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• people within 48 hours during this period<00:10:49.880><c> of</c> period of period of time<00:10:52.120
• Minnesota has the most stringent timeline of 48 hours.
• about the right bill at the right time. of the 48 hour rule uh they want the of the 48 hour rule uh
• </c> easy and it was actually the final hour easy and it was actually the final hour of<00:31:54.840>
• We also support the extension of the 48-hour rule sunset to two more years.

Bills: HF2196, HF2586, HF2187, HF2037

Keywords: mental health, emotional disturbance, terminology update, statutory cleanup, conforming amendments, children's mental health, serious mental illness, severe emotional disturbance, case management, residential treatment, outpatient services, crisis services, health plan coverage, antipsychotic drugs, medical assistance, Medicaid, foster care, juvenile court, school discipline, county board

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• Their decision caused harm and wasted countless hours of families' time as they were left to figure this
• With only 10 days of nursing hours.
• </c> caused harm and wasted countless hours caused harm and wasted countless hours of<00:04:59.920><c
• If nursing hours are shifted onto the waiver, Nash loses services that are vital to his quality of life
• Um, the people who take care of these children, it's their life. It consumes them 24 hours a day.

Bills: HF3794, HF4472, HF4410, HF4347, HF4412, HF4398, HF4397, HF4201, HF4199, HF4203, HF3706, HF4071, HF4120, HF4175, HF4188

Keywords: surveillance, price discrimination, wage discrimination, automated decision systems, consumer protections, data privacy, biometrics, school district health insurance, charter school health benefits, employee benefits, public sector health insurance, health insurance survey, Legislative Budget Office, LBO report, premium costs, retiree coverage, broker commissions, third-party administrator, health plan transparency, health reimbursement arrangement

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• one of a list of items on behalf of or to LDH, such as policy guidance or advisory opinions, position
• We have a ton of professional associations that would do any one of these.
• our contracts, all of our memberships and associations, all of our travel, all of our conferences.
• And so that's really kind of the meat of why I put this together.
• of care.

Bills: HR290, HR298, SB405, SCR61, HR318

Keywords: gender-affirming care, gender affirming therapy, gender-affirming hormone therapy, transgender health, trans youth, LGBTQ, mental health, psychosis, psychiatric conditions, puberty blockers, androgen blockers, cross-sex hormones, estrogen, testosterone, informed consent, screening, monitoring protocols, Louisiana Department of Health, LDH, House Health and Welfare

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• of child sexual assault.
• a matter of public interest.
• By Senator Miller, which provides for the effects of leases of movable property.
• The simplest way is to have a succession of, you know, mom, wife of, and dad.
• So we've passed a number of bills defining digital assets in the state of Louisiana.

Bills: HB165, HB603, SB77, SB140, SB185

Keywords: HB165, lottery proceeds, Lottery Proceeds Fund, Veterans Service Grant Fund, constitutional amendment, veterans, military veterans, veterans' benefits, veterans services, family support, state lottery, education funding, Minimum Foundation Program, problem gambling, compulsive gaming, state treasurer, ballot proposition, constitutional referendum, lottery revenue, Louisiana resident veterans

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• HB 45 is the result of a lot of negotiations.
• That was a point of contention with a lot of litigation going on.
• So if he wanted to take 50% of his retirement and draw 50% of his salary for a set number of years, it
• There are a couple of sort of technical questions we have.
• So one of the pieces of Senator Price's bill is to narrow the applicability of retirees who come back

Bills: HB17, HB21, HB24, HB41, HB42, HB45, HB1134, HB1237

Keywords: HB 17, District Attorneys' Retirement System, retirement system, reemployed retiree, reemployment, supplemental retirement benefit, service credit, benefit suspension, public retirement, district attorney, assistant district attorney, Louisiana District Attorneys' Association, employer reporting, annual report, retirement benefits, state employees, local funds, state funds, Municipal Employees' Retirement System, part-time retirees

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• It provides more flexibility to the size of the produced water unit, and it allows an operator to start
• some of their cost in moving water.
• Senator Woods, you're recognized to present the exact no of Megan Langley of Westville.
• the woods, but I'll kind of give you a synopsis of her background.
• and managing the daily responsibilities of a family-run agriculture operation before transitioning to

Bills: HB2992, HB3183, HB3464, HB4170, HB4338

Keywords: HB2992, Data Center Customer Ratepayer Protection Act of 2026, Corporation Commission, Oklahoma utilities, ratepayer protection, data centers, artificial intelligence computing, AI data centers, cryptocurrency mining, large load customer, electric rates, utility tariffs, cost causation, rate design, public power utility, municipal utility, electric cooperative, investor-owned utility, load growth, interconnection

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• size of the produced water unit and it allows an operator to start processing brine prior to the corporation's
• And then at the same time, those in production could be relieved of some of their cost in moving water
• It possibly could be the start of a lot of good things that technology, one of these days, helps us with
• It possibly could be the start of a lot of good things that technology, one of these days, helps us with
• daughters and managing the daily responsibilities of a family-run agriculture operation.

Bills: HB2992, HB3183, HB3464, HB4170, HB4338

Keywords: HB2992, Data Center Customer Ratepayer Protection Act of 2026, Corporation Commission, Oklahoma utilities, ratepayer protection, data centers, artificial intelligence computing, AI data centers, cryptocurrency mining, large load customer, electric rates, utility tariffs, cost causation, rate design, public power utility, municipal utility, electric cooperative, investor-owned utility, load growth, interconnection

Summary: The committee first handled several executive nominations. It unanimously advanced Richard Allier to the Environmental Quality Board, Kevin Foreman to the Liquefied Petroleum Gas Board, Gary Keel to the Air Quality Advisory Board, Megan Langley to the Oklahoma-Arkansas River Compact Commission, Jacob Bull to the Air Quality Advisory Council, and Tommy Colwell to the Oklahoma Mining Commission. In each case, the nominating senator described the appointee’s background and qualifications, and the committee voted to send the nomination to the full Senate without opposition. The committee then considered House Bill 2992, with Senator Green offering a technical amendment to correct drafting errors. The amendment passed 8-0, and the bill itself passed 9-0. Green said the measure would require large-load data centers and crypto mining facilities to pay their share of electric infrastructure costs so those costs would not be shifted to other ratepayers. Senator Boren asked whether municipal utilities and co-ops would be affected, and Green responded that the bill was aimed at the corporate shareholder utility model. House Bill 4338 was also heard and passed, though the roll call showed one no vote. Green explained that the bill concerns produced water and would create a framework for extracting elements from it, with House changes clarifying that it is not retroactive, adjusting flexibility for the produced water unit size, and allowing processing of brine before corporation approval. The committee also advanced House Bill 417, which addresses theft of copper fittings on oil rigs and related cleanup damage by making certain conduct a misdemeanor; it passed 10-0. The meeting ended after the committee approved the remaining nominations and adjourned.

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• No, I'm not aware of a class of employees. Okay.
• And just to give you an idea of some of the tactics that are being used, one of the most successful..
• . ...an idea of some of the tactics that are being used.
• of search?
• of some of the bears.

Bills: HB55, HB608, HB997, HB1035, HB1045, HB1048, HB1049, HB1057, HB1131, HB1177, HB1201

Keywords: juror confidentiality, public records, criminal procedure, privacy, court disclosure, intercollegiate athletics, confidentiality, revenue sharing, student athletes, official journal, public notices, government transparency, local government, municipal website, school board notices, parish council, police jury, special districts, levee district, drainage district

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• I think this is one of them. So this is one of my favorite moments of session so far.
• taken advantage of because of this situation?
• And it took hours and hours.
• volunteer work in the number of about 40,000 hours per year to the City of Lake Charles.
• Whitman, do you operate any time outside of your city jurisdiction? No, ma'am. Thank you so much.

Bills: HB343, HB378, HB394, HB396, HB426, HB439, HB491, HB523, HB622, HB676, HB772, HB1025, HB1038

Keywords: parole eligibility, juvenile offenders, rehabilitation, first-time offenders, reentry programs, substance abuse treatment, education programs, emergency responders, law enforcement, obstructing traffic, public safety, penalties, parole, criminal justice, release extension, prison reform, autopsy, criminal evidence, photographs, court proceedings

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• And understand how some of the personal and corporate financial World works as being a part of that.
• that they are operating on There they can go to dozens of different stores and buy different things
• So, in a lot of these stores, they have a list Of items that are okayed for A cells.
• There's a vast amount of people on the other side of those lines that are potential customers.
• It's not the loss of tax revenue. I don't look at it as a loss of sales tax revenue...

Bills: HB1590, HB3075, HB3548, HB3661, HB3986, HB4273, HB4346

Keywords: education funding, linked deposits, education infrastructure, charter schools, nonprofit organizations, Oklahoma Education Infrastructure Program, rounding, cash payments, public finance, Oklahoma Common Cents Act, political subdivision, youth entrepreneurship, tax exemption, small business, income tax, Oklahoma Youth Entrepreneurs Promotion and Development Act, HB3661, Oklahoma sales tax, sales tax exemption, revenue and taxation

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• If they don't have to have any kind of proof that they are operating, they can go to dozens of different
• There is no issuing of cards.
• So, and a lot of these stores, they have a list of items that are okay for ag sales.
• I can tell you a pair of gloves is not okay to be tax exempt on buying a pair of gloves.
• There's a vast amount of people on the other side of those lines that are potential customers.

Bills: HB1590, HB3075, HB3548, HB3661, HB3986, HB4273, HB4346

Keywords: education funding, linked deposits, education infrastructure, charter schools, nonprofit organizations, Oklahoma Education Infrastructure Program, rounding, cash payments, public finance, Oklahoma Common Cents Act, political subdivision, youth entrepreneurship, tax exemption, small business, income tax, Oklahoma Youth Entrepreneurs Promotion and Development Act, HB3661, Oklahoma sales tax, sales tax exemption, revenue and taxation

Summary: The Revenue and Taxation Committee met and first laid over House Bill 15.9 to the next meeting. The committee then unanimously advanced an executive nomination, James Burleson to the Oklahoma Tax Commission, after brief testimony from Sen. Pugh and Burleson’s comments about his private-sector, nonprofit, and community experience and desire to serve the state. Members then considered several tax-related bills. House Bill 3986, expanding eligibility for the 24-month gross production tax exemption for wells completed using recycled water, passed 10-1 after questions about whether the change was retroactive. House Bill 3548, which would exempt small child-run businesses from certain taxes and permits up to a $1,000 gross-revenue threshold, passed 11-0 after questions focused on enforcement and adult involvement. House Bill 3661, removing the sunset on the forestry equipment sales tax exemption, passed 8-3 despite concerns about the lack of hard data supporting the incentive’s continuation. The committee also passed House Bill 4346, creating reciprocity for agricultural sales tax exemptions for neighboring states, after discussion about verification methods, fraud prevention, and whether the Oklahoma Tax Commission could track out-of-state buyers; the bill passed 8-3. House Bill 3075, the “Oklahoma Common Sense Act” dealing with a post-penny environment and giving agencies and political subdivisions more time to update point-of-sale systems, was amended to set an effective date of November 1, 2026, and then passed 11-0. Finally, House Bill 4273, clarifying that certain R1 university aerospace research employees qualify for an aerospace tax credit, passed 6-5 after debate over whether the credit could create a broader domino effect for other professors and fields. The chair announced the committee would likely meet again the following Monday for its last meeting of the year, and then adjourned.

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• Hundreds of thousands of annual service hours, strengthening communities through education, economic
• of data from these forms, and then collection of reports required from the state's fixed-base operators
• of data from these forms, and then collection of reports required from the state's fixed-base operators
• of data from these forms, and then collection of reports required from the state's fixed-base operators
• collection of reports required from the state's fixed-base operators.

Bills: HF3373, HF4449, HF3486, HF4180, HF4227, HF2505

Keywords: transportation, interchange, funding, bonds, St. Paul Park, transit, Metropolitan Council, Twin Cities, metro area, high-frequency transit, bus rapid transit, busway, guideway, transportation policy plan, transit performance measures, regional transit benchmarks, transit-oriented development, TOD, zoning, land use

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• We can say we're looking for thousands of new high-paying jobs and revitalization of parts of Louisiana
• Shouldn't they have some sort of right of first refusal?
• So that's kind of one of my questions.
• We have noticed that the rising cost of homes and the rising cost of living without the rising cost of
• of dollars.

Bills: HCR35, HB440, HB515, HB543, HB614, HB1010, HB1039, HB1088, HB1122, HB1179, HB1200

Keywords: tax delinquency, property sale, rehabilitation, Louisiana State Law Institute, legislation, homestead exemption, property tax, parish governance, Louisiana Constitution, voter approval, adjudicated property, real estate, political subdivisions, property sales, government authority, residential lease, tax credit, property valuation, Louisiana constitution, disaster response

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• Time being 1:00, I will call this meeting of the Elections, Finance, and Government Operations Committee
• of thousands of On behalf of uh hundreds of thousands of authors<00:16:01.440><c> and</c><00:16:01.680
• </c> and sort of respond to I guess a few of and sort of respond to I guess a few of what<00:35:18.240
• I'm the director of operations Wilson.
• I'm the director of operations for<01:14:37.040><c> the</c><01:14:37.120><c> Henipin</c><01:14:37.679

Bills: HF3698, HF4243, HF4239, HF4241, HF4242, HF4240

Keywords: libraries, electronic books, digital audiobooks, licensing agreements, public access, campaign finance, elections, political contributions, disclosure, reporting thresholds, economic interest statements, financial disclosure, ethics, public officials, local officials, metropolitan governmental unit, metropolitan area, candidate filings, principal campaign committee, political committee

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• of them regardless of that.
• Of playing sports and being part of a team.
• It took all of my effort and all of my time.
• If you didn't send that email that night, is that an instance of withholding for every hour that goes
• Out of 17 children, school employees were actively deceiving parents of 10 of them.

Bills: HB2020, HB2032, HB2033, HB2249, HB2313, HB2318, HB2378, HCR2003

Keywords: interference, disruption, educational institutions, public order, conduct rules, statewide assessment, student testing, academic standards, third grade reading, reading retention, promotion and retention, school accountability, assessment window, testing window, test scores, school report cards, nontest data, graduation rates, dropout rates, education data privacy

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• of talked about...
• a lot of times.
• dollars to get out of it for the sole reason to keep... ...and pay thousands of dollars to get out of
• of the pieces that seems like it's unworkable because of logistics.
• So I'm going to lump a couple of questions into kind of one.

Bills: HB3048, HB3259, HB3646, HB3696, HB3780, HB3781, HB3802, HB3818, HB4294, HB4488, HB2929

Keywords: insurance, nonadmitted insurers, surplus lines, insurance regulation, Oklahoma, health insurance, contracting entities, medical providers, enrollment, beneficiary rights, property and casualty, rates, filing, Insurance Commissioner, regulation, property, regulations, actuary, rate filing, independent review

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• operator certificate, and allows additional time for the Director of Labor and Industrial Relations
• <00:11:18.079><c> operators</c> operator operators operator operators advisory<00:11:20.240><c> board
• health</c><00:33:55.120><c> reasons</c> out of work because of health reasons out of work because of
• ' compensation, wage and hour, temporary disability insurance, family leave, tax classification of business
• ' compensation, wage and hour, temporary disability insurance, family leave, tax classification of business

Bills: SB2119, SB3131, SB3069, SB3180, SB2137, SB2993, SB2778, SB2672, SB2014, SB2967

Keywords: reimbursement, public employees, travel costs, government travel policy, finance management, job title, administrative assistant, executive assistant, state personnel, civil service, modernization, employment standards, DAGS, Department of Accounting and General Services, comptroller, civil service exemption, collective bargaining exemption, public works special project branch, specialized public works, information technology modernization

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• The idea of being an individual, you can get a number of, being an individual, you can get a number of
• It kind of depends on the facts of the DUI. Thank you. Kind of depends on the facts of the DUI.
• I found plenty of individuals who have gotten three in the span of—honestly, most of them within the
• Any questions of the author? Any questions of the author?
• It says, 'For any transmission of funds outside of the United States and outside of the United States

Bills: SB1936, SB1612, SB1543, SB1260, SB1988, SB1859, SB2041, SB1257

Keywords: forfeiture, criminal offenses, law enforcement, Class D1 offenses, property seizure, SB1612, mandatory reporting, violent injury reporting, gunshot wound, stab wound, poisoning, burn injury, explosive injury, medical reporting, healthcare providers, law enforcement notification, evidence preservation, patient video records, confidentiality waiver, misdemeanor penalty

Summary: The Public Safety Committee took up several criminal justice and public safety measures. Senate Bill 1936, as amended, increased penalties for impersonating law enforcement from a misdemeanor to a felony and expanded seizure provisions; amendments added federal law enforcement agents and state troopers to the covered officers, and the bill passed unanimously. Senate Bill 1612, requested by Tulsa police, would require limited reporting and sharing of certain injury-related information and hospital video/photo evidence with law enforcement to aid violent-crime investigations; members raised HIPAA, scope, and criminalization concerns, but the bill passed 5-2. Senate Bill 1543 would aggregate multiple DUI offenses within one year into a single felony case; after questions about sentencing, municipal charges, and deterrence, it passed 6-2. Senate Bill 1260 would require child sex traffickers and human traffickers to serve 100% of their sentences without parole or earned credits, and it passed 6-2. The committee also considered Senate Bill 1988, which would increase wire-transfer fees on funds sent outside the United States and restore an income-tax credit for Oklahoma filers; members questioned whether it functioned as a tax, its impact on lower-income senders and service members, and its connection to drug trafficking. The bill failed on a 4-4 vote. Senate Bill 1859, creating an OSBI cybercrime and fraud unit with an estimated $3 million fiscal impact, passed unanimously after testimony that cyber and cryptocurrency fraud are growing and often harm elderly victims. Senate Bill 2041 would make a third possession offense for methamphetamine, fentanyl, or cocaine a felony, with supporters saying it would push offenders toward drug court and opponents warning it would increase incarceration; it passed 6-2. Finally, Senate Bill 1257 would classify THC as a Schedule I drug to align with federal law and close trafficking loopholes, and it passed unanimously. Senate Bill 1584 was laid over at the author’s request.

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• A great example of this members is the Mayor Grahava of the City of Douglas.
• I'm the Director of Grassroots Operations for Americans for Prosperity Arizona Chapter, here today in
• Chairman, sir, I was part of the DCP. I was, and one of the... I was part of that DCP.
• Most other general managers and operators of the dealerships grew up with those same rules.
• Most other general managers and operators of the dealerships grew up with those same rules.

Bills: SB1041, SB1363, SB1418, SB1419, SB1445, SB1447, SB1488, SB1519, SB1523, SB1560, SB1580

Keywords: electronic monitoring, nursing care, assisted living, resident rights, privacy, consent, surveillance, marijuana, rural opportunity, dispensary, economic development, licensing, social equity, unserved communities, Arizona, small modular reactors, energy regulation, environmental compatibility, utility construction, agricultural use

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• She is the Director of Health and Life Insurance at the Office of the Superintendent of Insurance.
• But another big part of that is how operators are able. to open up new seats for families.
• And in the fire service, the majority of the shift work that we do is a 48-hour shift And those 48 hours
• On the amount of hours that you can use before you report to work, so that we would address that issue
• hour shifts, Madam Chair, Senator. 48-hour shifts, 48-hour shifts.

Bills: SB20, SB53, SB86, SB96, SB129

Keywords: prior authorization, pharmacy benefits manager, PBM, health insurer, prescription drugs, step therapy, formulary, auto-adjudication, electronic portal, appeals, medical necessity, serious mental illness, mental health, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, major depression, substance use disorder, addiction treatment, cancer, autoimmune disorder