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• Containing schools, the state has other systems to do that. So, I wanted to make that very clear.
• communities could fund a very different public school system than less wealthy communities.
• It's a very fancy way of saying that the system, the funding formula, actually...
• Cool. We appreciate that, Director.
• Cool. Thank you all. See you then.

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• Talk to me about your own system.
• and supply water to these systems.
• also rely on ratepayers to maintain their systems.
• I, I was country when country was, wasn't cool. Uh, well, I was desal before desal was cool.
• Meaning to the main system, to the main wastewater system. That's a great question.

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• The system. The systems are interconnected, it's critical that we really look down that path.
• In our river systems.
• Going through cooling towers, it's cooled down.
• these systems.
• It's for that section, meaning to the main system, to the main wastewater system.

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• For too long, students with disabilities in Texas have been shortchanged by a system that has failed
• Texas has the resources, the will, and the chance to transform its special education system in a way
• disabilities, but today we were here already for an advocacy day, and so I got to bring a bunch of cool
• kids who are currently in our school system in Texas, but Um, first I wanna say thanks for allowing
• Parents left without adequate guidance and navigating the system when we don't have the proper tools,

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• . >> Oh, cool. >> Hi there. I'm Anna Mitchley.
• >> Oh,<00:03:42.319> cool. >> Oh, cool. >> Oh, cool.
• >> Cool. >> Cool. >> Cool.
• So associations also fall into a gap in this system in terms of the state insurer of last resort, the
• Cool. Cool. Cool.

Keywords: 919, house, all

Summary: The task force held its first meeting on the insurance affordability crisis affecting single-family housing, common interest communities, and multifamily rental housing. Members and staff introduced themselves, including representatives from insurers, the Department of Commerce, housing advocates, affordable housing developers, and HOA/community association interests. Representative Steve Elkins was elected chair by roll call vote with 10 members in favor, after discussion that the Senate appointee’s formal appointment had not yet arrived; the group noted the intent to later move to co-chair leadership once that appointment is finalized. Staff reviewed the task force’s enabling statute and open meeting law requirements. The task force is charged with studying homeowners and commercial property insurance, property resilience and risk mitigation, liability laws and possible tort reform, notice and oversight issues, public reporting, and the state-supported insurance program, including possible expansion to a catastrophic reinsurance fund or self-insured pool. The final report is due February 15 and will go to the commissioners of commerce, housing finance, and employment and economic development, as well as relevant legislative committees. Members were also briefed on meeting logistics, a draft charter to be voted on at the second meeting, a resource page for shared materials, and the schedule of future meetings. The Department of Commerce then gave an overview of Minnesota’s property and casualty insurance market. Commerce described its regulatory role, the state’s competitiveness test, and how homeowners insurance is often filed under a “file and use” process rather than prior approval. The presentation emphasized that homeowners coverage has been under pressure for years: insurers have lost money in many recent years, premiums have risen, some consumers are taking on more risk through higher deductibles or reduced coverage, and some are moving into the surplus market. Commerce also highlighted the impact of severe weather losses, the growth in premiums since 2014, and gaps in oversight for homeowners associations and related policies. The meeting then shifted to brainstorming the problems the task force should address. Early discussion focused on climate and construction-related resilience, including hail and wind-driven rain damage, discontinued building materials, and whether stronger materials are reflected in insurance pricing. Members also raised the need to study programs like Alabama’s fortified roof model and Minnesota’s own Strengthen Minnesota Homes effort, along with questions about whether the construction industry is prepared to support broader resilience measures. No additional votes were taken during the discussion segment.

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• Along with the core system, the BenefitsCal portal was implemented at the same time, and this service
• What systems can we make it more at the user level so that we're making it easier to inform folks who
• To be an expert of these systems in many cases, right?
• for heating and cooling.
• and our child welfare system.

Summary: The Assembly Budget Subcommittee on Human Services heard an overview of efforts to streamline access to safety net programs and move toward more automatic, person-centered enrollment. CDSS, DHCS, and CalHHS described current cross-enrollment between Medi-Cal, CalFresh, and CalWORKs, including data showing high overlap among programs and a text-message outreach pilot that increased CalWORKs applications and enrollments but reached only a small share of potentially eligible people. Witnesses emphasized barriers such as differing federal eligibility rules, data-sharing limits, privacy concerns, and the need for better technology, consent management, and stakeholder engagement. Members pressed the administration on how to institutionalize these efforts across administrations and asked for concrete budgetary and regulatory steps to support “no wrong door” enrollment and automatic referrals. The committee also reviewed several chair priorities. On the proposed foster care multi-agency office, CDSS said existing coordination structures already address much of the intended work and asked to verify prior fiscal scoring. On the Employment First Office, CalHHS explained that the office’s $1 million budget was eliminated in the 2024-25 budget as part of deficit reductions, while noting that employment for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities remains an administration priority through existing departmental coordination. For the food insecurity proposal, CDSS said it could provide technical assistance but would need new data-sharing agreements, could not separately calculate a CFAP participation rate with current data, and would likely need until July 1, 2027, plus ongoing staffing, to complete the requested report. The mandated reporter proposal drew support for reform, with CDSS estimating low-millions in one-time training costs and ongoing costs in the hundreds of thousands. The subcommittee also discussed a guaranteed income proposal. CalHHS suggested drafting new statutory language and considering a county-administered model rather than a state-run competitive grant process to reduce administrative burden, while members and public commenters urged support for AB 661 and a study of a permanent statewide guaranteed income program. Public testimony also supported automatic enrollment, community-supporting mandated reporting reforms, and cash assistance for fire recovery. In the final items, CSD described how local nonprofit partners helped during the Los Angeles fires with food, housing vouchers, transportation, and emergency energy assistance, and explained that LIHEAP and CSBG remain important but limited tools for disaster response. CSD also said recent federal staffing cuts and possible future federal budget threats could affect LIHEAP and CSBG administration, though no immediate service disruptions had occurred and additional LIHEAP funds were expected to be released soon.

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• to have a lower upfront cost of using the system.
• to have a lower upfront cost of using the system.
• And then if I'm of using the system?
• So, our our system is entire region.
• <00:18:11.720> Cool. Excellent. Thank you very much. Cool. Excellent.

Keywords: 1183, house

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• 80% of a single-pass system.
• Data center cooling is not a... Data center cooling is not a one-size-fits-all solution.
• Generally, cooling systems operate on an inverse relationship: systems that use less water often require
• They recycle within the system themselves, some systems, but you can only do it so many times and the
• They recycle within the system themselves, some systems, but you can only do it so many times and the

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• Then our next funding that I'll come to you is to help us with the heating and the cooling system.
• So, those are secure document sharing systems.
• And we're also working with the school systems.
• of how This system should work.
• It depends on the system that you use. There are two basic systems out there at the moment.

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• They've all. >> With regards to having gay learning system, I what you call the something else, would
• But has there been any development and they professional learning system that they could use the lessons
• Yes, we're still working through implementation of that system and so will be excited to get that system
• So if they do 2 hours of professional learning say classroom management and that goes in the system and
• He said cool out as yeah. Cool out of. So Kay said trademarks or >> cool out of a lot of. Okay.

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• Cool. Thank you, Grayson. Good morning, Mr.
• Cool. Thank you, Grayson. MUST sensor. Cool. Thank you, Grayson.
• We handed out literature at each DUI R.S. to contact information to the recovery navigator system.
• So we're taking a two-prong approach to this system.
• So we're taking a two-prong approach to this system.

Summary: The Senate Transportation Committee met in Yakima to focus on tribal traffic safety, with members and Yakima Nation leaders emphasizing the importance of safety, the right to travel, and continued partnership on U.S. 97 corridor improvements. Yakima Nation Vice Chair Christopher Wallachie and engineering staff described the Tribal Traffic Safety Committee, the U.S. 97 safety project, heritage connectivity trails, roundabout construction, and the use of federal grants and advanced sensing technology to identify hazards before crashes occur. They highlighted collaboration with WSDOT, the Traffic Safety Commission, the University of Washington, and other regional partners, and explained that the goal is to move from reactive crash response to proactive risk reduction. The Yakima Nation engineering team and AI Vision presented the MUST sensor project, which uses compact AI-enabled devices to collect traffic counts, speeds, near-miss events, roadway conditions, and pedestrian activity, with data transmitted to a dashboard and used for real-time warnings and longer-term planning. Committee members asked about speed tracking, driver behavior, enforcement, and partnerships with WSDOT and counties. Yakima Nation staff said the relationship with WSDOT has improved over time, especially after community outreach on proposed roundabouts, and that the tribe now supports several roundabout projects and broader safety coordination. The Washington Traffic Safety Commission then presented statewide fatality trends and tribal traffic safety data. Mark McKekney said 2024 showed a roughly 10% decrease in fatalities statewide, though recent years remain among the highest in decades. He noted that race and ethnicity data are only available for people who die in crashes, and that many American Indian and Alaska Native fatalities involve passengers, pedestrians, or bicyclists rather than drivers. Penny Rerick outlined tribal traffic safety coordinator grants and other state-funded tribal projects, including work with Yakama Nation, Colville, Kalispel, Makah, Port Gamble S'Klallam, Muckleshoot, Lower Elwha, and Puyallup, stressing that flexible state funding helps fill gaps left by federal programs and supports community-led solutions. The final presentation covered impaired driving enforcement and ignition interlock compliance in Yakima County. Yakima Police Chief Sean Boyle said the city created a DUI enforcement and education officer program that helped reduce serious injury and fatal impaired-driving crashes, supported by state funding and social media outreach. Yakima County District Court’s Nick Bazan described a supervision program for DUI offenders and interlock compliance, reporting more than 1,000 DUI convictions in 2024-25 and about 3,800 noncompliant interlock users countywide. He said the court is using a two-pronged approach—pretrial assistance for indigent clients and post-conviction accountability and case planning—to improve compliance and reduce impaired driving. The committee expressed support for the work, noted the progress made, and adjourned the work session after thanking presenters for their updates.

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• So there’s also other cooling options outside of evaporative cooling that are available.
• So some of those costs can sometimes be difficult to capture in the system.
• It's called Total System Performance Assessment.
• It's a sodium-cooled fast reactor.
• Ours is non-water-cooled, and it's also not pressurized.

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• And then water use reductions in the upper basin to stabilize the system.
• Well, the system is what the system is, and when the compact was negotiated in 1922, their concern was
• losses, and that they've drained the system to their detriment.
• Arizona Water acquired those systems years ago, and the systems were a disaster, to say the least.
• So Arizona... ...and the systems were a disaster, to say the least.

Bills: HB2042, HB2052, HB2055, HB2056, HB2094, HB2098, HB2185, HB2328, HB2758, HB2798

Keywords: solar radiation management, environment, prohibition, Arizona Revised Statutes, public health, complaint process, Attorney General, groundwater management, water conservation, irrigation, water supply, brackish groundwater, water supply development, desalination, water infrastructure, financial assistance, environmental reviews, brackish water, groundwater, water resources

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• That we have the, the whole issue that we have going to harden the systems, to harden the utilities,
• Uh, this was an upgrade to the heating and cooling, um, adjustment mechanisms and, uh, mech mechanics
• of that system.
• So, uh, just a, a notice that this 8-track temperature control system upgrade at the Walter K.
• Memorial Walkway in Capitol North, uh, including boilers and cooling tower replacement project, will

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• It's really cool to see kids come in from the community.
• Of some cool little aviation division bags from D.O.T.
• We're saying system. Focused approach. Can you tell me, Mr.
• We're looking at the entirety of a System.
• System, clean energy, water, biosciences, aerospace, and space.

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• In the restaurants, you know, in the education system, in healthcare, but are often in the kind of lowest
• as justice-involved individuals, individuals with disabilities. and youth exiting the foster care system
• With the right support systems in place, they will do what they do best, innovate, employ, and enrich
• So it's things like that that are really helpful. are just really cool to say, and not to say that those
• things keep on happening, but that is one of the cool things that have happened.

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• People in our state and how it impacts our healthcare system.
• So going cool places when it's warm and warm places when it's cold?
• Yeah, there you go, that's not cool.
• It's a systems issue.
• She's a state employee formerly, but so she's not new to the system.

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• comprehensive juvenile system in the country.
• You know, I would tell you, you look at a new system when you go, again, 30 years of having a system
• You know, I would tell you, you look at a new system when you go, again, 30 years of having a system
• So that was kind of on the front end of our system.
• It's cool because of the technology of it.

Summary: The committee heard a presentation from Department of Juvenile Justice Secretary Eric Hall on the Florida Scholars Academy, a new unified education model for youth in residential commitment programs. He explained that the academy replaced the prior decentralized district-run system with a contracted model through Florida Virtual School, allowing individualized blended learning, real-time progress monitoring, expanded special education services, and a broader course catalog including dual enrollment, CTE, GED testing, and postsecondary pathways through the Florida Youth College partnership with Tallahassee State College. Hall said the department is using data to focus on academic achievement, workforce credentials, and peer-group change as strategies to reduce recidivism, and reported early results including 60 diplomas or GEDs, a 5.5% teacher vacancy rate, and progress-monitoring gains for most students. Hall also reviewed implementation of House Bill 1181 on swift accountability and juvenile justice reforms. He said the law strengthened pre-arrest delinquency citation use, raised the target for eligible citations to 70%, required written justification for releasing youth charged with certain felony firearm offenses, and directed the department to develop a firearm-offending curriculum focused on avoidance and consequences. He described a new statewide graduated sanctions matrix for probation technical violations, intended to provide quicker and more consistent responses without overburdening courts. He said early data showed reductions in weapons/firearm offenses and auto theft, and that the department had conducted circuit-level outreach to law enforcement, courts, and providers to support implementation. Members asked about the number of unauthorized alien children in detention or residential care, teacher vacancies and whether instruction continues when staff are absent, screen-time and supervision concerns with laptops, and whether students are reentering local schools with improved academic performance. Hall said he did not have data on immigration status, that FLVS and classroom staff provide continuity when teachers are absent, that devices are checked in and out and security has been tightened, and that the department is still early in implementation but is hearing positive anecdotal feedback from parents. Vice Chair Smith asked for more detail on the firearm curriculum, and Hall offered to provide it. The committee took no formal votes and adjourned after no public testimony was offered.

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• Flood control systems.
• More than 10,700 linear feet of the flood control systems were deployed, and this time we needed 106
• We deployed over 35,500 linear feet of our flood control systems, and this time 235 pumps that moved
• Is this typical to have a system like FROC as far as fronting the cost in different states?
• If the eligible activity isn't in our FROC system, If the eligible activity isn't in our FROC system,

Summary: The committee received a program review from the Florida Division of Emergency Management on the 2024 hurricane season and FEMA reimbursement process. Deputy Director Keith Pruitt described the impacts of Hurricanes Debby, Helene, and Milton, including major storm surge, flooding, tornadoes, debris removal, power restoration, flood-control deployments, sheltering, and logistics missions. He emphasized that Florida’s approach is “federally funded, state managed, locally executed,” and said the division has already obligated large amounts of public assistance funding and mitigation dollars while continuing to work on remaining missions and reimbursements. A major focus of the discussion was how local governments can better document and vet debris-removal and other disaster costs so they are eligible for FEMA reimbursement. Chair DiCeglie and other senators raised concerns about local planning, commercial debris collection, and whether counties and municipalities that spend money up front will be reimbursed. Pruitt explained that eligibility depends on documentation, scope of work, insurance, and FEMA rules, and that the state’s FROC process is intended to help counties identify eligible work before costs are incurred. He also said commercial debris may be eligible in some cases but is not guaranteed, and that counties should coordinate early with FDEM and FEMA. Senators also asked about possible FEMA reforms, the age of outstanding reimbursement claims, and a proposed state fund to advance money to fiscally constrained counties while they wait for FEMA payments. Pruitt said Florida’s system is a national best practice, but that more county-level training and clearer coordination would help reduce de-obligations and audit problems. He said the reimbursement-advance idea is still being developed, and that the state continues to look at ways to streamline mitigation through programs like Elevate Florida. The committee took no formal action beyond hearing the presentation, and the meeting adjourned after closing comments from senators praising FDEM’s work.

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• forbid it's him who's participating in that hate and he says to that other student stop that's not cool
• I promise you the vast majority of public school systems now are under a lot of financial pressure, as
• I look at Section 3, the issue of reporting, as we're all aware, school systems have the future of the
• All right, it's cool. persuasion is I really participate folks participating in this process.
• All right, it's cool.

Keywords: 995, all

Summary: The Special Commission on Combating Antisemitism met to review and discuss draft preliminary recommendations, with the co-chairs explaining that the draft had been released publicly and that the meeting was intended for open discussion and edits rather than a final vote. They emphasized the urgency of addressing antisemitism in Massachusetts, especially in K-12 schools, while noting that the recommendations are preliminary, may be revised, and will be supplemented by further testimony and a final report later. Several members also referenced recent allegations and incidents in local schools as examples of why the commission’s work is needed. Commissioners broadly supported the draft but proposed numerous refinements. Common themes included clarifying the distinction between antisemitic incidents and hate crimes; strengthening reporting systems and privacy protections; adding clearer guidance from DESE and the Attorney General on First Amendment issues, curriculum, and investigations; expanding Holocaust and genocide education; and improving professional development for educators, school committees, and administrators. Several members urged better links to mental health and victim services, more support for the Genocide Education Trust, and stronger language on bystander training, digital literacy, and the role of school committees in addressing bias. There was also discussion of how to frame antisemitism as a distinct form of hate, how to address antisemitism related to Israel and Zionism without restricting legitimate political speech, and how to avoid unfunded mandates for school districts and municipalities. Some commissioners suggested adding timeframes, a centralized reporting or investigative mechanism, and more explicit model policies for schools. The meeting ended with the chairs thanking participants and the public for their input, and the commission then moved to adjourn.