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• We've had some very well-trained physicians who have met certain standards.
• Is there any Department of Defense type of thing that can expedite these licenses beyond the standard
• Defense type of thing that can expedite these licenses beyond the standard process? Mr.
• That's a very, very high standard.
• We have judges getting to decide with a great deal of subjectivity whether we meet these standards or

Committee: House Courts, Corrections & Justice Committee

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• In the world of nursing education, simulation is an educational standard—it's a best practice.
• And again, this is an educational standard and specialty in nursing.
• clinical rotations at IHS facilities and their training is in accordance with IHS pharmacy practice standards
• legislation indicating that all education prep programs in the state of New Mexico have to meet new standards
• professional development and review, so each of our course services has key assignments that align to standards

Committee: House House Government, Elections & Indian Affairs

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• And so this dam is not designed up to the standard even...
• Thank you very much for joining us today for another edition of Water Quality Standards.
• be talking about distribution maps, time series plots, and tabulated comparison to water quality standards
• The contamination on site already exceeds groundwater quality standards and multiple monitoring wells
• These are New Mexico Environment Department groundwater quality standards.

Committee: House Water & Natural Resources Committee

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• Standards and the lack of a coordinated statewide strategy.
• This includes evaluating statewide coaching certification, modernizing PE standards, and creating equitable
• California can set the standard.
• youth sport for all Californians and will be critical to establishing unified coaching and safety standards
• youth sport for all Californians and will be critical to establishing unified coaching and safety standards

Summary: The committee heard AB 749, which would create a blue ribbon commission to study equitable access to youth sports and recommend a statewide framework, including coaching standards, PE modernization, and funding models to reduce barriers for families. The author and supporters, including youth sports advocates, educators, coaches, and former athletes, argued that sports improve health, school engagement, and long-term opportunity, while noting racial and income disparities in participation. One member raised concerns that a new commission could add cost and regulatory burdens, but the bill was framed as a study measure rather than immediate regulation. The committee also took up AB 549, aimed at coordinating state and local security planning for major upcoming sporting events such as the FIFA World Cup, Super Bowl, and Olympic and Paralympic Games. Supporters said the bill would improve interagency coordination, protect visitors and communities, and help prevent human trafficking and discrimination during mega-events. Members discussed the need to avoid over-policing and to center community values, but the bill advanced on a due pass recommendation to Appropriations. AB 1291 addressed ticket purchasing for concerts, sports, and other live events by requiring electronic proof of purchase and allowing it to be used for entry if a ticket cannot be accessed through no fault of the buyer. Supporters said the measure would give consumers more certainty and help address problems in a monopolized ticketing market, while opponents from venues, sports teams, and entertainment groups warned it could undermine anti-scalping tools, create security problems, and burden venues with duplicate or fraudulent proofs of purchase. The committee approved the bill on a due pass as amended basis to Privacy and Consumer Protection, with the roll held open for absent members. The consent calendar item, AB 644, was also approved.

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• They've got this standard of care, this obligation to maintain, repair, and replace improvements.
• That too, you know, it's just not right to have that standard be different and lower for something that
• should be a higher standard when we're stewards of the public trust.
• Texas Occupations Code to standardize the permitted sales periods for retail fireworks across the state
• Currently, standardized sales are allowed for American Independence Day and New Year's Eve.

Bills: SB434 , SB844 , SB898 , SB1177 , SB1214 , SB1454 , SB1920 , SB1927 , SB1935 , SB1965 , SB2010 , SB2046 , SB2068 , SB2073 , SB2183 , SB2260 , SB3034 , SB907

Committee: Senate Local Government

Keywords: SB 434, Harris County Hospital District, hospital district police, peace officers, commissioned officers, law enforcement authority, Health and Safety Code, Code of Criminal Procedure, public safety, hospital security, county hospital district, local government, Texas criminal procedure, district police, armed security, SB 898, low income housing tax credits, LIHTC, affordable housing, Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs

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• We're looking not only to standardize the grant portion, but also that manual accounting that gets those
• So in the age of Secure by Design, how have you guys incorporated cybersecurity standards in this project
• Some opportunities for improvement include implementing standardized meeting protocols to ensure and
• The system has standardized the methods of documentation and data collection and provides a central repository
• The system has standardized the methods of documentation and data collection and provides a central repository

Summary: The subcommittee heard updates on several state technology modernization efforts, beginning with the Florida Division of Emergency Management’s Enterprise Business Solution (DEMS). FDEM said DEMS is about 50% complete, with some grants and finance functions already live, and is intended to replace manual disaster and grants processing with a cloud-based system. Officials described faster reimbursement timelines after recent storms, major return-on-investment claims, and a planned final phase focused on design, testing, communications, data governance, and additional functionality. Members asked about the total cost, the role of Florida Digital Service, deliverables-based contracting, and how much of the system is live; FDEM said the project is expected to cost about $16 million to $16.8 million and finish by June 2027, with some follow-up information to be provided. The Department of Legal Affairs presented its Office of Attorney General Modernization Program, a follow-up to an earlier effort that failed after spending about $26 million. Acting Attorney General John Gard said the department has now moved to an off-the-shelf case management product, LawBase, and is in development and testing, with the Office of Statewide Prosecution already live and full implementation expected by the end of the fiscal year. The request includes funding for staff augmentation, cloud storage, the LawBase license, redundancy through a backup site in Orlando, and OnBase support. Members questioned the prior failure, the use of Florida Digital Service standards, data location and cloud migration, and the redundancy plan; Gard said lessons learned included better scoping and that the current effort is on track. The Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles then updated the committee on Motorist Modernization, including the Orion system and the MyDMV portal. Officials said Phase 1 and Phase 2 have modernized driver license and motor vehicle services, with Phase 2 statewide rollout scheduled to begin in April 2025 and Phase 3 proposed at $16.5 million for dealer services, data warehouse improvements, and call center modernization. Members asked about payment options, organ donor questions, staffing, cybersecurity, cloud strategy, and the digital driver license program. The agency said the portal already allows some sanctions to be cleared online, an ACH option is being developed, the digital driver license vendor has changed with a fall go-live anticipated, and the department is using security testing and a managed security service provider. Officials also said the system is currently on an on-prem private cloud, with future workloads expected to move to public cloud where appropriate. Finally, Florida Commerce presented on the Reemployment Assistance modernization system, Reconnect, and the FLWINS workforce system. Commerce said Reconnect is hosted in the Azure Government Cloud, has reduced claim filing time, improved fraud detection, and increased appeals capacity, and now needs $4.9 million in recurring funding to cover ongoing operations, cloud hosting, licenses, and staff augmentation. Members asked about adjudication issues, wait times, fraud prevention, and whether the system stores caller identifiers; Commerce said the average wait to speak to a representative is about 18 minutes and claims are generally processed in four to six weeks. The committee then began hearing about FLWINS, which is intended to create a “no wrong door” workforce portal under the REACH Act, but the transcript cuts off before that presentation concluded.

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• code, updates a lot of things in the language that we need to have to bring it up to modern day standards
• of the code language as far as the basic operations to align with modern boards for contemporary standards

Bills: HB159

Committee: Senate State Governmental Affairs

Keywords: U.S. Space and Rocket Center, Alabama Space Science Exhibit Commission, public facilities, space exploration, education programs, bond issuance, Governor involvement, 923, senate, all

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• That's standard for socialism. Rep. Degraffenreid: That's standard for socialism.
• </c> That's standard for socialism. That's standard for socialism.
• Health food standards, all the right? Health food standards, all the rest."
• is for statutory rape and what standard is for statutory rape and what our<04:08:44.560><c> standard
• ,</c> now that we have these two standards, now that we have these two standards, one<04:09:02.200><c

Keywords: 981, all

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• c> for</c> establishes clear standards for establishes clear standards for reasonleness, reasonleness
• Those standards are still in place, by the way.
• </c><00:53:59.119><c> of</c> relative to standardization of relative to standardization of addressing
• That was where the addressing standards came from.
• That was where the addressing standards came from.

Committee: House Public Works and Highways

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• There are built-in standards for providers.
• So, we're asking to set a standard to try to meet that standard.
• So, we're asking to set a standard to try to meet that standard.
• to try to meet that set a standard to try to meet that standard.<01:30:50.239><c> And</c><01:30:50.400
• And as Sam had noted earlier, standard.

Committee: House Primary and Secondary Education

Keywords: 958, all

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• Safe and legal are basically terms wrapped around, you know, what's called the standards of care.
• Safe and legal are basically terms wrapped around, you know, what's called the standards of care.
• Safe and legal are basically terms wrapped around, you know, what's called the standards of care.
• </c><00:41:22.640><c> of</c> you know what's called the standards of you know what's called the standards
• </c><01:43:33.280><c> of</c> adequate education, adopt standards of adequate education, adopt standards

Keywords: 1189, house, all

Summary: The committee first recessed for a subcommittee meeting on HB 313, which concerned an open-meetings-related issue. In the subcommittee, members discussed concerns that the bill might be unnecessary because current law already allows a person to request an open meeting in advance; the subcommittee then voted ITL on HB 313 by voice vote and closed its work session. The full Judiciary Committee then reconvened and took up CACR 6, the proposed constitutional amendment on a “right to compute,” with members debating whether the language was too broad and could create unintended consequences. Supporters framed it as a forward-looking protection for computation resources and strong encryption, while opponents said it was too open-ended and better addressed by future legislation. The committee voted ITL on CACR 6 by a 17-0 roll call. The committee next turned to HB 232, as amended, concerning the rights of conscience for medical professionals. The amendment narrowed the bill to abortion-related objections, removed sterilization and artificial contraception, aligned the abortion definition with existing state law, and reduced damages from treble damages to actual damages. Supporters said the bill would protect conscience rights, give physicians and patients more choice, and could help attract providers to New Hampshire. Opponents argued it was overly broad, unclear in key definitions, and could interfere with employers’ ability to assign staff, especially in rural health settings. Members also raised concerns about the bill’s scope and enforcement, including the broad definition of “participate,” the lack of clarity around exceptions for providers whose services include abortion as a “major part,” emergency determinations, and the inclusion of nursing homes in the definition of health care institution. Some members argued the bill singled out abortion while other controversial medical procedures were not treated similarly, and others criticized the minimum-damages provision as potentially punitive and designed to deter participation. The discussion continued without a final vote shown in the transcript excerpt.

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• option; to Moose Tower, a 19-story giant that needs extensive work to meet modern high-rise code standards
• </c><00:08:21.159><c> to</c><00:08:21.560><c> a</c> modern high-rise code standards to a modern high-rise
• code standards to a visitor<00:08:22.240><c> cabin</c><00:08:22.599><c> at</c><00:08:22.800><c> itasa
• And whenever you're ready, you can go ahead. standards by removing architectural standards by removing
• We develop both the bilingual aspect of English and American Sign Language, following the state standards

Committee: Senate Capital Investment

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• And now that standard has been expanded.
• 57:27.760><c> an</c><02:57:28.080><c> important</c> standardization can play an important standardization
• We believe<02:57:58.080><c> standard</c><02:57:58.960><c> standardization</c> believe standard standardization
• believe standard standardization combined<02:58:00.160><c> with</c><02:58:00.319><c> that</c><02:58:
• </c> report goes to um in in audit standard report goes to um in in audit standard speak<03:44:06.319

Committee: Joint Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions

Keywords: 916, all

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• So, we got these buildings, and then we have adequacy standards.
• </c> adequacy standards. adequacy standards.
• . standards. standards.
• , in our design standards.
• So it kind of helps me maintain a kind of a standard.

Committee: Joint Select Committee on School Facilities

Keywords: 916, all

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• </c> standards and training. standards and training. &gt;&gt; Thank<00:37:33.040><c> you.
• </c> &gt;&gt; I think that was just the standard. &gt;&gt; I think that was just the standard.
• The gold standard in still being used.
• So our laboratory is accredited to an ISO 7025 standard, an international standard that oversees our
• Um the standard.

Committee: House Criminal Justice and Public Safety

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• What we're trying to do with that is our state standards set out and codified in law.
• Here are the national standards that most states adopt.

Bills: HB493

Committee: House Children and Senior Advocacy

Keywords: child advocacy centers, certification, funding allocation, Alabama Network, forensic evaluation, children's welfare, 1136, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• So therefore, we now said, here’s the standard what you have to do on your property.
• </c><02:57:17.040><c> This</c><02:57:17.279><c> removes</c> four-year standard college.
• This removes four-year standard college.
• It provides the standard of judicial review of agency rulings on questions of law.
• It provides the standard of judicial review of agency rulings on questions of law.

Keywords: 1136, house, all

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• </c> &gt;&gt; Yeah, 40 hours is standard work week. &gt;&gt; Yeah, 40 hours is standard work week.
• So I I'm just going by standard<00:15:05.760><c> work</c><00:15:06.000><c> week.
• </c> standard work week. standard work week.
• </c> Uh, no I would not because the standards Uh, no I would not because the standards uh<00:22:58.720
• The legal standard is intentionally high. It doesn't weaken mandatory reporting laws.

Committee: House Children and Family Law

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• </c><00:06:42.039><c> it</c><00:06:42.199><c> preserves</c><00:06:42.720><c> local</c> Zoning standards
• it preserves local Zoning standards it preserves local control<00:06:43.800><c> where</c><00:06:44.440
• They're built to strict standards. They ought to be treated like any other form of housing.
• They're built to strict standards. They ought to be treated like any other form of housing.
• So the other 49% of the town can set whatever standards you want.

Committee: House Housing

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• These technologies are standard in optometric practice.
• These are standard procedures taught and performed safely by optometrists.
• These are standard procedures taught and performed safely by optometrists for decades.
• We should have a standard training and a source of truth coming from DPH.
• I discovered up-to-date research on endometriosis, gold standards of care in practice.

Committee: Joint Joint Committee on Public Health

Keywords: 995, all

Summary: The committee opened by explaining hearing procedures and time limits, then heard testimony on House 2499, a bill to create a public awareness campaign on menopause and related midlife health issues. Supporters, including a nurse, the Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women, and other advocates, said menopause is widely misunderstood by patients and providers, leading to delayed care, unnecessary suffering, workplace impacts, and inequities in women’s health. Several speakers shared personal experiences with symptoms being dismissed or misdiagnosed and urged the committee to advance the bill. The committee then took testimony on a package of endometriosis bills, including House 2527 and Senate 1564, calling for a task force and broader awareness efforts. Patients, a physician, and advocates described long diagnostic delays, severe pain, infertility, medical gaslighting, and limited access to specialists and effective treatment. They argued for more research, provider education, and a coordinated state strategy, and several asked for favorable reports. The chair also noted the hearing was running behind and extended time to allow more testimony. Later, the committee heard Senate 1579, which would eliminate parental consent and judicial bypass requirements for abortion access for minors under 16. Planned Parenthood representatives, physicians, legal advocates, and students argued the current law creates unnecessary delays and harms vulnerable youth, especially those in unsafe homes or foster care, while supporters said minors can already consent to other reproductive health care. A pro-life witness opposed the bill and emphasized parental involvement and support services. The committee also heard House 2403 and Senate 1560, which would create a Human Service Transportation Consumer Advisory Board; disability advocates and riders described past safety problems and current service gaps, and supported the board as a low-cost way to improve accountability, rider input, and reliability. No votes or final actions were taken in the excerpt.