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• Community eligibility has been a tremendous success, eliminating burdensome red tape while increasing
• Community eligibility has played a key role. in allowing Minnesota to offer meals for children, to provide
• Programs like SNAP and meal service options like the Community Eligibility Provision work in tandem to
• She did something with communities and schools that was absolutely directed right at helping kids that
• It takes an economic snapshot of the community, called an ISP, using SNAP and Medicaid. data, schools

Bills: SB222

Committee: Senate Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee

Keywords: whole milk, school lunch, school meals, National School Lunch Program, Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act, Child Nutrition Act, USDA, nutrition standards, dairy, nonfat milk, low-fat milk, reduced-fat milk, lactose-free milk, nondairy beverages, plant-based milk, milk substitution, parental consent, legal guardian, food allergies, allergic reaction

Summary: This meeting of the committee focused primarily on the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act, S222, which aims to permit schools to offer a fuller range of milk options, including whole, reduced, and low-fat varieties, that have garnered bipartisan support. Chairman Bozeman opened the session by highlighting concerns over children's nutrition and the obesity epidemic, emphasizing the significance of nutritious school meals in addressing these issues. Experts from various organizations were invited to discuss the implications of this bill as well as the current challenges facing school meal programs, including budget constraints and food supply issues. The meeting included passionate testimonies about the direct impacts of current dietary guidelines and federal funding reductions affecting schools' abilities to provide healthy meal options.

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• As I have seen the benefits of a community...
• A community that cares for its youth sets boundaries and consequences, holding both parents and youth
• In a small community, it's not like you're going to stop at the same car four or five times.
• The juvenile curfew serves as a critical tool for maintaining community safety.
• Pursuing different avenues to protect our communities.

Bills: HB1511 , HB1831 , HB1988 , HB2147 , HB2234

Committee: House S/C on Juvenile Justice

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• to treat a patient's mental disorder, and to assist that patient in living and functioning in the community
• Obviously, if there's not an AOT program in that community or there's not an MOU with that municipality
• In that community or somewhere else, if the recommended AOT order includes medication, the expert must
• maps and those community action plans.
• I think we all see a lot of folks in our communities that need help.

Committee: House House Judiciary

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• So this committee has a lot to do with my community and how it affects my community.
• And we're not talking about just nutrients from farming communities, but nutrients that would come from
• all sources within those communities.
• all sources within those communities.
• This accountability is tracked with a weekly dashboard that is sent to the grower community by email

Summary: The Agriculture and Natural Resources Budget Committee met to organize for the session, confirm a quorum, and hear introductory remarks from members about their districts and interests. Chair Esposito outlined the committee’s jurisdiction and budget overview, noting a total budget of about $7.2 billion, with major funding tied to the Department of Environmental Protection, the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Fish and Wildlife, and the Department of Citrus. She also described major cost drivers such as Everglades restoration, water quality, resiliency, land acquisition, and rural family lands, and asked members to review agency requests in small groups later in the process. Agency leaders then presented budget and program updates. Agriculture Commissioner Wilton Simpson emphasized department efficiency efforts, including IT modernization, staff reorganization, rural and family lands conservation, best management practices, Fresh From Florida marketing, hurricane recovery loans for farmers, and completion of the Connor Complex headquarters. DEP Secretary Alexis Lambert highlighted record investments in Everglades restoration, water quality projects, resilience grants, land acquisition, state parks, and enforcement. FWC Executive Director Roger Young discussed conservation research, fisheries and wildlife management, law enforcement, disaster response, and pressures from growth, boating, invasive species, and derelict vessels. Department of Citrus Executive Director Shannon Shep reviewed the industry’s decline due to hurricanes and citrus greening, current research and marketing efforts, and e-commerce campaigns to support Florida citrus sales. Members asked questions about citrus production declines, future replanting and therapies, rural family lands, PFOS cleanup, mangrove restoration, flooding and pump infrastructure, agricultural theft, and derelict vessel removal. Officials generally responded with updates, emphasized science-based management and enforcement, and in several cases said they would follow up with more detailed information later. No formal votes were taken; the meeting ended with the chair directing members to provide feedback on agencies for further budget review and then adjournment.

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• They want to control the vision for their community.
• Land and so many of our folks from our ag community here.
• because the community says it's important.
• And when I think about community safety, do you feel? Community.
• I spent my career protecting my community.

Committee: Senate Rules

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• </c><00:19:43.200><c> as</c> clarity for our local communities as clarity for our local communities as
• </c><00:56:55.920><c> I</c> can walk around their communities. I can walk around their communities.
• </c> fairness of access in rural communities. fairness of access in rural communities.
• </c> infrastructure, and our communities. infrastructure, and our communities.
• </c> communities have felt from highways. communities have felt from highways.

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• Community impact. This gives veterans a voice.
• And we're educating the community when they come in.
• Strengthen community understanding of service itself.
• You can connect us with veteran organizations within your communities.
• They reach out of it, you know, throughout the local community. And I think it's a great model.

Committee: House Veterans and Armed Forces

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• trying to look at personally understanding why we had some of the issues in certain areas of the community
• It has to do with updating and modernizing our municipal audit process for small communities of under
• We have quite a few very small communities that get into financial problems because they're having a
• Follow up: Hi, I'm curious that if we're dealing with a smaller community, would they not have less in
• I know you brought up earlier resources, so our smaller communities would have less resources, and also

Bills: HB3002 , HB3416 , HB3417 , HB3418 , HB3419 , HB3463 , HB3919 , HB3985 , HB4303

Committee: Senate Local and County Government

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• My wonderful office manager, Denanisha Honda, and my amazing communications and community liaison, Rihanna
• Honda. and<00:01:27.759><c> my</c><00:01:28.000><c> amazing</c><00:01:28.560><c> communications</c><00
• :01:29.360><c> and</c> and my amazing communications and and my amazing communications and community<
• 00:01:30.159><c> liaison</c><00:01:30.880><c> Rihanna</c><00:01:31.360><c> Ramos,</c> community liaison
• Rihanna Ramos, community liaison Rihanna Ramos, legislative<00:01:33.840><c> aids</c><00:01:34.320><

Bills: SB2347 , SB2911 , SB2033 , SB2158 , SB2993 , SB2778 , SB2672 , SB2014 , SB3144 , SB3096 , SB3097 , SB2968 , SB2363 , SB3154 , SB2400 , SB3313 , SB2896 , SB3279 , SB2614 , SB2687 , SB2754 , SB2549 , SB3325 , SB2658 , SB2659 , SB2602 , SB2611 , SB2877 , SB3063 , SB2615 , SB3232 , SB2875 , SB3272 , SB2854 , SB3203 , SB2803 , SB2804 , SB3302 , SB3229 , SB2969 , SB2412 , SB2657 , SB2880 , SB2540 , SB2414 , SB3142 , SB3202 , SB2281 , SB2852 , SB2272 , SB2479 , SB2589 , SB2936 , SB2720 , SB2730 , SB2749 , SB2688 , SB2798 , SB3040 , SB3107 , SB3010 , SB3109 , SB3140 , SB3187 , SB2057 , SB2377 , SB3048 , SB3083 , SB3182

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• SB 1729, pedomership limits, plan communities. SB 1730, Cashiona Point Road.
• SB 1826, appropriation, wayfinding signs, rural communities.
• And now, therefore, be it resolved... ...and the community they serve.
• That path leads communities with fewer choices and higher financial exposure.
• But I want to thank you for the invaluable service that you provide for our community.

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• I'm a licensed clinical mental health counselor embedded in a 911 emergency communication center right
• My name is Lisa Cahill, and I'm the Director of Public Safety Communications in Marion County.
• My name is Lisa Cahill and I'm the Director of Public Safety Communications in Marion County and have
• I have been a 9-1-1 telecommunicator for 15 years, working at what is now a large regional communication
• And you're a huge part of our community. I just want to thank you for being here today.

Committee: Senate Governmental Oversight and Accountability

Summary: The Committee on Governmental Oversight and Accountability met and first heard Senate Bill 774, which would extend workers’ compensation coverage for mental or nervous injuries, without a physical injury, to 911 public safety telecommunicators. The bill sponsor and multiple dispatchers, counselors, and association representatives testified in support, describing repeated exposure to traumatic calls, staffing shortages, and the need for mental health treatment and retention support. Senators praised dispatchers’ work and emphasized that they are first responders in practice. SB 774 was reported favorably by roll call vote, with one senator later recording an affirmative vote on the bill. The committee then considered SPB 7028, a retirement bill setting Florida Retirement System employer contribution rates beginning July 1, 2026, without changing the 3% employee contribution rate. It also allows certain elected officers to receive a DROP payout under specified conditions and provides an alternative cost-of-living adjustment for special risk retirees meeting service requirements. Firefighters, police, and sheriffs’ association representatives supported the measure as a recruitment and retention tool. The committee voted to submit SPB 7028 as a committee bill and reported it favorably. Finally, the committee took up SPB 7024 and SPB 7026, both government records exemption bills. SPB 7024 repeals the current public records/public meeting exemption for cybersecurity information and consolidates agency-specific cybersecurity exemptions into one agency-wide exemption. SPB 7026 does the same for trade secret records held by agencies. Neither bill drew questions or testimony, and both were submitted as committee bills and reported favorably. The meeting then adjourned.

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• inspired by my wife's growing up on a farm, as well as our desire to provide wholesome food to our community
• This program also helped me connect with a community bank, which at the time was the only one listed
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• bank which at the time with a community bank which at the time was<00:05:22.479><c> the</c><00:05:22.600

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• Intergovernmental Affairs, HB 328 by VSU, relating to the regulation and manufactured home rental communities
• HB 357 by Lopez XR relating to defendants of the eligibility for reduction and termination of a community
• affordable housing information by certain municipalities in the Texas Department of Housing and Community
• of grant programs to support the elimination of illegally disposed of scrap tires referred to the Commune
• HB 493 by Shaheen relating to ineligibility to serve as a poll watcher referred to communal elections

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• </c> for people who are in our communities for people who are in our communities who<00:30:51.559><c>
• I had the support of my friends from the recovery community centers.
• I had the support of my friends from the recovery community centers.
• </c><01:19:47.440><c> but</c> individual members of the community but individual members of the community
• </c><01:32:45.520><c> um</c> what has happened in our communities um what has happened in our communities

Committee: Senate Judiciary

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• So they contribute to our communities.
• It's important we to our communities.
• ><00:47:50.319><c> support</c> Goosefoot Community Fund to support Goosefoot Community Fund to support
• </c> determination to serve her community determination to serve her community when<00:58:06.319><c>
• </c> such a vibrant Asian-American community. such a vibrant Asian-American community.

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• Are we talking a community of an HOA? Are we talking a community of a hamlet?
• Are we talking community of uh HOA?
• </c> this through those 335 communities. this through those 335 communities.
• That has been communicated to them.
• </c> million need to be communicated. million need to be communicated.

Committee: Joint Appropriations

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• </c><00:41:07.040><c> not</c> as a deterrent to the community not as a deterrent to the community not
• <c> some</c><00:41:13.119><c> relatively</c> communities under from some relatively communities under
• </c> of many communities. of many communities.
• </c> structures, open vistas, and community structures, open vistas, and community rooted<01:21:13.920
• . communities. communities.

Committee: House Ways and Means

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• May your peace and their communities.
• </c> funding the community mental health. funding the community mental health.
• </c> landfills expansion in their community. landfills expansion in their community.
• </c> going to serve their community as well. going to serve their community as well.
• . communities. communities.

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• </c> recovery community center. recovery community center.
• </c> director for SOS recovery community director for SOS recovery community organization<00:06:02.880
• We call them across communities.
• </c> integration into their new communities. integration into their new communities.
• </c> immediate community. immediate community.

Committee: House Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs

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• Community infrastructure districts exist currently in Idaho.
• Who generates or leads that to get this into those communities?
• The community infrastructure, Everything that is going to be funded, the community infrastructure that
• I believe that it could be amended, but it's a general plan for regional community infrastructure.
• So those are, For regional community infrastructure.

Committee: House Revenue and Taxation