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• We specifically state the Texas Moving Imaging Incentive Program. program because of the really remarkable
• Actually, it started in elementary school.
• gigs, and whatnot, even throughout school.
• Brain Institute, and Texas A&M Veterinary Medical School.
• We stand ready to assist.

Bills: HB4568 , HB5458 , HB4543 , HB2703 , HB3728 , HCR113 , HCR126

Committee: House Culture, Recreation & Tourism

Keywords: film industry, incentives, grants, Texas, moving image, economic development, production companies, content standards, HB 5458, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, TPWD, chronic wasting disease, CWD, cervids, deer, elk, moose, wildlife management, game animals, disease management

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• California children miss 874,000 days of school each year due to dental problems.
• Senate Resolution 84 by Senator Caballero, relative to Women in Construction Week. Thank you.
• Senate Resolution 84 by Senator Caballero, relative to Women in Construction Week.
• a call to action for any teen or woman who has thought about working in the construction industry.
• , and ensure California's construction workforce reflects the full diversity of our state.

Keywords: 987, senate, all

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• The first census redistricting data program was conducted as part of the 1980 census.
• Following the passage of P.L. 94-171 in 1975, the Census Bureau established a voluntary program between
• We both went to law school. I teach in law school now. And I tell my students, I try not to.
• I know you had a hearing in December on the LUCA program, local updated census addresses.
• I'd be glad to lend my assistance any way I can to that.

Committee: Senate Senate Committee on the Census

Keywords: 1212, all

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• in this program as well.
• Has there been any pilot programs, educational programs?
• So has there been any pilot programs, educational programs, so everybody can access it, or we can learn
• Chair, in regards to payment assistance through the LIHEAP program, the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance
• So the PRC would set program parameters. scale for the program.

Committee: House House Energy, Environment & Natural Resources

Keywords: 996, all

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• Outside of federal rent assistance and project-based rental assistance, we also have other programs and
• The goal of these rent assistance programs is to keep people housed.
• The program, as designed, is working well for the last— Financial assistance.
• And I think thanks to the rental assistance program, my family were able to be housed.
• Those include the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program, or LIHEAP, the Weatherization Assistance

Keywords: 907, all

Summary: The committee met for a series of information sessions focused on housing stabilization, rental assistance, senior housing, and heat resilience. In the first panel, OHCS and NOAA described the state’s affordable housing preservation work, including the $35 million in 2025 stabilization funding used to reduce debt and keep distressed affordable rental projects operating, plus manufactured home park preservation efforts. OHCS said the portfolio remains under strain, with about a third of projects at debt coverage ratios of 1.0 or less and rising insurance and operating costs. NOAA urged faster closings on the stabilization awards, more funding in 2027, and broader rent assistance and process reforms. Committee members asked about the gap between current appropriations and need, and OHCS explained that the new Article 11-Q bond preservation program is structured differently and requires full refinancing rather than simple cash infusions. The committee then heard a detailed discussion of the state’s eviction prevention and rental assistance program, ORDAP. OHCS said the program is administered through community action agencies, prioritizes households at imminent risk of eviction, and is now funded at a much lower level than in the prior biennium, reducing expected service to about 8,200 households this biennium. The Oregon Law Center, a county community action agency, and Multifamily Northwest all agreed the program prevents homelessness and is effective, but they differed on whether assistance should be tied so closely to eviction court. Legal aid and community action witnesses said the current system is underfunded and that eviction filings are the clearest indicator of need, while Multifamily Northwest argued the process can push people into court unnecessarily and should be moved earlier when possible. Legislators raised questions about whether a pre-eviction model could be developed and about the costs of court involvement; one member shared a personal story about how rental assistance helped keep their family housed. Next, the governor’s office, OHCS, and OHA presented on the new senior housing initiative and healthy homes work. The governor’s housing director said Oregon is making progress on homelessness and housing production, with reductions in homelessness outside Multnomah County and an estimated 50,000 future units added to the pipeline through recent state actions. OHCS outlined the senior housing programs launched in May: a debt-financing program using elderly and disabled bond authority, an older adult housing development program funded through the senior property tax deferral revolving account, and a rehousing program for older adults that will use bridge funding and services to move at least 400 unsheltered older Oregonians into housing. OHA also described its Healthy Homes Grant Program, including $24.6 million already awarded, a new $5 million grant round for seniors and people with disabilities, and examples of home repairs and weatherization that help people remain safely housed. The final information session focused on home cooling and heat resilience. OHA presented data showing rising extreme heat days, more heat-related emergency visits, and likely undercounted heat deaths, especially among older adults, people with disabilities, low-income communities, and people without access to healthy homes. ODOE reviewed implementation of Senate Bill 1536, including a cooling needs study that found 58% of surveyed households in the studied housing types needed permanent cooling, with estimated statewide costs of $582 million to $1 billion. ODOE said its rental home heat pump and community heat pump programs have supported 4,638 installations so far, with a temporary reopening planned using remaining funds. The session ended with a remote presentation from a Community Action Partnership of Oregon representative, continuing the discussion of how community action agencies help deliver energy and anti-poverty services.

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• </c> um and lump it in with the school um and lump it in with the school construction<01:23:57.199><c
• </c> operating school. operating school. the<01:33:08.400><c> capital</c><01:33:08.880><c> construction
• </c> uh school capital construction items. uh school capital construction items.
• me, our school foundation program.
• facilities, programs and our school facilities, programs and appropriations<01:43:10.480><c> moving<

Keywords: 916, all

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• Two programs already exist.
• My question is: do you think something like the CEA program, the earthquake program, if we had something
• It isn't that the Alabama program single-handedly got 50,000 homes hardened.
• We just have the seed money to start the program. But these programs... ...have money yet.
• We just have the seed money to start the program.

Summary: The Senate Committee on Insurance held an information hearing on the impacts of climate change and catastrophic wildfire on California’s insurance market, with opening remarks focused on the state’s affordability, availability, and stability problems. Chair and members discussed the role of SB 254’s report, the Sustainable Insurance Strategy, the growth of the FAIR Plan, and the need to better align insurance regulation, mitigation, and land-use decisions. The Vice Chair noted the importance of hearing from industry as well as consumer and academic experts, and Senator Becker said the report would inform further committee work. Amy Bach of United Policyholders described how climate-driven wildfire and flood risk, combined with inflation, insurtech, and risk modeling, have reduced competition and pushed more homeowners into the FAIR Plan and non-admitted surplus lines coverage. She said availability is improving somewhat, but affordability will depend on mitigation, insurer competition, and fair rate regulation. In response to questions, she emphasized underinsurance as a long-running problem, supported stronger insurer responsibility for replacement-cost estimates, and suggested a public reinsurance backstop and more mitigation funding rather than removing wildfire coverage from basic policies. Nancy Watkins of Milliman and Michael Wara of Stanford argued that the market problem is fundamentally that expected claims and expenses now exceed premiums because too many homes are burning. They said California needs both risk reduction and actuarially sound pricing, along with a state mitigation framework that targets the highest-risk communities and prioritizes home hardening, defensible space, and community-scale mitigation over broad acreage-based spending. They also discussed the role of non-admitted carriers as a gap-filler, the need for better data on reconstruction costs and mitigation effectiveness, and the importance of sustained funding rather than one-time grants. A later panel with Frank Freebalt of Cal Poly and Michael Golnar of UC Berkeley focused on modeling and mitigation science. They said wildfire policy should treat the issue as a structure-ignition and urban conflagration problem, not just a wildland fire problem, and stressed integrated land-use, utility, and community mitigation. Members asked about zoning, building codes, utility hardening, and who should pay for mitigation; witnesses said older, denser neighborhoods are the highest priority, that utilities must improve operational safety measures, and that targeted mitigation in the highest-risk areas offers the best return. No votes or formal actions were taken at the hearing.

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• That pilot program, over the last four years, has exploded.
• Because we do need your team's technical assistance as we develop a bipartisan proposal.
• company, PC Construction, to a woman who gets yarn and does weaving, and organic farmers.
• Any kind of program like that needs to be transparent and have the rules outlined, which it did.
• Gray, you realize that the Carolina Gamecocks is also a very good school—a fine school for kids to follow

Committee: Senate Finance Committee

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• California children miss 874,000 days of school each year due to dental problems.
• Senate Resolution 84 by Senator Caballero, relative to Women in Construction Week. Thank you.
• Senate Resolution 84 by Senator Caballero, relative to Women in Construction Week.
• Expanding opportunities for women in construction is one of the most practical ways to strengthen the
• , and ensure California's construction workforce reflects the full diversity of our state.

Summary: The Senate convened with a quorum present, offered a prayer and pledge, welcomed a seventh-grade class from Contra Costa Jewish Day School, and made routine announcements, including birthday wishes for Senator Hurtado and committee meeting notices. The body then took up two resolutions on the daily file. SR 82 by Senator Perez recognized Children’s Dental Health Month and highlighted the importance of early oral health care, the prevalence of tooth decay among California children, disparities affecting Latinx, Black, and low-income children, and Medi-Cal and other state efforts to expand dental access. SR 84 by Senator Caballero commemorated Women in Construction Week and emphasized the need to expand opportunities for women in the construction trades through apprenticeships, inclusive job sites, and workforce development to address labor shortages and support California’s housing and infrastructure goals. Both resolutions were adopted unanimously by roll call votes of 31-0. Afterward, members announced upcoming budget subcommittee meetings. The Senate then heard multiple adjourn-in-memory requests, including one from Senator Alvarado-Gil honoring eight victims of the February 17 avalanche near Truckee and another from Senator Wiener honoring Camille Moran, a San Francisco transgender advocate, artist, and community leader. The presiding officer noted the Senate would recess and reconvene on Monday, March 9, 2026, with an adjournment motion to follow later that day.

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• access to after-school programming, with ensuring that ELOP is funded, but also prioritizing ACEs in
• 21st century at schools that don't offer those programs.
• , the AIDS Drug Assistance Program, that we have that has been longstanding out there right now, helps
• expanded school sites that will be implementing the program.
• The loss of this program comes at a time when food prices remain high and federal food assistance programs

Summary: The Assembly Budget Committee met to consider the 2026 Budget Act, which leaders said was the negotiated compromise with the Senate and was expected to move to the floor that evening. Opening remarks emphasized that the plan balances the budget over two years, reduces the structural deficit, and builds reserves, while also protecting core services in the face of federal cuts. Jason Sisney outlined the legislative budget framework and the likely floor bills, including AB 109, SB 110, SB 122, and SB 125. Department of Finance representative Eric Khali said the administration appreciated the two-year balanced approach and supported the modification in SB 122, while noting the package uses additional revenues and new spending to soften or reject some proposed cuts. Most of the discussion focused on major spending areas. Members and subcommittee chairs highlighted protections and additions for health care and human services, including rejecting the proposed Medi-Cal asset limit change, delaying premium increases, restoring clinic and dental funding, supporting distressed hospitals and county indigent care, and expanding county eligibility staffing to handle H.R. 1-related workload. Education members described record or expanded support for TK-12 schools, child care, special education, community colleges, teacher recruitment, and higher education, including a change to extend Cal Grant eligibility to age 30 for some community college students. Housing and homelessness funding was increased for HAP, multifamily housing, and the low-income housing tax credit, while public safety members pointed to investments in victims’ services, restorative justice, and prison closure savings. Several members also raised concerns or priorities tied to the budget deal. Some praised the package as a moral document that protects vulnerable Californians, immigrant communities, LGBTQ residents, seniors, and people with disabilities. Others noted unresolved issues, including the MCO tax’s impact on districts, the need for more support for local journalism, arts, biotech R&D incentives, transit and GGRF-related concerns, and the need for continued work on Prop. 98 and long-term fiscal resilience. The vice chair cautioned that despite the current progress, the state remains vulnerable to revenue volatility and warned that the budget should build more resilience against a possible downturn. No formal vote was taken in the portion provided, but the committee was preparing the budget package for floor action and final negotiations.

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• So I think your conclusion that OB3 is not going to affect that program is correct.
• </c><00:11:57.680><c> is</c> not going to affect that program is not going to affect that program is
• </c><00:30:11.760><c> This</c><00:30:11.919><c> is</c> necessary to see those programs.
• This is necessary to see those programs.
• </c> program like this? program like this?

Keywords: 928, house, all

Summary: The Committee to Study Long-Term Managed Care approved the prior meeting minutes as amended after correcting the first paragraph. The chair then outlined the committee’s plan to produce a preliminary report by October 1, with additional meetings to follow, since some questions remain about the federal One Big Beautiful Bill (OB3) and its effects on Medicaid financing and managed care. The main discussion focused on New Hampshire nursing home funding and how ProShare and MQUIP work. Members reviewed Medicaid rates, supplemental payments, intergovernmental transfers, and the role of federal matching funds. The chair and Mr. Litman concluded that OB3’s phase-down of payments above the Medicare rate likely would not directly eliminate ProShare or MQUIP in New Hampshire, but uncertainty remains about intergovernmental transfers and about how these payments would function if the state moved nursing facilities into managed care. Mr. Litman said managed care would likely require waivers for supplemental payments, and Texas was cited as an example of a state operating under such waivers. The committee also discussed dual eligibles, DNIP, PACE, and the possibility of carving out HCBS from nursing facility services. DHS said its managed care contract would allow the state to use MCOs for DNIP, with the goal of better coordination between Medicaid and Medicare, while PACE would likely require more study and might be more feasible in populated counties. Members also reviewed OB3’s new presumptive eligibility provisions and a state waiver request modeled on Washington’s approach, plus a separate grant for transitioning people from facilities back to the community. The rural health transformation fund was discussed as a possible source for workforce, telehealth, mobile integrated health, and other support investments, but not for direct construction or major building renovation. County representatives emphasized that any county role in PACE or DNIP would require significant vetting, infrastructure, capital investment, and a realistic timeline. The meeting ended with the chair saying the draft report would outline issues and possible alternatives, but not recommendations yet, and the committee adjourned without taking further action.

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• taught in our schools.
• In our jails, we have created SUD step-down units and have a medication-assisted treatment program serving
• It's not a fully funded program.
• The documentary that we use in junior high schools and high schools across the nation.
• Back home, the schools face multiple roadblocks. They don't want it in their schools.

Committee: Senate Senate Judiciary

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• implementing energy-focused incentive programs.
• AB 2508 does not eliminate these programs.
• from these investments in these programs. ...puts these programs and all of the benefits that we gain
• up not having a program.
• From technical assistance to coordinated bulk purchasing, the program will use public financing and incentives

Summary: The committee hearing covered a long agenda of energy, utility, and data-center bills, with members hearing extensive testimony on affordability, ratepayer protections, wildfire liability, and grid planning. Several measures were presented by Assembly Member Irwin and others, including AB 2182 on industrial energy efficiency incentives, AB 2396 on allowing community choice aggregators to develop transmission projects, AB 2589 on returning federal tax savings to ratepayers, AB 2508 on shifting public purpose program costs off utility bills, AB 1577 on data center reporting, and AB 2383 on large energy-use facility rate design. The chair noted the hearing began without a quorum and later proceeded once quorum was established for the data-center and AB 2383 votes. AB 2182 and AB 2589 were discussed but not acted on during the portion shown, while AB 2396 drew substantial debate over wildfire liability, financing, and whether CCAs should be allowed to own transmission lines. AB 2508 generated the most divided policy discussion, with supporters arguing that public purpose programs and energy efficiency costs should not be borne by ratepayers and should instead be funded through the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund or other public sources. Opponents warned that moving those programs to GGRF would threaten funding stability, undermine cost-effective efficiency programs, and jeopardize important safety-net and wildfire-related spending; wildfire survivor advocates asked for amendments to ensure victims are paid first before any reallocation. Committee members raised concerns about whether GGRF is an appropriate and stable funding source, and several said they could not support the bill as drafted. AB 1577, requiring data centers to report energy, water, and noise information, passed on a 10-1 vote after supporters said the bill would help local and state planners manage rapid load growth, while opponents argued it was burdensome, duplicative, and could expose proprietary or security-sensitive information. AB 2383, which would direct the CPUC to create a new rate structure for large energy-use facilities and require long-term contracts to prevent cost shifts and stranded assets, also drew strong support and opposition. The Little Hoover Commission and NRDC backed the bill as a way to protect ratepayers from data-center-related costs, while CCAs, the Chamber of Commerce, manufacturers, and petroleum interests objected to the bill’s scope and to CPUC oversight, especially as it could affect CCAs and other large users beyond data centers. After discussion about preserving local authority and avoiding stranded costs, the committee approved AB 2383 on a 13-0 vote and left the roll open for absent members. The hearing then moved to AB 1774, a wildfire accountability bill by Assembly Member Berman, which was introduced with testimony from fire survivors and consumer advocates emphasizing the need to verify that utility wildfire mitigation spending is actually performed before ratepayers are charged.

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• </c><03:03:24.399><c> janitor</c> make that work with his school janitor make that work with his school
• Um, partly because they're appreciative of the assistance while their students are in school, and also
• Um, partly because they're appreciative of the assistance while their students are in school, and also
• </c> That has no application to constructing That has no application to constructing physical<04:15:38.640
• </c> and construction. Thank you. and construction. Thank you.

Committee: House Executive Departments and Administration

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• Um, Co-Minnesota is a program of Co-North, a local cooperative development nonprofit.
• And I just want to repeat that for clarity: a baker and a public school elementary school teacher were
• </c><00:41:27.200><c> and</c> technical technical assistance and technical technical assistance and capacity
• ,</c><00:41:41.040><c> which</c> Development Grant Program, which Development Grant Program, which supports
• These are modest program to date.

Committee: Senate Labor

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• Through our technical assistance program, we can only do so much.
• I run the small local public bodies assistance program.
• My assistance program provides direct financial assistance to pay for tier certifications and AUPs conducted
• That's how we differ from how our assistance program worked before.
• We do a lot with the small local public bodies assistance program.

Committee: House Water & Natural Resources Committee

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• It's harder to retrofit some of these buildings than it is versus new construction.
• so um I I uh versus new construction so um I I feel<00:25:27.120><c> like</c><00:25:27.240><c> I'm</
• New construction is different.
• We do practice a 12-step program, so they have to have met certain accomplishments in that program. um
• So if you just completed a treatment program, you know, a 90-day treatment program, if they're recommending

Committee: House Municipal and County Government

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• . ...training program with hands-on food education, school gardens, and family food pantries.
• Let's continue to short the kids billions of dollars in their school programs. And why is that?
• How about our schools?
• But our schools are perhaps the most DEI schools that you can get in this country.
• It's divisive, not constructive.

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• , and education programs that support long-term care.
• I'm not sure they would be there without that program, and HB 18 extends that.
• There will be no first words, no first steps, no first days of school.
• So I pulled my child out of school and I homeschooled him for two years.
• in a screening program, and then the program later recommended that the daughter be hospitalized.

Bills: HB18 , HB37 , HB116 , HB388 , HB879 , HB913 , HB1151 , HB2216 , HB2358 , HB2809 , SB577 , SB1590 , SB1782 , SB1887 , SB2744 , HB18 , HB37 , HB116

Committee: Senate Health & Human Services

Keywords: rural health, hospital funding, healthcare access, mental health services, financial stability, perinatal bereavement, healthcare, hospital training, bereavement support, maternal care, fetal demise, stillbirth, neonatal death, parent-child relationship, involuntary termination, family law, child welfare, child protection, HB 388, HB388

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• the requirement that surplus properties be prioritized for land banks, and the competitive grant program
• the requirement that surplus properties be prioritized for land banks, and the competitive grant program
• loans for owner-occupied residential home purchases or refinancing, except for certain down-payment assistance
• well-intended reasons, taking property off of the tax rolls completely and decimating the funding base for schools
• That bill allows middle housing to be constructed in LAMARDs.

Summary: The House Housing Committee met to executive several bills, with staff outlining proposed substitutes and key changes before members took a caucus break. House Bill 1974, the land bank bill, was described as removing several original provisions such as county authorization requirements, advisory boards, planning strategies, annual audits, surplus-property prioritization, and a grant program, while adding annual reporting and a real estate excise tax exemption. House Bill 2118, which would limit common interest community associations from imposing more restrictive use covenants than those in place when a unit was acquired, had no amendments but was not moved forward at this time. House Bill 2236, dealing with Housing Finance Commission authority, was explained as clarifying that the commission may not act as a retail mortgage lender or make loans for owner-occupied home purchases or refinancing, except for certain down-payment assistance loans, while adding an intent section to emphasize that the commission is not meant to compete with private lenders. Members debated whether removing language about using public funds could create taxpayer risk or a de facto state bank, but supporters said the changes modernize outdated law and clarify the commission’s role. House Bill 2269, concerning middle housing and on-site sewage systems in LAMIRDs, would restore broader county authority for middle housing in LAMIRDs while limiting sewage-system options based on whether the county is rural or non-rural. The committee voted to report House Bill 1974 out with a due pass recommendation by a 10-7 vote, with several members opposing or voting without recommendation over tax concerns. House Bill 2236 also passed out of committee with a due pass recommendation by a 13-4 vote after similar debate over public-funds language. House Bill 2269 passed unanimously by voice vote, and the committee adjourned after completing its executive action.