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• On the daily operations side of the equation, as the VLB adds cemeteries and as inflation erodes their
• Elimination of both caps will allow the the Veterans Land Board, uh, to plan for and operate cemeteries
• experience, 10 years of experience in so many hours in front of in front of the, uh, in front of the
• , of full-time experience, or 10,000 hours.
• It's 254.15 an hour as of today, but it changes every month with the CPI.

Committee: House S/C on Defense & Veterans' Affairs

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• daytime while relying on dirty, expensive energy during the hours of highest energy demand.
• In fact, in 2025 alone, California curtailed over 3.7 million megawatt hours of wind and solar energy
• Load shifting is the process of incentivizing and enabling customers to consume more energy during hours
• of renewable energy abundance and less energy during hours when dirty polluting energy sources prevail
• Finally, clarity around the allocation of operational and wildfire-related risk is essential.

Committee: House Utilities and Energy

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• a massive amount of operational.
• Well, if I have to spend six hours delivering instruction, then I have a total of two hours to think.
• For having 90 days worth of your district operating expense. sort of in your savings account, as it were
• Most of our institutions of higher education operate off of Social Security numbers except for the ones
• who operate off of individually assigned identification numbers.

Committee: House Public Education

Keywords: 1184, house, all

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• </c> transit operating hours. transit operating hours.
• Kind of operations improvements.
• ><c> if</c> to come out of our operating budget if to come out of our operating budget if we<01:15:50.880
• compared to an average of nearly $56 an hour.
• /c><01:34:21.880><c> average</c><01:34:22.280><c> of</c> per hour compared to an average of per hour

Committee: Senate Transportation

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• The Division of Career Technical Education would establish the minimum number of industry hours by specific
• Idaho's current statutes do not always clearly account for these types of operations.
• This particular company that brought this bill has a team of lawyers, has a team of lobbyists, operates
• This is supposed to be a maintenance budget, which means a maintenance of operation.
• really specific about picking a vendor to facilitate the operation of the program.

Summary: The Senate met with a quorum present, opened with prayer and the Pledge, approved the prior journal, and then moved through committee reports, gubernatorial and House messages, and bill introductions. Several measures were referred to committees or held for later action, including new Senate bills on taxation, immigration-related enforcement, and refugee/illegal alien accountability, which were sent to Judiciary and Rules for printing. The Senate also received and processed numerous enrolled bills and committee reports on education, finance, resources, health and welfare, and state affairs. On the floor, the Senate considered and passed a series of bills. Among the measures approved were Senate Bill 1410 on Medicaid state plan amendments for federally qualified health centers and rural health centers; Senate Bill 1426 appropriating additional funds to the Idaho Transportation Department; Senate Bill 1427 funding the Department of Lands; House Bill 797 requiring fire protection sub-district appointees or electors to live in the district; House Bill 843 changing the homestead exemption so the full exemption applies once a complete application is approved rather than prorating it; House Bill 711 creating an alternative administrator authorization pathway for principals and superintendents; House Bill 832 revising CTE industry-professional qualification rules; House Bill 795 cleaning up definitions for obscene material and lewd matter; and House Bill 817 updating tobacco retailer permitting rules for cigar-related businesses while keeping age restrictions in place. The Senate also passed House Bill 831 on school polling places, House Bill 872 allowing constitutional amendments and initiatives to be printed within available ballot space, House Bill 893 making codifier’s corrections, House Bill 650 codifying a Tenth Amendment-based presumption favoring state authority, House Bill 674 streamlining telecom service discontinuance review by removing a duplicative state process, and House Bill 810 adding a 120-day fixed-habitation requirement for legislative candidates, though that bill drew constitutional objections. Most of these measures passed on roll calls, some by unanimous consent to reuse prior vote counts, and titles were approved before transmission back to the House or onward to the Governor as appropriate. The session also included a page graduation presentation and several brief recesses and announcements.

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• Uh, I, I am here on behalf of the, uh, of the association.
• Instead of, uh, expiring on 25, uh, at the end of 25, it would expire at the end of 2027.
• Uh, because of the, the small recharge basin, it has a tendency of being, uh, way below either one of
• The ability to manage and approve these decisions is crucial to the proper operation of these districts
• Some key points of support, it improves operational efficiency.

Committee: House S/C on County & Regional Government

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• This legislation clarifies operators of slow-moving vehicles, construction equipment, and farm equipment
• So it doesn't leave a lot of room. Typically, farm equipment doesn't travel over 25 miles an hour.
• And in front of that grain bin, you'll have a cab, and that's where the machine is operated from.
• of hours, this machine will cost between 350,000 to 700,000.
• to pull them because of the softness of the ground.

Committee: House Transportation and Defense

Keywords: 989, all

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• of our wage and hour laws and our labor standards generally is actually the honor system, really.
• Imagine that: four hours of unpaid labor every single day.
• Imagine that: four hours of unpaid labor every single day. And it does not stop there.
• Most of these cases are in low-wage industries and operate business models...
• And when they're a part of that criminal element, their business plan, they operate out of the trunks

Committee: House Labor and Employment

Keywords: 988, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• of our wage and hour laws and our labor standards generally is actually the honor system, really.
• Imagine that: four hours of unpaid labor every single day.
• Imagine that: four hours of unpaid labor every single day. And it does not stop there.
• Most of these cases are in low-wage industries and operate business models...
• And when they're a part of that criminal element, their business plan, they operate out of the trunks

Summary: The Assembly Committee on Labor and Employment held a review hearing on SB 588, focused on wage theft enforcement and whether the law’s tools are working as intended. Committee members emphasized that wage theft is a major and under-enforced form of theft in California, citing large backlogs in wage claims and long delays that can leave workers waiting years for payment. The hearing was framed as oversight of the Labor Commissioner’s enforcement authority and a discussion of whether additional tools or funding are needed to improve collections and deter bad actors. Witnesses from UCLA, worker advocacy organizations, and legal aid described SB 588’s main enforcement mechanisms, including liens, levies, stop-work orders, successor and individual liability, and the ability to pursue upstream entities in fissured industries. They argued these tools have improved settlement leverage and recovery rates, especially in janitorial and property services cases, and gave examples involving Tesla, Cheesecake Factory, Optum, and grocery and care-home employers. At the same time, they said the law is less effective in industries like residential care, where employers often transfer assets or change ownership before judgments are collected, and they urged changes such as broader prejudgment lien authority, more license-revocation power, and additional staffing for the Judgment Enforcement Unit. Worker testimony highlighted the human impact of delayed or unpaid wages. A care worker described being underpaid, denied pay for breaks and off-the-clock work, and facing intimidation when filing claims. Marta Lepe Martinez said she was owed more than $300,000, waited more than three years for a hearing, and still had not recovered any money despite a judgment and a lien on property. Another worker advocate explained that SB 588 helped identify responsible individuals and businesses earlier, increasing the chance of recovery, but said more resources and faster enforcement are still needed. Labor Commissioner Lilia Garcia-Brower said SB 588 has significantly improved collections, reporting that the Judgment Enforcement Unit has recovered $125 million since enactment and that first-year recovery rates have risen from 17% to 46%. She said the agency is using liens, levies, stop orders, and individual liability more aggressively, but acknowledged that the tools are limited when employers are undercapitalized, hide assets, or transfer property before judgment. She supported the need for more staff and continued legislative investment. Public comment from SEIU California also backed SB 588’s framework and encouraged focusing enforcement on bad actors and expanding the law’s reach.

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• of services a week for something, and the claim will flag and say, well, 40 hours were provided, or
• </c> know, up to 30 hours of services a week know, up to 30 hours of services a week for<00:46:27.119
• </c><00:47:42.640><c> 80</c><00:47:42.960><c> hours</c> um if that person is in need of 80 hours um if
• </c> if they only have a certain amount of if they only have a certain amount of hours<00:48:23.440><
• </c> when DHS and its all its decades of when DHS and its all its decades of operation<01:19:52.960><

Bills: HF3378

Committee: House Human Services Finance and Policy

Keywords: human services, Optum reports, data privacy, transparency, legislative oversight, 1183, house

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• manually entering data from property tax returns into a system incapable of basic operations such as
• So I guess my first question was: are there 6,000 hours worth of audits, triple the audit hours, that
• Our multi-year audits are the area that we believe most of these hours would be spent.
• I wonder if part of this rationale is to support the refinery operations and in-state production.
• I am the Senior Director of Operations at the Phillips 66 Rodeo Renewable Energy Complex.

Summary: The subcommittee first received an informational update on the Governor’s Office of Service and Community Engagement (GoServe), including California Volunteers, the Office of Community Partnerships and Strategic Communications, and the Youth Empowerment Commission. GoServe reported strong participation in College Corps, Youth Service Corps, and Climate Action Corps, along with outreach results from OCPSC and the Trusted Messenger Network. The Department of Finance said the programs remain a priority but noted prior budget reductions, while the LAO said it had no new recommendations. Committee members raised questions about program diversity, geographic reach, administrative costs, and whether the programs duplicate existing volunteer opportunities; one member criticized the programs as costly and duplicative, while another emphasized the value of volunteerism and asked about the men’s service challenge. The item was informational only. The committee then heard an overview of the Board of Equalization’s property tax responsibilities and its first budget proposals since the 2017 reorganization. BOE described its role in county assessment oversight, state-assessed property valuation, and related tax administration. Members asked about BOE’s interaction with counties, property tax reassessments, and local tax notices; BOE explained it mainly works with county assessors and handles technical property tax questions, while local special district charges are generally outside its scope. The committee also considered a BOE proposal to implement SB 293, which would give additional time for certain intergenerational property tax transfer claims after the 2025 wildfires. BOE requested $154,000 for guidance, public materials, and inquiry response work, saying the change is urgent for wildfire-affected families, especially in Altadena. The LAO had no concerns, and the item was held open. BOE also presented an information technology modernization proposal for its state-assessed property program, seeking $3.2 million in 2026-27 and $3.1 million in 2027-28 to replace a 30-year-old mainframe system. BOE said the current system relies heavily on manual data entry and paper processes, creating inefficiencies, cybersecurity risks, and delays, while modernization would free staff for more audits and valuation studies. The LAO supported the need but urged a high bar for new IT projects; Finance said the project met the threshold of necessity. Members generally supported the upgrade but asked about audit gains, revenue impacts, and implementation risks, and the item was held open. Finally, CDTFA gave its department overview and then discussed a proposal to require all delivery network companies, such as Uber Eats and DoorDash, to be treated as marketplace facilitators for sales tax purposes. CDTFA said the current carve-out creates confusion for restaurants and small businesses because some DNCs collect and remit tax while others do not, and the change would improve compliance and shift reporting to larger platforms. Members debated whether the proposal amounts to a tax increase for consumers, with CDTFA and Finance arguing it is a consistency and compliance measure rather than a new tax, while others said it would likely raise consumer costs. The committee also discussed broader CDTFA issues, including local sales tax districts, revenue-sharing agreements, and the growth of special taxing jurisdictions. No votes were taken, and the agenda items were informational or held open.

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• Approval of this request is vital to ensure the continued operation of state correctional facilities
• Passage of this bill is a standalone measure to ensure the continued safe and efficient operation of
• Approval of this request is vital to ensure the continued operation of state correctional facilities
• Approval of this request is vital to ensure the continued operation of state correctional facilities
• > uh</c> with a maximum of about $2 an hour uh with a maximum of about $2 an hour uh the<00:41:21.800

Committee: House Public Safety Finance and Policy

Keywords: 1183, house

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• Hawaii is supporting year-round use of devices, ah, for students and extending the hours of free public
• Did I understand you say that it is an extended hours of free Wi Fi at their public schools?
• But because we're really at the 11th hour of a lot of this funding, we want to make sure again that when
• The basic idea of which is you take a pole owner's cost of operating a pole and you prorate it by how
• Uh, on those, uh, the FCC formula does factor in a lot of the, the costs of the ownership and operation

Committee: House S/C on Telecommunications & Broadband

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• Focus on the core operational needs and long-term stability of Florida's justice system.
• You worked long, hard hours and in a tough environment of reduced funding, and I'm so proud of every
• of Florida operate at least two casinos.
• to alleviate the financial hardship of those same casino operators.
• These operators actually need help to keep these same tens of thousands of people employed.

Keywords: 999, senate, all

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• This additional training consists of eight hours of range and live fire as part of the firearm safety
• With eight hours of training, that means 56,224 hours of training per range per year. is protected and
• With eight hours of training, that means 56,224 hours of training per range per range.
• That means 56,224 hours of training per range.
• Waukesha's law, notification within 24 hours of the next of kin—that's all I'm asking. Good job.

Summary: The committee first adopted a seven-bill consent calendar, then heard several public safety measures. AB 1127 by Assembly Member Gabriel would restrict sale of certain semi-automatic handguns that can be easily converted to automatic weapons with “switches”; supporters, including Everytown and Moms Demand Action, said it targets a specific Glock-style design flaw linked to mass shootings, while the NRA and gun-rights groups argued the bill duplicates existing federal law and effectively bans popular handguns. The bill was moved on a due-pass-as-amended motion to Judiciary and remained on call. AB 468, also by Gabriel, would increase penalties and clarify offenses involving looting and impersonating emergency personnel in evacuation zones and during disasters; firefighters, district attorneys, and law enforcement supported it as a deterrent, while public defenders and justice advocates warned it was overbroad and could worsen racial profiling. The committee approved the bill on a due-pass-as-amended motion to Appropriations, also held on call. The committee then heard AB 1187 by Assembly Member Celeste Rodriguez, which would require eight hours of firearm safety training, including live-fire instruction, before obtaining a firearm safety certificate and would add a requirement for new residents who import firearms. Supporters said California should require training comparable to other safety-sensitive activities and that the measure would reduce gun deaths; opponents argued the bill misunderstands the existing FSC process, would be hard to implement because of range and instructor limits, and would burden a constitutional right. The bill passed on a due-pass-as-amended motion to Appropriations and was held on call. The committee also heard AB 1424 by Rodriguez, which would require CDCR climate resiliency and heat-safety measures in prisons, including temperature monitoring, shade, showers, fans, and emergency planning. Prisoner-rights and labor groups strongly supported the bill, citing extreme heat, wildfire, and flooding risks, while one opponent said the monitoring mandate could be too costly; the bill was moved on a due-pass motion to Labor and Employment and held on call. Finally, the committee began hearing AB 1258 by Assembly Member Kalra, which would extend the sunset of the Young Adult Deferred Entry Program through 2029 for selected counties. Kalra and Santa Clara County Judge Erica You described the program’s success in reducing recidivism and providing wraparound services for young adults with felony charges, including housing, counseling, and parenting support. The transcript cuts off before the committee completed action on AB 1258.

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• Opposed to the bill in print for the level of operational control it asserts over facilities.
• Or maybe eventually they want to pay their neighbors on the grid a lot of money during those few hours
• , few hours of strain last year.
• Hours of strain last year. We want to, I think, have flexibility here.
• their fair share of the infrastructure needed to support their operations.

Committee: Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications

Summary: The committee heard extensive testimony on SB 868, the Plug and Play Solar Act, which would streamline approvals for portable plug-in solar devices while setting safety standards. The author and supporters argued the bill would help renters and homeowners with high electricity bills by allowing low-cost balcony solar systems to reduce monthly costs, and they emphasized that the devices would not feed power back to the grid. Supporters included environmental and consumer groups, solar advocates, and many members of the public. Opponents, including electrical workers, firefighters, utilities, and PG&E, raised concerns about shock, fire, overloading, and the need for California-specific building standards. After discussion, the author agreed to committee amendments and later to add compliance with the California Electrical Code in addition to the National Electrical Code; several opponents said that change would move them to neutral. The committee then voted to pass SB 868 out as amended to Senate Judiciary, with some members expressing support while reserving concerns about safety as the bill moves forward. The committee then took up SB 886, dealing with data center electricity use and ratepayer protections. The author said the bill is intended to prevent large data centers from shifting grid and infrastructure costs onto other customers, citing rapid growth in data center demand and examples from other states. Supporters, including TURN and climate groups, said the bill would require data centers to pay for their own grid impacts, pre-fund long-term clean energy resources, participate in demand response, and cover related costs. Opponents from the data center industry, tech and business groups, utilities, and some energy users argued the bill was unnecessary, could duplicate CPUC processes, and could create discriminatory rate treatment or operational problems, especially around mandatory demand response and limits on backup generation. Committee staff described amendments narrowing the bill to large data centers, clarifying tariff and cost-allocation provisions, replacing a storage requirement with a long-term zero-carbon procurement mechanism, and exempting certain public and utility facilities. Members discussed the balance between affordability, reliability, and clean energy, with the bill framed as a way to protect ratepayers while allowing data center growth.

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• month of work, education, or community service, and in CalFresh, roughly similar, it's 20 hours a week
• I have one more, noting that both Medi-Cal and CalFresh are requiring either the 80-hour-a-month of work
• or 20 hours weekly of work to qualify for the programs.
• But as of now, going back to CalWORKs, if you work 100 hours, you lose your qualification.
• We have monthly office hours available to them, and we've also hosted a series of webinar trainings that

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• For witness purposes, we are having passed the hour of 11 a.m.
• For witnesses purposes, we are having passed the hour of 11 a.m.
• many hours of thoughtful engagement on this bill, including conversations over the weekend.
• New York does, and to require this to happen within 24 to 72 hours of purchase.
• And so we've spent a lot of hours with this committee.

Summary: The Senate Committee on Privacy, Digital Technologies, and Consumer Protection heard several bills focused on privacy, AI, surveillance, and consumer protections. AB 302 would bar schools from excluding students from extracurricular activities because they do not use social media and would require schools to use at least one non-addictive means of contacting students and parents; it drew support from Common Sense Media and no opposition. AB 1705, the Reclaim Act, would require websites hosting non-consensual pornography to verify consent before upload; district attorneys and the Commission on the Status of Women supported it, while TechNet and CCIA opposed or raised concerns. AB 2007 would separate parental consent for a child’s image/likeness from general program enrollment forms in youth programs; educators supported it, while local government and parks groups raised implementation and penalty concerns. AB 2212 would update higher education sexual harassment definitions to include tech-facilitated harassment such as cyberbullying, doxing, and nudification-related abuse; students and advocacy groups strongly supported it, with no opposition. AB 1837 would extend transit agencies’ authority to use camera enforcement in bus-only lanes and at transit stops, with privacy retention limits and human review; transit agencies supported it, while some senators expressed concern about automated enforcement and surveillance, and the bill was placed on call after a split vote. AB 2392 would create an intersegmental higher education working group on generative AI training and procurement standards; it passed 5-0 after amendments removed prerequisites tying AI deployment to completion of the report. The consent calendar was also approved on call. Later, AB 1798 would prohibit life and disability insurers from using non-diagnostic genetic information in underwriting; supporters argued it protects privacy and encourages testing, while insurers opposed the bill as undermining risk-based underwriting, and it advanced on a 3-0 vote on call. Finally, AB 1883 would restrict workplace use of emotion-recognition and neural-data surveillance tools; labor and privacy advocates supported it, employers and local agencies raised safety and litigation concerns, and it passed 3-0 to Labor after narrowing amendments.

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• I just realized that Tucson does not no longer has a 24-hour Walgreens in all of Tucson.
• I just realized that Tucson no longer has a 24-hour Walgreens in all of Tucson.
• I just realized that Tucson does not, no longer has a 24-hour Walgreens in all of Tucson. no longer has
• a 24-hour Walgreens in all of Tucson.
• of a labor organization or perform labor organization activities during working hours.

Keywords: 1182, all

Summary: The caucus reviewed a long list of bills and resolutions, with staff giving brief descriptions and members flagging which items were on consent, had unanimous committee votes, or should be pulled for further discussion. Topics included education, health care, public safety, labor, water, taxation, housing, and elections. Several measures were noted as party-line or mixed votes, while many others were reported as unanimous and placed on third-read or consent calendars. Among the more discussed items were bills on school and labor policy, including a proposal to prohibit teacher strikes, a measure restricting school district bond actions, a bill requiring school safety protocols and assigning felony penalties for noncompliance, and a resolution limiting public money for labor organization activities. Members also raised concerns or requested further review on bills involving pharmacist testing authority, expired opioid antagonists, a county sheriff-related measure, a housing affordability district proposal, and a tobacco/vape regulation bill. Some measures were explicitly pulled from consent, including a Medicaid audit resolution, a budget-related pay-withholding resolution, and several education and public safety bills. The caucus also heard multiple health and human services measures, such as genetic counselor licensing, nursing board and pharmacy board continuations, foster care rights, psychiatry access funding, and free school meals. In addition, there were water and energy bills on Colorado River management, groundwater, transmission-line review, and renewable energy valuation, plus election and campaign-related proposals. The meeting ended with announcements, including an upcoming Colorado River breakfast briefing and an internal award recognizing Representative Brian Garcia, followed by adjournment.

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• And that is of people who take care of seniors of a specialist in senior care as take care of seniors
• In fact, some of my calyx just left the career because of this certain type of medicine because of the
• So he was mad about act at one 30 am after hours and hours of sitting there with no treatment, I could
• I operated yesterday on a tumor in the base of the skull. The patient woke up blind in one eye.
• The bill updates several statutes governing the operations of the court and judiciary to more accurately

Keywords: 999, senate, all