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• This is a public portal that is mobile-friendly and allows anybody in the state to take a look at a deep
• They wear clearly defined uniforms, carry two-way radios, and have air-ell devices.
• > limited questions assist customers with limited questions assist customers with limited Mobility
• provide Outreach materials to Mobility provide Outreach materials to individuals<00:50:49.760> to
• as of the end of 2024 airell devices as of the end of 2024 there<00:51:05.880> were<00:51:06.079

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• vehicles, not mobile homes.
• <01:05:47.720> home have a permission to move mobile home have a permission to move mobile
• <01:05:52.640> homes recreational vehicles not mobile homes recreational vehicles not mobile
• As has been mentioned by other speakers, taxing a mobile home, a mobile vehicle like an RV, is not like
• taxing a mobile home a mobile<01:10:15.440> vehicle<01:10:15.880> like<01:10:16.000>

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• Please silence all your electronic devices.
• And so I think it's no secret for all of you that I live in a part of our state with many mobile home
• Mobile home communities are unique in that those who own a mobile home also pay rent on the lot, so they
• for assistance to those members of our state, those community members here in Florida who live in mobile

Summary: The committee heard and advanced several bills. SB 330, by Sen. Bradley, clarified the heart disease presumption for firefighters, law enforcement, and correctional officers, including allowing a prior physical exam to count if a transferring officer is not given a new one; an amendment declaring the act an important state interest was adopted, and the bill passed favorably. SB 594, by Sen. Burton, would make mobile home residents eligible for local housing assistance programs such as SHIP for lot rent and home repairs; it received supportive testimony from manufactured-home advocates and passed favorably. SB 840, by Sen. DeSigley, revised hurricane-related land-use restrictions from prior legislation by shortening the affected area from 100 miles to 50 miles, ending certain temporary limits on June 30, 2026, and exempting some water, flood, and state/federal planning matters; it passed favorably after supportive comments from local-government interests and members noting the need to fix unintended consequences of prior law. The committee also approved SB 526, by Sen. Grawe, which addresses no-damages-for-delay clauses in public construction contracts, creates a uniform commercial permit application, requires permit fee reductions when private providers are used, and adds mitigation to statewide product approval categories. County representatives testified with concerns about the contracting language, unfunded mandates, and fee reductions, but the bill passed favorably. SB 504, by Sen. Burgess, creates a statewide framework for code inspector body camera use, and SB 506, its linked public-records bill, exempts certain sensitive content from disclosure; both passed favorably with support from the sponsor and no opposition in committee. The most heavily debated measure was SB 354, by Chair McLean, which creates a “blue ribbon project” framework for very large developments that trade state preemption over local land-use regulation for reserving at least 60% of the land for conservation, agriculture, recreation, utilities, and related uses. The bill drew significant testimony from environmental groups, counties, smart-growth advocates, and local residents who argued it could weaken local control, reduce public review, and allow sprawl or inadequate infrastructure planning; supporters argued it could help address housing needs and preserve large amounts of land. The committee adopted two amendments clarifying reserve-area easements and requiring certain easements to be granted without charge, and the committee then reported the bill favorably, with some senators noting they supported it in concept but wanted further changes before later stops.

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• near and dear to my heart as a former Army logistician, looking at those priorities of efforts, mobilize
• While concurrently running Debbie operations, the team began to mobilize all of our requested resources
• There were 35,500 linear feet of flood control devices used for this system and 235 pumps that this time
• unit that helps us address a couple of challenges that we see in space today, including in-space mobility
• unit that helps us address a couple of challenges that we see in space today, including in-space mobility

Summary: The committee held its first meeting of the session, with members introducing themselves and expressing support for veterans, military families, first responders, space industry growth, and domestic security. The first presentation was from the Florida Division of Emergency Management on the 2024 hurricane season and recovery efforts. Officials described response and recovery operations for Hurricanes Debbie, Helene, and Milton, including sheltering, meals, water, tarps, power restoration, flood control, debris removal, and public assistance funding. They emphasized that recovery is ongoing, that mitigation and resiliency investments are critical, and that Florida’s shelter space remains in deficit in many counties, especially for special needs populations. Senators asked about improving logistics capacity, technology for grant processing, HOA/private property debris issues, drainage and culvert maintenance, and ways to expand shelter capacity; the witness said more technology, better local coordination, and county-by-county planning would help, while noting limits on state authority over private property and county emergency manager qualifications. Committee members praised FDEM’s response and asked how the Legislature could help, including whether more logistical hubs, pumps, and flood-control equipment were needed. The witness said technology investments could reduce fatigue and improve grant and recovery processing, but that manpower would still be necessary. The committee also discussed the statewide emergency shelter plan, the use of schools as shelters, and the need to identify vacant commercial space and other facilities for future sheltering and special-needs needs. The witness said FDEM works with counties and commerce partners to identify available space and uses legislative funding for shelter retrofits and new construction when needed. The second presentation was from Blue Origin on its Florida operations. The company outlined its work in New Glenn, New Shepard, Blue Ring, lunar landers, and engine production, highlighting its Space Coast presence, more than 3,600 Florida employees, and over $3 billion invested in facilities. Blue Origin also described partnerships with Space Florida, public school Space Academies, internships, SkillBridge, and STEM outreach through Club for the Future. Members asked about the upcoming New Glenn launch window, which the company said was targeted for later that week, and the committee expressed interest in Blue Origin’s role in Florida’s space economy. The meeting ended with no further business and a motion to adjourn, which was adopted.

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• Mobile crisis services. There's been a lot of talk about that.
• I'm looking at something here that includes BHSA and mobile crisis services.
• I'm looking at something here that includes BHSA and mobile crisis services.
• through a 988 contact and then transferred to a mobile crisis service.
• and then transferred to a mobile crisis service.

Summary: The Assembly Budget Subcommittee on Health held a May Revision hearing covering several health-related budget proposals and broader concerns about the state’s budget structure. The Chair opened by praising some May Revision changes, such as added health IT funding, county administration support tied to Medi-Cal changes, a delay in Medi-Cal cuts for some lawfully present immigrants, and additional support for Covered California subsidies, while criticizing proposed increases in Medi-Cal premiums, changes to senior eligibility, the lack of a Medi-Cal dental solution, and other reductions affecting counties, mobile crisis units, workforce incentives, and physician shortages. The Legislative Analyst’s Office said the state’s budget condition remains weak despite progress on the structural deficit, and the Department of Finance said the May Revision uses a mix of reductions, reforms, revenue proposals, and fund shifts to cut out-year deficits. The committee first heard Department of State Hospitals proposals, including adjustments to county bed billing authority, contract exemption language for online clinical/pharmacy subscriptions, reversion of unspent funds, a revised Metro Central Utility Plant replacement project, electronic health record implementation, and workforce development funded partly through Behavioral Health Services Act resources. DSH also described savings and realignments in incompetent-to-stand-trial and conditional release programs, including extending the independent placement panel program and shifting funds to support additional bed capacity and a mental health rehab center. Members asked about the use of BHSA funds for workforce programs, and the department said the proposal would replace General Fund support with BHSA reimbursements. The Emergency Medical Services Authority proposed funding for statewide behavioral health crisis response guidance and for enterprise system development, and the Department of Managed Health Care proposed modernization of its complaint system and claims-settlement data system to improve oversight and comply with AB 3275. The largest discussion centered on the administration’s BHSA spending plan under Proposition 1, including state-directed prevention, workforce, and other uses, plus General Fund offsets for existing programs. The LAO questioned whether some proposed offsets fit Proposition 1’s non-supplant and eligible-use requirements, while the administration argued the uses were consistent with the measure and that the state-directed share can be adjusted annually. The Commission for Behavioral Health’s proposals drew the most public and member concern. The administration proposed cutting the commission’s Innovation Partnership Fund from $20 million to $10 million and reducing the Community Advocacy Program by $6.7 million, while redirecting BHSA dollars to other state purposes and direct services. Commissioners, advocates, and several members argued the cuts would weaken community voice, reduce support for underserved populations, and disrupt grants already in process; they also objected to using BHSA funds to backfill General Fund commitments. Public commenters, including youth, disability, behavioral health, LGBTQ, tribal, veteran, immigrant, and community-based organization representatives, overwhelmingly opposed the cuts and urged preservation of prevention, advocacy, mobile crisis, and innovation funding. No votes or final actions were taken during the hearing.

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• Manufactured homes are what you think of as sort of a mobile home, right?
• c> home<01:20:39.080> right<01:20:39.719> a<01:20:40.199> a as sort of a mobile
• home right a a as sort of a mobile home right a a modular<01:20:41.000> home<01:20:41.440>
• c><01:23:40.280> a disparity and to equate this to a a disparity and to equate this to a a mobile
• home or a trailer um is really mobile home or a trailer um is really unfair<01:23:44.800> um<

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• So I guess are you using your per-device costs or per-device component of the... ... funding model to
• going to need those devices.
• some of those devices for schools.
• Those devices are library media devices. They're checked out from the library to the teachers.
• So our mobile device management system has to have that granularity going down.

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• <00:07:59.039> I've anti-personnel explosive devices I've anti-personnel explosive devices
• Members will record their votes by electronic device. This is a 15-minute vote.
• Members will record their votes by electronic device.
• Members will record their votes by electronic device. This is a 15-minute vote.
• someone's phone so the scan MO is mobile someone's phone so the scan MO is mobile with<05:41:19.760

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Tuesday, February 11, 2025, 1012, house, all

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• I'm a physical therapist and assistive technology professional and seating and mobility specialist with
• I am certified as an assistive technology professional and a seating and mobility specialist, and I'm
• professional and seating in Mobility professional and seating in Mobility specialist<00:35:20.640
• Thank you for recognizing that power standing systems are life-changing medical devices; they truly are
• These were becoming more and more frequent, and the individual had a standing device at home already

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• Everyone, if they'd please silence your cell phones and electronic devices.
• I guess my worry or my concern is maybe are seniors or those with mobility issues that, you know, can't
• We need to create mechanisms to keep our public safe while promoting the mobility that they provide.

Summary: The Transportation Committee met with a quorum and first took up SB 654 on traffic infraction enforcement, a comprehensive bill addressing red light, school zone speed, and school bus camera programs. The sponsor said the measure was intended to improve consistency, transparency, privacy protections, and due process, including virtual hearings, record-retention rules, limits on remote surveillance and data use, school zone flashing-light requirements, clerk fee retention, and school board approval and reporting for school bus camera systems. An amendment clarifying reporting periods and liability-transfer affidavits was adopted without objection, and after questions about information sharing, facial recognition, school zone warnings, and school bus stop safety, the committee reported the bill favorably as a committee substitute. The committee then adopted a delete-all amendment to SB 1080 on transportation, which required FDOT rules on direct payments to first-tier subcontractors and certain takeover agreement terms involving sureties and replacement contractors. With no opposition, the amended bill was reported favorably. The committee also unanimously recommended confirmation of a slate of appointments in tabs 1 through 6 after taking a single roll call vote. Next, the committee considered SB 382 on electric bicycles and scooters. A strike-all amendment shifted the bill away from immediate enforcement changes toward data collection and study, while retaining rules requiring riders to yield to pedestrians, provide an audible signal before passing, and limit speed near pedestrians, and creating a task force to study e-bike safety and recommend future policy. Members raised concerns about enforceability, shared-use paths, access barriers for users who rely on e-bikes, and whether data would be shared with local governments; supporters from law enforcement and advocacy groups appeared in support. The amended bill was reported favorably. Finally, the committee reported favorably on SB 684, which allows electronic signatures in connection with total-loss vehicles and vessels, and SB 880, which creates a Miami Northwestern Alumni Association specialty license plate. The meeting ended after all items were approved and the committee rose without objection.

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• LSP grants are funded by the Mobile Disp Resolution Fund, a fund completely self-funded by mobile home
• , a mobile home resident, wherever they are.
• Beverly Purcell, a mobile home resident, who is here on behalf of GSMOL, and Roger Johnson, a mobile
• AB 635 is a critical piece of legislation for all mobile home residents.
• Also discovered in the vehicle were 24 slasher devices.

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• He said it is a lot easier for an individual to do that on an electronic device than it is with something
• for an individual to do that on an for an individual to do that on an electronic<00:26:57.520> device
• than<00:26:58.559> it<00:26:58.799> is<00:26:58.960> something electronic device
• than it is something electronic device than it is something that<00:26:59.600> is<00:26:59.760
• <01:15:16.400> We mobile under the Mckin Vento Act. We mobile under the Mckin Vento Act.

Bills: HF3698, HF3067, HF3730

Keywords: libraries, electronic books, digital audiobooks, licensing agreements, public access, paraprofessional, paraprofessional qualifications, education support staff, teacher aide, teacher assistant, special education, Title I, federal personnel qualifications, Minnesota Department of Education, school district, charter school, cooperative unit, Read Act, reading instruction, math instruction

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• Minnesotans are driving electric vehicles, we must ensure that consumers are getting what they pay for for mobile
• require a defrayal, including pans and pandas, rapid whole genomic sequencing, orthotic and prosthetic devices
• uh sequencing orthotic<00:08:26.039> and<00:08:26.199> prosthetic<00:08:26.680> devices
• <00:08:27.199> and orthotic and prosthetic devices and orthotic and prosthetic devices and

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• Please silence all electronic devices.
• these are statewide achievements likewise in in computer and electronic related products, medical devices
• , pharmaceuticals, the state is the second largest producer of medical device equipment.
• Polk County is a great example with the CSX on a mobile there.
• Jersey about relocating to Florida in their laugh and then we tell them we're number 2, a medical device

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• Before we begin, let's make sure that all electronic devices are turned off or into silent mode.
• We use gaggle and gaggle looks for that on any of our devices, not through AI any of our devices and
• So our gaggle are gaggle is layered onto it every every one of our devices, whether they're using AI
• The technology you can't use your own device in a controlled environment because you have to have.
• No, we're not currently using any devices for for I use of AI for them.

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• Chair recognizes the gentleman from Mobile. Thank you, Mr. Speaker, for the recognition.
• To me, the Metro is Mobile.
• You're recognized, G from Mobile, J. Brown. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
• If you took all the water out, then the floor of, say, Mobile Bay...
• The floor of, say, Mobile Bay, Mississippi, should be covered in grass.

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• Now that come in, about 74% are walk-ins. 9% are brought in by crisis mobile outreach. 8% are from MH1s
• behavioral health services and mobile behavioral health services and other<01:08:37.679> um<01
• in facilities that lifesaving devices in facilities that can<02:25:44.160> be<02:25:44.479>
• <02:26:22.960> so understand how to use these devices so understand how to use these devices
• they're also maintaining these devices they're also maintaining these devices on<02:26:48.000>

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• and that is Senator Mann's Senate File 3626, and takes about 15 pages for the Interstate Teacher Mobility
• Some say high schoolers should simply learn to manage their devices, but science says otherwise.
• teenager you yell at for running around the mall be expected to responsibly limit the use of this device
• <01:23:42.840> That simply managing device collection.
• That simply managing device collection.

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• As per usual, everybody please silence your electronic devices.
• hold a doctoral degree in naturopathic medicine, provides for licensure by endorsement through the Mobile
• hold a doctoral degree in naturopathic medicine, provides for licensure by endorsement through the Mobile
• So there are tissue-type cells that are used in dressings and other types of medical devices. ...dressings
• and other types of medical devices that facilitate healing and help with pain.

Bills: S0688, S1414, S0186, S0902, S0196, S1574, S0878, S1092, S1032, S1684, S1686, S1760

Keywords: cytomegalovirus, education, maternal health, newborn care, infectious diseases, student health, epilepsy, seizure disorders, school safety, training requirements, medical marijuana, low-THC cannabis, neurofibromatosis, healthcare, state regulations, child care facilities, public safety, grant program, uterine fibroids, health database

Summary: The committee took up several health-related bills and confirmations. It first heard SB 1414 on congenital cytomegalovirus education, which would require the Department of Health to develop and distribute educational materials to expectant and new parents through maternity, prenatal, newborn, and OB-GYN settings; an amendment removed a section on required instruction for medical professionals, and the bill was reported favorably as a committee substitute. The committee then approved a block of appointees on tabs 2 through 7 and separately confirmed Chavon Harris as Secretary of the Agency for Health Care Administration after her testimony on Medicaid accountability, transparency, managed care oversight, rural health, behavioral health, and the state’s technology modernization efforts. Senators asked Harris about Hope Florida, Medicaid redeterminations, the CORE project, an anti-marijuana ad campaign at DCF, and compliance with a federal Medicaid-related court order; she said she would follow up on some issues. The confirmation was recommended favorably, with Senator Berman voting no. The committee next passed SB 186 on student health and safety, which expands epilepsy and seizure-disorder training requirements to more school personnel, including bus drivers and charter school staff, and requires seizure-first-aid posters and updated Department of Health education efforts. It also approved SB 902 on Department of Health issues after amendments narrowed the bill’s scope and added provisions on medical marijuana regulation, early childhood intervention, practitioner accountability, and autism workforce development; one speaker raised concerns about marijuana dispensary location restrictions and low-THC ratios. SB 196 creating a uterine fibroid research database was also reported favorably after an amendment protecting patient privacy; the bill drew emotional testimony from a patient describing severe symptoms and the need for more research. SB 688 on naturopathic medicine was approved after committee discussion about scope of practice, referral obligations, and whether naturopathic care should be adjunctive to conventional medicine; supporters described complementary care and access issues, while opponents worried about delayed treatment for serious disease. Later, the committee passed SB 1574, “Maddie’s Law,” to add biliary atresia screening to newborn screening using the same blood specimen already collected at birth and to launch an education campaign; parents of a child affected by the disease testified that earlier screening could have prevented severe harm. SB 878 on clinical laboratory personnel was reported favorably to address staffing shortages by allowing Florida to rely more directly on federal CLIA standards for qualified lab workers. SB 1092 on podiatric medicine was approved after an amendment narrowed it to cellular/tissue-based products and podiatrists’ use of certain therapies; the bill also addresses continuing education, informed consent, and advertising disclosures. SB 1032 on medical marijuana was amended and passed, aligning physician certification and card renewal timelines, setting 70-day and 35-day supply limits, and reducing the fee for honorably discharged veterans while preserving funding for FAMU; Senator Harrell opposed it, saying the longer timeframes were too much of an expansion. The committee also heard SB 1760 on Medicaid coverage transparency from Senator Brodeur, who said the bill focuses on accountability and fiscal responsibility, but the transcript cuts off before further discussion or action on that measure.

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• their votes by electronic device. their votes by electronic device.
• Members will record their votes by electronic device.
• This is a votes by electronic device. This is a five-minute<04:23:03.840> vote.
• <07:54:31.680> quickly, and Coast Guard mobilized quickly, and Coast Guard mobilized quickly
• This is all wing aircraft mobilized.

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Tuesday, July 15, 2025, 1012, house, all