Video & Transcript Research : 'benchmark testing'

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FL
FL

Florida 2025 Regular Session

November 5, 2025 - 03:30 PM

Transcript Highlights:
  • I DO WANT TO SAY WE ARE IN A TEST ENVIRONMENT SO THIS IS ALL FICTITIOUS DATA THAT WE WILL OMIT A REIMBURSEMENT
  • NOT REALLY BASED ON YOUR GP ESPECIALLY WITH YOU A CHILDREN, A LOT OF THEM ARE AMONG THEM DON'T GET TESTED
  • SCRUTINY OR WHAT IS THAT PROCESS THAT IS IN PLACE TO ENSURE THERE ARE LESSONS THAT ARE ALIGNED TO BENCHMARKS
FL
FL

Florida 2025 Regular Session

Education Pre-K - 12 Mar 11th, 2025

Transcript Highlights:
  • Just on that number alone, 875 kids tested positive needed further for cardiac follow-up.
  • you know this, this is heart wrenching because 2 of the kids were from the same high school that tested
  • Also focuses state academic standards, documents on standards and benchmarks and requires the cost of
Keywords: 999, senate, all
OK
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Appropriations and Budget Education Subcommittee Feb 16th, 2026 at 10:00 am

A&B Education Subcommittee

Transcript Highlights:
  • And I also, I've been in a classroom in May when testing is over and we are doing things that maybe are
  • bills later on the agenda that'll offer time for prayer, and we've mandated a tremendous amount of testing
  • One of the things we have legislation this year to push back the testing window.
  • Based on spring testing last year, only 27% of Oklahoma third graders are reading at or above grade level
  • Because we're doing these screening tests and they're reaching out to parents in the first grade and
Keywords: 914, all
NM
NM

New Mexico 2025 Regular Session

IC - Legislative Education Study Nov 19th, 2025

Transcript Highlights:
  • and decreases over time, with the primary goal of enabling students to meet English proficiency benchmarks
  • So I'd like to ask you to pay attention and it will be on the test. Okay, it will be on the test.
  • the supplements that we use is called Joy School and Flashlight, because we learned that the WIDA test
  • We hope that those results come out on the WIDA access test.
  • The summative data, for example, the access test is given in February, and we're making programmatic
MN
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection - 03/06/25

Commerce and Consumer Protection

Transcript Highlights:
  • Then, you know, you've really put it to the test. Thank you.
  • Then, you know, you've really put it to the test. Thank you.
  • Then, you know, you've really put it to the test. Thank you.
  • <01:02:36.279> thank it to the test thank it to the test thank you<01:02:38.119> further
  • that are tied to um that are benchmarks that are tied to um um<01:32:27.199> preventative<01:
Keywords: 1187, senate, all
MN
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Housing Finance and Policy Committee 2/24/26

Housing Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • , It's always useful to kind of benchmark, It's always useful to kind of benchmark, you<00:56:14.680
  • Everything's relative, so let's benchmark that against the nation, where nationally it's much closer
  • that against the nation where benchmark that against the nation where nationally<01:14:00.840> it's
  • And I think it would be good to benchmark that maybe against the Midwest because we're really different
  • that maybe against the good to benchmark that maybe against the Midwest<01:30:26.480> cuz<01:
Keywords: 1183, house
NH
NH

New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session

Senate Executive Departments and Administration (03/05/2025)

Executive Departments and Administration

Transcript Highlights:
  • houses have to live up to, such as occupancy numbers, around-the-clock staffing, and required drug testing
  • This bill does not even ask for required drug testing, but it does make a reference to the houses having
  • language is ambiguous enough that it would make it difficult to ensure homes are reaching those benchmarks
  • <00:26:59.039> those they are reaching some of those they are reaching some of those benchmarks
  • um so we would love to see benchmarks um so we would love to see this<00:27:02.600> go<00:27:
Keywords: 1191, senate, all
MN
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Public Safety Finance and Policy Committee 1/22/25

Public Safety Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • Next up: Shane Mey, Minnesota Police and Peace Officers Association president. uh your test fires uh
  • go up one at a uh your test fires uh go up one at a time<00:07:43.720> and<00:07:44.080> uh
  • as<00:27:22.440> kind<00:27:22.559> of<00:27:22.640> a<00:27:22.799> benchmark
  • /c><00:27:23.360> for<00:27:23.640> what<00:27:23.799> we 2019 as kind of a benchmark
  • for what we 2019 as kind of a benchmark for what we have<00:27:24.080> seen<00:27:24.320>
Keywords: 1183, house
Summary: The committee met with a quorum present, approved the January 21, 2025 minutes by voice vote, and then took up House File 7, which was recommended to pass and be re-referred to the Ways and Means Committee. The chair also reminded attendees about decorum rules in the committee room. House File 7 was described by the author as a public safety package combining 12 provisions from prior Republican-authored bills, aimed at supporting law enforcement, reducing violent crime, and increasing accountability in the criminal justice system. The bill’s main provisions discussed included tougher penalties for aggravated fleeing, making it a crime to be in a stolen vehicle, allowing tracking devices on stolen vehicles even when occupied, increasing penalties for blocking highways and critical infrastructure, and increasing penalties for assaulting peace officers. The author also highlighted provisions on sex trafficking, predatory offender registration, and greater public disclosure of bail payments, case dismissals, sentencing reductions, and sentencing guideline changes. Testifying in support were Ramsey County Sheriff Bob Fletcher, MPPOA President Shane Mey, and Minnesota Chiefs of Police Association Executive Director Jeff Potts, all of whom argued the bill would help officers address auto theft, fleeing suspects, and assaults on law enforcement. They cited increases in assaults on officers and high numbers of stolen vehicles and fleeing cases, and said the bill would improve safety and transparency. Witnesses generally supported the bill’s approach but suggested some refinements, including adding language for additional aggravating factors in officer assault cases and considering similar treatment for corrections officers. Sheriff Fletcher also urged reconsideration of the recently enacted raise-the-age changes, arguing they could limit law enforcement’s ability to respond to younger offenders involved in stolen vehicles. No opposition testimony or final vote on House File 7 was recorded in the excerpt beyond the motion to pass and re-refer it.
MN
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Judiciary Committee Meeting - 2025-04-02

Judiciary Finance and Civil Law

MN
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Judiciary Finance and Civil Law Committee 4/2/25

Judiciary Finance and Civil Law

TX
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs Apr 2nd, 2025

Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • Otherwise, this will be contradictory to the testing interest. Thank you.
  • test requirement.
  • And so we put them all to the test. looked at them all.
  • Okay, I show you Richard is Gene Feigelson test final. That's correct. Yes, sir. Mike.
  • Thank you for your test. Thank you Members, any questions for this panel?
Bills: HB17, HB34, HB41, HB 118, HB 119, HB 127, HB 128, HB 129, HB 130, HB132, HB133, HB17, HB41, HB118, HB119, HB127, HB128, HB129, HB130, HB132, HB133
Keywords: foreign ownership, real estate, national security, designated countries, Texas property law, lobbying, foreign adversaries, compensation prohibition, transparency, civil penalties, higher education, foreign adversary, research security, trade secrets, academic partnerships, HB 128, sister city, sister-city agreement, international exchange, municipal diplomacy
MN
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Judiciary Committee Meeting - 2025-04-01

Judiciary Finance and Civil Law

MN
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Judiciary Finance and Civil Law Committee 4/1/25

Judiciary Finance and Civil Law

Transcript Highlights:
  • He said it is now seen as a comprehensive test.
  • 00:20:38.240> as<00:20:38.320> a<00:20:38.480> comprehensive<00:20:39.039> test
  • It is now seen as a comprehensive test.
  • It is now seen as a comprehensive test. represent<00:20:40.880> Frederick.
Bills: HF2233, HF1999, HF1995, HF1614, HF2781, HF1775, HF1316, HF2127, HF2521, HF689, HF2380, HF1273
Keywords: Uniform Special Deposits Act, special deposit, banking law, financial institutions, escrow, escrow account, trust account, security deposit, beneficiary, depositor, creditor process, garnishment, attachment, levy, setoff, recoupment, financial market infrastructure, retirement benefits, compensation, earnest money
KY
KY

Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

Legislative Oversight & Investigations Committee (8-29-25)

Transcript Highlights:
  • Monthly return versus a benchmark. So we use benchmarks to kind of determine our returns on that.
  • And as far as long as we are somewhere around our benchmark, whether it be a little over or a little
  • Um, or, you know, comfortable with that, that we're maintaining somewhere close to that benchmark.
  • > are that benchmark.
  • And those benchmarks are that benchmark.
Keywords: Call to Order and Roll Call- 00:00:03 Approve Minutes from July 10, 2025- 00:02:41 Statewide Emergency Responder Voice System Testimony- 00:03:38 Investment of State Funds- 00:46:13 Department of Juvenile Justice Update- 1:11:34 Adjournment- 1:54:08, 958, all
Summary: The committee opened with roll call, welcomed a new member, approved the July meeting minutes, and then took up testimony on the statewide emergency responder voice system, also described as the state police radio system replacement project. John Hicks, secretary of the governor’s executive cabinet and state budget director, testified that the project is unusually complex because it combines multiple IT replacements, land acquisition, and tower construction. He said the existing system dates to the early 1970s and that the administration is treating the project as a priority, with work proceeding in phases and weekly coordination among the Justice Cabinet, Kentucky State Police, and Finance and Administration Cabinet. Hicks said the project has already spent about $110 million, with nearly 1,900 portable radios acquired, microwave replacement completed at 56 sites and underway at 76 more, and routers, switches, and network upgrades addressed. He explained that because the State Police are not set up to handle real property work, the administration brought in outside real property consulting vendors through an RFP, and three vendors are now qualified to help identify and negotiate sites. He said the goal is to speed up land acquisition and tower construction while the State Police continue the technology work, and he emphasized that the project is intended to close coverage gaps for state police first and later benefit local governments and other first responders. Members of the committee expressed concern about the project’s cost and pace. Representative Petri noted that about $218.8 million has been authorized since 2018 and questioned whether the project could stretch into 2030 or later, asking what more the General Assembly could do to help. Representative Blandon also raised concerns about the long timeline and the risk of the project becoming another costly, delayed infrastructure effort, while asking when the vendor RFP was completed and whether any sites had been acquired since then. Representative Sharp asked whether there was a detailed plan and timeline, and Hicks responded that the technology side is well defined but the property acquisition side must proceed site by site because each location depends on ownership, access, power, and other factors. Hicks said the west-to-east phasing has been a smart approach and that the executive branch should improve performance to beat the current timeline expectations.
CA
CA

California 2025-2026 Regular Session

Assembly Insurance Committee Jul 9th, 2025

Transcript Highlights:
  • Catastrophe models predict the future losses of natural disasters and are often used as benchmarks to
  • facilitate the creation of a public catastrophe model, a tool that will serve as a measuring stick and benchmark
  • facilitate the creation of a public catastrophe model, a tool that will serve as a measuring stick and benchmark
Summary: The Assembly Insurance Committee met to hear several bills related to insurance coverage, wildfire risk, workers’ compensation, and paid family leave. SB 8 by Senator Ashby would extend workers’ compensation and disability protections to Sacramento County park rangers, with testimony emphasizing that they perform law-enforcement-like duties and should receive the same protections as comparable officers. SB 429 by Senator Cortese would create a public wildfire catastrophe model and related wildfire safety program, with support from the Department of Insurance and consumer advocates who said public access to modeling data would improve transparency and help evaluate private insurance risk models. The committee also heard SB 525 by Senator Jones, which would require the FAIR Plan to offer coverage options for manufactured and mobile home owners, including replacement cost coverage. Supporters said the bill would help lower-income residents obtain meaningful insurance protection, while no opposition testified. SB 495 by Senator Allen, as amended, would require insurers to provide a larger contents-coverage advance after a total loss during a declared emergency without requiring an immediate itemized inventory, extend proof-of-loss deadlines, and require insurers to provide catastrophe modeling and reinsurance data to the Department of Insurance. Several insurers withdrew opposition after amendments, and the Department of Insurance and United Policyholders supported the measure. SB 590 by Senator Durazo would expand paid family leave to cover care for designated persons or chosen family members, with strong support from AARP, labor, civil rights, caregiving, and health organizations, and testimony from a parent describing the need to care for a non-legal family member during surgery recovery. The committee also took up consent items SB 230 and SB 854. After roll calls, SB 8, SB 429, SB 495, SB 525, and SB 590 all received do-pass votes, with SB 429 sent to the Committee on Emergency Management, SB 495 to Judiciary, and SB 525 and SB 590 to Appropriations. The consent calendar bills were also approved, and the committee adjourned.
MA
MA

Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session

Joint Committee on Cannabis Policy Jun 21st, 2026 at 10:30 am

Joint Committee on Cannabis Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • It also gives operators access to benchmark testing data, helping them improve compliance and stay competitive
  • Second, we really want to prohibit unnecessary testing, like testing for soil and water.
  • Our testing costs annually are approximately $85,000, and this testing change would show a 40% decrease
  • It's a testing lab in Western Mass.
  • I also support the bill's call for annual reviews of testing requirements, what we're testing for, and
Keywords: 995, all
Summary: The Joint Committee on Cannabis Policy held a hearing on a broad set of cannabis and hemp bills, with the chairs opening by emphasizing unfinished work on equity, public health, safety, and market stability. The committee heard testimony on House Bill 146, which would create more efficient cannabis testing standards by increasing batch sizes, reducing or eliminating some environmental testing, standardizing lab reporting, and requiring annual scientific review and public data reporting. Industry witnesses, including a representative of the Massachusetts Cannabis Coalition, cultivators, and a testing lab owner, said current testing rules are overly burdensome, costly, and inconsistent, and argued the bill would lower compliance costs while preserving consumer safety. A testing lab witness also said some operators switch labs to obtain higher THC results or pass contaminated batches, and urged greater transparency and better sampling protocols. A major portion of the hearing focused on intoxicating hemp and related bills that would bring hemp-derived intoxicating products under a stronger regulatory framework. Legislators and industry witnesses described products sold in gas stations, smoke shops, and convenience stores as often untested, not age-gated, and sometimes mislabeled or far above the federal hemp THC threshold. Testimony from attorneys and cannabis business leaders said states can regulate these products more strictly under the Farm Bill’s non-preemption language, and pointed to New Jersey and other states as possible models. Some witnesses and committee members stressed that any new rules should avoid harming non-intoxicating CBD businesses or lawful hemp farmers, while others argued that the products are effectively cannabis and should be regulated like cannabis for licensing, testing, age limits, and taxation. The committee also heard extensive public-health testimony in support of bills S. 95, S. 96, S. 97 and their House counterparts H. 191, H. 192, and H. 193. Parents, advocates, and public health professionals urged stronger warning labels, THC potency caps, and improved data collection on cannabis-related harms, citing cannabis-induced psychosis, addiction, anxiety, and youth exposure to high-potency products. Several witnesses said Massachusetts has not done enough to track health outcomes or warn consumers, and referenced other jurisdictions such as Connecticut, Vermont, Colorado, Canada, and Quebec as examples of stronger limits or warnings. No votes or formal actions were taken during the hearing; the committee primarily received testimony and questions.
MN
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Commerce Committee Meeting - 2026-04-07

Commerce Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • It's a place where people practice their driver's test.
  • c> people practice their um for their people practice their um for their driver's<01:15:17.560> test
  • Um the library in my driver's test.
  • The cool thing I thought about this is that we get to work together in setting kind of the benchmarks
  • and and the outcomes that the benchmarks and and the outcomes that we<01:36:40.520> want<01:36
Bills: HF4456, HF4544, HF3698
Keywords: data broker, data brokerage, consumer privacy, personal data, data privacy, Minnesota attorney general, registration, public registry, civil penalties, enforcement, special revenue fund, privacy rights, data sales, data collection, consumer protection, chapter 325M, controller, processor, data broker registry, transparency
MN
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Public Safety Finance and Policy Committee 2/25/25 - Part 1

Public Safety Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • to do the implementation work around MRA, we’re looking at Shakopee and Moose Lake as our initial test
  • to do the implementation work around MRA, we’re looking at Shakopee and Moose Lake as our initial test
  • to do the implementation work around MRA, we’re looking at Shakopee and Moose Lake as our initial test
  • to do the implementation work around MRA, we’re looking at Shakopee and Moose Lake as our initial test
  • in addition the offender can benchmarks in addition the offender can also<00:29:49.000> shave
Keywords: 1183, house
MN
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Conference Committee on HF4188 5/16/26

Transcript Highlights:
  • Chair Kegel and members, the essential health benefits benchmark has home care services as a section.
  • Health Plans submitted a letter on Tuesday that showed um a Health Partners Essential Health Benefit Benchmark
  • > a Health Partners Essential Health a Health Partners Essential Health Benefit<00:19:00.400> Benchmark
  • > Plan<00:19:01.280> for<00:19:01.440> 25<00:19:02.040> through Benefit Benchmark
  • Plan for 25 through Benefit Benchmark Plan for 25 through 27.<00:19:03.440> It<00:19:03.680><
Keywords: 919, house, all
Summary: The conference committee on House File 4188 met on May 16, 2026, with a quorum present and indicated it was intended to be the final meeting. The main issue discussed was an amendment to the 62J language concerning home care nursing services for children with complex medical needs. Chair O'Driscoll said the amendment would direct the Departments of Commerce and Health and Human Services to review the fiscal impact on the state, families, and health plans, and to develop possible legislation for 2027. Supporters described the proposal as a pause to allow more review, while also acknowledging it was not a complete solution. Senator Bolden and others testified strongly against allowing the coverage changes to stand, saying the issue affects roughly 200 to 250 families statewide, many of them children who need hospital-level care at home. They warned that capping or denying private coverage would shift costs to Medicaid waivers, strain family waiver budgets, increase state costs, and potentially force more children into hospitals, reducing critical care capacity. Committee members also questioned Commerce Commissioner Grace Arnold and department staff about the distinction between home care nursing and home health services, statutory definitions, billing units, essential health benefits, waiver budgets, and the effect of enforcement actions involving HealthPartners. The committee adopted the A30 amendment by voice vote, and the motion prevailed. Members then took up another provision, described by staff as the meat raffle/paddle wheel language, and adopted an amendment to add the game of Haus und Pfeffer before approving the provision as amended. In final remarks, members from both chambers praised the committee’s work and professionalism, but several expressed regret that the home care nursing issue was not resolved in the conference report and said it would need further work next session. They also noted other items that did not make it into the bill, including reinsurance and certain other policy provisions.
MN
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

Committee on Labor - 02/11/25

Labor

Transcript Highlights:
  • other<00:18:17.400> people<00:18:17.960> who<00:18:18.120> are<00:18:18.320> test
  • <00:18:18.640> who<00:18:18.720> will other people who are test who will other people
  • We have seen semi-autonomous cars being tested for transit options instead of using our transit drivers
  • We've also seen testing of fully autonomous vehicles, such as with Amazon for deliveries.
  • At the federal level, the FDA or the systems that we have in place for drug testing, that there would
Keywords: 1187, senate, all