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• They live with someone else.
• Don't live with their grandmother, right?
• Don't live with their grandmother, right?
• “We simply ask that our essential services no longer be deferred.
• Thank you. ...basin and the people that live there within.

Summary: The committee first heard Senate Bill 319, which would tighten and standardize voter identification rules at polling places. Senator Presley and Secretary of State Nancy Landry said the bill replaces the current “generally recognized” photo ID standard with a specific list of acceptable IDs, removes the affidavit-only option, and allows voters without a photo ID to cast a conditional paper ballot at the registrar of voters office or during early voting if they later provide approved documentation within two days after the election. Supporters argued the bill improves consistency, election integrity, and poll-worker guidance while still preserving access through alternative documents and free state IDs; opponents warned it could create confusion and burden seniors, students, homeless voters, and others without easy access to the required documents. After debate, the committee reported SB 319 favorably by a 7-2 vote. The committee then approved Senate Bill 202, which adds one day of compensated meeting time for parish boards of election supervisors in certain elections, and Senate Bill 25, which revises the compensation schedule for registrars of voters and related staff. SB 25 was amended to remove outdated step references and make conforming technical changes, and supporters said the pay structure has not been updated since 2007 despite increased duties and workload. The committee also adopted and reported favorably Senate Concurrent Resolution 29, creating a legislative study committee on water quality in the Chafalalaya Basin, and House Concurrent Resolution 85, creating a task force on illegal dumping, both with technical amendments. In addition, the committee advanced Senate Concurrent Resolution 63, which asks the legislative auditor to review how fiscal notes are prepared during session, and Senate Concurrent Resolution 33, which creates a work-based learning coordination task force to improve alignment among education, workforce, and employer partners. SCR 33 was amended to change the appointing authority for two members. The committee also approved Senate Concurrent Resolution 5, establishing the Louisiana-Ireland Trade Commission, and House Resolution 196, which creates a study committee on the impact of fallen trees on residential property and insurance issues. Several of these measures were supported by agency representatives or outside groups, and the committee adopted technical amendments where needed before reporting the bills and resolutions favorably.

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• live in properties. ...million citizens live within 50 miles of the coast, so that means all of those
• people live in properties that are within 50 miles of the coast.
• Our lives, while hectic and very unpredictable, were filled with blessings.
• And so when your findings, we talked about saving lives.
• How many lives did it save by prescribing GLP-1s to people with high BMI?

Committee: House Insurance

Keywords: 965, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• So let's transition to... So, okay, great. All right.
• So let's transition to an overview of the Office of Equity and commissions.
• the life that you want and live the life that is dignifying and humanizing.
• To live the life that you want and live the life that is dignifying and humanizing.
• I also just, as someone who also lives in Tacoma, want to acknowledge Dr.

Summary: The committee held a work session on voting rights in the United States and Washington, beginning with testimony from Marissa Wright of Campaign Legal Center and David Montes of the ACLU of Washington. They described the federal Voting Rights Act’s main protections—preclearance, vote suppression, and vote dilution—and argued that Supreme Court decisions such as Shelby County v. Holder and Brnovich have weakened those tools. They said Washington should consider stronger state-level protections, including a preclearance program and broader safeguards against discriminatory voting practices. Members asked about Washington’s history of discrimination, voter roll purges, noncitizen registration, and remedies under the Washington Voting Rights Act, including ranked-choice voting and district-based systems. The committee then heard from the Office of Equity and several commissions, which described their roles in advising state government and working with communities. They focused on the immigration sub-cabinet created under Executive Order 2509, saying it is intended to improve coordination across agencies, the legislature, the courts, and community organizations on issues such as data privacy, language access, health care, education, and accountability under the Keep Washington Working Act. Members asked about the use of NGOs, accountability for KWW violations, and the sub-cabinet’s goals, and the panel said the effort is meant to help government respond more quickly and collaboratively while centering immigrant, disability, LGBTQ, and other communities. The final panel was from the University of Washington Elections Database Project, which presented data on vote-by-mail ballot challenges, cures, and rejections from 2020 to 2024. They reported that about 1.5% of ballots are signature-challenged in most elections, roughly 60% of challenged ballots are cured, and overall rejection rates are about 1% in general elections and 1.5% in primaries. The researchers said voters of color, younger voters, and some tribal-area voters experience higher rejection rates, and that differences appear tied to signature mismatch, language access, ballot timing, and familiarity with the system. In the last panel, Maria Fernandez and Vicki Frausto of EIA described voter education and civic engagement work in Yakima County and Sunnyside, including concerns about intimidation, language barriers, signature mismatch, and at-large election systems; they said stronger Washington Voting Rights Act protections would help communities elect candidates of choice. No votes were taken during the work session.

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• that improve the lives of Minnesotans.
• On our next slide, DCYF was created with the vision of improving the lives of children and families.
• With this transition, DCYF assumed responsibility for preventing misuse of public funds across certain
• With this transition, DCYF assumed responsibility for preventing misuse of public funds across certain
• Department of Human Services as the Department of Human Services as the manager<00:23:51.040><c> of</

Committee: House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy

Keywords: 1183, house

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• DEAR HEAVENLY FATHER BIT THROUGHOUT THE AGES IT HAS BEEN FORETOLD OF THE DAYS WE CURRENTLY LIVE.
• THEY WILL GO ON PRETENDING TO BE DEVOTED TO GOD BUT REFUSED TO LET THAT DEVOTION CHANGE THE WAY THEY LIVE
• MAY OUR FOUNDERS DAY BE FILLED WITH PRIDE AND CONTINUED SERVICE, HAPPY FOUNDERS DAY LADIES. >>Pres.
• NOVEMBER 3, 2025 AHCA SUBMITTED THE APPLICATION TO THE CENTER FOR MEDICARE AND MEDICAID SERVICES.
• AND INVESTING IN EDUCATORS WHO CHOOSE TO LIVE AND WORK IN RURAL COMMUNITIES.

Keywords: 998, house, all

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• To be clear, AB 470 is the legislation about voice telephone service, not broadband internet service.
• Services or broadband internet service providers.
• Over 95% of our California customers have already transitioned to modern networks.
• Kohler is, among other things, a mandate for universal service.
• If someone requests home phone service, they get it.

Committee: House Communications and Conveyance

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• I live in Orange County with my husband, Matt, and our three children.
• Many working families are living paycheck to paycheck.
• place that the way we did in search because it is our service.
• But we have to do that in a way that respects that people are living their lives today in that system
• , and that we can't do that in a way that respects that people are living their lives today in that system

Committee: Senate Privacy, Digital Technologies, and Consumer Protection

Keywords: 987, senate, all

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• “Literally put their lives on the line to save other people.
• Vaccines have helped save everybody’s lives in here, like everybody.
• I ran the transit center. So we were still running the buses.
• These things save people’s lives. Like my kid, I stepped on a nail...” “...in my roof and work.
• So Tdap and polio have saved over 150 million lives over the last 50 years.”

Committee: House Health and Welfare

Summary: The House Committee on Health and Welfare met on April 23 and first disposed of several items without hearing them, including HB 1093 and HB 1145, and voluntarily deferring HB 946. The committee then quickly reported HB 1095 favorably without objection. That bill would require nursing facilities to have fuel or another alternative power generation source to maintain power, and supporters said it preserves existing backup-power safety requirements while giving facilities more flexibility as technology changes. The committee then took up HB 926, which concerns vaccination status and admission to public buildings and seeks to prohibit medical mandates. After adopting an amendment set and additional changes clarifying exclusions for licensed health care providers and facilities, medical masks, and child welfare/school-related provisions, the committee heard testimony both for and against the bill. Supporters framed it as a civil-liberties measure limiting vaccine-card requirements for public buildings, while opponents warned it could interfere with public health measures, school immunization rules, and the ability of health care facilities to protect patients. The bill was reported favorably on an 8-4 vote. HB 1220, a cleanup bill for the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners, was then reported favorably after a technical amendment set. HB 1227, which would require complaints involving medical judgment to be reviewed by a three-physician panel before formal disciplinary action, drew extensive testimony from a physician sponsor, a doctor describing his disciplinary experience, and the board’s executive director, who said the board already uses practicing physicians, nurses, and experts in its process and warned the proposed panel system could be impractical because physicians are difficult to recruit for such reviews. At the sponsor’s request, the committee voluntarily deferred HB 1227 for further work. Finally, the committee reported HB 1217 favorably with amendments to a pharmacy benefit manager transparency bill, after supporters said it would expose hidden pricing and rebate practices and opponents argued some provisions were duplicative or unnecessary. HB 1028, setting minimum Medicaid reimbursement rates for non-emergency medical transportation, was reported favorably and referred to Appropriations after supporters described the need for higher rates and members discussed funding. The committee also reported HB 1185 favorably, with amendments preserving the existing Rural Hospital Preservation Act while extending similar protections to additional rural-lookalike hospitals, and adopted HCR 76 to continue the Health Inequities and Disparities in Rural Areas Task Force for another year.

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• California is one of the highest-cost-of-living states in the nation due to a variety of factors.
• By requiring the cost-of-living analysis, AB 2366 would take the real-life experience of Californians
• AB 2366 is a meaningful step forward to making California a more affordable place to live and work.
• Cost-of-living impacts as part of every regulatory analysis. For manufacturers, this is critical.
• Local governments are struggling to close budget gaps while maintaining essential services.

Committee: House Economic Development, Growth, and Household Impact

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• The... ...sitcom piece that we're putting this five million in is for live studio audience sitcoms, the
• Or are there better ways that we can put money into services that we know we can have oversight over?
• What about the $250,000 to construct and operate a transition living facility? Where's that at?
• By purchasing this as an asset for the Service Oklahoma home base that we have.
• Representative, you have done a whole lot on Service Oklahoma.

Summary: The House considered and advanced a large package of bills, many on joint committee reports, with most measures passing by wide margins and several emergency clauses approved. Early debate centered on HB 4036, which moved $5 million from an existing filmed-in-Oklahoma account to a new revolving fund for the “Bringing Sitcoms Home from Hollywood” pilot program. Supporters said the money was surplus, still controlled by the film office, and intended to create jobs and a strong return on investment; opponents questioned whether the funds should instead go to other state needs and whether the program had enough workforce and infrastructure. The bill passed 53-42, but its emergency failed. The House also passed HB 471, which creates state support for federal “Trump accounts” for children under 18, after debate over federal control, investment risk, and whether the $12.5 million could be better spent on child care, schools, or other services; it passed 61-30 and the emergency failed 62-27. Several education, transportation, and public safety measures then moved through with little or no opposition. HB 4030, described as the education limits bill, passed 93-1 with its emergency. HB 4065 and HB 467 each appropriated $93,000 for security at the Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics and the Schools for the Blind and Deaf, respectively, and both passed unanimously or near-unanimously with emergencies. HB 4038 directed $5 billion for the eight-year transportation plan and $266,000 for safer school zones; HB 4048 transferred PREP funds to three road projects; and HB 4031 moved up to $41 million into the long-term aerospace and aeronautic stability fund. HB 4047, which used PREP funds for a rural economic development project, fairgrounds upgrades, and university energy improvements, drew the most discussion over whether the spending was truly rural-focused, but passed 81-11 with the emergency approved. The House also approved a series of capital, justice, health, and workforce-related bills. These included HB 452 to buy the Service Oklahoma building it currently occupies; HB 4041 for a two-year trafficking victim pilot program and public safety technology; HB 4056 and HB 4057 for OSBI and narcotics headquarters/warehouse facilities; HB 4044 for current National Board Certified Teachers; HB 4032 on mining fees and agreement language; HB 4034 to raise court reporter compensation; HB 4050 reducing employer contributions while keeping retirement funds growing; HB 4053 and HB 4054 for flagship university capital projects; HB 4072, a public finance/accounting measure involving the Invest in Oklahoma Board and Revenue Stabilization Fund mechanics; HB 4045 and HB 4046 creating military-related funds to support bases and BRAC-proof installations; HB 4040 establishing oversight and a revolving fund for rural health transformation federal money; and HB 4051 clarifying legislative control over the FMAP rate preservation fund. Most of these passed with strong bipartisan support and emergency clauses, and the chamber ended with announcements of committee meetings before adjourning until April 15, 2026.

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• Alex Williamson, she has the Health and Human Services assignment.
• Alex Williamson, she has the Health and Human Services assignment.
• She also has a Health and Human Services assignment.
• So that is the website and the Legislative Budget Book for the rest of the week as I start to transition
• Thursday, we have a special report. ...the rest of the week as I start to transition into the budget

Keywords: 989, all

Summary: The Joint Finance-Appropriations Committee opened the session with roll call, confirmed a quorum, and introduced new members, staff, and pages. Co-chairs and staff then reviewed JFAC’s role as the legislature’s main budget committee, the committee’s daily schedule, and the resources available through legislative staff, the impact team, and the newly released 2026 Legislative Budget Book and related budget tools. The committee received a detailed briefing from the Division of Financial Management on the JFAC calendar and then from Governor’s Budget Director Lori Wolf on the governor’s FY 2026 and FY 2027 budget recommendations. Wolf said the budget is balanced but tight, relying on a mix of ongoing reductions and one-time actions rather than reserve fund transfers. Major budget actions included a 3% ongoing reduction across most state agencies, reversions of certain one-time balances to the general fund, no recommended pay increase for state employees or teachers, and higher employee health insurance costs. The budget also proposed reductions or policy changes in Medicaid, virtual school funding, Idaho Digital Learning Academy, and some transportation and water-related funds, while preserving funding for public safety, education, water, and transportation priorities. Members questioned the assumptions behind the budget, especially the projected ending balances, the use of one-time transfers, the impact of rising health insurance costs on employees, the effect of Medicaid cuts on services and cost shifts, and the rationale for reductions to online education and IDLA. Several members also asked about the proposed federal tax conformity changes, including the timing of implementation and the treatment of Idaho’s existing R&E tax credit. Wolf said the conformity estimate was based on Tax Commission analysis and that the administration was not recommending use of the budget stabilization fund. No votes or formal actions were taken; the committee concluded by noting that the Economic Outlook Committee would meet later in the week and that JFAC would continue budget hearings the next day.

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• </c> human services. Thank you. human services. Thank you.
• Services. Services.
• :43:51.440><c> services.
• </c> rates for primary care services. rates for primary care services.
• </c> 1,000 people living with Alzheimer's. 1,000 people living with Alzheimer's.

Keywords: 910, house, all

Summary: The joint hearing opened with House Bill 1969, which would provide state funding for colorectal cancer screenings for uninsured and underinsured residents. The Department of Human Services said it supports the goal of early screening but would need new administrative capacity, including a program manager and claim pre-screening, to run the program. The Department of Health supported the measure and cited low screening rates in Hawaii, noting an educational campaign to encourage screening. The Insurance Division raised concerns about reliance on federal FAQs, warning that guidance can change and may create state cost exposure. Supporters including the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network and the Hawaii Medical Association argued the bill would close a preventive-care gap, reduce late-stage diagnoses, and save long-term costs; the committee also discussed implementation costs, estimated by DHS at roughly $1.4 million to $2 million annually plus administrative expenses, and a 6-month to 1-year timeline to establish the program. The committee then took up House Bill 1965, which would require health carriers to spend at least 6% of total medical expenditures on primary care providers. The Insurance Division said several provisions raise technical and legal concerns, including the premium freeze, the medical loss ratio language, the lack of an existing external review process for downcoding claims, and a new mandate for medically necessary inter-island transportation that could trigger an ACA defrayal. The Department of Human Services supported the intent but suggested broader language to include primary care supports and services, and noted that QUEST integration plans already invested at least 9% of total medical expenditures in primary care in 2024, with additional spending on supports and low-value care reductions. State health planning officials strongly supported the bill as an investment in primary care, saying it could improve outcomes and lower long-term costs, though they acknowledged a possible temporary premium increase during the transition. Testimony in support emphasized Hawaii’s physician shortage, especially on Maui, the Big Island, and other neighbor islands, and warned that clinics are under financial strain and may close without higher primary care reimbursement. The Hawaii Healthcare Task Force, AARP Hawaii, and other supporters said the bill would help retain providers, improve access for Medicare and Medicaid patients, and prevent downstream costs from emergency room use and avoidable hospitalizations. No votes or final committee action were taken in the portion of the hearing provided.

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• And so we're proud to shepherd lives.
• Line 56 is the innovative service learning grants, very similar to full service community schools, here
• :25.200><c> program</c> service community school program service community school program requirements
• </c> appropriations for full service appropriations for full service community<00:56:09.920><c> schools
• </c><01:29:02.719><c> for</c> years would provide better services for years would provide better services

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• We weren't able to put services.
• Veteran<02:43:23.600><c> services.</c> Veteran services. Veteran services.
• our mental health hospitals and several mental health transitional living homes.
• our mental health hospitals and several mental health transitional living homes.
• our mental health hospitals and several mental health transitional living homes.

Keywords: 981, all

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• COMMITTEE ON HEALTH POLICY MY NAME IS EVA LYNN AND HAVE BEEN AN OPERATING NURSE SINCE 1995 AND I TRANSITIONED
• INTEREST BUT IT'S AN ANALYSIS OF PHARMACY AND MEDICAL CLAIMS FROM 20 17TH THROUGH 2023 FOR INDIVIDUALS LIVING
• KNOW AT NAMI WE SEE IT WHEN PEOPLE HAVE THE RIGHT MEDICATIONS AND THE RIGHT TREATMENT THEY CAN TRANSITION
• OFF DISABILITY, TRANSITION OFF MEDICAID AND BECOME SELF-SUPPORTING AND RETURN TO THE WORKFORCE AND THIS
• THEY ARE OUT THERE PUTTING THEIR NAME AND THEIR LIVES ON THE LINE IN ORDER TO PROTECT US AS THEY GO ABOUT

Keywords: 999, senate, all

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• Medicaid funded services. This is for Medicaid funded services.
• I live in Bridgewwater. I Freriedman. I live in Bridgewwater.
• Again, I lived this.
• </c> services including nur nurse services services including nur nurse services and<02:16:46.000><c>
• I live in Bridgewater. I Freriedman. I live in Bridgewater.

Committee: Senate Health and Human Services

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

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• Thank you. ...certain services for students with disabilities, no matter the cost.
• People who are trying to become productive citizens again have a place to live.
• People who are trying to address mental health needs have a place to live.
• It establishes by law a professional career park service.
• It selects park service personnel based on the basis of merit alone, and it administers the park service

Keywords: 989, all

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• It's really changing lives every day and saving lives. And I respectfully ask for your aye vote.
• Live events are vital to California and to the lives of all of our constituents.
• I want to say, yesterday in the antitrust lawsuit against Live Nation, the jury found that Live Nation
• And we did all of our customer service live in person in Long Beach, California. And you know what?
• Recently, the rising prevalence of live-service games requiring online server connections has raised

Committee: House Privacy and Consumer Protection

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• It also creates an escorted leave situation when currently incarcerated or transitioning or going to
• classes to learn how to transition into civil society.
• Currently incarcerated or transitioning or going to classes to learn how to transition into civil society
• They provide important services to our senior community.
• It includes meals, access to services, et cetera.

Committee: Senate Rules

Keywords: 904, all

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• It is the only university that services, you know, in northeast Missouri.
• And in certain areas, that has provided services that aren't available.
• Partial cut to the auditor transition. Doubt we'll need any of that.
• This is for personal service, so it's all salary and 20 FTE.
• On line 36 talks about treatment services.

Committee: House Budget

Keywords: 959, house, all