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• the disclaimer language to do executive the disclaimer language to do executive sessions<00:18:17.120
• Okay, next up we'll take on Senate Bill 499 in our executive session.
• <03:29:12.360> session Bill 500 in our executive session Bill 500 in our executive session
• :52.760> on<03:32:52.880> House close the executive session on House close the executive
• So, I'll close the executive session.

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• They need to have discussions with the executive council.
• for all expenditures from the executive for all expenditures from the executive branch.<00:36:27.839
• action plan, that you are executing it. action plan, that you are executing it.
• <01:08:59.040> And the executive branch, the state. And the executive branch, the state.
• It's three county executive committee.

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Summary: The committee first approved the March 21 minutes and then took up a consent calendar, withdrawing several items before adopting the remainder. It also moved item FIS 25103 to the table by a 6-4 vote after Senator Gray argued the Executive Council had not yet acted on a prior $5 million approval and that the committee should avoid adding to the rainy day fund draw. The committee then approved item 25106 for the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources/State Library after hearing that the department expected about a $400,000 lapse to return to the state. A major discussion centered on New Hampshire Police Standards and Training (item 2577). Senator Gray questioned whether a proposed equipment purchase could be delayed to the next biennium in light of the state’s deficit and rainy day fund use. The agency said the equipment was needed now for scenario training, vendors had already been identified, and delaying would likely increase costs and force continued reliance on unpaid volunteer help. The committee ultimately approved the item. The committee also approved Department of Energy item 2587 after hearing that federal weatherization funds are drawn down on a reimbursement basis, and item 2588 after similar testimony that weatherization work must be completed and inspected before reimbursement, limiting how quickly funds can be expended. Item 250094 had been withdrawn. Later, the committee discussed Senator Carson’s request for an LBA review of the YDC claims settlement fund, with members expressing concern about administrative costs, attorney fees, settlement-loan payoffs, and the need for more detailed reporting. The committee voted to direct LBA to conduct the audit described in Senator Carson’s memo, with the additional request that the review include the term over which attorney fees are paid. The meeting then moved on to an HHS staff item, where members began questioning the timing of dashboard data and reporting delays.

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• my 10th session as the executive my 10th session as the executive director<00:09:21.040> of
• Anderson executive director for perah Anderson executive director for perah I've<00:30:06.039> been
• I'm, uh, yeah, the executive director. Thank you, everyone.
• <00:54:09.200> director agency operations the executive director agency operations the executive
• introduce myself Phil tensi executive introduce myself Phil tensi executive director<01:05:58.520

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• I don't think we can talk about the amendment until we execute. >> Okay.
• So move to go into executive session. >> Motion been made and seconded by Gray.
• I don't think we can talk about the amendment until we execute. >> Okay.
• >> Move to come out of executive session. >> So moved.
• So, Rob, executive session. Any >> Okay. So, Rob, executive session.

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

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• WE EMBRACE IS THAT FUNDING AND DISASTER RESPONSE IS FEDERALLY FUNDED, STAGE-MANAGED AND LOCALLY EXECUTED
• OF THEM ARE ON THE BARRIER ISLANDS AND UNFORTUNATELY SOME OF THEM HAVE JUST NOT HAD THE ABILITY TO EXECUTE
• THAT WAS GOING TO OCCUR, HOW FREQUENTLY THAT WAS GOING TO OCCUR, THE LEVEL OF URGENCY REQUIRED TO EXECUTE
• DEBRIS AND VENDORS THAT MONITOR THOSE THAT ARE EXECUTING THE DEBRIS MISSION.
• THAT WHEN THAT WORST DAY HAPPENS THEY CAN HIT THE GROUND RUNNING AND KNOW WHAT THEY NEED TO DO TO EXECUTE

Keywords: 999, senate, all

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• Asked repeatedly who will execute the mass deportation of these people, we have finally come to learn
• branch nominees, cabinet and executive branch nominees, I look at three things.
• In his first hours in office, the President issued an executive order directing the Attorney General
• Because just a couple weeks later, President Trump has issued a blatantly unconstitutional executive
• By executive order, if we don't take steps to insist that the executive branch adhere to the laws that

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• I am, and he signed executive orders, in his words, to get rid of the Green New Scam, which I've been
• I am, and he signed executive orders, in his words, to get rid of the Green New Scam, which I've been
• <00:52:17.839> paid<00:52:18.000> $37 executive paid $37 executive paid $37 million<00:
• prior to my joining limited executive prior to my joining limited executive comp<00:52:33.760>
• Commissioners and the executive Commissioners and the executive secretary<00:52:44.319> for

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• The joint convention will attend to the canvassing of the votes for governor and executive council.
• The joint convention has been formed for the purpose of canvassing the votes for governor and executive
• [Applause] [Music] For executive council, in the First District, Joseph Kenny received 87,134 votes;
• This rule would give that authority over to the executive branch by causing them to take up a contempt
• The chair recognizes Representative Alissandra Murray. by the executive by the executive counsel<02:16

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• Jonathan Cook, Executive Director with the Sacramento Housing Alliance, in support. Good morning.
• Liz Perlman, executive director for AFSCME Local 3299, is available to answer questions.
• Jonathan Cook, Executive Director with the Sacramento Housing Alliance, in support.
• Jonathan Cook, Executive Director with the Sacramento Housing Alliance, in support.
• Jonathan Cook, Executive Director with the Sacramento Housing Alliance and Jonathan Cook, Executive Director

Summary: The committee first heard AB 1157, the Affordable Rent Act, which would lower California’s annual rent cap, remove the single-family home exemption, and eliminate the sunset on existing tenant protections. The author and supporters argued that renters are facing severe affordability pressures, especially in single-family rentals, and that stronger statewide rent stabilization is needed to prevent displacement and homelessness. Opponents, including apartment, building, and property-owner groups, said the bill would discourage housing production, harm small landlords, and override a deal they said was intended to be temporary while the state focused on building more housing. Public testimony on AB 1157 was extensive, with many renters, tenant advocates, labor groups, and community organizations speaking in support, while many landlords, business groups, and property-owner representatives spoke in opposition. Committee members were split: some praised the bill as a necessary response to the rent crisis, while others warned it could reduce investment and worsen the housing shortage. The committee ultimately voted 7-5 to pass AB 1157 to the Assembly Judiciary Committee. The committee then approved the consent calendar, including AB 413, AB 1152, and AB 1275, on a 9-0 vote. It also heard ACA 3, which would require the University of California to make available a limited number of down payment loans for eligible long-term support staff who are first-time homebuyers. Supporters said the measure would help lower-wage UC workers afford homeownership and improve retention, while UC and other opponents argued the proposal was duplicative of existing state programs, unnecessary, and potentially harmful to UC finances. The discussion focused on financing mechanics and the relationship to CalHFA, but no final vote on ACA 3 was included in the portion provided.

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• On December 11th, 2025, the White House issued an executive order titled Protecting American Investors
• like board elections, executive like board elections, executive compensation,<00:07:41.199> mergers
• <00:09:31.760> order<00:09:32.000> titled<00:09:32.480> Protecting executive order
• That<00:09:37.680> executive<00:09:38.000> order<00:09:38.240> raises<00:09:38.640
• > concerns That executive order raises concerns That executive order raises concerns that<00:09

Keywords: Meeting start: 00:00 Roll Call: 00:32 HB 136 Discussion: 01:46 HB 136 Vote: 05:53 HB 183 Discussion: 07:03 HB 183 Vote: 14:45, 958, all

Summary: The Senate Standing Committee on Economic Development, Tourism, and Labor met with a quorum and considered two bills. Senate Bill 136, sponsored by Vice Chair Frommeyer, made a housekeeping change to unemployment insurance fraud reporting by correcting prior language so suspected fraud is reported to the appropriate county or commonwealth attorney and the U.S. Department of Labor, rather than the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet. Members asked about how often local prosecutors pursue these cases and whether the state follows up on clawing back fraudulent payments; the cabinet said it would check on the exact recovery process. Senator Boswell also raised broader concerns about delays and difficulties claimants face in the unemployment insurance system. The committee approved SB 136 unanimously, 11-0, and reported it favorably. The committee then heard Senate Bill 183 from Senator Nunn, which would regulate proxy voting advice by requiring transparency, economic analysis, and disclosure when proxy advisers rely on non-financial factors or give advice inconsistent with a company board’s recommendation. Nunn said the bill is intended to protect Kentuckians’ retirement and investment interests, prevent politically or ideologically driven advice, and create enforcement through Kentucky’s deceptive trade practices law. Senator Clemens questioned how the bill would apply to nontraditional groups and whether the affected firms are registered or regulated; a witness, Chris Nolan, said there is little federal oversight and no Kentucky oversight of proxy adviser firms. Senator Maiden supported the bill, while Senator Thomas opposed it, arguing investors should be free to seek advice based on their own interests and that the bill could chill such advice. The committee passed SB 183 by a 9-2 vote and reported it favorably.

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• Back in May, President Trump issued a series of executive orders.
• The Advance act of 2024 and the presidents executive orders.
• Anybody talking that the presidential executive orders? >> Yes, it was. It was in our presentation.
• So there are 4 executive orders issued.
• The executive orders also set goals to start construction on and arts build new nuclear power plants

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• We've got some issues within the state on executive orders.
• The executive orders have spent $350 million, and that's reflected in that chart.
• Without the executive order spending, that blue bar would be $400 million.
• So that's where the governor pulls her executive orders, am I correct? Mr. Chair, yes.
• Do we limit her executive orders?

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• And in the executive order, the second executive order, it allowed when they stop updating because they
• So I mean, we work well with the former executive director.
• So I mean, we work well with the former executive director.
• interaction with the executive interaction with the executive departments<00:25:58.880> and
• audit something that is not an executive audit something that is not an executive department because

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Summary: The committee first accepted the minutes from the April 4 meeting, then moved to a discussion of potential audit topics and follow-up on prior performance audits. Christine Young, Director of Audits, and Jay Henry, performance audit supervisor, walked members through a spreadsheet showing the status of roughly 30 performance audit reports from the past 10 years, including the number of observations, whether agencies concurred, how many observations were fully addressed, and when each report was last updated. They explained that “fully addressed” only means the agency addressed the observations it agreed with, and that some reports include rejoinders when the audit office disagrees with an agency’s response. Members also discussed how some audits have been updated and others have not, including an example from the prescription drug monitoring program, which moved from the Board of Pharmacy/OPLC to HHS and was recently updated after staff contacted HHS. A major focus was the mental health workforce licensing audit, which was described as having little or no follow-up in the spreadsheet. Several members said this was especially concerning given the ongoing mental health crisis and argued that the committee should require a response. The committee agreed to start by sending letters to the chairs of the boards listed under that audit, asking the chair or designee to appear at the next meeting or respond in writing about what has been done and what remains unresolved. Members noted that the current process is voluntary and self-reported, which can lead to long delays or no response, especially for boards that meet only monthly and may have changed membership or leadership since the audit was issued. The committee also discussed other audit follow-up issues, including the liquor commission division of enforcement and licensing, which staff said was farther along than its percentage suggested, and a recently released human rights report that was not yet due for update. Members raised the possibility of using future budget reviews to ask agencies what they have done about old audit findings. In addition, the committee briefly discussed future audit topics, including a possible audit of local school districts related to special education, and staff explained that the statute allows the LBA to audit a limited number of non-state entities over a five-year period. The motion to authorize the chair and LBA to draft and send letters to the mental health workforce licensing boards passed by show of hands with one abstention. The next meeting was tentatively set for June 6 in State House 100, with staff to confirm the room and schedule.

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• Claire Wendel, I'm the executive director of Texas Watch.
• Execute it the next day. It's quick.
• In when we can get the writ because that really gets when the writ is actually executed.
• If the problem is a writ, let's ...narrowly address the execution of writs.
• Have you ever seen a eviction session executed? Because I have.

Bills: HB32, HB15, HB171, HB421, HB581, HB644, HB745, HB349, HB917, HB204, HB923, HB15, HB171, HB204

Keywords: eviction, landlord rights, tenant rights, justice court, property law, court procedures, chemical dependency, court-ordered treatment, mental health, health care, treatment facility, juvenile justice, criminal justice reform, deep fake, digital impersonation, age verification, private cause of action, explicit content, consumer protection, HB 581

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• Senators, as we discussed previously, President Trump's executive orders make it clear it's a new day
• The state board can also appoint an executive director who can approve up to $25,000 on his or her own
• Susan Martin, who was the Executive Director for the Barbara Jordan Commission, the U.S.
• Every executive order that’s come out on this issue ain’t going to do it.
• But what we do is we add additional burden onto those people who actually implement and execute these

Summary: The Senate Appropriations Committee met to hear SB 2-C, a major immigration enforcement bill sponsored by Senator Gruters and co-introduced by Senator Fine. The sponsor described the bill as a response to federal immigration priorities and said it replaces a single immigration officer with a State Board of Immigration Enforcement, expands local-federal cooperation, increases penalties for crimes committed by unauthorized immigrants, requires detention in certain cases, broadens information sharing, funds detention-bed expansion and law-enforcement training, and ends in-state tuition waivers for undocumented students. The bill also includes provisions related to sanctuary policies, voter fraud, transport of unauthorized aliens, and driver’s license-related offenses. The sponsor said the bill appropriates roughly $300 million overall, including $250 million for grants and $48 million for the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services for interdiction and border-related enforcement work. Committee members questioned the bill’s scope, costs, and implementation. Senators focused heavily on the tuition-waiver repeal, asking how many students would be affected and whether the bill would harm students who have long lived in Florida. They also pressed on whether the bill should include stronger E-Verify provisions, how sanctuary-policy enforcement would work, whether local officials could be penalized for policy choices, and how immigration status would be verified in court and jail settings. The sponsor and Senator Fine said the tuition waiver would be removed for undocumented students, that the bill does not address E-Verify, and that the measure is intended to make immigration status a factor in detention and sentencing. Questions also addressed detention-bed capacity, reimbursement rates, and whether corrections staff would receive bonuses or salary increases; sponsors said bonuses are included for participating law enforcement, while broader salary issues would be handled in the regular budget process. Public testimony was sharply divided. Supporters and information-only witnesses, including Sheriff Bob Gualtieri and former officials, said the bill would help Florida coordinate with federal authorities, expand bed space, and close loopholes in existing immigration enforcement. Opponents from the Southern Poverty Law Center, ACLU of Florida, Florida Policy Institute, labor groups, and immigrant advocates argued the bill is unconstitutional, likely to trigger litigation, and harmful to families, schools, and the economy. They warned that the pretrial detention provisions could lead to wrongful detentions and that the tuition changes would reduce access to higher education and cost the state tuition revenue. No final vote is reflected in the transcript excerpt, but the committee continued through public comment and extended the meeting to complete the agenda.

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• the executive office I described<00:34:35.520> a<00:34:35.720> little<00:34:36.200>
• office including our go Bond executive office including our go Bond Debt<00:34:50.720> Service
• is uh the governor and and um executive is uh the governor and and um executive council's<00:47:
• For the executive counselors, we will go out.

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Summary: The Public Works and Highways Committee held an orientation meeting focused on introducing members, outlining committee norms, and hearing an overview from the Department of Transportation. Chair David Mills emphasized the committee’s long-standing bipartisan working style, asked members to share contact information for short-notice scheduling, and noted that the committee would need to complete as much work as possible before the building is vacated later in the year. Members introduced themselves and described backgrounds in engineering, construction, planning, local government, military service, education, and business. Several members highlighted prior service on planning boards, school boards, zoning boards, or in transportation-related fields as relevant to the committee’s work. Members repeatedly described the committee as collegial and nonpartisan, with most bills going to the consent calendar. The chair also noted that the committee’s work centers on state infrastructure, including roads, bridges, highways, and buildings. Representative Cluder, the ranking member, and others echoed that the committee is effective because it talks issues through and resolves disagreements collaboratively. One member mentioned a recent trip that reinforced the importance of infrastructure resilience after storms and rebuilding efforts in other states. Department of Transportation officials, led by Assistant Commissioner and Chief Engineer David Rodrig, gave a detailed organizational and operational overview. They described DOT’s structure, mission of “transportation excellence,” and major responsibilities across highways, bridges, rail, transit, aeronautics, maintenance, and administration. Rodrig reported 1,651 permanent positions and 404 vacancies, 2,160 state bridges with 115 on the Red List, 4,600 centerline miles of roadway, 25 public airports, 11 transit systems, and 194 active state-owned rail lines. He also outlined FY 2024 spending, project development activity, highway maintenance operations, fleet and fuel systems, and the distinction between the highway fund and DOT’s budget, including the role of federal funds and the turnpike enterprise fund. No votes were taken and no bills were acted on during this orientation meeting.

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• Okay, let's open an executive session now on House Bill 1723.
• executive session. executive session. while<01:17:31.040> we<01:17:31.199> deal<01
• Okay, let me open the executive session on House Bill 1733.
• point of order um on an executive point of order um on an executive session.<01:46:26.000> Do
• Okay, so that ends the executive session on House Bill 1736.

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• Fire Marshal um Dory Booth, Executive Fire Marshal um Dory Booth, Executive Officer<00:55:17.200
• <00:55:37.839> protection, airports, harbors, executive protection, airports, harbors, executive
• <01:25:10.560> websites, developing and executing websites, developing and executing websites
• >> So with that project, we weren't able to execute a movement of it.
• >> Good afternoon, Executive Officer of the PUC.

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• AND TO THIS DATE, DESPITE OVER 100 EXECUTIVE ORDERS, COUNTLESS RESCISSIONS THAT HAVE COME OUT OF THE
• of December 28, 2016, Executive Order 13984, of January 19, 2021, Executive Order 14110 of October 30
• , 2023, revoked by Executive Order 14148 of January 20, 2025, and Executive Order 14144 of January 16
• It was in weeks of me speaking with the Secretary that they issued this executive order.
• It was in weeks of me speaking with the Secretary that they issued this executive order.

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Monday, March 31, 2025, 1012, house, all

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• branch functions such like um executive branch functions such like um 81<00:52:26.520> one<00
• all executive all executive agencies<00:52:44.280> can<00:52:44.680> yes<00:52:45.240
• Um, I see this bill kind of as a shadow executive, you know.
• <01:15:35.000> so really setting up a shadow executive so really setting up a shadow executive
• state for the various types of executive state for the various types of executive directors<01:36

Bills: HF1, HF2

Keywords: Office of Inspector General, inspector general, legislative audit, fraud prevention, waste and abuse, public funds, grant oversight, state grants, grant management, whistleblower protection, retaliation, subpoena power, data practices, government transparency, accountability, law enforcement referrals, sanctions, debarment, payment withholding, public assistance fraud