculture/natural resources. Highlights included increased FEFP funding and veteran teacher raises, full funding for Bright Futures, major IT modernization projects, Medicaid and behavioral health funding, transportation and local infrastructure spending, correctional and law enforcement investments, fire station and emergency response funding, and large environmental and water-quality appropriations. Members asked detailed questions about school voucher fraud oversight, scholarship funding, teacher raises, preeminence funding, ADAP changes, SNAP data tools and error rates, Medicaid rate changes, prison wastewater monitoring, and other budget items, but the transcript ends during the budget questions before final action on HB 501E is shown.

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• didn't have a good tool to ensure that if we gave that, if we released them from the obligation to collect
• A budget is more than a collection of numbers. It’s a statement of our values.
• preemption of any local ordinance that requires a distributor or retailer to establish battery collection
• The resolution of collective bargaining issues at impasse for the 2026-2027 fiscal year regarding state
• I'm going to sell garbage to feed my family. And that's what she did. That's why today I'm here.

Keywords: 998, house, all

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• He didn't take out his trash and garbage. Also, resulting in a very serious health problem.
• /c><01:35:00.719> his<01:35:00.960> trash<01:35:01.199> and<01:35:01.440> garbage
• didn't take out his trash and garbage. didn't take out his trash and garbage.

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

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• We're here because Donald Trump wants a Fourth of July party to celebrate this garbage bill.
• 02:09:00.639> to<02:09:00.880> celebrate<02:09:01.360> this<02:09:01.599> garbage
• of July party to celebrate this garbage of July party to celebrate this garbage bill.<02:09:02.719

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Wednesday, July 2, 2025, 1012, house, all

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• And it's an enormous amount of garbage in terms of brass, broken bottles, broken TVs.
• with creating rules for device certification, reliability, manufacturer accountability, and data collection
• with creating rules for device certification, reliability, manufacturer accountability, and data collection
• amendment, because it was brought up just recently, just before you came up, where it says here that to collect

Bills: HB2076, HB2135, HB2175, HB2186, HB2223, HB2345, HB2364, HB2417, HB2440, HB2666, HB2763, HCR2043

Keywords: school safety, employee training, firearm certification, crisis response, school policies, reimbursement fund, local law enforcement, HB2135, Arizona, civil liability, private right of action, DEI, diversity equity and inclusion, critical race theory, anti-racism, race stereotyping, sex stereotyping, race scapegoating, sex scapegoating, gender identity

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• Now, the further out you go in years, the closer you get to collections being more equal to the amount
• never collect the full amount.
• They are in the data collection phase of the study. We...
• About two months ago, they are in the data collection phase of the study.
• That person, that human being, was cut in half, dismembered by a garbage truck.

Summary: The hearing focused on a state audit of Cal/OSHA titled “The Division of Occupational Safety and Health: Process Deficiencies and Staffing Shortages Limit Its Ability to Protect Workers.” Committee leaders and the audit team described serious workplace tragedies, argued that California’s worker protections are not being adequately enforced, and said the audit was prompted by concerns that Cal/OSHA was too often relying on letters instead of inspections, delaying investigations, and closing cases without enough documentation. Members repeatedly emphasized that the issue was not just staffing, but also outdated policies, weak oversight, and inconsistent enforcement. State Auditor Grant Parks said the audit found a 32% vacancy rate in 2023-24, heavy reliance on hard-copy files, outdated or unclear policies, and inconsistent decision-making in complaints, accidents, citations, and fine reductions. He said Cal/OSHA conducted on-site inspections in only about 20% of complaints, used letter investigations more than 80% of the time, often lacked evidence that hazards were corrected, and sometimes failed to inspect serious injury cases on time. The audit also found weak documentation for fine calculations and settlement reductions, with some penalties reduced substantially without clear explanations. Parks said the agency had accepted the findings and would provide progress updates later in the year. Committee members pressed the auditor on vacancy rates, the use of letter investigations, the low rate of criminal referrals, and whether fines were being reduced too often. Cal/OSHA and DIR officials responded that the vacancy rate had fallen to 12% partly because 66 vacant positions were eliminated in a statewide budget reduction and partly because of hiring; they said 126 people had been hired in the first half of the year. They also said they had hired a policy writer, were updating several policies, were planning periodic internal audits, and were developing a new data management system expected to go live in late 2026 or early 2027. On fines, officials said Title 8 sets base penalties and allows adjustments based on factors like employer size, history, and good faith, with appeals and informal conferences also affecting final amounts. No votes or formal actions were taken during the hearing.

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• Paul alone, 2025 to 2026, it is still at 97.1% of rents collected on time.
• to 2026, it is still at 97.1%<00:39:51.520> of<00:39:51.760> rents<00:39:52.079> collected
• 97.1% of rents collected on time. 97.1% of rents collected on time.
• They said that our neighbors were garbage. They went after our community members.
• They said that our neighbors were garbage. They went after our community members.

Keywords: 1183, house

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• as it pertains to that, that the court can change their level of scrutiny as it pertains to the collection
• Out of personal analysis, evaluations, survey, or data collection by the school district.
• That being said, it's going on an awful bill, just a real piece of garbage bill.

Summary: The House opened with prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance, then approved the House Journal for the 58th day by roll call vote, 123-1. Members also introduced a number of special guests, including physicians, sheriffs, students, interns, and a police chief, before moving to third reading and perfection of bills. House Bill 1758, dealing with permanent daylight saving time in Missouri, was debated at length. Supporters said it would end the twice-yearly clock changes and argued it could benefit children, productivity, and quality of life. Opponents warned it would create darker morning commutes, safety concerns, and health issues tied to circadian rhythms. The bill passed third reading by a vote of 107-31 with two present. The chamber then perfected and printed House Bill 3329, which repeals expired or unused tax credits, and House Bill 3405, which clarifies that SALT/pass-through entity provisions are deductions rather than tax credits for Department of Revenue processing. Both bills were described as cleanup and efficiency measures, with supporters emphasizing accountability and reduced manual work at DOR; both moved forward without opposition in committee and were approved on the floor. Finally, House Bill 2426, a parental rights bill, drew extensive debate and an amendment. The bill would elevate parents’ rights in education, medical, privacy, and related decisions to a fundamental-rights standard and add provisions on school records, recordings, evaluations, and certain health-care decisions. Critics argued it was overly broad, could interfere with school operations and existing protections, and might create problems in areas such as IEPs, truancy, and medical consent; supporters said it simply codified and strengthened parental authority. House Amendment 1, focused on IEP procedures and requiring parental consent for major changes, was adopted 98-25 with six present, and debate on the underlying bill continued.