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• Let me just remind all of us which six those are: 2025-109, Kindergarten Oral Health Assessment; 2025
• Let me just remind all of us which six those are: 2025-109, Kindergarten Oral Health Assessment; 2025
• The motion is to approve the proposed consent calendar: 2025-109, Kindergarten Oral Health Assessment
• “I’d ask the opposition to continue to call it a fiscal health risk assessment.
• To say that a fiscal health risk assessment answered the problem, it didn’t. 2019, they were at high—

Summary: The committee heard several audit requests and related testimony. The first major item was an audit of Coachella Valley Unified School District’s contract and fiscal management. The author and supporters described long-standing fiscal mismanagement, large budget shortfalls, layoffs, contracting concerns, and questions about the district’s foundation and use of public funds. District representatives and the Riverside County Office of Education said the district is already under fiscal oversight, has a stabilization plan, and is working to reduce deficits and improve student outcomes. After extensive debate and public comment, the motion to approve the audit was put on call because the committee did not have the required votes from both houses at that moment. The committee then approved an audit of East Bay transit agencies in Alameda and Contra Costa counties. Senator Wahab argued the region’s many overlapping transit agencies create fragmentation, duplication, and inefficiency, especially amid a fiscal cliff and possible future tax increases. Transit agencies and labor representatives opposed the audit, saying the agencies already undergo multiple audits, serve distinct local needs, and are implementing regional coordination efforts. After testimony from agency leaders and public commenters, the committee voted to approve the audit. The next item was an audit of California Community Colleges’ unrestricted reserves. Senator Archuleta and supporting faculty representatives said reserves have grown substantially and may be diverting resources from student services, instruction, and workforce programs. They argued there is little oversight when reserves become too high. The Chancellor’s Office and Calbright College were invited to respond, and the audit objectives focused on reserve growth, reasons for high balances, oversight by the Chancellor’s Office, and effects on students and staff. The transcript cuts off during the Chancellor’s Office response, so the final committee action on this item is not shown.

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• And so it may have been a little slower going at first. there were a lot. on just even the assessment
• Now this is a system that, you know, we get an annual needs assessment.
• and determining, let's see here, I've got on our annual needs assessment, the most recent one, we have
• Well, certainly, we have, as I said, this annual needs assessment that we...
• We have, as I said, this annual needs assessment that informs our decision-making.

Summary: The Senate Committee on Rules first handled several routine actions, including approving three governor’s appointments not required to appear: Anthony Surich as Executive Director of the California Housing Finance Agency, Craig Snelling J.D. to the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board, and Nicholas Mueller to the Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation Commission. The committee also approved referral of bills to committees, all by 4-0 votes. It then took up appointments requiring testimony, beginning with Jereen DiAdamo to the State Water Resources Control Board. DiAdamo focused her remarks on safe drinking water, groundwater sustainability, conservation, and Bay-Delta restoration. She said the number of Californians without safe drinking water has fallen from 1.6 million to 800,000 since 2019, credited the SAFER program, technical assistance, and mandatory consolidation authority, and described ongoing work on failing and at-risk systems, domestic well mitigation, SGMA implementation, and the Bay-Delta Plan. Senators pressed her on audit follow-up, measurable goals for reducing the remaining unsafe systems, funding uncertainty, and concerns from environmental and tribal groups that the board has favored water users over ecosystem protections. Supporters from water, agriculture, business, and local agencies praised her collaborative style and consensus-building, while opponents argued she had not done enough to protect the Delta and called for new leadership. The committee ultimately voted 4-0 to advance her appointment to the full Senate. The committee then heard from Sivagunda Gunda for reappointment to the California Energy Commission. He highlighted progress on grid reliability, zero-carbon generation, and planning for California’s energy transition, including transportation fuels, building electrification, and the eventual retirement of Diablo Canyon. Senators questioned him about the future of Kern Energy and small refineries, the state’s transportation fuels plan, fuel imports and costs, and whether California can retire Diablo Canyon by 2030 without harming reliability. Gunda said the state is planning as if Diablo Canyon retires in 2030, that current resource additions make reliability manageable, and that affordability and market coordination remain key issues. The committee then voted 4-0 to advance his appointment to the full Senate, and the hearing recessed afterward.

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• In terms of service requirements, internal auditors are required to perform an agency-wide risk assessment
• annually, use that risk assessment to develop an annual audit plan, perform at least one audit from
• Three agencies passed external quality assessment review... Governing charters in place.
• Three agencies passed external quality assessment reviews last year, and four more were ongoing through
• Out of our 30 agencies, conducted the agency-wide risk assessment as required, and risk-based audit.

Keywords: 907, all

Summary: The Joint Interim Committee on Legislative Audits met on June 17 for informational presentations. The Department of Administrative Services, through Chief Audit Executive Eli Ritchie, gave an overview of statewide internal audit requirements and the fiscal year 2025 report. He explained the difference between internal and external audit, described Oregon’s statutory and rule-based internal audit structure, and reported that 30 agencies had internal audit functions, with most meeting required standards. He said 73 audits and 49 advisory/consulting engagements were completed statewide, with strong compliance overall, though a few agencies were rebuilding audit committees after vacancies. No committee questions were raised after the presentation. The Secretary of State’s Audits Division then presented its Government Waste Hotline annual report. Director Steve Bergman and audit manager Olivia Rekhed described changes made to align the hotline with statute, including renaming it the Government Waste Hotline, creating a review panel, improving anonymity protections, removing fraud reporting from the hotline’s scope, and adjusting reporting timelines. They said hotline volume increased modestly in 2025, most reports were referred elsewhere or closed for insufficient evidence, and two reports were substantiated, including questioned costs of about $856 for personal use of a state vehicle and about $2.9 million tied to the Preschool Promise program. Committee members asked about hotline staffing, cost, anonymity, and follow-up on findings; staff said the hotline is lightly resourced, uses a contracted intake service, and referrals or recommendations are followed up through management letters and later reviews. The committee also heard an audit of the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department’s safety inspections and asset tracking. The Secretary of State’s office reported that OPRD had not consistently conducted or documented quarterly OSHA safety inspections and had incomplete asset records, including missing acquisition dates and costs for many assets. The audit made eight recommendations covering safety inspection policies, asset management guidance, tagging, reconciliations, disposition controls, training, and a new asset management system; OPRD agreed to all recommendations. OPRD officials said they had already begun training staff, improving inspection procedures, and working toward a replacement asset system, while noting operational challenges from a large, dispersed park system and manual processes. Committee members asked about what kinds of assets are tracked, how tagging works, whether items were actually being lost, and how much tracking is necessary for low-value tools; OPRD said the main issue was inconsistent classification and documentation rather than widespread loss. The meeting ended with no votes or formal actions taken.

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• This system will do staff evaluation statewide, and appropriation will also provide for a skills assessment
• This is to cover costs associated with the UAMS juvenile sex offender assessments.
• It's supported by fees from the sex offender community notification assessment.
• This is to cover costs associated with the UAMS juvenile sex offender assessments.
• It's supported by fees from the sex offender community notification assessment.

Committee: All ALC-PEER

Keywords: 1204, all

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• HB 221 is a work session relative to assessment of cost effectiveness of the system benefits charge.
• </c><00:10:48.200><c> of</c><00:10:48.680><c> cost</c> session relative to assessment of cost session
• relative to assessment of cost eff<00:10:50.000><c> cost</c><00:10:50.279><c> effectiveness</c><00:10
• HB 221, relative to assessment of cost effectiveness of the system benefits charge.
• HB 221, relative to assessment of cost effectiveness of the system benefits charge.

Committee: House Science, Technology and Energy

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• </c><01:04:32.079><c> But</c><01:04:32.240><c> I</c><01:04:32.400><c> would</c> utility assessment for
• But I would utility assessment for that.
• at a higher infrastructure assessment at a higher standard<01:05:11.520><c> than</c><01:05:11.760><c
• Um, so this would most likely be done through the utility assessment, and those can be recovered from
• utilities for the cost of a uh assess utilities for the cost of a consultant. consultant. consultant

Committee: House Science, Technology and Energy

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• uh of those come in and do an assessment uh of those lands<01:08:39.839><c> to</c><01:08:40.040><c>
• <01:09:49.159><c> has</c><01:09:49.359><c> been</c> assessment has been assessment has been done<01:09
• </c><01:15:05.120><c> worksheet</c> environmental assessment worksheet environmental assessment worksheet
• </c> recommended an environmental assessment recommended an environmental assessment worksheet<01:15:
• </c> we would say an environmental assessment we would say an environmental assessment worksheet<01:16

Committee: Senate Environment, Climate, and Legacy

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• The bill makes all charters eligible for the distribution of taxes for local assessments.
• Trunow's bill that prohibits counties, municipalities, and special districts from levying special assessments
• implement, or advance net zero policies, imposing taxes, fees, penalties, charges, offsets, or assessments
• It involves the way we assess mobile home parks.
• They're currently assessed as a commercial property, and the assessment can go up 10% a year.

Committee: Senate Finance and Tax

Summary: The Finance and Tax Committee met with a quorum and considered two Senate proposed bills. The first, SPB 7046, was the Senate tax package. It included changes to Live Local property tax exemptions, charter school distributions from voter-approved property tax levies, limits on special assessments for RV parks, revisions to fiscally constrained county funding and eligibility, a permanent sales tax exemption for small propane tanks, a hunting/fishing/camping sales tax holiday, restrictions on governmental net zero policies, and new voting thresholds for certain local millage actions. Staff estimated the bill would reduce general revenue by about $77 million in FY 2026-27 and about $50 million recurring. An amendment making the charter-school distribution change prospective starting July 1, 2026, was adopted. A late-filed amendment by Senator Gaetz on disability tax exemptions was withdrawn for lack of a fiscal analysis. The charter school provision drew the most debate. Senator Jones and Senator Bernard raised concerns that expanding eligibility to charter schools authorized through alternate authorizers could reduce funding available to traditional neighborhood public schools and that the effective date did not give districts enough time to plan. Senator Avila argued the change corrected an omission from earlier legislation and ensured public schools, including charter schools, were treated equally. Several speakers supported the fiscally constrained county provisions, while the Florida Association of Counties urged grandfathering for counties that could currently opt out of the Live Local exemption and asked the committee to review language on millage thresholds and net zero provisions. SPB 7046 was ultimately reported favorably as a committee bill by a roll call vote. The committee then took up SPB 7048, which updates Florida’s conformity to the Internal Revenue Code as of January 1, 2026, and partially decouples from federal changes in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. The bill addresses federal changes to bonus depreciation, Section 179 expensing, research and experimental expenses, business meals, and business interest deductions, with some provisions phased in or adjusted over time. The Florida Chamber testified in support of continued conformity but expressed concerns about administrative burdens and the bill’s partial decoupling structure. After brief debate, the bill was reported favorably as a committee bill by roll call vote, and the committee then adjourned.

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• governments to enter into intergovernmental agreements to administer the program and into special assessment
• agreements with property owners to secure special assessment financing for qualified properties.
• the local government, capital provider, and the property owner after the imposition of special assessment
• So HB 2824 authorizes cities and counties in Arizona to establish a commercial property assessment capital
• such as energy efficiency, water conservation, and other infrastructure upgrades through a special assessment

Bills: HB2113 , HB2237 , HB2824 , HB2926 , HB2939 , HB2950

Committee: House Rural Economic Development

Keywords: utility consumer, rate intervention, public service corporation, Arizona Revised Statutes, residential rates, consumer protection, appropriation, Apache Junction, tourism, recreation, Superstition trails, funding, infrastructure, C-PACE, capital expenditure, special assessment, property improvement, local government financing, energy efficiency, water conservation

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• We did receive a fiscal note, and it was given a non-determinate but non-zero assessment by the Department
• the permanent or degenerative medical condition as part of the finding that the two physicians must assess
• It extends the period that the person assessed for an extraordinary medical placement is expected to
• It replaces release with placement and requires the department to use risk factors to assess the person
• individual's illness and the appropriate Department of Corrections personnel to be responsible for assessing

Summary: The Senate Human Services Committee met in executive session to review several bills, with one bill on the DCYF Oversight Board (SB 5942) held until the following week so additional stakeholder input could be incorporated. Staff briefed bills on escorted leaves for incarcerated individuals (SB 5873), extraordinary medical placements (SB 5895), financial stability for youth in DCYF care receiving Social Security benefits (SB 5911), an extended foster care housing pilot (SB 5940), changes to the persistent offender definition and resentencing (SB 5945), adding positions to the Office of Homeless Youth Advisory Committee (SB 5957), and medically tailored meals for Apple Health enrollees (SB 5966). Several of these bills had multiple proposed amendments, many offered by Senator Christian, addressing eligibility limits, monitoring, location restrictions, time limits, liability, victim notification, and funding contingencies. In executive action, the committee adopted only the chair’s technical amendment to SB 5873 and rejected the other proposed amendments, then advanced the bill as a proposed substitute to the Rules Committee. SB 5895 also moved forward as a proposed substitute after most amendments were rejected and one was withdrawn; the committee sent it to Ways and Means. SB 5911’s amendment clarifying protected accounts for youth benefits was adopted, and the bill was advanced to Ways and Means. SB 5940 was also advanced to Ways and Means after adoption of the substitute. SB 5945’s proposed substitute was adopted and the bill was sent forward, while SB 5957 and SB 5966 were briefly discussed in briefing but not acted on during the portion of the meeting captured here. The chair noted that any remaining executive bills not completed would be taken up at the next meeting.

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• They are our first responders from the standpoint that they go out and do the initial damage assessment
• The next step in the process, as soon as those subject matter experts are done making assessments, we
• They are our first responders from the standpoint that they go out and do the initial damage assessment
• , We. next step in the process, so as soon as those subject matter experts are done making assessments
• So more to come on that, but we wanted to share with you at least our initial assessment of what the

Summary: The Transportation Committee met for an organizational session and received a presentation from Washington State Department of Transportation and Washington State Ferries staff on recovery from the December atmospheric river storms. Committee members were introduced, and staff outlined a new process for submitting proviso and project requests through an online app, with members directed to work through their caucus policy staff. The chair also announced caucus meetings and noted staff changes for the session. WSDOT and WSF described emergency response operations, including statewide activations, damage assessment, and the use of emergency declarations to speed repairs. Staff explained how they pursue federal reimbursement through FHWA Emergency Relief and, separately, FEMA for debris removal, while noting that permanent repairs still require environmental clearances. They reported more than 50 emergency work orders, 16 emergency contracts, about 107 road sites closed at one point, and an initial damage estimate of roughly $30 million. Examples of storm damage and recovery included US 2 near Skykomish and Tumwater Canyon, US 12 near Naches, Highway 410, Highway 42 near Mount Baker, I-90 shoulder damage, and a major US 101 slope failure near Forks that will require longer-term geotechnical work. Members asked about environmental permitting, bridge impacts, flood coordination with the Army Corps of Engineers, and whether emergency declarations allow broader actions; staff said the declaration mainly speeds stabilization and contracting, does not change tolling authority, and does not waive environmental requirements. No votes were taken.

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• body of a city or county to establish a procedure to use a nuisance abatement lien or a special assessment
• Allowing local officials to collect unpaid administrative fines with special assessments and abatement
• liens puts the responsibility on the property owner to dispute the assessment instead of requiring a
• allows cities to recover unpaid administrative fines through a nuisance abatement lien or special assessment
• Richardson remarked that cities and counties already have the ability to seek liens and special assessments

Summary: The committee opened the June 18, 2025 Local Government hearing with housekeeping rules, noting that testimony would be in person and that disruptive conduct would not be tolerated. Because a quorum was initially lacking, the committee proceeded as a subcommittee and heard several bills before later taking formal votes once quorum was established. The agenda included 15 bills, with eight placed on the consent calendar and one bill pulled by the author. The bills discussed included SB 333, which would let San Luis Obispo County voters consider raising the local sales tax cap for transportation funding; SB 390, a district-specific measure for South San Francisco to address a Mello-Roos/CFD issue affecting properties with conservation easements; SB 394, which would increase penalties for water theft and allow local agencies to recover damages; SB 611, which would restore protections for housing projects tied to adopted community plans while CEQA litigation is pending; SB 757, which would allow nuisance abatement liens or special assessments to collect cleanup costs for chronic nuisance properties; and SB 489, which would require public agencies involved in housing approvals to post application requirements online. Supporters generally framed the bills as tools for infrastructure financing, housing production, transparency, public safety, or deterrence of theft and blight. Opposition was heard on SB 757, with critics warning about due process, foreclosure risk, and displacement of low-income homeowners. After quorum was called, the committee voted 7-0 to pass SB 757, and later approved SB 489 on a 10-0 vote. The consent calendar bills—SB 74, SB 225, SB 272, SB 409, SB 558, SB 735, SB 736, and SB 737—were approved together. SB 333 advanced on a 7-2 vote, SB 390 passed 9-0, SB 394 passed 9-0, and SB 611 passed 10-0. The hearing concluded with the committee adjourned after all listed actions were taken.

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• navigate a path with Bernalillo County to really understand and grasp how these taxes are being assessed
• They just said, here's a new bill, and it was because of this assessment of improvements that Bernalillo
• Because there's no way for them to individually assess each parcel, given the number of parcels in the
• And so they do a mass assessment that's supposed to be based on some national and regional numbers that
• But since some of these improvements were never assessed, they're getting assessed now with the value

Committee: House House Rural Development, Land Grants And Cultural Affairs

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• I think Lao said that we might need to look at basically making sure that we assess programs, whether
• Has the Governor's office done a risk assessment of the potential? Sequestering federal funds.
• Have we done a risk assessment?
• Is that an accurate assessment? I don't know if that's true for a day, but I understand your point.
• I know that you are willing to speak truth to power and give your honest assessment as economists, as

Committee: House Budget

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• The standards even give guidance on how to conduct risk assessments.
• If the risk was identified and we do IT risk assessments.
• But secondly, it's us kind of directing. where those assessments would be. Okay, so.
• The data landscape assessment has already been done.
• And I can, and I'm happy to refer back. to the factors we use to assess that.

Bills: HB512 , HB2248 , HB2679 , HB2832 , HB3112 , HB3368 , HB3490 , HB3512 , HB3623 , HB3666 , HB3700 , HB3711 , HB3770 , HB3963

Committee: House Delivery of Government Efficiency

Keywords: grievance procedures, state agency, employee rights, workplace regulations, employment law, employees, employment actions, appeal, state employees, workplace rights, disciplinary actions, employment conditions, employment disputes, job protections, public information, transparency, government accountability, information access, notification requirements, federal funding

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• Staff is currently reviewing and assessing all submissions and feedback.
• Staff is currently reviewing and assessing all submissions and feedback.
• It would require staff to monitor, evaluate, and assess how the program is working and ensure that it
• We are now assessing those. The comment period just closed on May 4th.
• We are assessing feedback to see if any adjustments are needed.

Keywords: 987, senate, all

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• , particularly the unique nature of being with growing revenues and growing deficits, in order to assess
• , particularly the unique nature of being with growing revenues and growing deficits, in order to assess
• Growing deficits in order to assess where we can make adjustments in particular programs that have been
• Have you done any kind of assessment on that end?
• As it's determined in our annual assessment and audit from CDT and the Department of Military, from a

Keywords: 987, senate, all

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• So I'm shifting to the actual assessment, monitoring, and remediation at a site.
• And so some examples for assessment and monitoring are included here.
• The boards would like to have the opportunity to conduct additional assessment if needed.
• So understanding, I mean, you said we'd like to be able to conduct additional assessments, and you said
• And then part of that requires assessment, as I had mentioned.

Committee: Senate Environmental Quality

Keywords: 987, senate, all

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• So House Bill 304 is just some very simple language to talk about soybean assessment.
• The soybean assessment checkoff rate is a half a percent.
• So House Bill 304 is just some very simple language to talk about soybean assessment.
• There was an assessment out of milk check. I raised beef cattle still.
• There was an assessment out of milk check. I raised beef cattle still.

Keywords: 00:00 - Introduction 00:15 – Attendance Roll Call 03:15 -- House Bill 186 09:59 – Roll Call Vote 11:51 – HB 370 22:55 – Roll Call Vote 24:45 – HB 304 28:47—Roll Call Vote 30:13 – HB 391 43:09—Roll Call Vote, 958, all

Summary: The committee first heard House Bill 186, which would streamline food-service rules for churches and nonprofits providing meals to homeless shelters and people displaced by natural disasters. Representative Duvall said the bill is meant to remove unnecessary kitchen and plumbing requirements so organizations can safely serve simple meals in emergencies. Members discussed food safety, whether the bill applies only in declared disaster situations or also to homeless shelters, and whether training should be offered; Duvall clarified that the disaster and homelessness provisions are separate and that food must still be safe and wholesome. After discussion, the committee took a roll call vote and House Bill 186 passed with favorable expression. The committee then heard House Bill 370, a Department of Agriculture reorganization measure sponsored by Representative Payne. Payne and Agriculture Commissioner Jonathan Shell said the bill would move the Division of Farm Safety and Rural Health and create an Office of Economic Development to better support programs such as Food Is Medicine, rural health, farmer mental health, and farm safety. Members asked about the removal of references to shows and fairs, whether the bill would affect livestock shows and county fairs, and whether any new funding was included; Payne said the department would still support shows and fairs, the change was about efficiency and focus, and no new funding was specified because budget decisions come later. Discussion on House Bill 370 also highlighted the department’s broader economic role, including agricultural economic development and outreach tied to the new USDA secretary’s visit to Kentucky. The committee then voted and the bill passed with favorable expression. Finally, the committee began House Bill 304 on soybean assessment language. Representative Bivens and soybean association representatives explained it as cleanup language related to the soybean checkoff and a contingency if the federal checkoff changes. Members asked whether a referendum had already occurred and whether producers supported the measure; the witnesses said the referendum had already taken place and that soybean producers and the association supported it, while one member noted the state may increasingly need to adjust to federal changes.

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• While conducting the assessment, the local agency commits to adopting a set of standards that have been
• The internal assessment phase is followed by an external audit by trained assessors to ensure that the
• </c> agencies conduct an internal assessment agencies conduct an internal assessment of<00:24:47.679>
• the local agency commits to assessments the local agency commits to adopting<00:24:54.760><c> a</c><
• </c><00:25:01.559><c> phase</c> industry the internal assessment phase industry the internal assessment

Committee: Senate Judiciary and Public Safety

Keywords: 1187, senate, all