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• legislative body has already said in the past that it wants by adding and improving enforcement mechanisms
• I've already said in the past that it wants by adding and improving enforcement mechanisms.
• I took his feedback. I take his feedback now.
• Well, I appreciate you taking my feedback because I have some more today. Awesome.

Bills: HB1453, HB2933, HB2941, HB2945, HB2959, HB3087, HB3094, HB3297, HB3298, HB3319, HB3321, HB3386, HB3453, HB3471, HB3505, HB3510, HB3544, HB3549, HB3652, HB3727, HB3791, HB3845, HB3906, HB4119, HB4125, HB4126, HB4198, HB4236, HB4425, HB4343, HB4094, HB3407

Keywords: foreign ownership, property rights, agricultural land, Attorney General, divestment, real estate, felony penalties, insurance regulation, homeowner claims, premium discounts, catastrophe mitigation, civil penalties, fentanyl, overdose, first responders, drug reporting, immunity, controlled substances, penalties, abortion

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• once an order is in place, whether it's Senator Grall: temporary or permanent, is an enforcement mechanism
• And for the people that are listening who have feedback, any of you that have feedback, I look forward
• I ask for your favorable support and, like I said, for feedback from all those that work in this space
• They purposely choose to buy this gun without those safety mechanisms that we are talking about.

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• We released a draft concept proposal that we're getting feedback on for the next round of grants, and
• There are several mechanisms that result in off-cycle rate increases, which I talked about a little bit
• Director Pierson's response provided many of the details, and primarily we're looking to get party feedback
• The Demand-Side Grid Support program seeks to pilot program mechanisms to grow clean demand flexibility
• We prioritize stakeholder feedback in our program development process and release draft guidelines for

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• So I appreciate your feedback, and we'll just have to agree to disagree on this point.
• So I appreciate your feedback, and we'll just have to agree to disagree on this point.
• My understanding, like some of the other medications that people are used to, there are locking mechanisms
• I'm curious, so you use this kind of as a mechanism to attract business and fill up empty buildings that

Keywords: 996, all

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• I have gotten some feedback about some other groups that should be included in that work group, and I've
• also gotten some feedback about the nuances: should we be looking at miles per hour versus the motor
• So we'd hope to see this bill amended to create a civil infraction and enforcement mechanism at the municipal
• Falcone, continued: So we'd hope to see this bill amended to create a civil infraction and enforcement mechanism

Bills: HB2307, HB2374, HB2379, HB1823, HB2111

Keywords: commute trip reduction, definitions, transportation, environmental impact, urban planning, electric bicycles, electric motorcycles, regulation, vehicle classification, tolling, emergency suspension, public access, state highways, transportation improvement board, TIB, transportation improvement account, motor vehicle fund, arterial streets, local match, private match

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• It would provide a mechanism for funding to flow to independent school districts and open enrollment
• So this bill addresses the funding mechanism for students enrolled in public schools only.
• Uh, the committee sub removed GEDs from the program based upon stakeholder and agency feedback.
• Uh, we think that they will give you invaluable feedback about how to structure the system best.

Bills: HB117

Keywords: county regulation, impervious cover, land use, unincorporated areas, environmental management

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• It would provide a mechanism for funding to flow to independent school districts and open enrollment
• So this bill addresses the funding mechanism for students enrolled in public schools only.
• The committee substitute removed GEDs from the program based upon stakeholder and agency feedback.
• We think that they will give you invaluable feedback about how to structure the system best.

Bills: HB 117, HB2196, HB2689, HCR64, HB117

Keywords: early childhood education, task force, governance, Texas Education Agency, child care, education policy, virtual education, hybrid learning, school funding, average daily attendance, education technology, remote learning, education legislation, workforce development, adult education, high school diploma, industry certification, pilot program, gifted education, education support

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• based upon their quarterly allotment is running low they feel like they're running low there's a mechanism
• Financial analysis, but we did conduct a number of advisory committee meetings. to receive feedback from
• understanding that it is not going to be a perfect situation but we have tried to incorporate the feedback
• We implemented. over 70 different fraud mechanisms to stop what was happening in our system.

Keywords: 1184, house, all

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• I'm assuming Finance has heard this feedback since you have been talking to stakeholders?
• We have heard feedback from the impacted departments.
• Do we have feedback on this question?
• Well, sounds like our conversation the last time didn't get any feedback in that direction. Dr.
• Is there a mechanism to backfill if circumstances change and they are not able to fill this?

Summary: The committee heard an overview of the May Revision’s Proposition 98 changes for K-12 and community colleges. The Department of Finance said the minimum guarantee rises by $6.4 billion over the Governor’s Budget across the three-year window, with higher guarantees in each year, full payment of the prior settle-up, and larger deposits into the school rainy-day fund. The LAO said the revenue and LCFF updates were reasonable, but urged caution about the settle-up approach and recommended using more of the available funding to protect ongoing programs and build budget resilience. Members focused heavily on the size of the proposed $3.9 billion settle-up, the $10.3 billion reserve deposit, declining K-12 enrollment, and how much of the new funding should be ongoing versus one-time. The committee then reviewed the community colleges portion of the budget. Finance described the May Revision’s higher SCFF COLA, additional funding for enrollment growth, a student support block grant, apprenticeship adjustments, and continued funding for deferred maintenance, Calbright, Common Cloud, and credit for prior learning. The Chancellor’s Office supported the core investments but asked for more funding for enrollment growth, changes to the growth formula, and a COLA for Student Equity and Achievement. The LAO recommended prioritizing the statutory COLA increase, noted that more than half of districts are already above current-year growth targets, and said the new adult learner demonstration project should be rejected because districts already have tools to support similar services. Members also discussed a $52 million current-year apportionment shortfall, which Finance said was discovered too late for the May Revision and would need to be addressed later. Finally, the committee took up the proposed implementation of the federal Workforce Pell program. Finance proposed one-time funding for the California Student Aid Commission and Cradle to Career to build eligibility and data systems, along with trailer bill changes to set up state approval processes. CSAC said the program is promising but highly complex, that California lacks the needed infrastructure, and that the state will need emergency regulations, data linkages, and ongoing funding beyond the one-time proposal. The LAO agreed that some initial funding is needed but warned that the amounts and ongoing costs remain uncertain and that the Legislature should carefully draft the trailer bill language. Members asked about timing, other states’ actions, and how the state would ensure the program is ready for students and institutions.

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• 54.400><c> provide</c> complicated uh cases and then provide complicated uh cases and then provide feedback
• c> State</c><00:07:55.720><c> agencies</c><00:07:56.199><c> through</c><00:07:56.400><c> the</c> feedback
• to State agencies through the feedback to State agencies through the process<00:07:57.479><c> uh</c>
• from a data-sharing perspective to seamlessly and easily integrate with our income verification mechanisms
• from a data-sharing perspective to seamlessly and easily integrate with our income verification mechanisms

Keywords: 1183, house

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• Can you just talk about any feedback on this tool?
• I know you mentioned it was for state agencies. ...talk about any feedback on this tool.
• What has been the feedback? Do staff like using this? Yes, ma'am.
• Our initial feedback through surveys and through qualitative and quantitative research has been very,
• So we've been really pleased with this, and it's given us the feedback that we need to be confident in

Summary: The Assembly Budget Subcommittee 5 on State Administration held a May Revise hearing focused on state administration proposals, with the chair noting no actions would be taken and all items would remain open. The committee heard presentations on a range of budget proposals, including technical adjustments for the Governor’s Office of Service and Community Engagement and the California Workforce Development Board, security and election-related funding for the Secretary of State, modernization and loan-backfill requests for the Department of Consumer Affairs, and multiple Employment Development Department updates covering EDD Next, UI and DI/PFL benefit estimates, workforce funding, and an EMT training reappropriation. Several items drew discussion from the LAO and committee members. The LAO generally supported technical or modernization items such as PERB’s implementation requests, GoServe’s College Corps adjustment, the Secretary of State’s security and HAVA grant items, and the Board of Pharmacy modernization proposal, but raised concerns about the Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education’s proposed $10 million General Fund backfill and interest-free loan language. For EDD, the LAO flagged the size of the DI/PFL benefit adjustment and the unusual structure of the document management system proposal within EDD Next, while EDD said the changes reflected higher participation and benefit levels after SB 951 and ongoing modernization needs. The Department of Industrial Relations drew the most extensive questioning. It proposed funding for legal unit reclassifications, EAMS and Cal/OSHA data modernization, a new Cal/OSHA emerging technologies unit, a COYA reappropriation, and trailer bill changes requiring electronic payment of employer assessments and adjusting the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board timeline. Members pressed DIR on high vacancy rates, long wage theft and workers’ compensation backlogs, low collection rates for fines, and the need for clearer workload and outcome measures. DIR said the requests were intended to improve efficiency, support audits and corrective action plans, and better address emerging workplace risks, while the LAO said the workload drivers behind delays remain unclear. The hearing also included support for CalHR’s employee assistance program consolidation and CDT’s proposal to expand “Poppy,” a statewide generative AI assistant for state employees.

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• Can you just talk about any feedback on this tool?
• I know you mentioned it was for state agencies. ...talk about any feedback on this tool.
• What has been the feedback? Do staff like using this? Yes, ma'am.
• Our initial feedback through surveys and through qualitative and quantitative research has been very,
• This includes developing an accessible statewide deletion mechanism for consumers.

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• And I don't believe that the funding mechanism proposed by the A8 amendment would work.
• And yet, because we're in a representative democracy and hearing this feedback from my constituents,
• The question is do you want to fund the mechanisms necessary to fight fraud?
• </c> do you want to fund the mechanisms do you want to fund the mechanisms necessary<00:35:52.720><c>
• ><c> that</c><01:14:29.480><c> we</c> We've established a mechanism that we We've established a mechanism

Bills: HF4338

Keywords: human services, medical assistance, Medicaid, provider enrollment, provider revalidation, fraud prevention, program integrity, background study, background check, fingerprinting, licensing, license revocation, payment withholding, payment suspension, prepayment review, postpayment review, surety bond, compliance training, case management, targeted case management

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• We need a mechanism in place to be able to pay for the board meetings that are required in order to tabulate
• We need a mechanism in place to be able to pay for the board meetings that are required in order to tabulate
• are meetings that have been added, counting and tabulating, preparation, sealing, and we need a mechanism
• should be a case that they investigate, they would have someone there that they can ask and get feedback
• It's very much a constructive feedback process. It's not really demeaning on the school.

Bills: SB83, SB135, SB143, SB155, SB157, SB202, SB237, SB261, SB276, SB295, SB450, SB465, SB506, HB1070

Keywords: human trafficking, trafficking prevention, school safety, public schools, elementary and secondary education, charter schools, mandatory reporting, victim identification, victim services, child trafficking, sex trafficking, labor trafficking, commercial sexual activity, DCFS, Department of Children and Family Services, Louisiana State Police, governor's office of human trafficking prevention, counselor training, mental health professional, administrator training

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• Furthermore, this standard reporting mechanism, with state and local agency expertise, will equip the
• that are local residents who live within those communities and actually have the ability to give feedback
• We need feedback. That engagement is... We don't want to support this measure, but it's needed.
• We need feedback.
• And so, you know, I think the mechanisms that you're describing that already exist seem like they are

Summary: The committee heard presentations on several bills. SB 1091, by Senator Kavayetal, would create the Community Anti-Displacement and Preservation (CAP) program within HCD to provide financing and technical support for nonprofit and local efforts to acquire unsubsidized rental housing and preserve it as affordable housing or homeownership opportunities. Supporters, including Enterprise Community Partners, the Unity Council, and several housing and tenant groups, said preservation is a fast, cost-effective way to prevent displacement and homelessness. Members discussed funding, with the author and chair noting the program is intended to be funded through housing bond legislation and would be implemented upon appropriation. The bill was moved on a due-pass motion to Judiciary and passed out of committee. SB 904, by Senator Seyarto, would codify and expand the state’s coordinated wildfire recovery response by requiring HCD and other agencies to identify permitting and code barriers after future state-of-emergency wildfires and report on ways to speed rebuilding. The author cited the faster permitting response after the Los Angeles fires compared with the Camp Fire. Some members supported the goal but raised concerns about repeated reports and the burden on smaller jurisdictions; the author said the bill is meant to avoid reinventing the wheel and to streamline recovery. The committee noted the bill is fiscal and would go to Appropriations, and it was reported out with sufficient votes. SB 1007, by Senator Menjivar, would increase transparency and limit assessment growth in homeowners associations by requiring clearer disclosure of HOA finances and violation evidence, and by replacing the current 20% annual assessment increase ceiling with a cap tied to inflation, with possible amendments still under discussion. Supporters, including consumer and homeowner advocates, said the bill would help protect homeowners from steep fee hikes and opaque budgeting. Opponents from HOA management and industry groups argued the bill could undermine reserve funding, delay maintenance, and create more special assessments, while also adding duplicative disclosure requirements. Members debated whether the bill would protect homeowners without harming HOA finances; the author said he would continue negotiations and that the bill would look different in the next committee.

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• And, you know, though there is a mechanism to dispose of the evidence if not guilty, I believe that this
• Comments or feedback on that? I'd appreciate your comments. Thank you so much for all you do.
• And I don't know what you've gained, comments or feedback on that. I'd appreciate your comments.
• If anybody wants to give some feedback or ask questions, I'd welcome them to ask me anything.
• So there's a mechanism for us to fund this program and the registry through the fines that they have.

Summary: The committee first met in executive session and adopted a House committee substitute for House Bill 2587, then voted the substitute do pass on an 18-0 roll call. The sponsor said the bill was updated to mirror federal law and included an emergency clause, with supporters noting it was intended to align Missouri law ahead of the FIFA World Cup and related public safety concerns. The committee also briefly took up House Bill 2055 and voted it do pass 18-0 before moving on to public hearings. The main public hearing was on House Bill 2868, which would expand Missouri DNA collection to all felony arrests rather than the current narrower list of qualifying offenses. Representative Parker argued the change would help solve crimes and exonerate the innocent, citing Maryland v. King and examples from other states. Committee members raised concerns about juvenile language, privacy, the presumption of innocence, retention and destruction of samples, access to CODIS, and whether the bill should be limited to violent or higher-level felonies. Supporters, including victim Ashley Spence and other advocates, described how arrest-stage DNA collection helped identify a serial rapist and solve cold cases, while opponents Joshua Kieser and others argued the bill was overbroad, could be used as a fishing expedition, and should not apply before conviction. Missouri State Highway Patrol staff testified that the bill would add nearly 14,000 arrestees annually, could aid about 731 investigations each year, and would reduce confusion in current collection practices. The hearing also included detailed testimony about wrongful convictions, expungement safeguards, identical twins, and the difference between arrest, charge, and conviction. Several members said they supported the goal of helping victims but wanted narrower language or stronger guardrails, especially for nonviolent felonies. The hearing on HB 2868 was then closed, and the committee began hearing House Bills 3012, 2997, and 3058, with the bill sponsors introducing themselves as the next items up.

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• The contracting mechanism is something that we identified in our 2022 report.
• I want to put our email in the presentation, so anybody can reach out and give us suggestions or feedback
• In your report, it seemed to be like you were letting us know because you got a lot of provider feedback
• So I know that you mentioned that you got a lot of provider feedback.
• restrict access to care with what were considered onerous prior authorization and utilization review mechanisms

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• We've already received feedback from systems that adding a compliance component to the portal would be
• Two sessions ago, Senate Bill 321 created this funding mechanism of $510 million a year.
• Tessers provides a mechanism for communities, Tessers provides a mechanism for communities to support
• And one of my friends gave me feedback saying, you looked so serious.
• And one of my friends gave me feedback saying, you looked so serious.

Summary: The Senate Finance Committee heard budget presentations for the Texas Historical Commission, the Pension Review Board, the Employees Retirement System (ERS), Social Security and benefit replacement pay, the Texas Emergency Services Retirement System (TESSRS), and the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT). The Legislative Budget Board outlined recommendations and major changes for each agency, including reductions tied to one-time projects at the Historical Commission, continued funding for courthouse grants, heritage trails, and Holocaust/genocide education, as well as new or modified riders and capital items. For the pension-related items, LBB described funding changes for PRB, ERS, Social Security, and TESSRS, including ERS health plan cost growth driven largely by pharmacy costs, the status of pension funding reforms, and TESSRS’s request for additional state support to address its unfunded liability and staffing needs. Members asked extensive questions about the Historical Commission’s one-time funding, unexpended balance authority, courthouse preservation, the Presidio La Bahia and National Museum of the Pacific War projects, and coordination of Texas history messaging across sites such as the Alamo, San Jacinto, Washington on the Brazos, and other heritage locations. The Historical Commission chair emphasized heritage tourism, economic development, and the need for continued investment in historic sites, staffing, IT modernization, and vehicles. On the pension items, senators discussed PRB oversight of local systems, including the Dallas police and fire pension situation, and ERS investment returns, benchmark comparisons, and rising health costs. ERS officials said the plan remains well funded overall, noted a 2021 cash balance reform and a planned supplemental legacy payment, and explained that GLP-1 drugs such as Ozempic and Mounjaro are a major driver of pharmacy spending; they also said the agency is working with the Texas Pharmacy Initiative and that rebates are contractually returned to ERS. For TESSRS, LBB and agency staff said the system serves volunteer and part-paid emergency personnel, is facing an infinite amortization period, and is requesting additional appropriations, staffing, and IT funding, along with a statutory change to allow an actuarially determined state contribution. The agency said it may otherwise need to cut benefits for volunteer firefighters. For CPRIT, LBB reported about $600 million in recommended funding for the biennium and a 10-FTE increase, while the agency described its $6 billion voter-approved program, $3.75 billion in grants awarded to date, and $10.4 million in revenue sharing since 2011. CPRIT’s only exceptional item was a request for a 10% salary increase for two exempt positions. No committee votes or formal actions were taken in the transcript.

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• the identification of new or expanded transmission corridors that includes, at a minimum, a formal mechanism
• I appreciated all the feedback that came in the public hearing.
• to respectfully ask for no, partially because I don't know that we need to create another formal mechanism
• senator short thank you matter chair and this this amendment really just would require a formal mechanism
• to respectfully ask for no, partially because I don't know that we need to create another formal mechanism

Bills: SB6124, SB6171, SB6284, SB5609, SB6172, SB6246, SB5932, SB6269, SB6223, SB5975

Keywords: appliance affordability, cost index, energy efficiency, consumer protection, Washington state, energy facilities, large energy consumers, regulation, environment, sustainability, artificial intelligence, data privacy, technological impacts, cultural resources, land use, environmental policy, exemptions, state laws, Washington climate policy, greenhouse gas

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• Well, we have sort of narrowed that down based on feedback from stakeholders who are going to be on the
• sort of narrowed that down uh<00:02:45.360><c> based</c><00:02:45.680><c> on</c><00:02:45.920><c> feedback
• </c><00:02:46.480><c> from</c><00:02:46.879><c> stakeholders</c> uh based on feedback from stakeholders
• uh based on feedback from stakeholders uh<00:02:48.440><c> who</c><00:02:49.440><c> are</c><00:02:50.239
• ongoing mechanisms for ensuring ongoing eligibility.<00:24:28.559><c> I</c><00:24:28.799><c> I</c><00

Keywords: 1187, senate, all