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• In offshore wind protection and producing clean energy vehicles built right in the heart of Southwest
• They can't afford the outrageously high cost of prescription drugs.
• They unleash generationally high inflation.
• Solar, wind, and hydrogen. It doesn't mention fossil fuels.
• Wind, hydrogen, and other forms of energy so that they will be cheaper for the consumer.

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• I live close, you know, Albuquerque, close to West Mesa High School. I fall in courses.
• The other is, um, I I think we should also begin to look at Um, clean up of wind and solar installations
• Um, with transportation, if I have high wind warnings or I need to put trucks in safe parking, or I have
• We talked about high level waste that was proposed.
• I know, a high class rat house committee. You're on your own.

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• In Iowa, like in Oklahoma, for example, a lot of their use in data centers is with wind, right?
• we have we add said um solar energy wind we have we add to<00:14:31.759> the<00:14:31.920>
• In closing, HF 1277 is a high legislative priority for the Minnesota Pipe Trades.
• corporate profits are at all-time highs corporate profits are at all-time highs tech<01:10:24.480
• intermittent solar and uh wind intermittent solar and uh wind resources<01:27:49.840> um<

Bills: HF1277, HF1006

Keywords: data centers, tax exemption, Minnesota statutes, economic development, employment growth, property tax, abatement, land bank, redevelopment, political subdivision, 1183, house

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• Anyway, I think this is great because this is a great wind-down.
• So this is just a wind-down bill? Absolutely. All right, thank you for your testimony.
• I won’t tell you how high the handicap is because it’s enormous.
• Galveston's building codes are stricter due to our coastal location, for example, requiring higher wind
• This was the wind-out of municipal private waste contracts, or refuse, I believe is the term Senator

Bills: SB2784, HB23, HB247, HB1533, HB2011, HB2013, HB2273, HB2421, HB2464, HB3120, HB3424, HB3575, HB3788, HB4370, HB4809, HB5057, HB5084, HB5534, HB5668, HJR34

Keywords: Somervell County, hospital district, board of directors, elections, local governance, staggered terms, third-party review, property development, local government, permits, construction inspection, regulatory authority, land development, liability, occupancy certificate, border security, tax exemption, ad valorem, real property, infrastructure

Summary: The committee heard and left pending several local government, property tax, development, and public safety measures before later voting some of them out. Senator Birdwell explained SB 2784 for the Somerville County Hospital District, which would move the board to staggered four-year terms after a transition and was requested to be held pending until the House companion could be acted on; no public testimony was offered. HB 5084 would allow local approval for fireworks sales tied to Lunar New Year celebrations, with testimony from Hutchinson County Judge Cindy Irwin emphasizing local fire risk and the need for county discretion. HB 5534 would let county commissioners post agendas electronically instead of on a physical bulletin board. HB 4370 would expand permissible projects for certain special districts to include geothermal water conveyance systems, and HB 312 would require residential child detention facilities to enter local MOUs, report health and safety information, and conduct background checks for state-funded facilities; both drew supportive testimony and were left pending. HB 5057 would give displaced solid waste providers time to wind down after a city grants an exclusive franchise, and HB 2421 would extend the life of the Save Historic Muni District to continue work on preserving Lions Municipal Golf Course; both were left pending after supportive testimony. HB 2011 would let former owners repurchase property taken by eminent domain if the acquiring entity fails to pay property taxes for two years, and the committee substitute to SB 3065 was also laid out and left pending after a technical correction to eminent-domain language. The committee then took up additional bills on development, appraisal, and local regulation, including HB 3575, HB 4809, HB 2273, HB 247/HJR 34, HB 2464, HB 3424, HB 2013, HB 5668, HB 3788, HB 1533, and HB 23, with testimony ranging from support to opposition on issues such as appraisal procedures, historic property valuation, Galveston emergency governance, border-security tax treatment, home-based businesses, chicken covenants in HOAs, municipal utility district authority, hospital authorities’ use of assets, and third-party building review. HB 23 drew the most extensive testimony, with builders, engineers, counties, and cities split over third-party plan review and inspection authority, liability, licensing, and local code enforcement; many witnesses said the House amendments created problems and the bill was left pending. In the end, the committee voted SB 2784, SB 3065, HB 5686, HB 247, HJR 34, and HB 2011 out of committee, with the first several receiving local and uncontested calendar recommendations where applicable.

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• We're facing a crisis in farm country right now with low crop prices, high input costs, and the loss
• input costs, and the loss prices, high input costs, and the loss of<00:09:28.320> international
• They have a high carbon density and a high sequestering potential.
• These feedstocks are not competing with one another because global SAF demand is so high.
• Eventually, we aim to make SAF so high.

Keywords: 919, house, all

Summary: The committee took up House File 1669, adopting the DE2 amendment, which was described as the bill itself. The amended bill would expand Minnesota’s sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) tax credit by increasing annual allocations, extending the sunset date from 2030 to 2035, adding an extra credit for lower-carbon fuels, and adding environmental and other qualifying requirements. The chair noted the amendment aligned the bill with the governor’s proposal, and the amendment was approved on a voice vote. Testimony was overwhelmingly supportive. Commissioner Tom Peterson of the Minnesota Department of Agriculture backed the bill as a way to preserve Minnesota’s leadership in SAF, attract private investment, and keep crop and timber feedstocks processed in-state. Farmers and agricultural groups, including Minnesota Farmers Union and Minnesota Farm Bureau, said SAF could create new domestic markets for crops such as corn, soybeans, winter camelina, and pennycress while improving farm income and supporting climate-smart practices. Forestry representatives argued that wood waste and forest residue could be turned into SAF, improving forest health and reducing wildfire risk. Environmental and clean-energy groups also supported the bill, emphasizing the added guardrails. The Minnesota Environmental Partnership, Friends of the Mississippi River, and Fresh Energy said the amendments would better protect water quality, soil health, biodiversity, and climate outcomes by favoring lower-carbon SAF and limiting harmful land-use change. University of Minnesota Forever Green representatives said winter-hardy crops could scale over time, and they pointed to ongoing commercialization work and a 1 Million Acre Scaling Study. Labor and construction groups said the bill would support major infrastructure investment and create long-term jobs, with testimony citing the first Minnesota SAF facility already announced and the potential for multiple hubs statewide. No vote on final passage was taken in the portion provided, but the committee heard extensive supportive testimony and questions focused on scalability, infrastructure, and how the credit would accelerate SAF development in Minnesota.

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• You're right where those wind turbine blades come from. They come from right here.
• Chair is there's a lot of discussion about wind blades, the turbines, because People are trying to find
• providing, through the budget process, funding for the agency to fill those vacancies if there's a high
• I know wind blades were brought up earlier; that's one example of them.
• They were probably closer to 18 feet high, and they were likely going at 75 plus miles an hour when they

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• energy, solar, wind. energy, solar, wind.
• I want 50% wind, which is available from some suppliers.
• I want 50% wind, which is available from some suppliers.
• Um the over of a high variant situation.
• I like the high jump bar analogy.

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• Children in structured learning environments are on high alert.
• They are constantly scanning high alert.
• Wright County holds probation a very high standard.
• County holds probation a very high County holds probation a very high standard.<01:31:11.800>
• :55.040> of<01:39:55.160> a winds reached the equivalent of a winds reached the equivalent

Bills: HF3753, HF4299, HF4700, HF4282, HF4139, HF3530, HF4031

Keywords: school safety, threat assessment, pilot project, education, real-time monitoring, public safety, HF4299, school safety specialists, Minnesota School Safety Center, appropriation, general fund, fiscal year 2026, school security, school violence prevention, student safety, Department of Public Safety, school resource support, education funding, peace officer, training reimbursement

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• Um, they generally don't wind up in state court. They wind up in federal court.
• don't wind up in state<00:41:51.599> court.
• They wind up in federal state court. They wind up in federal court. court. court.
• Additional days may accumulate, but they will not be included in the high three calculation.
• <01:20:55.040> three will not be included in the high three will not be included in the high

Keywords: 958, all

Summary: The Senate convened with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, a roll call establishing a quorum of 35 members, and approval of the previous day’s journal. The chamber also received messages from the House that it had passed House Bills 43, 139, 297, 414, and 485 and requested concurrence. Second reading reports placed several bills in the Rules Committee, including measures on property disposition, children, school district sick leave, unemployment insurance, and status offenses, and a new resolution was introduced honoring the 10th anniversary of the 2016 session and its bullying-prevention legislation. The main floor action was on Senate Bill 39, relating to fishing in privately owned lakes and ponds. Senators debated multiple floor amendments, with several withdrawn and floor amendment 6 adopted. Supporters said the bill clarified private property rights and allowed stocking of F1 Florida bass without changing existing license requirements, while opponents and some supporters emphasized protecting the public trust, conservation funding, and the North American wildlife management model. After extended debate, the Senate passed SB 39 as amended by a vote of 29-8. The Senate then took up Senate Bill 154, relating to elections. The sponsor said it would strengthen election integrity by removing non-photo identification options, specifically Social Security cards and EBT SNAP cards, from the list of acceptable voter verification methods. Opponents argued the bill would make voting harder without evidence of fraud, citing that many Kentuckians used those IDs in the last election and that transportation and access barriers already exist. The transcript cuts off during debate on SB 154 before a final vote is shown.

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• Others have seen poll attachment rates proposed as high as $29 per pole.
• and also reading some of the internal documents, even the own members were very concerned about how high
• we're not aware of is on a pole that's not designed to handle that attachment and it goes down in wind
• like we're known to have 2 weeks ago we had a pretty steady 50 to 60 mile an hour wind with gusts up
• Aside from that, we deal with the wind, as one of my colleagues mentioned earlier, we deal with farm

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• <00:07:58.720> introduction,<00:07:59.120> but bit of the long-winded introduction,
• but bit of the long-winded introduction, but I<00:07:59.440> really<00:07:59.599> wanted
• rain and wind event that impacted<00:13:54.000> communities.
• This year, we are on track to reach 250 intermediate and high school students.
• intermediate and high school students. intermediate and high school students.

Bills: HB2437, HB1815, HB1614, HB1613, HB1612, HB2411, HB2597, HB2583, HB2474, HB1863, HB2590, HB1813, HB1838, HB2138, HB1967, HB1576, HB2139, HB1605, HB2113, HB812, HB1831, HB1707, HB2561, HB1805, HB2469, HB2472, HB2387, HB1658, HB1661, HB1664, HB1859, HB2276, HB2335, HB1656, HB2116, HB2272, HB2273, HB2340, HB2158, HB2339, HB2489, HB2159, HB2171, HB2338, HB2005, HB1952, HB1872, HB1676, HB2384, HB2614, HB20, HB1776, HB1565, HB2310, HB1975, HB1801, HB1668, HB2114, HB1972, HB1546, HB1518, HB1131, HB2208, HB2156, HB2268, HB2622, HB2581, HB2498, HB2443, HB1577, HB2033, HB2031, HB2023, HB1969, HB1973, HB1974, HB2315, HB2343, HB2501, HB2505, HB816, HB1562, HB1591, HB1853, HB1854, HB1871, HB1965, HB1966, HB1537, HB1541, HB276, HB2606, HB2270, HB1920, HB1756, HB1727, HB1718, HB1715, HB1713, HB1711

Keywords: arts education, student engagement, cultural literacy, public schools, funding, State Foundation on Culture and the Arts, SFCA, Performing Arts Grants Program, arts grants, culture and the arts, history and the humanities, King Kamehameha Celebration Commission, Works of Art Special Fund, one percent for art, public art, art in public places, relocatable works of art, DBEDT, Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, DAGS

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• Madam Chair, from a high level of tax service management, it's basically a satellite view.
• We have such high participation; they're not required to participate. We can access this.
• We can look from a high view level down onto any agency within the state.
• There's cattle grazing under wind turbines.
• In cattle, what's called brisket disease affects high elevation cattle.

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• tendency or high risk of aggression.
• This is also one of these ARPA wind-down issues.
• And this is another ARPA wind-down issue.
• To Attleboro High School, to the team here at the high school, incredible work.
• To Attleboro High School, to the team here at the high school, incredible work.

Keywords: 995, all

Summary: The committee heard budget testimony from Department of Mental Health Commissioner Brooke Doyle, who said DMH serves about 29,000 people and is facing rising demand, higher operating costs, and uncertainty about federal funding. She explained that the FY26 budget prioritizes fully funding the state-operated inpatient system, which is at 100% occupancy and often serves people transferred from Bridgewater State Hospital, while making reductions in other areas to balance the budget. Those reductions include a 50% cut to case managers, a pause on closing the Pocasset unit pending a working group on Cape access, and changes to youth and contracted services such as right-sizing IRTP and CIRT, reducing Youth PACT from seven teams to three, scaling back flex and jail diversion grants as ARPA funds wind down, and preserving the behavioral health helpline and community-based crisis services. Members from Western Massachusetts and the Cape raised concerns about access, staffing, and the impact of cuts, and Doyle said the department would continue operating IRTP services, improve the referral process, and work with stakeholders on the Pocasset review and other access issues. The committee also discussed school-based mental health, 988, loan forgiveness for workforce recruitment, and the role of co-response programs for law enforcement. Secretary Robin Lipson then testified for the Executive Office of Aging and Independence, describing a proposed FY26 budget increase of about 21% to support councils on aging, home care, elder abuse investigations, caregiver support, care transitions, and nutrition programs. She said the agency is managing rising demand, especially from the growing 80-plus population, and noted uncertainty around federal Older Americans Act funding after the federal disbursement agency was disbanded. To control costs, the office will manage intake and caseload growth in a fully state-funded home care program, but current clients will not lose services. Lipson also highlighted a new $1 million line item for local mini-grants to support age-friendly initiatives. In questions, members focused on elder scams, and Lipson said scams are increasing and the agency is working with banks, district attorneys, and public awareness campaigns. The Health Policy Commission’s Executive Director David Seltz presented the agency’s FY26 request and said the biggest challenge is health care affordability, with family premiums near $29,000 annually and many residents delaying care because of cost. He emphasized that recent legislation significantly expands HPC’s role through a new Office of Pharmaceutical Policy and Analysis, which will examine the drug supply chain and pricing, and a new Office of Health Resource Planning, which will support statewide planning around closures and access gaps. The new law also creates task forces on maternal health access and primary care, and adds transparency and oversight for private equity in health care. Members asked about pharmaceutical costs, GLP-1 weight-loss drugs, 340B, and maternal health closures; Seltz said the data show rapid growth in GLP-1 spending and that the new offices will help the state better understand cost drivers and access problems. The Center for Health Information and Analysis then began its testimony, describing its role as the state’s data hub for health care spending, utilization, quality, and affordability analysis.

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• And nuclear doesn't seem to get caught up in those shifts in political winds.
• Will impose, revoke tax credits for, you know, for wind and solar.
• And nuclear doesn't seem to get caught up in those shifts in political winds.
• Confidence in nuclear safety is at an all-time high right now.
• We have a high percentage of veterans who have been in the Navy nuclear program.

Keywords: 908, all

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• Does this mean that someone that's living in a low-income area, but they're of high income, could actually
• And vice versa, does it mean that somebody who is low-income living in a high-income area could see an
• So if someone, Chairman, and this is the way that I understand it, someone is high income but living
• So I have a vested interest for my constituents in the buildout of wind and solar because on peak days
• So I have a vested interest for my constituents in the build out of wind and solar because on peak days

Keywords: 993, senate, all

Summary: The Senate Energy and Telecommunications Committee, chaired by Senator Kevin Parker, considered several Public Service Law bills and advanced each one to the Rules Committee after brief discussion and recorded no votes or without-recommendation votes on some measures. The bills included proposals to prohibit utilities from using ratepayer funds for certain activities (1012A), establish minimum standards for payment plans for eligible customers (1327), adjust residential fixed charges (1329), require the Public Service Commission to consider economic impacts when setting rates (1847), require utilities to adopt PSC-authorized equity ratios and returns on equity (1896), create the Rate-Hike Notice Act (5553C), suspend certain utility rate changes while allowing retroactive revenue recovery (5593), allow consideration of non-economic losses in penalty determinations (7165A), change the composition of the Public Service Commission (7328A), and let utilities retain revenues above authorized returns on equity (7693). Members asked questions about who would be affected by the bills, including whether fixed-charge reductions would apply to vacant units or vacation homes and whether economic-impact considerations could affect customers differently depending on where they live; the chair and sponsors generally explained the measures as territory-wide or applicable to all residential customers, with no occupancy or income-based circuit breaker in the text. The committee then heard testimony from Alexandra Fasulo, introduced as an entrepreneur and farmer in Schuylerville, about her concerns regarding the Office of Renewable Energy Siting (ORES) and utility-scale solar development on farmland and grasslands. She argued that solar developers were pressuring landowners, including older and lower-income property owners, into long-term leases, that ORES approves most projects despite local opposition, and that the process lacks transparency, with redacted documents and limited public access to information. She also criticized the siting of solar projects on productive farmland and said decommissioning rules could leave equipment buried in the soil. Committee members responded that the Legislature has already taken steps to protect high-quality soils, that ORES was created by statute and operates within the Public Service Department, and that DEC and ORES are supposed to work together rather than ORES superseding DEC. Several senators said they were sympathetic to concerns about farmland and community engagement, but also emphasized the need to expand renewable energy and balance that with land preservation. Members suggested that specific complaints about ORES transparency or solar siting could be addressed through future legislation or by inviting ORES and PSC officials back for further discussion.

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• These are kids with real some of the most complex needs who are needing the most support who are winding
• up coming into care because of an unmet mental health need and a lot of them are ultimately winding
• And that's because nicotine is so high. addictive.
• I'm a senior at Edgewood High School and for students, adults, and youth working hard against tobacco
• To our futures, in my last four years of high school I have seen students who were the most brilliant

Keywords: 1184, house, all

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• Trujillo comes with high credentials.
• I just want to stand in high regard. I appreciate you applying for this position.
• President, and the tension was high. You could feel it. You could feel it.
• The lowest paid individual in that plant is going to wind up being about $80,000, and on the high end
• That plant is going to wind up being 250 to 300 jobs, Mr.

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• After wind, after rain, when the dark is done, as I wake from a dream in the gold of day, through the
• after rain when the dark home after wind after rain when the dark is<00:37:17.040> done<00:37
• Be still, my soul: the waves and wind will know his voice who ruled them while he dwelt below.
• believing to thy Lord on high believing to thy Lord on high acknowledge<00:40:37.720> Him
• visitation you clearly saw the high visitation you clearly saw the high esteem<01:19:38.920>

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

Summary: The Minnesota Senate convened for opening day of the 94th legislative session, with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and remarks honoring the late Senator Carrie Dike, whose seat was left empty. Leaders from both parties described her as a unifying, hardworking public servant and noted the chamber’s grief at her death. A quorum was established by roll call of members from all districts. The Senate then elected Bobby Joe Champion and Jeremy Miller as co-presiding officers by a vote of 65 ayes and 1 pass, and they were sworn in. In their remarks, both emphasized cooperation, open dialogue, and working forward together despite a projected budget deficit and other difficult issues ahead. The chamber also elected Thomas Bodin as Secretary of the Senate by 66 votes, and then approved a slate of other officers—including assistant secretaries, engrossing secretary, sergeant at arms, assistant sergeant at arms, and chaplain—by one roll call with 66 votes. Senate Resolution No. 1, which set the temporary organization of the Senate and memorialized the organizing agreement between the two caucuses, was adopted by a vote of 66 ayes and 0 nays. The resolution covered temporary leadership structure, staff and appointments, committee memberships and schedules, adoption of temporary rules from the prior session with updated committee names, and procedures for resolving future issues. After adoption, the Senate set aside time for members to speak in tribute to Senator Dike, with several senators offering personal remembrances and condolences to her family and staff.

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• So, that's kind of a high overview of what we came up with in the Select Water Committee of this program
• There is that prohibition on wind or solar energy projects. Go ahead, Representative Pendergraft.
• There is that prohibition on wind or solar energy projects. Go ahead, Representative Pendergraft.
• There's no wind and solar listed there. I'm sorry. Yeah.
• <00:30:30.440> or There is that prohibition on wind or There is that prohibition on wind or

Keywords: 916, all

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• utilities, but also all this new, all these new data centers, this Bitcoin mining centers, all these, uh, high
• And then as those high use, um. Industries come online.
• allocate reliability costs to generation resources that cannot guarantee their own availability, such as wind
• Um, showed that wind and solar variability accounted for about 42%.
• So I, I, I have a high-level concern that the state of Texas, just like the federal government, where