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• Riley did not have a single suicide hotline in his phone.
• We find EV works well for our shorter and single routes.
• We need to purchase two to three EV buses to replace a single diesel bus.
• Baking soda and cornstarch are considered emulsifiers and flavoring agents.
• And would they be going to every single school district at every single election cycle shortly after

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• They're insurance agents. They couldn't sell a house. They're not a real estate agent.
• A real estate agent couldn't sell an insurance product.
• You know, second, I want to address the agent issue.
• Agents as it exists today, so I want you to distinguish between an agent and a carrier.
• The bill does not require agents to be used or list the use of agents as standard industry practice.

Summary: The Senate convened with an opening prayer, pledge, and a series of introductions recognizing guests, visiting groups, and special honorees in the galleries. The chamber then took up committee and executive appointment business, adopting a report confirming 42 gubernatorial appointments by a vote of 36-0. The Senate next considered a long special-order calendar of bills, most of them passing with little or no opposition. Measures included public-records sunset reviews and trade secret/cybersecurity exemptions; a child-abuse reporting statute of limitations bill; commercial driving school oversight; human trafficking training for nurses; a new injunction for protection against serious violence and its related public-records exemption; nature-based coastal resiliency and mangrove protection; a chiropractic trust-funds cap repeal; specialty license plates; a waiver of late financial disclosure fines; public school personnel compensation; the Florida Farm Bill with multiple agriculture, biosolids, and enforcement provisions; homestead exemption clarification for long-term leases; disability presumption clarifications for first responders; reinsurance intermediary manager conformity; patriotic displays in public schools; ADS-B aviation fee restrictions; autism-related law enforcement training and the Blue Envelope program; campus safety reporting procedures for public postsecondary institutions; and veterinary prescription disclosure. Several bills were temporarily postponed, including local vessel restrictions, temporary critical-need practice certificates, and domestic animals. The floor debate featured the most discussion on the farm bill, the HCSM/nonprofit religious organizations bill, the autism law-enforcement bill, and the school athletics bill. The HCSM bill drew extended debate over whether licensed insurance agents should be allowed to market faith-based health care sharing ministries, with supporters emphasizing consumer choice, free speech, and religious liberty, and opponents warning about unregulated products and commissions; it passed 32-5. The athletics bill, prompted by the Teddy Bridgewater/Miami Northwestern situation, would let coaches provide good-faith support to student-athletes while requiring reporting and FHSAA oversight; it passed 38-0. Most other measures passed overwhelmingly, including the autism bill 38-0, the campus safety bill 37-0, the public school patriotic displays bill 36-2, and the farm bill 38-0 after amendments addressing Everglades lands and biosolids timing were adopted.

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• insurance agents to sell something that's not insurance?
• They're insurance agents. They couldn't sell a house. They're not a real estate agent.
• A real estate agent couldn't sell an insurance product.
• You know, second, I want to address the agent issue. The, you know, agents as it exists today.
• The bill does not require agents to be used or list the use of agents as standard industry practice.

Summary: The Senate convened with an opening prayer, pledge, and a series of gallery introductions recognizing visitors, local officials, students, and public safety personnel. The chamber first took up a report from the Ethics and Elections Committee on 42 executive appointments; after Senator Gaetz explained that the committee had reviewed the appointees’ qualifications and suitability, the Senate adopted the report and confirmed the appointments by a 36-0 vote. The Senate then moved through a long special-order calendar focused largely on open-government sunset reviews and other policy bills. It passed measures to continue or consolidate public records and meeting exemptions for aquaculture records, agency-held trade secrets, and cybersecurity information, with one technical amendment adopted on the cybersecurity bill. The chamber also approved bills extending the statute of limitations for failure to report child abuse, strengthening regulation of commercial driving schools, requiring human trafficking education for nursing graduates, creating a new injunction for protection against serious violence by a known person, and making the related public-records exemption. Additional bills passed included a nature-based coastal resiliency measure with an amendment restricting dredge-and-fill in Terra Ceia Aquatic Preserve, a chiropractic trust-funds bill, specialty license plates, a one-time waiver of late financial disclosure fines, public school personnel compensation changes, the annual Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services “Farm Bill,” homestead exemption clarification for long-term leaseholders, disability-presumption clarifications for first responders, reinsurance intermediary manager changes, patriotic displays in public schools, ADS-B fee restrictions, autism-related law enforcement training and a Blue Envelope program, campus safety policy transparency at public colleges and universities, and veterinary prescription disclosure. Several bills were temporarily postponed, including local vessel restrictions, temporary certificates for practice, and domestic animals. The Senate also debated and passed a bill allowing licensed insurance agents to market health care sharing ministries, despite concerns raised by Senator Polsky about consumer confusion, commissions, and the sale of non-insurance products; supporters argued it restored free speech, religious liberty, and consumer choice. The chamber approved the bill 32-5 after debate. Most other measures passed with strong bipartisan support, often by unanimous or near-unanimous votes, and several companion House bills were substituted in place of Senate bills before final passage.

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• I'm John on the Tapp, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI's New Orleans Field Office.
• But by and large... ...those are single digits; all 300 employees have come back to work.
• So, in other words, there's an agent from LCLE by virtue...
• You don't have a single point of access for your school. Let us help you with that.
• We incorporated measles injects from all state agencies and their trusted agents.

Summary: The committee met on May 26, 2026, and first approved the minutes from the May 22, 2025 meeting. The main topic was the Northwest Louisiana earthquake cluster, with testimony from Louisiana Department of Conservation and Energy staff, LSU and Tulane geoscientists, and later LSU law professor Keith Hall. Witnesses said the cause of the swarm has not been definitively identified, but induced seismicity from wastewater injection or hydraulic fracturing remains a concern. They described 50 earthquakes reported by the USGS in Red River, Bienville, DeSoto, and Natchitoches Parishes, including a magnitude 4.9 event on March 5, 2026, and explained that Louisiana’s sparse seismic network limits detection and depth/location estimates. C&E said it inspected Class II injection wells within 12 miles of the events, found no violations, now requires more frequent injection reporting, and is working with researchers and LSU on a possible state monitoring network and future policy changes. Committee members asked about injection depths, fault locations, whether the activity could be natural, and whether Louisiana should adopt stronger monitoring or a traffic-light regulatory system like other states. The witnesses said more data is needed before firm conclusions can be drawn, but that denser monitoring can detect smaller quakes and help identify patterns. Professor Hall summarized responses in other states, including more frequent reporting, increased monitoring, injection reductions, moratoria, and traffic-light systems in Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas, Ohio, and Illinois. Members also discussed whether operators should share more seismic and geologic data, and several said the state should avoid jumping to conclusions while still improving oversight. The committee then heard from William Berger, a Texas geoscientist, who described using AI and operator data to model wastewater injection and seismic risk, and said broader data sharing would improve forecasting and siting decisions. He and another witness emphasized that many earthquakes arise from clusters of wells rather than a single well, and that proprietary concerns limit voluntary disclosure. The committee also received a brief update from GOSEP and the Louisiana National Guard on the Barksdale Air Force Base drone incursions. GOSEP said it logged the incident in WebEOC and shared releasable information, while State Police and the FBI said they were limited in what they could disclose. Officers said a task force has been formed, some personnel have received federal drone-mitigation training, and House Bill 940 is intended to mirror the task force MOU. Finally, Major General Thomas Friloux and Brigadier General Jason Maffus updated the committee on the merger of GOSEP into the Louisiana Military Department. They said the merger has reduced GOSEP from seven divisions to three, brought back employees to in-person work, modernized the state’s common operating picture, and produced about $10.5 million in first-year cost avoidance through staffing and contract changes. They also noted the planned transfer of the Louisiana Center for Safe Schools to the Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement, ongoing hurricane preparedness, and continued coordination with parish emergency managers. No votes were taken on the substantive topics, and the meeting ended with the committee moving through its agenda items and receiving informational testimony.

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• to allow them to have a 100 single to allow them to have a 100 single family<01:40:30.520> homes
• <01:41:25.200> family corporate ownership of single family corporate ownership of single family
• their limit is 350 single-family homes. their limit is 350 single-family homes.
• operations to buy more single-family operations to buy more single-family house.<02:12:51.000>
• Would your bill single-family house.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• Families and travelers across the Big First depend on TSA officers every single day.
• Every single one.
• Every single one. And remains seated. Every single one.
• I challenge any Republican, any single one, to come down here and defend this.
• And I doubt a single Republican will have the guts to say it was wrong.

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Tuesday, March 17, 2026, 1012, house, all

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• Uh, gentleman, would this pertain to, uh, instances such as ICE agents maybe working in the state?
• Uh, federal agents are a different category. It wouldn't apply. Okay, thank you.
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• different Uh federal agents are different Uh federal agents are different category.<00:18:08.480
• agents agencies and<00:55:38.120> first<00:55:38.400> responders?

Keywords: 958, all

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• But two areas where we've seen overutilization of, say, antipsychotics as a sedative agent or something
• been a federal OIG finding for institutionalized individuals that up to 50% receive a psychoactive agent
• But two areas where we've seen overutilization of, say, antipsychotics as a sedative agent or something
• been a federal OIG finding for institutionalized individuals that up to 50% receive a psychoactive agent
• It's been roughly, I think, last year there was a single bump, but before it's been about $5 million.

Bills: SB20, SB111, SB211, SB218, SB14

Keywords: prior authorization, pharmacy benefits manager, PBM, health insurer, prescription drugs, step therapy, formulary, auto-adjudication, electronic portal, appeals, medical necessity, serious mental illness, mental health, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, major depression, substance use disorder, addiction treatment, cancer, autoimmune disorder

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• The HPIA board has also agreed to reduce the amount of commission that it pays to the agents to write
• The HPIA board has also agreed to reduce the amount of commission that it pays to the agents to write
• The HPIA board has also agreed to reduce the amount of commission that it pays to the agents to write
• negative every single year um okay<00:54:19.920> you<00:54:20.000> know<00:54:20.640><
• <01:10:58.080> per<01:10:58.239> se right U managing General agents per se right U

Keywords: 912, senate, all

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• There's only a really a handful of agents that do it throughout the state.
• A lot of those agents don't have really voiced that they think it's a pain to do it.
• Um, only about one-fifth of our registration agents sell temporary registrations.
• Um, only about one-fifth of our registration agents sell temporary registrations.
• Um, only about one-fifth of our registration agents sell temporary registrations.

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

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• You can, nothing in this bill prevents you from paying an accredited agent who is not a VSO.
• If you help someone with their initial claim, you could be a lawyer, you could be an agent, you could
• My dad passed away... 18 years ago, from Agent Orange, from him serving in Vietnam.
• Every step of the way, one company is making profits at every single one of those stops.
• Along those lines, not everyone's first home is just the regular single-family starter home.

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• Every single time I ran into him, and well before I came to the Senate, he and I actually did a couple
• And she told me, go say hi to every single senator. And I was scared. And she said, go.
• He came back every single time to say hello, and he'd bring me candy.
• Every single time to say hello, and he'd bring me candy.
• Services Department designee, increasing the amount for certain purchases by a central purchasing agent

Keywords: 996, all

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• commissioner and the Department of Financial Services does underneath the CFO CFO handles insurance agents
• the non hurricane loss, which is just your everyday claim frequency and severity commissions for agents
• But the we what we do is we collect information on every single companies tower against catastrophes.
• has been happening in the state recently with major hurricanes, multiple major hurricane hits in a single
• And the percentage that was being sent to MTA's managing general agents, we still conduct or you is the

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• HR 35, not just on behalf of the API community, but on behalf of all of us, because it took every single
• one of you, every single one of you.
• seeks to encourage open and honest communication between a representative employee and their union agent
• openly and in confidence in order to permit the union agent to best represent the employee.
• Because now, with your phone and with your tracking, they can know if you're a single mom who desperately

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• That actually is great data because it’s every single transaction, and we can look at it individually
• What they haven't done is take any building over four stories or a single structure over $10 million.
• And it was about a 28% increase, and they received not one single person coming back to them and argue
• You had two agents there that couldn't stop the meeting, even though they were watching stuff in real
• So you can just look at the roster of every single condo association that's paid a mobile home co-op

Summary: The Committee on Regulated Industries met for a panel discussion on current issues affecting Florida condominiums. DBPR Secretary Melanie Griffin highlighted the department’s expanded condo education, complaint, and ombudsman services under HB 1021, including new online resources, board member certification, increased outreach, and broader complaint jurisdiction. She said the division has filled most of its new positions and that the new condo website is intended to improve transparency and access to records and information. Other panelists focused on insurance, inspections, and market impacts. Insurance agent Mike Clarkson said the condo insurance market remains difficult, especially for older buildings, and raised concerns about roof replacement demands, Citizens’ depopulation practices, and the mismatch between reserve studies and insurer timelines. Building officials representative Ron Laceca described challenges with phase one and phase two inspections, including incomplete databases, limited contractor capacity, and the need for local flexibility and better recordkeeping. University of Florida researcher Bill Hughes said his data show the condo market has not suffered a major overall decline from the new laws; he argued the rules have made costs more transparent and may strengthen the market over time. Community association manager Jamie Ballard said the biggest pressures on associations are rising insurance costs and early roof replacement requirements, and she supported board certification while opposing the continuing education exemption for long-tenured CAMs. In committee discussion, members pressed witnesses on whether recent condo laws caused insurance and roof-cost problems, and witnesses generally said those issues are driven more by the market than by the legislation. Senators also discussed possible reforms, including better data collection, clearer reporting duties for managers, and possible changes to insurance and reserve practices. No votes were taken, and the meeting ended with adjournment.

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• This will be a single license plate attached to the rear of the vehicle rather than the plate on the
• The Commonwealth previously issued a single green and white plate to be displayed on vehicles.
• vehicle collector license plate will again give Massachusetts vehicle owners the option to display a single
• another one of my friends is hiding away for fear of being stopped or accosted or stolen by federal agents
• another one of my friends is hiding away for fear of being stopped or accosted or stolen by federal agents

Keywords: 995, all

Summary: The Joint Committee on Transportation held a public hearing on a wide range of bills and topics, including impaired driving, antique and collector vehicles, roadway maintenance, homelessness-related identification cards, a pedestrian tunnel for Essex North Shore Agricultural and Technical School, a bridge naming in Sandwich, historic route designations, and litter prevention. The chairs outlined the hearing process, including three-minute limits for individuals and seven minutes for panels, and noted that elected officials would be taken out of turn. No votes were taken during the hearing; the committee heard testimony and then adjourned. On impaired driving, Middlesex County District Attorney Marian Ryan and tow lot operator Chris Nolan supported a bill creating a 12-hour tow-yard hold for vehicles involved in drug-impaired incidents, similar to the existing alcohol-related hold. On transportation infrastructure and road safety, Representative Howitt testified for several bills requiring reflective tape on temporary loads, restoring road markings after utility work, requiring roadway restoration after excavation, and improving reporting on roadway damage after crashes. AAA Northeast supported bills expanding the distracted driving law to cover video recording while driving, while noting it preferred the offense remain a primary offense. Several witnesses testified in support of bills affecting vehicle enthusiasts, including restoring year-of-manufacture plates for antique vehicles, creating a single rear collector plate, and changing antique vehicle inspection rules. Another major topic was H. 3750/S. 2399, which would provide no-fee state IDs and flexible residency documentation for youth and adults experiencing homelessness; supporters included the Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless, social workers, city officials, and people with lived experience, all emphasizing that lack of ID blocks access to housing, jobs, health care, and other services. The committee also heard strong support for S. 2414, authorizing a tunnel connecting the north and south campuses of Essex North Shore Agricultural and Technical School, with school leaders and students citing safety, accessibility, and traffic concerns. Finally, the committee heard emotional testimony for H. 4374 to name the Quaker Meeting House Road overpass in Sandwich for Staff Sergeant Raymond G. Torville, and testimony for a resolve creating a roadside litter prevention and cleanup task force.

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• process, which is a machine learning sort of AI approach, although I'm still driving is that every single
• if part of the resistance to the disease is that heritability is tied up in the trafficking of the agent
• , and animals that are moderately to highly susceptible, they traffic the agent very well and efficiently
• This particular project, we've gone now, pretty much the full five years now without another single positive
• saying is not what you believe and what may be truth, but I don't trust the science anymore at a single

Bills: HB3270, HB3145, HB3056

Keywords: farmed cervidae, chronic wasting disease, genetic resistance, wildlife management, agriculture, wildlife tagging, hunting regulations, Cervidae family, feral swine, exotic wildlife, conservation, commercial hunting, raw milk, unpasteurized, farm sales, Oklahoma Milk and Milk Products Act, local producers, advertising, 914, all

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• The Florida Agency for this agent for the Agency for Persons with Disabilities, APD has embarked on a
• A partnership with can solid consolidate EV into a single system with one agency leveraging the others
• The goal is not to select a single solution but to define a viable set of evidence-based options that
• Doesn't agent too much as far as the report is consent. >> Representative Giallombardo, you're recognized
• Well, the agents and it will.

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• They have highly trained. agents and analysts. They keep our members informed.
• where we're at in the Texas Financial Crimes Intelligence Center right now, I am one of three field agents
• $7,534 worth of baby formula from Walmart you you raise valid points I don't want to go after that single
• We all appreciate very much your comments there about that young, single mom trying to put food on the
• to the details of the bill uh... i do want to note that or c is a complex issue and there is not a single

Bills: SB1281, SB1300, SB1379, SB1451, SB1497, SB1498, SB1499

Keywords: mail theft, postal theft, package theft, identity theft, negotiable instrument, check theft, mail receptacle key, mailbox lock, postal key, delivery service, courier, USPS, United States Postal Service, fraud, property crime, elderly victims, disabled victims, identity information, rebuttable presumption, felony enhancement

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• So in total, nine years, I didn't seize a single dog in Derry.
• We didn't seize a single dog in Nashua.
• I am an equine and farm program manager and humane agent at the New Hampshire SPCA.
• humane agent at the New Hampshire SPCA. humane agent at the New Hampshire SPCA.
• So, that gives me some unique agent.

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