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• means for a student like me is that because I would leave the classroom for 45 minutes of dyslexia intervention
• This seems unfair because, um, students who need dyslexia intervention also need all the other aspects
• I'm thankful I have finished daily dyslexia intervention, but this funding approach is wrong and it hurts

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• to implement formative assessments, adjust teaching practices accordingly, and provide targeted interventions
• Section 3 establishes the requirements for mathematics intervention programs in North Dakota.
• for the four strands of mathematics proficiency and add additional information around the math intervention
• On the math intervention program and include a personalized math at home plan.
• or a comment that we had heard with a concern was local control when choosing the appropriate intervention

Keywords: 908, all

Summary: The committee first approved the December 3 minutes, then heard a request from the Board of Clinical Laboratory Practice to amend its proposed rule on exempt test methods to add certain closed-system DNA/RNA tests, including rhinovirus. After testimony explaining that the board had considered late comments from BioMérieux and wanted the rule record to reflect that review, the committee agreed to a limited amendment and passed the motion unanimously. The Department of Agriculture then outlined broad rule updates affecting dairy, eggs, poultry, pesticides, animal health, environmental mitigation, and the Egg Product Utilization Commission. The commissioner said the changes mostly clarified existing requirements, updated references, and reduced some burdens, such as easing dairy hauler training/licensing timing and clarifying out-of-state grade A milk language. Members asked about dairy industry decline, the APUC scoring system, and the rationale for the milk-hauler and out-of-state milk provisions. The State Board of Dental Examiners presented extensive rule changes tied to recent legislation and workforce issues, including a new professional health program for dentists, expanded duties for assistants and hygienists, broader local anesthetic authority for hygienists, and fee increases to fund the program and cover administrative costs. Testimony from Dr. Edward May strongly supported the professional health program based on his own recovery experience. The committee also heard from Game and Fish on rules easing some guide/outfitter experience requirements, allowing electronic exams, and modifying boating safety equipment rules, with no public comment and no fiscal impact. Later, Health and Human Services received approval for an extension to update tattoo/body art rules and a separate motion to repeal an obsolete nurse aide training chapter. HHS also described nursing facility rule updates, lodging sanitation revisions, and related clarifications on licensing, safety, pest control, and fire requirements. The Department of Environmental Quality received an extension for septic-system installer rules, and also presented rules for above-ground storage tanks and water/wastewater operator certification, including new fees and third-party testing options. The Industrial Commission’s oil and gas division described multiple rule changes, some withdrawn after comments, including drilling unit flexibility, site stability, wildfire authority, and streamlined transport/reporting procedures. Finally, DPI began presenting several rule packages, including school construction loan limits, school bus standards, cooperative agreements, special education rules for public charter schools, and new math curriculum and intervention requirements.

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• When a child struggles with attendance, the answer is early intervention and family engagement.
• The bill reflects our shared commitment across chambers to early intervention, family engagement, and
• 11.680> early with attendance, the answer is early with attendance, the answer is early intervention
• intervention and family engagement. intervention and family engagement.
• , across chambers to early intervention, across chambers to early intervention, family<00:52:33.840

Keywords: 958, all

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• with CMS is absolutely critical, but this project is a health care continuous quality improvement intervention
• This project is a health care continuous quality improvement intervention.
• doing a lot of use of AI, especially for determining, analyzing social determinants of health and interventions
• So, many of the interventions<00:53:46.440> that<00:53:46.560> have<00:53:46.680> been
• <00:53:46.840> proposed<00:53:47.200> at interventions that have been proposed at interventions

Bills: HB20, HB276, HB644, HB812, HB816, HB916, HB1131, HB1247, HB1518, HB1525, HB1537, HB1541, HB1546, HB1553, HB1562, HB1565, HB1566, HB1576, HB1577, HB1591, HB1605, HB1612, HB1613, HB1614, HB1618, HB1620, HB1650, HB1656, HB1658, HB1661, HB1664, HB1668, HB1676, HB1707, HB1711, HB1713, HB1715, HB1718, HB1727, HB1749, HB1756, HB1774, HB1776, HB1801, HB1802, HB1805, HB1813, HB1815, HB1831, HB1838, HB1853, HB1854, HB1859, HB1863, HB1871, HB1872, HB1918, HB1920, HB1952, HB1965, HB1966, HB1967, HB1969, HB1972, HB1973, HB1974, HB1975, HB1980, HB1985, HB2005, HB2023, HB2031, HB2033, HB2062, HB2113, HB2114, HB2116, HB2138, HB2139, HB2156, HB2158, HB2159, HB2171, HB2208, HB2268, HB2270, HB2272, HB2273, HB2276, HB2289, HB2310, HB2315, HB2335, HB2338, HB2339, HB2340, HB2343, HB2361, HB2384, HB2387, SB2338, SB2431, SB2438, SB2593, SB2907, SB2671, SB2321, SB3084, SB2401, SB3033, SB2972, SB3032, SB2806, SB3014, SB2108, SB2981, SB2973, SB2423, SB2078, SB2322, SB2397, SB2896, SB2088, SB2347, SB2408, SB2970, SB2851, SB2713, SB2697, SB2312, SB2192, SB2363, SB2530, SB3028, SB2024, SB3007, SB2599, SB2596, SB2662, SB2930, SB3334, SB2378, SB3019, SB3231, SB2240, SB2372, SB2175, SB2046, SB2298, SB2922, SB2835, SB3263, SB2174, SB2128, SB2006, SB2489, SB3134, SB2982, SB2425, SB2849, SB2797, SB2795, SB2575, SB2521, SB2765, SB2386, SB2852, SB2022, SB2117, SB2277, SB2387, SB2688, SB2885, SB3132, SB3219, SB2169, SB2591, SB2090, SB2983, SB888, SB3249, SB2611, SB2429, SB2463, SB3154, SB3131, SB3152, SB3315, SB2448, SB2054, SB2140, SB2520, SB2377, SB2986, SB2010, SB2189, SB2026, SB3010, SB2818, SB2002

Keywords: lava insurance, homeowners, insurance market, subsidy, Hawaii, condominiums, annual report, filing fee, real estate, developer, residency, property regime, PFAS, single-use plastics, environmental health, food ware, pollution reduction, local produce, agriculture, Hawaii Revised Statutes

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• . >> And that was, um, we have not yet audited the mobile crisis intervention program, which has been
• Chair will make a motion that the next audit to do will be the one on the mobile crisis intervention
• > program<00:51:47.920> which<00:51:48.240> has<00:51:48.480> been intervention
• program which has been intervention program which has been operative<00:51:51.040> for operative
• one on the mobile crisis intervention one on the mobile crisis intervention program<00:55:43.920

Keywords: 928, house, all

Summary: The Legislative Performance Audit and Oversight Committee met to accept prior minutes and receive updates on ongoing audits. Audit staff reported progress on three education-related reviews: special education (34 of 71 observations completed, draft expected in the second quarter and final in the summer), education freedom accounts (22 of 41 observations completed, draft expected in the second quarter and final in the summer), and the doorway program (5 of 13 observations completed, draft expected by the end of February and final by April or May). No committee questions were raised on the audit status update. The committee then discussed possible future oversight topics, beginning with SNAP and concerns about fraud and work requirements. Members suggested inviting DHS officials and contract administrators to explain program operations and compliance, and also discussed whether the Department of Justice Medicaid fraud unit or other experienced officials could provide useful context. Members noted New Hampshire’s existing oversight layers, including the Executive Council and the joint HHS oversight committee, while also expressing interest in hearing more directly from department staff about staffing and contract management capacity. A substantial portion of the meeting focused on whether to pursue an audit of special education at the local school level. Members debated whether to wait for the ongoing statewide special education review and a legislative study commission report, or to begin scoping a local audit now so work could start sooner. Supporters argued that local-level spending, identification rates, and effectiveness vary widely by district and that an audit should examine both costs and outcomes; others cautioned that the scope would need to be manageable given limited audit staff and that the statewide report may help narrow the focus. The committee also briefly discussed a potential audit of the Bureau of Elderly and Adult Services, but no decision was made on that item.

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• And there are evidence-based interventions that are designed to reduce risk and build protective factors
• And I did have a slide on some of the evidence-based interventions that are shown to reduce childhood
• So what we find is that these evidence-based interventions can help prevent, but I just want to qualify
• costly interventions later in child welfare, health care, and education, as Ramona had stated.
• We're talking about prevention, not necessarily intervention.

Summary: The committee first approved the December 16 minutes and then heard a presentation from Dr. Ramona Danielson on adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and their economic and public-system impacts. She explained that ACEs are population-level risk indicators, not individual diagnostic tools, and said higher ACE exposure is associated with more chronic illness, mental health challenges, child welfare and justice involvement, and lower workforce participation. She cautioned that precise dollar estimates are difficult because of the many interacting factors across the life course, but said the direction of the impact is clear and that evidence-based interventions and protective factors can reduce harm. Members asked about definitions of a “healthy family,” same-sex couples, divorce, substance abuse, trends in ACEs, and home visiting; she emphasized supportive relationships, protective factors, and the importance of positive childhood experiences. The committee then heard from Allison Mahoney and Missy Barranco, along with a recorded family story from Abby, about evidence-based home visiting programs in North Dakota. Abby described how Healthy Families North Dakota supported her family after a premature birth and NICU stay by providing weekly in-home coaching, developmental screenings, postpartum mental health check-ins, referrals, and parenting support. The presenters explained that home visiting is voluntary, relationship-based, and usually begins prenatally or shortly after birth, with referrals coming from hospitals, WIC, pregnancy navigators, human service zones, self-referrals, and other community partners. They said North Dakota currently has four main evidence-based models operating through 12 organizations, with Healthy Families available in all 53 counties, though only a fraction of eligible families are served. Funding was described as a patchwork of federal MIECHV/Title IV-E, Medicaid, state and tribal funds, philanthropy, charitable gaming, and other grants; members discussed whether the Legislature or agencies should expand support and how to improve outreach and sustainability. Finally, the committee received a memorandum on artificial intelligence and sexual exploitation, focusing on AI-generated child sexual abuse material, deepfakes, sextortion, and chatbot-related risks. The report summarized federal and state law, including North Dakota’s existing computer-generated image provisions, the federal PROTECT Act, the Take It Down Act, and recent federal executive orders on AI policy. Members discussed the need for child-safety protections, the limits of executive orders, and broader concerns about AI’s effect on critical thinking and misinformation. The committee then heard from BCI Special Agent Cassidy Halsef, who said AI is already driving a sharp rise in child exploitation cases in North Dakota, including AI-generated explicit images of real minors and school-based incidents involving mass-shared manipulated images. She said investigators are seeing more cyber tips, more difficult forensic work, and lasting harm to victims and families, and urged stronger legal penalties, specialized training, victim services, and prevention education in schools and communities.

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• If you identify these students early, we want to make sure they get the appropriate interventions.
• Plans must include evidence-based interventions aligned with instructional best practices in reading
• I think this is really going to go a very long way in helping those students get the interventions as
• Senate Bill 624, a bill to be entitled an act relating to batterers intervention program activities.
• Senate Bill 624, a bill to be entitled an act relating to batterers intervention program activities.

Summary: The Senate convened with a quorum, opened with prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance, and recognized several introductions and memorials, including a resolution designating August 9, 2026, as Bob Graham Day and a moment of silence for firefighter Roger Timmy Miley. The chamber then moved through a long special-order calendar, with several bills substituted with House companions and adopted by voice vote or recorded vote. Early measures included a tax conformity bill tied to federal Internal Revenue Code changes, which passed 34-0, and a Medicaid/public assistance bill that drew extensive debate over work requirements, fraud reduction, behavioral health services, and SNAP/EBT reforms. Amendments offered by Senators Berman and Osgood to condition or soften the work and photo-ID provisions were rejected, and the underlying bill was placed on the third-reading calendar after lengthy questioning about implementation, exemptions, and eligibility effects. The Senate also passed bills on computer science education and AI instruction, a Parkinson’s disease registry public-records exemption and registry update, designation of the SS American Victory as Florida’s official state flagship, electronic payments for local governments, repeal of the legal-tender sunset for gold and silver, public-records protections for gold/silver custodians and stablecoin-related entities, a Florida stablecoin pilot program, and local government budget transparency/spending measures. Most of these measures were adopted after minor amendments or technical substitutions, with votes generally ranging from 31-3 to 34-0. The chamber also recognized the Florida Channel’s 30 years of legislative coverage. Later, the Senate approved a digital voyeurism bill expanding the reasonable-expectation-of-privacy definition to include private fenced yards, and an insurance customer representative licensing bill allowing high school students to complete insurance/personal finance coursework and later qualify for licensure. The final major item was a medical freedom bill that would expand parental vaccine information requirements, add a conscience-based exemption to immunization mandates, allow behind-the-counter ivermectin for adults, and repeal the sunset on the mRNA mandate prohibition; two amendments clarifying anti-kickback rules and requiring vaccine information to include risks, benefits, safety, and efficacy were adopted, while questions from Senators Smith and Massullo focused on public-health impacts and the content of the required materials. The transcript ends during discussion of that bill, with no final vote shown in the excerpt.

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• Without intervention, AV fleets could exacerbate transportation inequities, increase single-occupancy
• Without intervention, AV fleets could exacerbate transportation inequities, increase single-occupancy
• Without intervention, AV fleets could exacerbate transportation inequities, increase single-occupancy
• Without intervention, AV fleets could exacerbate transportation inequities, increase single-occupancy
• Without intervention, AV fleets could exacerbate transportation inequities, increase single-occupancy

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• We implement every possible intervention: skills groups, sensory areas, movement breaks, restorative
• possible situations we Implement every possible situations we Implement every possible intervention
• skills<00:59:00.520> groups<00:59:00.960> sensory<00:59:01.520> areas intervention
• skills groups sensory areas intervention skills groups sensory areas movement<00:59:02.400> breaks
• schools at least twice during an academic term so that the home high school can provide needed intervention

Keywords: 1183, house

Summary: The Education Policy Committee approved the minutes from January 21, 2025, and then heard testimony from several school superintendents about the financial and operational impact of recent education-related mandates. Chair Bennett framed the hearing as an opportunity to hear from districts about the effects of more than 65 new mandates and restrictions adopted in recent years. The first witnesses were Corey McIntyre of Anoka-Hennepin, Michael Thomas of Prior Lake-Savage Area Schools, and David Law of Minnetonka Public Schools. The superintendents said districts are facing rising costs, flat or declining enrollment, the end of federal pandemic aid, and mandates they described as unfunded or underfunded. McIntyre cited major budget cuts in Anoka-Hennepin, including reductions in central office staff, and said the district faces continuing shortfalls tied to special education, multilingual learner costs, unemployment claims, paid leave, transportation, literacy materials, and the K-3 discipline statute. Thomas said Prior Lake-Savage is balancing growing student needs against limited revenue, and argued that mandates such as REACT and other requirements should be delayed or better funded so districts can implement them with fidelity. Law said the concerns are statewide, not just metro-based, and criticized the accumulation of expectations around food service, mental health, sick and safe time, unemployment, and family leave without corresponding resources. Several witnesses emphasized that school budgets are heavily committed to staff costs and that new obligations create administrative burdens as well as direct expenses. They urged lawmakers to reduce, delay, or better fund mandates, adjust timelines, and provide more flexibility in local revenue tools and equalization aid. No votes were taken on legislation during this portion of the meeting beyond approval of the prior day’s minutes.

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• 10 years of non-intervention and they're actually going to start intervening.
• Experts say that children get evaluations and therapies before medical interventions.
• But any evaluation that interventions.
• Sex-denying hormonal interventions and mastectomies aren't evidence-based.
• Systematic reviews are at the top of the pyramid for medical interventions evidence.

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• ads to learn how the industry manipulates young people, training youth to conduct peer-to-peer interventions
• and refer friends to intervention services, youth-led extracurricular programs to change norms and educate
• ads to learn how the industry manipulates young people, training youth to conduct peer-to-peer interventions
• and refer friends to intervention services, youth led extracurricular products to change norms and educate

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• ads to learn how the industry manipulates young people, training youth to conduct peer-to-peer interventions
• and refer friends to intervention services, youth-led extracurricular programs to change norms and educate
• ads to learn how the industry manipulates young people, training youth to conduct peer-to-peer interventions
• and refer friends to intervention services, youth led extracurricular products to change norms and educate

Summary: The Assembly Business and Professions Committee heard a long agenda of licensing, consumer protection, and sunset-review bills. Early items included SB 1148, which would let aspiring security guards complete all required training before a guard card is issued; SB 342, which would soften the penalty for contractors who were licensed during part of a project but had a brief lapse; and several sunset bills for boards and bureaus, including the Board of Registered Nursing (SB 1302), the Board of Naturopathic Medicine (SB 1303), the Respiratory Care Board (SB 1304), the Board of Barbering and Cosmetology (SB 1363), and the Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology and Hearing Aid Dispensers Board (SB 1368). The committee also heard SB 1311, which makes various updates to DCA boards and programs, and SB 1314, which restricts new tobacco retailers from locating within 600 feet of schools or daycare centers and bans nitrous oxide sales and related paraphernalia. Testimony was generally supportive on the training, sunset, and licensing cleanup bills, though several measures drew “opposed unless amended” or neutral positions over scope and implementation details. On SB 1314, supporters including prosecutors and school administrators argued it would reduce youth exposure to tobacco, while gas station, convenience store, cigar lounge, pharmacy, and business groups raised concerns about impacts on existing businesses, transferability of tobacco licenses, and possible de facto limits on future stations; some public health groups shifted to neutral after amendments. On SB 1302, nursing groups supported the board sunset bill, while the California Medical Association objected to allowing out-of-state nurse practitioner transition-to-practice experience to count without a California attestation process. On SB 1304, health facilities and long-term care groups supported the board extension but sought broader clarification so LVNs could perform respiratory tasks consistently across settings. After quorum was finally established, the committee voted to send the consent calendar bills SB 1376, SB 1391, SB 1416, and SB 1315 to Appropriations, and then approved SB 342, SB 1148, SB 1302, SB 1303, SB 1304, SB 1311, SB 1314, SB 1363, and SB 1368, all moving forward to the Committee on Appropriations. SB 1314 passed with some no votes, while the other measures advanced with broad support. The hearing ended after additional members were added on the record and the committee adjourned.

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• Pretty simple intervention here. Members, any questions or comments on the A3 amendment?
• Pretty<00:04:41.800> simple<00:04:42.440> intervention<00:04:42.880> here.
• Pretty simple intervention here. Pretty simple intervention here.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• The decisions made about patient care, treatments, and interventions impact real lives, including everybody
• treatments,<00:04:34.639> and patient care, treatments, and patient care, treatments, and interventions
• <00:04:35.280> impact<00:04:35.680> real<00:04:36.000> lives, interventions impact
• real lives, interventions impact real lives, including<00:04:37.120> everybody<00:04:37.440><

Keywords: 1183, house

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• We will now turn our attention to today's presentation on academic interventions to improve student outcomes
• So those are trained intervention, teachers on the elementary school campus and they tutor elementary
• So that's why schools typically want to schedule this in during intervention blocks or what I need time
• who are participating in high impact during our having that during how that school defines their intervention

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• , "Well, look, I'm hooked, I'm addicted," if there's the availability of one of these nicotine intervention
• Students who are removed should not be returned to the classroom until appropriate intervention measures
• We would use intervention strategies to make sure they're reading.
• So, we agree that there needs to be help, but the interventions need to be different and look different

Bills: HB1022, HB2856, HB3114, HJR5, HB6, HB120, HB210, HB1458, HB1188, HB3126

Keywords: HB 1022, Sul Ross State University, Rio Grande College, Texas State University System, Education Code, higher education, course levels, upper-level college, lower-division courses, community college-style courses, Del Rio, Eagle Pass, Uvalde, Board of Regents, academic programs, university expansion, HB 2856, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, clinical training placements, clinical rotations

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• interventions between the screeners. interventions between the screeners.
• And so, for till January, there was absolutely no intervention, nothing to support this child's behavior
• And so, for till January, there was absolutely no intervention, nothing to support this child's behavior
• <02:23:20.120> His<02:23:20.320> mom with absolutely no intervention.
• His mom with absolutely no intervention.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• <03:13:59.680> rooted<03:14:00.000> in preventative interventions rooted in preventative
• interventions rooted in trauma-informed<03:14:00.880> principles.
• minimizing the need for child therefore minimizing the need for child welfare<03:14:30.319> intervention
• Passing SB 952 is welfare intervention.
• The pilot program will interventions.

Keywords: 910, house, all

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• complex and severe cases, a way that allows for local access, forensic interview, and medical interventions
• So we started to use a system called ASSIST, which is Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training.
• we have had people who are Intervention we have had people who are suicidal<00:59:09.720> and
• They can help inform communities and police and schools about when intervention would be very important
• be very when intervention would be very important<01:20:21.320> because<01:20:22.040> a

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• Critical health interventions may be delayed, and the lives of newborns with heritable conditions would
• Critical health interventions may be delayed, and the lives of newborns with heritable conditions would
• may be delayed and the interventions may be delayed and the lives<01:47:43.800> of<01:47:43.960
• by other interventions that we as<04:13:27.600> pediatricians<04:13:28.239> use<04:13:
• that's being tested and the intervention that's being tested and you<04:19:33.319> know<04:19

Keywords: 1189, house, all