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• of states peace officers by updating certain definitions and classifications within our government code
• Again, our, uh, they're commissioned under, uh, 17, Chapter 1701 of the occupations code, uh, to.
• to consolidate that where when you see a police officer today, whether it be a trooper, deputy or city
• Eligible offenses include cases where there was affirmative findings of family violence under the Code

Bills: SB 36

Committee: House Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs

Keywords: transportation, regional authorities, mobility, infrastructure, sales tax

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• Um, I'm here to present House Bill 295, which clarifies a portion of the property tax code to align with
• name is Lynn Mosstaler, and I'm here to speak in favor of HB 295, a technical fix to the property tax code
• More importantly, Tax and Rev has confirmed that because the property tax code makes property taxes the
• In fact, In Albuquerque yesterday, the city council and Mayor Keller signed this $750 a month.

Committee: Senate Senate Tax, Business & Transportation

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• Caitlin's fifth grade students from Kirkwood Christian School from the city of Downey.
• We already have a $2 wage in the code, which means we have already acknowledged that there should be
• We already have a $2 wage in the code, which means we have already acknowledged that there should be
• We already have a $2 wage in the code, which means we have already acknowledged that there should be

Summary: The Assembly met on March 6, 2025, established a quorum, and opened with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and routine procedural motions, including unanimous consent requests and a re-referral of AB 506. The chamber then moved through a series of guest introductions and second-reading items before taking up several resolutions recognizing awareness days and cultural observances. Members adopted ACR 41 on Down Syndrome Awareness Week/Day and HR 24 on Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month after extensive bipartisan remarks focused on family experiences, inclusion, bullying, funding for services, and support for people with disabilities. The Assembly also adopted ACR 48 recognizing Women in STEM Day, ACR 49 recognizing California STEM Robotics Day, HR 18 celebrating Nauruze, and ACR 2 marking the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. Each resolution drew co-authors and supportive comments from members across the aisle. The body then debated and passed AB 248, which would remove the state wage cap on county jail inmate labor and allow counties more discretion; supporters framed it as local control and rehabilitation, while opponents argued it would raise costs and conflict with voter sentiment. The Assembly also passed AB 100, a budget-process measure moving a large package of bills to the Senate, and used a substituted roll call for the remaining related bills. Consent calendar items were approved, and the chamber concluded with multiple adjournments in memory, including tributes to Eric Lopez, Johnny D. Giles, and Roger Diamond, before adjourning until March 24, 2025.

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• did not present proof of evidence hearing to trigger the many provisions within our constitutional code
• during your Um, stated the judiciary address about, um, a, a major issue, problem with the family code
• Certain sections of Chapter I'm sorry, Article Chapter 33 of the Texas Government Code to impose statutory
• beginning of our online program which started in 2013, we've had 54,000 registered patrons from 1400 cities

Committee: House Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence

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• Bar code 2, 5, 3, 3, 6, 2, >> Thank you, Madam Chair.
• Chairman this amendment changes references of DP to Dbpr as this agency oversees Florida building code
• , I just want to make sure that there's a and I understand which saying about dbpr in the building code
• actually the whole world is going to double by the year 2016, which means we are building a New York City

Keywords: 999, senate, all

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• HCR 81 would designate the city as the gateway capital for a 10-year period ending in 2035.
• mandatory and voluntary reporting, is subject to open records disclosure, as outlined in Government Code

Keywords: wildlife corridors, animal-vehicle collisions, HB5259, licensing, concurrent resolutions, cultural significance, Senate Bill 1247, public safety, environmental conservation

Summary: The meeting of the committee centered around significant legislative measures, including several bills aimed at enhancing wildlife safety through the establishment of wildlife corridors and licenses for outdoor activities. Key discussions highlighted House Bill 5259, led by Vice Chair Flores, which proposes a wildlife corridor action plan to reduce animal-vehicle collisions in Texas. This bill is crucial given Texas's alarming rate of wildlife-vehicle accidents, and testimonies from supporting members emphasized the need for action to protect both wildlife and public safety. Furthermore, Senate Bill 1247 was brought forward, simplifying the non-resident hunting license system to improve compliance and conservation funding. The committee also addressed multiple concurrent resolutions recognizing towns for their cultural significance, reflecting a broader commitment to community identity and heritage.

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• really only have 1,800 beds, so it's quite miraculous, but that has through the partnership with our city
• and actually North City and spaces for us, but I'd be remiss if I didn't say that thank you and all
• what's happening at the state level, I come from supporting and working with small businesses in the city
• on as part-time and then now one of them is full-time and so these types of you know I think it was City
• What do you think other cities or regions are doing that could inform how we could do it better?

Committee: House Economic Development, Growth, and Household Impact

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• And they may not know about the Code of Federal Regulations. There's no notice whatsoever.
• </c><01:05:15.000><c> of</c> they may not know about the code of they may not know about the code of
• They still have a welcoming ordinance, but what it did was say that the city of Lebanon, their police
• That's what happens when you have sanctuary cities.
• or town in so bold to say that no city or town in New<02:18:29.920><c> Hampshire</c><02:18:30.399><c

Committee: Senate Judiciary

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

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• And I know that some cities and counties make it a priority to, you know, add...
• I understand there are limitations on how much money cities and counties have, and some are in poorer
• I mean, if, you know, a city wants to, you know, make it a priority in its budget to send $50,000 to
• I notice you've got the very first appropriation, the city aid to the aged, blind, and disabled.
• I notice you've got the very first appropriation, the city aid to the aged, blind, and disabled.

Committee: All JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE

Keywords: 1204, all

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• What about the city councilors and the county commissioners? Mr.
• Speaker, represented the County commissioner for the area and the city councilor. OK.
• election, the city runs it.
• Nowhere in there does it say that the city of Farming can apply for this, Mr. Chair. Mr.
• Is this any way like a, a workaround but to use our tax code to do that, Mr. Speaker, gentlemen?

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• So this is a county and city preemption, but it got no, no votes. It's, uh, Madam.
• Madam Chair, I can also note that you see the league and some cities are signed in neutral.
• And Israel, isn't it also true that in the towns and cities that have photo radar, they have seen a dramatic
• them in terms of having commercial property right here on Van Buren, owns a car sales lot, and the city
• requires the installation of solar energy devices to meet the requirements of fire, safety, and building codes

Keywords: 1182, all

Summary: The caucus reviewed a long list of Senate bills covering elections, transportation, health care, land use, water, criminal justice, and local government. Several election-related measures were described, including SB 1037 on voting equipment custody and internet/port restrictions, SB 1568 on election system software timekeeping, and SB 1687 moving the primary date to May starting in 2028. Members also discussed bills on photo enforcement fines, roadable aircraft registration, motor vehicle booting, assisted living occupancy limits, and municipal permit and exaction rules. A number of measures were noted as third-read consent items, while others were flagged for further discussion or amendments. Health and public safety bills drew substantial discussion. The committee heard bills on insurance coverage for breast cancer screening, safe-haven hospital surrender of newborns, dialysis documentation, behavioral health licensing compliance, naturopathic IV drug administration, traumatic event counseling for public safety employees, sex offender registration limitations, and probation rules for dangerous crimes against children. Members raised concerns or requested removal from consent on several items, including SB 1095 and SB 1094 related to gender-affirming care for minors, SB 1346 on AHCCCS claims processing, and SB 1178 on naturopathic drug administration. There was also debate over SB 1520 on immigration data sharing and SB 1635 on warning someone about an imminent arrest, with objections citing civil liberties and First Amendment concerns. The committee also considered multiple property, water, and development bills. These included measures on effluent water use for landscaping, groundwater fee diversion in Pinal County, increasing the Water Supply Development Revolving Fund loan cap, creating a foreign entity review commission for real property transfers, and restricting transport of Mexican gray wolf pups into Arizona. Members discussed SB 1419 on solar roof inspections and financing disclosures, and SB 1787 on municipal exactions and appeals, with an amendment proposed to limit it to commercial property. Several members explained their votes or asked to pull bills from consent, and some items were noted as having split votes or anticipated floor amendments. The caucus ended with Rhonda’s election-related bills and a note that the group would move immediately into a closed caucus afterward.

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• Office of the Governor, a transit agency, a regional transit authority, the Association of Washington Cities
• Bill 2172 modifies the process for route jurisdiction transfers and abandonments for state highways, city
• Bill 2172 modifies the process for route jurisdiction transfers and abandonments for state highways, city
• This bill is about basic fairness and updating our code to reflect the reality of cars and trucks today
• Some cities and places have TBDs; some places don't.

Summary: The committee took up a series of transportation-related bills and proposed substitutes, with most measures advancing after discussion and roll-call or voice votes. House Bill 2092, creating a Washington State Amtrak Cascades Passenger Rail Advisory Committee, was amended by a proposed substitute that broadened membership and duties, and it passed 20-6. House Bill 2114, allowing fee waivers for replacement defective license plates, passed unanimously. House Bill 2172, clarifying route jurisdiction transfers and abandonments for highways and local roads, also passed unanimously after a substitute requiring agreements or legislative action for longer highway abandonments or those involving bridges. House Bill 2251, which restructures Climate Commitment Act accounts and revenue distribution, drew the most amendment activity. Two amendments were adopted to adjust forest carbon language and clarify Ecology administration funding, while amendments to redirect revenue to transportation infrastructure and to split excess revenue differently failed. The bill then passed 18-8 as amended. House Bill 2374, which redefines e-bikes and electric motorcycles and creates a work group on enforcement and safety, passed unanimously after a substitute added stakeholder representation and asked the work group to explore civil infractions and penalties. House Bill 2410, creating a Commercial Truck Safety and Education Council and increasing a safety fee, passed 25-1 after a substitute changed appointment authority, membership, and other council provisions. House Bill 2552, authorizing WSDOT and a regional transit authority to use MATOC contracting, was amended to add apprenticeship, prevailing wage, and notification requirements and then passed 16-10. House Bill 2588, expanding ferry district authority beyond passenger-only ferries, passed 16-10 amid concerns about taxing authority and voter input. House Bill 2718, setting timelines and processes for permit streamlining and originally including contractor ratings, had the contractor-rating section removed by amendment and then passed unanimously. House Bill 2722, increasing the vehicle weight threshold for transportation benefit district fees from 6,000 to 10,000 pounds, passed 17-9. House Bill 2727, creating an educational transit access grant program for community and technical college students, passed 21-5 after supporters emphasized student access and equity, while some members raised rural access concerns.

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• and what the fire code requires.
• I would have to check the fire code on that, and I'm not a fire code expert.
• </c> the fire code and what the fire code the fire code and what the fire code requires.<04:24:32.720
• </c> or closed in place which the fire code or closed in place which the fire code offers<04:26:16.800
• I that and I'm not a fire code expert.

Committee: House Environment and Agriculture

Keywords: 928, house, all

Summary: The Environmental Policy Subcommittee took up HB 1621, which would require a baseline environmental impact study before development of certain manufacturing and storage facilities. Members said the concept had merit, but they could not resolve major drafting and implementation issues, including how to define covered facilities, what the study would require, and how enforcement would work at the municipal or county level. Several members expressed concern about unintended consequences and said the proposal was not ready; the subcommittee voted unanimously to recommend inexpedient to legislate (ITL), and the full committee later adopted that recommendation on a 16-0 roll call vote, placing the bill on consent. The committee then discussed HB 1053, involving electronically submitted pesticide use reports. Representative Comtois presented an amendment creating a department database and protecting confidential information, but said she still needed to check whether it was germane and to review administrative issues with the Department of Agriculture. After hearing from David Russo of the Division of Pesticide Control, the committee agreed to continue work on the amendment and took no action that day. The committee also reviewed HB 1186 on egg labeling and producer exemptions. Representative Comtois offered an amendment exempting small producers from most requirements except labeling, but Commissioner Sean Jasper asked for more time to review the impact and suggested the state might not need the existing egg law at all if federal USDA rules already cover the field. Members agreed to hold action until the following week. Finally, the committee began discussion of HB 1780 on penalties for violations involving seeds, plants, and nursery stock, focusing on labeling rules and germination-date requirements; testimony from industry and department representatives indicated they were working toward a compromise that would allow multiple relabelings, add production dates, and set a 36-month sale limit, but no final action was taken in the portion provided.

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• So, I'll close by saying our code &gt;&gt; Yes.
• </c><00:52:44.000><c> enforcement</c> with our town's code enforcement with our town's code enforcement
• ><c> enforcement</c><00:53:19.119><c> shut</c> heard that the code enforcement shut heard that the code
• They're using code terms, not I specifically went in and had this act done to me.
• </c> or city ordinance like shall be made. or city ordinance like shall be made.

Committee: House Executive Departments and Administration

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• In some cases, depending on the city, regionally.
• entities, virtually every single one in Yolo, Sacramento, El Dorado, Placer, Yuba, and Sutter counties, cities
• So let's say one of those chambers of commerce is funded from their county or their city to provide small
• This measure modernizes the Business and Professions Code by aligning statute with current board policies
• This measure modernizes the Business and Professions Code by aligning statute with current board policies

Committee: Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development

Keywords: 987, senate, all

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• And this is all based on Idaho Code section 41-607.
• I called a meeting with the school district, the YMCA, and the city of Sandpoint, because the city of
• And in the very section of code that seeks to ensure that we don't discriminate against people based
• Sheriff's Association, and again, this has support from the Idaho Sheriff's Association, from the cities

Summary: The Senate opened with roll call, prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and approval of the prior day’s journal. It then moved through routine committee reports and bill referrals, including printing and committee assignments for several Senate bills and House messages. Early action also included referral of Senate Concurrent Resolution 128 and multiple House and Senate bills to the appropriate committees or later orders of business. The chamber then took up several appropriations and policy bills on third reading. Senate Bill 1401, an appropriation to the Department of Health and Welfare for Public Health Services, was debated as a mix of federal pass-through funding, vaccine purchasing, laboratory testing, ARPA grants, HIV/hepatitis prevention, suicide prevention, and a transfer of the Idaho Home Visiting Program; it passed 21-14. Senate Bill 1423, dealing with the FAST Act and a framework for stablecoin payments, drew debate over efficiency, banking costs, state control, and privacy/risk concerns; it passed 22-13. Senate Bill 1429, a behavioral health appropriation and supplemental, was presented as a series of restorations and fund shifts tied to prior budget cuts and settlement obligations, and it passed 21-14. Senate Bill 1431, an appropriation and transfer for the Department of Water Resources, including aquifer monitoring and stream gauging/adjudication staffing, passed 26-7. The Senate also passed House Bill 855, revising lifetime fish and game license residency requirements from six months to five years, by a vote of 23-11. Later, House Bill 752, which would prohibit knowingly entering opposite-sex restrooms or changing rooms in government buildings and public accommodations except under specified exceptions, prompted extensive debate. Supporters argued it protected privacy, children, and women’s safety; opponents argued it criminalized transgender people, was discriminatory, and could harm Idaho’s reputation and economy. The debate continued at the end of the transcript, with the bill still under consideration.

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• And this is all based on Idaho Code section 41-607.
• I called a meeting with the school district, the YMCA, and the city of Sandpoint, because the city of
• definitions of state government and the Commission on Human Rights. ...and in the very section of code
• Sheriff's Association, and again, this has support from the Idaho Sheriff's Association, from the cities

Keywords: 989, all

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• So there's a lot unclear about the nature of the agreement that occurred 81 years ago when the city of
• week ago Friday, my CEO of Tallahassee Memorial Hospital read in the newspaper that the Tallahassee City
• without any previous conversation with someone who'd been in partnership with the hospital and the city
• We are on bar code amendment number two. Barcode number 573995 by Representative Soroy.
• It would be literally code if we went out and printed most of these EMRs.

Summary: The committee took up a large health and human services agenda and first approved HB 711, the Spectrum Alert bill, which would create a statewide alert system for missing autistic children and require FDLE to coordinate training with state and local agencies. The measure drew a supportive waiver from the Florida Smart Justice Alliance and passed unanimously, 24-0, reported favorably. Members then considered CS for HB 229 on health facilities, which modernizes the Health Facilities Authority Act to allow additional nonprofit health system structures to use tax-exempt financing. Two amendments were adopted: one requiring advance notice, public hearings, and stakeholder notifications before a nonprofit hospital closure, and another removing a property tax exemption for a nonprofit hospital that closes and fails to maintain emergency services for 120 days, applied retroactively to January 1, 2025. The Florida Hospital Association opposed the amendments, citing workforce and nonprofit-status concerns, but the bill as amended passed 24-0. The committee also approved CS for HB 1405 on juvenile justice status offenders, expanding early truancy intervention, parent involvement, and shelter placement review timelines; it passed 24-0. CS for HB 27, joining the Social Work Licensure Interstate Compact, and its linked public records bill CS for HB 29 both passed unanimously after supportive testimony from several advocacy and business groups. The committee then debated HB 111 on out-of-network referrals and HB 1083 on patient access to records. HB 111 would require referring practitioners to inform patients in writing when a referral is out of network and to apply out-of-network payments to deductibles; it drew opposition from medical groups over administrative burden and patient-care concerns, but passed 17-8. HB 1083 would shorten the time for producing medical records to 14 working days and standardize access rules, with amendments clarifying portal access and delaying the effective date to January 1, 2026; despite opposition from some health information and provider groups over HIPAA and access concerns, it passed 19-7 as amended. Later, the committee approved HB 883, allowing autonomous practice for psychiatric nurse practitioners with the required credentials, after strong support from nurse practitioner groups and opposition from psychiatric and medical associations; it passed 23-3. HB 1297, which aligns Florida’s electronic prescribing exceptions with federal law and removes several state exemptions, passed 19-7 despite opposition from hospice, emergency physician, rheumatology, and medical groups concerned about paper prescriptions in emergencies and hard-to-find medications. HB 1353 on home health care services and CS for HB 989 on foster home licensure transfers both passed unanimously after supportive amendments. The committee also heard HB 1505 on parental rights, which would require written parental consent for many health care services, surveys, and biofeedback devices for minors and expand parental access to records; the bill drew extensive support testimony but also questions and concerns about confidentiality, abuse reporting, and existing exceptions, and the transcript ended before a final vote on that bill.

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• </c> places in our criminal code. places in our criminal code.
• this legislation helps set the policy for these school districts to be able to govern their dress codes
• We're allowing local control for the HHR, the horse racing machines that are in everybody's city, town
• town</c><01:45:45.440><c> and</c><01:45:45.760><c> county</c><01:45:46.239><c> or</c> everybody's city
• to agree on where these machines cities to agree on where these machines are<01:46:07.280><c> going<

Keywords: 916, all

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• Almond City. No. No. No. Magguire Rutland City. Alia Pittsford. Yes. Yes. Yes. Marcott Coventry.
• Alvin City. >> Magguire of Breland City.
• Robin City. Magguire, Rutland City. Malaya, Pittsford. Yes. Yes. Yes. Marcato, Coventry. Yes.
• Randolph Howard of Rutland City. Lamont, Morristown. Maguire of Rutland City.
• Albvin City.

Keywords: 926, house, all