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• principal, and is consistent with either the county water quality management plan or ADEQ's non-point source
• It does a little bit of modification of the non-point source project to include Arizona non-point source
• plan pursuant to the Clean Water Act, et cetera, defines the Clean Water Act as the Federal Water Pollution

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• In short, we've been fighting this threat at its source.
• And so, they are going to be a source of flies.
• What source? Natural gas, I would assume natural gas, but...
• The first is ascertaining the quality of the source water.
• Don't want polluted air; we don't want to pollute water.

Summary: During the meeting, legislative members discussed the practice of municipalities diverting water and sewer revenues to their general funds, which impacts infrastructure maintenance and project delays. Vice Chair Sparks proposed limiting public testimony to two minutes, which was adopted without objection. The committee heard from various witnesses, including Perry Fowler from the Texas Water Infrastructure Network, who emphasized that utility revenues should primarily support water services and that transfers should be transparent and justified. He noted that many utilities face financial pressures that could hinder infrastructure projects. Larry French from the Texas Public Policy Foundation highlighted the significant financial impact of water loss and general fund transfers, estimating the annual loss at $1.5 billion. He argued that these transfers can create disincentives for municipalities to address water loss issues. Brian Butcher, Assistant City Manager of Sugar Land, defended the city's cost allocation model for general fund transfers, asserting that they are necessary for equitable service provision and operational efficiency. The committee also discussed the implications of rising construction costs and the need for better procurement processes to ensure effective use of taxpayer dollars. The second part of the meeting focused on the New World Screwworm and the state's preparedness to manage potential infestations. Dudley Hoskins from the USDA outlined the federal response efforts and the importance of collaboration with state agencies. He emphasized the need for ongoing surveillance and the production of sterile flies to combat the pest. Dr. Philip Kaufman from Texas A&M discussed the historical context of the screwworm and the challenges posed by its potential reintroduction, urging proactive management strategies among livestock producers. The committee acknowledged the need for increased resources and research to effectively address the threat of the screwworm.

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• Light pollution is extremely complicated. Lots of states deal with it very, very differently.
• Light pollution is extremely complicated. Lots of states deal with it very, very differently.
• Light pollution is extremely complicated. Lots of states deal with it very, very differently.
• <05:27:47.920> Uh pollution is extremely complicated.
• Uh pollution is extremely complicated.

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• No more of that Styrofoam that pollutes our environment and brings on those forever chemicals as well
• They pollute, they generate a lot of waste, they don't create many jobs.
• utility costs because we know that they come with immense, enormous water and energy needs, they pollute
• the people should have mentioned that they're actually getting a lot of additional money from other sources
• So. additional money from other sources, from the gaming tax right now.

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• proposal eliminates the EPA's methane fee, which is a critical tool for encouraging the biggest polluters
• All this is happening because the fossil fuel industry has been allowed to maintain a free-to-pollute
• What will actually get us to energy independence is diversifying our energy sources.
• Accelerating the growth of new domestic energy sources increases our energy security.
• Human flourishing depends for its existence on our ability to utilize those sources of energy.

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• The trust fund is one of the broadest sources of state-dedicated funding for environment and natural
• The trust fund is one of the broadest sources of state-dedicated funding for environment and natural
• of State dedicated broadest source of State dedicated funding<00:02:26.440> for<00:02:26.920>
• Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. They're the ones that have been working on this project.
• And Soil Resources and insert commissioner of the Pollution Control Agency.

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• Disposable e-cigarettes create a dual crisis of severe environmental pollution and public health risk
• and contain hazardous components, which leach into Hawaii's ecosystems and contribute to plastic pollution

Bills: SB2960, SB2347, SB2272, SB3137, SB3132, SB2271, SB2804, SB2175, SB2487

Keywords: homeowners insurance, disaster recovery, replacement cost value, state of emergency, policyholder rights, insurance extensions, tenant rights, landlord obligations, housing crisis, eviction prevention, multilingual access, SB2272, Act 105, home health licensing, home health agency, home health services, Department of Health, DOH, CMS, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

Summary: The committee heard several resolutions and one bill focused on energy reliability, utility infrastructure, insurance, tenant rights, and home health licensing. On the energy side, members heard HCR 203/HR 193 on a status update for the Hawaii Electric Reliability Administrator, HCR 204/HR 194 on a comprehensive PUC analysis of cost reduction and risk, and HCR 202/HR 192 creating a legislative task force on future energy pathways. Testimony on the energy measures was generally supportive from the PUC, DCCA’s Division of Consumer Advocacy, the Hawaii State Energy Office, and the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, with OHA urging that equity, native Hawaiian impacts, and public trust resources be considered alongside cost savings. The committee also heard HCR 125/HR 117 on coordinating with utilities to address aging utility poles and lines along Farrington Highway and other high-risk corridors; Hawaiian Electric supported the measure, Hawaiian Telcom and Charter Spectrum said much of the work is already underway and questioned whether the resolution was necessary, and committee questioning focused on existing double-pole tracking and the role of DOT and the PUC. The committee then took up HCR 137/HR 129 on timely reimbursement of health care claims under the clean claims statute. The DCCA Insurance Division and the Hawaii Insurers Council opposed the measure as drafted, saying it could be read to require payment beyond policy limits and could raise premiums or reduce market participation. United Policyholders supported the measure, arguing it would simply give policyholders more time to collect benefits they already purchased, and clarified that it was not intended to increase coverage beyond policy limits. The committee later amended the resolution to direct the DCCA Insurance Division to prioritize investigation and enforcement of clean claims complaints. In the decision meeting, the committee recommended and adopted passage of HCR 203/HR 193 as is, HCR 204/HR 194 with an amendment removing the eighth whereas clause, HCR 202/HR 192 with an amendment adding a committee representative to the task force, HCR 125/HR 117 as is, and HCR 137/HR 129 with amendments. The committee also heard SB 2960 SC1 on property insurance, which would extend the time policyholders have after a declared disaster to document replacement-cost claims. The Insurance Division and Hawaii Insurers Council opposed it, warning it could force coverage beyond policy limits and increase premiums, while United Policyholders supported it and said it would help disaster survivors recover benefits they already paid for; members questioned whether similar laws in other states had caused premium spikes and clarified that the bill was not intended to exceed policy limits. The committee also heard SB 2347 SD1 on multilingual tenant-rights notices, with OHA, Hawaii Appleseed, and others supporting the bill but urging restoration of language requiring landlords to directly provide the notice at lease signing. Finally, SB 2272 SD1 HD1 on home health licensing drew support from the Department of Health, SHPDA, and the Health Care Association of Hawaii, with the association requesting an effective date amendment; testimony explained that the bill would allow state licensing compliance to be demonstrated through CMS-approved accreditation or certification surveys, potentially reducing duplication and freeing state resources.

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• When you build new schools, do you have any kind of monitoring for like toxic pollution?
• that are experiencing disproportionate burdens in climate change, energy, health, housing, legacy pollution
• Monitor the existing permanent revenue streams to ensure that they remain adequate long-term funding sources

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• The pollution control agency, Metropolitan Council, a greater Minnesota planning organization, so that's
• gas emissions inventories, and so when it comes to the electrical side, we look at the generation sources
• We look at the generation sources and make calculations from there.
• of the offsets cannot and should not be paid for with trunk highway funds, so alternative revenue sources
• will be needed providing sources will be needed providing additional<01:26:50.280> mitigation

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• that authorizes counties with populations under 250,000 individuals to use county revenues from any source
• in fiscal year 2027 to meet any county fiscal obligations. ...from any source in fiscal year 2027 to
• corporate income tax credits for renewable energy production, residential solar energy devices, pollution
• When we’re talking about renewable energy or residential—not residential—but pollution control equipment

Summary: House Republican caucus met on April 29 to review the FY 2027 budget package and several related “budget implementation” bills, with Chairman Livingston noting that HB 2415 was being held. Staff and members walked through HB 4138, the General Appropriations Act (“feed bill”), which appropriates about $17.96 billion from the general fund and includes one-time fund transfers, 5% lump-sum reductions for most agencies, funding for the state health insurance plan, school facilities, child care, correctional officer stipends, public safety, and other prior-year items. Members emphasized that the budget reflected House and Senate negotiations after the governor left budget talks, and Republican leaders framed it as a package that lowers taxes, shrinks government, and funds priorities such as K-12, child care, foster care, and public safety. The caucus then reviewed a series of mostly standard budget bills: HB 4139 on gaming/racing assessments; HB 4140 on federal monies, the budget stabilization fund, and ACE initiative savings reporting; HB 4141 on capital outlay, highway construction, airport funding, and rural transportation match funds; HB 4142 on commerce and lottery distributions; HB 4143 on corrections reporting; HB 4144 on environmental provisions and water-related fund uses; HB 4145 on state employee health insurance premiums and DES reforms; HB 4146 on higher education funding provisions; HB 4147 on SNAP administration and error-rate reduction; HB 4148 on K-12 inflation adjustments, school facilities, and ASDB property-sale oversight; HB 4150 on county expenditure flexibility and state office rent rates; HB 4151 on the Department of Revenue’s integrated tax system funding and related charges; HB 4152 on tax conformity, deductions, and repeal of several renewable-energy tax preferences and the Rio Nuevo diversion; and HB 4153 on transportation reporting. Discussion repeatedly centered on health plan solvency, SNAP/ACCESS eligibility and fraud controls, school funding, rural transportation, and tax conformity and relief. The caucus also took up several blue-sheet bills: HB 2035 on extended-family placement notifications in child welfare cases; HB 2170 restricting certain PRC-controlled companies from state IT contracts; HB 2249 expanding Parents’ Bill of Rights provisions; HB 2573 on DUI interlock/restricted-license rules and psychotherapy definitions; and HB 2873, which was amended to allow withdrawal of referendum petitions before ballot qualification. HB 2415 was held. The Speaker closed by praising the caucus for its budget work, saying the package delivers tax relief, protects vulnerable populations and public safety, and reflects months of Republican negotiations, and the meeting adjourned to the floor.

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• Amendments 6 and 7 are to ensure New Mexico can still use established state values for the price of pollution
• federal administration takes the position that there is no societal damage associated with such pollution
• focus on mandating beneficial electrification, which is defined in Section 2 as converting the energy source
• of a customer's end use from a non-electric fuel source to a high efficiency electric source.

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• More than half the overall financing is coming from private sources.
• More than half the overall financing is coming from private sources.
• More than half the overall financing is coming from private sources.
• More than half the overall financing is coming from private sources.
• More than half the overall financing is coming from private sources.

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• It takes 1/8 of 1% from the 1% sales tax for the benefit of protecting our drinking water source, to
• benefit of protecting our<00:04:43.360> drinking<00:04:43.759> water<00:04:44.160> source
• <00:04:45.120> to<00:04:45.440> protect our drinking water source to protect our drinking
• water source to protect enhance<00:04:46.639> and<00:04:46.880> restore<00:04:47.320><
• Senator Hoffman said the funding source is a carve-out from the Minnesota Historical Society grant and

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• The assessment model has created a reliable source of funding for statewide tourism marketing that maintains
• You can see that Santa Monica's top tourism revenue sources have been lodging tax, property tax, and
• It is sewage, plastic, heavy metals, and chemical pollution. And it's all in coastal waterways.
• He was very concerned about the pollution that's just sitting there as they're waiting sometimes two
• But you don't often get that direct source for what's really going on on the ground, so it's great to

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• producing more electricity with the same amount of fuel, and with a Very, very modest uptick in pollutants
• Third, exploring alternative funding sources for costs of programs currently funded by ratepayers.
• we're also looking at how programs can be delivered more cost-effectively and how different funding sources
• The Governor is a supporter of funding sources.
• The program itself has appropriation for multiple sources of funding: the appropriation of the general

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• of both natural and anthropogenic, or man-made, sources of nitrogen and groundwater.
• of both natural and anthropogenic, or man-made, sources of nitrogen and groundwater.
• of both natural and anthropogenic, or man-made, sources of nitrogen and groundwater.
• of both natural and anthropogenic, or man-made, sources of nitrogen and groundwater.
• <03:21:41.600> city water um it has it pollutes city water um it has it pollutes city drinking

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• The second type of sample is the NPDES outfall, which is monitored as part of the Storm Water Pollution
• NPDES, that's the National Pollution Discharge Elimination System.
• This is a federal permit for the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System for the discharge of
• but the outfall of that pipeline is regulated by the federal agency, the EPA. under the National Pollution
• Chair, how will residents in this area who still rely on these water sources...

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• It is a source of national strength.
• It is a source of competitive advantage. It is a source of national<00:11:25.839> strength.
• Only three sources of water per cage. They're the spouts connected to the toilets.
• And that should alarm us polluted air.
• Air pollution and climate change know.

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• But we do have a number of funds and a number of funding sources.
• But we do have a number of funds and a number of funding sources.
• But we do have a number of funds and a number of funding sources.
• But we do have a number of funds and a number of funding sources.
• um most noteworthy different sources um most noteworthy here<00:58:40.839> is<00:58:40.920>

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• 26:05.520> something's<00:26:05.919> going<00:26:06.000> to<00:26:06.080> pollute
• whether something's going to pollute whether something's going to pollute your<00:26:06.559>
• ,<00:28:33.919> I<00:28:34.080> mean uh to prevent that pollution, I mean uh to prevent
• that pollution, I mean there<00:28:34.720> our<00:28:35.039> dollar<00:28:35.679> there
• Um, whereas we don't necessarily have really hardcore regulations around air-source heat pumps, there

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Summary: The committee took up House File 936, an author’s bill requiring cost-benefit analysis before agencies move forward with major rulemaking. Chair Nash moved the bill, the A2 author’s amendment was adopted, and the bill was then discussed as amended. The sponsor said the goal was not to eliminate rulemaking, but to require agencies to “show their work” by analyzing costs, benefits, and assumptions before rules are adopted. Supporters, including representatives from Americans for Prosperity and the Pacific Legal Foundation, argued the bill would improve transparency, uniformity, and accountability in rulemaking. They cited federal and other state models, especially Virginia, and said similar requirements already exist in several states. They also pointed to public support for requiring cost-benefit analysis and said the bill could help agencies avoid costly or poorly thought-out regulations, reduce litigation risk, and improve legislative oversight through notice to committees and publication of preliminary and final analyses. Several members raised concerns. Representative Luger Nikolai said cost-benefit analysis is already part of existing law through SONARs and that the legislature, not agencies, should be the first line of review; she also worried the bill would force dollar valuations on qualitative factors such as accessibility. Representative Craft said the bill could allow unelected officials to negate policy choices already made by the legislature if benefits do not exceed costs. Representative Fryberg said the bill appears to require full analysis even for minor housekeeping rules and may overemphasize dollar-based benefits. Chair Nash and supporters responded that the bill is meant to impose a uniform check on agencies and that many current rules already operate without sufficient legislative oversight. The discussion ended with members expressing both support and opposition, and a roll call was requested, though no final vote was included in the excerpt.