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• sales tax for a resident veteran with 100 percent disability rating connected to their service purchasing
• We have three different schools in Miami-Dade County that are free of charge for children.

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• Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?
• relating to epinephrine delivery systems, to revise provisions regarding life-threatening allergies in schools

Keywords: 989, all

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• for Safe Schools in GOSEP, but it doesn't really put those requirements down at the school level.
• for Safe Schools in GOSEP, but it doesn't really put those requirements down at the school level.
• do in the school is done in coordination with the school resource officer.
• Anything that we do in the school is done in coordination with the school resource officer or the jurisdictional
• But LCLE's primary function with respect to school safety is the certification of school resource officers

Keywords: 965, house, all

Summary: The committee first heard an update on the Northwest Louisiana earthquake cluster. Laura Sori of the Department of Conservation and Energy said the agency has inspected Class II injection wells within 12 miles of the earthquakes, found no permit violations, and is requiring monthly reporting of daily injection data. LSU and Tulane researchers explained that the swarm includes about 50 earthquakes detected by USGS since December 2025, including a 4.9 magnitude event on March 5, and that better monitoring is needed because Louisiana has very limited seismic station coverage. Dr. Cynthia Ebinger said her temporary array has detected more small quakes than USGS, that the pattern looks more like a swarm than normal aftershocks, and that the data suggest pressure changes in the subsurface, though no definitive cause was identified. Keith Hall of LSU described how other states responded to suspected induced seismicity with more monitoring, more frequent reporting, injection limits or moratoria, and “traffic light” systems that escalate regulatory responses as seismicity increases. Members asked about depths, fault locations, possible links to injection or fracking, and whether more monitoring and data-sharing should be pursued; several speakers said Louisiana likely needs a denser monitoring network and more structured data collection. A Texas geoscientist, William Berger, also testified that Texas uses large-scale data analysis and AI to study injection-related seismicity and argued for secure sharing of operator data to improve forecasting and risk management. The committee then took testimony on UAV and drone incursions over Barksdale Air Force Base. GOSEP said the incident was logged in WebEOC and the common operating picture, but that Barksdale did not request direct GOSEP resources and that the matter was handled through law enforcement channels. Louisiana State Police and the FBI said they were limited in what they could disclose, but confirmed multiple drone sightings on the morning and evening of March 9 and continued monitoring for several days. State Police said they have created a task force with the Police Chiefs Association, Sheriffs Association, GOSEP, and LSP, and that officers are receiving FBI-related training to help detect and, where authorized, mitigate drones. Members discussed whether the activity was nefarious, what counts as an incursion, and the need for better public education about drone restrictions near military and critical infrastructure sites. No formal action was taken, but members said the issue will continue to be tracked alongside pending legislation. Finally, the committee received a one-year update on the merger of GOSEP with the Louisiana National Guard and Military Department. Major General Thomas Freelieu and Brigadier General Jason Maffus said the merger has reduced GOSEP from seven divisions to three, shifted administrative functions to the Military Department, and produced about $10.5 million in first-year cost avoidance. They said the agency has modernized its common operating picture, returned staff to in-person work, and continued statewide preparedness exercises. Freelieu highlighted Guard missions including cyber expansion, the new Air National Guard cyber squadron at Jackson Barracks, modernization of the 159th Fighter Wing, and ongoing support for homeland security missions in New Orleans and Washington, D.C. Maffus said GOSEP’s core mission remains emergency preparedness, response, and recovery, and that the merger is intended to make state support to parishes faster and more efficient.

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• and the Oliver School, I appreciated why they're so highly invested in this program.
• He spent many years blazing trails in Four Corners and playing basketball at Madison Park High School
• Fattman, study on agricultural schools. Senator Fattman. Thank you, Mr. President.
• of a Central Massachusetts Agricultural School.
• Thank you. and host districts for a new and expanded agricultural school.

Keywords: 1212, all

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• Purchase about 20 total tons of tobacco from Louisiana farmers here in Louisiana to the natural American
• He is here shadowing today, and he is finishing up his undergraduate and applying to veterinary school
• So, again, so you live in Batesville, you’re from Batesville, but go to school in Fayetteville?

Committee: Senate Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development

Summary: The Senate Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, and Rural Development met on May 12, 2026, approved the April 28 minutes, and heard extensive testimony on House Concurrent Resolution 77, which urges federal action to address labor shortages affecting Louisiana’s crawfish industry and other seasonal employers. Representative Butler, Commissioner Strain, industry representatives, landscapers, nursery operators, and Farm Bureau supporters argued that H-2A/H-2B visa limits and processing delays are hurting crawfish processors, landscapers, nurseries, and related businesses, causing lost production, higher costs, and broader economic harm. Members emphasized that the workers discussed are legal guest workers, not illegal immigration, and several senators voiced support. HCR 77 was reported favorably, with a motion to co-author also noted. The committee then considered House Bill 81 on property rights and accountability for violations. Representative Boyer presented the bill, but Senator Long asked that it be voluntarily deferred so he could work on possible amendments and improve the measure before it advances. The author agreed, and the bill was deferred. The committee also heard and acted on several bills related to agricultural policy and food systems. House Bill 512, concerning cell-cultured meat, was presented as a measure to protect livestock producers and allow continued research while prohibiting the product; after questions about research and labeling, it was reported favorably. House Bill 717, a labeling companion measure for cell-cultured meat, was also reported favorably. House Bill 1194, which would direct the LSU AgCenter to study food deserts and develop a plan, drew concern from the AgCenter over capacity and funding; members agreed to report it without action so it could be recommitted to finance and worked on further. Finally, House Bill 663, revising the membership of the Delta Economic Research and Sustainability District board, was presented on behalf of the absent author and reported favorably. The committee then adjourned.

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• Meaning that the state of Missouri didn't give to the school districts and/or the county's general revenue
• tax credit, enhanced enterprise zones program, health, hunger, and hygiene needs of children and school
• tax credit, higher education scholarship donation program, tax credit for purchasing dry fire hydrants

Committee: House Agriculture

Keywords: 959, house, all

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• get additional training in chemotherapy, let's say, but right, as a licensee fresh out of nursing school
• and get additional training and chemotherapy let's say but right as a licensee fresh out of nursing school
• prior to installation, and mandates certain disclosures as it relates to the sales documents and purchase

Keywords: 1182, all

Summary: The caucus reviewed a long list of Senate bills and memorials across several policy areas, with most items presented as consent or third-read measures and little debate. Topics included special license plates for the Arizona Space Commission, local land-use and housing restrictions, liquor regulation updates, limits on municipal delays in permitting and exactions, election equipment security and timekeeping requirements, precinct committeeman vacancy procedures, assisted living and deed-fraud measures, a Freedom of Speech Monument committee, renaming Wesley Bolin Plaza, and a ban on gender transition procedures for minors. Members also discussed health and human services bills on behavioral health technician standards, Medicaid billing during ownership changes, breast cancer screening cost-sharing, naturopathic IV administration authority, safe-haven newborn surrender at hospitals, and access claim-processing timelines. The Judiciary portion covered probation limits for dangerous crimes against children, a civil cause of action related to prohibited gender reassignment surgery on minors, elimination of the statute of limitations for failure to register as a sex offender, probation incentive calculations, victim-rights expense recovery, unlawful flight penalties, vulnerable adult theft definitions, motor fuel theft, unlawful alerting, and evidence rules in sexual-assault-related hearings. In discussion, members asked for clarifications on several bills, including the definitions of “malicious” delay, internet access on election equipment, the scope of the breast screening bill, and the meaning of unlawful alerting. Supporters repeatedly described bills as common-sense, fraud-prevention, patient-access, or public-safety measures, while one member noted a no vote on extending the Vulnerable Adult System Study Committee. Additional measures in land, agriculture, water, public safety, and transportation included foreign-entity restrictions on land transactions, limits on transporting Mexican gray wolf puppies, water reuse and groundwater fee extensions, a larger water supply revolving fund loan cap, congressional memorials on EPA authority and the San Carlos irrigation project, expanded traumatic event counseling coverage, reimbursement of legal costs for certain disciplined law enforcement officers, data sharing with the federal government on unauthorized aliens, roadable aircraft registration, motor vehicle booting rules, military-property sign placement, a towing and impound study committee, photo enforcement penalties, and highway renaming memorials. No roll-call votes were described in the transcript, and the meeting ended after the transportation items and memorials were completed.

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• However, it is show-and-tell day at my daughter's school, and so I brought a prop to use in my presentation
• Show-and-tell day at my daughter's school.
• As such, it would also reduce California's reliance on expensive wholesale peak power purchases to increase

Summary: The Assembly Committee on Utilities and Energy met without a quorum at first and proceeded as a subcommittee, then later established quorum and took up three bills. AB 1715, by Assembly Member Schiavo, would require the CPUC to create a searchable online database of utility advice letters, responses, and resolutions dating back to 2020, and add quarterly reporting on taxpayer-funded loans and grants to investor-owned utilities. Supporters, including TURN, said the bill would improve transparency and accountability around utility financing and ratepayer savings; no formal opposition testified, though SDG&E and SoCalGas said committee amendments addressed their main concerns. The bill was moved do pass as amended to Appropriations and ultimately passed 16-0. AB 1761, by Assembly Member Rogers, would improve transparency around the PCIA charge paid by community choice aggregators and other departing load customers by allowing advance access to data used in the calculation through an existing CPUC nondisclosure process. CalCCA, several CCAs, local governments, and clean energy groups supported the bill, arguing that current PCIA-setting practices are opaque and can cause rate shock; IOUs opposed, citing concerns about market-sensitive data and noting an existing CPUC process they said had not been fully used. After discussion of confidentiality protections and the committee amendments, the bill passed 15-0 to Appropriations. AB 1787, by Assembly Member Schultz, would require the CPUC to direct the large investor-owned utilities to offer optional dynamic rate tariffs once smart meter and related system upgrades approved on or after January 1, 2027 are in place. Supporters said dynamic pricing can help customers shift usage to lower-cost, cleaner periods and reduce peak demand costs, while opponents from PG&E, SDG&E, and SCE argued the bill was too prescriptive, could conflict with ongoing CPUC proceedings, and might create cost or implementation issues. The author said he would continue working with opponents and accepted committee amendments; the bill passed 13-0 to Appropriations. All three measures were reported out, and the committee adjourned.

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• However, it is show-and-tell day at my daughter's school, and so I brought a prop to use in my presentation
• Show-and-tell day at my daughter's school, and so I brought a prop to use in my presentation, with the
• As such, it would also reduce California's reliance on expensive wholesale peak power purchases to increase

Committee: House Utilities and Energy

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• It eliminates the federal requirements. environmental studies and some of the other purchasing requirements
• Then we are one of seven states that does that for the public Sector, so we'll work with any county, schools
• The kind of things that they can't afford if it's a smaller community, smaller school that they can't

Keywords: 914, all

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• The funds will be used to purchase the exhibit objects and install the new gallery design. $75,000 in
• the adolescent piece, the residential adolescent piece, is just really critical, especially to our schools
• You know... ...critical, especially to our schools.

Bills: HB1603

Committee: Senate Appropriations

Keywords: Native American, grave protection, repatriation, cultural heritage, tribal compliance, 908, all

Summary: The Appropriations Committee met with a quorum and announced it would begin meeting at 8 a.m. for the rest of the week to work through a growing bill list. The committee first approved House Bill 1603, a companion to the Historical Society budget dealing with NAGPRA, including a $500,000 matching grant to be divided among North Dakota’s five tribes and a committee to address repatriation of human remains and cultural items. The vote was unanimous, 15-0. The committee then considered House Bill 1225, which would increase penalties for reckless endangerment involving a firearm and create a mandatory prison term. After debate over public safety concerns versus the bill’s fiscal note and prison costs, the committee adopted a do not pass recommendation by a 9-6-1 vote. Members also discussed House Bill 1018, the State Historical Society budget, and approved an amendment that adjusted one-time funding items, including NAGPRA compliance, museum exhibits, military gallery funding, local historic grants, and line-of-credit repayment. The amended bill then received a due pass recommendation by a 14-2 vote. The committee next approved House Bill 1468, a behavioral health facility grant for St. Hayes, which supporters said would expand in-state access to acute and adolescent behavioral health care and reduce the need to send patients out of state. The bill passed 14-1. It then amended and passed House Bill 1485, increasing the personal needs allowance for certain Medicaid recipients by $15 and indexing it to inflation; the amendment and the bill as amended both passed 14-2. Finally, the committee approved House Bill 1016, the Adjutant General/National Guard budget, after adopting an amendment that funded disaster relief, response equipment, IT and website costs, and staffing changes for the watch center; the amended bill passed 14-2. The committee adjourned after completing six bills and planned to resume the next morning at 8 a.m.

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• That dealing with going to school? I mean, just integrating schools is no...
• They were up after the training and the purchase of equipment.

Bills: HB2 , HB43 , HB49 , HB94 , HB137 , HB156 , HB200 , HB250 , HB3 , HB42

Committee: Senate Judiciary

Keywords: vaccination, parental consent, minors, medical consent, guardian approval, criminal procedure, split sentencing, probation, Class A felony, Class B felony, minimum confinement, HB49, Alabama criminal code, capital offense, capital punishment, death penalty, rape in the first degree, sodomy in the first degree, sexual torture, child sexual abuse

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• for the small main businesses in Ely and Grand Marais, for Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, church groups, school
• groups across Minnesota and the school groups across Minnesota and the country. country. country.
• They work with disadvantaged communities, veterans, schools, churches, and scouts, getting them into
• Also including fundraising, communications, staff development, technology purchases, and more.
• I'm the one that purchases the organization's laptops. So, lucky me. So, I do kind of a lot.

Committee: House Ethics

Keywords: 1183, house

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• Faith Boucher, retired from the University of California School of Medicine, Department of Public Health
• argument that there's a cost shift here would be the same argument about, oh, if you let someone purchase
• So under the current setup, if you're purchasing one of these systems, my understanding is that you're
• They're spending $500 on their kid is going to school and they need new tennis shoes.
• with zero. is broken ground alongside a residential community and elementary school with zero public

Committee: Senate Energy, Utilities and Communications

Keywords: 987, senate, all

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• This funding is requested to support the purchase of immunizations for children enrolled in the Children's
• Since CHIP is a federal entitlement program, the immunizations are purchased at a split between GR and
• prevention of unintentional injuries and opioid overdoses, providing support and consultation to school
• nurses, and working with schools, work sites, child care sites, and other community partners for the
• or QIPMO, is a cooperative service between the department and the University of Missouri Sinclair School

Committee: House Budget

Keywords: 959, house, all

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• The incentives for the new ZEV incentives are for new car purchases as the priority this year.
• The incentives for the new ZEV incentives are for new car purchases as the priority this year.
• s local school districts are preparing for declining enrollment that we are seeing across the state.
• never say there is enough money in education, there has been growth in education funding to local school
• districts even as there have been fewer students in schools.

Committee: House Budget

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• the alcohol, do you purchase it at a wholesale place, or do you purchase it from a regular retail, and
• They've already gone through purchased.
• </c> secret, double secret wine purchase. secret, double secret wine purchase.
• They can only purchase a uh sales.
• </c><01:12:11.240><c> of</c> license holder does the purchasing of license holder does the purchasing

Bills: HF4145 , HF4009 , HF4304 , SF2511 , HF4090 , HF357 , HF901

Committee: House Commerce Finance and Policy

Keywords: alcohol consumption, nursing homes, assisted living, resident activities, Minnesota Statutes, seasonal liquor licenses, resorts, intoxicating liquor, county board, Brainerd, Northern Pacific Center, event center, liquor license, on-sale license, alcohol sales, special law, local option, Minnesota liquor law, chapter 340A, Sunday sales

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• But we work with four groups mostly: formalized AFNR education, school-based AFNR in our high school
• and middle school, 7 through 12.
• But we work with four groups mostly: formalized AFNR education, school-based AFNR in our high school
• and middle school, 7 through 12.
• education into our schools.

Bills: HF711 , HF653

Committee: House Agriculture Finance and Policy

Keywords: agriculture, agricultural education, leadership development, Minnesota Agricultural Education and Leadership Council, MAELC, chapter 41D, grant funding, general fund appropriation, commissioner of agriculture, farm education, youth agriculture programs, ag literacy, workforce development, extension education, research funding, extension services, technology transfer, grant programs, 1183, house

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• graduation, career tech high school.
• Anything else on School AI?
• That 37 would be traditional public schools. 1f would be virtual or charter schools. 9 would be homeschool
• Depending on where that lands at their home school, they're sending school, they may miss out on that
• All high school students.

Committee: House Oklahoma Education Commission

Keywords: 914, all

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• Up next from Department of Management Services, their director of state purchasing, Mr.
• And so that's going to give you all the purchase orders, all the contracts.
• We typically, historically, have canvas purchases.
• We typically, historically, we have canvas purchases.
• We had 9,000 grant award agreements and purchase orders. We had 1.7 million purchase orders.

Summary: The subcommittee heard a panel on Florida’s IT procurement process from the Florida Digital Service, the Department of Management Services, and the Department of Financial Services. Witnesses walked through the procurement lifecycle, including planning, market research, solicitation, evaluation, award, implementation, and closeout, and emphasized the role of budget timing, contract managers, and subject matter experts. DMS described the state’s enterprise contracting system, noting more than 1,100 active vendor agreements, over 800 involving IT services, and the statutory requirement to request 25 quotes for certain IT purchases. DFS demonstrated the Florida Accountability Contract Tracking System (FACS), explaining how agencies upload contract and payment data and how the public can search contracts and related documents online. Members focused on accountability, transparency, and whether the state is getting the best products and vendors. Questions addressed how contracts are vetted, how technical evaluations are performed, how financial consequences are used for missed deliverables, how public records and confidential information are handled, and how the state screens vendors for foreign-concern or bad-actor issues. Witnesses said agencies rely on technical experts for evaluations, that contract terms should include measurable deliverables and meaningful financial consequences, and that agencies—not procurement staff—generally manage performance, though Florida Digital Service oversees large IT projects of $10 million or more. The committee then shifted to broader policy discussion, including Senate Bill 7026 and proposals to reorganize state IT governance. Several members argued for stronger centralization under a state CIO or similar enterprise authority, while others cautioned against abrupt restructuring and stressed the need for a transition plan. Members also raised concerns about workforce retention, consulting services, recurring project overruns, and the need for better planning and periodic monitoring. No votes were taken; the meeting ended with the chair thanking members and staff and adjourning the subcommittee.