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• There has been an account set up with the Minot Area Development.
• I can't remember the exact name—Minot Area Development.
• Second bullet point: develop and document the process for handling incomplete applications.
• And so in terms of developing a consequence...
• I don't think it's anything we can develop here in this committee.

Summary: The committee was called to order, the Pledge of Allegiance and prayer were offered, and the minutes from the previous meeting were approved. Members then received a memo summarizing major audit items and began hearing audit presentations from the State Auditor’s Office and private auditors on a range of state agencies and organizations. Several audits were reported as clean, including the Bank of North Dakota, the North Dakota Guaranteed Student Loan Program, the Office of the Governor, the Office of the State Treasurer, the Office of Management and Budget, the Department of Transportation’s flexible transportation fund, Lake Region State College, and the Department of Environmental Quality. The North Dakota Stockmen’s Association also received an unmodified opinion, though repeat findings were noted for limited segregation of duties and financial statement preparation due to its small staff. The Council on the Arts audit found two findings: payroll charged to federal awards without adequate timekeeping records, and unallowable expenditures from a restricted cultural endowment fund. The Department of Public Instruction audit identified unsupported scholarship applications in the paraprofessional-to-teacher program, though additional testing showed the funds were used for their intended purpose. The most extensive discussion centered on the North Dakota Racing Commission audit, which identified four findings: overspending the promotion fund’s 25% operating limit, grant conditions not being met, improper Breeders Fund awards, and improper procurement for advertising services. Racing Commission director Bruce Johnson acknowledged complacency and weak controls, said the agency would tighten procedures, and explained that the commission had since worked with procurement and would follow the rules more closely. Auditors also explained that the commission would now be audited every two years because of the findings. Another major discussion involved the University of North Dakota School of Law, where auditors found a lack of documentation supporting admissions decisions for post-baccalaureate programs. UND officials said they remain in good standing with the American Bar Association but agreed better documentation and tools are needed; the committee pressed for more transparency and follow-up on admissions criteria. The committee also received an update on Dakota College at Bottineau, where Minot State University reported that bank reconciliations had been brought current after a significant backlog and would now be maintained through shared services. Members requested a written follow-up report on the issues and corrective actions. Finally, the North Dakota Fair Association explained that its foundation has been dissolved and remaining funds were transferred to another nonprofit for continued support of the state fair, and the Department of Public Instruction provided an update on school meal debt, saying the reported amount was about $1.1 million from a partial district survey and that debt remains a local issue, though it could be revisited if school meal funding changes.

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• And then regionally, the area development districts are our partners who help to fulfill the program,
• :13.839><c> are</c><00:36:14.000><c> our</c> area development districts are our area development districts
• Some area development districts well.
• They asked us to development districts.
• Area development districts, in fact, were told in August, "Keep going. We're fine.

Keywords: Meeting Start 00:00:00 State Health Insurance Plans 00:00:03 Executive Branch Salary Schedule Adjustments 00:29:15 Nutrition Program for the Elderly 00:34:52 Update on DORIS 01:05:38, 958, all

Summary: The committee met on November 5, 2025, and first approved the minutes after a moment of silence for the UPS airport tragedy. The main presentation was from the Personnel Cabinet on the state health insurance plans and executive branch salary schedule adjustments. Officials said the health plan covers roughly 265,000 active members and up to about 300,000 across all benefit offerings, including school board employees, retirees, and other eligible groups. They described rising claims and expenditures, especially from high-cost claimants and pharmacy spending, and said recent premium and benefit changes were intended to balance costs while preserving recruitment and retention efforts. They also explained that employee premiums had not increased for several years, while employer contributions rose sharply in recent years, and projected a 10% employer increase and 3% employee increase going forward based on actuarial analysis. Committee members asked about deductibles, GLP-1 drug costs, claims validation, and the causes of cost growth; officials said the plan uses multiple payment-integrity vendors and that the increases reflect utilization, drug trends, and high-cost cases rather than a change in coverage. The committee also discussed executive branch salary schedule adjustments. Personnel and budget officials explained that when the legislature approves annual pay increases, the salary schedule is adjusted by the same percentage through executive order so the minimum and midpoint stay aligned with approved compensation levels. They said the 2025 adjustment was a 3% match effective September 16 and that the change was costless because salaries had already been increased. Members raised concerns about salary compression, noting that new hires can sometimes be paid near the level of long-serving employees. Officials said the adjustment helps prevent compression from worsening but does not solve it, and they acknowledged prior RFP efforts to address the issue were unsuccessful because no qualified bidder met the requirements. After the health plan and salary discussions, the committee began a presentation from the Cabinet for Health and Family Services on Kentucky’s senior meal program. Secretary Stack explained that the program is a federal-state-local partnership under the Older Americans Act, with area development districts helping deliver services. He outlined eligibility rules, noting that congregate meals at senior centers are available to people age 60 and older, with a spouse of any age allowed to join, and that home-delivered meals have additional homebound and assistance requirements. Members asked whether there was any means test for congregate meals, and the secretary said there is not; the only threshold is age for the center-based meals, while the home-delivered program has additional criteria.

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• This is why we are developing the clear guardrails, and we say vision before vendor.
• This is why we are developing the clear guardrails, and we say vision before vendor.
• He was a developer of the fiscal stability bills.
• And they did the Financial Center Development Act, which developed Delaware as a national banking center
• We were forced to allocate the money the minute they signed that development agreement.

Keywords: 1064, all

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• I developed coping mechanisms for the first time in my life.
• That correlates with the brain science, being fully developed as an adult by the age of 25.
• Another one I would also say is workforce development.
• Having developed or made those developments, but to be able to give them a position to say, here, you
• — They developed the 473.

Keywords: 995, all

Summary: The Special Commission on Correctional Consolidation and Collaboration met at 10:07 a.m. and approved the minutes from its February 9 meeting. The commission said it would accept Department of Correction testimony in writing because of a scheduling issue, and then spent most of the hearing hearing from people with lived experience in county and state correctional settings. Members repeatedly reminded witnesses to keep remarks to about three minutes and focused the discussion on correctional consolidation, collaboration, programming, and reentry. Testimony from multiple sheriff’s offices was broadly supportive of county-based programming, treatment, education, and reentry services. Witnesses from Hampshire, Barnstable, Hampden, and Franklin counties described access to GED and college courses, vocational training, recovery meetings, therapeutic groups, housing and ID assistance, work release, and reentry centers. Several said these programs helped them gain sobriety, employment, family reunification, and parole readiness. Hampden County witnesses emphasized immediate reentry planning and individualized case management; Franklin County witnesses praised respectful treatment and an accessible off-site reentry center; Barnstable witnesses highlighted the women’s therapeutic treatment program, creative writing, and the Bridge Center; Hampshire witnesses described the Bridge House, work release, and transition supports. Several witnesses contrasted those experiences with what they described as limited or delayed programming in DOC facilities, especially for people serving longer sentences or with restrictive classifications. One witness said DOC programming was hard to access because shorter sentences and offense labels affected eligibility; another described overcrowding, little counseling, and no reentry planning in state prison. A juvenile lifer testified that classification barriers and lack of tailored programming left him feeling unprepared, and another witness said DOC’s handling of classification hearings and records was unfair and opaque. Some speakers also raised concerns about mental health care and visitation policies, especially at Framingham, where one witness said suicidal thoughts were met with inadequate responses and another said family visitation was denied without clear explanation. Commissioners asked follow-up questions about DOC access, step-down opportunities, family support, and whether more transitional housing or acclimation time before release would help. No formal votes were taken beyond approval of the prior minutes.

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• In one case alone, a developer sought $75 million in damages.
• Are they developing in a different way?
• Default applications that people use to develop documents.
• I have also invested in professional development.
• I have also invested in professional development.

Committee: Joint Joint Committee on Ways and Means

Summary: The hearing opened the FY27 budget process with remarks from the Senate and House Ways and Means chairs and testimony from Governor Healey and Administration and Finance Secretary Matthew Gorzkowicz. The chairs emphasized fiscal caution amid choppy revenue growth, rising health care and education costs, and federal uncertainty, while the governor framed House 2 as a $62.8 billion budget that grows spending by about 1% without new taxes or fees and aims to protect core services while advancing affordability. The administration said the budget uses efficiencies, program integrity, and Fair Share surtax revenue to support education, transportation, housing, child care, health care, and public safety, and it also filed a supplemental Fair Share bill using surplus FY25 funds. Much of the questioning focused on the federal “OB3” tax law and the administration’s separate proposal to delay or phase in certain corporate tax changes, especially research and experimental deductions, to avoid in-year budget shocks. Members also pressed the administration on Fair Share allocations, with the governor and secretary explaining that operating-budget surtax spending is weighted more toward education while supplemental spending is more transportation-focused, and that combined spending is roughly balanced overall. The administration highlighted Chapter 70 aid, special education circuit breaker funding, rural school aid, local aid, child care, the MBTA deficit, regional transit authorities, and a new HHS transportation line item as part of the broader transportation strategy. Several members raised concerns about Chapter 70 equity, rural districts, municipal overrides, out-migration, housing affordability, public housing repairs, and the MBTA Communities Act. The governor and secretary said they are open to further discussion on school funding formulas, PILOT, and municipal aid, and stressed housing production, energy affordability, and workforce development as key responses to out-migration. On energy, the governor defended an all-of-the-above approach, including renewables, gas, and exploration of nuclear, while saying she would continue pushing utilities and regulators to reduce ratepayer costs. The governor also said fire safety grants would not be withheld for noncompliance with the MBTA Communities Act, and members discussed public safety, housing, and local grant impacts in that context. Other topics included the Bright Act and higher education capital investments, with the administration saying it is preparing to support campus infrastructure across the public higher education system and that the bill is intended to strengthen Massachusetts’ competitiveness and retain graduates. Members also questioned cuts to the PCA program and EAEDC, and the governor responded that the state’s PCA program remains strong but is under pressure from large federal health care reductions. No votes were taken; the session was a hearing on the governor’s budget proposal and related policy bills, with the administration taking questions and offering explanations of its recommendations.

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• Earlier this year related to the child care and development system and discussed the nearly doubling
• Their developing brains are especially sensitive and vulnerable to disruption and loss of care.
• We all may not think that we do, but over time things develop.
• Department of Community Services and Development. And you may begin when you're ready.
• These program budgets were developed based on need, not expenditures.

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• Healthy soils work because it's really foundational to all of that development work.
• </c><00:29:49.000><c> Corporation</c> the Agri buus Development Corporation the Agri buus Development
• </c> alignment and agricultural development alignment and agricultural development in<00:34:32.560><c
• Council we have submitted Development Council we have submitted written<00:35:51.079><c> testimony</
• </c><00:51:44.359><c> Corporation</c><00:51:45.280><c> to</c> Agro Business Development Corporation to

Committee: House Agriculture & Food Systems

Keywords: 910, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• Due pass as amended to give local governments more options for the development of MBOH policies, out
• AB 2300, Arambula, workforce development, due pass as amended to redefine grant and sub-grant, with..
• AB 1710, Creo, housing developments, do pass out on an A roll call.
• AB 2579, Petrinoris, common interest developments, do pass. That's out on an A roll call.
• AB 2579, Petrinoris, common interest developments, do pass. That's out on an A roll call.

Committee: House Appropriations

Keywords: 988, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• this bill, and we are asking DTSC, the Department of Toxic Substances Control, along with OEHHA, to develop
• But then we also are asking the departments and the offices to develop other standards for other contaminants
• But then we also are asking the departments and the offices to develop other standards for other contaminants
• It results in impaired cognitive development, skeletal issues, cardiovascular issues as well.
• And the collaboration in itself is not a study, because if you're going to develop best methods, it is

Committee: House Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• designates the first week of November as Florida's Speech and Debate Week to recognize programs that develop
• FLORIDA FIRMS SPEECH AND DEBATE IS ESSENTIAL TO&nbsp;&nbsp; 37 A WELL ROUNDED EDUCATION, LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
• And it makes me so proud to know and meet you while you are here developing these leaders in Florida.
• The training will be evidence-based, developed with consultation with the District Center for Autism
• I will say that neurodivergence is a developing science.

Summary: The Student Academic Success Subcommittee met with a quorum and considered two PCS bills. PCS for HB 1059, by Rep. Booth, would designate the first week of November as Florida Speech and Debate Week to recognize speech and debate programs and the educators, coaches, judges, and school districts that support them. Supporters, including students and advocates, testified that speech and debate builds critical thinking, civics knowledge, confidence, and respectful civil discourse, and several members praised the students’ testimony and the program’s value. The bill was reported favorably by a 14-0 vote. The committee then heard PCS for HB 851, by Rep. Long, which requires each school district’s professional learning system to include at least one annual autism-specific training opportunity for teachers and school-based administrators, developed with the Center for Autism and grounded in evidence-based practices. The sponsor said the bill is intended to give educators practical tools to support students with autism, while members asked questions about scope, virtual training, charter schools, and the relationship to existing law. Public testimony and member debate largely supported the bill, with speakers emphasizing the need for better educator preparation and inclusion for students with autism. The bill also passed unanimously, 14-0, and was reported favorably. At the end of the meeting, members and the chair offered brief closing remarks thanking colleagues and staff and reflecting on the committee’s work, with the chair noting it may have been the committee’s last meeting of the session.

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• When developing tribal data-sharing agreements, the agencies must refer to the Governor's Indian Health
• owns whose data, I think that's one of the conversations that we're really looking to have as we develop
• This bill directs state agencies to incorporate these principles when developing data-sharing agreements
• , refer to the GIAC Data Committee when These principles when developing data-sharing agreements, refer
• to the GIAC Data Committee when developing tribal data-sharing agreements, and seek guidance from the

Bills: HB2555 , HB2658 , HB2683 , HB2685 , HB2168 , HB2196 , HB2545

Committee: House Health Care & Wellness

Keywords: Medicaid, healthcare, traditional practices, health insurance, coverage expansion, mental health, insurance coverage, transparency, consumer protection, efficiency, health carriers, providers relations, tribal data, data protection, privacy, sharing of information, Indigenous rights, overdose prevention, data sharing, public health

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• It's not encouraging that sort of development anymore.
• It's I'm a little bit concerned about our developers that have entered into an agreement under one set
• I'm the Assistant Director of Community Development here at Housing New Mexico.
• I can tell you That are going to create that development to not be able to be completed, and then we
• This is within community development.

Committee: House Mortgage Finance Authority Act Oversight Committee

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• the Federal DED Act, the DD councils, the University Centers of Excellence, were essentially the development
• And learning, um, and also the protection and advocacy agencies were developed, um, in the DD Act.
• The Center for Development Disability Center for Excellence.
• So here in New Mexico, the UN Center for Development New Mexico. Thank you, Madam Chair.
• And so, we had the DD Act has actually developed over the years.

Committee: House Legislative Health & Human Services Committee

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• It limits the tourist development tax revenue that must be spent to promote and advertise tourism to
• It limits the tourist development tax revenue that must be spent to promote and advertise tourism to
• It limits the tourist development tax revenue that must be spent to promote and advertise tourism to
• It limits the tourist development tax revenue that must be spent to promote and advertise tourism to
• That's not economic development; that's a corporate handout with no return.

Committee: Senate Finance and Tax

Summary: The Finance and Tax Committee met and first heard SB 674, which would allow county property appraisers, like tax collectors already can, to budget for and pay hiring or retention bonuses if approved in their Department of Revenue budget. Support came from property appraiser representatives, who said the bill would help them compete for specialized staff without requiring new funding. The bill was reported favorably. The committee then considered SJR 318, a proposed constitutional amendment on tangible personal property used on agricultural land, along with an amendment clarifying the exemption’s scope and allowing the Legislature to set conditions by general law. Farm Bureau and the Florida Chamber supported the measure, and the committee adopted the amendment and reported the joint resolution favorably. Members also took up CS for SB 1664, which would require voter reapproval of local discretionary taxes when they expire; an amendment changed the bill to require expiration dates and tied reapproval to tax expiration rather than a fixed eight-year cycle. Local government and tourism groups raised concerns about impacts on tourist development taxes, transportation surtaxes, beaches funding, and long-term financing, while supporters argued voters should periodically affirm local taxes. The committee adopted the amendment and reported the bill favorably. Next, the committee considered SJR 1510 and its implementing bill SB 1512, both dealing with a homestead-style property tax benefit for certain long-term leased residential properties. After multiple amendments narrowed the proposal substantially, limiting it to one qualifying property and then to single-family homes, mobile homes, and condominium units, counties and cities still opposed the measures as a tax shift to other taxpayers. The sponsor said the changes reduced the scope and fiscal impact, and both measures were reported favorably. Finally, the committee heard SPB 7034, the Senate tax package, which includes permanent sales tax exemptions, multiple tax holidays, motor vehicle fee reductions, a property tax study, rural investment tax credits, a freeze on local communications services tax rates, and other tax changes, with an estimated $2.1 billion revenue reduction. Testimony was mixed: property appraisers supported the property tax study, while many public commenters opposed the firearm and ammunition tax holiday and urged inclusion of gun safes and locks instead. County, city, tourism, and lodging representatives raised concerns about tourist development tax limits and other local revenue impacts, while supporters emphasized tax relief and the study’s value. After debate, the committee adopted a motion to submit SPB 7034 as a committee bill and reported it favorably.

Transcript Highlights:

• I want to start off with HTDC, the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation.
• She's the VP for economic development, government, community relations.
• ,</c> the VP for economic development, the VP for economic development, government,<00:22:17.120><c>
• And this resolution urging the Hawaii Housing Finance and Development Corporation to continue working
• </c> Housing Finance and Development Housing Finance and Development Corporation<00:45:44.079><c> to<

Keywords: 910, house, all

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• to inform the Senate that the duly enrolled and engrossed copies of House Commerce and Economic Development
• to inform the Senate that the duly enrolled and engrossed copies of House Commerce and Economic Development
• capture technology and report recommendations for statutory and rule changes to facilitate the development
• Again, the concern continues to be the efficiencies and how we're going to develop the system that is
• You know, it is my hope that we will really try to develop a more comprehensive understanding of this

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• It expands the workforce development.
• The the bill provides that job engine charter school that might be developed in the municipality.
• The city limits but say and when that occurs and they have to present a plan to charter school developers
• But if a district has declining enrollment, they have to provide a 5 year plan that's that's developed
• They're currently working on developing teacher and school personnel housing on parcels that are being

Keywords: 999, senate, all

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• an oil price crash, here's how production could look, and we feed it into our models that we've developed
• We've developed an analytical framework over the last 20 years at LFC to bring in what works—research
• We will continue to prioritize early childhood development and build upon the investments that you have
• made in the Early Childhood Development Department and the trust fund for education.
• Our analysts work very closely together throughout the year in developing our recommendations.

Committee: Senate Senate Finance

Transcript Highlights:

• When I am noticing a pattern develop, I do think we need to do even more to make sure that when we're
• The Not One More report is congressionally mandated and is developed through testimony from more than
• To achieve this goal, we've developed a transition and implementation plan with milestones that have
• But that is my understanding of why it was developed in the way.
• The bug affected one to three transfers a day, and we developed a patch for that.

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• </c> and schedules are developed by a HOIE. and schedules are developed by a HOIE.
• So they developed a system, and Hawaii decided that that might be a good idea for use here as well.
• So they developed a system, and Hawaii decided that that might be a good idea for use here as well.
• The tool we use in Hawaii was developed in Australia and New Zealand.
• </c><00:47:25.680><c> in</c> use in Hawaii was developed in use in Hawaii was developed in Australia,

Keywords: 910, house, all