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• or school with a standing order district or school with a standing order for<00:10:09.200> distribution
• of these uh epinephrine for distribution of these uh epinephrine delivery delivery delivery systems.
• <00:18:29.280> uh<00:18:29.600> certain of the authorizer distribute uh certain of
• the authorizer distribute uh certain information<00:18:31.120> uh<00:18:31.280> to<00:18
• You should all have a page, and I think they were distributed or put out there for any of you to grab

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• 1.21 through 1.24 and again 1.26 and 1.27 give the OIG the option to seek a court order to stop distribution
• 1.21 through 1.24 and again 1.26 and 1.27 give the OIG the option to seek a court order to stop distribution
• option to seek a court order to OIG the option to seek a court order to stop<00:06:48.000> distribution
• > money<00:06:49.039> or<00:06:49.280> an<00:06:49.440> alert stop distribution
• of money or an alert stop distribution of money or an alert an<00:06:50.160> agency<00:06:50.639

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• Westerman: H.R. 42 would exclude amounts distributed from the Alaska Settlement Trust to those blind,
• H.R. 42 would address this oversight and exclude the amount of benefits distributed to aged, blind, or
• H.R. 4 WOULD ADDRESS THIS OVERSIGHT AND EXCLUDE THE AMOUNT OF BENEFITS DISTRIBUTED TO AGED, BLIND OR
• However, when an individual receives a distribution from an Alaska Native settlement trust, part of this
• HOWEVER, WHEN AN INDIVIDUAL RECEIVES A DISTRIBUTION FROM AN ALASKA NATIVE SETTLEMENT TRUST, PART OF THIS

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Tuesday, February 4, 2025, 1012, house, all

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• We have in item one the State Equalization Guarantee distribution.
• If you turn to slide eight, I think it's really important to note that the SEG only distributes funds
• . generate funds; it only distributes existing legislative appropriations.
• If you go to slide nine, we have a short summary on how the SEG funding will be distributed.
• To try to understand a lot about the actual vacancy turnover and distribution of educators.

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• The policy in a lot of our distribution needs to change because our founding fathers set up a great system
• Can you imagine if our system and the distribution of everything that we did in this country was just
• That's almost $1 million that could go less out there that is being distributed if we were more on 5%
• sent down here, it would go into a fund, and then once it hits $150 million, $2 million would be distributed
• would go into this fund out of general revenue, and then once it hit $150 million, it'd be back distributed

Keywords: 1204, all

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• situations or if the state were to put in, you know, more resources into this, like how what's a good distribution
• situations or if the state were to put in, you know, more resources into this, like how what's a good distribution
• situations or if the state were to put in, you know, more resources into this, like what's a good distribution
• <00:14:45.360> what's<00:14:45.600> a<00:14:45.760> good<00:14:45.920> distribution
• <00:14:46.480> how like how what's a good distribution how like how what's a good distribution

Keywords: Meeting Start 00:00:00 Kentucky Board of Emergency Medical Services (KBEMS) 00:00:53 Approval of Minutes 00:23:37, 958, all

Summary: The Kentucky Board of EMS presented an additional budget request focused on grant funding for local EMS agencies, not agency operations. Officials said the board has 13 full-time staff after losing employees in the 2022 transition back to state government, and that the request would be a 100% pass-through to providers. They initially described two requests totaling $12.91 million: $10.8 million for the EMS block grant and $2.1 million for workforce education tied to House Bill 484, but later said they would withdraw the $2.1 million request because rural health transformation funding appears likely to cover those education needs. Most of the testimony explained why the EMS block grant should be increased. The board said the grant began in 1980 at about $1.2 million and has remained largely unchanged while EMS costs have risen sharply. They cited higher prices for ambulances, stretchers, and cardiac monitors, along with increased labor and reimbursement pressures. Board members emphasized that modern EMS now provides much more advanced care in the field, especially in rural areas, and argued that equipment such as 12-lead cardiac monitors can significantly improve patient outcomes. They said the current grant provides about $10,000 per county, while the request would raise funding to about $100,000 per county and increase the per-capita amount from roughly 26 cents to $2.60. Members also discussed whether the block grant statute should be reformed to target need more directly. Board officials said they had considered making the grant more competitive, but decided against it for now because many counties rely on the annual funding and shifting money away from some areas would create hardship. In response to questions, they said Kentucky has about 160 class one EMS agencies providing 911 response across 120 counties, and that grant awards in recent years reached 91 counties, then 108, then 110 counties. They also highlighted the cost and safety benefits of power loading systems for stretchers, saying they can reduce back injuries and help retain EMS workers, but are often unaffordable for smaller departments. No votes were taken on the budget request during the hearing. After the testimony and questions, the committee approved the minutes from the prior meeting by motion and second, with no opposition, and then adjourned.

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• Again, more than 500 distribution sites, food access in every single county, and cumulatively, we provide
• We've been able to rapidly accelerate our purchasing and our staging for distributions because we had
• In terms of distributions and connections with our bases, since the last time we got to speak with you
• We are working on aligned communication, resourcing people, making sure the Distribution lists on the
• appreciate your support in communicating to your constituents that food banks and food pantry distributions

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• The bill prohibits the sale or distribution of any product containing intentionally added PFAS, including
• I do want to emphasize that the bill includes a distribution ban that would extend to products merely
• They'll go to a shipping warehouse, they'll go to a distribution center.
• From there, they get put on rail or truck and distributed around the country.
• And all of the other companies that we represent are also going to look at their distribution systems

Summary: The committee heard SB 404 on metal shredding facilities, SB 601 on water quality protections after the U.S. Supreme Court’s Sackett decision, SB 682 on phasing out PFOS in certain consumer products, and later SB 646 on prenatal vitamins and toxic metal contamination. SB 561 had been pulled from the hearing. In each of the measures, the authors and supporters emphasized environmental and public health protections, while opponents raised concerns about overregulation, implementation, and unintended economic impacts. The committee also spent time on the policy details of each bill, including how smaller operators would be treated under SB 404, how “nexus waters” would be defined under SB 601, and whether alternatives and testing standards were adequate under SB 682 and SB 646. For SB 404, Senator Caballero said the bill would create a permitting and enforcement framework for metal shredding facilities, with operational standards for fire prevention, stormwater, and releases of shredder residue, while supporters argued it would bring needed certainty to a critical recycling industry. Opponents, including small recyclers and community/environmental advocates, said the bill was either too broad or not strong enough, with some warning it would burden smaller facilities and others arguing it would fail to protect overburdened communities. The committee approved SB 404 on a due-pass-as-amended motion to Appropriations, with recorded support from the chair and some members and opposition from others. SB 601 sought to restore state-level protections for waters that lost federal Clean Water Act coverage after Sackett, using a “nexus waters” framework and revised enforcement provisions after amendments removed the private right of action. Supporters said California needed to preserve protections for seasonal streams and wetlands and avoid backsliding, while opponents from business, agriculture, water districts, and local governments argued the definition remained too broad and could create uncertainty, costs, and unintended consequences. The committee also approved SB 601 on a due-pass motion to Appropriations, again with split votes. SB 682, which the committee also advanced, would phase out intentionally added PFOS in six product categories, including cleaning products, cookware, dental floss, ski wax, food packaging, and juvenile products, with an amendment delaying cookware implementation until 2030. Supporters framed it as a source-control measure to reduce PFAS contamination and lower long-term water treatment costs, while manufacturers and cookware interests argued the bill was overbroad, lacked workable testing standards, and could push consumers and businesses toward uncertain alternatives. The committee chair recommended an aye vote, and the measure passed to Appropriations. SB 646 was then introduced on prenatal vitamins, with supporters saying it would require testing and disclosure of heavy metals like lead, arsenic, cadmium, and mercury, while the opposition said disclosure must be handled carefully so as not to confuse consumers or undermine confidence in prenatal supplements.

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• That relates to the utility's total distribution peak load in megawatts.
• That relates to the utility's total distribution peak load in megawatts.
• Well, we allow it for distributed energy resources, so I adopted that model for this legislation.
• <04:28:10.840> uh piggybacking on the the distributed uh piggybacking on the the distributed
• <04:41:08.520> energy investments in distributed energy investments in distributed energy

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• We did over $500 million in capital improvement projects over the years, food distribution rights, and
• public... ...million dollars in capital improvement projects over the years, food distribution rights
• This is a statewide project we believe that we can do: five food distribution hubs and kill food deserts
• I was the distribution director for the development of these when they rolled out in 2012.
• Here is our food distribution hub and sales unit from that partnership, and it allows us to work with

Summary: The committee first approved the minutes from its October 27 meeting and then heard testimony from Clinton Ballard of Milk and Honey Hill Farm about the impact of Act 698 on raw dairy producers. Ballard said the law allowed his farm to expand from one cow to 12, serve about 150 families, increase sales by roughly $50,000, and sell about $10,000 in raw cheese and other products through retail outlets. He argued the law improved farm income, food security, and local supply, and he asked for an optional state inspection/certification path for raw milk producers so they could access USDA grants and other opportunities available to licensed dairies. Committee members asked about herd management, safety practices, bee production, market channels, and whether such certification should remain voluntary; Ballard said he follows Grade A-style sanitation, chills milk quickly, removes sick cows from production, and supports optional training or inspection but not mandatory regulation. Members also raised food safety concerns, especially for children and pregnant women, and Ballard responded that raw milk producers rely on cleanliness, rapid cooling, consumer feedback, and truth in labeling. He said the health department currently inspects commercial dairies but not raw milk producers who do not sell through a cooperative, and he believed state inspection would help producers distinguish themselves and qualify for funding without changing interstate rules. Several members discussed the balance between consumer choice, safety, and possible “mission creep” if the state created a certification system. The committee then heard a lengthy presentation from Terence Bolden of TLB Enterprises on hydroponic and container farming as a response to food insecurity and food deserts. Bolden described a three-year workforce and career-technical program built around retrofitted shipping containers, drones, robotics, agribusiness, and AI, with partnerships involving schools, universities, Farm Bureau, UAPB, the Little Rock School District, and other entities. He said the model could create year-round local food production, support school cafeterias and community markets, and generate jobs and economic impact, estimating at least four jobs per container and potentially significant regional economic benefits. Members asked about costs, target communities, energy needs, crop types, and implementation timelines; Bolden said the first containers for school sites could be in place by late summer or early fall, with pilot projects already underway in Arkansas and Orlando. The meeting adjourned after no further business.

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• A disclosure is required when a person publishes or distributes synthetic media that the person knows
• A disclosure is required when a person publishes or distributes synthetic media that the person knows
• A disclosure is required when a person publishes or distributes synthetic media that the person knows
• A disclosure is required when a person publishes or distributes synthetic media that the person knows
• A disclosure is required when a person publishes or distributes synthetic media that the person knows

Keywords: 927, senate, all

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• proposed sources of water supply dedicated to a proposed use, regardless of whether the water is distributed
• proposed sources of water supply dedicated to a proposed use, regardless of whether the water is distributed
• proposed sources of water supply dedicated to a proposed use regardless of whether the water is distributed
• that changes the percentages of monies collected from the numbering of watercraft fees that are distributed
• that changes the percentages of monies collected from the numbering of watercraft fees that are distributed

Keywords: 1182, all

Summary: The meeting was a rapid review of a very large bill package, with the chair repeatedly asking staff to keep descriptions high level and many bills placed on third-read consent or consent calendars. A major theme was artificial intelligence: bills would require minors to be told when they are interacting with AI, allow AI-assisted divorce arbitration by consent, create an AI education program, privilege certain AI communications, and require K-12 instruction on ethical and practical AI use. Other education measures addressed school district superintendents, health instruction, anti-Semitism prohibitions, fetal development standards, and school safety, including a bill allowing concealed firearms on school grounds under specified conditions. Several health and public safety bills were also discussed. These included funding and oversight measures for childhood cancer research, nursing care complaint timelines, firefighter cancer data collection, limits on pharmacy penalties, and a bill making it a felony to administer abortion-inducing drugs without consent. Members also heard bills on overtime wage enforcement, domestic violence evidence standards in parenting cases, probation limits for dangerous crimes against children, and a measure expanding manslaughter liability to online encouragement of teen suicide. One sponsor strongly opposed a provisional medical licensing bill for foreign-trained applicants, while other sponsors emphasized rural health access, nurse anesthetist reimbursement parity, and the need for a dental board member who is an oral surgeon. A large portion of the meeting focused on water, land, energy, and state agency oversight. Bills would streamline or change rules for small modular reactors, new power plants, water supply determinations, groundwater transportation fees, water hauling, and state land disposition. Members also considered measures affecting the State Land Department, including audits, oversight boards, continuation, land-use maps for data centers and energy projects, and rules for mineral leases and solar or wind siting. Other topics included wildlife and ranching, Mexican wolf policy, annexation, housing and development incentives, transportation and towing rules, digital driver licenses, and a proposed four-year moratorium on municipal and county fee, tax, and utility-rate increases, which drew questions about stakeholder input and the impact on enterprise funds and local utilities. No recorded roll-call votes were taken in the transcript; most items were simply presented, briefly discussed, and left on consent or calendar status, with one bill noted as held in rules and another pulled for further discussion.

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• We're an insurance distribution firm delivering tailored insurance and advisory solutions to businesses
• You'd be able to distribute risk across different types of risks.
• , whereas if you're doing a group, you actually have the opportunity in that singular policy to distribute
• Adding this exception for utilities and transmission and distribution utilities is similar to the existing
• We are one of only 4 transmission distribution utilities in the state of Texas.

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• So then ECECD and its additional distribution or its additional funding levels, how did they fare?
• The House sent over that bill with only a distribution of $400 million, and with the expenses and the
• Chairman, House Bill 71 increases the amount of distribution from the Early Childhood Education Program
• The amendment takes in two revenue streams that distribute into the early childhood fund.
• In terms of the distributions of revenue streams being split, one of those revenue streams is going to

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• subjected to either the gross misdemeanor penalty for possession or the felony law for intent to distribute
• subjected to either the gross misdemeanor penalty for possession or the felony law for intent to distribute
• the felony law for um for<00:02:27.800> intent<00:02:28.080> to<00:02:28.280> distribute
• receives mail, scans that mail, photocopies it, and then sends it to the facilities for staff to distribute
• <00:09:38.800> the facilities for staff to distribute the facilities for staff to distribute

Keywords: 919, house, all

Summary: The committee took up House File 327, which would increase penalties for introducing contraband into correctional facilities, especially drugs and other dangerous items sent through the mail or brought in by outside actors. Representative Ingan described the bill as a response to a sharp rise in violations and staff exposures in DOC facilities, arguing that stronger felony penalties are needed to deter people from sending in illicit substances. The bill was laid over for possible inclusion in the committee omnibus because it has a fiscal note. The committee adopted the DE1 author’s amendment after Representative Ingan explained it was intended to clarify language that could otherwise create a catch-22 for people arrested or booked into jail who already have contraband on them. Members then raised concerns about the breadth of the bill, including overlap with an existing DOC statute and the possibility that the language could sweep in incarcerated people in situations involving prescription medication or minor exchanges. House nonpartisan staff and members suggested the DOC provisions should be reconciled with existing law before moving forward, and some suggested narrowing the bill to focus more specifically on jails. Sheriff Brad Wise of the Minnesota Sheriffs Association testified in support, saying contraband in jails threatens staff, inmates, visitors, and administrators and that current penalties are not enough to deter smuggling. Commissioner Paul Schell of Corrections also testified, noting that DOC already has a separate statute with a higher felony penalty for certain contraband, described the department’s mail-scanning contractor process, and said it has reduced suspected drug incidents by about two-thirds. An A2 amendment tied to medication intake practices was offered by Representative Curran but then withdrawn after discussion, with members agreeing the issue of medication access in facilities should be handled separately.

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• Of this funding, $200 million will be distributed to all municipalities based on the standard Chapter
• 90 program distribution formula.
• The standard Chapter 90 program distribution formula is 58% for road mileage, 21% for population, and
• In support of our rural communities, the remaining $100 million of this funding will be distributed to

Keywords: 995, all

Summary: The House opened with the Pledge of Allegiance and first took up a Rules Committee report recommending adoption of a resolution honoring the 200th anniversary of the Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in New Bedford. The House suspended the rules and adopted the resolution. The Steering, Policy and Scheduling Committee then reported a series of local bills for consideration, including measures on legal notices, charter changes for Chicopee, Bridgewater, Wellesley, Weston, Somerville, and Watertown, as well as bills on firefighter residency, a checkout bag fee in Sudbury, senior tax exemption eligibility in Williamstown, and liquor licenses in Lexington. The House suspended Rule 7A, gave the bills second reading, and ordered them to a third reading. The House also considered a Ways and Means report on H. 4257, financing long-term improvements to municipal roads and bridges. The committee recommended an amendment in the form of a substitute bill, H. 4307, authorizing $1.185 billion in general obligation bonds. After suspension of the rules, the House adopted the amendment and ordered the bill to a third reading. Later, during floor debate on H. 4307, members spoke in support of the bill as a major transportation funding package, emphasizing Chapter 90 aid, road mileage-based distribution, culvert and small bridge repairs, congestion relief projects, and the bill’s fiscal and credit-rating benefits. A roll call was ordered, and the bill passed to be engrossed 156-0. The House also passed to be engrossed a bill validating the results of a special election in Hardwick. In addition, the House adopted an order to meet the next day at 11 a.m. and agreed to adjourn in memory of former Representative and Senator Matthew C. Patrick of Falmouth. The session included several guest introductions, including Mandela Fellows studying at Bridgewater State University, former legislator Vincent Dimacido, Bellingham Council on Aging guests, and interns in Representative Linsky’s office.

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• Ward Johnson relating to requiring a warning on the labeling of certain consumable hemp products distributed
• HB Number 80 by TOT relating to abortion, including civil liability for distribution of abortion-inducing
• HB number 82 by Kane relating to abortion, including civil liability for distribution of abortion-inducing
• Packaging, labeling, distribution, sale, testing, transportation, delivery, transfer, storage, dispensing

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• equipment, computer software, procedures, or technology used to communicate, collect, process, distribute
• On... ...or technology used to communicate, collect, process, distribute, or store information.
• procedures, personnel, or technology used to acquire, store, process, manage, use, maintain, display, distribute
• at the state level, because the way that cybersecurity is happening, threats are happening now, distributed

Bills: SB156, SB467

Keywords: gun violence, firearm safety, special counsel, data collection, community initiatives, grants, Attorney General, public safety, suicide prevention, cybersecurity, information security, state agency, data protection, confidentiality, 909, all

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• So, what's the mechanism CMS is using to monitor the program and distribute the funds?
• Generally public information will be distributed through the website at mississippi-rhp.com.
• We're doing our best to get information out as quickly as possible through a bunch of distribution channels
• Now, while we're discussing distributions of funds, I first want to note that CMS has established clear
• >> And once that money's distributed, they're reported bi-weekly on... >> I don't know about bi-weekly

Keywords: Public Health and Welfare - Room 216, 4 June, 2026; 2:30 PM, 925, all

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• This slide shows the distribution of the governor's 2026 infrastructure plan across several categories
• <00:03:50.080> of This slide shows the distribution of the governor's 2026 infrastructure
• I would think that maybe that could be distributed to artists around the state for memorials.
• I would think that maybe that could be distributed to artists around the state for memorials.
• I would think that maybe that could be distributed to artists around the state for memorials.

Keywords: 1183, house