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• were performed.
• were performed.
• were performed.
• were performed.
• Method used to perform the abortions, gestational age when the abortions were performed.

Committee: Senate Health and Human Services

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

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• The police couldn't wake up the driver; they had to perform a pit maneuver on that car.
• Who would be performing these inspections?
• Well, they'd have to be performed all over the state, available all over the state, so auto mechanics
• of small business owners throughout the state could receive that certification and be allowed to perform
• Process and system for small businesses around the state to perform the inspection and whether or not

Keywords: 996, all

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• whether we're thinking about the production model, the current law with possible impacts, energy performance
• So the performance of units before weatherization in 2011 was such that we had to have load shed.
• These other storms the performance of units have been much better and we haven't had any load shed. for
• So let's dive into that. performance of thermal units or we had potentially a a different mix of energy
• Usually not at their top performance for icing, snow on panels, different things like that.

Committee: House State Affairs

Keywords: 1184, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• by saying I'm a first-term legislator, so I'm still feeling my way around, and this is my debut performance
• Could you tell me what is included in the biometric assessment or evaluation?
• </c><03:18:14.960><c> The</c><03:18:15.200><c> biometric</c> assessment or evaluation?
• The biometric assessment or evaluation?
• </c><03:18:17.520><c> um</c><03:18:17.680><c> a</c> assessment and evaluation that um a assessment and

Committee: Senate Transportation

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

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• These Engaging performances make local music accessible to audiences of all ages.
• It includes a website for all music teachers in Minnesota, and a live music performance component that
• We have performances at live events like the Minnesota State Fair and Grand Ole Day.
• He's describing his music program's concert performance featuring the Grammy-nominated British vocal
• They ended in a concert performance with both students and members of Voches VIII.

Bills: HF1679 , HF1019 , HF2321 , HF1740 , HF2278

Committee: House Legacy Finance

Keywords: public television, funding, grants, arts and culture, Minnesota, Minnesota Public Radio, arts education, cultural heritage, community engagement, public radio, community radio, educational grants, community cable, public access, programming funding, civic engagement, ethnic media, public access television, Minnesota Humanities Center, funding appropriation

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• bill continues the salary and benefits survey conducted by the Office of the Legislative Auditor to evaluate
• process, it's important to give us lawmakers a clear, consistent, and data-driven foundation for evaluating
• </c> data-driven foundation for evaluating data-driven foundation for evaluating compensation<01:33:42.560
• 51.560><c> legislative</c><01:39:52.160><c> auditor</c><01:39:52.840><c> to</c><01:39:53.000><c> evaluate
• </c> of the legislative auditor to evaluate of the legislative auditor to evaluate State<01:39:53.760

Committee: Senate Transportation

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• reported significant gaps in students' information literacy and research skills, particularly in evaluating
• sources</c><00:09:29.760><c> for</c><00:09:30.080><c> credibility</c><00:09:30.880><c> and</c> evaluating
• sources for credibility and evaluating sources for credibility and accuracy<00:09:32.399><c> and</c>
• As misinformation spreads rapidly, the ability to evaluate sources, synthesize evidence, and use technology
• information landscape, from learning how to ask meaningful questions to guide their inquiry to evaluating

Committee: Senate Education Finance

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• One of our external evaluations from a few years ago bears this out, showing that FAME graduate homeowners
• One of our external evaluations<00:25:28.000><c> from</c><00:25:28.320><c> a</c><00:25:28.480><c> few
• </c><00:25:28.640><c> years</c><00:25:28.799><c> ago</c><00:25:29.360><c> uh</c> evaluations from a few
• years ago uh evaluations from a few years ago uh bears<00:25:29.840><c> this</c><00:25:30.000><c> out
• </c><00:36:59.839><c> that</c> statistics in um in this evaluation that statistics in um in this evaluation

Bills: HF2135 , HF776 , HF1581 , HF1158 , HF2226

Committee: House Children and Families Finance and Policy

Keywords: child welfare, fiscal analysis, third-party consultant, program evaluation, Minnesota, HF776, Minnesota Family Assets for Independence Initiative, family assets for independence, FAI, asset-building, matched savings, financial literacy, family savings, economic mobility, children youth and families, general fund appropriation, family support, low-income families, financial stability, budget bill

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• There'll be no performance standards. There'll be no upfront<00:10:09.160><c> payments.
• They benefit from long-term, stable contractual payments tied to asset performance.
• They commit their own capital at risk, earning returns as performance standards are met.
• They benefit from long-term, stable contractual payments tied to asset performance.
• we get optimal performance from them. we get optimal performance from them.

Keywords: 0:00:01 Call to Order and Roll Call 0:00:54 Approval of Minutes 0:01:08 Information Items 0:03:18 Postsecondary Institutions - UK 0:18:10 Finance and Administration Cabinet 0:30:13 KY Infrastructure Authority 0:37:30 Cabinet for Economic Development 0:52:11 Office of Financial Management 0:59:20 Remaining 2026 Mtg Dates 1:00:49 Adjournment, 958, all

Summary: The committee first approved the April 27 minutes and then received several informational reports, including University of Kentucky medical equipment purchases, UK’s use of $200 million in Ever funds for a public-private partnership, school district debt issuances, UK’s planned use of construction manager-at-risk delivery on five projects, Kentucky Communications Network Authority capital projects under House Bill 6, and 14 UK lease improvements. Members were told the House Bill 6 item was also being discussed in the Information Technology Oversight Committee and could return later if needed. The main action item was University of Kentucky’s request to approve a $600 million public-private partnership for central plants and utility infrastructure tied to the Chandler expansion. UK said it would shift $200 million from previously authorized restricted funds into the P3, leaving the project financed through private equity and nonprofit debt with no UK or Commonwealth debt. UK representatives said the project is necessary to support 24/7 hospital operations, expand and modernize utility systems, improve redundancy and efficiency, and reduce long-term operating risk. Members asked about the source of the availability payments, which UK said would come from UK Healthcare revenues, and the committee approved the P3 agreement unanimously. The committee also approved a UK lease renewal for a 20,000-square-foot College of Medicine annex near the Bowling Green Medical Center. UK said the lease costs $38 per square foot, or $912,000 annually, and supports medical education expansion in the region, including growth from 120 to 160 students over four years. Members voiced support for the local impact, and the lease passed unanimously. Later, the committee approved a Transportation Cabinet aviation project for two medium box hangars at Capital City Airport, funded by $1,153,000 in federal money and $950,000 from the Aviation Economic Development Fund, which is supported by a 6% jet fuel tax with a $1 million annual cap per company. Members asked about the fund balance, the cap, and airport revenue sources, and staff said the airport also receives entitlement and federal infrastructure funds and earns revenue from hangar rent and fuel sales. The committee then approved two Finance and Administration Cabinet pool projects: a roof and skylight replacement at the Libraries and Archives building and exterior repairs at several state buildings. Finally, the committee approved six Kentucky Infrastructure Authority action items after hearing about one loan increase for the Springfield Wastewater Treatment Plant and five grant reallocations tied to Cleaner Water Program and county allocation pool funds. Members asked why one project approved in 2024 was only now increasing, and KIA explained that design, water division review, environmental review, and bidding can take one to two years. KIA also reported additional no-action items, including a Brandenburg water grant split among two projects and 17 Kentucky Waters projects provided for information. The meeting ended with approval of the action items and no further action on the informational grants.

Transcript Highlights:

• They just have to, like, pull it from the system, looking at the system performance measures that HUD
• And a lot of those are not actually included in performance measures right now.
• And in California, if you look at an audit that was performed in 2000...
• And if we as a state do better on the system performance measures, then we get more funding.
• These system performance reports also have to be submitted to HUD.

Summary: The committee first heard House Bill 751, which would expand the STARS program for commercial transportation infrastructure by lowering the minimum project floor from $6 million to $5 million and raising the cap from $35 million to $100 million. Representative Monks explained that STARS lets developers front infrastructure costs and be repaid from a portion of new sales tax generated by the development, and supporters said it helps fund major roadway improvements without costing the state upfront. The committee advanced the bill on a due pass recommendation. The committee then considered Senate Bill 1347, a transparency measure for Idaho Housing and Finance Association’s pass-through homelessness grants, specifically the Continuum of Care and Emergency Solutions Grant programs. Sponsors said the bill would require annual reporting on grant recipients, uses of funds, and outcomes such as housing exits, income changes, and referrals, while not changing funding levels. Testimony included support from transparency advocates and concerns from a senator and nonprofit/housing professionals that the bill could duplicate existing federal and IHFA audits and add unnecessary reporting burden. The committee sent the bill to the floor with a due pass recommendation, with Senators Robbie and Taylor voting no. Finally, the committee took up Senate Bill 1352, which would create state standards for “starter home subdivisions” on parcels of at least four acres in cities over 5,000 population by limiting minimum lot sizes and allowing higher density, while preserving local authority over infrastructure, safety, and environmental requirements. Supporters argued the bill would help address Idaho’s housing shortage by enabling smaller, more attainable homes and reducing regulatory barriers; opponents from city, planning, and local government groups said it would override local control, lacked an income-based affordability requirement, and could create infrastructure and neighborhood impacts. After extensive testimony, the committee’s initial motion for a due pass recommendation failed on a 4-5 roll call, and the bill was then moved to the 14th order for possible amendment. Senate Bill 1354 was held over until the next meeting.

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• Thank you for this opportunity to present on our evaluation of crossbow use during the archery seasons
• Thank you for this opportunity to present on our evaluation of crossbow use during the archery seasons
• crossbows during archery seasons also had an impact on turkey seasons, we decided to include an evaluation
• </c><00:07:39.520><c> For</c> evaluation in that report as well.
• For evaluation in that report as well.

Committee: Senate Environment, Climate, and Legacy

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• This amendment restores a clear constitutional and uniform standard for evaluating challenged library
• constitutional, grounded Miller-for-minors test, including its critical requirement that a work be evaluated
• This amendment restores a clear constitutional and uniform standard for evaluating challenged library
• It comes from decades of Supreme Court precedent requiring works to be evaluated in their entirety.
• litigation and, most important... ...to me, it creates a chilling effect where they're not really evaluating

Summary: The House convened with prayer, a moment of silence for former member Terry Fields and the Parkland victims, the Pledge of Allegiance, and routine organizational actions including approval of the journal and adoption of a special order report. The chamber then took up House Bill 1119, relating to materials harmful to minors, which the sponsor described as a measure to clarify and strengthen standards for removing obscene or pornographic content from public school classrooms and libraries while preserving educational uses and not targeting classical literature, LGBTQ content, or other protected viewpoints. Members questioned the bill’s use of terms such as “predominantly,” its relationship to existing local review processes, the impact on AP/IB and college-level materials, the applicability to voucher-funded schools, and the risk of additional First Amendment litigation and costs. The sponsor responded that the bill was needed because current standards were being bypassed and that the legislation was aimed at material harmful to minors, not general literary value. The House considered numerous amendments, most of which were defeated. Amendments offered by Representatives Gant, Aristide, Bartleman, Eskamani, Nixon, Rainer, Woodson, and Harris sought, among other things, to preserve parental choice during review periods, restore a whole-work constitutional standard, limit repeated objections, protect educational and abuse-prevention materials, prevent LGBTQ-inclusive books from being labeled harmful solely on that basis, shield school districts from funding penalties, and delay enforcement in districts already under litigation. Supporters of the amendments argued that the bill would encourage censorship, remove books with clear literary or educational value, burden districts with costs and lawsuits, and harm students who rely on school libraries for access to reading material and representation. Opponents of the amendments argued the bill was necessary to protect minors from explicit content and that the proposed changes would weaken that protection. All of the amendments described in the transcript failed. After the amendment process, the House waived rules, read HB 1119 a third time by title, and entered structured debate on final passage. In closing debate, opponents repeated concerns about constitutional vulnerability, overbroad book removals, and the educational harm of limiting access to literature, while supporters framed the bill as a child-protection measure and a clarification of existing law. The transcript ends during the structured debate on final passage, before the final vote on the bill is shown.

Transcript Highlights:

• This amendment restores a clear constitutional and uniform standard for evaluating challenged library
• constitutional, grounded Miller test for minors, including its critical requirement that a work be evaluated
• This amendment restores a clear constitutional and uniform standard for evaluating challenged library
• It comes from decades of Supreme Court precedent requiring works to be evaluated in their entirety.
• litigation and, most important ...to me, is it creates a chilling effect where they're not really evaluating

Keywords: 998, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• This amendment restores a clear constitutional and uniform standard for evaluating challenged library
• constitutional, grounded Miller test for minors, including its critical requirement that a work be evaluated
• It comes from decades of Supreme Court precedent requiring works to be evaluated in their entirety.
• It's litigation, and most important to me is it creates a chilling effect where they're not really evaluating
• It's litigation and most important to me is it creates a chilling effect where they're not really evaluating

Summary: The House convened with prayer, moments of silence for former member Terry Fields and the Parkland victims, the Pledge of Allegiance, and recognition of guests and visitors. The chamber then adopted the Rules and Ethics Committee’s special order report setting the day’s calendar and debate times. The main measure taken up was HB 1119, relating to materials harmful to minors in public schools and charter schools, which the sponsor described as a clarification of existing law to keep pornographic or sexually explicit material away from minors and to give districts clearer standards for review and objection processes. The bill drew extensive debate over constitutional concerns, local control, litigation risk, and the scope of the definition of “harmful to minors.” Members supporting the bill argued it was needed to close loopholes and protect children, while opponents warned it could lead to overbroad book removals, conflict with federal court rulings, and costly lawsuits. A series of amendments sought to narrow or redirect the bill: proposals by Gant, Aristide, Bartleman, Eskamani, Nixon, Rainer, Woodson, and Harris would have preserved literary value review, protected educational and abuse-prevention materials, exempted LGBTQ-inclusive books, limited objections, preserved funding for districts, or delayed enforcement during ongoing litigation. Supporters of the amendments framed them as protecting parental choice, academic value, student safety, and district finances; opponents said they would weaken the bill’s child-protection purpose. All of the amendments failed. After the amendment process, the House waived rules, read HB 1119 a third time by title, and entered structured debate on final passage. Debate continued along the same lines, with opponents emphasizing book removals, First Amendment concerns, and the impact on students and schools, and supporters reiterating that the bill was intended to prevent minors from accessing obscene material. The transcript provided ends during structured debate and does not include the final vote on HB 1119.

Transcript Highlights:

• I want to make sure we're not having another evaluation done so that we're doing an evaluation in magistrate
• court or metro court and then turning around and doing another evaluation in district court, Mr.
• I agree the other side could ask for an evaluation.
• I guess I agree they could possibly ask for an additional evaluation.
• Additional information and evaluations, but it may be... would it be a standard practice, Mr.

Transcript Highlights:

• It needs to be evaluated, and it makes it clear that they get at least a six-month window to evaluate
• six-month is important it needs<00:30:23.720><c> to</c><00:30:23.840><c> be</c><00:30:24.080><c> evaluated
• c> it</c><00:30:25.200><c> it</c><00:30:25.320><c> makes</c><00:30:25.519><c> it</c> needs to be evaluated
• and it it makes it needs to be evaluated and it it makes it clear<00:30:26.480><c> that</c><00:30:26.640
• at least a six clear that they get at least a six window<00:30:28.760><c> to</c><00:30:28.960><c> evaluate

Keywords: 928, house, all

Summary: The subcommittee first took up House Bill 507, which concerns the timeline for credentialing mental health care providers. Members discussed and approved an amendment that removed section 2 and changed the bill’s effective date to January 1. A motion for ought to pass as amended was made, seconded, and approved by a 6-0 vote, with Representative Miles assigned to write the committee report. The bulk of the meeting focused on House Bill 705, a price-transparency measure requiring insurance-related data reporting and uniform formatting. Committee members and a representative from Anthem discussed how the bill would interact with federal requirements, including a recent presidential executive order and anticipated CMS guidance on uniformity standards. Anthem testified that the federal timeline was uncertain, that final rules could take months, and that the machine-readable files involved are complex and costly to produce. Some members argued the state should mirror federal standards but wait for final federal guidance; others said the bill should create a firm state requirement and not leave everything to rulemaking. The main unresolved issue was timing. Members debated whether the bill should be effective upon passage, apply to plan years beginning January 1, 2026, or be delayed until after federal guidance is finalized, with several references to a possible six-month implementation window after final federal rules. No final vote was taken on HB 705 in the portion provided; instead, the committee planned to revisit the bill the next morning after language was rewritten and circulated, with a straw vote anticipated before the executive session.

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• For clarification, EIPA is the Educational Interpreter Performance Assessment.
• For clarification, EIPA is the Educational Interpreter Performance Assessment.
• For clarification, EIPA is the Educational Interpreter Performance Assessment.
• For clarification, EIPA is the Educational Interpreter Performance Assessment.
• For clarification, EIPA is the Educational Interpreter Performance Assessment.

Keywords: 00:00 Call to Order/Roll Call 00:16 Consideration of Referred Administrative Regulations 25:49 Discussion of Hospital Rate Improvement Plan 58:50 Adjournment, 958, all

Summary: The committee began by reviewing a large slate of administrative regulations and explaining that it does not approve regulations but can find them deficient and send them back for further work. Members then asked questions on several items, including EMS reciprocity, dental hygienist licensure, and interpreter licensure. The EMS board explained that reciprocity would extend to applicants from any state, not just contiguous states, because the underlying statute had been amended. On the dental regulation, staff said the changes mainly clarified licensure requirements, reinstatement fees, and that dental hygienists administering local anesthetic must do so under direct dentist supervision. The most extended discussion involved the Board of Interpreters for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. The board chair said the main concern was that the EIPA is an educational specialty assessment, not a nationally recognized certification, yet the regulation would allow it to support full licensure. Members discussed whether that could let educational interpreters work outside their intended scope and whether a separate educational license or statutory change would be more appropriate. The board said it did not think the regulation could be fixed further at this point and suggested a statute could create a narrower educational interpreter license. After discussion, the committee voted to defer both related interpreter regulations, 201 KAR 39:030 and the companion regulation, for further work. The committee then took up two community mental health regulations, 907 KAR 1:044 and 907 KAR 5:005, which had been found deficient in Administrative Regulations. Department for Medicaid Services staff said the rules would expand and rename the mental health associate role as a behavioral health associate, making the role available in many more facilities, but would also require additional coursework or progress toward licensure. Some members and providers raised access-to-care concerns, especially for rural areas and unlicensed staff already working in the field. Staff said the proposal had been revised through work with CMHCs and licensing boards, but the committee ultimately voted to defer both regulations as well. After finishing the regulation review, the committee heard a presentation from the Kentucky Hospital Association on the ATRIP hospital rate improvement program. Hospital representatives said ATRIP is a Medicaid state-directed payment program funded through a provider tax and federal matching dollars, allowing hospitals to receive payments tied to quality measures. They reported improvements including lower Medicaid readmissions, high sepsis screening rates, reduced infections and opioid prescribing, expanded postpartum depression and suicide screening, and training for more than 1,000 people. They said the program has helped hospitals invest in staffing and quality improvement and warned that without it, many hospitals would face severe financial strain.

Transcript Highlights:

• Chairman, from crippling depression and anxiety, making it hard to perform their daily tasks.
• If two officers perform the same duties, meet the same standards, and face the same risks, they should
• So, yes, they are performing police work.
• The speaker concluded, saying they are performing police work.
• Lastly, law enforcement officers performing the duties of their job who are injured during an act of

Committee: Joint Joint Committee on Public Service

Keywords: 995, all

Summary: The Joint Committee on Public Service heard testimony on a wide range of bills affecting public safety and public sector employees, with most of the discussion focused on expanding occupational presumptions and retirement protections for police, firefighters, correction officers, court officers, and other public employees. Testifiers from the Legislature, police and fire unions, the Massachusetts Chiefs of Police Association, PERAC, and the AFL-CIO generally supported bills covering cancer presumptions, contagious disease presumptions, Parkinson’s disease for firefighters, PTSD-related disability and death, and equity for post-certified police officers under the Heart Law. Several speakers emphasized that these conditions are linked to long-term occupational exposure, that current law leaves out agencies such as UMass police, Environmental Police, DMH police, and other state or campus police, and that the bills would correct gaps in existing benefits and presumptions. Representative Colleen Garry and Senator Joan Lovely spoke in support of expanding the Heart Law and cancer presumption protections, while Representative and Senator sponsors for the firefighter and PTSD bills described the health risks faced by first responders and urged favorable reports. PFFM and MassCOP representatives argued that firefighters and police officers face toxic exposures, infectious disease risks, and chronic stress, and cited studies and other states’ laws in support of the measures. PERAC testified that the PTSD accidental disability bill would clarify confusing case law and update filing requirements so traumatic incidents can be used in applications even when PTSD develops later, while still requiring medical review and retirement board approval. Additional testimony came from correction officers and trial court officers seeking comparable disability and pension protections, including a bill to extend a 100% disability pension to correction officers injured in violent attacks and a bill to treat court officers more like police and firefighters when injured in the line of duty. The committee asked a few clarifying questions, including about whether the PTSD bill would address post-retirement claims and about the impact of excluding “forgotten” police agencies. No votes were taken during the hearing, and the committee ultimately adjourned after hearing all scheduled testimony.

Transcript Highlights:

• Licensed vocational nurses may perform limited respiratory care tasks and services and clarifies...
• Licensed vocational nurses may perform limited respiratory care tasks and services and clarifies required
• As part of their education, LVNs are trained and licensed to perform a range of practical nursing tasks
• In many parts of California, LVNs can perform basic respiratory tasks, and in many parts of California
• It says LVNs may perform certain respiratory care services.

Committee: Senate Business, Professions and Economic Development

Keywords: 987, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• the concerns that I continuously express: that we continue to add more and more programs without evaluating
• we're comparing what programs are supposed to be continuing and what we're going to start anew, and evaluate
• But obviously, if there are significant changes to the regs based on the final rules, we would evaluate
• believes that this moment highlights the need for a stakeholder-driven working group to revisit, evaluate

Summary: The subcommittee heard May Revision proposals for higher education, beginning with the Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education. Finance proposed a one-time $10 million General Fund backfill to repay a special fund loan used to cover litigation costs, plus provisional language to allow budget flexibility for a remaining legal expense and to repay the loan without interest. The LAO opposed shifting the litigation costs to the General Fund and raised legal concerns about waiving interest on the loan, noting that special fund loans have historically been repaid with interest. Members asked about the litigation amount and the estimated interest savings, which Finance said would be about $245,000. The committee then discussed University of California funding, including the Governor’s proposed compact funding and a $1.5 million one-time increase for the First Star foster youth program at UC campuses. UC said the program has strong outcomes at UCLA, including a 100% college-going rate and high college completion rates, and that the new funding would expand the program to additional campuses and eventually be self-supporting through fundraising. The LAO recommended rejecting the proposal, arguing that UC already has overlapping outreach programs, including the Early Academic Outreach Program, and that the new initiative would duplicate existing services. Several senators questioned whether the state should expand a new program instead of strengthening existing ones, while UC and Finance emphasized the program’s focus on foster youth and its high success rates. For the California Community Colleges, Finance outlined the May Revision’s increase to the Student-Centered Funding Formula COLA from 2.41% to 4.31%, along with enrollment growth funding, categorical COLAs, deferred maintenance, and other ongoing and one-time investments. The Chancellor’s Office supported the flexible “super COLA” approach and asked for more enrollment growth funding, arguing that many districts are already above current targets and that unfunded growth restricts access. The LAO recommended funding at least the statutory COLA, redirecting some ongoing funds to enrollment growth or one-time priorities, and rejecting the $9.7 million Adult Learner Demonstration Project because districts already have incentives to do similar work. Senators pressed Finance and the Chancellor’s Office on the use of COLA funds to cover the new paid pregnancy disability leave requirement, the impact on hold-harmless and basic-aid districts, and whether the state should fund actual enrollment growth rather than a flat COLA. The committee also reviewed California Student Aid Commission proposals, including adjustments to Cal Grant and Middle Class Scholarship funding, continued Golden State Teacher Grant funding, and implementation of the federal Workforce Pell program. Finance said the Middle Class Scholarship changes reflected updated caseload estimates and that the higher 35% unmet-need level had been one-time funding, while CSAC urged continued support and noted the importance of financial aid for student success. The LAO recommended rejecting additional Golden State Teacher Grant funding as not well-targeted and urged caution on Workforce Pell trailer bill language, citing uncertainty about federal rules, ongoing administrative workload, and the need for clearer implementation planning. Members also raised concerns about declining CADAA applications and the need to better promote state aid for undocumented and mixed-status students. No votes were taken during the transcripted portion, and the committee moved through the agenda items with questions and testimony.