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• </c><00:13:56.800><c> Um,</c><00:13:57.680><c> and</c><00:13:57.920><c> and</c> go to a different program
• Um, and and go to a different program."
• And I thought the testimony programs.
• and also, you integrity of the program and also, you know,<00:53:19.200><c> be</c><00:53:19.440><c>
• , and I think that program integrity ensures that we have a fiscally sound program that is available

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• </c> abrahamson here who runs that uh program abrahamson here who runs that uh program and<00:02:25.920
• ready. this program and the committee's budget this program and the committee's budget um<00:06:48.720
• </c><00:34:19.240><c> the</c> program to provide grants to prevent the program to provide grants to prevent
• These lasers are continually moving and prevent birds from landing and actually deter them from flying
• ><00:52:34.960><c> remember</c> incentive program and if if you remember incentive program and if if

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• Thank you very much, and we appreciate your being with us early this morning. Thank you.
• plan to guide counties on how to prepare, coordinate, and deliver the programs that will be needed.
• what concerns the early engineers had for this structure and the area.
• Metro Transit and recipients alike both enjoy and think that the program works well.
• Websites for the various public benefits programs will help case managers, county workers, and social

Bills: HF1837, HF361, HF2725, HF2566, HF2744, HF1685, HF501, HF1889, HF1389

Keywords: state policy, employment, health insurance, fossil designation, public funds, community resources, Capitol Mall, grantmaking, community vitality, livability, funding, healthy aging, aging policy, older adults, seniors, elderly, gerontology, long-term care, assisted living, nursing homes

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• The bill creates a crisis care coordination team pilot program in Polk and Volusia counties to help reduce
• Crisis intervention services, assist individuals with connection to mental health services, and reduce
• I urge this committee to pass this bill and help prevent further unnecessary suffering.
• It establishes critical checks and balances to prevent any future ...safeguarding due process.
• It establishes critical checks and balances to prevent any future injustices.

Summary: The Human Services Subcommittee considered three bills and reported all of them favorably. HB 1013, relating to crisis care coordination, would create a pilot program in Polk and Volusia counties to connect people who have had Baker Act-related crises with follow-up counseling, assessments, and outpatient services through partnerships between law enforcement and community providers. The sponsor said the program has reduced repeat Baker Act commitments in Polk County, and the committee adopted a strike-all amendment moving the pilot to a different statute, formalizing partnerships, and requiring an independent DCF evaluation due in January 2029. The bill drew support from mental health and justice advocates and passed unanimously. The committee then heard PCS for HB 511, which addresses child protective investigations involving specific medical diagnoses. Sponsors and several parents, attorneys, and advocates described cases in which children were removed after injuries were initially treated as abuse but later linked to conditions such as Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, metabolic bone disease, or other medical fragility. They argued the bill would require notice of the right to a second medical opinion, better consideration of preexisting conditions and medical records, and more coordination before reports are sent to law enforcement, while still preserving protections for abused children. Members expressed sympathy for the families and emphasized the need for fairness and accurate medical review; the bill passed 17-0. Finally, HB 1439, based on recommendations from the 2025 Commission on Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder, was presented as a broader mental health and substance use disorder measure focused on crisis response, access to care, and workforce development. An amendment aligned the bill more closely with commission recommendations, including assessment tools, trauma-informed practices, school-based behavioral health access, telehealth, discharge planning, and long-acting injectable treatment access. The commission chair testified that the bill reflected a vetted set of recommendations from subject matter experts and commissioners, and the committee adopted the amendment and then reported the bill favorably by unanimous vote. The meeting then adjourned.

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• The third item is our DI program admin and benefit adjustments.
• And Madam Chair, the big portion of the funds in BCP are for preventing the fraud..." "...and all the
• well just budget for that and plan for it versus... ...we're going to need more and more programs, and
• That funding is critical to stave off program elimination and reduce or prevent any service reductions
• and abatement workload in the Clean California program.

Summary: The Senate Budget Subcommittee No. 5 held an informational hearing on the Governor’s May Revision proposals for labor, public safety/judiciary, and transportation, and no votes were taken. In Part A on labor, the Employment Development Department described funding for EDD Next document management work, updated UI loan interest costs, disability insurance and paid family leave benefit increases, WIOA adjustments, UI and school employee benefit changes, an EMT training reappropriation, and a technical correction tied to an EDD Next reversion. PERB discussed reduced funding requests for AB 288 due to litigation and a proposal to implement AB 1 covering legislative employees. DIR presented proposals for legal unit reclassifications, two major IT modernization projects, a new Cal/OSHA emerging technologies unit, a COIA reappropriation, and trailer bill language requiring electronic payment of employer assessments and removing a salary cap for the DWC administrative director. CalHR proposed consolidating employee assistance services into a statewide contract with enhanced support for first responders, and CalPERS and CalSTRS presented budget adjustments tied to investment costs, state contributions, and benefit overpayments. Members focused heavily on the unemployment insurance debt and interest payments, asking why the administration had no concrete plan to pay down principal. Finance and LAO explained that the state’s UI tax structure has long been insufficient and that any long-term solution would need to address both the outstanding federal loan and the structural imbalance in employer taxes. Questions also centered on EDD Next costs and timelines, with the chair asking for clearer long-term project cost estimates and Finance noting that future maintenance and operations costs will continue after implementation. On DIR’s emerging technologies unit, members asked whether it would address AI-driven workplace harms; DIR said the unit would focus on physical workplace safety issues involving AI, robotics, autonomous equipment, and related guardrails, while LAO noted broader labor-practice questions would likely fall outside Cal/OSHA’s scope. In the CalPERS discussion, members raised concerns about transparency in private equity and external management fees, while CalPERS said higher fees reflect a strategy of greater private-market and active-management exposure and are offset by higher net returns. Members urged more information on specific investments and future reporting. For CalSTRS, Finance presented routine contribution and overpayment adjustments, but members also raised broader transparency concerns that CalSTRS staff said they would follow up on separately. Public comment in Part A was dominated by strong support for an immigrant worker emergency relief fund, along with support for apprenticeship and workforce proposals and PERB staffing. The chair and members said they would follow up on where the immigrant relief proposal should be considered, noting it may belong in another policy area. The hearing then moved into Part B with an overview of Judicial Branch-related May Revision items, including court interpreter funding, appellate court security, workload cap changes, lactation room implementation delays, and a reduction to the state court facility construction backfill.

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• But you can't do any programming with non-recurring money, and we certainly, I certainly, and I'll speak
• I was so concerned that programs would just end this month and we could not.
• The three-year programming and look at what we're doing.
• So this is the 72-hour hold, and it's dealing with interventions, rapid interventions.
• Her, and he or she may not be able to prevent that harm.

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• because post-release and these programs is when all the action and rehabilitation takes place.
• And when I was at Trade Tech, when we were representing Trade Tech and many other programs, trying to
• We need investment in prevention and intervention, credible messengers like ourselves.
• We want to transform, and we're going to shut them down. when I was a kid in the early 90s and two my
• We need investment in prevention and intervention, credible messengers like ourselves.

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• There's training and programming that's been in this bill that LDH will man, and so that has also been
• There's training and programming that's been in this bill that LDH will man, and so that has also been
• And this is to prevent folks from using that background check on an employee to discredit that employee
• And this is to prevent folks from using that background check on an employee to discredit that folks
• We're definitely going to have to do additional programming, and that would take time and money.

Bills: HR9, HB709, HB1011, HB1057, HB1186, HB1245, HB1247, SB49, SB425, SB479

Keywords: human rights, individual liberties, Magna Carta, constitutionalism, free speech, Uniform Construction Code, building code, construction code, inspector licensing, building inspectors, plans examiners, public inspector, private inspector, private inspector company, building official, code enforcement, Louisiana Uniform Construction Code Commission, state fire marshal, International Building Code, International Residential Code

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• , and, and, and, and, and, starts getting trouble between Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, and what
• hills and valleys of England and Scotland.
• He started the Harness for the Hungry program that's on the books, and they've sold multitudes of these
• And I also know a little bit about state employees, present and retired, and most...
• And so, yeah, I want to acknowledge that and bless the Cobb family today. Yes, and move.

Bills: HCR63, HCR69, SCR6, SCR18, SB2, SB19, SB24, SB50, SB70, SB96, SB101, SB103, SB104, SB114, SB122, SB159, SB160, SB182, SB412, SB418, SB460

Keywords: military drivers, driver's license exemption, active-duty military, federal vehicle, government-owned vehicle, state highways, public safety, task force, Tiger Team, Louisiana National Guard, Fort Polk, Barksdale Air Force Base, Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base New Orleans, Department of Defense, executive order, military readiness, vehicle licensing, law enforcement, state police, sheriffs association

Summary: The House Transportation Committee met on Monday, April 27, with a quorum present and took up a series of Senate bills and one House concurrent resolution, most of them related to transportation infrastructure, memorial highway designations, and prestige license plates. Early action centered on Senate Bill 122, which would direct the Department of Transportation and Development to be more proactive about bridge maintenance, inspection, reporting, and public meetings on bridge conditions; the committee adopted a large amendment package before reporting the bill with amendments. The committee also reported favorably SCR 6 supporting an LNG facility at Port Fourchon and SCR 18 directing a study of commercial driver’s license privileges compared with neighboring states. Several bills designated memorial highways or bridges, including SB 50 for the Elwood T. Brady Jr. Memorial Bridge, SB 70 for the Officer Mark Brock Memorial Highway, SB 460 for the Hayden Lane Mangum Memorial Highway, SB 101 for the Daniel Edward Didillo Memorial Highway and Bill Blue Evans Memorial Highway, SB 160 for the Speaker Joe R. Salter Memorial Highway, SB 418 for the Dick and Jacques Schuford Memorial Highway, SB 103 for the Gladys Edwards Highway, SB 159 for the Surgeon Roelio Roy Gonzalez Jr. Memorial Highway, SB 182 for the Mayor Billy Cobb Memorial Highway, SB 104 for the Ernest J. Gaines Memorial Highway, and SB 2 for the Falcons Band Highway. The committee also approved SB 114 creating a prestige plate for the Foundation for Moral Law and SB 96 creating a Fallen Heroes prestige plate. One of the more substantive policy items was HCR 63, which creates a task force to study whether certain active-duty military personnel without civilian driver’s licenses should be allowed to operate federally owned vehicles on state highways; it was reported favorably after discussion of military training and licensing differences. Another major item was HCR 69, urging DOTD to improve Interstate 12 in Livingston Parish; the committee adopted amendments adding findings about flooding, drainage, and evacuation concerns, and then reported the resolution with amendments. The committee also considered SB 19 on the state employee retired prestige plate; after objections about whether proceeds should continue supporting LASERS, the bill was reported favorably by roll call vote, 13-1, with Representative Schamberhorn voting no.

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• And it is the sincere desire of this rider that our citizens should early understand that the genuine
• And so We're wanting to prevent it. Number one, but I think more of it happens than we realize.
• Oklahoma's Ag in the Classroom program was created in 1992 and is consistently recognized as the nation's
• I'm very appreciative of this bill and codifying what I believe is one of the most successful programs
• I agree this is an important program, and the more we can do to protect one of the long-lasting, thriving

Bills: SB843, SB1733, SB1476, SB1237, SB1410, SB1894, SB1272, SB1204, SB1721, SB1725, SB1735, SB1337, SB1339, SB1461, SB1975

Keywords: school boards, educational governance, conflict of interest, employee relations, Oklahoma statutes, child abuse, reporting requirements, sexual misconduct, law enforcement, school personnel, confidentiality, student safety, land office, land exchange, investment, education funding, real estate management, Teachers' Bill of Rights, education, teachers' rights

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• ticketing and prevent consumer fraud.
• between $40,000 and $80,000 choosing their supermarket based on loyalty program membership.
• to sales, loyalty programs, rewards, and discounts.
• These programs help families save money and limiting them would be disappointing for shoppers and harmful
• I think bringing more dollars into the program, this program is a self-assessment, and bringing in tax

Bills: SB6149, SB6175, SB6230, SB6248, SB6312, SB6061, SB6137

Keywords: rural county, frontier county, public facilities funding, economic development, local option sales tax, sales and use tax, workforce housing, affordable housing, county tax authority, RCW, Washington state, community economic revitalization board, CED, infrastructure funding, public works, job creation, job retention, job expansion, county planning, state auditor reporting

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• Chairman and members.
• The actual early voting clerk is the presiding judge, and the deputy clerk is who’s at the poll.
• For early voting...
• With election day and early voting being two separate processes with different rules.
• Chairman and members.

Bills: SB1065, SB2117, SB2217, SB2363, SB2533, SB2742, SB2743, SB2881, SB2964, SB3013, SB3014

Keywords: SB 1065, handgun carry, license holder, concealed carry, open carry, government contracts, governmental entity, property lease, state agencies, local government, higher education, university, Texas Government Code, Penal Code 30.06, Penal Code 30.07, Penal Code 46.03, Second Amendment, gun rights, firearms, civil penalty

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• It's getting to and from there, and the State Fair.
• West and Mr.
• Preventing public display of a minor's list of friends, contacts, or followers. and prohibiting the use
• Early voting if cast then, and election day if the provisional ballots were cast then.
• ahead you're recognized one almost hypothetical question yes right now but with election day and early

Bills: SB1065, SB2117, SB2217, SB2363, SB2533, SB2742, SB2743, SB2881, SB2964, SB3013, SB3014

Keywords: SB 1065, handgun carry, license holder, concealed carry, open carry, government contracts, governmental entity, property lease, state agencies, local government, higher education, university, Texas Government Code, Penal Code 30.06, Penal Code 30.07, Penal Code 46.03, Second Amendment, gun rights, firearms, civil penalty

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• Go ahead and introduce yourself and give us your testimony.
• And if they know everybody going into the State Fair and coming out isn't going to be carrying and it's
• West and Mr.
• and myself.
• state laws and protecting their workers and the public.

Bills: SB1065, SB2117, SB2217, SB2363, SB2533, SB2742, SB2743, SB2881, SB2964, SB3013, SB3014

Keywords: SB 1065, handgun carry, license holder, concealed carry, open carry, government contracts, governmental entity, property lease, state agencies, local government, higher education, university, Texas Government Code, Penal Code 30.06, Penal Code 30.07, Penal Code 46.03, Second Amendment, gun rights, firearms, civil penalty

Summary: The Senate State Affairs Committee heard testimony on Senate Bill 1065, which would require government property contracts to prohibit contractors from barring licensed handgun holders from carrying firearms on leased or owned public property, with civil penalties and attorney general enforcement for violations. Senator Hall and invited witnesses from the Texas State Rifle Association, NRA, and Texas Gun Rights argued the bill would close a loophole exposed by the State Fair of Texas gun ban and protect law-abiding Texans’ self-defense rights. Opponents, including Moms Demand Action/Everytown, said the bill would undermine event organizers’ ability to set site-specific safety rules and could increase liability and insurance costs. Public testimony was then closed and the bill was left pending. The committee next took up Senate Bill 2742, which would create civil penalties for independent school districts and officials who use public resources for electioneering, waive immunity defenses, and expand attorney general enforcement. Senator Hagan-Bood said current law bans the conduct but lacks meaningful penalties, making injunctions the only remedy. No public testimony was heard, and the bill was left pending. Finally, the committee heard Senate Bill 2743, also by Senator Hagan-Bood, which would allow a court to disqualify local prosecutors who refuse to prosecute election offenses and appoint the attorney general to handle the case, with a committee substitute adjusting the removal process through an adjacent-county judge. Opponents from the Texas Civil Rights Project argued the bill would undermine prosecutorial discretion and was vague and open to abuse, while a Harris County election official described past instances where alleged voter fraud cases were not pursued. After testimony, public comment was closed and SB 2743 was left pending.

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• subjected to coercive, unregulated, and experimental programs that have no oversight.
• records of the Family Bridges Program shall at all times be confidential and not disclosed to anyone
• And that's the thing, this is all. The no contact is a condition of this program.
• And after enough of that happened in the science program...
• And I quote, "symbolic experimental intervention."

Bills: HB168, HB 1044, HB1534, HB1914, HB2240, HB2530, HB3284, HB3395, HB3515, HB3783, HB4034, HB4213, HB168

Keywords: marriage age, minors, family law, void marriage, rights of minors, Texas marriage law, marriage ceremony, authorized officiants, family code, judges, religious leaders, parent-child relationship, Department of Family and Protective Services, legal rights, notice requirements, HB 1914, Texas Family Code, Chapter 156, conservatorship, custody

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• Chairman, and good afternoon, Chair and committee.
• It's critical that we clarify these statutes to prevent potential abuse and ensure that minors are truly
• applicant, and these types of barriers will prevent that minor from achieving independence if that marriage
• Child marriage has devastating and often lifelong consequences on girls and women in Texas and across
• And when I look at her, and I...

Bills: HB168, HB 1044, HB1534, HB1914, HB2240, HB2530, HB3284, HB3395, HB3515, HB3783, HB4034, HB4213, HB168

Keywords: marriage age, minors, family law, void marriage, rights of minors, Texas marriage law, marriage ceremony, authorized officiants, family code, judges, religious leaders, parent-child relationship, Department of Family and Protective Services, legal rights, notice requirements, HB 1914, Texas Family Code, Chapter 156, conservatorship, custody

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• and sustainability of our programs and establishing new programs.
• /c> sustainability of our programs and sustainability of our programs and establishing<00:37:40.720><
• And we are so proud of that program as well as the other programs that we, you know, we meet the needs
• And we are so proud of that program as well as the other programs that we, you know, we meet the needs
• </c><00:39:50.240><c> as</c> and we are so proud of that program as and we are so proud of that program

Bills: HF2178, HF942, HF2470, HF1043, HF1287, HF1229, HF1230, HF424, HF571, HF404, HF910, HF1055, HF318, HF319, HF401, HF609, HF306, HF1599, HF1881

Keywords: HF2178, Cohasset, capital investment, bonding bill, state bonds, public infrastructure, water tower, water infrastructure, sanitary sewer, storm sewer, street reconstruction, municipal infrastructure, Public Facilities Authority, bond proceeds fund, Minnesota bonding, local government aid, utility infrastructure, public works, infrastructure, stormwater

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• program of welding and machining.
• And intervention and support for our homeless students.
• I love the CTE program, and I'll tell you, and I love dual credit.
• , and I personally think Mandating an early childhood program to be open 10 hours a day, all contracts
• the sharing of resources and co-development of needed programs and access to those programs across a

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• It supports district communication, and we can assist with early intervention and problem solving alongside
• We had what we call early-stage interventions, and those are moving a child's seat, changing maybe how
• We had what we call early stage interventions, and those are moving a child's seat, changing maybe how
• And so I approached Superintendent La Orange with the idea of the PASS program, and we piloted it and
• And so Hillsdale put together their best professors and came up with a beautiful program guide.

Keywords: 989, all

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• Let's go to Tab 3, Senate Bill 624 on Batterers Intervention Program activities by Senator Yarborough
• Senate Bill 624 authorizes Batterers Intervention Programs to offer supplemental faith-based activities
• So there are already very specific requirements about what these batterers intervention programs have
• And would the person in that program have to spend more time because it is supplemental?
• All we have, thank you for the question, Leader, is that the program has to last at least 29 weeks and

Keywords: 999, senate, all