Transcript Highlights:

• When it came to enforcement, it is not a punitive measure that we're trying to implement.
• As a mother and as a psychologist, I've always believed that the best intervention is prevention.
• As a mother and as a psychologist, I've always believed that the best intervention is prevention.
• To measure the impact, a class of 28 students tracked their notifications over a 60-minute period.
• the impact a class of 28 measure the impact a class of 28 students<01:00:37.160><c> tracked</c><01:00

Committee: Senate Education Policy

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• and Research Institute of Texas contingent upon the... ...support the Dementia Prevention and Research
• This is the 2026-27 cost for property tax relief to implement property tax relief measures that have
• It's a pretty astonishing number by any measurement. True? That's correct.
• Sir, what accountability or performance measures are there for the courts of appeals?
• We have performance measures based on clearance rate in the sense of the number of case filings that

Bills: SB 1

Committee: Senate Finance

Keywords: campground safety, youth camp regulations, flood safety, emergency evacuation, health and safety standards

Summary: The Senate Finance Committee held its first hearing of the 89th regular session, adopted nearly identical committee rules from the previous legislature by a 15-0 vote, and began review of Senate Bill 1, the state budget for fiscal years 2026-27. Chair Huffman outlined the budget framework, emphasizing conservative spending, a $332.9 billion all-funds budget, and major priorities including property tax relief, public education, border security, health and human services, transportation, energy, and water infrastructure. She also introduced committee and leadership staff and described the hearing schedule and public testimony procedures. Comptroller Glenn Hager presented the biennial revenue estimate, saying the state has $194.6 billion available for general-purpose spending, including a $23.8 billion ending balance, but warned that revenue growth is returning to more normal levels and that lawmakers should avoid using temporary spikes for ongoing commitments. Senators questioned him extensively about the Economic Stabilization Fund cap, sales tax trends, inflation, and whether the state should consider raising the cap or using severance-tax revenues differently. Hager said the Rainy Day Fund is expected to hit its cap, which would leave more severance-tax revenue in general revenue, and he stressed that infrastructure needs remain significant. The Legislative Budget Board then gave a detailed overview of SB 1 and the budget’s major components. LBB staff explained that the bill includes continued funding for the Foundation School Program, $850 million for the Texas State Technical College endowment, $1.3 billion for the Texas University Fund, $6.5 billion for border security, salary increases for correctional officers and state troopers, $3 billion for dementia research, higher community attendant wages, expanded community-based care, $5 billion for the Texas Energy Fund, and funding to clear volunteer fire department grant backlogs. They also outlined supplemental priorities such as water infrastructure, retirement legacy payments, rail grade separations, wildfire aircraft, and emergency facilities, and said the current controlling budget limit is the tax spending limit. A major portion of the hearing focused on property tax relief. LBB explained that prior-session relief grew from an expected $18 billion to $22.7 billion because of higher-than-anticipated property values and interactions among hold-harmless provisions, and that SB 1 continues and expands relief with $51 billion in total property tax relief, including $3 billion more for compression, $3 billion to raise the homestead exemption from $100,000 to $140,000, and a $500 million placeholder for business tax relief. Senators discussed the automatic nature of some of these costs, the effect of the non-homestead circuit breaker, the role of federal COVID funds, and the need to maintain school finance commitments if the state continues to compress school tax rates.

Transcript Highlights:

• Uh, do you believe that this bill would remove any regulations which prevent your company from being
• Of course, it will prevent unnecessary legal challenges and related costs. we go.
• that</c> limited discretionary measures that limited discretionary measures that clinics<04:36:24.240
• What it does is it prevents people who don't agree with them from being in that zone.
• What it does is it prevents people who don't agree with them from being in that zone.

Committee: House Judiciary

Keywords: 1189, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• tasks, we also use performance measures.
• So the measures we have in place show that we are overall doing a good job.
• So you said many times, so that's pretty much the measure then.
• So if we can't measure the effectiveness of a program, it deserves some scrutiny.
• So we're wanting them to say, how are we measuring success?

Committee: Joint Legislative Task Force on Government Efficiency

Summary: The task force met with a quorum and first reviewed a memorandum summarizing a survey of state agencies on possible statute revisions. Levi reported that 20 agencies submitted 70 proposals, with about 33 potentially becoming agency pre-file bills. Common themes included procurement, concessions, architect/engineering services, liability limits, and IT-related efficiencies. Members asked about sharing the survey results more broadly and about cross-agency coordination, especially with higher education and ITD-related issues. OMB then presented three topics from its survey responses: concessions, pre-qualification of architects/engineers/construction managers/land surveyors, and publication of legal notices. OMB said the current concessions law is too rigid because it requires award to the highest responsible bidder and does not fit newer concession models, and it suggested a best-value approach, a higher threshold, and standardized templates. On architect/engineering pre-qualification, OMB said the law is fragmented across several statutes and should be consolidated and expanded for broader use. On legal notices, OMB described the current rate-setting and publication process, noted rising costs and shrinking newspaper availability, and proposed a collaborative effort to modernize notice delivery, improve accessibility, and explore online options. The task force discussed how to move these ideas forward, and a motion passed directing OMB to implement its suggestions and report back at the next meeting. The University of North Dakota then presented several proposed revisions focused on public buildings and procurement. UND recommended raising the threshold for treating routine maintenance and one-for-one replacements as construction, arguing that the current $250,000 threshold forces unnecessary architect/engineer involvement and adds cost. It also proposed changes to bid advertisement language to reflect electronic bidding, revisions to construction manager-at-risk selection criteria, changes to architect/engineer procurement criteria, a higher direct-hire threshold for design services, and an increase in the legislative approval threshold for privately funded projects. Members discussed the need for data, risk and complexity considerations, and collaboration with counsel and industry groups. A motion passed directing Levi and counsel to work with UND on bill drafts based on its proposals for a future meeting. DPI followed with a shorter presentation on credentialing and statutory cleanup. It suggested reviewing the department’s 23 credential categories for relevance, and said DPI and the Education Standards and Practices Board have discussed transferring some credentialing authority to ESPB. DPI also recommended removing outdated school safety patrol language, cleaning up waiver provisions, and updating dyslexia screening reporting requirements so districts are not burdened by obsolete reporting mandates. Members agreed the screening itself should remain in place, while the reporting requirement could be reconsidered. The committee then recessed until the afternoon session.

Transcript Highlights:

• years later, we're still left asking how this could have happened and, more urgently, how we can prevent
• It's about decades of data, countless preventable crashes, and years of missed opportunities to make
• It's measured.
• As recently discussed, this is a provision that prevents public schools, charter schools, and school
• There is nothing in this prohibition that prevents state government from talking about current law.

Committee: Senate Fiscal Policy

Summary: The committee first took up CS for CS for CS for SB 462 on transportation, adopting a substitute amendment that would require counties receiving transportation surtax proceeds to report how the money is used, prohibit certain airport fees tied to collegiate flight training, create a Sarasota-Manatee Airport Authority pilot program, and fund a traffic signal modernization program with $10 million annually from the State Transportation Trust Fund. The amendment also removed several provisions from the bill, including a sales tax transfer to the trust fund, a bid protest-related contracting requirement, and repeal of the Metropolitan Planning Organization Advisory Council. A late-filed amendment was tabled, and the bill was reported favorably. The committee then heard CS for CS for SB 628, “Lucy's Law,” on boating safety, which would strengthen penalties for leaving the scene of a vessel accident and reckless vessel operation. Lucy’s parents gave emotional testimony in support, describing the fatal 2022 boating crash and urging stronger accountability. The sponsor withdrew pending amendments, and the bill was reported favorably. CS for CS for SB 700, the Florida Farm Bill, was next; the strike-all amendment covered a broad range of agriculture-related changes, including water fluoridation restrictions, labeling rules, drone restrictions over farmland, disaster recovery programs, an honest services registry, FFA-related provisions, and agricultural land preservation. Testimony included support from agricultural and gun-rights groups, opposition from banking, dental, and local-government advocates, and a lengthy public debate over fluoridation and financial discrimination. The committee adopted the amendment and reported the bill favorably. SB 796 on general permits for distributed wastewater treatment systems was reported favorably with little debate. The committee then took up CS for SB 1618 on K-12 education, adopting a delete-all amendment that combined a wide range of education provisions, including VPK flexibility, agriculture education, financial literacy, reading intervention requirements, teacher assignment reporting, restrictions on spending public funds on political or social activism, postsecondary and workforce-related changes, and other school and college system updates. Several speakers opposed the activism-related funding restriction, while the sponsor said the bill was intended to keep publicly funded schools focused on education; the bill was reported favorably. Finally, the committee considered SB 7016 on initiative petitions, adopting a strike-all amendment that would sharply tighten petition circulation rules and increase penalties. The proposal would require circulators to be Florida residents and U.S. citizens, impose training and registration requirements, shorten petition submission deadlines, require more identifying information on petition forms, limit sponsors to one amendment per election cycle, and create new enforcement and investigation triggers, including a 25% invalid-signature threshold. Sponsors argued the changes were needed to address fraud and protect the integrity of constitutional amendment petitions, while senators raised concerns about due process, public-records issues, burdens on volunteers, and the impact on voters and sponsors. The bill was not reported in the portion provided, and the discussion remained ongoing at the end of the transcript.

Transcript Highlights:

• Would your provision then prevent a Missouri court from transferring the case to Peru or wherever the
• I think even in my bright red district, we have election officials coming out, and I take my tape measure
• , and they say, well, you have to be 25 feet, and I say, well, I'm at 28, and I take the tape measure
• It prohibits tax dollars from being used to campaign for the political subdivisions ballot measures.
• has created several lakes throughout the state of Missouri in order to store water ostensibly to prevent

Keywords: 959, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• Again, this is for consistency and clarity measures.
• It establishes clear language that no person attending open public meetings shall be prevented from recording
• What many of our citizens already know or assume that they can do, and it prevents governing bodies from
• Idaho's rich heritage by engaging voters in selecting an official state gun through an advisory ballot measure
• He is thoughtful, measured, and committed to asking the right questions: Has there been real change?

Keywords: 989, all

Transcript Highlights:

• what impact that specifically has, but I can ask my customer service team to see if they have that measured
• ><00:21:10.080><c> they</c><00:21:10.320><c> have</c><00:21:10.960><c> that</c><00:21:11.600><c> measured
• </c> team to see if they have that measured team to see if they have that measured where<00:21:12.159
• any</c><00:21:46.320><c> point</c><00:21:46.720><c> where</c> Seeing any point where security is preventing
• Uh then followed by the Guardian Ed Lightum, Fire Prevention, Electrical Safety, Wyoming Gaming Commission

Committee: Joint Appropriations

Keywords: 916, all

Transcript Highlights:

• I think with affordability being the primary factor that's preventing people from going into higher ed
• Uh, what are you doing to prevent them losing any credit hours?
• Texas Southern will meet or exceed its state reported performance measure goal to have at least 27% of
• On behalf of Texas Southern, I am prepared to define specific competent measures that could be adopted
• A third means I would offer to you. would be to write these two confidence measures into the legislation

Committee: House Higher Education

Transcript Highlights:

• </c> establishing those preventive establishing those preventive safeguards.<00:16:14.880><c> In</c><
• And most importantly, it does not prevent bad actors.
• But there was nothing to prevent him from going to Grand View or some other spa.
• </c><01:03:28.080><c> To</c><01:03:28.200><c> my</c> in the country are measured.
• To my in the country are measured.

Committee: Senate State and Local Government

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• Um, research indicates that firearm possession prohibitions are most effective at preventing intimate
• effective at preventing intimate partner violence<00:24:27.520><c> when</c><00:24:27.760><c> they</c
• </c><01:04:17.520><c> any</c> bill does not overturn or prevent any bill does not overturn or prevent
• Representative Holland responded that there is no clear temporal measure in the bill, but because the
• </c> time like you know uh temporal measure time like you know uh temporal measure of<01:09:29.839><c

Bills: HF3465 , HF3782 , HF4075 , HF391 , HF3946 , HF2976 , HF3350

Committee: House Public Safety Finance and Policy

Keywords: theft, vulnerable adults, public safety, penalties, Minnesota statutes, chemical irritants, law enforcement, transparency, building owners, tenant rights, notification, remediation, firearm restrictions, domestic violence, court orders, criminal convictions, firearms prohibition, gun surrender, order for protection, protective order

Transcript Highlights:

• We should begin our work with the recognition that we all care about preventing theft and abuse.
• care about preventing theft and abuse<00:02:06.840><c> we</c><00:02:07.000><c> have</c><00:02:07.159
• </c> those agencies have in place to prevent those agencies have in place to prevent pause<00:03:35.120
• It's a practical solution to protections and transparency measures protections and transparency measures
• You know, how does this bill prevent fraud from occurring?

Committee: Senate State and Local Government

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• Are you all prevented from buying products outside of the co-op? Is it like... No. No.
• in to the capital complex and this is happening. over decades and now you look at it and when you measure
• Do y'all measure the length of time it takes to issue? you to approve an issue in LLC?
• So do you do you measure the length of time from the time that you receive something till the time that
• that particular batch or bundle. of documents done, and generally speaking. over time in a gross measure

Bills: HB10 , HB 12 , HB675 , HB10 , HB12

Committee: House Delivery of Government Efficiency

Keywords: regulatory reform, government efficiency, administrative law, rulemaking, agency deference, judicial review, de novo review, Texas Government Code, Administrative Procedure Act, state agencies, plain language, regulatory burden, regulatory reduction, cost-benefit analysis, fiscal note, public benefits and costs, contested case, rule challenge, Texas Regulatory Efficiency Office, advisory panel

Transcript Highlights:

• Personally, I think what we track is how we measure.
• Personally, I think what we track is how we measure success. Right.
• And if we don't measure success, how do we know if we're losing more market share before it's too late
• panel looking ahead, where we’ve got Rebecca Ratzkin, who’s with California Arts Council, Equity Measures
• I’m the Equity Measures and Evaluation Manager at the California Arts Council and the project manager

Committee: House Joint Committee on the Arts

Summary: The Joint Committee on the Arts held an informational hearing on California’s first sector-specific creative economy strategic plan, “California’s Future Is Creative,” developed under AB 127 and related legislation. Chair Allen framed the plan as a response to California’s large but vulnerable creative economy, citing workforce losses, federal funding headwinds, and the need to support artists, cultural organizations, public media, museums, cultural districts, and film/TV production. He also highlighted budget asks including support for California Humanities, museums, public media, cultural districts, a post-production incentive proposal (AB 2319), and funding to implement the strategic plan. California Arts Council Director Danielle Brazel, Institute for the Future’s Rachel Hatch, CDE’s Allison Frenzel, and CWDB’s Michael Weoff described the planning process, which included a 30-plus-member work group, interagency coordination, and a phased approach from framework development to implementation and evaluation. They identified major forces shaping the sector over the next decade, including AI, climate disruption, affordability, access to capital, and social cohesion, and outlined six action areas: workforce preparation, business stabilization, cultural identity/tourism, cross-sector incentives, ROI/data tracking, and state capacity/infrastructure. Members and panelists repeatedly emphasized that the plan must be resourced and integrated across agencies rather than left siloed. A second panel of practitioners and advocates focused on workforce pathways and local implementation. Ricarlo Handy described the Handy Foundation’s registered apprenticeship pipeline into film and TV jobs and argued that current data systems undercount gig, 1099, and LLC-based creative work. Joanna Reynolds discussed Arts for LA’s Creative Jobs Collective, which aims to create 10,000 living-wage creative jobs in Los Angeles County by 2030, while Alejandro Gutierrez Chavez urged embedding artists in health, aging, and behavioral health systems as community problem-solvers. Roxanne Messina Kaptur spoke about the need to normalize arts careers and expand residency and school-based models. Senator Rubio, who joined later, shared her own arts and teaching background, supported arts access in schools and small theaters, and raised concerns about AI, asking how schools and educators can adapt. In the final panel, Rebecca Ratzkin reported on 26 statewide town halls with more than 1,100 attendees, which confirmed support for the plan but also highlighted needs for better information access, new financial models, stronger definitions and data, and more partnerships. Julie Baker of California for the Arts and California Arts Advocates urged sustained public funding, saying the plan is actionable only if the Legislature and administration provide resources, including increased California Arts Council funding and support for implementation. No formal votes were taken; the hearing was informational and concluded with calls for continued legislative and cross-agency collaboration.

Transcript Highlights:

• For these participants, the more intangible but equally important outcomes were measured: 85% experienced
• Personally, I think what we track is how we measure.
• Personally, I think what we track is how we measure success. Right.
• And if we don't measure success, how do we know if we're losing more market share before it's too late
• I’m the Equity Measures and Evaluation Manager at the California Arts Council and the project manager

Committee: Senate Joint Committee on the Arts

Summary: The Joint Committee on the Arts held an informational hearing on California’s first sector-specific creative economy strategic plan, developed under AB 127 by the California Arts Council with an interagency work group and outside research support. Committee members and panelists described the plan’s purpose as strengthening the state’s creative workforce, stabilizing creative businesses, expanding equity and access, and building infrastructure for long-term implementation. The opening presentation highlighted major forces shaping the sector over the next decade, including AI, climate disruption, affordability, access to capital, and social cohesion, and outlined six action areas: workforce preparation, business growth, cultural tourism and identity, cross-sector incentives, ROI/data tracking, and state capacity-building. Testimony from the California Department of Education and the Workforce Development Board focused on existing workforce pipelines, including updated arts/entertainment/design CTE standards, the Entertainment Equity Alliance, apprenticeship and pre-apprenticeship pathways, and High Road Training Partnership investments. Speakers said these efforts are producing strong placement outcomes, including paid on-the-job training, union placements, and support for workers facing barriers, while also emphasizing the need for entrepreneurship training and wraparound supports. Committee discussion also centered on a major unresolved issue: how to define and measure the creative economy consistently across agencies, since current labor data often misses gig, contract, nonprofit, and business activity. A second panel of practitioners and advocates described local examples of the plan in action. The Handy Foundation, Arts for LA’s Creative Jobs Collective, the Arts Council of San Bernardino County, and the California Arts Council chair all argued that artists and creative workers should be treated as essential contributors to education, community health, local economies, and resilience, not as peripheral workers. They urged stronger school partnerships, more arts access, and better recognition of creative careers. Members also discussed AI’s impact on creative work, with panelists saying it should be treated as a tool that requires guardrails, training, and union and educator involvement rather than as a replacement for human creativity. No formal votes were taken; the hearing was informational, and members expressed support for continued implementation, better data systems, and additional funding in future budget and policy actions.

Transcript Highlights:

• spending compared to peer district averages and report on their average teacher salary and other measures
• So I encourage my colleagues to support the measure.
• So I encourage my colleagues to support the measure.
• If we're adding the ESAs onto this measure, it would violate the Open Meetings Act because we didn't
• If we're adding the ESAs on to this measure, it would violate the Open Meetings Act because we didn't

Committee: Joint Joint Legislative Audit Committee

Summary: The committee first heard an update on Topok Elementary School District’s long-running noncompliance with Arizona’s Uniform System of Financial Records. The Auditor General’s office explained the USFR noncompliance process and reported that Topok had made substantial progress, correcting many deficiencies in areas such as open meeting law, procurement, payroll, attendance reporting, property control, and information technology. The district’s superintendent and staff described the corrective actions they had taken, the use of outside consultants, and their plan to maintain compliance through stronger leadership, training, and consistent procedures. Members praised the district’s progress and asked about the remaining deficiencies and the status of the 3% state-aid withholding, which the Auditor General said would be addressed by the State Board of Education. The committee then considered a request for a fourth school safety special audit, tied to concerns raised by Representative Martinez about Phoenix Union High School District and school violence response practices. The Auditor General said the proposed audit would be a new topic focused on policies and procedures for responding to credible threats of violence and allegations of staff misconduct affecting student safety, and could include Phoenix Union in the sample. Representative Martinez described a fatal 2024 shooting, weapons incidents, and concerns about district oversight. The committee approved the motion 10-0. Next, staff presented the fiscal years 2027-2028 school district performance audit schedule, describing 26 randomly selected school districts and career and technical education districts, plus 84 planned follow-ups. The Auditor General said the schedule is intended to shorten the average time between audits and that the school audits division is now fully staffed. Members asked about county coverage and the inclusion of ESA accountability, but the schedule was ultimately presented for review rather than approval. The committee also heard a detailed federal compliance audit presentation on the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) administered by DES. The Auditor General reported repeated findings involving missing provider documentation, questioned costs, and FFATA reporting errors, including a 2024 sample that led to questioning $2.88 million in costs. The office recommended stronger documentation, record retention, reporting procedures, and staff training; DES concurred and said it would correct the findings in 2026. Members discussed the limits of the single-audit scope, the possibility of a broader special audit, and the federal government’s recent actions on CCDF oversight in other states. Finally, the committee considered and discussed a special audit request for CCDF that would broaden review to provider oversight, licensing, site visits, and billing accuracy across multiple state agencies, with estimated costs of $547,000 to $625,000 and a projected report date of July 31, 2027.

Transcript Highlights:

• And I'm happy to report that we're on a pace to do the same thing with all the measures we've taken in
• Chair, members, I report that we're on a pace to do the same thing with all the measures we've taken
• My only measures... Okay, so management.
• My only measures... Okay, so management. Management now, yes, ma'am. Okay, thank you.
• Measure the vote: seven aye, zero nay, zero absent, zero not voting.

Bills: HB2163 , HB2256 , HB2305 , HB2367 , HB2369 , HB2669 , HB2772 , HB2916 , HCM2007 , HCR2004 , HR2003

Committee: House Transportation & Infrastructure

Keywords: lighting laws, construction equipment, farm equipment, vehicle safety, Arizona Revised Statutes, salvage vehicles, insurance claims, abandoned vehicles, salvage auction dealers, vehicle title, towing regulation, private towing carriers, vehicle impound, towing rates, preemption, law enforcement, neighborhood electric vehicles, alternative fuel, vehicle license tax, tax exemption

Transcript Highlights:

• , maintain system reliability, and focus on measures that help make rates more equitable for all users
• So while we are addressing the current measures that have contributed to previous rate increases, we're
• This is definitely going to affect hundreds of thousands of measures. Thank you.
• It's another calculator to measure avoided costs that do measure the avoided costs of these projects.
• It's another calculator to measure avoided costs that do measure avoided costs of these, of these projects

Committee: House Utilities and Energy

Keywords: 988, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• While it may not be the perfect way of measuring business size, looking at the impacts of the individual
• </c> may not be the perfect way of measuring may not be the perfect way of measuring business<00:38:18.640
• Instead, they prevent Minnesota from becoming a tax outlier.
• Instead, they prevent Minnesota losers.
• Instead, they prevent Minnesota for<00:46:21.280><c> be</c><00:46:21.520><c> from</c><00:46:21.760><c

Bills: HF3127 , HF3816 , HF3814 , HF3815 , HF3817

Committee: House Taxes

Keywords: taxation, pass-through entity, qualifying owner, partnership, S corporation, tax return, corporate franchise tax, individual income tax, research expenditures, federal compliance, Minnesota Statutes, income tax, corporate tax, section 179, federal conformity, HF3815, Minnesota taxes, tax conformity, Internal Revenue Code, IRC conformity

Transcript Highlights:

• Thank you for your consideration and for the urgent and just measure.
• serving boston's children and her families thank you for your consideration and for the urgent and just measure
• Although flashing yellow lights and crash trucks are utilized, they're often not enough to prevent disaster

Committee: Joint Joint Committee on Public Service

Keywords: 995, all

Summary: The Joint Committee on Public Service heard testimony on a wide range of retirement classification and benefit bills affecting municipal and state employees. Much of the hearing focused on proposals to move various workers from Group 1 to Group 2 or Group 4, including municipal building officials (H. 2776), MassDOT highway workers (H. 2908/Sousa’s Law), DCF attorneys (H. 2771), probation officers, licensed electricians, drinking water operators (H. 3000/S. 1834), MWRA non-clerical workers (S. 1803), transitional parole officers (H. 2878), Plymouth BCI criminal investigator officers (H. 2975/S. 1863), Beverly fire alarm operators/public safety telecommunicators (S. 1876), Massport pipefitters and refrigeration technicians (H. 2788/S. 1829), and other public safety or hazardous-duty classifications. Witnesses generally argued that their work is physically dangerous, understaffed, or comparable to already higher-classified employees, and several said the changes would help recruitment and retention with little fiscal impact because the affected groups are small. The committee also heard testimony on H. 4508, a home rule petition to grant a disability pension to Boston principal Patricia Lampron. Supporters, including Representative Dan Hunt, Boston city councilors, and Lampron herself, described a severe 2021 assault at the Henderson Inclusion School that left her with lasting physical and psychological injuries and forced her into early retirement. They urged the committee to advance the bill quickly. One witness, Pamela McLaughlin, testified in opposition, arguing the bill would set the wrong precedent and describing alleged prior misconduct by Lampron, and asked that the bill be sent to study. Several witnesses and committee members asked brief questions, mainly about the scope of the bills, whether certain workers were already in higher groups, and the fiscal or precedent concerns. No votes were taken during the hearing. At the end, the chairs announced that testimony was complete, asked whether anyone else wished to speak, and then the committee voted to adjourn.