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• They've become the best of friends with the people in our city, and they celebrate that today by visiting

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• As a matter of pending visit, the chair lays out House Bill Representative Cook's bill sponsored by the

Bills: HB40 , HB1916 , HB1973 , HB2524 , HB2530 , HB3180 , HB3421 , HB3783 , HB4170 , HB4213

Committee: Senate Jurisprudence

Keywords: business court, civil procedure, litigation, jurisdiction, arbitration, divorce, property division, family law, court jurisdiction, marital assets, parent-child relationship, birth certificate, identity proof, Family Code, court process, attorney fees, court costs, legal expenses, dispute resolution, child support

Summary: The committee considered several House bills dealing with family law and civil procedure. House Bill 1916, concerning a court’s jurisdiction in suits to divide property not divided on dissolution of marriage, was reported favorably on a 4-0 vote and recommended for the local and uncontested calendar. House Bill 1973, addressing proof of the identity of a child’s parents in a suit affecting the parent-child relationship, was also adopted with a committee substitute, reported favorably 4-0, and sent to the local and uncontested calendar. House Bill 2524, on recovery of fees, court costs, and expenses in family law proceedings, and House Bill 2530, on special appointments in suits affecting the parent-child relationship, each received favorable 4-0 votes and were likewise recommended for the local and uncontested calendar. The committee then took up House Bill 3180, which was reported favorably 4-0 and recommended for the local and uncontested calendar. The most detailed discussion centered on House Bill 40, relating to updates to business courts. Senator Hughes explained a committee amendment that made conforming changes requested by the Finance Committee and removed language creating two new judgeships, replacing it with a different judge allocation. The amendment was adopted, the amended committee substitute was adopted, and the bill was reported favorably on a 4-0 vote and sent to the local and uncontested calendar. At the end of the meeting, members briefly clarified procedural details about the House Bill 40 amendment and then closed out the agenda. The committee also noted a correction to an earlier reference to Bartleby the Scrivener, and the Chair recessed the Committee on Jurisprudence subject to the call of the chair.

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• limited number of veterans' cemeteries, families of these veterans must... ...travel long and far to visit

Bills: HB39 , HB114 , HB1875 , HB1894 , HB1965 , HB2513 , HB39 , HB114

Committee: Senate Veteran Affairs

Keywords: veterans, mental health, Texas Veterans Commission, peer support, suicide prevention, community mental health, grant program, cemetery, General Land Office, burial plot, remembrance, monthly designation, honoring military, Texas legislation, rural services, paid leave, fire protection personnel, military service, public employees, employment benefits

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• I'm happy to visit with y'all after this one gets off the floor about SB2.

Keywords: public education, HB2, teacher salaries, special education, emergent bilingual programs, Texas legislature

Summary: The meeting primarily revolved around the discussion of HB2, which aims to increase funding for public education in Texas. Key points included enhancements to teacher salaries, special education funding, and initiatives to support emergent bilingual programs. Legislators highlighted the need for collaboration and leadership in addressing the challenges faced by public schools, noting the vital role that education plays in the state's future. Speaker Burroughs expressed confidence in achieving significant improvements for Texas students through this legislation, which has been deemed one of the most consequential bills of the session.

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• Since adults can come see us, then they can come down to visit the children and put their petition to

Bills: HB340

Committee: House Children and Senior Advocacy

Keywords: child protection, due process, family preservation, child custody, human resources, 1136, house, all

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• we're going to do that pregnancy test in that... ...going to do that pregnancy test in that first visit

Bills: HB30 , HB35 , HB72 , HB89 , HB30 , HB35

Committee: House Ways and Means General Fund

Keywords: elections, post-election audit, election audit, risk-limiting audit, ballot audit, election integrity, voter confidence, Secretary of State, judge of probate, canvassing board, poll watchers, ballot containers, manual tally, recount, county election, statewide election, general election, absentee ballots, provisional ballots, election transparency

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• You are encouraged to visit with the House Committee on House Administration when they're appointed.

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• This care requires multiple patient visits and relationships, but so many of those patients also need
• toward value-based care, if primary care providers are being tasked with reducing emergency department visits
• We're unwilling to give him seven days of medications to get him through to his next visit.
• side—there's a thing called mobile integrated health in EMS, that we can have crews that can go out and visit

Committee: House Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Task Force

Keywords: 959, house, all

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• This care requires multiple patient visits and relationships, but so many of those patients also need
• toward value-based care, if primary care providers are being tasked with reducing emergency department visits
• We're unwilling to give him seven days of medications to get him through to his next visit.
• side—there's a thing called Mobile Integrated Health in EMS, that we can have crews that can go out and visit

Committee: House Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Task Force

Summary: The task force meeting opened with a brief organizational update, including new leadership, roll call, and an explanation of the task force’s statutory duties: to study current and future drug and substance use in Missouri, explore solutions, draft or modify legislation, and report recommendations on prevention and treatment. The chair outlined the summer hearing plan, which would feature field experts, with future sessions expected to cover alternative therapies such as psilocybin and ibogaine and testimony from the Department of Mental Health. Members were encouraged to think about legislative ideas and policy recommendations for the upcoming session. The first major testimony came from Dr. Rachel Winograd, who described Missouri’s overdose crisis as evolving into a “fourth wave” marked by fentanyl mixed with animal tranquilizers such as xylazine and medetomidine, along with methamphetamine and other synthetic drugs. She said overdose deaths have declined for a third straight year, with preliminary 2025 data around 1,200 deaths, but emphasized that the crisis remains severe. Her main recommendations were to focus on demand reduction rather than repeated supply crackdowns, expand evidence-based treatment—especially methadone and buprenorphine—broaden naloxone access, and improve practical supports like housing, transportation, and case management. She also said peer services are valuable but should not be used as a substitute for clinical care, and noted that Missouri Medicaid generally covers evidence-based treatment but reimbursement for peer recovery services remains a gap. Dr. Heidi Miller, the state medical director at the Department of Health and Senior Services, reinforced the call for integrating substance use disorder care into whole-person health care. She highlighted the state naloxone standing order, which supports more than 11,000 Medicaid naloxone prescriptions annually, and urged five best practices: integrating SUD treatment into primary care, maternal health, general medical training, EMS initiation of buprenorphine after overdose, and expanded methadone access. She also argued for team-based reimbursement, stronger parity enforcement between behavioral health/SUD and physical health, and caution in regulating emerging substances so policy does not outrun the science. Dr. Doug Burgess of University Health in Kansas City echoed the integration theme, arguing that Missouri’s system is too fragmented and that patients are often stabilized and then left to coordinate their own next steps. He compared ideal SUD care to the coordinated response used for heart attacks, with seamless transitions from emergency care to inpatient treatment, rehab, and outpatient follow-up. He said treatment courts can be effective when they are well coordinated and informed by addiction science, and he stressed the importance of discharge planning, peer recovery coaches, information-sharing, and maintaining Medicaid coverage during justice involvement. No formal votes or committee actions were taken during this portion of the meeting.

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• We also support the Joint Venture Bill Oversight and Visitation.
• They instituted no-cost telephone calls as well as no-cost video visits.
• And through these surveys, we figured out specific points that they are lobbying for, such as the visitation
• Elected officials stopped visiting prisons as frequently as they used to, and with less accountability

Committee: Joint Joint Committee on Election Laws

Keywords: 995, all

Summary: The Joint Committee on Election Laws held a hearing on a wide range of voting-access and election-administration bills. The largest portion of testimony focused on same-day voter registration (H. 834/S. 505), with support from Rep. Gentile, Boston and Chelsea officials, civic groups, and election administrators from Maine and Vermont. Supporters argued that same-day registration would help eligible voters who move frequently, miss deadlines, or face administrative errors, and would reduce rejected provisional ballots. Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows and Vermont elections director Sean Sheehan testified that same-day registration has worked in their states without major administrative problems and has helped increase turnout. A Boston-based panel also described high rejection rates for provisional ballots and the burden of registration cutoffs on renters, students, immigrants, and low-income voters. A second major topic was restoration of voting rights for incarcerated people, including S. 524 and related House bills. The committee heard extensive virtual testimony from incarcerated individuals at MCI Norfolk and MCI Shirley, who said voting should be restored as part of rehabilitation, civic engagement, and reintegration. They described disenfranchisement as dehumanizing and argued that voting would help maintain family and community ties, reduce recidivism, and give incarcerated people a voice on laws affecting prisons and reentry. Rep. Erica Uyterhoeven also testified in support, saying the bill would restore municipal voting rights for incarcerated residents and align with broader efforts to expand political participation. The committee also heard testimony on bills affecting election administration and access, including a proposal to reduce or eliminate mandated early in-person voting in primaries and shorten the general-election early voting period, with supporters from the town clerks’ community arguing that low usage, staffing burdens, and costs justify the change. Opponents warned that reducing in-person early voting could hurt voters who do not use mail ballots and could disproportionately affect communities of color. Other bills discussed included decoupling the municipal census from voter registration, requiring periodic accessibility inspections of polling places, and a Somerville home-rule petition on non-citizen municipal voting and another on lowering the voting age in municipal elections. No votes or final committee actions were taken during the hearing.

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• But one thing I wanted to acknowledge is my visit with Jim Votruba. excluding families like that.
• </c><00:23:50.200><c> is</c> wanted to acknowledge is wanted to acknowledge is my<00:23:51.280><c> visit
• </c> my visit with Jim Votruba. my visit with Jim Votruba.

Committee: Joint Appropriations & Revenue

Keywords: Meeting Start 00:00:00 Votruba Young Scholars Academy 00:01:55 Taxation of Financial Deposit Institutions 00:36:50, 958, all

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• California School-Based Health Alliance Conference at the beginning of last week, and we did a site visit
• in Kern County in the latter part of last week, where we were visiting school district sites, going
• I believe deeply that it was school-based supports that really helped my child after the hospital visit
• housing models and laws in other states, as well as operational expense funding to support travel to visit

Summary: The hearing focused first on behavioral health, especially serious mental illness and anosognosia, a condition described by witnesses as a neurological symptom that prevents people from recognizing they are ill. The chair framed the issue around families cycling through emergency rooms, jails, conservatorships, and short-term stabilization without lasting treatment, and warned that federal changes under H.R. 1 could reduce Medi-Cal funding and worsen access. Dawn Marie Anderson gave a personal account of her son’s long history of psychosis, homelessness, arrests, repeated jail and state hospital stays, and eventual stability when he received sustained medication and coordinated support. She argued that the system often treats the problem as criminal rather than medical and that voluntary programs and short-term services are not enough for people who lack insight into their illness. Other panelists, including representatives from the California Behavioral Health Association, Santa Barbara County Behavioral Health, and the County Behavioral Health Directors Association, agreed that anosognosia is not denial or noncompliance and said the system needs long-term, coordinated care, including assertive community treatment, mobile crisis, supportive housing, medication support, and stronger handoffs between county and managed care systems. They said CalAIM and other reforms have improved some coordination, but significant gaps remain, especially for people with serious mental illness, for those in jail or locked settings, and for people with private insurance, which witnesses said often offers little meaningful coverage for early psychosis or intensive behavioral health services. Several witnesses urged the Legislature to protect Medi-Cal, shore up county safety-net services, and invest in training and family engagement. The committee then turned to the Children and Youth Behavioral Health Initiative, with a focus on the virtual services platforms BrightLife Kids and Soluna and the CYBHI fee schedule. DHCS reported strong growth in app registrations, coaching sessions, referrals, and positive user outcomes, saying the platforms provide free, culturally responsive, early-intervention support statewide and help connect users to higher levels of care when needed. On the fee schedule, DHCS said more than 500 LEAs, colleges, universities, and school-linked providers are participating, 181 LEAs have submitted claims, and $9.6 million has been reimbursed to date, with 41,556 students represented in claims. The chair and several members criticized the pace of implementation and the amount of money spent relative to reimbursement levels, saying the Legislature had requested data earlier and that the return on investment still appeared low. DHCS responded that many claims are still being submitted, that 70% of denials are correctable, that $400 million in capacity grants has been distributed locally, and that reimbursement is increasing rapidly as more districts come online. Public comment included a rural county behavioral health director who said private insurance denials leave counties with significant uncompensated work, especially for unlicensed staff providing case management and mobile crisis services.

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• With the chair's discretion, I'm going to have a few, and we'll probably come back and visit again before
• A few, and we'll probably come back and visit again before we're done, but I want to go back on a couple
• I'd like to visit a little bit more about that.
• and I, they would have a set of GPS coordinates, provided to them by Texas Rangers, like we do, to visit

Keywords: 1185, senate, all

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• sessions, spoke with hundreds of Minnesotans, interviewed 42 system actors in Minnesota, conducted site visits
• system actors in Minnesota,<00:04:38.800><c> conducted</c><00:04:39.360><c> site</c><00:04:39.680><c> visits
• </c><00:04:40.400><c> to</c> Minnesota, conducted site visits to Minnesota, conducted site visits to

Committee: House Rules and Legislative Administration

Keywords: 1183, house

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• After I had been visiting him for a few years, he decided that it was best for me not to come back.
• I understand the desire to sit with family, to visit with those, especially the elderly who are on their
• those that are at the end of their life or at the end of care to expand the ability to be released to visit
• those that are at the end of their life or at the end of care to expand the ability to be released to visit

Bills: HB91 , HB123 , HB167 , HB255 , HB264 , HB321 , HB884 , HB955 , HB967 , HB968 , HB969 , HB978 , HB985 , HB994 , HB1005 , HB1104 , HB1107 , HB1109 , SCR3

Committee: House Administration of Criminal Justice

Keywords: criminal procedure, disclosure, criminal records, witness protection, trial rights, electronic monitoring, GPS ankle monitor, ankle bracelet, pretrial release, post-conviction supervision, bail monitoring, house arrest, corrections, criminal justice, law enforcement, prosecuting authority, court reporting, provider registration, LCLE, Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Criminal Justice

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• Whereas Lori Parker especially wanted young people to visit the memorial and learn about its importance
• c><02:03:35.360><c> young</c><02:03:35.560><c> people</c><02:03:35.880><c> to</c><02:03:35.960><c> visit
• </c> especially wanted young people to visit especially wanted young people to visit the<02:03:36.440

Keywords: In an effort to stave off issues that may occur with long format live streams, we have split this stream into two parts., 958, all

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• So, to your left and my right in the upper gallery, we have the Zion Lutheran School today visiting,
• We have the Zion Lutheran School today visiting, and they are standing.
• buried in Arlington National Cemetery, who lost one grandparent serving this country, I get to go visit
• I get to go visit Arlington National Cemetery, and it's beautiful, it's peaceful, it's clean, and every

Keywords: 959, house, all

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• at the reports that I've seen on the specific case that I believe Senator Bollock had a family who visited
• at the reports that I've seen on the specific case that I believe Senator Bollock had a family who visited
• Normally it's the assistant principal that's assigned to handle the visiting students that are sent to
• Normally it's the assistant principal that's assigned to handle the visiting students that are sent to

Committee: House Education

Keywords: 1182, all

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• establishing a maximum grant size that can be awarded under the program, requiring in-person monitoring visits
• <c> requiring</c><00:30:05.240><c> in-person</c><00:30:05.960><c> monitoring</c><00:30:06.480><c> visits
• </c> uh requiring in-person monitoring visits uh requiring in-person monitoring visits uh<00:30:07.880

Committee: Senate Finance

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• And we have been taking photos every year with him visiting the Senate each year during that time.
• been taking photos every year with have been taking photos every year with him<00:24:03.840><c> visiting
• ><c> the</c><00:24:04.799><c> Senate</c><00:24:05.200><c> each</c><00:24:05.440><c> year</c> him visiting
• uh the Senate each year him visiting uh the Senate each year during<00:24:06.000><c> that</c><00:24:

Keywords: 916, all