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• That's the American Academy of Pediatrics and, of course, Center for Disease Control.
• Gordon here with the Louisiana American Academy of Pediatrics.
• We have Megan Gerritsen with Young Scholars Academy. I mean, I would never want...
• We have Megan Gerritsen with Young Scholars Academy.
• We have Megan Garrison with Young Scholars Academy.

Bills: HCR47 , HB628 , HB737 , HB1008 , HB1062 , HB1079 , HB1112

Committee: House Education

Keywords: mandatory reporter, child abuse training, online training, Department of Children and Family Services, Department of Education, educator requirements, early childhood education, microcenter, school board, cooperative endeavor, economic disadvantage, vaccination, meningococcal disease, school entry, immunization requirements, public health, academic freedom, free speech, retaliation, faculty rights

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• Bridges to Healthcare, $1 million; Propel Nonprofits, $2 million; Summit Academy OIC, $1.5 million; Better
• On line 38, there's an increase to the Minnesota Virtual Academy Career Pathway Program of $140,000 in
• the On line 38, there's an increase to the Minnesota<00:32:22.159><c> Virtual</c><00:32:22.559><c> Academy
• </c><00:32:23.039><c> Career</c><00:32:23.360><c> Pathway</c> Minnesota Virtual Academy Career Pathway
• Minnesota Virtual Academy Career Pathway Program<00:32:24.919><c> of</c><00:32:25.919><c> 140,000</c

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• Bryan Station High, my alma mater, Martin Luther King Academy, Scott County, Booker T. Washington.
• Bryan Station High, my alma mater, Martin Luther King Academy, Scott County, Booker T. Washington.
• It's basically the Cloverport virtual academy.
• It's basically the Cloverport virtual academy.
• Cloverport virtual academy.

Summary: The Senate Education Committee heard House Bill 132, which would change home and hospital instruction funding so schools can be reimbursed sooner when students miss school for short-term mental health-related stays. Representative Nick Wilson said current law requires a student to be out five days before funding begins, leaving schools unpaid when they provide instruction during 2- to 4-day absences. The committee gave HB 132 favorable expression unanimously. The committee then heard House Bill 193, a cleanup bill on dual credit scholarships. Representative J.T. Payne and KHEAA’s director explained that the bill consolidates academic and CTE dual credit scholarships into one statute to reduce administrative confusion, since the programs have been funded together in recent budgets. HB 193 passed unanimously with favorable expression. House Bill 241 drew the most discussion. The committee first adopted a substitute, which members said changed the bill to give the Commissioner of Education discretion, rather than a mandate, to grant calamity days. The bill and substitute centered on virtual instruction and Cloverport Virtual Academy: supporters said the school was a pilot project that needed more time and that a prior agency effort to cap virtual instruction would have effectively shut it down, while opponents argued the substitute would reward a low-performing virtual model and extend NTI/virtual learning too broadly. Testimony from an Oldham County parent criticized NTI quality and opposed adding more virtual days. No final vote on HB 241 was included in the portion provided.

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• Unfortunately, we won't be there because that's during our Academy for our suicide mortality review,
• Unfortunately, we won't be there because that's during our Academy for our suicide mortality review,
• Unfortunately, we won't be there because that's during our Academy for our suicide mortality review,
• Unfortunately, we won't be there because that's during our Academy for our suicide mortality review,
• Unfortunately, we won't be there because that's during our Academy for our suicide mortality review,

Committee: Senate Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband, and Rural Development - Subcommittee on Veterans

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• As far as slung shots, we heard it was a maritime tool.
• we heard it um as far as slung shots uh we heard it was<01:14:41.280><c> a</c><01:14:41.360><c> maritime
• ><c> uh</c><01:14:42.800><c> it's</c><01:14:42.960><c> like</c><01:14:43.159><c> we're</c> was a maritime
• Tool uh it's like we're was a maritime Tool uh it's like we're you<01:14:43.600><c> know</c><01:14:44.120

Committee: House Criminal Justice and Public Safety

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• Christine Weithman from the Mass Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. And Sarah Conca.
• Mass Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Welcome. All right, is it still morning? Yes.
• Dietary supplements sold for weight loss and muscle building are not recommended by the American Academy
• Dietary supplements sold for weight loss and muscle building are not recommended by the American Academy
• The American Academy of Pediatrics, as noted, has warned against adolescents and use of diet pills or

Committee: Joint Joint Committee on Public Health

Summary: The Joint Committee on Public Health heard testimony on a wide range of bills focused on environmental health, disease prevention, and access to care. Major topics included restricting polystyrene use, creating a pancreatic cancer awareness and early-detection initiative, improving indoor air quality through a task force and new regulations, expanding access to epinephrine in public places, improving access to health care for people with long COVID, creating an OBGYN loan repayment program for underserved areas, expanding access to hygiene products, modernizing licensure for dietitians and nutritionists, updating school postural screening requirements, and restricting harmful diet pills and muscle-building supplements. Several legislators also testified in support of their own bills, including measures on menstrual product access and ingredient disclosure, and surgical smoke protections. Testimony on the polystyrene bill emphasized local municipal bans and the need to reduce plastic pollution. Pancreatic cancer advocates and patients described the disease’s low survival rate, the difficulty of early diagnosis, and the need for an awareness campaign and implementation of commission recommendations. Indoor air quality supporters from environmental justice groups, public health organizations, and residents described asthma, mold, pollution, and the need for a task force with technical expertise; some witnesses urged adding remediation professionals to the task force. On epinephrine access, family members of a man who died after a bee sting and an allergy organization stressed that anaphylaxis can be sudden and fatal and that stock epinephrine in public venues could save lives. Long COVID advocates said the condition affects hundreds of thousands of residents and called for better surveillance and access to care, with a request to include MECFS in the bills’ scope. Other testimony focused on workforce and equity issues. Supporters of the OBGYN loan repayment bill said it would help address maternal health disparities and provider shortages, especially in rural and underserved communities. Hope and Comfort described widespread hygiene insecurity and a long waiting list for basic products, urging a task force to study statewide solutions. Dietitians and nutritionists supported modernization of licensure to clarify standards for medical nutrition therapy while allowing broader wellness counseling. School nurses backed reducing mandatory postural screenings, arguing the current law is not evidence-based, is not reimbursed by MassHealth, and takes time from other student health needs. On the supplement bill, the industry trade group opposed restrictions as overbroad and burdensome, while a public health expert cited research linking weight-loss and muscle-building supplements to serious harms and urged passage. The committee also heard support for menstrual product access and surgical smoke protections, with legislators and advocates describing those bills as longstanding priorities.

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• the IT Academy.
• Prodigy Learning is the now public-private partnership formerly known as IT Academy.
• I made my 21st year as a business education, IT Academy teacher, testifying other.
• As a business education IT Academy teacher, I am testifying in opposition.
• First, I want to thank you for continuing to fund the IT Academy program.

Bills: SB5998

Committee: Senate Ways & Means

Keywords: fiscal appropriations, budget, state funding, financial management, operating expenses

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• He earned a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from the United States Air Force Academy, a Master
• error in. in your packet, but it says that you went to high school and graduated from Culver Military Academy
• see Apollo 15 go as well, but I went to Culver thinking that I. might want to go to the Air Force Academy
• I did interview at the Air Force Academy, but sitting in my dorm room at age 17, I decided that my father
• For example, the Bezos Academy is coming to TWU, which is going to be great.

Committee: Senate Nominations

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• In the gallery today as well are students from Kolo Baptist Academy and Kaneohe.
• today as well are students from Kolo today as well are students from Kolo Baptist<00:01:48.640><c> Academy
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• I'd like to Baptist Academy and Kaneoh. I'd like to introduce<00:01:51.200><c> them.

Bills: HB9 , SB2069 , SB2342 , SB2861 , SB3123 , SB2623 , SB585 , SB2211 , SB2446 , SB2919 , SB2125 , SB2116 , SB2999 , SB2656 , SB2001 , SB3169

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• Elliott, on behalf of the California State Association of Psychiatrists, as well as the California Academy
• Thank you very much, Vanessa Cahina, on behalf of the California Academy of Family Physicians, in full
• Vanessa Cahina, on behalf of the California Academy of Family Physicians, in full alignment with Madam
• Thank you very much, Vanessa Cahina, on behalf of the California Academy of Family Physicians in full

Committee: House Health

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• legislative body, we've been down this road before and we made commitments. to math and also English academies
• Knowing that if we invest in these academies, if we invest in these teachers, then it would help with
• I'm hoping—I'm making a statement today—that when times get tough, and they will get tough, these academies
• of us that are here remember this testimony today and the commitment that we're making to these academies

Bills: HB 123 , HB5606 , HB549 , HB2757 , HB4359 , HB5381 , HB1939 , HB123

Committees: Senate Education , Senate Education K-16

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• Funding for the Williamson County training Academy facility represents the largest decrease at $381.5
• The training academy at Florence was really a critical need for DPS.
• When I went through patrol school in 1990, our training academy was falling down on North Lamar, and
• Very challenging, and it adds about two weeks onto our academy training.

Committee: House Appropriations - S/C on Articles I, IV, & V

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• This room is exclusively used for the full-time Police Academy.
• Currently, we're doing three academy classes.
• Currently right now, our academies will take 64 for three sessions.
• That is the Fire Academy new truck. So that's your 1332 project.
• The previous item is your number 1331, the Fire Academy HVAC.

Summary: The Department of Administrative Services presented its capital budget process and priorities, explaining that it maintains and operates 96 state buildings and uses annual facility walkthroughs, condition assessments, and rough cost estimates to rank projects for the governor’s capital budget. Officials described how requests are triaged, how the governor’s office and Public Works refine estimates, and how the resulting capital budget book serves as legislative intent for approved projects. They also noted that this year the governor’s office asked for estimates on all selected projects, which increased workload but reduced detail. The department highlighted several requested projects, including $1.5 million for the ERP system sustainability fund, which officials said is critical because the state is upgrading its core financial, HR, and budget system to the cloud. Other priorities included courthouse HVAC and boiler work, brick repointing at the State House annex/main building, window replacement at the Spalding building, and elevator replacement on the hospital campus. Officials also said the governor’s proposed capital budget included fewer DAS projects than in past years and asked the committee to consider funding closer to historic levels. The committee then reviewed lapse and reallocation items. DAS said most older projects are still in design, bid, or construction because projects now take four to six years rather than two to three, in part due to ARPA-related workload and post-COVID construction backlogs. Members discussed lapsing $81,000 from the completed Spalding roof project and redirecting small remaining balances from several 2019 projects toward the Hillsboro County South cell block project through the Capital Project Overview Committee. Officials also confirmed ARPA-funded projects are expected to be completed before the December 2026 deadline and explained that the ERP system is the main state IT exception outside DOIT’s usual centralized control, though it still requires DOIT consultation and approval.

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• For the past school years I've been proud principal of Conner ISD's Virtual Academy in Connors, Texas
• I'm assistant principal at Texas Virtual Academy at Hallsville.
• That's from Lone Star Online Academy. Boy, that was in first grade.
• After this did so well, Academy Awards swept the nation.
• Academy Award was the guy who dedicated the marble monument.

Bills: SB 10 , SB 11

Committees: Senate Education K-16 , Senate Education

Keywords: human trafficking, trafficking victim, compelling prostitution, affirmative defense, criminal defense, coercion, force fraud or coercion, sexual exploitation, victim protection, Penal Code, Texas criminal law, prosecution, party liability, affirmative defense statute, survivor rights

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• A key part of that work is recruit training at the State Police Academy.
• final report of the IACP that has conducted an assessment at the State Police Academy.
• final report of the IACP that has conducted an assessment at the State Police Academy.
• because they never went to a basic academy and ended up not going.
• There's other approved academies. The MBTA has one academy." "Is one of them, for now?"

Committee: Joint Joint Committee on Ways and Means

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• notice, handed out, the charter school involved specifically in that was ILA, Idaho Home Learning Academy
• This today is about the Idaho Home Learning Academy.
• This today is about the Idaho Home Learning Academy, which really, as we evolve our education system,
• Members may recall that the Idaho Home Learning Academy was part of, or the subject of, an Office of
• I recall that the Idaho Home Learning Academy was part of, or the subject of, an Office of Performance

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• Yesterday, our team and I were able to visit the CHP Training Academy, learn the history of the CHP,
• He graduated from the Army and Navy Academy in Carlsbad in 1947 and went on to study citrus production
• He remained active on his farm and gave back as an emeritus trustee of the Army and Navy Academy.
• He remained active on his farm and gave back as an emeritus trustee of the Army and Navy Academy.
• He remained active on his farm and gave back as an emeritus trustee of the Army and Navy Academy.

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• He is a member of several professional organizations, including the American Academy of Family Physicians
• , the Texas Academy of Family Physicians, and the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine.
• Senator Hinojosa of Hidalgo County: ...the American Academy of Family Physicians, the Texas Academy of
• six years of active duty, then four years in the reserve, and then went through TEEX, the Police Academy

Bills: SJR36 , SR8 , SR14 , SR15 , SR17 , HCR54

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• Next we will have Doctor Paul Robinson with the Florida Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics
• ACADEMY OF GENERAL DENTISTRY,&nbsp; AMERICAN COLLEGE OF DENTISTS,&nbsp; 1317 INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE OF
• Michelle Thomas with the Florida Academy of Pediatric Dentistry, opponents of the bill, wishing to appear
• WE HAVE DOCTOR MICHELLE THOMAS WITH FLORIDA ACADEMY OF PEDIATRIC DENTISTRY, OPPONENTS OF THE BILL WISHING
• I am here on behalf of the Florida Academy of Pediatric Dentistry to speak in opposition to HB 363.

Summary: The committee first heard HB 245, which would replace references in Florida law to “child pornography” with “child sexual abuse material.” The sponsor said the change was overdue and more accurately reflects the criminal nature of the material. There was brief supportive public testimony, no debate, and the bill was reported favorably on a unanimous vote. The committee then took up HB 237 on the use of professional nursing titles. The sponsor said advanced practice registered nurses should be able to use earned academic titles such as DNP or PhD. Supporters testified in favor, there was no opposition or debate, and the bill passed unanimously and was reported favorably. The longest discussion centered on HB 173, which would expand parental consent and access requirements for minors’ medical care, medical records, certain school surveys, and biomedical devices. Supporters argued it restores parental rights and keeps parents involved in children’s health decisions, while opponents—many from medical, mental health, LGBTQ, and youth advocacy groups—warned it could block access to STI treatment, mental health care, crisis hotlines, and confidential services for vulnerable youth, including those in abusive homes. After extensive testimony and debate, the bill was reported favorably on a 19-7 vote. Finally, the committee began HB 327 on uterine fibroid research. The sponsor explained the bill would require health care providers to submit identified data so the Department of Health can build a usable de-identified research database, after prior implementation problems with duplicate or unverified data. A supportive local official testified, and members indicated support as the meeting moved toward a vote.

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• It's my honor to introduce to the House today Hawaiian Mission Academy Ward Campus.
• Those who are here visiting from Hawaiian Mission Academy Ward Campus, we have 3rd through 8th grade
• Mission Academy wward campus please<00:20:18.159><c> stand</c><00:20:18.480><c> everybody</c><00:20:
• 20:21.159><c> Mission</c> here visiting from Hawaiian Mission here visiting from Hawaiian Mission Academy
• wward campus we have 3rd through Academy wward campus we have 3rd through 8th<00:20:24.760><c> grade