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• Vehicle-to-vehicle systems are typically used, for example, to automatically provide a safety buffer
• Weapons; you can put it on Jaws of Life if you're a fire department.
• So, if we got a system from y'all, are there fees every year, or is it something you just do automatic
• This would set a number of miles that could be automatically considered exempt every year, meaning that

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• I am not concerned that a prenatal vitamin would then automatically, or a company would say, well, we're
• personal privacy and data security, especially in a time when sensitive information is too often weaponized
• comes in and presents with a fever of some kind, not knowing the source of that fever, they would automatically
• And then this wouldn't be automatic. It would be based on what their exposure might have been.

Summary: The committee heard several health-related bills, with extensive testimony on maternal health, prenatal safety, privacy, valley fever, Medi-Cal contracting, anti-discrimination protections, and health data sharing. SB 32 would require time-and-distance standards for labor and delivery units in health plan networks; the author and supporters said it would address maternity care deserts and improve access, while health plans opposed. SB 646 would require testing and public disclosure for toxic elements in prenatal vitamins; supporters emphasized fetal and maternal safety and transparency, while industry opponents warned it could confuse consumers or lead to reduced nutrient content. Both bills drew broad support from medical and public health groups, and both were advanced on party-line or near-unanimous votes after committee discussion. The committee also approved SB 313, which moves a parent’s birthplace on birth certificates into the confidential section to protect privacy, and SB 297, which directs CDPH to identify high-incidence valley fever regions and publish them for screening and awareness; valley fever experts and supporters stressed rising cases and the need for earlier diagnosis, while local health jurisdictions raised concerns about mandates. SB 324, dealing with Medi-Cal enhanced care management and community supports, would prioritize local community-based organizations and clarify contracting and data practices; it received strong support from nonprofits and community health advocates, with children’s hospitals and health plans seeking amendments, and it was sent forward after amendments were discussed. The committee then considered SB 418, which would codify ACA nondiscrimination protections in state law and allow up to a 12-month prescription supply for hormone therapy when medically necessary. Supporters framed it as protecting continuity of care for transgender patients and others using hormone therapy, including IVF and menopause patients, while opponents argued it would conflict with federal policy and promote harmful treatments. The bill passed to the next committee. Finally, SB 660 would strengthen the California Health and Human Services data exchange framework by creating governance and accountability for data sharing across health and social service entities; supporters said it would reduce duplication and improve care coordination, while some providers and hospital groups raised concerns. It was approved and sent to the Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee. The consent calendar and the other measures were also voted out, with the committee recording the required roll-call votes and sending the bills onward.

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• Currently, developments are automatically disqualified for tax credits if they fall. ...all within the
• Automatic External Defibrillator. Thank you. I knew the 'D' part, but I couldn't remember the rest.
• They use these ordinances as a weapon to stifle growth and to discriminate against those seeking affordable
• demolition permit, we found out that any... a demolition permit for a property over 50 years old automatically

Bills: HB22, SB250, SB375, SB536, SB845, SB1633, SB1944, SB1957, SB2081, SB2137, SB2262, SB2299, SB2419, SB2452, SB2522, SB2549, SB2594, SB2605, SB2631, SB2639, SB2675, SB3029, SJR60, HB22, HB1392, HB2525

Keywords: emergency communication, broadband, funding, natural disasters, technology, HB 22, Texas broadband development office, comptroller, emergency communications, early warning systems, disaster alerts, natural disaster notifications, interoperable communications, interoperable emergency radio, public safety communications, 9-1-1, next generation 9-1-1, NG911, broadband grants, low-interest loans

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• There's nothing automatic.
• Are you under the impression that this bill creates an automatic conversion if a school doesn't have.
• Creates an automatic conversion if a school doesn't have... okay, so I think that maybe philosophically
• So for those things that I just brought up, weapon jaddy, I won't be able to support you on this bill

Summary: The committee first took up PCS for HB 123, which would change the process for converting a public school to a charter school by requiring approval from a majority of parents at the school, allow municipalities to apply to convert certain schools under limited circumstances, and address surplus school property in districts with declining enrollment. The sponsor said the bill is meant to give parents the primary say and to prevent districts from holding unused property. Opponents, including the Florida PTA, several members, and public speakers, argued the bill excludes teachers, school boards, and other stakeholders, could disenfranchise parents who do not live in the municipality, and could create enrollment, transportation, and equity problems. After debate, the bill passed 13-5 and was reported favorably. The committee then heard HB 597 on diabetes management in schools. The bill would allow school districts and charter schools to procure and store glucagon pens for emergency treatment of severe hypoglycemia, permit trained personnel to administer them, require 911 to be called after use, and add limited liability protections. The sponsor said the medication is inexpensive and could save lives for the roughly 7,000 diabetic K-12 students in Florida. An amendment clarified that public and charter schools are both covered. The bill drew support from the American Diabetes Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the Florida PTA, and members from both parties praised the measure. It passed unanimously and was reported favorably. Finally, the committee heard HB 85 on hazardous walking conditions, which would add walking along freeways, expressways, and their ramps as a hazardous condition requiring bus service for elementary students within two miles of school. The sponsor described personal examples of children walking near dangerous roads and said the bill is intended to prevent injuries and deaths. An amendment narrowed the language by deleting “state highway.” Public testimony included a parent who described her child being hit by a car and urged broader coverage, while members raised concerns about bus shortages and fiscal impact. Most members spoke in support, emphasizing student safety, and the bill was reported favorably after debate.

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• We have also seen data that can be weaponized, for example, to undermine women's health and their access
• Banning the sale of location data would deny these bad actors the opportunity to weaponize this information
• Passing the Location Shield Act will ensure that our cell phones cannot be weaponized against us.
• And private attorneys, if given the power, will weaponize data privacy law. ...policymakers, and private
• attorneys, if given the power, will weaponize data privacy laws against businesses for personal profit

Keywords: 995, all

Summary: The committee hearing focused on a package of Massachusetts privacy and technology bills, especially measures to ban the sale of location data, establish a comprehensive consumer data privacy law, and regulate biometric recognition and surveillance pricing. Chairs and sponsors argued that self-regulation has failed, that data brokers and large tech companies routinely collect and monetize sensitive information, and that state action is needed because federal protections are weak or absent. Several speakers tied the bills to reproductive health, gender-affirming care, domestic violence, children’s data, and other sensitive uses of location and biometric information. Supporters included legislators and advocates who backed H. 86/S. 197 (Location Shield), H. 78/S. 45/H. 104/S. 29 (comprehensive privacy bills), H. 99/S. 47 (surveillance pricing in grocery stores), and H. 36/S. 36 (biometric recognition accountability). They emphasized data minimization, bans on selling sensitive data, consumer rights to access, delete, and opt out, and in some cases a private right of action. Several witnesses said Massachusetts should lead or align with other states, while others argued that stronger protections are needed because data can be weaponized by stalkers, anti-abortion actors, abusive partners, insurers, or law enforcement. Industry and coalition witnesses urged the committee to favor a more standardized, interoperable framework modeled on laws already adopted in other states, warning that novel definitions, data-minimization rules, and private rights of action could create compliance burdens, confusion, and costs for businesses, including small businesses. They argued that entity-level exemptions for sectors already covered by federal laws like HIPAA or GLBA promote consistency, and that Attorney General enforcement is preferable to private lawsuits. Committee members questioned witnesses on patchwork concerns, the scope of exemptions, and whether the proposed bills would harm or help consumers and small businesses. No votes or final actions were taken during the hearing; written testimony was noted as due later, and the committee continued taking testimony from multiple panels and virtual witnesses.

Bills: SB1778, SB1570, SB134, SB1966, SB1636, SB1725, SB1726, SB259, SB504, SB592, SB2030, SB1572, SB843, SB1242, SB1255, SB1262, SB1264, SB1286, SB1581, SB1290, SB1316, SB1319, SB1369, SB1379, SB1381, SB1400, SB1427, SB1436, SB1461, SB1496, SB1509, SB1534, SB1553, SB904, SB1592, SB1645, SB1684, SB1767, SB1772, SB1813, SB1894, SB1928, SB1946, SB1980, SB2040, SB2060, SB2061

Keywords: reading instruction, literacy, educational equity, intervention services, third grade retention, Strong Readers Act, child welfare, child safety, administrative transition, Department of Child Safety and Well-being, Oklahoma Commission on Children and Youth, juvenile justice, foster care, retirement, public employees, reemployment, benefit adjustment, Oklahoma Public Employees Retirement System, memorial highways, bridge designations

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• That's a concern of mine if this hotline has continued to be weaponized against our families.
• Is there a system in place where they can begin figuring out who it was that weaponized the system?
• Having to secure attorneys because somebody called and weaponized the hotline, and instead of facing
• And if heaven help you, you upset a state employee who Wants to further weaponize the system against
• Medical kidnapping is whenever a state agency could be weaponized either internally or externally with

Bills: SB1778, SB1570, SB134, SB1966, SB1636, SB1725, SB1726, SB259, SB504, SB592, SB2030, SB1572, SB843, SB1242, SB1255, SB1262, SB1264, SB1286, SB1581, SB1290, SB1316, SB1319, SB1369, SB1379, SB1381, SB1400, SB1427, SB1436, SB1461, SB1496, SB1509, SB1534, SB1553, SB904, SB1592, SB1645, SB1684, SB1767, SB1772, SB1813, SB1894, SB1928, SB1946, SB1980, SB2040, SB2060, SB2061

Keywords: reading instruction, literacy, educational equity, intervention services, third grade retention, Strong Readers Act, child welfare, child safety, administrative transition, Department of Child Safety and Well-being, Oklahoma Commission on Children and Youth, juvenile justice, foster care, retirement, public employees, reemployment, benefit adjustment, Oklahoma Public Employees Retirement System, memorial highways, bridge designations

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• A few years ago we expanded it to automatic sealing in certain instances.
• We now have automatic sealings.
• It weaponizes the Attorney General's office to harass doctors, nurses, and anyone who provides care to

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• When I was 15 years old, I was arrested for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
• In my desperation, just to make my father stop, I struck him with a weapon that severely injured him
• Actually, the policy of the center was no drugs, no weapons in the center.
• So we said, but you can put your weapons...
• Out in that little field, and they did, and they had a guard looking over their weapons.

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• exclusion even if the is automatic exclusion even if the defendant<04:00:30.000> later<04:00:
• thought in your immediate and automatic thought in your head<04:14:00.159> is<04:14:00.479>
• criminal threatening statute while using what reasonably appears to be the victim to be a deadly weapon
• to the victim to be a deadly weapon. to the victim to be a deadly weapon.
• c><05:42:09.440> defend >> Your bill authorizes use of deadly force, not just display of a weapon

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• And he brought such a wealth of knowledge that just automatically as a committee, we had a good understanding
• Moving to the last slide for the air, you'll see that the specific weapons systems that each wing employs
• we'll see some of our, our limitations. uh, on cybersystems and cybersystems that support our other weapons

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• schools. kids, you are ripping public schools apart with school vouchers, you are allowing semi-automatic
• weapons in our state that are killing our children, you are allowing immigration officers into schools
• This action not only stifled free speech, but weaponized federal resources against law-abiding citizens

Bills: SB 18, SB 19, SB18, SB19, SB666, SB688, SB707, SB888

Keywords: Texas Water Code, TCEQ, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, water permit, water appropriation, dam permit exemption, reservoir, flood control, floodwater control, erosion control, sediment control, watershed protection, flood prevention, Natural Resources Conservation Service, NRCS, USDA, local sponsor, district, authority, water infrastructure

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• And judges have said, I'm going to give the example of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.
• A weapon would be anything that touches another person's body without their consent.
• It could be something serious, like what you and I would consider a weapon.
• I'm concerned about this automatic...
• That means that there are no weapons in schools.

Keywords: 995, all

Summary: The committee hearing began with opening remarks from the House and Senate chairs outlining procedures for a large public hearing with more than 100 witnesses on 64 legislative proposals. They explained time limits, rules for in-person and virtual testimony, written testimony procedures, and the committee’s reporting deadline. Testimony then moved through a series of juvenile justice, child protection, and civil liberties bills, with witnesses generally urging favorable reports or, in one case, opposing expanded juvenile court transparency and child advocate access to records. Several witnesses supported bills aimed at juvenile justice reform. Representative Hendricks backed H. 1744 to prevent child labor exploitation and trafficking, citing federal findings of child labor in seafood processing and calling for stronger penalties and a ban on minors working in such facilities. Senator Gomez supported S. 1131 and S. 1121 to reduce juvenile fees, fines, restitution burdens, and bail-related costs, arguing they worsen racial and economic disparities. Senator Crean and other advocates supported S. 1051/H. 1695 to expand juvenile diversion eligibility, while multiple witnesses from juvenile justice and immigrant advocacy groups supported H. 1657/S. 1058 to expand juvenile expungement and to limit sharing juvenile fingerprints with federal authorities, describing recent ICE detentions of Chelsea students and the resulting fear in immigrant communities. Witnesses also supported H. 1918/S. 1240 to narrow the youthful offender statute, raising the minimum age and reducing mandatory adult-style penalties for youth. The committee also heard testimony on child safety and bodily autonomy bills. Middlesex District Attorney Marion Ryan supported H. 1752 to protect children left in extreme temperatures, explaining it would create civil penalties, allow emergency responders to remove children from cars without liability, and add criminal penalties when serious injury results. Representative Thurber and Senator O’Connor testified for H. 2011/S. 1227, a bill prohibiting coercion or mandates for health-related interventions, including vaccinations, and allowing legal remedies for violations. Senator Jalen supported S. 1136/H. 1847 to prevent false confessions by requiring recording of interrogations and banning deceptive tactics, and several innocence-project and legal-services witnesses described wrongful convictions tied to false confessions and coercive interrogations. Another major topic was H. 1626, which would require age verification for pornographic content and launch an education campaign about online sexual exploitation; Representative Cruz and survivor Udoz Wallace testified in support, describing nonconsensual image sharing and deepfake harms. Not all testimony was supportive. The Committee for Public Counsel Services opposed S. 1035, which would increase transparency in juvenile court proceedings, and H. 1689, which would expand the child advocate’s access to confidential juvenile records, arguing both would undermine privacy and trauma-informed protections for children and families. No votes or formal committee actions were taken during the portion of the hearing provided; the session consisted of opening remarks and public testimony on the listed bills.

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• So folks who called the 10-digit line, automatically got our 988 call center.
• Transportation is responsible for maintaining those call boxes, and when someone picks up that phone, it automatically
• These are high acute calls with significant background, maybe a weapon, something involved that we feel
• I don't want to call them weapons, but anything to protect themselves in a situation that goes a different

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• disability, even if there was not serious bodily injury or death, even if there was not a deadly weapon
• Certainly this is a dangerous trend, and investigators often find that weapons obtained at other crime
• is many of these cities and counties that fall under the Open Meetings Act and Open Records Act automatically
• under the Open Meetings Act and open, that fall under the Open Meetings Act and Open Records Act automatically

Summary: The Senate convened with a quorum present, heard an invocation, adopted the prior day’s journal, received House messages, and adopted several resolutions and recognitions, including Senate Resolution 496 honoring Leadership Garland and resolutions 503 and 504. The chamber also recognized guests, including a North Dakota senator and the Doctor of the Day, and received gubernatorial nominations for the Texas Economic Development Corporation Board and the Nueces River Authority Board. The Senate then took up and passed a series of bills, often by suspending the regular order and the constitutional three-day rule. Measures approved included SB 614 on Texas Forensic Science Commission referrals to the Office of Capital and Forensic Writs; SB 250 on municipal annexation across railroad rights-of-way; SB 1660 on toxicological evidence retention and destruction procedures; SB 2586 requiring property owners associations to file governing documents with the Texas Real Estate Commission; SB 1588 increasing penalties for certain failures to report child sexual abuse; HB 912 on compensation for distributed renewable generation outside ERCOT; SB 1957 setting eligibility standards for civilian oversight boards; HB 2525 clarifying a charitable property tax exemption; SB 1525 limiting repeated prior authorization for neurodegenerative disease drugs; SB 865 requiring CPR/AED training and cardiac emergency response planning in schools; SB 1212 elevating human trafficking penalties; SB 2690 on solicitations for Secretary of State documents; SB 1802 on landlord repair duties for ramps, elevators, and handrails; SB 905 on licensing rules for speech-language pathologists and audiologists; SB 2929 allowing removal of disruptive spectators at school athletic events; SB 2675 creating a narrow McAllen-specific parkland conveyance exception; SB 872 increasing punishment for burglary of a vehicle involving firearm theft; and SB 1113 clarifying sales rules for certain converter-license holders. Several bills drew extended debate. SB 2487, dealing with crisis and mental health services for homelessness, was amended to make the county model permissive rather than mandatory and to remove state funding/assistance requirements before passing 28-3. SB 2138, barring higher education funds from contracting with firms that boycott fossil fuels through ESG policies, also passed after questions about fiscal effects and First Amendment concerns. SB 2615, restricting remote work at public institutions of higher education, advanced 22-9. The Senate also began consideration of SB 3016, which would expand enforcement tools against local governments that fail to comply with state law, but the transcript cuts off before action on that bill is completed.

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• AS CRITICAL AND PROHIBITS THE POSSESSION OR ALTERING OF AN UNMANNED AIRCRAFT WITH AN ATTACHMENT OF WEAPONS
• FELONY FOR SUCH ALTERATIONS AND CREATES A FIRST DEGREE FELONY FOR AN UNMANNED AIRCRAFT CARRYING A WEAPON
• AND WHEN THE EMPLOYER GOES TO SEEK THE INJUNCTION THE INJUNCTION IS AUTOMATIC AND THEN OVERTURNED AT
• LUCAS PARSONS, FLORIDA AUTOMATIC FIRE ALARM ASSOCIATION WAIVES IN SUPPORT AND FLORIDA FIRE SPRINKLER

Keywords: 999, senate, all

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• picked up that automatically if on the other taken to the station.
• The a weapon of mass destruction that causes death.
• Oh, yes, I'm familiar with the crimes that would trigger the automatic death penalty in the bill. >>
• If they did and they were and illegal immigrant, the death penalty would be automatic and chair.
• If that were the case, then the death penalty would not be automatic.

Keywords: 999, senate, all

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• is law enforcement autom automatically is law enforcement autom automatically made<00:45:26.960>
• Fourth, it makes protection automatic.
• The general counsel testified last year, I'm sure you're aware, that we automatically lose our rights
• <02:26:45.120> and<02:26:45.600> shot spouse, so they took a weapon and shot spouse
• , so they took a weapon and shot them<02:26:46.560> dead.

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• It risks political politicization and weaponization. I think the term is weaponization.
• I think the term is weaponization.
• And it says that there is an automatic $100 an hour, and that's subject to a COLA, actually.
• And it says that there is an automatic<04:07:19.359> $100<04:07:20.000> an<04:07:20.239
• > hour<04:07:20.479> and<04:07:20.720> that's automatic $100 an hour and that's

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• But one of those provisions, the automatic fire suppression system, was excessively burdensome.
• That was highly enriched plutonium, so weapons material. You're also in the heat of a Cold War.

Bills: HR1038, HB3263, HB3127, HB2997, HB3115, HB2123, HB3587, HB3028, HB2035, HB3369, HB3620, HB3621, HB3622, HB3624, HB3175, HB3173, HB3178, HB1979, HB4476

Keywords: Oklahoma Youth Expo, OYE, 4-H, FFA, agriculture, agricultural education, youth expo, livestock show, junior livestock, scholarships, youth leadership, Oklahoma City, rural communities, ag mechanics, engineering contest, farm youth, student recognition, ceremonial resolution, house resolution, livestock competition