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• Any new donor has a higher risk because they've never been tested, right?
• And so I, I got taken out of the pool. I was giving.
• We're thriving from receiving blood every single month from their direct donor pool.
• The inherent risk of receiving somebody else's blood is written into the consent form.
• And there's just risk associated with receiving blood anyway, right?

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• We're working with local communities to come up with tools to understand what the risk is, when flooding
• How do we best get informed about the risks that exist within our districts?
• How do we best get informed about the risks that exist within our districts?
• And so this is just one of the places that's at risk.
• So that's a risk that's not well mapped at all, really.

Summary: The hearing of the Select Committee on Sea Level Rise and the California Economy focused on infrastructure, pollution, climate resilience, public health, access, and economic impacts of sea level rise in California, with an emphasis on San Diego and the Bay Area. Chair Tasha Boerner Horvath opened by describing the committee’s purpose, the state’s sea level rise action planning, and the need for better monitoring and early warning systems. She also referenced her prior bills AB 66 and AB 72, which supported Scripps research on coastal bluff collapse warning capabilities. Assembly Members David Alvarez and Jessica Caloza later joined and emphasized that sea level rise affects not only coastal communities but inland areas as well, and that the issue should inform future legislative and budget decisions. In the first panel, Dr. Mark Merrifield of Scripps Institution of Oceanography described observed sea level rise of roughly 0.8 to 0.9 feet since the early 1900s, with acceleration expected by mid-century and potentially much greater rise by 2100 depending on emissions. He highlighted flooding, groundwater rise, beach and cliff erosion, salinization, and risks to transportation, sewage, ports, and national security. Dave Gibson of the San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board discussed how sea level rise affects wastewater systems, stormwater, contaminated sites, wetlands, and coastal groundwater basins, and said the board is requiring climate adaptation planning, updating stormwater permits, and seeking more flexible state permitting and mitigation tools. Members and witnesses also discussed the need for better mapping, more monitoring, and more state funding, especially if federal support from NOAA and other agencies declines. The second panel addressed public health, equitable access, and local economies. Ramon Chiras of Un Mar de Colores described how sea level rise, pollution, and access barriers threaten the Tijuana River Valley and Imperial Beach, especially for underserved communities and youth programs that rely on safe, welcoming access to the ocean. He stressed the cultural and spiritual importance of coastal access and the need for water safety and environmental education. Jessica Fane of the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission explained that the Bay Area faces major economic exposure from sea level rise, citing a regional estimate of $96 billion in adaptation costs versus $230 billion in potential losses from inaction, and said BCDC is working with local governments under SB 272 on shoreline adaptation planning, funding, and regulatory innovation. Members discussed the tension between environmental permitting and the need to move projects faster, including the possibility of planned retreat in some areas and the use of simultaneous permitting and longer-term state authority to streamline adaptation work. In the final panel, Philip Gibbons of the Port of San Diego described the port’s climate adaptation efforts and its vulnerability assessments under AB 691. He said the port manages state tidelands, supports maritime commerce and recreation, and is already seeing flooding at king tides and during El Niño events, including storm-drain backflow and damage to bikeways and parks. He explained that future sea level rise could inundate major port areas and disrupt operations, underscoring the need for continued planning, mitigation, and infrastructure investment. The hearing did not take formal votes, but it concluded with a clear call for more science, funding, coordination, and regulatory streamlining to prepare California’s coast and nearby communities for worsening sea level rise impacts.

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• Sandra Poole, Western Center on Law and Poverty, proud co-sponsor in support.
• Sandra Poole, Western Center on Law and Poverty, in support. Good afternoon, Chair and members.
• Why would we supply tools that enable high-risk activity in our most vulnerable environments?
• Why would we supply tools that enable high-risk activity on most vulnerable environments?
• Sandra Poole, Western Center on Law and Poverty.

Summary: The Assembly Health Committee met on April 8 and heard a long series of bills, beginning with AB 54 on medication abortion access. The author and supporters, including the Attorney General’s office and reproductive justice advocates, said the bill would protect California’s medication abortion supply chain and shield providers and manufacturers from civil, criminal, and professional liability. Opponents from the California Family Council argued the bill removes safeguards and increases risks. The bill was moved forward on a committee motion. The committee then heard several reproductive and public health measures, including AB 551 to create a pilot program supporting emergency departments in providing reproductive health services, AB 260 to protect medication abortion access and telehealth, AB 309 to remove sunset dates on laws allowing pharmacy syringe sales and lawful possession of sterile syringes, AB 536 to preserve colorectal cancer screening coverage if federal guidelines are challenged, AB 804 to make housing support services a Medi-Cal benefit, AB 594 to address student health insurance billing and transparency, AB 836 to study and expand the midwifery workforce, AB 1418 to collect data on health coverage for eligible employees, and AB 1500 to maintain and expand the abortion.ca.gov information site. Supporters emphasized access, preventive care, workforce shortages, and public health benefits, while opponents raised concerns about abortion, syringe distribution, and the focus of state resources. Most measures were advanced by committee vote, with roll calls showing broad support and a few no votes from members on some bills. The final bill discussed in the transcript was AB 1037, which would update substance use disorder laws to reflect evidence-based, harm-reduction approaches and remove barriers to treatment. The author and supporters described it as a compassionate response to overdose and treatment access problems, while law enforcement opposition argued it would encourage drug use and endanger communities. The transcript cuts off during testimony on AB 1037, so no final committee action on that bill is shown in the provided text.

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• Co-chair Backer has an insulin bill, and Representative Schultz has a bill for private pool owners to
• be able to utilize their home pools for swimming education. for work requirements, a 1-month for work
• owners to be able to private pool owners to be able to utilize<00:30:23.280> their<00:30:23.440
• their home pools for swimming utilize their home pools for swimming education.
• through alignment or risk through alignment or risk some<00:31:07.640> pretty<00:31:07.920

Keywords: 919, house, all

Summary: The committee took up House File 4466, the Health Finance and Policy bill, and first adopted the A8 amendment, described as a set of technical fixes. Members then considered a large A9 amendment that bundled a wide range of Children and Families provisions, including child care licensing modernization, crisis nursery licensing, SNAP/MFIT-related language, child care provider self-reporting, a physical abuse recognition poster, child protection and welfare provisions, funding for parent support outreach, and forensic interview training scholarships. Supporters described it as bipartisan work with relatively small fiscal impact, while opponents said it greatly expanded the bill and should be handled separately; after a roll call, the A9 amendment failed 7-14. Representative Scott then offered the A11 amendment, raising concerns about new all-payer claims database language and whether it should have been heard in the Judiciary and Civil Law Committee. Department of Health staff explained the data-sharing safeguards, de-identification process, fee structure, and enforcement provisions, but Scott remained concerned about privacy and the scope of the program and withdrew the amendment. The committee then moved to final bill discussion. Members and authors described HF 4466 as a lean health finance bill largely conforming Minnesota law to federal HR1 Medicaid-related changes, including work requirements, retroactive eligibility limits, cost-sharing, and home equity provisions. Supporters argued conformity was necessary to avoid major federal funding losses and noted a few additional member bills in the package; opponents criticized the federal changes as harmful, especially for vulnerable populations such as victims of trafficking and domestic violence. Fiscal staff said the bill would save just over $2 million in FY 2026-27 and almost $98 million in FY 2028-29. No final vote on the bill itself was taken in the portion provided.

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• ><00:02:12.319> community they're the only pools in the community they're the only pools in the
• We ensued in 13 months of the pool.
• Like every public pool, you have to check chemicals every four hours in a public pool.
• Like every public pool, you have to check chemicals every four hours in a public pool.
• clubs to pay for an $18 million pool clubs to pay for an $18 million pool that<00:20:15.360>

Bills: HB0023, HB0024, HB0025

Keywords: extracurricular activities, public school participation, enrollment, Wyoming, student access, charter schools, application process, authorizers, public hearing, community support, scholarship, education, eligibility, continuous enrollment, 916, all

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• But the government has to ensure the high-risk pool.
• there weren't many of them and the risk there weren't many of them and the risk pools<01:46:11.119
• <01:46:31.280> pools<01:46:31.760> got insurance act, the risk pools got insurance
• You have a massive Medicare program, lots of folks within the risk pool.
• You have a massive Medicare program, lots of folks within the risk pool.

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• And so speed, as a function of reducing FX risk, and ultimately counterparty and settlement risk, is
• settlement risk is a big piece of this. settlement risk is a big piece of this.
• obligations still exist and the risks obligations still exist and the risks still<00:55:55.040><
• could just plop in and run that pool could just plop in and run that pool without<01:55:46.880><
• And my my career potential risks.

Keywords: 1189, house, all

Summary: The commission met to review stable tokens, real-world asset tokenization, and blockchain-based trust, approved the agenda and December 12 minutes, and heard a presentation from Anchorage Digital after postponing a planned Bitco presentation because of its IPO quiet period. Anchorage’s Melinda Delos, Joe Mioli, and Kevin Wasaki introduced the firm, describing it as a global digital assets platform and the first crypto-native institution in the U.S. to receive a federal banking charter. They said their approach emphasizes security, regulated custody and trading services, and responsible innovation for institutional clients, banks, states, and sovereigns. The presentation focused on post-Genius Act momentum in the stablecoin market. Anchorage said the law provided regulatory clarity and helped spur activity with major clients, including Athena, Tether, and Western Union. The speakers highlighted Western Union’s planned stablecoin as especially significant because it reflects adoption by a long-established traditional payments company, and they said the project illustrates how stablecoins can support programmable, real-time, interoperable payments. They also noted that Anchorage is providing issuance infrastructure for the Western Union project. The commission and presenters also discussed government uses of tokenized assets, including reserve legislation, digital assets for tax collection and fees, and a Marshall Islands initiative to use a tokenized sovereign bond for direct citizen payments. In response to a question, Anchorage said it would follow up on which states are using digital assets for revenue collection, mentioning Louisiana and Pennsylvania as examples. The banking discussion centered on remittances, instant payments, and interbank settlement, with Anchorage arguing that stablecoins can reduce settlement time, fees, and foreign exchange risk while improving traceability and auditability.

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• It's just the risk.
• I mean, are they paying rates that are equal to the amount of risk that they're in the pool?
• We know that their risk pool right now is one of the highest...
• So breaking that apart, because they're not part of the... they're part of the risk for the state.
• Some agencies may be taking out the risk pool.

Keywords: 996, all

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• show you registered as David Reagan, uh, on behalf of Texas Municipal League of Intergovernmental Risk
• Pool, uh, testifying against the bill.
• Some of them are the TML risk pool lawsuits. Uh, and it's just provided a lot of uncertainty.
• And just to clarify, it's Robert Graves on behalf of Texas Association of Counties Risk Management Pool

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• We do have a lot of high-risk pregnancies, primarily because our young women do not go to the doctor
• It confirmed drought and wildfire risks.
• pool requirement.
• Answer: Reservoirs don't typically have minimum pools.
• Dollars, and we took a risk.

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• But once your risk pool kind of levels out and you get everybody through that needs to get the service
• and you have that readily available, over time you will dramatically lower the cost of care for that risk
• Okay, but a lot of these are done through contracts with MCOs that are managing that whole risk pool.
• A lot of these are done through contracts with MCOs that are managing that whole risk pool.
• So it should be managed throughout the whole risk pool.

Summary: The Finance Committee met on May 27, 2026, with six members present and took up a series of House bills, most of them dealing with education funding, criminal justice staffing, transportation, health care access, and economic development. HB 325 was reported favorably after testimony that it would expand TOPS eligibility by allowing dual-enrollment credits to satisfy eligibility criteria and by making part-time students eligible for TOPS Tech, with supporters saying the program has been underused and the change would help working students. HB 719 was amended and reported favorably to increase assistant district attorney positions in various judicial districts; the Louisiana District Attorneys Association said the changes were based on workload data and local input, and members discussed the need to coordinate any expansion with public defender funding. The committee also reported HB 749 favorably, which would move Louisiana’s 529 savings accounts to a more secure online platform after a cyber incident, and HB 1028 favorably, which concerns transportation reimbursement for providers and was described as already subject to appropriation. Several bills focused on food access and local economic development. HB 1222, the Grocery Initiative Act, was reported favorably to let LED use existing grant resources to map food deserts and develop a program, with members noting it could return for funding later if needed. HB 1194 was amended and reported favorably to define food deserts and direct the LSU AgCenter and the Department of Agriculture and Forestry to identify and map them, with authors emphasizing it was a study and not a government-run grocery program. HB 755, which would create IDIQ contracting for architects and engineers on smaller state projects, was reported favorably with no fiscal impact. HB 823, a local diversion pilot for Orleans Parish, was also reported favorably after the fiscal note was revised to remove state impact and reflect only local costs. The committee spent substantial time on HB 488, a proposal from Plaquemines Parish to use severance-tax revenue to help buy out a private toll concession on the parish’s bridge. The author and local officials described severe toll burdens, economic harm to local businesses, and what they called an unfair contract, but members noted the bill was not funded and ultimately deferred it without a motion. HB 797, the Bayou Gold/Louisiana Sound Money Act, was amended to make implementation subject to appropriation and then reported favorably. The committee also took up HB 198, which would raise Medicaid reimbursement for ambulatory surgery centers for certain outpatient procedures; after extensive discussion about fiscal notes, access to care, and potential long-term savings, the bill was amended to narrow its scope and make implementation subject to appropriation, then reported favorably as amended. The meeting ended with the chair noting it would be the committee’s last meeting and asking members to spread the word.

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• requirement that allow more efficient refinery operations, slightly higher gasoline volume, and less risk
• requirement that allow more efficient refinery operations, slightly higher gasoline volume, and less risk
• of Agriculture's successful biofuel infrastructure grant program and open eligibility to a larger pool
• ><00:14:21.440> meaning<00:14:21.800> more<00:14:22.040> businesses applicant pool
• <00:15:06.040> of open eligibility to a larger pool of open eligibility to a larger pool of

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• The chair calls KJ pool. It's KJ Pool here.
• What are they risking?
• All of those you are paying or you are, you are choosing to park at your own risk.
• The chair call is KJ Poole.
• Yes, my name is KJ Poole with Neil Poole Records, um, in the Permian Basin, um, as well as, um, Texas

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• all the pools over the recent couple of weeks.
• > over discussed that with all the pools over discussed that with all the pools over the<01:44
• <01:44:13.600> in obligation in any of the pools in obligation in any of the pools in Minnesota
• regarding the credit rating of the pool regarding the credit rating of the pool and<01:49:54.400
• treasurer has brought the pool in line with similar pools that exist throughout the country.

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

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• First one is an increase in maintenance pool to offset the elimination of modernization pool, and
• Um, these are our maintenance pools. Funding our agency's maintenance pools is critical.
• Our maintenance pool requests include the recurring pools, general maintenance, rest area and way station
• Our maintenance pool requests work.
• > pools,<00:59:58.000> general include the recurring pools, general include the recurring

Keywords: Meeting Start 00:00:00 Attendance Roll Call 00:00:09 Approval of Minutes 00:01:10 Welcome New Members 00:01:26 Information Items 00:01:49 COT Special Report 00:02:38 Review of Executive Branch Agency Plans 00:07:41 A. Department of Military Affairs 00:08:07 B. Department of Veterans’ Affairs 00:20:34 C. Kentucky Infrastructure Authority 00:25:54 D. Tourism, Arts, and Heritage Cabinet 00:35:05 E. Transportation Cabinet 00:55:53, 958, all

Summary: The Capital Planning Advisory Board met with a quorum, approved the May 21 minutes, and welcomed a new executive branch member, Secretary Keith Jackson of the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet. The board also received two informational items: agency responses to prior questions and amendments made to capital plans after the last meeting. It then heard the Commonwealth Office of Technology’s report on executive branch IT capital project scoring, which reviewed 16 IT requests totaling about $330.5 million. COOT said projects were ranked through an independent panel using standardized criteria focused on feasibility, statewide alignment, readiness, impact, and risk; the CIO recommended moving an enterprise application and artificial intelligence inventory system from rank 11 to rank 4 because of its enterprise-wide impact and connection to Senate Bill 4. The Department of Military Affairs presented its capital plan, describing 43 million in projects for the current period and 13 projects totaling $65 million for 2026–2028, with most funding coming from federal sources and restricted agency funds and no general fund request in the latter period. Its projects included maintenance pool adjustments, a statewide Army master plan, the Somerset readiness center, Shelbyville and Ashland armories, a future home for the Kentucky Army National Guard band, and other facility upgrades. Members asked about the Somerset project’s cost growth and federal delay; the department said the project remains in conceptual design, is awaiting federal MILCON action, and would require a state match of about $9.8 million against $29.6 million federal funding if it is approved. Members also asked about staffing levels, and the department said state employee and Title 32 numbers have been relatively steady, while technician positions have declined. The Department of Veterans Affairs outlined seven projects for 2026–2028, led by a Radcliff Veterans Center HVAC replacement that needs an estimated additional $16 million to finish phase two after phase one was already funded. Other requests included a maintenance pool increase, renovations and exterior upgrades at Eastern and Western Kentucky veterans facilities, a cooling tower replacement at Thompson Hood, and parking lot and lighting improvements. The department said some projects were already in the six-year plan and that the Radcliff phase two could be bid in June 2026 if funded. Members confirmed that a columbarium wall project at Grayson is federally funded. The Kentucky Infrastructure Authority presented its six-year capital plan, citing more than $3 billion in loan commitments since 1988 and over $5 billion in supported infrastructure projects. KIA requested $298.439 million in the first biennium, including $27.742 million in state match for federal clean water and drinking water revolving funds, $25 million for its state Infrastructure Revolving Fund, $185.697 million in federal capitalization grants, and $30 million in leverage bond authorization for each year of the two federally assisted loan programs. Members asked about drinking-water quality, and KIA said that function is handled by the Energy and Environment Cabinet’s Division of Water, not KIA. KIA also said its loan rates currently range from 0.5% to 2.25%, averaging just under 1%, and that its revolving loan programs have had no defaults. The Tourism, Arts, and Heritage Cabinet began its presentation at the end of the transcript, with staff identifying themselves, but no project details or board action from that presentation were included in the excerpt.

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• shall include accommodation of fully funded arrangements as well as varying degrees of self-funded pool
• The problem of mixing self-funded and fully funded is that it's the size of the pool.
• If you split the pools and they're different sizes, then your costs are going to go up.
• So I'll let this go; I don't want to push it and put this bill at risk.
• They receive all other factors in the funding formula, at-risk funding.

Keywords: 996, all

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• Part of it is, is due to the concentration of risk and the risk of, of storms.
• Insurance is about the pooling and spreading of risk.
• How could an HOA by grouping, by pooling homeowners come about that cost savings?
• The idea is that the more risk you have pooled, The cheaper it is to share that risk amongst a large
• You'd be able to distribute risk across different types of risks.

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• As you can imagine, the risk landscaping... since the law was originally enacted.
• Strengthening coordination and right sizing timelines for complex projects can reduce that risk. risk
• Despite the technology investments, USIC can't mitigate all. all of their own risk.
• It's kind of like the pool or the Band-Aid.
• At some point you got to take it off or you got to get in the pool.

Keywords: 1184, house, all

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• And the technology has not been proven to accurately reflect risk.
• Instead, our current system creates risks and uncertainty.
• pools for insurers.
• placed in the lowest risk pools.
• I look at it kind of like the same way, allowing an extra tool to determine risk.

Keywords: 987, senate, all

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• We use them to fund the state reinsurance pool.
• We use them to fund the state reinsurance pool.
• New Hampshire Health Plan used to be the organization that ran our high-risk pool, and now it handles
• there's there's no one assuming the risk there's there's no one assuming the risk on<01:03:38.039
• insurers that are assuming the risk insurers that are assuming the risk there's<01:03:41.559>

Keywords: 1191, senate, all