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• Just a few examples on the slide, for example, natural resource. catastrophes such as the wildfires.
• Mitigate, and especially with the invasive species and the noxious weeds. My question, Mr.
• That could be mitigating against other wildlife and even predator risk. Is that right? Yes, Mr.
• In some cases, it's actually allowed production to continue after some of these catastrophic events—fires

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• You don't have to be an archaeologist when you have catastrophic events or cascading events, extraordinary
• that will allow us to have more boots on the ground to thin and to do recovery and to prevent catastrophic
• We have a Highway Safety Improvement Program and proven countermeasures to identify ways to mitigate
• And maybe doing a more robust dust mitigation program in the interim while they're working.

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• projects related to that, wildlife refuge restoration, construction, development. forestry and fire mitigation
• Pretty much all the presentations today from the Art School, which is to prevent catastrophic events
• , cost-effective, environmentally friendly way to pump water, reducing carbon emissions. helping mitigate
• Our forests are just waiting for the next catastrophic fire. or flood.

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• The City of Harris County all the way down to the Panhandle, because instead of focusing on flood mitigation
• recovery legislation while Texans are still working through the rubble of our most recent climate catastrophe
• time when the legislative work of the state should be about adequate flood relief and disaster mitigation
• In the meantime, Texas is still recovering from catastrophic floods, a mass casualty event made worse

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• obvious reasons for that, but to help fix the village, what's going through the village, and just mitigate
• questions are going to go to that, and there's responsibility of land management, maintenance, fire mitigation
• become a model for other communities across the West. ...who are experiencing these same type of catastrophic
• It's a key that unlocks federal dollars and turns mitigation into reality.

Bills: HB2, SB193, SB132, SB35, SB145

Keywords: general appropriation, budget, Medicaid, education funding, public safety, SB193, acequia, community ditch, irrigation works construction fund, water infrastructure, ditch infrastructure, irrigation, New Mexico water law, agricultural water, farmers, Rio Grande, acequia association, forest land protection revolving fund, state fund transfer, irrigation projects

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• Um, so yes, there can be environmental catastrophe when there is a high concentration of these things
• Um, so yes, there can be environmental catastrophe when there is a high concentration of these things
• :37.199> can<04:28:37.520> be<04:28:38.319> environmental<04:28:38.880> catastrophe
• there can be environmental catastrophe there can be environmental catastrophe when<04:28:39.680>
• identified, they could be the plan for the factory or whatever the facility could be modified in order to mitigate

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• , drinking water mitigation that requires in those programs, and then also through the irrigated lands
• No plan is going to get through if it doesn't have a domestic well mitigation program.
• or what I'm hearing, what I think I'm hearing you say is that GSA should be required to fund the mitigation
• This committee should not condone the ongoing environmental catastrophe in our Delta via regulatory capture
• Are understood, whether they are mitigable, and whether the benefits outweigh the costs, is an important

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Summary: The committee first handled several governor’s appointments not required to appear, approving Anthony Surich to lead the California Housing Finance Agency, Craig Snelling to the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board, Nicholas Mueller to the Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation Commission, and the referral of bills to committees, each by 4-0 votes. It then heard testimony on the appointment of Jereen DiDamo to the State Water Resources Control Board. DiDamo highlighted priorities including water-use efficiency, SGMA implementation, groundwater recharge, ecosystem restoration, and expanding safe drinking water access, noting the number of Californians without safe drinking water had fallen from 1.6 million to 800,000 since 2019. Senators focused heavily on the safe drinking water program, consolidation of failing systems, funding, domestic wells, SGMA, and the Bay-Delta plan. Supporters praised her practical, collaborative approach and work on drinking water; opponents from environmental and tribal groups argued the board had favored agricultural and urban interests and had not acted quickly enough to protect the Delta and fisheries. The committee ultimately voted 4-0 to advance the appointment to the full Senate. After a brief recess, the committee took up the appointment of Siva Gunda to the California Energy Commission. Gunda said California is managing three major transitions at once—decarbonizing the grid, electrifying transportation and buildings, and winding down petroleum and natural gas—and emphasized planning, transparency, and coordination across agencies and the West. Senators questioned him about Kern Energy and the impact of refinery compliance burdens, the state’s transportation fuels plan, Diablo Canyon, fuel imports, and affordability. Gunda said the Energy Commission has supported exemptions or potential exemptions for small refineries, that current planning assumes Diablo Canyon retires in 2030 without creating reliability problems if new resources continue to come online, and that most new capacity has been storage and solar. He also said California still imports a significant share of crude and refined products, with costs affected by global markets and shipping. The committee approved his appointment 4-0 to move to the full Senate.

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• And that's the way we keep all of these important functions on the market while obviously mitigating
• The question before us is not if we will face catastrophic wildfires again, but how prepared we will
• These communities have the greatest need for projects that mitigate environmental harm, provide green
• It requires a $500 million mitigation fund. And essentially, it bans products that don't meet that.
• It requires a $500 million mitigation fund. And essentially, it bans products that don't meet that.

Summary: The committee heard a long agenda of natural resources and related bills, with several measures taken up as the committee reached quorum and many others moving on consent or with due-pass recommendations. Early items included AB 80 on carpet recycling, AB 452 creating a local process for state surf reserves, and AB 823 restricting microplastics in personal care and cleaning products. AB 80 drew broad support from recycling, labor, and environmental groups and was described as a follow-up to earlier carpet recycling reforms. AB 452 was backed by surf, tourism, environmental, and local government interests as a voluntary, community-driven way to recognize and protect surf breaks. AB 823 generated the most extensive debate, with supporters citing public health and environmental harms from microplastics and opponents warning the bill’s language could sweep in products such as sunscreens, cosmetics, and fragrance-encapsulation materials; the committee discussed possible ambiguity and EU comparisons before voting the bill out on a due-pass-as-amended basis to Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials. The committee also advanced AB 1046, which would create a narrow exemption from SB 1383 organic-waste requirements for certain crop preparers and tree nut processors that do not send organic waste to landfills. Agricultural witnesses said the bill would clarify that their operations already reuse byproducts and should not face duplicative reporting, and the measure passed with support from agricultural and rural county representatives. AB 252, the “Stop Laying Off Firefighters Act,” proposed year-round Cal Fire staffing; the author and Cal Fire supporters argued that wildfire conditions are now year-round and that maintaining trained crews would improve response and prevention, and the bill was sent to Appropriations. AB 571, a targeted CEQA exemption for the Southern California Veterans Cemetery in Anaheim, drew strong bipartisan and veterans’ support and also passed out. Later, the committee approved AB 1455, which would authorize emergency rulemaking and streamline future updates for ember-resistant building regulations after recent wildfire emergencies, and AB 687, which would let public agencies use forest-practice rules and timber-harvest plans for certain publicly funded fuel-reduction projects; AB 687 drew some opposition over scope and enforceability concerns but was still advanced. The committee also moved AB 652, allowing alternate members on the San Diego County Air Pollution Control District board to prevent quorum problems, and AB 317, a first-time homebuyer housing bill that would exempt certain small, lower-cost homes from CEQA and defer some property taxes; AB 317 prompted discussion about guardrails to avoid unintended use on larger subdivisions. Finally, AB 900, requiring the Natural Resources Agency to develop a stewardship plan for 30-by-30 lands, was heard with broad support from land trusts and conservation groups and advanced on a due-pass recommendation, and AB 738, a wildfire-rebuild bill easing solar requirements for certain disaster survivors, was introduced and discussed with questions about its narrow scope and the number of homes affected.

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• Thank you for your HR1 mitigation package for counties.
• We really appreciate the work of the state and the two-party agreement to mitigate the effects of the
• Just in closing, I want to thank you for your work mitigating and rejecting these cuts and urge your
• Just in closing, I want to thank you for your work mitigating and rejecting these cuts and urge your
• I also want to thank you for the mitigation strategies for county H.R. 1 impacts, including the $125

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Summary: The Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee heard AB 109, the Budget Act of 2026, and related discussion of the legislative budget agreement. Committee staff and the Department of Finance described a two-year balanced plan with about $253 billion in General Fund spending, roughly $5.5 billion in higher assumed revenues than the May Revision, and about $36.5 billion in combined reserves. They said the package preserves or expands funding for schools and community colleges, child care, IHSS, Medi-Cal-related county administration, housing and homelessness programs, public hospitals, courthouse construction, and some criminal justice and prison-closure savings, while delaying or modifying several prior health care reductions and some Medi-Cal changes. Much of the member discussion focused on Medi-Cal, H.R. 1, and the impact on low-income and immigrant Californians. Several Democrats argued the budget protects vulnerable residents by delaying some cuts, funding county eligibility work, indigent care, public hospitals, and food banks, and rejecting the Governor’s IHSS cuts and asset-limit proposal. Republicans criticized the budget for assuming future revenues, relying on new taxes, and not doing enough to address the structural deficit or improve accountability. Members also raised concerns and support around homelessness funding, Prop. 36, judgeships and courthouse funding, transit and GGRF allocations, local journalism, Caltrans fleet spending, and a proposed “fair share” revenue measure that was not yet before the committee. Public testimony was largely supportive of the budget’s health and human services provisions, especially the rejection of IHSS cuts and the asset-limit proposal, and the inclusion of funding for child care, sickle cell centers, domestic violence services, trauma recovery centers, distressed hospitals, county eligibility work, and transit programs. Some witnesses representing hospitals and health plans cautioned about the effects of moving certain Medi-Cal populations to fee-for-service and about proposed tax changes affecting health care providers. The chair said revenue trailer bills were still being finalized and would likely come back later in the week; the committee then moved to public comment, with the chair limiting speakers to about one minute each.

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• It is STRATCOM who must mitigate risk associated with any delays.
• So I'm trying to make it so we prevent a catastrophic failure in regards of creating a bathtub in all

Keywords: military strategy, nuclear triad, deterrence, STRATCOM, SPACECOM, SLICOM, B-21, hypersonic defense, spectrum auction

Summary: The meeting focused on the strategic posture of U.S. military capabilities with an emphasis on deterrence amid growing global threats. General Cotton from STRATCOM and General Whiting from SPACECOM provided insights into the modernization efforts of the nuclear triad. Key discussions involved the importance of maintaining control over specific frequency spectrums critical for military operations and the implications of potential auctioning of these bands. Members expressed concerns regarding the evolving landscape with adversaries like China and Russia, emphasizing that swift action is needed to adapt and preserve U.S. national security. Various proposals and existing programs, including the B-21 bomber and the nuclear-armed sea-launched cruise missile (SLICOM), were debated, alongside the necessity of increasing military investment in hypersonic defense systems.

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• And when I say that, we're talking about mitigation.
• We really need to come back and look at what we do to mitigate that.
• On mitigation, uh, as both my deputy said and Chief Kidd, uh, there's a direct relationship between mitigation
• Number one on mitigation. You're 100% right and um.
• I think, you know, I think everybody in the state took mitigation serious after that.

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• We really need to come back and look at what we do to mitigate that.
• On mitigation, as both my deputy said and Chief Kidd, there's a direct relationship between mitigation
• And local mitigate efforts have to take place.
• I heard number one on mitigation, you're 100% right.
• There was a lot of that that went into it, but mitigation, 100%.

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• Still, what we have documented already is catastrophic.
• If even they, who are trained, cannot avoid these catastrophic errors, how can local police possibly
• Trying to mitigate the impact on the state park property because of some of the areas that were being

Bills: HB1320, HB2012, HB2293, HB2655, HB3174, HB4108, HB4661, HB4799, HB5534, HB5580

Keywords: transportation, infrastructure, funding, state budget, public safety, child welfare, county boards, membership, local governance, public welfare, government service, social services, Texas Family Code, regulation, vendors, solicitors, roadside sales, county authority, Sweeny Hospital District, board of directors

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• small businesses by expanding and improving on expensing provisions in the bill, for example, by mitigating
• People understand this will be catastrophic.
• And for a small business, a truly small business, that's potentially catastrophic. Is that right?

Keywords: joint hearing, small business, Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, economic recovery, tax relief, job creation

Summary: In this joint hearing of the House Committee on Small Business and the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, the primary focus was on the importance of making the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA) permanent. The chair emphasized that small businesses are crucial for the nation's economic recovery, especially in the wake of current federal policies perceived as detrimental. Witnesses shared their experiences and highlighted how the tax cuts facilitated job creation and business expansion, stressing the need for continued support through ongoing tax relief measures. The meeting included discussions about the economic implications of the TCJA's potential expiration, with members voicing their concerns regarding how this could impact small businesses and the broader economy.

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• So we're hopeful and we're confident the additional staffing will really help mitigate any risks associated
• So we're hopeful and we're confident in the additional staffing will really help mitigate any risks associated
• It would be potentially catastrophic.
• So I think it's important just to mitigate the fraud.
• So I think it's important just to mitigate the fraud.

Summary: The subcommittee heard updates on several major technology modernization efforts, beginning with the Department of Financial Services’ Florida PALM project, which is replacing the state’s decades-old FLAIR accounting system. DFS described PALM as a statewide effort affecting all three branches of government, with cash management already live and the remaining financial management, payroll, and data warehouse components still in development. Officials said the project began in 2014, was restructured after a 2022 legislative pause, and is now being recommended for a go-live delay from January 2026 to July 2026. Members asked about governance, staffing, contract structure, cost growth, and maintenance costs; DFS said the contract is deliverable-based, the current amendment would add a net $2.2 million, and post-go-live maintenance is expected to be about $13 million annually under the current contract through July 2027. The Agency for Health Care Administration then updated the committee on the FX Medicaid enterprise modernization program. AHCA explained that federal CMS directed states to move from monolithic Medicaid systems to a modular approach, leading Florida to procure separate vendors for integration services, data warehouse, unified operations, provider services, and claims processing, with pharmacy benefits still to be procured. Officials said the project has spent about $334 million to date, with most costs federally matched, and requested $189.95 million for the upcoming year. They also highlighted a 2024 special assessment that produced 81 recommendations, most tied to staffing shortages, and said the Legislature added 47 FTEs, with 17 currently filled or being filled. Members asked about governance changes, production status, data access, and future technology maintenance; AHCA said some components are operational, the data warehouse is nearing certification, and the agency is working to keep the system adaptable and nonproprietary. The Department of Children and Families presented its Access modernization project, which is replacing a mainframe-based eligibility system used for SNAP, TANF, Medicaid assistance, and related programs. DCF said the six-year, $205 million project is in its third year and has already delivered a new customer portal with mobile access, multi-factor authentication, and fraud protections, while also building a worker portal, document management, community partner tools, and workload management functions. The agency said it is requesting $36.625 million for the next fiscal year, the same as last year, and emphasized that the project has remained on schedule and on budget by breaking work into smaller modules and using strong vendor and staff support. Members praised the project’s progress and asked about cybersecurity testing and the long delay before modernization began; DCF said security requirements were built in from the outset and that the remaining work will focus on moving staff off the legacy mainframe and modernizing notices and back-end processes.

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• around him, the leaders in our climate challenges, the people who know the most, will help us to mitigate
• We continue statewide fire<00:51:40.720> mitigation<00:51:41.200> so<00:51:41.440> these
• <00:51:41.680> fires<00:51:42.000> never fire mitigation so these fires never fire
• mitigation so these fires never happen<00:51:42.559> again,<00:51:43.280> including<00:
• The story of how they found opportunity in the adversity and were not stymied by the catastrophe in front

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• My question is for Secretary Lujan, and you talked about a lot of the wildfire mitigation that you're
• So, Um, we're looking at ways to, to work with that, uh, to identify how we can mitigate those aspects
• Chair, and just a statement, so During the session we did get a lot of wildfire mitigation bills passed
• we have with a reimbursement policy for BIA so any tribal funds that we spend for, for wildfire mitigation
• Uh, that has become extremely important in our overall strategy for wildfire mitigation as we need to

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• moving forward with any AI programs, there should be a real community conversation about how to mitigate
• Um, the focus is to help them prepare, mitigate, respond, and recover from all-hazard emergencies.
• The damage was simply catastrophic.
• .<01:43:23.040> In<01:43:23.240> southern<01:43:23.520> Beltrami catastrophic.
• In southern Beltrami catastrophic.

Bills: HF3753, HF4299, HF4700, HF4282, HF4139, HF3530, HF4031

Keywords: school safety, threat assessment, pilot project, education, real-time monitoring, public safety, HF4299, school safety specialists, Minnesota School Safety Center, appropriation, general fund, fiscal year 2026, school security, school violence prevention, student safety, Department of Public Safety, school resource support, education funding, peace officer, training reimbursement

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• The results of this reversal have been catastrophic for schools throughout the country and nowhere more
• <00:32:25.760> for reversal have been catastrophic for reversal have been catastrophic for
• Doe alone is not enough to mitigate the chilling effects that are keeping kids from coming to school.
• <01:21:43.600> to versus dough alone is not enough to versus dough alone is not enough to mitigate
• the chilling effects that are mitigate the chilling effects that are keeping<01:21:46.000> kids

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• And so we have done everything that we can to mitigate some of the damages that have been experienced
• that<00:18:59.360> we<00:18:59.520> can<00:18:59.679> to<00:18:59.919> mitigate
• done everything that we can to mitigate done everything that we can to mitigate some<00:19:00.480
• 01:04:47.599> would<01:04:47.839> have<01:04:48.000> had<01:04:48.400> catastrophic
• businesses would have had catastrophic businesses would have had catastrophic damage.<01:04:50.079

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