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• “And I look forward to your service on the Board of Trustees.” “Yes, ma’am. Thank you very much.
• And after 9/11 happened, all these technology companies quit spending their money.
• So an ending, you know, one of my I think we'll be doing them, you know, a huge service.
• And thank you for your service. Thank you. Next, we'll hear from Corey Fosdick.
• And thank you for your service. Thank you. Next, we'll hear from Corey Fosdick.

Summary: The Appropriations Committee on Higher Education heard a presentation from the Governor’s Office on the proposed education budget, which totals $32.5 billion overall and includes no tuition or fee increases for Florida residents. Officials highlighted major funding for financial aid and scholarships, including Bright Futures, Benacquisto, veteran-related scholarships, EASE, Open Door, law enforcement/first responder programs, and workforce initiatives. They also emphasized increases for workforce education, Florida College System operations, nursing pipeline and line funds, and university operations, performance funding, and faculty recruitment and retention. Committee members asked questions about the Ocoee Scholarship, the proposed post-secondary Guardian program, and how university recruitment and retention funds would be used; officials said the Ocoee Scholarship remains funded at current levels, the Guardian program would offer flexible campus safety options, and the university funds would be distributed to institutions for faculty recruitment and retention without additional directives. The committee then heard from a series of appointees and reappointees to boards of trustees for state colleges and universities, who described their backgrounds and priorities. Testimony consistently focused on affordability, workforce alignment, nursing and allied health programs, dual enrollment, adult learners, and local economic needs. Several trustees highlighted strong nursing NCLEX pass rates, expansion of campuses or programs, and efforts to tailor education to regional workforce demands such as health care, construction, law enforcement, aviation, and hospitality. One appointee from Miami-Dade College emphasized helping adult students return and complete degrees by easing credit transfer and admissions barriers. After hearing from the appointees, the committee took up the full slate of confirmations as a block. A motion was made and the roll was called; the confirmations were approved favorably, with members voting yes and no opposition recorded. The committee then adjourned.

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• In human services, the governor prioritized projects that protect Washingtonians.
• He also includes a little over $2 million for a Department of Agriculture Plant Services Lab in Prosser
• We'll start with housing and human services, and I will call up people who signed up in person first,
• We urge the state to help make us whole and to support funding for essential services like health care
• Welcome back, and it's good to appreciate your service. Signed in pro on this budget.

Bills: SB6003

Committee: Senate Ways & Means

Keywords: capital budget, funding, infrastructure, state projects, budget allocation, 904, all

Transcript Highlights:

• We call it the Men's Service Challenge.
• It's also service that extends through our larger service corps initiative in California.
• Service matters. Shared experiences matter.
• And what we ask for in return is 450 hours of service. Service, I'm a Sargent Shriver guy.
• And into services.

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• Health services in schools, with findings reported to state leaders.
• You've got treasury management services, you've got fraud protection services.
• Desperate for freedom, I opted out of all services, an act that nearly derailed my future.
• And we have Robert Johnson, Florida Network of Youth and Family Services waiving in support.
• The services and administration—can you give a slight breakdown of that? Thank you, Madam Chair.

Keywords: 999, senate, all

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• an eligible carrier for the purpose of providing Lifeline services.
• Currently, virtual reality or XR technology supports 80...
• For example, transmission services agreement or energy services agreement are typically in that 10- to
• Facility is not an acceptable energy generation technology for purposes of the subsection.
• For keeping patients healthy rather than simply by providing more services.

Summary: The House convened on June 30, 2026, with opening ceremonies, guest introductions, and moments of silence for Gerlindy Lancelotti and Iva Durham. Members then took up a long agenda of bills and resolutions, including consent calendar items and several measures related to agriculture, lottery reporting, health care, fire service membership standards, inmate work, telecommunications, rent increases, youth camp licensing, primary elections, respiratory care practice, and marriage equality. The chamber also heard extended debate on Senate Bill 233, concerning removal of snow and ice from vehicles, and on House Bill 188, which would allow unaffiliated voters to choose a party primary while barring participation in both parties’ primaries. Among the notable actions, House Concurrent Resolution 157 passed as amended, directing the State Lottery to report on options to support traditional lottery retailers. Senate Bill 53, preserving the Delaware Farm to Community Program if federal support declines, passed unanimously. Senate Bill 307, giving the Public Service Commission authority to designate eligible Lifeline carriers, and Senate Bill 339, clarifying advance health care directives, also passed. Senate Bill 235, removing a sunset on manufactured home rent increase calculations, passed, as did Senate Bill 325 after House Amendment 1 narrowed disqualifying offenses for fire service membership and adjusted related background-check rules. Senate Bill 309, discharging remaining incarceration-cost balances, and Senate Bill 324, addressing constable-related firearm permit provisions, both passed. The chamber tabled Senate Bill 233 once to consider a proposed amendment for trucks and other hard-to-clear vehicles, but the amendment failed and the bill later passed as amended by the Senate. Senate Joint Resolution 19, directing DHSS to study strategies to reduce health care costs, was tabled pending legal review. Senate Substitute 2 for Senate Bill 100, proposing a constitutional amendment to protect the right to marry, passed after extensive floor debate and personal statements from members on both sides. Senate Bill 293, creating a licensure pathway for summer camps to participate in purchase-of-care, passed after House Amendment 1. House Bill 188 on open primary access for unaffiliated voters passed 22-17, and Senate Bill 94, concerning respiratory care practitioners and ECMO medication delivery, passed after House Amendment 2. The transcript ends as the House begins consideration of House Substitute 1 for House Bill 404.

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• But at the end of the day, this technology... Some reforms were needed.
• Back then, it was new technology, and there were real concerns.
• And it created a standard policy for the service of protection orders.
• So I thank you for your service.
• Danny Munoz, on behalf of legal services for prisoners of children, opposition. legal services for prisoners

Committee: House Public Safety

Keywords: 988, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• television and public radio, the Healthcare Authority for food assistance, healthcare and medical services
• assistance, and staffing and information technology costs.
• program, making certain transfers, and making appropriations to the Department of Health and Human Services
• Reverting certain balances from A-Law's 2023 General Fund Appropriation to the Human Services Department

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• Today, we can say Missouri-made technology has reached the lunar far side and back.
• Thank you for your service. Welcome to the House.
• Thank you for your service. Welcome to the House.
• If we'd make them feel welcome and thank them for their service.
• And we're going to raise additional money without raising taxes or without cutting services.

Keywords: 959, house, all

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• As the former head of the Office of the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology, David
• They didn't fill in the technical aspects, and they'd handed it off to Health and Human Services, which
• facility when I think what you're talking about, re-identified information, has a lot to do with our technology
• Very secure technology, and also...
• Very secure technology, and also... We completely comply with HIPAA.

Committee: House Health and Mental Health

Keywords: 959, house, all

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• Upon application for service, a utility must expand its service territory to a property outside its current
• service territory if the property is not within a service territory of another water or wastewater utility
• American Friends Service Committee waives in support.
• Scott Jenkins, American Financial Services.
• Services, will it still be available to girls?

Summary: The committee took up a long agenda of retained bills and several new measures, with most receiving favorable reports after amendments. Major debate centered on CS/SB 706, which preempts airport naming to the state and designates Palm Beach International Airport as the Donald J. Trump International Airport subject to FAA and trademark-related conditions. Senator Jones offered amendments to avoid private royalty benefits, but both failed. Senators Berman, Osgood, Jones, and Pizzo spoke against the bill, raising concerns about naming an airport after a sitting president, lack of local input, and ethical issues; Senator Mayfield defended the bill as cost-free to the airport and noted the naming agreement. The committee ultimately voted the bill favorably. The committee also approved CS/SB 546 on conservation land notice requirements and CS/SB 1014 on municipal utility service to properties outside city limits, both with amendments and some opposition from the Florida League of Cities on the utility bill. Several other bills were heard and reported favorably with little controversy. CS/SB 1500 would streamline uncontested probate proceedings; SB 962 would exclude farms and farm operations from certain zoning definitions tied to affordable housing preemption; CS/SB 820 would strengthen reporting for problem-solving courts; SB 840 would revise portions of last year’s hurricane-related land-use law to narrow its scope and sunset temporary restrictions; and SB 856 would require online property listings to show estimated ad valorem taxes, with an amendment excluding social media platforms and broadening liability protections. SB 110 would clarify homestead exemption eligibility for 98-year or longer residential leases. SB 394 would exempt certain underwriting managers handling limited facultative reinsurance from licensure requirements, and SB 434 would prevent wind-hardening improvements from increasing assessed value for residential property tax purposes. The committee also advanced several public-safety and transparency measures. CS/CS/SB 658 and 608, a combined water-safety bill, would require safety features for rental properties with pools or nearby water bodies and authorize DBPR enforcement; supporters framed it as a response to Florida’s high child-drowning rates, and Airbnb waived in support. SB 748 would place constitutional language on restoration of voting rights on sentencing score sheets, with broad support from voting-rights and civil-rights groups. CS/SB 824 would require annual reporting of unimproved school-district land inventories, and CS/SB 848 would create a framework for off-site stormwater treatment and related credits, with support from builders and mitigation bankers. The committee also heard CS/SB 1036 on school counselors, which clarifies certification requirements and performance criteria after a delete-all amendment.

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• You asked what the debt service would be for these bonds? Correct.
• You asked what the debt service would be for these bonds? Correct.
• Okay, then part of the bill concerns the documentary service fee.
• What would you tell a consumer about the document service fee?
• We are currently servicing vehicles in Washington State.

Committee: House Transportation

Keywords: 904, all

Transcript Highlights:

• . technology. technology.
• . services. services.
• </c> it is decreased in in in its services it is decreased in in in its services that<01:41:22.400><c
• </c> your service. your service.
• </c> performing some of these legal services performing some of these legal services too?

Committee: Joint Appropriations

Keywords: Appropriations - Room 409, 22 January, 2026; 1:30 P.M., 925, all

Transcript Highlights:

• And we should do more to support service members and their families, both during their time in service
• Renewable and increasingly cheaper technologies.
• Public service loan forgiveness was created during the Bush presidency.
• Five is to create a point of order against cuts to public service loan forgiveness.
• So I'm asking for a vote on an amendment that would provide the funding for these services so that service

Committee: Senate Senate Budget

Transcript Highlights:

• It has, and for those of you that don't know, I spent some of my career in public service working for
• I was able to pursue fire service, and it was a struggle, right?
• And so we excel in fire service, you know, and we’ve been doing it. I’m one example of many.
• For example, since 2005, diesel particulates from trucks servicing our ports have been reduced by 98%
• Elizabeth Escobel with the California Manufacturers and Technology Association in opposition.

Committee: House Natural Resources

Keywords: 988, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• Board to establish a grant program to support community-based organizations that provide direct services
• And two, is having real support for victims, for all of the services that they need to rebuild their
• Additionally, we are also adding managed services ...federal or state regulation.
• Additionally, we are also adding managed service organizations, or MSOs.
• MSOs help provide a variety of nonclinical services like billing and collections, information technology

Summary: The Assembly convened after a quorum call, prayer, and pledge, then moved through a long Daily File with several major policy bills and multiple commemorative resolutions. The most debated measure was AB 379 on human trafficking and child exploitation. The bill was presented as a stronger, more comprehensive version that increases penalties for adults soliciting minors, adds a loitering offense tied to purchasing commercial sex, raises fines for businesses that facilitate trafficking, creates a Survivor Support Fund, and establishes grants for victim services and vertical prosecution. Several members spoke in support, while Assemblymember Sharp-Collins raised concerns that the loitering provision could be vague and disproportionately enforced against Black, Brown, and LGBTQIA+ people. The bill passed after debate, with the clerk reporting 72 noes and the measure still passing. The Assembly also passed AB 1415, which expands the Office of Health Care Affordability’s authority to review more health systems, private equity and hedge fund acquisitions, and managed service organizations in order to better track cost drivers and medical debt. Other policy bills approved included AB 711 on coordinating court reporters for motion hearings, AB 1142 on horse event entry fees, AB 309 on preserving access to sterile syringes for HIV and hepatitis prevention, AB 358 on allowing victims to consent to searches of hidden surveillance devices like AirTags and spy cameras, AB 592 on outdoor dining for restaurants, AB 1341 on clarifying contractor licensing violations, AB 752 on easing child care center siting, AB 1166 on extending debt-settlement rules to commercial financing, AB 806 on mobile home resident cooling rights, AB 972 on explicit sex discrimination protections in higher education, AB 416 on emergency room 5150 authority, AB 632 on expedited collection of penalties for serious local code violations, AB 672 on PERB notification and intervention rights, AB 876 on CRNA scope of practice, and AB 760 on temporary mobile home housing after disasters. Most of these measures passed with broad bipartisan support, though AB 672 drew sharp opposition from Assemblymember DeMaio over concerns about PERB and state bureaucracy. The chamber also adopted several resolutions recognizing May observances and public service groups. These included ACR 63 designating May as California Fairgrounds Appreciation Month, ACR 69 for California Physical Fitness and Mental Well-Being Month, ACR 76 for California Small Business Month, ACR 77 for Drowning Awareness and Prevention Month, HR 36 for Lung Cancer Action Week, HR 39 for National Public Works Week, and HR 41 for National Hospital Week. Members used the resolutions to highlight local institutions, public health, and community services, and each was adopted after co-author rolls and voice votes. The session ended after the Assembly completed the day’s file and moved through a series of routine procedural motions and adjournment-related business.

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• and ambulatory detox services.
• Senators, today, we are recognizing the service of the Senate.
• Thanks for your service. Senator Pasadema. Thank you, Mr. President.
• Thank you for your service, Senator, to me, to us...
• Senator Rouson, in honor of your service, great service, during your time in the Florida Senate, we have

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.

Transcript Highlights:

• Codes do improve safety and save energy, but there also are means of reviewing and approving new technologies
• that electric loads are calculated and allow new and existing homes to avoid expensive panel and service
• and do improve safety and save energy, but there also are means of reviewing and approving new technologies
• that electric loads are calculated and allow new and existing homes to avoid expensive panel and service
• We don't want to press pause on new technologies that may allow us to actually reduce the cost of building

Summary: The committee heard a series of housing and wildfire-recovery bills, with members repeatedly framing the package as a response to the Los Angeles fires and the state’s broader housing affordability crisis. AB 306, by Assembly Member Schultz, would place a six-year moratorium on new residential building-code updates and local code modifications except for health-and-safety emergencies. Supporters argued it would reduce costs and provide certainty for rebuilding and new housing production, while opponents from environmental, clean-energy, and labor groups warned it would freeze beneficial code improvements, delay innovation, and limit local control. Despite those concerns, several members said they would support the bill while seeking amendments, and the committee voted it out on a due pass recommendation to Appropriations. The committee also approved AB 301, which would require state agencies to follow shot-clock style deadlines for reviewing building permits, and AB 253, which would allow licensed third-party professionals to conduct certain post-entitlement permit reviews if local departments take more than 30 days. Supporters said both bills would reduce delays, lower costs, and speed rebuilding and housing production; some members emphasized that safety reviews must remain intact. AB 301 passed on a due pass vote to Appropriations, and AB 253 passed 8-0 to Local Government. AB 462, by Assembly Member Lowenthal, would exempt accessory dwelling units in Los Angeles County’s coastal zone from coastal development permit requirements, with the goal of speeding ADU construction for disaster recovery and housing supply. Supporters said ADUs are a proven tool and that the bill would help displaced residents and future coastal disaster areas; one member of the public opposed the bill, arguing ADU proliferation can change neighborhood conditions. The committee sent AB 462 to Appropriations on an 8-0 vote. The final bill discussed, AB 299, would let disaster-displaced families stay in hotels, motels, and short-term rentals for more than 30 days without triggering landlord-tenant rules, mirroring an earlier homelessness-related law; the transcript ended as the author began presenting the bill and its support.

Transcript Highlights:

• that would have otherwise been services that would have otherwise been efficiently<00:14:52.560><c>
• He said they can bilaterally go out and find recycling services, contract for those services, and tell
• contract for the recycling services contract for the those<00:26:28.480><c> services</c><00:26:28.799
• and tell the Utilities those services and tell the Utilities Commission<00:26:30.440><c> what</c><00
• So that's just an example of how a bill like this can be hard to adapt to a technology that's changing

Committee: House Energy Finance and Policy

Keywords: 1183, house

Transcript Highlights:

• Thus, the department was unable to make certain changes to certain MVE services for the duration of the
• Funds from the surcharge can also be allocated toward courtroom renovations, technology enhancements,
• Any parties represented by legal aid services do not pay this surcharge.
• I also have some data that bears that out from the federal... ...Food Safety Inspection Service.
• I'm not against technology. I love it. But guess what?

Committee: House Corrections and Public Institutions

Summary: The committee first took up executive action on Senate Bill 890. Members explained that the House committee substitute combined provisions from related bills, changed the title to accommodate an amendment, and restored language that had been unintentionally repealed in section 217.550. The amendment was adopted, the substitute was adopted, and the House Committee Substitute for SB 890 was voted do pass by a roll call of 11 ayes and 1 no. The committee then heard Senate Bill 945 from Senator Carla May, which would raise the civil filing surcharge in the city of St. Louis from $15 to up to $20 to support the law library and related court services. Senator May and a representative of the Law Library Association of St. Louis testified that the surcharge had not been raised since 1996, that costs had increased, and that the increase would help maintain legal research resources and public access. Questions focused on whether the amount was sufficient and what other funding sources existed; there was no opposition testimony. Finally, the committee heard House Concurrent Resolution 29, which urges Congress to restore mandatory country-of-origin labeling for beef and pork. The sponsor and supporters argued that consumers should know where meat comes from, that independent cattle producers are harmed by consolidation in the packing industry, and that voluntary labeling is inadequate. Opponents from the Missouri Farm Bureau, Missouri Chamber of Commerce, and Missouri Pork Association argued that mandatory labeling adds regulatory burden, is not supported by consumer purchasing data, and should remain voluntary. The hearing included extensive testimony from cattle producers and consumers, but no vote on HCR 29 was taken in the portion provided.

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• </c> 260 um also United States armed services 260 um also United States armed services identification
• during that day due to the closure of those services.
• Um, and I might be opening a can of worms here, but today we have technology.
• Um, and I might be opening a can of worms here, but today we have technology.
• That is, you know, certainly a technology option that we could consider.

Committee: House Election Law

Keywords: 1189, house, all