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• It's primarily a study more than anything else about how do we get to a place where we can implement
• Yeah, I do see the study portions here. Thank you. I do see the study portions here.
• The study is completed and delivered, and I didn't understand.
• Okay, so the study is due after the order goes out to facilitate the replacement and redevelopment of
• Is this study, tell me, give me a heads up about this. What is this looking to do?

Keywords: 993, senate, all

Summary: The Senate Standing Committee on Energy and Telecommunications, chaired by Senator Cameron Parker, considered a large agenda focused on utility consumer protections, rate transparency, NYSERDA oversight, and energy transition policy. Several bills were discussed in detail, including measures to prohibit residential utility shutoffs during extreme temperature forecasts (Bill 120A), delay shutoffs and late fees while a utility is under certain PSC investigations (Bill 904B), require disclosure of planned rate increases (Bill 4989A), limit certain utility charges after 12 months (Bill 8710), and require utilities to disclose more information with major rate change applications (Bill 9433A). The committee also considered bills on net energy metering credits (Bill 1553), reconnection for low-income customers (Bill 965), sanctions and civil penalties (Bill 8908), and annual NYSERDA reporting obligations (Bill 1819). Members raised recurring concerns about affordability, arrears, and who ultimately bears costs when utilities are prevented from collecting immediately. Senator Walczyk repeatedly questioned whether protections would shift costs to other ratepayers, while sponsors and the chair emphasized that the bills did not erase arrears but created temporary consumer protections. Senator May noted that some proposals could produce significant savings for ratepayers. On Bill 1819, Senator Walczyk supported greater accountability for NYSERDA’s use of ratepayer-funded money. Bill 1668, which would authorize NYSERDA to administer grants for switching residents to electric heat pumps, drew questions about funding; staff said it would be funded off-budget from existing sources and would have no direct state cost, though it could require shifting existing program resources. The committee advanced most bills to third reading after motions and votes, with several measures receiving no votes but still moving forward. Bill 2477 was held for possible amendments. Bill 4989A was referred to the Consumer Protection Committee. Bill 5111, the Just Energy Transition Act, prompted extended discussion about its study timeline and a PSC order to facilitate replacement and redevelopment of at least 4 gigawatts of fossil fuel generation; the bill was advanced to third reading after debate. The meeting concluded with adjournment after the committee completed its agenda.

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• This commission is charged with studying SAU consolidation, restructuring, and, critically, property
• This commission is charged with studying SAU consolidation, restructuring, and, critically, property
• <01:02:07.760> You You don’t get a study commission.
• 575 establishing a committee to study 575 establishing a committee to study the<01:05:39.119>
• 1734 establishing a committee to study 1734 establishing a committee to study the<03:28:32.880><

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

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• study study which<00:20:38.000> identified<00:20:39.160> our<00:20:39.280> needs
• So, in a 2021 study, our infrastructure.
• <00:37:34.480> in good example of um there was a study in good example of um there was a study
• <00:39:45.520> um other institutions that are studying um other institutions that are studying
• > by<01:43:11.680> the studies necessarily conducted by the studies necessarily conducted

Bills: HF4470, HF2418, HF3417, HF3365, HF3463

Keywords: HF4470, Melissa Hortman, memorial, statue, memorial garden, State Office Building, Capitol Mall Design Framework, capital investment, appropriation, Capitol Area Architectural and Planning Board, Department of Administration, public art, commemorative monument, landscaping, artist selection, family consultation, Minnesota legislature, state building site, capital appropriation, political subdivisions

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• That 2017 study focused on virtual charter programs, but there's a lot to be learned from that study
• That 2017 study focused on virtual charter programs, but there's a lot to be learned from that study
• That 2017 study focused on virtual charter programs, but there's a lot to be learned from that study
• That 2017 study focused on virtual charter programs, but there's a lot to be learned from that study
• A couple of other things I'd like to highlight in this study that are not on the slide: the study found

Keywords: 996, all

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• In 2006, a Chinese student came to the United States with the intention of studying under Dr.
• Smith allowed two researchers the student had studied with back in China to be permitted to visit the
• The legislature funded a feasibility study last session, and the results are clear.
• The feasibility study gives us a roadmap.
• Um, that's also in the feasibility study, but would be done, um, later in time.

Bills: HB232

Keywords: disaster recovery, natural disaster, weather disaster, emergency relief, flood relief, hurricane relief, storm damage, wildfire, tornado, hail, windstorm, extreme heat, ice storm, snowstorm, property damage, personal injury, temporary housing, relocation assistance, lost wages, state emergency management

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• So you can click on any program you'd like to study at Ave Maria or St.
• In fact, we're completing a study.
• can't get a Bachelor of Bible Studies and be eligible for EASE.
• can't get a Bachelor of Bible Studies and be eligible for EASE.
• So biblical studies is just like a study program; it's not an associate's or bachelor's?

Summary: The Higher Education Budget Subcommittee heard and advanced House Bill 1145, which clarifies that public charter schools may participate in the CAP Grant Fund. The bill’s amendment expanded a separate “money-back guarantee” concept for state colleges, requiring participating institutions to offer six eligible programs and refund tuition if graduates do not find qualifying employment within six months under standardized job-search requirements. Members asked about refund rates, student notification, fiscal impact, and whether the proposal accounted for disability or out-of-state job searches. Public testimony on the amendment and bill was in support from Nathan Hoffman of the Foundation for Florida’s Future, and the committee adopted the amendment and reported the bill favorably as a committee substitute by a 16-1 vote, with Representative Aristide voting no over the charter school issue. The committee then received presentations on the William L. Boyd IV Effective Access to Student Education (EASE) Grant and the private nonprofit college sector. Department of Education staff explained that EASE, created in 1979, provides tuition assistance to eligible full-time undergraduates at participating private institutions, with a 2024-25 maximum award of $3,500 and an additional EASE Plus incentive of up to $850 for students in high-demand fields. The department reviewed the program’s funding history, disbursement process, and accountability metrics, including access, affordability, graduation, retention, and postgraduate employment/continuing education. Members asked about award proration, eligibility for other aid, religious-program restrictions, and why some institutions had low or unavailable graduation-rate data. ICUF President Robert Boyd argued that EASE is a strong return on investment and described ICUF institutions as not-for-profit, four-year schools serving many Pell-eligible, adult, military, and minority students. He said the sector produces a significant share of Florida’s bachelor’s, graduate, nursing, and education degrees, and highlighted ICUF’s dashboard with additional transparency metrics, program earnings data, and net price calculators. Boyd and members discussed graduation and completion rates, NCLEX passage rates, affordability, institutional flexibility, and whether schools with lower graduation rates should be compared differently because of their student populations. The presentations ended with no further business, and the meeting adjourned.

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• So that is part of the Bieber study that we're working on now.
• And when do you expect that study to be completed?
• Again, we're studying that.
• Additionally, we are currently conducting a study.
• We studied 28 publicly held sites last year, and this year's study is a mixture of publicly held and

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• Our study found that reducing neutral.
• Not without another feasibility study.
• not without another feasibility study. not without another feasibility study.
• . study. study.
• <01:14:09.040> Um to do the feasibility study. Um to do the feasibility study.

Keywords: 958, all

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• on MnDOT's legislative studies website. on MnDOT's legislative studies website.
• talk about the study. talk about the study.
• <00:21:07.200> So from the study. So from the study.
• legislative study from leading study legislative study from California<00:49:10.040> uh<00:49
• about in the Mind That study. about in the Mind That study.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• House File 3169 is a bill that would set requirements for a study on barriers for suicide prevention
• But various stakeholders in the studies.
• <01:32:31.600> So<01:32:31.840> I we're making a broad salary study.
• So I we're making a broad salary study.
• And I think this study helps uh they do.

Bills: HF3169, HF3749, HF2605, HF3541, HF4102, HF3513, HF268

Keywords: suicide prevention, transportation, mental health, bridge safety, data collection, state law, bridge inspection, active transportation, truck parking, public safety, vehicle registration, fee structure, full-service providers, Capitol security, emergency management, state buildings, law enforcement, Minnesota State Patrol, State Patrol compensation, trooper salary

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• every six years. ...institutions every two years and an experience study every six years.
• Okay, so the demographic experience study.
• that we saw in the study.
• So the study itself is a comprehensive look at demographic assumptions.
• So that's the overall impact of the demographic and experience study on the valuation.

Keywords: 904, all

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• In fact, a 2025 study by Simon and others of Section 12 applications in Boston found that involuntary
• And in fact, this was studied by Bevan Croft in 2015, and that is also cited in my written testimony,
• We were one of 15 sites across the country studying that medicine for that condition.
• After reading study after study after study from some of the best institutions in the world, I finally
• To study, even though there's a ton of research already available.

Keywords: 995, all

Summary: The hearing opened with remarks from House Chair Mindy Domb and Senate Vice Chair Robyn Kennedy, who outlined procedures for the hybrid public hearing, noted the committee would hear testimony on 15 bills related to treatment settings, and recognized members present. The first major bill discussed was H. 4200, authorizing a pilot program for psychedelic-assisted treatment in licensed facilities. Representative Jim O’Day and witnesses from Control Z supported the bill, describing it as a tightly controlled, medically supervised pilot with DPH oversight, limited sites, and screening requirements. Committee members asked about the number of sites and whether Column Health still existed; witnesses said the bill contemplated three separate pilot programs and that Column Health no longer existed after being purchased by another company. The committee also heard testimony on S. 1405 to make the drug stewardship program permanent by removing its 2026 sunset date. Senator John Keenan and others said the program helps collect and safely dispose of unused medications, reduces diversion, and should remain in place because manufacturers should bear disposal costs. A member from Boston added support based on local concerns about people searching through bags for drugs, and Keenan explained the original sunset reflected pilot status and industry pushback. A large portion of the hearing focused on S. 1394 and H. 2193, which would strengthen implementation of the 2023 Roadmap for Behavioral Health Reform. The Children’s Mental Health Campaign, Parent/Professional Advocacy League, Massachusetts Association for Mental Health, and Elliott Community Human Services testified that the roadmap’s helpline, community behavioral health centers, and crisis services are important but unevenly implemented. They urged a single point of accountability within EOHHS, regular strategic planning, a public data dashboard, and financial analysis of the behavioral health system and the access and crisis intervention trust fund. Witnesses said commercial insurance often does not fully reimburse community behavioral health center services, making sustainability difficult, and asked for better coordination across agencies and crisis response systems. Committee members asked whether the roadmap includes substance use disorder; witnesses said it is intended to cover behavioral health broadly, including mental health and substance use. The committee also heard testimony on bills to ban aversives and on suicide prevention signage. Lisa Jean Graff testified in support of S. 1394 by urging a statewide ban on aversive practices, including electric shock, withholding food or bathroom access, and other painful interventions, arguing disabled people deserve the same protections from harm as others. Fonda Bryant and Carol McLean supported a bill requiring suicide prevention signs on tall parking garages, describing personal experiences and saying the signs could create a brief pause and connect people to 988 or other help. McLean said her son died by suicide from a parking garage and that signage might have made a difference. The committee also heard strong testimony in support of creating intensive stabilization and treatment units within DMH facilities (S. 1398/H. 2204), with the Massachusetts Nurses Association and a DMH nurse arguing that highly assaultive patients need specialized, more secure units to protect staff and other patients and to improve care. Additional testimony supported creating a dedicated board for licensed mental health counselors (H. 4696/S. 1382), with Rep. John Badger, the Mass Mental Health Counselors Association, and others saying LMHCs are a large and growing workforce that needs its own licensing board, clearer standards, and faster implementation of existing licensure reforms. The committee also heard extensive testimony on H. 2223 regarding benzodiazepines and non-benzodiazepine hypnotics. Survivors and advocates described severe withdrawal, lack of informed consent, cognitive harms, and long-term disability, while a physician supported the bill as a way to improve disclosure of risks. Finally, the committee heard multiple witnesses in favor of H. 2231/S. 1383 to establish peer-run respite centers statewide. Advocates and people with lived experience said peer respites provide non-coercive, home-like alternatives to hospitalization, can reduce trauma and repeated admissions, and may be especially important for marginalized communities; they also cited cost savings and existing positive outcomes from current respite programs. No votes or final committee actions were taken during the hearing portion reflected in the transcript.

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• So part of what we want to include in the study is going to be just a few topics.
• So part of what we want to include in the study is going to be just a few topics.
• So part of what we want to include in the study is going to be just a few topics.
• <00:38:07.280> And support as we move towards a study.
• And support as we move towards a study.

Bills: HB0111, HB0112, HB0122

Keywords: capital construction, state funding, Wyoming, major maintenance, community colleges, task force, legislative services, budget appropriation, unexpended funds, sunset clause, healthcare, rural health, transformation program, funding, incentives, training, access, perpetuity fund, 916, all

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• proposals related to background studies. proposals related to background studies.
• , the background studies So, the background studies disqualification<01:09:15.920> changes,<01
• those studies. those studies.
• . studies. studies.
• So, they got the studies, and so they got a more limited study.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• Members, this is Representative Mary Gonzalez's bill to study the standards for agricultural valuation
• until a thorough study could be conducted on the plan's impact.
• Is Castleberry currently under the PBS study issue? No, we have never had that issue.
• Water hose up and try to explain this and study it.
• Of course, that's what the property value studies are meant to solve.

Bills: HB329, HB361, HB546, HB1547, HB1745, HB2786, HB3235, HB3370, HB3575, HJR83

Keywords: appraisal, property value, residential real estate, tax code, appraisal review board, property owners, property tax, homeowners, property owner rights, property appraisal, taxation, Texas Tax Code, real estate, ad valorem tax, homestead exemption, market value, condemnation, tax appraisal, open-space land, land use

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• So we're having those first studies come out.
• One, of the studies we're having today, and the studies are all based on when states legalize.
• It's four years ago the study was done.
• It's four years ago the study was done.
• So, no, I don't think we should dismiss the study.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• Would a county have the ability to conduct an independent study outside of OPPAGA that would be able
• and the independent study that they engage in?
• Just a study. Chair: I am seeing no other questions for the sponsor.
• To say that we cannot study something means that we cannot learn. We cannot grow.
• To say that we cannot do a study on the cost and benefits of having an Urban Development Boundary to

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• prospective studies.
• The Stanford study is an excellent study.
• We do not yet have large studies.
• through the study.
• it through the study in both of those studies that are readily available regarding ibogaine.

Keywords: 1. Call to Order and Roll Call – 00:00:00 2. Approval of Minutes – 00:01:32 3. Getting to Know the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky – 00:02:26 4. Healthy Kids Clinic – 00:26:58 5. Pharmacy Payment Parity – 00:56:36 6. Ibogaine – 01:17:37 7. Consideration of Referred Administrative Regulations – 01:53:05 8. Adjournment – 01:53:19, 958, all

Summary: The committee first approved the prior meeting minutes and recognized Eric Clark for his service, noting this may be his last meeting before he leaves state government. The main presentation was from Allison Adams, president and CEO of the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky, who described the organization’s history, nonpartisan mission, and focus on health equity, prevention, and upstream policy solutions. She said Kentucky’s poor rankings in chronic disease, preventable hospitalizations, and life expectancy show the need to shift resources toward prevention and community-driven strategies rather than relying mainly on treatment after people become sick. Adams emphasized leading health indicators, arguing that lawmakers should track actionable measures such as quit attempts and smoke-free policies instead of only lagging indicators like disease rates and mortality. In response to questions, she said accountability should be shared across communities and systems, with possible incentives and disincentives tied to outcomes, and she supported creating a public data utility or dashboard, ideally with university partners, to help legislators and communities monitor progress. She also cited examples of accountable health community models and said Kentucky could adapt similar approaches. The committee then heard from Meade County Schools Superintendent Mark Martin and district health coordinator Karen Kotche about the Healthy Kids Clinic partnership with Cumberland Health. They described a seven-year effort that led to full implementation in the district, which now has a nurse in every school and a nurse practitioner, allowing services such as sports physicals and other clinic functions to be provided on campus. They said the program has been a strong investment for students and the community and began explaining how the district built the partnership after earlier efforts and delays, including the pandemic.

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• studies.
• Foundational courses depend on what your area of study is. Mr.
• Gonzalez: study are decades old.
• I am proud to have learned and studied to where I am.
• I mean, you know, would you consider a course on African American studies or Mexican American studies

Bills: SB 37

Keywords: fetal development, education, public health curriculum, middle school, age-appropriate instruction

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• There are some studies within the State Auditor reports that do examine that aspect.
• So that's the reason why I just wanted to know if you guys have, or if you guys don't have a study to
• Senator, we don't currently have a study on that, but we could also look up information that might be
• There are some studies within the State Auditor reports that do examine that aspect.
• <00:30:18.760> uh defrayment um there are some studies uh defrayment um there are some studies

Keywords: 912, senate, all

Summary: The committee opened its first hearing of the 2025 session with procedural instructions about testimony limits, Zoom participation, written testimony, and a reconvening date if needed. It then heard SB 200 on speedy trials. The Office of the Public Defender opposed the bill, arguing it could create conflicts of interest for prosecutors, potentially make victims or witnesses quasi-parties to criminal cases, force traumatizing testimony on continuance motions, and unfairly delay trials for in-custody defendants. A World Care representative supported the bill and urged broader protections for minors, disabled people, and seniors. The chair also pressed the public defender to suggest improvements, emphasizing that the bill was driven by victims and families. No vote or final action was taken on SB 200. The committee next took up SB 8 on jury duty exemptions for health professionals. Testimony was strongly supportive from nurses, physicians, and disability advocates, who said APRNs and other nurses are in short supply and that jury service can disrupt patient care, especially in rural and neighbor island areas. One witness suggested expanding the exemption to include registered nurses as well as APRNs, while a senator raised concerns about blanket exemptions for non-practicing APRNs and suggested a time limit. The bill remained under discussion with no final action reported. The committee then heard SB 144 on chiropractic, with the state chiropractic board offering comments and the Hawaii State Chiropractic Association supporting the measure as a way to address workforce shortages and provide students more hands-on clinical experience. A World Care witness also supported the bill after clarifying her remarks. The chair then moved to SB 107 on medical informed consent, where the Hawaii Medical Board opposed the bill and the Healthcare Association of Hawaii and Queen’s Health System offered comments, citing concerns about duplicative standards. A support witness proposed expanding the bill to better address combined mental and physical health conditions. Finally, SB 189 on breast cancer screening drew support from the Hawaii Medical Association, Hawaii Radiological Society, Queen’s Health Systems, and others, while the Insurance Division raised concerns about possible insurance mandate defrayment and the need for a sunrise analysis. Senators also asked about local demographic data and coverage impacts; the chair indicated decision-making would be deferred to another day.