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• or a real-time system.
• So that's going forward, but the real-time system or the monthly system won't be available for a few
• a monthly system or a real-time<00:41:45.280><c> system.
• So that's going real-time system.
• </c> forward, but the the real-time system forward, but the the real-time system won't<00:41:48.720><

Bills: HB0130 , HB0095 , HB0096 , HB0097 , SF0101 , SF0106 , SF0067 , SF0123

Committee: Senate Appropriations

Keywords: Second Amendment, firearms, state rights, federal regulation, law enforcement, civil penalties, government liability, concealed carry, public colleges, university facilities, weapons legislation, self-defense, campus safety, weapons, age requirement, permits, HB0097, Wyoming firearms privacy, merchant category code, MCC

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• Vital status system is an essential public health infrastructure.
• </c> from vital records uh statistic system from vital records uh statistic system or<00:33:10.880><c
• One uh integrated eligibility system.
• It is then downloaded to<00:48:30.800><c> our</c><00:48:31.119><c> system.
• Um it has been referenced to our system.

Committee: House Health, Human Services & Elderly Affairs

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• Hearing none, we'll proceed then with SB 386, relating to water systems.
• This requires DNR to acquire all West Maui water systems by eminent domain and hold the water system
• This requires DNR to acquire all West Maui water systems by eminent domain and hold the water system
• This requires DNR to acquire all West Maui water systems by eminent domain and hold the water system
• SB 386, relating to water systems, we will be deferring this measure.

Keywords: 912, senate, all

Summary: The committee first took up SB 534, a measure concerning development in Kakaʻako Makai involving the Hawaii Community Development Authority and the Office of Hawaiian Affairs. The chairs explained that the hearing was decision-making only and no testimony would be accepted, though members could ask clarifying questions. The chair outlined amendments to clarify HCDA’s approval process, require an environmental impact statement before residential development proposals are submitted, require Department of Health documentation on hazardous substances, and specify that only OHA-owned parcels would be eligible for certain residential development with a 400-foot height limit and maximum floor area ratio of 10.0. The amendments also addressed affordability, owner-occupancy, association fees, and a special fund, while noting Attorney General concerns that the fee could be construed as a tax and suggesting further review by Judiciary and Ways and Means. Members discussed the affordability threshold, with one senator suggesting 160% AMI instead of 140% due to high housing costs and concern that essential workers could be priced out. Others raised concerns about Native Hawaiian affordability, the long-term effect of perpetuity restrictions, and whether the process would protect OHA’s interests. An HCDA representative said 140% AMI was used in existing reserve housing rules and that lower thresholds could make development economically infeasible. OHA and other supporters said the proposal was still early in planning and emphasized the need for public hearings, community input, and compliance with environmental and remediation standards. The committees voted to pass SB 534 with amendments: Water and Land approved it 4-1, and Hawaiian Affairs also adopted the chair’s recommendation, with one member excused and one voting no. The meeting then moved to SB 3, relating to water resource management. The bill would authorize the Commission on Water Resource Management to retain independent legal counsel, create an executive director position, allow challenges to emergency orders under certain conditions, establish fines for water use offenses, and revise emergency and shortage declaration procedures; Red Hill-related provisions were noted as removed from this version. Testimony was largely supportive, including from DLNR, the Board of Water Supply, OHA, and Sierra Club, with OHA stressing the measure’s importance to Native Hawaiian water rights and past litigation. A Department of Hawaiian Home Lands representative supported the bill with amendments and recommended explicit language directing the commission chair or designee to advocate for water rights and reservations for homelands. The chair indicated the committees would use the prior Senate-passed version as the basis for further action, and the discussion then moved on to SB 130, a search-and-rescue reimbursement bill.

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• That's the whole system. Leader Pizzo. Thank you.
• The university systems have their own application system, and when you apply, you have to prove what
• There are 2,000 in the university system. There are 4,500 in the college system.
• So, Senator Fine, those who are in the college system, isn't that an open enrollment system where all
• So that money would still be part of the university system.

Summary: The Senate opened with a quorum, prayer, and the Pledge of Allegiance, then read an amended joint proclamation expanding the special session call to include financial penalties for government officials, criminal penalties for offenses committed by illegal aliens, and programs and appropriations to support law enforcement cooperation with federal immigration enforcement. No committee reports, governor’s messages, or House messages were on the desk before the chamber moved to the special order calendar. The main item was Committee Substitute for Senate Bill 2B, the immigration bill, along with a late-filed strike-all amendment by Senator Gruters. Gruters said the amendment aligned terminology with federal law, increased penalties for crimes by unauthorized aliens, added transnational crime organizations to gang definitions, required stronger participation in the federal 287(g) program, created financial penalties for noncompliance, offered a $1,000 bonus for officers assisting ICE in large operations, directed more information-sharing with federal agencies, and barred DHSMV from issuing licenses or IDs to unauthorized aliens. He framed the bill as supporting President Trump’s immigration agenda and focusing on criminal illegal aliens rather than street-level enforcement. A long question-and-answer period followed, with Senators Polsky, Pizzo, Smith, Jones, Roscoe, Berman, and others pressing the sponsor on scope, legality, costs, and implementation. Questions focused on whether the bill would require participation beyond jails and detention centers, whether schools or churches could be affected, liability and immunity for local agencies, the size and purpose of the proposed appropriations, and the impact on undocumented students receiving in-state tuition waivers. Gruters and Senator Fine said the 287(g) provisions were intended to apply to jails and detention facilities, that green-card holders and lawful residents would not be affected, and that the tuition waiver repeal would end discounted tuition for students in the country illegally while not affecting their ability to attend. Fine also defended the mandatory death penalty provision for certain capital offenses committed by illegal immigrants, acknowledging it would likely be challenged in court but arguing the bill was designed to test and advance the policy. No final vote or other action on the bill is reflected in the excerpt.

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• </c> able to then how to navigate the system able to then how to navigate the system um<00:04:13.000>
• This is done by schools, not by systems, right?
• </c> this is done by schools not by systems this is done by schools not by systems right<00:16:13.560
• <00:18:06.440><c> relies</c><00:18:06.840><c> on</c> system relies on system relies on timekeepers<00
• I mean, that goes on. system it's not like they're all bidding system it's not like they're all bidding

Keywords: 912, senate, all

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• Peter's York, health systems like St.
• </c> community such as immune system community such as immune system disorders<04:08:18.560><c> or</c
• </c> disease that causes the nervous system disease that causes the nervous system to<04:20:14.239><c
• This is their system federal workers.
• </c> however, our federal procurement system however, our federal procurement system does<04:59:54.560

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Monday, July 20, 2026, 1012, house, all

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• So that system wasn't really built to help individuals in the true sense.
• Many of you know that I grew up in the foster care system.
• I specifically was a ward of Alameda County's foster care system.
• These detention systems These detention systems, which have existed for decades, are evolving into even
• We need a transparent system.

Committee: House Local Government

Keywords: 988, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• The University of Missouri system, for example, is it $8,983?
• Then you start having challenges in K-12 systems and school teachers.
• We've been putting a lot of our IT systems under the spotlight.
• Okay, the next item is our case management system.
• We're buying an off-the-shelf system and then getting us kind of moved.

Summary: The committee first heard the Office of State Treasurer’s FY27 budget presentation from Treasurer Vivek Malik. He highlighted record investment earnings, growth in MOBUCK$ linked deposits, record unclaimed property returns, expansion of the MOST 529 plan, and changes to the MoABLE disability savings program. Members then focused heavily on two budget requests: $750,000 for the Show Me My Retirement Savings program and additional spending authority for the Missouri Empowerment Scholarship Accounts (MOST Scholars) program, along with a staffing request for compliance and communications positions. Much of the discussion centered on MOST Scholars’ rapid growth, how applications are prioritized, whether income is reverified, how funds flow through educational assistance organizations, and concerns about marketing, geographic distribution, and the use of public dollars for private schools. The treasurer also answered questions about the 529 plan, the pending lawsuit over the ESA general-revenue transfer, and whether funds should be swept back to general revenue when unused. Several members raised policy objections to MOST Scholars, including concerns about discrimination by participating private schools, the lack of annual income requalification, and whether the program shifts money away from public education. Other members defended the program as a parent-driven choice option and asked about expanding access, improving outreach, and ensuring the program is fully funded. The treasurer said the office was following the statute as written, that the program’s demand could exceed available resources, and that the office would continue to seek more funding and better outreach. The committee then concluded the treasurer’s budget hearing. The committee next began the FY27 budget hearing for the Department of Higher Education and Workforce Development. Commissioner Bennett Boggs introduced the department’s leadership team and gave a brief overview of the department’s role in aligning postsecondary education with workforce needs through its coordinating board and strategic planning. The hearing had just started when the transcript ended, and no votes or final actions were taken in the portion provided.

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• that is often cited as numbering system that is often cited as the<00:22:29.760><c> national</c><00:
• Currently, no centralized system exists for accessing information on what transfers to where and what
• </c> each community college, the KCTC system each community college, the KCTC system may<00:38:39.119
• So you can um equivalency system, TEES.
• We system in general across the state.

Committee: House Postsecondary Education

Keywords: 958, all

Transcript Highlights:

• Um, Edward Chu, Hawaii Health Systems Corporation, providing comments. Ellen Aai, in support.
• Um, Edward Chu, Hawaii Health Systems Corporation, providing comments. Ellen Aai, in support.
• Hawaii Correctional System Oversight Commission providing comments.
• </c> continue the failed prohibition system continue the failed prohibition system and<01:05:20.440><
• c> forfeit</c> system of systemic inequities forfeit system of systemic inequities forfeit millions<01

Committee: Senate Health and Human Services

Keywords: 912, senate, all

Summary: The joint Health and Human Services and Judiciary meeting heard testimony on several measures, with most of the discussion focused on SB 709 and SB 955. On SB 709, relating to mental health data and related appropriations, the Department of Health supported the bill’s intent and said the funding would help maintain a data dashboard and positions, though it had no suggested amount for one blank appropriation. Members also discussed whether sections of the bill were duplicative of existing data reporting. The committees later recommended SB 709 be passed with amendments, including technical changes, deferring the date to December 31, 2050, and blanking out the appropriation for later clarification. SB 955, relating to fitness to proceed, drew mixed testimony. Judiciary opposed portions of the bill, saying some changes could have unintended practical consequences. The Office of the Public Defender supported the bill’s intent but urged keeping a three-member evaluation panel rather than reducing it to two, warning that a two-panel process could create delays if a third evaluator had to be added later. A former Hawaii State Hospital clinician said the bill placed too much blame on the courts and should address institutional and administrative problems at the hospital more directly. The Department of Health supported the intent and said it appreciated efforts to address overcrowding. After discussion about examiner shortages and status hearings, the committees recommended SB 955 be passed with amendments reducing the number of qualified examiners from three to one and making related technical changes. The committee also heard SB 1228, a child welfare services measure creating a working group related to youth legal representation and child welfare reform. DHS requested adding a Child Welfare Services representative to the work group, and multiple advocates, including the National Center for Youth Law and Hawaii Youth Services Network, testified in strong support, emphasizing the need for youth voice and implementation of Malama Ohana recommendations. Members asked whether this working group overlapped with another recently passed working group bill; testimony indicated the two measures addressed different issues. The meeting then recessed and later resumed for decision-making on the 9 o’clock calendar, where SB 709 was adopted with amendments and SB 955 was adopted with amendments.

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• </c><00:12:25.120><c> that</c><00:12:25.320><c> runs</c> The midcontinental Rift system that runs The
• midcontinental Rift system that runs through<00:12:26.639><c> Minnesota</c><00:12:27.279><c> from</c
• whether they move to a systems whether they move to a water-based<01:03:43.359><c> system</c><01:03:
• </c> need more time to move to a new system need more time to move to a new system and<01:06:35.279><
• They are the only ones currently using those types of systems.

Committee: House Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Policy

Keywords: 1183, house

Transcript Highlights:

• By endorsing for a radio, we're asking for a tiered system, with the revenue...
• The machines will be connected to a central system. Thank you.
• They use a dual-currency system where you buy sweep coins.
• We call it the system of taxation by exploitation.
• We call it the system of taxation by exploitation.

Committee: Joint Joint Committee on Economic Development and Emerging Technologies

Keywords: 995, all

Summary: The committee on Economic Development and Emerging Technologies, chaired by Rep. Carole Fiola and Sen. Barry Finegold, held a lengthy hearing on a range of gambling-related bills. Testimony first focused on H. 496 to allow the Massachusetts Gaming Commission to authorize Plain Ridge Park Casino to add table games and more slot machines. Supporters, including Rep. Jeffrey Roy, Sen. Finegold, Rep. Barry R. Finegold, Rep. Brian Vaughn, and Plainville officials, argued the change was needed to keep Massachusetts gaming dollars from flowing to Rhode Island, protect jobs, and preserve local tax revenue. They described Plain Ridge as a strong community partner and cited host-community benefits such as municipal infrastructure projects and local aid. Opponents or skeptical witnesses later argued that expanded gambling, especially online, would increase harm and cannibalize existing casinos and local economies. The committee also heard testimony on bills related to sports betting restrictions and online gambling. Sen. John Keenan presented a “Better Health Act” proposal to ban prop bets and in-play bets, require affordability checks, prohibit hosts, raise the sports betting excise tax, expand funding for problem-gambling services, and increase research and data sharing. He and supporters framed the bill as a public-health response to addiction, suicide, bankruptcy, and other harms. Rep. David Nangle, speaking from personal experience with gambling addiction, strongly opposed internet gaming, warning that it would intensify addiction and expose children and families to 24/7 gambling on phones. In contrast, Rep. David Moradian and industry witnesses supported H. 4431 to legalize and regulate internet gaming, arguing it would bring illegal activity into a regulated market, generate new revenue, and include consumer protections such as age verification, deposit limits, self-exclusion, and responsible-gaming tools. The committee also took testimony on H. 4238, which would expand fundraising options for fraternal organizations, especially the Elks. Rep. Bruce Ayers and Elks representatives said the bill would help lodges raise money for scholarships, veterans’ services, and community programs after COVID-related losses and declining membership. On H. 480, Rep. Kathleen LaNatra, Rep. Badger, and representatives of veterans organizations and gaming-machine operators urged allowing qualified veterans groups to participate in certain video gaming activity, saying it would provide a sustainable revenue source to keep posts open and support veterans’ services. Dr. Rachel Volberg testified that expanding gambling, especially online gambling and slot machines at veterans organizations, would likely increase gambling harm, and she urged stronger harm-prevention measures, data reporting, and research funding. Other witnesses, including anti-gambling advocates and industry representatives, sharply disagreed over whether legalization would reduce illegal gambling or worsen addiction and social costs. No votes or final actions were taken during the hearing.

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• But the rest of the money, or the delta, will still be retained in the CCO and dental system.
• So that funding is supposed to stay in the system.
• So that funding is supposed to stay in the system.
• in the broader economy working its way through the system.
• But, you know, we do not regulate health care providers or other entities in the system.

Keywords: 907, all

Summary: The committee held an informational hearing focused first on Oregon Medicaid coordinated care organization (CCO) finances and rate setting. Oregon Health Authority staff explained how 2025 CCO financial results will inform 2027 capitation rates, including reserve requirements, subcapitation arrangements, and major cost drivers such as behavioral health, pharmacy, rural hospital costs, and dental directed payments. They said the Legislature’s added 2025 funding materially improved CCO margins and that, without it, the program would have been negative overall. Members asked about retained earnings, subcapitation, behavioral health utilization, ABA therapy, and whether outcomes are being evaluated; OHA said rate setting is actuarial and that CCOs, OHA, and other partners all play roles in monitoring efficacy and access. OHA also reviewed House Bill 4039 changes intended to increase transparency and give CCOs earlier access to rate information and reconciliation exhibits. CCO representatives then testified that the system is under significant financial pressure and that behavioral health state-directed payments, benefit changes, and federal uncertainty from H.R. 1 are reducing flexibility. CareOregon said it has lost more than $500 million over the last couple of years and is now making provider terminations and other network changes to align spending with available funding, while emphasizing that CCOs must make hard decisions about which services and providers can be sustained. Eastern Oregon CCO said rural and frontier factors, cost-based hospitals, air ambulance needs, and statewide efficiency adjustments are not fully reflected in rates, and that dental funding is especially strained. Trillium similarly warned that state-directed payments and benefit expansion pressures are constraining the global budget model and that H.R. 1 could worsen acuity and volatility. Members pressed the witnesses on who is responsible for evaluating treatment effectiveness, especially for ABA and psychotherapy, and on how utilization limits and reimbursement changes are being used to control costs. The committee then shifted to an overview of the Affordable Care Act and Oregon’s commercial insurance market. Department of Consumer and Business Services staff explained actuarial value, metal tiers, premium tax credits, medical loss ratio rules, and the main drivers of premium rates: cost trend, utilization trend, and administrative costs. They said mandates have likely added only a limited amount to premiums over the past decade, though the exact effect is difficult to isolate, and they gave examples of how high-cost, low-volume services versus broad, high-utilization services can affect rates differently. Staff also noted that Providence Health Plan and PacificSource Health Plans are withdrawing from the individual market, though consumers should still have at least three insurer options in every county and may have four in many counties. The division said it is in the middle of reviewing proposed 2027 rates and will continue its public rate review process, including hearings and written comment.

Transcript Highlights:

• And we've also heard... ...to navigate the customer service system at their lender or servicer.
• We've got people in our system. We can contact and we have contact information.
• What we are seeing on the ground does not match the systems that are being described.
• I don't have a lot of faith in that system. And so I think that the state needs a third way.
• I don't have a lot of faith in the capitalist system. I do have more faith in our government.

Committee: House Banking and Finance

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• But if we use a letter system to quantify what that APR score means, and that's essentially what we're
• Peer review is an important tool used throughout the health care system.
• Well, you know, our doctors, our nurses, so many in health care are already a part of this system.
• And make our system more fair is a very big job, and he did it very well.
• It'll make the system more fair, and I would encourage the body to support this bill and get it over

Keywords: 959, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• So that was the tax system.
• The Mexican system really didn't change anything because they didn't have a system to copy.
• And so that was the basic tax system.
• And so that was the basic tax system.
• We know that the tax system confuses folks.

Bills: SB36 , SB88 , SB92 , SB97 , SB48 , SB55 , SB58 , SB76 , SB93 , SB89 , SB60

Committee: Senate Senate Tax, Business & Transportation

Keywords: quantum technology, tax credit, infrastructure, economic development, New Mexico, corporate tax, research and development, innovation, foster care, income tax, guardianship, youth services, financial relief, affordable housing, gross receipts tax, tax deduction, construction materials, multifamily housing, low income, tax credits

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• Heat pumps are a highly efficient, zero-pollution option for HVAC systems and water heaters that make
• that those systems can release in heat pump also eliminates harmful pollutants that those systems can
• Most people replace their water heaters or heating systems only when the old ones break.
• Foster youth do not have that support system. They have nobody to fall back on.
• So, again, no fault of their own, they are in the system for one reason or another.

Committee: Senate Housing

Keywords: 987, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• So we have a system... That's a little bit splintered and needs to be worked on.
• Need to be embedded into our overall education system for the state.
• And then there's A heightened criteria version, which activates the IPAW system.
• But it's incumbent upon our systems, our bureaucratic systems, to reduce the red tape. the complexity
• So I just wanted to say that because it is incumbent upon those systems.

Committee: House House Government, Elections & Indian Affairs

Transcript Highlights:

• For emergencies, we've created that system, but it's not funded in the way it can be.
• And do we have systems that will give us sufficient time? Pathways that'll get us out.
• And allows that money to go back into the system.
• It can't be too old with all of the systems getting ready to fail, just condition issues.
• However, it creates new wrinkles for the system to address.

Committee: House New Mexico Finance Authority Oversight Committee

Transcript Highlights:

• So, our system, we do have a very sophisticated integrated eligibility and enrollment system that actually
• We have several types of assistance in our system, but our information technology system that does it
• We have one of the better eligibility and enrollment systems in the nation, and as a matter of fact,
• several states have used our platform and built theirs to ensure that their system is as accurate and
• ,</c><00:29:54.280><c> as</c><00:29:54.400><c> I</c> However, our sophista our system, as I However,

Keywords: 958, all

Summary: The Budget Review Subcommittee for Health and Family Services met for its first meeting, established quorum, and heard a presentation from Department for Medicaid Services Commissioner Lisa Lee and CFO Steve Becktold. The department reviewed its compliance with House Bill 695, which requires legislative approval before certain Medicaid eligibility, service, benefit, or waiver changes, along with fiscal impact reporting to the Legislative Research Commission. They described current waivers, including home and community-based waivers, managed care and transportation waivers, and the 1115 re-entry waiver, and said the community engagement waiver is in public comment and on track for submission to CMS. They also said required reports and other HB 695 tasks, including a pharmacy rebate fund, budget analyses, expenditure reports, and a behavioral health scorecard, are underway or completed as required. The CFO outlined Medicaid’s budget, saying the department has two appropriation units and projecting near-full use of state funds while leaving some federal funds unspent because of matching-rate differences. They reported roughly 211 filled positions and 11 vacancies. Members asked about the vacancy makeup, the behavioral health scorecard, and whether a provider involved in quality metrics could have a conflict if used in the scorecard process; the department said it would follow up. Members also asked about the community engagement waiver and its interaction with federal policy, and the department said CMS guidance is still pending and that it will proceed under HB 695. A substantial portion of the discussion focused on federal Medicaid policy changes under a reconciliation bill, including possible limits on provider taxes, directed payments, cost-sharing, and community engagement requirements. Department officials said the final federal impact is still uncertain because the Senate bill is not finalized, but they have modeled several scenarios and warned that any reduction in federal support or benefits would be harmful, especially for hospitals and rural hospitals. They estimated Medicaid benefits are funded about 80% federal and 20% state overall, with expansion populations closer to 90% federal funding, and said administrative costs would also rise if federal requirements change. Members also asked about work requirements and eligibility. The department said the community engagement waiver would mainly affect the expansion population, which they estimated at about 450,000 people out of roughly 1.5 million total Medicaid enrollees, and that many groups are exempt, including children, the aged, blind, disabled, and people in substance use disorder treatment. Officials said they can provide data on how many enrollees are working or work-ready and explained that their eligibility system is designed to prevent duplication by automatically placing people in the correct category and correcting errors quickly. They also noted a federal proposal to require expansion eligibility reviews every six months, compared with current annual renewals.