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• We want to do everything we can to drive innovation toward a more cleaner economy.
• HB 153 encourages innovation in the construction sector by creating a rebate program that helps projects
• competitiveness, and New Mexico is well positioned to attract capital-intensive manufacturing and innovation-driven
• This bill aligns economic development with energy innovation; it helps diversify New Mexico's economy
• It's really about lowering costs, accelerating the pace of innovation, and building a self-sustaining

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• Lifting these outdated restrictions would allow for innovations in our power infrastructure, whether
• significant amounts of carbon-free power, and that lifting outdated restrictions would allow for innovations
• 00:05:07.759> would<00:05:07.919> allow<00:05:08.120> for<00:05:08.320> Innovations
• restrictions would allow for Innovations restrictions would allow for Innovations in<00:05:09.039

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• Called the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act.
• Well, so the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, which is the latest version.
• <00:17:11.600> and Well, so the Workforce Innovation and Well, so the Workforce Innovation
• I need to break into more industries, and that's our innovation and growth.
• I need to break into more industries, and that's our innovation and growth.

Keywords: Meeting Start 00:00:00 Call to Order and Roll Call 00:00:58 Putting Young Kentuckians to Work: First Year Update 00:04:06 Kentucky Talent Attraction Initiative 00:21:59 Kentucky Manufacturing Extension Partnership 00:57:15, 958, all

Summary: The committee met with a quorum, approved the October minutes, and heard first a progress report on the state-funded “Putting Young Kentuckians to Work” initiative. Workforce leaders from Cumberland Workforce Development Board and Kentucky Works said the HB 1 funding has allowed them to contract with all 10 workforce boards and build new pipelines with high schools, area technology centers, school districts, and community and technical colleges. They reported an end-of-year goal of 3,600 job placements, with 218 placements reported as of October 2025 and enrollment numbers continuing to rise. Testimony emphasized that the program is aimed at disconnected youth and high school seniors, that federal WIOA funds are too limited to support this work alone, and that the flexible state funding has enabled short-term training and placements in fields such as welding, CDL, and CNA. Members asked about barriers to implementation, wage levels, and services for students with disabilities; presenters said the main challenge was building school relationships and that wage growth should improve as students gain more skills and credentials. The committee then received an update on the Kentucky Talent Attraction Initiative. Representatives from Greater Louisville Inc. and Commerce Lexington explained that the General Assembly previously provided $250,000 for a consultant to develop a statewide talent attraction and retention strategy, and that more than 13 organizations across the state support the effort. Development Counsellors International described its research process, including statewide stakeholder engagement, and said the goal is to create a Kentucky talent value proposition that combines job opportunities with quality-of-place messaging. They reported that Kentucky faces a shrinking labor force and a projected national worker shortfall, while internal research found 47% of working-age respondents could consider leaving the state within two years because they are not confident in career opportunities. At the same time, they said 96% of surveyed higher education students would stay if offered a full-time job, and 72% of employers expect to expand staffing in the next two years. The presenters said they are moving from research into messaging and an action plan, and that the strategy should be customized and measurable rather than one-size-fits-all.

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• expanding the types of services allowed under the Energy Savings Assistance Program to include innovative
• And I think California has the innovation ability to do it, and respectfully ask for an aye vote.
• And I think California has the innovation ability to do it, and respectfully ask for an aye vote.
• California claims that it wants to lead in advanced manufacturing, clean technology, and innovation.
• It's making it easier to create the good-paying jobs here, not pushing businesses and innovations to

Keywords: 987, senate, all

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• responsible innovation. responsible innovation.
• SB 640 stifles evidence-based innovation. Innovation is needed now, not restriction.
• We're not afraid of innovation. We may be concerned about innovation.
• We're not afraid of innovation. We may be concerned about innovation.
• We may be afraid of innovation.

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• It is a powerful and innovative statewide and national resource positioned within the Facundo Valdez
• Our mission at the Center for Excellence in Social Work is to grow the workforce while driving innovation
• With that health and support, Kristin Orskovich will be speaking about our innovation as we've grown
• Our innovation as we've grown the number of school-based health centers in New Mexico, from here to now
• They were both given projects, which were economic innovation, back to Dr.

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• And then as far as employment pathways, Innovate and Educate is a partner with Community Services that
• I didn't elaborate earlier, but I briefly mentioned Innovate and Educate.
• The Innovate and Educate part of that is them coming into the facility, sitting down with inmates, helping
• And Colin Bio, director of healthcare coverage innovations at the Healthcare Authority.
• The Office of Superintendent of Insurance and HCA's Division of Healthcare Coverage Innovation developed

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• If Texas, a star of biomedical innovation and biotechnological progress, sends the message that it does
• I am asking why should our people be barred from accessing medical innovations freely available elsewhere
• But Texas remain a leader in health innovation. Thank you for allowing me to testify. Thank you.
• By restricting innovation, Texas runs the risk of falling behind in medical advancements that could save
• Some have said that the bill bans innovations. This is not true.

Bills: HB18, HB37, HB 116, HB388, HB879, HB913, HB 1151, HB2216, HB2358, HB2809, SB577, SB1590, SB1782, SB1887, SB2744

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

Summary: The committee first reopened testimony on House Bill 2216, which would strengthen child welfare requirements by expanding “active efforts” to help families avoid removal and support reunification, while also raising standards related to removals and terminations. Supporters from child welfare and family defense groups said the bill would better protect families and align Texas more closely with ICWA-style principles, but several warned it would require significant new funding, staffing, and community services such as mental health care, housing, child care, and substance use treatment. The committee then left HB 2216 pending. The committee next heard Senate Bill 1782, aimed at boarding and group homes. Senator Miles said the bill closes enforcement gaps left by prior law by requiring retention of background-check records and creating misdemeanor penalties for failing to conduct or keep them, or for knowingly hiring people with serious convictions. Harris County sheriff’s investigators testified in support, describing illegal boarding homes, operators who evade permits and background checks, and exploitation of vulnerable residents; the bill was left pending. The committee also took up Senate Bill 481 on emergency preparedness for nursing facilities and assisted living facilities, adopted a new committee substitute that softened some requirements and removed the fiscal note, and left the bill pending. The committee then heard House Bill 388, which would require the Texas Department of Insurance to create a single standardized coordination-of-benefits form for dual health plans to reduce errors and surprise bills; it was left pending. Senate Bill 1590 would move paternity registry searches for adoptions to an electronic process with a 10-day target, and House Bill 2809 would track child suicide attempts in managing conservatorship and require related reporting and parental notice; both were left pending. The committee also heard Senate Bill 1887, which would prohibit administering mRNA-containing products for immunization for 10 years, with exceptions for cancer and genetic disorders. Supporters argued the bill was needed for safety, informed consent, and medical freedom, while opponents from the medical, research, and public health communities said mRNA vaccines are well-studied, save lives, and that the bill would harm access, research, and Texas’s biotech economy. The bill remained under discussion as testimony concluded.

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• But we are continuing to innovate and demand more. Around five years, right?
• We are continuing to innovate and demand more from ourselves and from our providers, and I'm happy to
• So that flexibility you've provided is allowing us to innovate.
• I think it's a matter of innovating and finding stuff that people will say yes to.
• I think it's a matter of innovating and finding stuff that people will say yes to.

Summary: The Assembly Budget Subcommittee on Accountability and Oversight held a hearing on California’s homelessness funding, focusing on the Homeless Housing Assistance and Prevention (HAP) Grant and the Encampment Resolution Grant Program. HCD described new accountability requirements, including regional action plans, stronger reporting and expenditure conditions, housing-element compliance, encampment response plans, and public dashboards that track fiscal spending, service outcomes, and encampment resolution status. Officials said the goal is to use the data to identify underperforming grantees, provide technical assistance, and, if needed, withhold or reallocate funds. Local officials from San Diego, Fresno, and Santa Cruz said the programs have helped expand shelter, outreach, and permanent housing, and that state dollars have leveraged local and federal resources. Mayor Todd Gloria said San Diego has used HAP to expand shelter and safe sleeping options, reduce downtown encampments, and increase housing production, but argued the state’s new accountability website is too high-level and does not fully reflect countywide conditions, behavioral health outcomes, or the role of continuum-of-care partners. Fresno officials said HAP and other state funds helped the city add shelter beds and reduce homelessness, while Santa Cruz emphasized that state funding helped build local coordination and draw in federal vouchers. Members pressed the panel on whether HAP is actually reducing homelessness, what the best success metrics should be, and whether the state is getting full, usable data from grantees and subcontractors. Several members asked for more granular jurisdiction-level reporting, better tracking of nonprofit spending, and clearer measures beyond point-in-time counts and “people served.” HCD said it is still improving HMIS participation and data quality, but can already show outcomes such as exits to permanent housing and returns to homelessness. The hearing ended with broad agreement that transparency is important, but disagreement remained over the best measures of success and how much emphasis should be placed on housing, prevention, shelter, and treatment.

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• This has only been achieved through the incredible partnership, collaboration, and innovation with our
• I think innovation is key.
• We really have to get creative and innovative and look to other solutions for some of these very complex
• Those are the types of kids that I'm talking about that really are a gap that we need to be innovative
• and we're all about quality of care, we can't use our total budgets not to be able to do that innovation

Summary: The Human Services Subcommittee held its first meeting of the term and heard introductory remarks from the chair, vice chair, ranking member, and members, who broadly described their interest in child welfare, mental health, aging services, homelessness, and agency accountability. The chair then outlined the subcommittee’s jurisdiction, including child welfare, mental health and substance abuse safety net services, domestic violence, developmental disabilities, elder services, and child support, and introduced the Department of Children and Families (DCF) as the first agency panel for the term. DCF presented an implementation update on HB 7089, a 2024 law aimed at increasing accountability and transparency for community-based care (CBC) lead agencies that deliver most child welfare services under contract. The department said the bill was prompted by forensic examinations that found problems such as noncompetitive procurement, related-party transactions, excessive executive compensation, and weak financial oversight. DCF described new contract requirements and monitoring tools covering board governance and annual training, conflict-of-interest disclosures, financial penalties for noncompliance, fidelity bond requirements, limits on direct service provision by lead agencies, related-party procurement rules, procurement thresholds, real-property approvals, compensation caps, expanded public reporting, and a new Future of Child Protection and Funding Work Group. DCF reported that some lead agencies had completed required board training, others were still on schedule, and two agencies exceeding the direct-service threshold had been referred to the Auditor General. Members asked DCF about the reasons for the bill, the impact on children, the work group’s regional representation, aging-out youth, the Embrace Families transition, board training requirements, and whether enforcement actions had been taken. DCF said the bill was intended to protect funds for children and families and improve oversight, and clarified that the Central Florida lead agency contract was awarded through competitive procurement rather than an absorption. DCF also said the board training was designed to be meaningful but not overly burdensome, with timing left partly to lead agencies as they implement the new requirements. The committee then heard from two CBC leaders, who generally supported the accountability goals of HB 7089 and said their agencies had already addressed most of the new governance and disclosure requirements. They reported that board training had been completed or was being scheduled, but both agencies said the fidelity bond requirement has been difficult or impossible to obtain in the market as written, though they were able to secure the separate performance bond. The CBC witnesses also warned that recruiting providers is increasingly difficult, especially for higher-acuity children and group-home placements, due to limited provider supply, regulatory burden, insurance costs, and rising risk. They said these pressures are contributing to budget deficits in some areas and urged lawmakers to consider the funding model, insurance and indemnification issues, and the risk of overregulation reducing provider participation.

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• And that's where I think a lot of these innovative approaches are getting a lot of traction.
• We've had a lot of innovation in this space.
• As I say, we are a culture of innovation. I told you the dry casks have no moving parts.
• We keep innovating on fuel.
• And there will be more innovation.

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• leading in deploying clean energy in Minnesota, so let's capitalize on that to create an energy innovation
• ecosystem<00:02:12.879> here<00:02:13.879> in<00:02:14.239> what energy Innovation
• ecosystem here in what energy Innovation ecosystem here in what is<00:02:14.760> probably<00:
• development and as an energy Innovation development and as an energy Innovation leader<00:08:59.880
• We know Flo can be a tremendous success story for Minnesota innovation and economic development.

Bills: HF1013, HF1598, HF1656, HF2162

Keywords: energy, economic development, funding, renewable resources, Clean Energy Economy Minnesota, air ventilation, geothermal, school financing, Minnesota Climate Innovative Finance Authority, geothermal energy, renewable energy, construction funding, Como Zoo, energy efficiency, HF2162, Minnesota, planning grants, renewable development account, clean energy, Department of Commerce

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• establishes a standard for innovating establishes a standard for innovating innovative<01:09:37.200
• housing structures such as innovative housing structures such as tiny<01:09:39.200> houses,<01
• <01:10:58.040> housing cannot just build an innovative housing cannot just build an innovative
• > housing could just say innovative housing could just say innovative housing structures<01:19
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• What we see there in the timeline is, again, through brave and courageous and innovative legislation,
• and courageous and Innovative and courageous and Innovative legislation<00:55:48.280> we<
• How do we capture the indigenous innovations and elevate that to today?
• How do we capture the indigenous innovations and elevate that to today?
• not have as many barriers to try something new and innovative.

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• And I truly understood the critical role that politics plays in the innovation of our state and the nation
• And I truly understood the critical role that politics plays in the innovation of our state and the nation
• This bill is solutions-oriented, doing what is within California's capacity to ensure that the innovation
• And I truly understood the critical role that politics plays in the innovation of our state and the nation
• This bill is solutions-oriented, doing what is within California's capacity to ensure that the innovation

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• He said the committee sub on technical innovations would allow the program to buy thermal imaging cameras
• only asking for the opportunity to extend the two programs to cancer screening and the technical innovation
• but simply gives them the opportunity to extend the programs to cancer screening and technical innovation
• Happy to answer any questions you may have on the bill. innovation technical innovation pro- innovation
• technical innovation pro- products.<00:17:44.160> Thank<00:17:44.400> you.

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• And, you know, that place is pretty innovative. We have over 250 people. America.
• And, you know, that place is pretty innovative.
• And, you know, getting to go out there and see the type of projects that are going on, the innovation
• So, like, that's the type of thing—the research and development and the innovative solutions—that make
• Mexico State University, celebrating 80 years of the laboratory's research and contributions to innovation

Bills: HM19

Keywords: New Mexico Aviation and Aerospace Day, aviation, aerospace, space industry, missile programs, Spaceport America, White Sands Missile Range, White Sands Test Facility, Kirtland Air Force Base, drone, unmanned aircraft systems, commercial space transportation, NASA, aircraft, STEM education, research laboratories, Sandia National Laboratories, Los Alamos National Laboratory, flight testing, medical evacuation

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• overseen by the Orange County Fire Authority, an entity with tremendous experience working with innovative
• wildfire solutions and implementing innovative new technologies.
• That innovation begins with asking one simple question: What does, quote unquote, normal look like in
• We must continue to innovate, leverage new technologies, and build further capabilities.
• California has a history of leading innovation in the wildfire response and mitigation space.

Summary: The Emergency Management Committee met to adopt its rules and hear a series of disaster- and public safety-related bills. Several measures were placed on consent and approved, including bills sending items to Appropriations, Natural Resources, Judiciary, Labor and Employment, and Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials. AB 262, by Assembly Member Caloza, proposed a California Individual Assistance Act to create a state grant program for disaster-related costs when federal aid is unavailable; supporters cited Rio Dell’s earthquake recovery as an example, while some members raised concerns about eligibility, cost, and whether the bill could aid undocumented residents. The bill passed to Appropriations on a 4-2 vote. AB 549, by Assembly Member Gabriel, would create an interagency coordination framework for major sporting events such as the 2026 World Cup, 2027 Super Bowl, and 2028 Olympics, with supporters emphasizing public safety and anti-trafficking planning. An opposition witness argued the bill could be used to justify prostitution arrests and misuse trafficking funds, but the committee members largely supported the coordination concept, and the bill passed 6-0 to Arts, Entertainment, Sports, and Tourism. AB 270, by Assembly Member Petrie-Norris, would establish a three-year pilot for autonomous aerial firefighting helicopters overseen by the Orange County Fire Authority; supporters described it as a way to extend wildfire response into conditions where crewed aircraft are limited, and the bill passed 6-0 to Privacy and Consumer Protection. Later, AB 367, by Assembly Member Bennett, sought to require Ventura County water districts in high fire-risk areas to top off tanks during red flag warnings, maintain backup generators, and harden critical water infrastructure. Water agencies opposed the bill unless amended, citing cost, flexibility, and liability concerns, while the author argued the requirements were necessary after failures during the Thomas Fire; it passed 6-1 to Utilities and Energy. AB 615, by Assembly Member Davies, required emergency response plans to be submitted with initial applications for battery energy storage and other energy facilities and to be reviewed with local responders; it passed 7-0 to Utilities and Energy. AB 1075, concerning privately contracted firefighters, also passed on consent to Natural Resources. Finally, AB 1143, by Assembly Member Bennett, would create a voluntary statewide home hardening certification program through the State Fire Marshal; supporters called it a best-practices approach to reduce wildfire losses and insurance risk, and it passed to Natural Resources. The committee then completed roll calls for absent members and adjourned after all bills were moved out.

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• I would request the committee consider allowing for the District of Innovation.
• Grandview ISD did not utilize the District of Innovation exemption.
• I believe it is important for the District Alternative Education Program to have a District of Innovation
• Innovation is vital.
• Some of the reasons why we are asking for the local innovation plan not to exempt Chapter 37 specifically

Bills: SB27, SB226, SB326, SB570, SB605, SB870, SB991, SB1871, SB1872, SB1873, SB1874, SB1924, SB1925

Keywords: residency, public schools, child safety placement, enrollment, education code, antisemitism, student conduct, education, disciplinary actions, Texas Education Code, truancy, attendance policy, chronic absenteeism, school attendance, student absence notifications, parent notification, home visit, attendance officer, truancy court, school district

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• ,<02:55:10.960> manufacturing<02:55:12.080> and innovation, manufacturing and innovation
• > space<03:24:47.359> face many innovators in this space face many innovators in this space
• Taiwan boasts a resilient and innovative, innovation-driven economy powered by its high-tech industries
• <04:56:19.040> from talented knowledgeable innovators from talented knowledgeable innovators
• innovation, and the drive to succeed. innovation, and the drive to succeed.

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Monday, June 23, 2025, 1012, house, all