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• These schools, high schools, are graduating outstanding students.
• About half of the students are going to college that just graduated this week.
• And I say that as a first charter school graduate elected here in the state of California.
• It's to go and play, and to graduate from college, because that school put me on track.
• It updates outdated instructional materials and ensures that school instructors are trained to support

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• We didn't graduate a bunch of students to now take on these new jobs.
• But our graduation rate was... was 93%, 94% in 2019.
• Graduation rates climbed from 88% to 93%?
• Whether we're talking about graduation rates, you're going to see us as a leader in that, or A through
• So that they. have better graduation rates, so that they have better A-G completion rates, so that they

Committee: House Education

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• To allow access to unemployment benefits for adjunct instructors at New Mexico Air Education Institutions
• Representative Garratt as well, I wish to thank you for bringing forth the needs of our part-time instructors
• bringing this bill forward, and we've got lots of work to do for our part-time, or rather, adjunct instructors
• I'm not as familiar with the policies for instructors at community colleges, but just so you know, we
• And what I'm reading has to do with the roles that we call instructors, or lecturers—sorry, lecturers—and

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• I'm a certified Minnesota DNR youth ATV safety instructor and also a trail ambassador.
• a certified Minnesota DNR youth ATV a certified Minnesota DNR youth ATV safety<00:02:43.000><c> instructor
• and also a trail safety instructor and also a trail Ambassador<00:02:46.680><c> uh</c><00:02:46.840>
• As a youth ATV safety instructor, I can tell you, as I speak to kids in the classes that I teach, most
• I can tell you as I safety instructor I can tell you as I speak<00:04:15.760><c> to</c><00:04:15.920

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• Program graduates see real impact, earning wages averaging $20.20 per hour.”
• We would cover the cost of training, instructors, testing, hands-on supplies, etc., so that people could
• he was impressed that the educational institutions wanted to have full classes, that they had RN instructors
• </c><01:01:38.280><c> that</c><01:01:38.599><c> that</c><01:01:38.720><c> we</c> they had RN instructors
• that that we they had RN instructors that that we could<01:01:39.119><c> basically</c><01:01:39.640>

Bills: HF110 , HF111 , HF263 , HF105

Committee: House Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy

Keywords: HF110, Adrian Independent School District, Independent School District No. 511, school construction, sales tax exemption, use tax refund, refundable exemption, construction materials, capital improvements, school roofing, playground remodel, retaining walls, plumbing, bathroom remodel, locker room remodel, window replacements, local tax relief, general fund appropriation, Minnesota chapter 297A, retroactive tax refund

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• You see, you do research and graduate education and undergraduate education all the way down the line
• And of those, it was just the folks that we had always graduated.
• So even at the time, UC and CSU accepted a larger proportion of California high school graduates than
• Get to a certain point and you can't graduate because you don't have the right units to be able to graduate
• Into our institutions and graduating them in a timely manner, then let's do that.

Summary: The committee heard SB 998, which would define and expand the roles of discrimination prevention coordinators in the Office of Civil Rights, including a new disability-focused coordinator and a deputy coordinator on anti-AAPI discrimination. The authors and supporters, including representatives from LGBTQ, Black, Latino, and AAPI caucuses, argued the bill would help schools proactively address discrimination, improve student safety and belonging, and support learning. Opposition from the California Faculty Association and SEIU California focused on the appointment structure and preference for regular civil service hiring, while some members questioned whether the bill duplicated existing anti-discrimination law and whether it would add government bloat. The committee ultimately voted SB 998 out on a due pass basis to the Senate Judiciary Committee and placed it on call. SB 1082 was then presented as a measure to streamline inter-district transfer appeals by requiring more timely district action, allowing concurrent review, and clarifying that a district’s failure to respond is not treated as a denial. The sponsor, the Association of California County Boards of Education, and supporters from Families in Action for Quality Education said the bill would reduce delays, improve fairness, and help families make timely educational decisions without changing districts’ authority to approve or deny transfers. The California School Boards Association had previously been opposed unless amended and said it would re-evaluate after the committee changes. The committee supported the measure, and SB 1082 was voted out as amended to the Senate Appropriations Committee and placed on call. The committee also took up SB 960, which would revise the rules for community college baccalaureate degrees by tying authorization to local access gaps and impacted CSU programs rather than a blanket statewide prohibition. Supporters, including the Campaign for College Opportunity and several community college and education groups, argued the bill would expand access for place-bound and adult learners and better align programs with workforce needs. CSU representatives and the California Faculty Association opposed the bill, warning it could duplicate CSU offerings, worsen enrollment and funding pressures, and affect faculty jobs. Members debated the Master Plan for Higher Education, impaction, and whether the state should instead fully fund CSU capacity; the committee nevertheless recommended SB 960 for passage as amended to Appropriations and placed it on call. Finally, SB 965 was heard, a bill to make it easier for 16- and 17-year-olds to obtain public library cards without a parent or guardian physically present. The author and supporters said the bill would remove an unnecessary barrier to educational resources while preserving local library control over checkout policies and liability rules. The California Library Association expressed support for the goal but said details matter and urged language that preserves local discretion while encouraging reduced in-person requirements where feasible. The transcript ended during that testimony, before any committee vote on SB 965.

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• I spoke at graduation.
• I spoke at graduation. Speaker: ...that campus was really built as a youth facility.
• I spoke at graduations there in the beautiful chapel.
• I spoke at graduations there in the beautiful chapel.
• By providing eight classes over a two-year period, Texas would then have 200 instructors.

Bills: SB 1

Committee: Senate Finance

Summary: The committee heard a Legislative Budget Board presentation and then testimony from the Department of Public Safety on the Article 5 public safety budget. LBB said DPS’s 2026-27 recommendation totals $3.7 billion, down from the prior base, while FTEs rise by 856.7. Major items included increased funding for driver license services and customer support, new trooper funding and recruit schools, crime lab operations, border security, and reductions tied to one-time facility, vehicle, and aircraft spending. The committee also discussed new riders, including one to lapse unused trooper funds and require reporting after recruit schools. Members focused heavily on driver license operations, questioning why prior staffing increases and a prior efficiency study had not solved long wait times, high call abandonment, and appointment delays. DPS and LBB said the agency receives about 22,000 calls per day, answers only about 9 percent, and is seeking more staff plus technology upgrades such as automation, kiosks, and better online processing. Senators also raised concerns about rural access, REAL ID document requirements, and whether the department should rethink its processes rather than simply add employees. DPS leadership then described needs for the Williamson County training academy, additional troopers, Capitol and Alamo security, border operations, aircraft and vehicle replacement, and regional headquarters in El Paso and San Antonio. Members asked about Operation Lone Star costs, overtime, pursuit safety, border crime, oilfield theft, and sexual assault kit and toxicology backlogs. DPS said border deployments remain focused on criminal threats, that overtime is partly driven by deployments and staffing shortages, and that the sexual assault kit backlog is down to 118 cases with a goal of zero by April. The committee later recessed and began the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission budget presentation, where LBB outlined a $115.1 million recommendation and noted ongoing costs for the AIMS technology project.

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• Well, also making sure that all their other courses are completed before graduation.
• Well, also making sure that all their other courses are completed before graduation.
• We have students that are able to graduate from high school with an associate's degree.
• They can't graduate because they cannot find a class that, in Idaho, under the Constitution, it says
• But what I would like to say to the body, when I keep hearing things like graduation rates and school

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• I remember when I was graduating from UNM thinking about. Where I was going to go.
• But how cool would it have been when I graduated to say I can go build rockets?
• College graduates right now are in the mass of unemployment.
• They're graduating from colleges with degrees that there are no jobs for.
• It's the largest graduating classes in the last two years that have no jobs in their degree.

Committees: Senate Senate Finance , Senate House Appropriations & Finance

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• and he's the agency expert instructor and he's the agency drug<00:52:08.400><c> recognition</c><00:52
• the book for how to conduct the lab and also, too, with meeting with my drug recognition expert instructors
• as well as other expert instructors as well as other professionals<00:58:16.799><c> in</c><00:58:17.040
• And so these are opportunities for, you know, Hawaii graduates to stay within the state and operate.

Bills: HB1974 , HB1853 , HB1973 , HB1574 , HB2619 , HB1966 , HB1643 , HB1671 , HB2558 , HB1854 , HB2173 , HB1575 , HB2229 , HB1535 , HB1978 , HB2508 , HB1549 , HB2187 , HB1550 , HB1977 , HB2314 , HB1871 , HB2319 , HB1591 , HB1858 , HB1898 , HB2372 , HB1765 , HB2012 , HB1706 , HB1962 , HB1963 , HB1975 , HB2009 , HB2083 , HB2224 , HB1877 , HB1959 , HB1626 , HB1665 , HB2488 , HB2456 , HB2548 , HB2207 , HB1832 , HB2079 , HB1985 , HB1618 , HB2486 , HB2242 , HB2045 , HB1703 , HB2236 , HB2480 , HB1976 , HB2287 , HB2288 , HB1777 , HB276 , HB1660 , HB1676 , HB1605 , HB1751 , HB1967 , HB2383 , HB2340 , HB1946 , HB2268 , HB1950 , HB2156 , HB2118 , HB1859 , HB1863 , HB1996 , HB2114 , HB2423 , HB2429 , HB2475 , HB2534 , HB2545 , HB1813 , HB1941 , HB2474 , HB2583 , HB1576 , HB1886 , HB1939 , HB2540 , HB2590 , HB2000 , HB2163 , HB2386 , HB1691 , HB1680 , HB2516 , HB1993 , HB2442 , HB1510 , HB1958 , HB1692

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• It targets very specifically graduates of our own schools here in New Mexico who have graduated within
• Let's say even if they didn't graduate from any... ...school of medicine or nursing, I actually think
• of fields like the one I graduated from, Chican[a] and Chicano Studies.
• within 10 years of graduating from New Mexico institutions.
• It was clinical instructor. Same thing.

Committee: House House Health & Human Services

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• Education or a school district or charter school includes in the minimum course of study for the graduation
• of students from high school prescribed pursuant to another state law... ...for the graduation of students
• Following his graduation from Tucson High School and the University of Arizona in 1965 with a bachelor's
• squadron pilot until April 1968, then as an F-100 pilot through 1968-69, and returned as an F-100 instructor

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• seniors going through We also have the Pueblo of Ocayalinga who's focusing on certifying 520 language instructors
• It's really exciting when you're moving people with an average graduation of somewhere around 60 to over

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• holds a position of forensic nurse administrator with the city of Tulsa he's also a sane clinical instructor
• adopted its current name in 2003 and iderrtian University offers a range of under gra du ate and graduate

Bills: SB2102 , SB1940 , SB1625 , SB1442 , SB1623 , SB1242 , SB1949 , SB1592 , SB1913 , SB592 , SB992 , SB1241 , SB259 , SB1928 , SB1426 , SB1531 , SB1561 , SB1122

Keywords: credit card fees, merchant discounts, payment card network, interchange fees, transparency in fees, Oklahoma law, payment card, rebate, merchant, tax compliance, health insurance, mandate, impact analysis, insurance department, public health, access to healthcare, SB1442, alcoholic beverage control, ABLE Commission, liquor license fees

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• Item 2 funding for 4% salary increase for residential instructors adopted at $700,000 Item 3 funding
• Item number three is the graduate medical education formula adopted at one hundred and twenty two point

Bills: SB 1

Committee: Senate Finance

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• I started researching Bitcoin when I was a graduate accounting student at the University of Texas at
• certain offenses by massage establishments, massage schools, massage therapists, and massage therapy instructors

Bills: SB 21 , SB21 , SB72 , SB140 , SB262 , SB370 , SB372 , SB495 , SB627 , SB703 , SB764 , SB842

Committee: Senate Business & Commerce

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• We did a pilot these courses with favorable favorable findings from students and instructors and identification
• The following 8 weeks include that with Bill days built in after they graduate from pre service.

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• School, the only high school west of the Mississippi that accepted Black scholars at the time, and he graduated
• Today we have Ryan Shervington, who is the agricultural instructor of the FFA and FFA advisor of Cass
• Today we have Ryan Shervington, who is the agricultural instructor of the FFA and FFA advisor of Cass

Summary: The House convened with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and approval of the previous day’s journal by a 132-0 vote. Members then used personal privilege remarks to recognize Black History Month, honor several Black colleagues and public servants, observe a moment of silence for the late Dr. Steven Leon, and deliver a lengthy tribute to the late Freeman Bosley Sr. The chamber also welcomed numerous guests and school groups, including congressional and local officials, mental health advocates, FFA students, championship volleyball players, elementary and junior high students, and other district visitors. The House then took up several bills on third reading. The most contentious debate was over House Committee Substitute for House Bills 1663, 1607, and 1973, which removed a sunset from Missouri’s restrictions on transgender athletes in school sports. Supporters framed it as protecting fairness and women’s sports; opponents argued it targeted a very small number of students, was discriminatory, and distracted from more pressing issues. After extended debate, the measure passed 98-37. The House also passed House Bill 2682, a school-related First Amendment bill, after debate over whether it would protect hateful student speech; it passed 99-47. Lawmakers next passed House Bill 2274, the Interstate Teacher Mobility Compact, to make it easier for teachers to transfer credentials across states, especially for military families, by a vote of 133-13. House Committee Substitute for House Bill 1883, dealing with sales tax on durable medical goods and certain auction items, passed 98-36 after criticism that it was too broad and would benefit high-end auction sales. House Committee Substitute for House Bill 2085, a tobacco preemption bill that also allows localities to enforce a tobacco age of 21, passed 93-43 amid debate over local control and youth tobacco access. House Bill 2145, allowing businesses on two-lane highways to place signs across the road, passed overwhelmingly 142-2. Finally, the House passed House Committee Substitute for House Joint Resolution 169, which would limit state and local spending growth to prior-year levels plus inflation and population growth, with emergency exceptions. Supporters called it a way to restrain government spending and align with the Hancock Amendment; opponents raised concerns about how it could interact with future tax policy, including the proposed income tax elimination plan. The resolution was discussed at length but ultimately advanced by vote.

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• My DRE instructor, I teach at our academy. We give our recruits this training.
• We have 55, as of today, we have 55 DREs with the Florida Highway Patrol, nine of them being instructors
• I'm an instructor, and somebody I brought with me, Sergeant Police, is an instructor as well.
• When you're your DUI or, sorry, DRE instructor, how, you know, I'm not getting into too many details
• locations and they can only test for certain substances when you're your DUI or sorry dear DRE instructor

Committee: Senate Criminal Justice

Summary: The committee heard a presentation from Jessica Spencer on cannabis, criminal justice, and mental health. She argued that marijuana products have become far more potent over time, that high-potency THC and hemp-derived products are widely available in Florida, and that daily or near-daily use can contribute to addiction, psychosis, and other mental health problems, especially for adolescents. She also said cannabis is linked to violent crime and suicide in some cases, urged more prevention funding in schools, stronger regulation of Delta-8 and similar products, better law enforcement and regulatory oversight, expanded treatment and diversion options, and more expungement opportunities for simple possession. Senators questioned her about potency data, testing methods, and whether she was claiming causation in violent cases; she said she was and noted she had worked on the No on 3 campaign while still favoring decriminalization of simple possession rather than full legalization. The committee then took up several bills. CS/SB 150, “Trooper’s Law,” was amended and reported favorably; it makes extreme animal cruelty during a declared emergency a third-degree felony, inspired by the rescue of a dog during Hurricane Milton. SB 234, the Jason Rayner Act, was reported favorably after debate over its changes to self-defense language and mandatory life imprisonment for manslaughter committed against a law enforcement officer; supporters said it closes a loophole exposed in the Rayner case, while opponents raised concerns about unintended consequences and mandatory sentencing. CS/SB 138, “Trenton’s Law,” also passed after amendment; it increases penalties for repeat DUI/vehicular homicide offenders and adds language on intoxicating substances, with supporters citing the death of Trenton Stewart and opponents warning about cannabis impairment standards and first refusal penalties. SB 130, dealing with compensation for wrongful incarceration, was reported favorably. The bill removes Florida’s “clean hands” bar, extends the filing deadline from 90 days to two years, and allows exonerees with factual innocence findings to pursue compensation and civil remedies. Support came from innocence and civil liberties advocates. The committee also received a law enforcement presentation from Florida Highway Patrol Lieutenant Channing Taylor on impaired driving enforcement, DRE training, and crash data, emphasizing that drug impairment—especially cannabis—plays a major role in fatal crashes and that officers rely on observation and field testing because roadside chemical testing is limited.

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• I'm from Belen; I graduated from Belen. I'm a proud Eagle.
• Some of them graduated a year early and are now going to be focusing right in on coming into Belen.
• So depending on where you are, we did have people that just graduated...
• And so my understanding is that I can graduate from high school.
• I am a biology instructor at CNM, and I have been for 10 years.