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• So I hope you all pass this bill; this will make a big difference for New Mexico and our future.
• There are hundreds of high-tech companies throughout the state, and of course, we have our national labs
• But I do want to say one thing: why are we looking at **New Mexico Tech** when they're ranked in the
• That being said, **New Mexico Tech**, our other schools, and the Hub that will be created, everyone's
• It's got to be a big committee. Fourteen members? And Mr.

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• So we need to look at this at the big picture.
• We'll ask that HMO put in a defective date and any tech amendments.
• be to defect the date and any Tech be to defect the date and any Tech amendments<03:05:31.319>
• Tech amendments identified by HMSO, and a defective date.
• <03:13:06.200> amendments defective date and any Tech amendments defective date and any Tech

Keywords: 910, house, all

Summary: The Public Safety Committee held a hearing on House Bill 433, which would appropriate $4 million for Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation re-entry services to connect offenders with community-based services. Director Tommy Johnson said the department supports the bill’s intent but noted the governor’s executive budget already includes $4 million for the same purpose and asked that the measure defer to that budget. Supporters, including the Hawaii Correctional System Oversight Commission, Community Alliance on Prisons, and the ACLU, backed the funding but urged that it be tied to a clear re-entry plan, performance measures, transparency, and regular reporting to the legislature. They emphasized that re-entry should begin at intake and involve community partnerships, housing, treatment, employment, and family reunification services. Committee members questioned the department about current re-entry services, pre-trial detainees, and how the new funds would be used. Johnson said the department’s current statewide re-entry budget is about $1.5 million to $1.7 million, separate from the larger Corrections Program Services Division budget for in-facility programs. He described the proposed $4 million as supporting a mix of services, including a pilot apprenticeship program, substance abuse treatment, navigator or warm-handoff services, and short-term transitional housing. He also said the department already tracks performance outcomes in its annual report and can provide a matrix showing the intake-to-discharge process, program contracts, and volunteer organizations. The discussion also covered pre-trial detainees, electronic monitoring, and mental health services. Johnson said the department has limited jurisdiction over pre-trial detainees but works with courts to seek supervised release when possible; he noted that many requests are denied, though electronic monitoring has improved release rates somewhat. On mental health, he said the jail is not an ideal therapeutic setting for people found unfit to proceed and suggested a secure community-based step-down facility run by the Department of Health for those needing care above what the jail can provide but below forensic-level treatment. No vote or final action on the bill was taken during the hearing.

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• We are seeing a big issue with elections across the state.
• This is hard because the rapport, the rapport I have with you and I am a big fan but as an educator,
• We've had a big issue and we've seen a lot of issues with Chinese tech coming in to serve in government
• that tech through a back door.
• Statewide counterintelligence is a big deal and I know we are at the end.

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• The science and tech committee wasn't even allowed to say climate change last year.
• The science and tech committee wasn't even allowed to say climate change last year.
• The science and tech committee wasn't even allowed to say climate change last year.
• Those are big >> right? Yes. Yes. Those are big electrical<00:19:30.880> suckers.
• So that takes the big boys out of this. >> Right.

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• well as semiconductor and high-tech well as semiconductor and high-tech Manufacturing<00:21:56.320
• I think there's two kind of big reasons for their success.
• anticipate this tax credit will be a big anticipate this tax credit will be a big part<01:11:34.320
• Those are the big changes that are actually in the bill in that space.
• The big changes that are actually in the bill are in that space.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• One, how do we keep our young people that graduate from Upper Cape Cod Tech or Cape Cod Tech or my alma
• I'll be visiting New Bedford today, which is one of our Ocean Tech new hubs.
• Obviously, that's a big issue.
• I had worked at with mass tech years ago is there are so many programs.
• A big issue that I think aligns with what you were saying as well.

Keywords: 995, all

Summary: The Joint Committee on Ways and Means held a public FY27 budget hearing at Barnstable Town Hall, with opening remarks emphasizing the Cape and Islands’ seasonal infrastructure, housing, transportation, workforce, and digital needs. The hearing began with testimony from the Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development, which outlined the Healey-Driscoll administration’s budget priorities for job training, apprenticeship, youth employment, reentry programs, and unemployment insurance modernization. The secretary highlighted proposed funding for the Workforce Competitiveness Trust Fund, Career Technical Initiative, YouthWorks, reentry workforce development, and services for young adults with disabilities, along with a proposal to streamline youth work permits. Members also discussed the unemployment trust fund, the COVID assessment on employers, rising unemployment, and the need to improve DUA customer service and claims processing. Committee members asked about job seeker barriers such as child care, housing, transportation, and out-migration of young workers, as well as how to keep Cape Cod graduates and seasonal workers in the region. The administration said its strategy is to pair training with broader affordability investments and to expose students to career pathways earlier, including through middle school, early childhood STEM, YouthWorks, pre-apprenticeships, and Building Pathways. Senators and representatives also raised concerns about regional funding disparities, especially for Hampshire Franklin MassHire, and the administration said it is reviewing MassHire funding and service equity through a policy committee and statewide workforce board. On unemployment assistance, officials reported major improvements in wait times and claims processing, but said they are still working through backlogs and staffing challenges while maintaining program integrity. The committee then heard testimony from the Executive Office of Economic Development. The secretary described House 2 as a fiscally restrained budget with no new taxes or fees, while preserving core programs and using the Mass Leads Act tools to support competitiveness. EOED’s proposal included funding for the Community One Stop for Growth, rural economic development, social enterprise operating grants, regional economic development organizations, the Workforce Investment Trust Fund, Community Workforce Partnerships, Pathmaker, advanced manufacturing training, life sciences, innovation vouchers, AI initiatives, small business assistance, and tourism and live theater support. The Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation also testified on its FY27 request, focusing on consumer protection, licensing, banking, insurance, and public safety regulation. No votes were taken during the hearing.

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• We just worked on with the Hawaii Community College, Big Island.
• Very clean, very automated, how they do the skinning and everything is just high-tech.
• Very clean, very automated, how they do the skinning and everything is just high-tech.
• Very clean, very automated, how they do the skinning and everything is just high-tech.
• Very clean, very automated, how they do the skinning and everything is just high-tech.

Keywords: 912, senate, all

Summary: The committee heard testimony on HB 345, which would establish ʻōpae ʻula as the state shrimp. The Department of Land and Natural Resources and Kua Ulu Aumo testified in strong support, saying the designation could help protect endemic shrimp in anchialine pools and increase public education and awareness. In response to questions, DLNR said it would use existing education programs, press releases, and partnerships for statewide outreach and was not seeking a separate appropriation for that purpose. Members then took up SCR 132 and SR 111, which encourage adoption of recommendations from the UN Global Plastics Treaty and the Rapa Nui Summit Declaration on climate justice and sustainable development. Greenpeace Hawaii supported the measures, arguing that plastic production is tied to fossil fuel interests and that microplastics pose serious health and environmental risks. The committee later adopted the measures with amendments, including a change from “waste hierarchy” to “zero waste hierarchy” and technical edits. The final measures, SCR 157 and SR 127, urged the state to adopt and implement the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea agreement on biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction. DLNR testified that it had only just reviewed the resolution but stood on its written testimony. The committee passed SCR 157 and SR 127 as is. The meeting also included a separate hearing on SCR 89 and SR 72, which would create a University of Hawaiʻi Community College pathway for meat processing. The Department of Agriculture, Hawaii Farm Bureau, and Hawaii Cattlemen’s Council supported the idea, citing workforce needs and local protein supply, while several members raised concerns about whether a formal educational pathway or degree requirement might unnecessarily limit entry into the field; discussion focused on whether the proposal should be more vocational and whether there is enough data on workforce demand. No final vote on those measures was shown in the transcript excerpt.

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• from a, uh, up from a D+ in 2021, thanks to major funding upgrades from state initiatives such as Tech
• dot's $100 billion Tech.
• city has a reflective big airport with it.
• Uh, has big projects, DFW.
• Plus, is that part of Texas just being really big and being harder to expand those things.

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• We don't align with the big, big dollar ticket things on the individual side.
• <00:26:03.120> big<00:26:03.440> dollar don't align with the big big dollar don't align
• So, it's a big deal.
• Not a big deal.
• And so, it's a it's a big deal. I 28. And so, it's a it's a big deal.

Keywords: 924, joint, all

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• The big piece of that...
• We have some initiatives at New Mexico Tech. Dr.
• They can afford personnel, you know, these big cities and big schools.
• We want to be able to answer those big questions.
• Resiliency is a big issue for a lot of people.

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• So oil and gas is the big one because they're a big revenue generator out here, both on the production
• So oil and gas is the big one because they're a big revenue generator out here, both on the production
• There's spaces for people to sit, it looks nice and pretty, but the big center of this is this big flexible
• And then the big one was around staffing.
• Or those who don't want to move to the cloud yet, that's a big lift. These are big projects.

Summary: The Higher Education Institutions Committee met on the Minot State University campus for presentations on campus operations, enrollment, and new academic initiatives. President Shirley reviewed recent audits, noting mostly clean results with only minor technical findings, and highlighted MSU’s broad academic offerings, specialized accreditations, athletics, and partnerships with Minot Air Force Base and the MSU Development Foundation. Members asked about declining interest in teacher education, tuition waivers for athletes, dual credit incentives, and how MSU decides when to launch new programs and avoid duplication within the university system. Shirley also discussed several workforce-focused initiatives supported by the Legislature’s Workforce Education Innovation Funds, including the purchase of the Trinity Health Center West building for a downtown health sciences hub, a new daycare/preschool partnership near campus, the Aspire program to recruit rural students into teaching, and a paraprofessional-to-special-education degree pathway. Enrollment data showed overall headcount was flat at just under 2,750, but full-time equivalent enrollment rose slightly and new student numbers increased, including the largest freshman class in 15 years. The committee also discussed Minot State’s in-state tuition rate for all students, its dual credit “Emerging Scholars” scholarship, and concerns about the share of high school graduates who do not immediately pursue postsecondary education. Faculty then presented two new programs funded in part by WEAF: an Innovation Engineering degree and a master’s program in counseling with an integrated addiction studies focus. The engineering program was described as industry-driven, designed with broad early coursework, hands-on learning, and local employer input to prepare students for western North Dakota workforce needs; officials said it had already drawn more applicants than expected and would use renovated library space and donated or grant-funded equipment. The counseling program will be mostly face-to-face with hybrid options, aims to address shortages in mental health and substance use providers, and is structured to help students meet licensure requirements. Committee members asked about startup costs, licensure supervision hours, and whether the programs would be on campus rather than online, and presenters said both programs had recently received required approvals and were moving forward.

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• The evidence includes both the tech industry's ability to manipulate addiction through social media and
• part of how we These funds are a big part of how we reached<00:23:17.080> an<00:23:17.279>
• I do not trust a predatory industry, especially the tech industry.
• <00:42:58.319> industry nobody accept a predatory tech industry nobody accept a predatory
• And that this is about the tech industry in particular and their predatory practices.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• But when you start talking in terms of big water projects, it takes a decade sometimes to get a big water
• It's a big number.
• That's the big thing.
• I wish we had a big enough construction.
• And a big, big, big challenge we face is workforce.

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• Those are big striking numbers.
• But when you start talking in terms of big water projects, it takes a decade sometimes to get... big
• That's the big thing. Right.
• I wish we had a big enough construction company to We do a lot of stuff in-house, but if we were big
• And a big, big, big challenge we face. workforce.

Keywords: 1184, house, all

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• Amanda became an LPN attendant and LPN tech in 1997.
• Amanda, that's a big commute, but she loves her job and her coworkers.
• Members, today we have the criminal justice program from Kahi Care Tech and Mccallister here.

Bills: HB3281, HB3320, HB3081, HB3127, HB3128, HB3498, HB2035, HB3765, HB4324, HB3678, HB4170, HB3495, HB3040, HB3062, HB4140, HB4106, HB4109, HB4104, HB3581, HB3620, HB3942, HB3279, HB3378, HB3383, HB3413, HB3414, HB3415, HB3420, HB3130, HB3700, HB3379, HB3129, HB3132, HB3315, HB2950, HB3242, HB3041, HB4428, HB4429, HB1064, HB3265, HB3721, HB3028, HB3313, HB3588, HB3020, HB3724, HB3392, HB3466, HB4060, HJR1074, HB3501, HJR1070, HB3794, HB3796, HB3928, HB2955, HB4453, HB4460, HB4128, HB3659, HB3270, HB3145

Keywords: administrative procedures, guidance documents, transparency, public inspection, rulemaking, sunset laws, statutory entities, regulatory compliance, emergency provisions, board re-creation, fire extinguisher, licensing, public safety, age qualification, State Fire Marshal, medical marijuana, employment rights, safety-sensitive positions, workplace policies, public assistance

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• WE HAVE WORKED WITH MASS TECH ENGINEERING CONSTRUCTION COMPANIES AS WELL AS MIAMI DADE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
• ON THE SLIDE YOU CAN SEE WHAT MOSS TECH AND MIAMI DADE HAVE SET OUT TO DEVELOP THIS PROGRAM TO LOOK LIKE
• MIAMI DADE COLLEGE HAS BEEN A BIG PARTNER IN ALL OF OUR EFFORTS WITH BUILDING OUT THE FRAMEWORKS AND
• PERMITTING WILL BE A BIG ISSUE AS WE ROLL THROUGH THE REMAINING $708 MILLION BEING DEPLOYED.

Keywords: 999, senate, all

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• I was wondering if you could clarify what happened in the sense of career tech and how with expanding
• I'm not seeing any extra appropriation to career tech. Could you just talk about that for a second?
• We kept most agencies flat with the exception of career tech.
• you know, the federal delegation or the Congress essentially passed a, I think it was an NHR one, the big

Bills: SB1177, SB1177

Keywords: education funding, mental health services, public safety, housing, state budget, 914, all

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• 2898 is about notifying the Air Force and other branches with the aviation training facilities and tech
• We have one resource witness who I believe wants to tell us something from Tech dot, Dan Harmon.
• Tech dot right now has no role in airspace management. That is purely the domain of the FAA.
• We're big fans of the TIERRA program.

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• Again, I'll talk a lot about tech innovation.
• Again, I'll talk a lot about tech innovation.
• me what are they going to do in the big me what are they going to do in the big Sandy<00:42:39.440
• And he talked about big hairy fan of.
• I of big hairy audacious goals in here.

Keywords: Meeting Start 00:00:00 Attendance Roll Call 00:00:20 CRISP Shared Services 00:01:39 Rural Health Transformation Plan 00:30:55, 958, all

Summary: The Budget Review Subcommittee on Health and Family Services opened its first meeting of the 2026 interim session, took roll, and moved directly into presentations. The main presentation was from Ryan Bramble of Crisp Shared Services, who described the organization’s health information exchange and health data utility model in Kentucky and other states. He emphasized that Crisp is a nonprofit, that data ownership remains with providers, and that governance is local. He also outlined the technical infrastructure, including a master patient index, cloud-based data lake, support for modern standards like FHIR and USCDI as well as older formats, and data quality tools used to normalize and standardize information. Bramble said the model is intended to reduce duplication, lower costs, and support rural providers and future use cases such as reporting, analytics, and AI-enabled decision support. Members asked how the state can ensure the data is actually used and who should drive priorities for health care improvement. Bramble said Crisp can provide tools, expertise, and examples from other states, but local teams such as KHI and state stakeholders must tailor and lead utilization efforts. In response to questions about ownership and coordination, he stressed that successful HIE governance requires a multistakeholder body that includes hospitals, health plans, government, and other interests, with a unified approach rather than multiple competing directives. He also said the Commonwealth has an opportunity to convene those stakeholders and set clear priorities. A senator raised concerns that responsibility for Medicaid and broader health policy has become fragmented and suggested a stronger central role for the state, possibly through the Department of Public Health, to coordinate health priorities. Bramble agreed that a single convening authority and multistakeholder governance are important, and noted that local governance should determine what data is shared and how it is used. No votes or formal actions were taken during this portion of the meeting. After Bramble’s presentation and questions, the committee was told that Secretary Stack from the cabinet would testify next on the rural health transformation plan.

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• Because we answer to our constituents, not tech companies and their lobbyists, we need real data before
• Tech companies and their lobbyists, we need real data before these fleets expand statewide.
• know, would you be all right having, you know, no drivers on the road, whether it's, we're talking big
• On the road, whether we're talking big rigs or we're talking, you know, small communities.
• we have to make sure that there is safety, and there are many things when we talked about even the big

Summary: The Assembly Transportation Committee heard a series of bills focused on transportation safety, climate resilience, wildlife connectivity, parking enforcement, and EV charging reliability. AB 605 would create a pilot program allowing certain hydrogen internal combustion cargo-handling equipment at ports; supporters said it could help ports stay competitive while reducing emissions, while South Coast AQMD raised concerns about possible nitrogen oxide emissions and limits on future regulation. The bill passed on an 11-0 vote to the Natural Resources Committee. AB 1132 would require Caltrans to incorporate community resilience indicators, including socioeconomic factors, into climate vulnerability assessments; supporters from Greenlining, AARP, and others said it would better protect seniors, people with disabilities, and transit users during heat waves and disasters, while some members questioned the cost during a tight budget year. It passed 9-0 to Appropriations, with some members not voting. AB 382 would lower school-zone speed limits to 20 mph and give local agencies more flexibility in how the limit is posted and enforced; supporters cited child pedestrian deaths and safety research, and the bill passed 11-0 to Appropriations. AB 902, as amended, would require transportation projects in wildlife connectivity areas to include wildlife passage features where feasible; supporters emphasized reduced collisions and habitat fragmentation, while the California Building Industry Association and COGs moved from opposition to neutral after amendments. It passed 9-1 to Local Government. AB 1014 would give Caltrans more discretion to lower speed limits on state highways based on local conditions rather than the 85th percentile rule; supporters said it would improve safety in rural and tourist areas, and the bill passed 13-0 to Appropriations. AB 1022 would end towing or booting vehicles solely for unpaid parking tickets, with supporters describing the practice as punitive and harmful to low-income drivers, while cities and parking groups argued it would weaken enforcement and create problems for out-of-state vehicles. The bill passed 9-3 to Appropriations. AB 1423 would require publicly funded EV chargers to meet reliability standards and allow enforcement of uptime requirements; supporters said taxpayers need functioning chargers, while charging-industry opponents objected to retroactive standards and possible conflicts with existing agreements. The bill passed 14-0 to Utilities and Energy. The committee also approved a consent calendar of five bills by voice vote and held roll calls open for additional members to add on.