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• nurse examiners, they have to take days off to attend court and incur the expenses for mileage and meals
• funding to reduce crime laboratory backlogs that affect more timely processing of kits after its delivery

Committee: House Crime and Public Safety

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• And we do not want to become a person in line to receive these free meals.
• hospital that offers a wide range of primary and specialty care and services, including labor and delivery

Summary: The House Appropriations Committee held a public hearing on a series of bills, beginning with House Bill 2689 on Working Connections Child Care. Staff explained that the proposed substitute would keep eligibility at 60% of state median income, eliminate scheduled expansions to 75% and 85%, reduce future subsidy rates from the 85th to the 75th percentile of market, end enhanced regional rates, and change reimbursement rules from prospective enrollment-based payments back to attendance-based payments with a reduced monthly payment after 11 absent days. Child care advocates thanked the committee for removing the proposed cap on the program but opposed the cuts to provider rates and eligibility expansions, warning of harm to families and providers. The committee then heard Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill 5124 on Medicaid network adequacy for post-acute care, with staff noting administrative costs and indeterminate fiscal effects; hospitals supported the bill as a way to reduce discharge delays and reliance on single-case agreements. Senate Bill 5832, which would raise the new motor vehicle arbitration fee from $3 to $6 to support the Lemon Law arbitration program, drew support from the Attorney General’s Office and auto dealers, who said the fee had not been updated since 1995 and the program was underfunded. The committee also heard Substitute Senate Bill 5862, providing a one-time 3% COLA for certain PERS 1 and TRS 1 retirees, with retirees testifying in favor and local government representatives warning about added employer costs. The committee next heard Senate Bill 5922, allowing school districts to transfer money from the Transportation Vehicle Fund to other funds if they reduce their fleet and receive OSPI approval; staff said the bill would mainly add administrative work for OSPI, and no one testified. Substitute Senate Bill 5923 would allow a hospital on an island in Skagit County to qualify as a critical access hospital if federally certified; Island Health testified that the designation would help sustain rural services, and a committee member asked about bed count and Medicaid/charity-care pressures. Senate Bill 5944 would require language access providers to bargain over compensation for missed or canceled appointments and clarify that statutes prevail over conflicting contract terms; WFSE supported the bill, saying it would equalize bargaining rights across agencies. Substitute Senate Bill 5972 would extend interest arbitration rights to correctional employees in city and county jails regardless of population size; labor supported the bill as a retention tool, while cities and counties opposed it, arguing it would raise costs and should include ability-to-pay protections. The committee also heard Senate Bill 5988, authorizing the Department of Health to continue accrediting opioid treatment programs and charge accreditation fees, which DOH said was needed to avoid winding down the program. Later, the committee heard Senate Bill 6151, which would move Ecology fee revenues for landfill methane emissions and laboratory accreditation into dedicated accounts; Ecology supported the bill as improving transparency and reinvesting fees into the programs, and staff said the lab fee shift would be offset by a related budget action. Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill 6194 would pay a rural hospital on a federally recognized Indian reservation, specifically Astria Toppenish, at 150% of the Medicaid fee-for-service rate beginning in 2027; hospital leaders and community members testified that the hospital serves a high-Medicaid, rural, and tribal population and faces persistent losses. Finally, Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill 6302 would direct L&I to investigate possible misclassification of independent contractors on public works projects involving multiple workers doing the same finishing work; labor and business representatives both described it as a negotiated compromise to address underground economy abuses. The committee took no final votes during the hearing and ended by reiterating amendment deadlines for bills scheduled for executive session.

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• Enforcement Accreditation Program recognized Attorney General Mays for her safe, effective, and efficient delivery
• General Mays should not resign because she stopped illegal cuts that were threatening Head Start, Meals

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• This is the county as a local government, so it's largely service delivery in terms of expenditures and
• And I got one with a high meal and no cash.

Summary: The Select Committee on Property Taxes met for a listening session focused on a presentation by Amy Baker of the Joint Legislative Office of Economic and Demographic Research on local government revenues and expenditures. Baker reviewed statewide financial data for counties, municipalities, and independent special districts, using 2018-19 as a baseline year because it was stable and pre-COVID. She explained that counties rely heavily on taxes, with ad valorem taxes making up about 73% of county tax revenue and about 24% of total county revenues statewide, while municipalities rely more on charges for services and have a lower statewide ad valorem share of about 14.7%. She also noted wide variation across local governments, with some counties and cities highly dependent on property taxes and others using them minimally or not at all. Special districts were shown to be very different from counties and cities, with hospital-related revenues and expenditures dominating many of them, while water management districts were more reliant on ad valorem taxes and focused expenditures on the physical environment. Baker also summarized expenditure patterns: counties spent the largest share on public safety, while municipalities spent the largest share on general government services, followed by physical environment and public safety. She emphasized that local government structures vary widely and that the committee should study what characteristics are associated with greater property tax reliance. She said the next research steps would be to extend the analysis through later years, including the COVID and inflation period, and to examine institutional and legal factors that shape local fiscal structures. Members asked about unfunded mandates, fuel taxes, reserves, school taxes, millage rates, and how property taxes relate to specific services such as police and fire. Baker said the current analysis did not yet account for mandates or school taxes and that further work could examine links between revenues and expenditures, commercial versus residential tax burdens, and other factors. After the presentation, members reported back on local meetings with counties and municipalities. Several described large differences in millage rates, revenue mixes, and the impact of any property tax changes on fiscally constrained counties versus larger, wealthier ones. Concerns were raised about how local governments would replace lost revenue, especially for public safety and emergency response, and members discussed the need to consider both revenue replacement and ways to rein in spending. The co-chairs said the committee would continue gathering information, send members follow-up homework and requests for panel suggestions, and invite additional input from constituents, stakeholders, and local governments. The meeting ended with no votes or formal actions beyond adjournment.

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• ducks stuffed down in the pocket that Beverly Parker would then get ready and prepare this amazing meal
• Craddick: House Bill 3365 by Perez relating to the sale of delivery of certain license plates.

Bills: HB 118 , HB388 , HB 114 , HB205 , HB2789 , HB2791 , HB499 , HB2960 , HB3163 , HB3135 , HB2427 , HB1618 , HB1672 , HB1722 , HB1338 , HB787 , HB2618 , HB879 , HB 1126 , HB4134 , HB3513 , HB718 , HB1536 , HB1445 , HB1640 , HB1893 , HB1734 , HB3229 , HB3306 , HB 1276 , HB3272 , HB3276 , HB3516 , HB4145 , HB1585 , HB4810 , HB2989 , HB2558 , HB3014 , HB2742 , HB1695 , HB29 , HB 125 , HB145 , HB171 , HB255 , HB50 , HB363 , HB 116 , HB491 , HB1495 , HB368 , HB 1285 , HB1905 , HB2002 , HB917 , HB2723 , HB2067 , HB 1238 , HB745 , HB 1188 , HB1606 , HB2003 , HB2147 , HB2355 , HB2546 , HB2495 , HB2818 , HB2249 , HB3228 , HB3240 , HB1507 , HB658 , HB1748 , HB1851 , HB1922 , HB2798 , HB 107 , HB1587 , HB3684 , HB 118 , HB388 , HB 114 , HB205 , HB2789 , HB2791 , HB499 , HB2960 , HB3163 , HB3135 , HB2427 , HB1618 , HB1672 , HB1722 , HB1338 , HB787 , HB2618 , HB879 , HB 1126 , HB4134 , HB3513 , HB718 , HB1536 , HB1445 , HB1640 , HB1893 , HB1734 , HB3229 , HB3306 , HB 1276 , HB3272 , HB3276 , HB3516 , HB4145 , HB1585 , HB4810 , HB2989 , HB2558 , HB3014 , HB2742 , HB1695 , HB609 , HB630 , HB420 , HB767 , HB1708 , HB1404 , HB2457 , HB140 , HB227 , HB913 , HB2198 , HB2763 , HB 1261 , HB 1135 , HB1318 , HB2358 , HB2765 , HB2735 , HB3307 , HB 1242 , HB2842 , HB333 , HB201 , HB694 , HB2415 , HB155 , HB272 , HB405 , HB519 , HB 1136 , HB 1275 , HB1437 , HB1532 , HB1675 , HB1868 , HB1888 , HB1990 , HB2286 , HB2523 , HB3129 , HB3251 , HB3354 , HB3479 , HB3803 , HB3804 , HB3805 , HB3806 , HB3887 , HB4163 , HB4238 , HB 1240 , HB1842 , HB2029 , HB2622 , HB3255 , HB654 , HB4643 , HB4945 , HB3611 , HB3724 , HB3623 , HB3810 , HB4127 , HCR78 , HCR12 , SB767

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• appreciate the attention and the appropriation for the food shelves, tribal sovereignty, and prepared meals
• To that, it will be distributed free of charge to TFAT partner agencies for the handling and delivery

Bills: HF2436

Committee: House Children and Families Finance and Policy

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• Think of it like a FedEx delivery package.
• So therefore, it was not considered a ... delivery package. When we would deliver delivery package.
• She received hundreds of thousands of dollars for taxpayer meals she never provided to children.
• <01:39:44.000><c> for</c><01:39:44.120><c> taxpayer</c><01:39:44.720><c> mail</c><01:39:45.120><c> meals
• </c><01:39:45.520><c> she</c> dollars for taxpayer mail meals she dollars for taxpayer mail meals she

Committee: House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy

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• We were not fed properly and only got a single meal per day at 4 o'clock p.m. with our Medicaid.
• Daily, we deliver approximately seven hundred and forty-seven loads of motor fuels across our delivery
• I've seen small delivery...

Bills: HB4806

Committee: House Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence

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• address those concerns, but as written, we fear that it could cause problems if a pastor provides a meal
• Encore Electric Delivery, and you're for the bill? Yes, sir. Please proceed. Thank you, Mr.
• I'm Brian Lloyd for Encore Electric Delivery, Texas's largest electric utility.

Bills: HB551 , HB 1281 , HB1378 , HB1617 , HB2868 , HB2881 , HB3374 , HB4439 , HB4726 , HB4732 , HB4878 , HB4914 , HB4921 , HB4958 , HB5200 , HB5318 , HB5360 , HB5402 , HB5568 , HB5573 , HB5623 , HJR218

Committee: House State Affairs

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• The substitute creates a new section specifically applicable to the reporting and delivery of virtual
• currency, including the delivery of the currency in its native form, and it grants the comptroller the
• did like that Mexican food restaurant, which does not take any credit cards or debit cards for the meal

Bills: SB231 , SB584 , SB600 , SB668 , SB841 , SB986 , SB1003 , SB1244 , SB1625 , SB1960 , SB1963 , SB1964 , SB2026 , SB2056 , SB2368

Committee: Senate Business & Commerce

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• We have done well, and I just wanted to give you at a glance on slide 21 at how our mixed delivery system
• ever have in this country, and we're fortunate in New Mexico because we have a very high quality delivery
• next we will go to Representative Jones, Chair: And like I said, if you folks want to go get your meal
• care centers, I've seen you grow this department in many ways that are providing evidence-based delivery

Committee: House Legislative Health & Human Services Committee

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• This bill provides emergency labor and delivery training to EMS providers in rural communities.
• These centers provide choices to moms and are crucial to remain open as labor and delivery units close
• The bill provides emergency labor and delivery training to EMS providers in rural communities.
• I have been a nurse for nearly 30 years in high-risk labor and delivery.
• We have five care delivery sites across 26 towns, serving 30,000 residents.

Committee: Senate Health and Human Services

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• I have two alternate delivery sites. These are alternate delivery sites. These are licenses.
• I can… …alternate delivery sites. These are licenses.
• You get a haircut, you cook meals, you take things like that. They're on a much lower level.
• I will note that we do have two delivery models in Medicaid, which you've heard about today.
• I will note that we do have two delivery models in Medicaid, which you've heard about today.

Committee: Senate Health & Human Services

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• um and also to banks and prepared meals um and also to tribal<01:58:18.560><c> or</c><01:58:18.719><
• Um, if you recall, we enacted the retail delivery fee a couple of years ago.
• So we have some exceptions for deliveries of things like liquefied fuel products that are subject to
• fee a couple enacted the retail delivery fee a couple of<03:58:31.199><c> years</c><03:58:31.359><c>
• So we have some exceptions uh<03:58:39.040><c> for</c><03:58:39.359><c> deliveries</c><03:58:39.840><

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• Additionally, every Thanksgiving he volunteers to serve meals at the local Legion.
• Additionally, every Thanksgiving he volunteers to serve meals at the local Legion.
• Additionally, every Thanksgiving he volunteers to serve meals at the local Legion.
• Additionally, every Thanksgiving he volunteers to serve meals at the local Legion.
• Additionally, every Thanksgiving he volunteers to serve meals at the local Legion.

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• Meals on Wheels has been in the community for over 50 years, providing ready-to-eat nutritious meals
• </c><00:02:45.159><c> Metro</c> executive director of uh meal Metro executive director of uh meal Metro
• </c> providing ready to eat nutritious meals providing ready to eat nutritious meals for<00:03:16.760
• </c> the people that we serve through meals the people that we serve through meals and<00:05:03.440><
• The meals are nutritious.

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• First, addressing the unmet need for child care, next, expanding across our mixed delivery system, and
• To my second point, expanding programs across our mixed delivery system, child care program enrollment
• That flexibility is a lifeline for mixed-delivery systems.
• The service delivery appears stable.
• But to actually move towards the delivery of services in that short-term therapeutic modality that we

Summary: The committee heard an extensive Department of Social Services presentation on child care budget issues, including the Governor’s proposed 2026-27 budget, federal CCDF changes, Prop. 64 revenue adjustments, and a one-time $11.5 million disaster-related infrastructure grant for licensed child care facilities affected by 2025 declared disasters. DSS said federal formula updates and lower Prop. 64 revenues would reduce funding and could result in about 4,176 CCTR slots being reduced, but the department said it was working to avoid impacts to currently enrolled children. The LAO supported aligning general child care funding with lower revenues and asked for more detail on the disaster grant. Members pressed DSS and Finance on why reductions were not being backfilled and why so many awarded slots remain uncontracted or unused; DSS said delays are largely due to providers building new infrastructure, licensing, staffing, and enrollment challenges, and that some unspent funds revert to the General Fund. The committee also discussed whether some contract dollars should be shifted to vouchers and whether more flexibility should be allowed for infrastructure and expansion costs. A second panel focused on the state’s commitment to expand child care and on rate reform. DSS reported that nearly 125,000 new slots have been awarded since 2021-22, but speakers from Stanislaus County Office of Education, Parent Voices California, and the California Budget and Policy Center argued that unmet need remains large and that the system still leaves many families without access. Stanislaus County described a large local shortage of infant and toddler care and said reimbursement disparities between child care programs and state preschool create disincentives for providers. Parent Voices gave testimony about the burdens and instability families face when trying to access care, especially for survivors and low-income parents, and called for a universal, publicly funded system. The Budget Center said only about 16% of eligible children were enrolled in 2024, urged expansion across the mixed delivery system rather than concentrating investment in TK, and called for faster rate reform and new revenue. LAO estimated that bringing certain CCTR adjustment factors up to CSPP levels would cost $88 million to $131 million ongoing. Members and witnesses discussed the single rate structure, automation needs, and the need for deadlines and a ramp-up plan; DSS said the goal is to eliminate disparities, but that policy decisions are still needed before automation can proceed. The committee then reviewed several trailer bill proposals. DSS outlined a 2026-27 COLA proposal that would apply a 2.41% increase through cost-of-care-plus payments, though the department said it had inadvertently excluded CalWORKs Child Care and the Emergency Child Care Bridge Program and would revise the proposal; LAO recommended making the COLA methodology uniform across programs. DSS also proposed replacing the market rate survey with the federally approved alternative methodology on a triennial schedule, limiting temporary absences in family child care homes to 20% of monthly hours, defining excessive unexplained absences as more than 30 days in a year, and aligning family fee deductions with new federal requirements so providers receive the full voucher value. Members generally supported the temporary absence change and asked about implementation timing for the family fee deduction, with DSS saying it was in contact with Riverside County. The committee also heard a brief update on the Early Childhood Policy Council reappropriation, which would extend unused funds through June 30, 2028 because prior costs came in higher than expected.

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• offer our citizens paid family leave, comprehensive access to health care, affordable housing, school meals
• offer our citizens pay family leave, comprehensive access to health care, affordable housing, school meals
• It's also important to note that, just like you, county supervisors prioritize service delivery and weigh
• via statute it's also important to note that just like you county supervisor prioritized service delivery
• So that invites disputes. ...is storage, treatment, and delivery infrastructure for this water, so that

Bills: HB2015 , HB2060 , HB2062 , HB2100 , HB2118 , HB2165 , HB2258 , HB2327 , HB2397 , HB2445 , HB2460 , HB2641 , HB2745 , HB2876 , HB2917 , HB4011 , HB4049 , HB4056 , HB4087 , HCR2013 , HCR2016 , HCR2040 , HCR2044 , HCR2048 , HCR2056

Committees: Senate Government , Senate Senate Government Committee of Reference

Keywords: budget procedures, late filing penalty, accounting standards, financial reporting, state appropriations, abortion, educational institutions, health education, state aid, public schools, Buffalo Soldiers, monument, commemoration, Arizona, public funding, Wesley Bolin Plaza, military history, historical memorial, small land subdivision, land use

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• </c> school meals for all program. school meals for all program.
• We are not ending reporting on the Healthy School Meals program.
• We are not ending reporting on the Healthy School Meals program.
• Wallace. school meals cash fund, which then got school meals cash fund, which then got transferred<00
• </c> transferred to the healthy school meals transferred to the healthy school meals for<00:55:23.080

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• procure a vendor to conduct a feasibility study for an Accountable Communities for Health medical delivery
• meals, and case management<01:13:57.679><c> supports</c><01:13:58.159><c> that</c><01:13:58.480><c>
• The governor's proposal has included $19 million for senior meals.
• </c> million for senior meals. million for senior meals.
• </c> million for our seniors for their meals? million for our seniors for their meals?

Summary: The meeting opened with prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance, then moved into committee and floor reports. Several measures received favorable committee reports and were ordered to first reading and placed on the calendar, including Current Resolution 9, Senate Joint Resolution 23, House Bill 145, House Bill 567, and House Bill 506 with House Committee Substitute 1. The chamber also noted that House Bills 500 and 504 had already received two readings and were sent to the Rules Committee before House Bill 500 was brought up for final consideration. Most of the discussion focused on House Bill 500, the executive branch budget bill. Members described it as a “good first draft” and emphasized a budget process they said was more transparent than in prior years. The bill was presented as a restrained two-year operating budget with spending growth kept at a little under 2% annually, while setting aside about 2% of projected revenues, or roughly $614 million, in the Budget Reserve Trust Fund for future needs. The budget also used base reductions in some areas while exempting others such as Medicaid benefits, SEEK, corrections, behavioral health, and veterans programs. Subcommittee chairs then outlined major spending areas. Education provisions included a 2% annual increase in base SEEK funding, transportation funding held flat, equalization for recallable nickel funding, continued retirement contributions, and major support for postsecondary access, dual credit, asset preservation, and workforce training. Health and family services provisions held Medicaid steady while adding waiver slots, behavioral health and substance use support, public health investments, and funding for rural health and laboratory capacity. Other sections covered personnel and pensions, veterans services, infrastructure, public safety, economic development, tourism, and environmental projects. The only recorded action on the floor was adoption of House Committee Substitute 1 to House Bill 500, followed by a motion for final passage of the bill as amended. The transcript ends as discussion on final passage begins, before any final vote is shown.