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• It prohibits a manufacturer, sale, and use of technology... Explicit consent.
• This bill does not ban technology.
• Technology evolves. Online recruitment continues to grow and change dramatically.
• They use new technology.
• And increasingly, technology has changed the way vendors access and consume this material.

Committee: House Public Safety

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• The pace has changed appreciably, and the technology that we use now and what we handle as evidence is
• The pace has changed appreciably, and the technology that we use now and what we handle as evidence is

Committee: House Public Safety Finance and Policy

Keywords: 1183, house

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• Welcome to our joint committees on labor and technology and public safety and military affairs.
• We're reconvening our 3 p.m. joint agenda before the Committee on Labor and Technology and Public Safety
• and public safety labor and technology and public safety and<00:14:36.240><c> military</c><00:14:36.560
• Members for Labor and Technology voting on SB 3082.
• Same recommendation for committee on Labor and Technology on SB 3110 to pass with amendments.

Committee: Senate Labor and Technology

Keywords: 912, senate, all

Summary: The joint committees on Labor and Technology and Public Safety and Military Affairs heard testimony on several measures. SB 3082, relating to military families and leave protections, drew support from the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, the military community relations office, the Hawaii National Guard, and the U.S. Department of Defense, all of whom said the bill would align state law with federal standards and better account for military-related leave needs. SB 3110, relating to the Hawaii National Guard, was supported by Department of Defense witnesses who said it clarifies that employees of the Guard’s youth and adult educational programs are excluded from collective bargaining. The committees also heard SB 3251, which would prohibit certain state law enforcement agencies from hiring former ICE or Border Patrol agents as law enforcement officers. The main testimony in support argued the bill could help prevent local police staffing losses to higher-paying federal agencies and avoid future workforce instability if federal funding changes. The measure drew significant public testimony, with the chair noting 62 testimonies in support, five in opposition, and three comments. Members discussed the bill’s impact on recruitment and retention, and one member voted with reservations while another voted no. Later, the committees heard SB 3095 and SB 3264, both concerning Hawaii Employer-Union Health Benefits Trust Fund salaries. EUTF testified in support of SB 3095, which would allow the board to set salaries for investment office staff, and SB 3264, which would authorize the board to set the salary for an assistant administrator. After testimony, the committees moved into decision-making and passed SB 3082, SB 3110, SB 3251, SB 3095, and SB 3264 with amendments, generally including technical changes and revised effective dates of January 1, 2077 for the EUTF salary bills and SB 3082.

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• who works as a school nurse in her local school district in McCall realized that modern medical technology
• I don't see any questions, but I do see that technology is still getting the best of us today.
• And subtract technology from that, and that would help us to function there. Thank you, Senator.
• The student is blind and requires Braille technology to access his curriculum.
• This is where we see technological devices, computer hardware, and then if you turn... ...technological

Committee: Senate Education

Summary: The committee first heard House Bill 531, which updates Idaho school code language on epinephrine delivery systems so schools are not limited to referencing only auto-injectors like EpiPens. The sponsor and school nurse testimony said the change would allow newer FDA-approved options, such as nasal spray, without creating new staffing, training, reporting, or fiscal requirements. Members confirmed the bill does not require schools or LEAs to keep epinephrine on hand. The committee voted to send the bill to the floor with a due pass recommendation. The committee then took up Senate Bill 1288, which creates the Idaho High Needs Student Fund to help reimburse districts and charter schools for unusually high special education costs tied to a student’s IEP. The bill sets a $30,000 threshold, reimburses 100% of costs from $30,000 to $80,000 and 80% above that up to $100,000 per student, and reserves funding between rural and non-rural districts with flexibility to use unused funds where needed. Testimony from school boards, districts, educators, and parent advocates described the bill as a way to stabilize budgets and protect services for students with complex medical, behavioral, and sensory needs. After questions about the funding split and current special education shortfall, the committee voted to send the bill to the floor with a due pass recommendation. Finally, the committee heard House Bill 624, which revises rules for virtual education programs and Idaho Home Learning Academy. The bill requires school board approval of contracts with education service providers, verification of Idaho residency, alignment of curricular materials with state standards, conflict-of-interest safeguards, limits on direct payments to parents, clearer rules for eligible supplemental learning expenses, and district/charter control over hiring and evaluation of teachers. Supporters from Idaho Home Learning Academy, school districts, and parents said the changes preserve virtual school choice while adding transparency and accountability. The committee voted to send House Bill 624 to the floor with a due pass recommendation.

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• are targets for our state, things like manufacturing, semiconductors, military defense, and space technology
• . ...things like manufacturing, semiconductors, military defense, and space technology.
• But that use of technology and being very cognizant of the needs of that specific area has made this
• The team used that drone technology to monitor how traffic was moving through the area as we did major
• But that use of technology and being very cognizant of the needs of that specific area has made this

Summary: The committee heard two informational presentations: one from the Department of Commerce and one from the Florida Department of Transportation. Jason Mahon of Commerce outlined the state’s economic development strategy and tools, emphasizing Florida’s GDP growth, business formation, and strengths in manufacturing, high-tech, defense, life sciences, and international trade. He described programs such as the State Small Business Credit Initiative, the Rural Community Investment Program, the Florida Opportunity Fund, the Rural Infrastructure Fund, the Job Growth Grant Fund, performance-based tax credits, and disaster recovery loans, and cited examples including ServiceNow, Williams International, NeoCity, and Point Blank Enterprises. Members asked about small-business grants, foreign investment interest, workforce needs, and whether additional tools are needed; Mahon said most Commerce programs are loan-focused and noted ongoing workforce and site-readiness challenges. Jennifer Marshall of FDOT then reviewed major transportation projects and the Moving Florida Forward initiative, highlighting congestion relief, express lanes, bridge and interchange work, and accelerated delivery methods. She cited projects such as Golden Glades, I-95 improvements, the NASA Causeway Bridge, the DuPont Bridge, I-4 corridor work, the First Coast Expressway, the Howard Frankland Bridge, A1A seawall work, and Turnpike projects, along with examples of cost savings and schedule acceleration. Senators asked about how express lane locations are chosen, toll revenue use in South Florida, the status and cost of the I-395 downtown Miami project, and whether EV and rideshare access to express lanes should be preserved. FDOT said it would follow up on several of those questions, and the committee adjourned without taking any legislative action.

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• The U.S. has the most advanced nuclear technologies on offer today.
• If confirmed, I will focus on ensuring our competitive advantage in critical and emerging technologies
• We must stop Chinese exploitation of our technological base.
• Using sophisticated technology and target audience analysis, we can ensure the message lands with clarity
• To achieve these objectives, we must work to recruit top talent using technology to make our work more

Committee: Senate Foreign Relations Committee

Keywords: Senator Flinstone, HB22, SB4, amendments, public testimony, legislation, environmental impact, economic implications

Summary: The meeting featured a thorough examination of various bills, including substantial discussions on HB22 and SB4. Key points included amendments proposed by committee members, particularly from Senator Flinstone, who emphasized the need for clarifications on certain provisions. The committee actively engaged with several witnesses providing public testimony, some in favor of the proposed legislation while others highlighted concerns and potential implications. The discussions were vibrant, showcasing different perspectives, especially on the environmental and economic impacts of the bills in question. The meeting concluded with a consensus to reconvene after a recess to further address the outstanding issues related to the bills.

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• I know that when you're using technology in the space of law enforcement, there can be a lot of concerns
• It does help to keep everyone safer when we can implement technology without putting people in harm's
• Again, technology is being used more and more.
• So I think as we go with technology, you know, a little bit of time and with the active reporting, and
• From their budget request, I understand that they need to do some kind of technological build-out to

Bills: HF2233 , HF1524 , HF1893 , HF1396 , HF2456 , HF2959 , HF2300 , HF2412 , HF3022 , HF2825 , HF1862 , HF1373 , HF1039 , HF3070

Committee: House Judiciary Finance and Civil Law

Keywords: Uniform Special Deposits Act, special deposit, banking law, financial institutions, escrow, escrow account, trust account, security deposit, beneficiary, depositor, creditor process, garnishment, attachment, levy, setoff, recoupment, financial market infrastructure, retirement benefits, compensation, earnest money

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• By implementing and leveraging the new technology, it will help our community utilize local renewable
• more than double the present output of this in-state homegrown renewable resource by upgrading the technology
• Whereas the new technology with the new generators can operate more efficiently, as well as during uncertain
• The new technology would give us the opportunity to generate more energy, even at times of low flow.
• What it does is it requires that large energy infrastructure projects and carbon-free technologies, and

Committee: House Energy Finance and Policy

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• Highlights the importance of human judgment decisions, ensuring that technology supplements rather than
• What makes this all possible as technological changes that have happened?
• And it is very doable, technologically feasible.
• You could just walk in and use a MasterCard, just tech technology. I've got the card in my pocket.
• And so this technology would help the least among us this technology, if enshrined in the law.

Keywords: 999, senate, all

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• Response Bureau has operations, logistics, infrastructure, and technological hazards.
• We have extensive technology.
• We use that technology to make decisions, watch and deploy resources as needed to help people.
• We embrace every form, facet, and fashion of technology you can possibly imagine.
• And we use that technology extensively. So it's a big part of what we do.

Summary: The Natural Resources and Disaster Subcommittee met to continue its review of hurricane impacts and state response. The committee first heard from the Florida Division of Emergency Management, which described its four core functions—preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation—and highlighted its 24/7 State Watch Office, regional training efforts, and disaster assistance work. Deputy Executive Director Keith Pruitt detailed the state’s 2024 storm response, including Hurricanes Debby, Helene, and Milton, citing large-scale mission support, flood-control deployments, meal and water distribution, power restoration, debris removal, and billions in disaster funding and mitigation dollars. He also discussed debris management challenges and recommended that local governments update and exercise debris plans and maintain contingency contracts.

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• code updates would further limit the state's ability to recognize and incorporate new building technologies
• By skipping every other code that is published, it has the effect of bypassing evolving technologies
• The proposed changes will increase plan review times as designers will want to adopt new technologies
• Hang on a second, having a little technology blip. All right, I'm back. Sorry about that.
• And before that, I was in a research position at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

Bills: HB2517 , HB2480 , HB2588 , HB1529 , HB2223 , HB2006 , HB2573 , HB2141

Committee: House Local Government

Keywords: municipal permitting, transit projects, high capacity transit, infrastructure, urban development, residential development, commercial zones, mixed-use zoning, urban planning, state regulations, county ferry district, ferry district, passenger-only ferry, passenger ferry, Puget Sound, Vashon, Seattle, Southworth, county transportation, local taxing authority

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• Technology is moving so quickly, and it's not different for AI, but we have to make sure that we are
• We want to make sure that we have clear boundaries as we are setting standards for AI technology.
• We want to see the benefits of AI technology in our schools and in our communities, but we want to ensure
• The data points may be brought forward from the technology, but the conclusion that is drawn and the
• And the ban on using biometrics and facial recognition as surveillance technology is also very important

Summary: The committee first heard Senate Bill 5901, which would change the school construction assistance program so that instructional space on military bases is excluded from a district’s available space inventory when calculating state construction aid. Staff explained the bill would also require state assistance to equal approved project cost minus federal funding received. Senator Christian said the measure is intended to prevent military-base facilities from unfairly reducing districts’ ability to modernize or build schools. Testimony in support came from OSPI, Clover Park School District, and Medical Lake School District, which said the current formula penalizes districts serving military families and can leave them unable to secure needed renovation funding. No opposition was heard, and the bill was later described as having an indeterminate fiscal impact. The committee then took up Senate Bill 5860 on school board compensation. The bill would raise director pay from $50 to $100 per day, increase the annual cap, allow child care expenses to be reimbursed, require OFM to periodically adjust compensation, and direct WASDA to develop finance training for school directors. Senator Cortez said the changes are needed to broaden who can serve on school boards and to help working families participate. Supporters from OSPI, WASDA, and South Sound superintendents said compensation could improve diversity and help recruit and retain board members, though WASDA noted concerns about diverting district funds and said its members do not have consensus on mandatory training. Opponents argued the bill would misuse levy funds and that child care and other expenses should not be paid from local education levies. The committee also heard Senate Bill 5956 on artificial intelligence, student discipline, and surveillance in schools, which would bar automated systems from being the sole basis for discipline decisions, prohibit risk scores and biometric surveillance, require OSPI guidance updates, and direct WASDA to create model policy. Senator Nobles and supporters said the bill is needed to protect students from discriminatory and inaccurate AI-driven decisions; no vote was taken in the hearing. Finally, the committee heard a proposed substitute for Senate Bill 5574, which would require districts to include instruction on Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander, Latino American, and Black American history in required social studies courses during the regular curriculum review cycle, with reporting beginning in 2030. Senator Nobles said the bill is meant to address exclusion and bias in history education and to help students see themselves reflected in the curriculum. Testifiers from education, student, parent, and community groups overwhelmingly supported the measure, saying it would improve belonging, reduce bullying, and build on existing curriculum resources without creating a new course or major new cost. The hearing ended without a vote or other formal action on SB 5956 or SB 5574.

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• But no one, when they do that, subscribes to being constantly surveilled via AI technology.
• AI technology. And so we fundamentally have to ask ourselves, is that what we want?
• And... ...technology can know where they are at all times, and that technology does not have any checks
• and balances on that technology.
• No law enforcement agency came to me with this, and no technology company came to me with this.

Committee: House Transportation

Keywords: 959, house, all

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• Delivery System, a platform technology. We're based in Santa Fe.
• When these technologies pan out, right now we're working on a cure for dementia and Alzheimer's, which
• could be an incredibly valuable thing. technology once we have it proven out.
• At the technologies and turn them commercial.
• Yes, House Bill 20 that was passed creates the Office of Technology Innovation.

Committee: House New Mexico Finance Authority Oversight Committee

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• innovations that are being developed for acute and chronic kidney disease in Texas with new spatial technology
• Using augmented intelligence technology to scan medical images for cancer can increase cancer detection
• I think embracing these modern technologies and this technological revolution we have is going to save
• credentials, Representative Pierson, I'm also a failed CPRIT grant recipient, times two, on similar technology
• Using emerging technology, and by the way, comparing that to.

Bills: HB514 , HB1652 , HB2117 , HB2298 , HB3269 , HB46 , HB46

Committee: House S/C on Disease Prevention & Women's & Children's Health

Keywords: maternal health, maternal care, pregnancy, labor and delivery, postpartum, doula, birth worker, midwife, obstetric care, women's health, rural health, health workforce, workforce development, trauma-informed care, public outreach campaign, health equity, minority health, underserved communities, Texas Department of State Health Services, HHSC

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• second crash. months in the U.S. as Boeing worked with the FAA on a software fix to prevent the technological
• The FAA needs to continue to play that strong oversight role and the FAA needs to keep pace with technology
• If the FAA, and I think NASA could be playing a larger role here in helping on technology, but the Department
• as a really game-changing, manufacturing, technology focus. Is it really what people are saying?
• And so I think it is an important, one of those major important technology areas we should be investing

Committee: Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee

Keywords: Boeing, aviation safety, safety management system, military aviation, air traffic control, transparency, oversight, accountability

Summary: The meeting primarily focused on significant safety concerns surrounding Boeing and its compliance with federal aviation standards. Lawmakers expressed frustration over the Army's failure to provide requested operational transparency regarding helicopter operations near Washington, D.C., amid recent incidents indicating a strained air traffic control situation. Several members called for reform in Boeing's oversight, emphasizing the need for a robust safety culture and mandatory safety management systems to prevent future disasters like the 737 MAX crashes. The discussions were passionate, with survivors and families impacted by past accidents present, highlighting the urgency and seriousness of the issues at hand.

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• Blanco, can you walk us through some of the technologies?
• Are any of the technologies more advanced?
• Yes, the technologies, the control.
• , so they're using a technology that reduces NOx significantly to meet those standards.
• Yeah, on the technology. Let me, Mr.

Bills: SB2037 , SB1757 , SB1758 , SB1759 , HB29

Committee: Senate Natural Resources

Keywords: rock crushing, permits, air quality, environmental monitoring, aggregate production, seismicity, public meeting, land use, SB 1758, cement kiln, portland cement, aggregate production operation, aggregate quarry, semiconductor wafer manufacturing, chip fabrication, semiconductor plant, vibration, seismic disturbance, liability limitation, TCEQ

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• I spent a lot of time with this bill last night trying to make Sense of this technological novelty that
• Secondly, uh, as technology evolves, we may need to revisit the statute.
• Moreover, the advent of artificial intelligence and deep fake technology has added a new dimension to
• Chairman, um, what about Meta, Google and Microsoft, like technology companies?
• I mean, reason being is, you know, technology is consistent, it evolves constantly, so just wanting to

Bills: HB207 , HB235

Committee: House Criminal Jurisprudence

Keywords: HB 207, Texas Government Code, Section 411.201, license to carry, LTC, handgun license, concealed carry, federal judge, immigration judge, immigration court, U.S. immigration court, judicial security, firearm carry permit, Texas handgun license, federal judiciary, HB235, Texas, sales tax exemption, use tax exemption, disabled veteran

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• Second, certainly, as technology evolves, we may need to revisit the statute.
• To ensure our laws keep pace with technological developments in this area? Absolutely.
• These technologies can be used to create highly realistic... and convincing fake images and videos of
• I think some of my questions still deal with technology.
• I mean, the reason being is... ...you know technology is consistent, it evolves constantly.

Bills: HB207 , HB235 , HB324 , HB449 , HB463 , HB502 , HB 1121 , HB1445 , HB1465 , HB1778 , HB1977 , HB2000 , HB2066 , HB2596 , HB207 , HB235

Committee: House Criminal Jurisprudence

Keywords: child protection, sexual offenses, obscenity laws, visual material, anatomically correct dolls, mannequins, robots, criminal offenses, sexually explicit material, minors, artificial intelligence, sexually explicit, doll, mannequin, robot, law enforcement, healthcare, insurance, affordable care, access

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• We are at the forefront of developing cutting-edge technology. technology to combat high-tech crime.
• Despite advances in technology, fraud prevention and detection remains a challenge.
• Beyond technology, customer education is one of the most effective tools to combat fraud.
• One customer, an elderly veteran, fell victim to these fraudsters. a technology support scam, which is
• In addition to your testimony, what's really amazing to me is today's technology.

Bills: SB1281 , SB1300 , SB1379 , SB1451 , SB1497 , SB1498 , SB1499

Committee: Senate Criminal Justice

Keywords: mail theft, postal theft, package theft, identity theft, negotiable instrument, check theft, mail receptacle key, mailbox lock, postal key, delivery service, courier, USPS, United States Postal Service, fraud, property crime, elderly victims, disabled victims, identity information, rebuttable presumption, felony enhancement