Transcript Highlights:

• We saw you on video. Live around the globe. We're transparent. Yeah.
• So I guess you would consider the annual report to be site visits to assess exactly what your tenant
• I'd brought the experts together and created the one-hour video, the new hurricane threat for Hawaii.
• the</c> experts together and created the experts together and created the one-hour<00:35:16.240><c> video
• , the new hurricane threat one-hour video, the new hurricane threat for<00:35:18.800><c> Hawaii.

Committee: Senate Economic Development and Tourism

Summary: The committee heard testimony on HB 449 relating to economic development, HB 1006 relating to the Agribusiness Development Corporation, and then began HB 1467 relating to housing resiliency. On HB 449, Director Wayne Enoy of the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation and several business groups, including the Chamber of Commerce and Hawaii Food Industry Association, testified in strong support. They said the measure would help local manufacturers and tech-focused businesses adapt to uncertainty around tariffs and federal funding pauses, diversify Hawaiʻi’s economy, and expand workforce training and apprenticeship efforts tied to innovation and manufacturing. The bulk of the discussion focused on HB 1006 and proposed agritourism authority for ADC. ADC, the Hawaii Farm Bureau, and other supporters said agritourism can be a value-added tool that helps farmers diversify income while keeping agriculture as the primary use of the land. One testifier opposed the bill’s direction without stronger guardrails, urging that a high percentage of revenue or land use remain tied to actual agricultural production. Committee members questioned ADC and Farm Bureau witnesses about how much land should remain in production, whether agritourism could expand on public lands, how enforcement would work, and whether responsibilities should be shifted from the Department of Agriculture’s marketing functions to ADC. Witnesses said ADC currently has no tenants engaged in agritourism, but would support standards, annual reporting, site visits, and the ability to reclaim land if production requirements are not met. No votes or final actions were taken in the portion provided. After concluding HB 1006 testimony and questions, the committee moved on to HB 1467 and called the first witness, Luke Meyers, before the transcript ended.

Transcript Highlights:

• In previous comments, I highlighted the restrictive access to audio and video recording during OMMA administrative
• So between the same date range, we conducted 779 compliance inspections, and we reported 721 field visit
• Our visits, we escalated, so that team escalated 57 calls for further investigation to our OIE team,
• So between the same date range, we conducted 779 compliance inspections, and we reported 721 field visit
• Our visits, we escalated, so that team escalated 57 calls for, So that team escalated 57 calls for further

Summary: The Executive Advisory Council met without a quorum, so no votes were taken, but the meeting proceeded with public comment and agency updates. Public commenters focused on medical marijuana issues including transparency in OMMA proceedings, delays and accreditation at the OMMA quality assurance lab, THC potency inflation, recall and embargo procedures, and the need for more public data and patient safety protections. One commenter also urged consideration of allowing first responders access to cannabis off duty, while another praised OMMA staff professionalism during inspections and enforcement actions. OMMA leadership responded with updates on the QA lab, saying the agency has been building the lab since receiving authority in 2023 and funding in 2024, and that validations and accreditation are being phased in. They reported current accreditation for pesticides, flower, potency, oils and concentrates, with additional validations for terpenes, water activity, filth and foreign material expected by the end of the month, and heavy metals, mycotoxins, residual solvents, and microbial testing to follow. Officials also said a website page will be launched to provide ongoing lab transparency. Compliance and enforcement updates included 779 inspections, 83 investigations, 65 administrative actions, and the hiring of a recall coordinator. The council also discussed legislative developments. OMMA said seven bills affecting the agency remain active, including HB 4454 on clearer THC labeling and child-resistant packaging, HB 3143 and HB 3144 on extending the grow-license moratorium and capping grow licenses, and amended bills SB 640, SB 1242, SB 1501, and SB 3 addressing cleanup, training, vendor standards, and THC products outside dispensaries. Members asked about access to METRC data, recall timing, inspector training, body cameras, and whether OMMA considers itself a public health agency. OMMA said METRC data is used internally and is confidential under state law, recalls are handled through a combination of agency notice and industry action, inspectors do wear body cameras under policy, and the agency is still building out its public health and education functions. The next meeting was announced for July 17 at 9 a.m.

Transcript Highlights:

• yesterday that uh explained to me, um, because of the way we do business in New Mexico, uh, they had a video
• But, um, along with that site visit, that's going to hold all of the conversations that we are thinking
• It's my understanding that this committee has met in uh Las Cruces previously, and to visit uh a city
• um, yeah, and, and to, um, vice Chair's comments earlier, I think it's really important for us to visit
• I wish it was over the weekend, so you can uh visit the famous uh flea market they have there.

Committee: House Economic & Rural Development & Policy Committee

Transcript Highlights:

• I know that in visiting with Representative Bosch, who's also involved with the overall IT area and also
• I know that I know that in visiting with Representative Bosch, who's also involved with the overall IT
• Chairman, Representative Hansen, in visiting... Mr.
• Chairman, Representative Hansen, in visiting with Representative Bosch about that, that's to be determined
• Chairman, I'll go back and watch the video and listen to everything that's listed.

Bills: SB2003

Committee: House Appropriations - Education and Environment Division

Summary: The committee first reconsidered Senate Bill 2003 in the higher education budget and adopted several changes. It removed $3 million for enterprise resource planning, struck $2 million for a grant program for students who are pregnant or recently gave birth, and then added $3 million back into workforce education and innovative grants, restoring that line to $12 million. Members also discussed a possible purchase of the 19th Avenue building in Fargo for the State School of Science, but the motion was withdrawn for later consideration. Other higher ed items were briefly noted, including tribally controlled community colleges and a state magazine funding line, but no final action was taken on the building proposal during this segment. The committee then moved to Senate Bill 2018, the Commerce budget, and reviewed a long list of funding items. It restored a vacant workforce FTE, increased tourism marketing to $10 million and Find the Good Life to $5 million, raised Operation Intern by $1 million, removed a $100,000 infrastructure study, increased autonomous agriculture grants to $15 million, and set the Regional Workforce Impact Program at $10 million. It also kept or adjusted several other items, including the uncrewed aerial vehicle replacement program, the global talent office, tribally controlled community colleges, Native American small business grants, and technical skills training grants. A major new provision would transfer $50 million total, split between SIF and Bank of North Dakota profits, to the Theodore Roosevelt Library Museum Endowment Fund, matching a private fundraising challenge; members expressed both support and concern, and said they would revisit it later. The committee also discussed language to allow commercialization of Vantis and to permit the Turtle Mountain gaming compact proposal to move forward with required federal approvals, while clarifying that a previously discussed $100,000 study had been removed. Commerce officials said the workforce language was intended to centralize data and strategy, and they noted Operation Intern would need an emergency clause because applications begin in May. No final vote on the Commerce budget was taken in this segment, and the chair said the committee would return later to finish both budgets.

Transcript Highlights:

• He would like to be a computer engineer so that he can create some really cool video games.
• Her name is Liz Vega. ...and she is the Event Manager for Visit Las Cruces and part of this amazing team
• at Visit Las Cruces, which is our Visitors Bureau.
• So now, thanks to Visit Las Cruces, we get to experience that.
• Some of you probably have already been visited by our very beautiful students and future leaders to advocate

Transcript Highlights:

• AB 1921 protects video game users against premature shutdowns of their digital games.
• Video games have become recently the largest entertainment market in the world.
• We used to buy a video game and could play it forever, as long as the hardware still worked.
• Agnoster Hernandez, registering support for the United Video Game Workers, CWA, in support.
• California video games are licensed and not sold as unrestricted property.

Committee: Senate Privacy, Digital Technologies, and Consumer Protection

Transcript Highlights:

• I'd like to visit with you offline if I could get your information.
• I want to first say that we have visited with.
• Say there's a video, the last witness talked about this horrific video.
• I witnessed a video of what happened.
• If there is video evidence of that, I wouldn't need any more testimony.

Bills: HB36 , HB75 , HB76 , HB166 , HB799 , HB 1135 , HJR15 , HJR16 , HB36 , HB75 , HB76 , HB166 , HJR15 , HJR16

Committee: House Criminal Jurisprudence

Transcript Highlights:

• Here to prohibit a mother from visiting her son in his dorm room or a father from visiting his daughter
• , provided those visits occur in a reasonable and customary manner?
• Again, I know that some in the higher education community had concerns that this could affect visits
• From visiting or studying in each other's dorm rooms, or what about maybe common areas in university
• The footage that that video takes... ...is owned by the law enforcement agency, not by the officer.

Bills: SB2 , SB3 , SB5 , SB9 , SB10 , SB14 , SB16 , SB18 , SB34 , SB6 , SB7 , SB8 , SB11 , SB12 , SB13 , SB15 , SB 2 , SB 3 , SB 5 , SB 9 , SB 10 , SB 14 , SB 16 , SB 18 , SB 34 , SB 6 , SB 7 , SB 8 , SB 11 , SB 12 , SB 13 , SB 15 , SB 17 , SB 4 , SB1 , SB2 , SB3 , SB5 , SB9 , SB10 , SB14 , SB16 , SB18 , SB34 , SB6 , SB7 , SB8 , SB11 , SB12 , SB13 , SB15 , SB17 , SB4

Transcript Highlights:

• When we adopted a parrot, we had to undergo an interview and a home visit, so that we lived in a single-family
• home versus a multifamily dwelling, purchase a cage of a required size, visit the rescue three times
• to meet the bird, take an online 10-part class, agree to a vet visit within a week of bringing him home
• Investigative videos released by World Animal Protection and PETA this year demonstrate the cruelty and
• I urge you to watch the videos. This is the abuse our opponents are working to protect.

Bills: H5432 , H5433 , S3093 , H5363 , H5137 , H5247

Committee: Joint Joint Committee on Environment and Natural Resources

Summary: The Joint Committee on Environment and Natural Resources held a hybrid hearing on late-file bills, with testimony focused first on multiple home rule petitions seeking local authority to restrict anticoagulant rodenticides in towns including Andover, Topsfield, North Andover, Williamstown, Georgetown, Lexington, and others. Municipal officials, residents, wildlife advocates, and conservation groups described documented harm to hawks, owls, foxes, turtles, pets, and other wildlife, and argued that towns should be able to regulate these poisons locally. Several speakers said their towns had already voted to support restrictions and were using integrated pest management and other alternatives. Committee members noted that statewide rodenticide legislation had already advanced out of committee in both chambers and that the environmental bond bill was in conference committee, but no votes were taken during the hearing itself. The committee then heard testimony on H. 5137, a bill to prohibit the retail sale of parrots. Supporters, including animal welfare groups, veterinarians, rescue operators, and advocates, said parrots are often sourced from large breeding facilities with poor conditions, that many birds are surrendered because they are difficult long-term pets, and that rescues are overwhelmed. They argued the bill would encourage adoption, reduce demand for commercial breeding and trafficking, and improve bird welfare and public health. Opponents, including breeders, pet retailers, aviculture representatives, and rescue operators, said the bill would harm small businesses, reduce consumer access and transparency, and push sales to unregulated markets without improving welfare. Several speakers said the bill should instead focus on stronger standards and enforcement rather than banning sales. A separate bill, S. 310, designating the Marion Stoddard River Walk, was also briefly discussed in testimony supporting Marion Stoddard’s environmental work. The hearing ended after the committee finished taking testimony and adjourned; no roll-call votes or formal actions were taken in the transcript.

Transcript Highlights:

• conversation to have about putting that HBCU percent, at least another 1 percent, coming from the video
• lottery terminal legislation to allocate that. ...percent coming from the video lottery terminal legislation
• so many people are doing at Lincoln University to make this just a great institution where I get to visit
• We have visited many, many times in the past.
• great things going on to your leadership, and it's just an honor to be an acquaintance of yours and to visit

Committee: House Higher Education and Workforce Development

Summary: The Committee on Higher Education and Workforce Development heard two bills. House Bill 3221, sponsored by Rep. Castile, would bar state funds from supporting higher education degree programs that the federal government designates as low-earning, with the Coordinating Board for Higher Education reviewing the federal list and reporting impacts. The sponsor framed it as taxpayer accountability and return on investment, while many committee members and witnesses argued it was premature, lacked data, and could harm essential but lower-paid fields such as education, social work, early childhood education, counseling, and the arts. Supporters said the bill would mirror federal policy and affect only a small number of programs; opponents warned it could discourage universities from offering needed programs and would not account for long-term career outcomes or transferable skills. No vote was taken, and the sponsor said the bill was still a work in progress. Testimony in support of HB 3221 came from a lobbyist for FGA Action and others who said federal law is already moving in this direction and cited a small number of affected programs. Opposition came from representatives of independent colleges, community colleges, and other witnesses who said the federal rules are still being developed, the earnings test is based on a limited snapshot, and some low-wage programs serve important workforce needs or lead to later advancement. Several members asked for more information on the federal list, the number and demographics of affected students, and possible unintended consequences for rural schools and workforce development. The committee then heard House Bill 3416, sponsored by Rep. Bosley, which would create the Strengthening HBCUs Fund and direct a portion of gaming and classroom trust revenues to Lincoln University and Harris-Stowe State University for capital improvements and related support. The sponsor said the bill is intended to address historic underfunding of HBCUs and align Missouri with similar efforts in other states and at the federal level. Lincoln University President John Mosley testified in support, describing recent growth, major campus projects, and the need for additional infrastructure funding without increasing debt. Committee members asked about the funding amounts, whether Lincoln receives any special state support, and how the money would be distributed. No opposition testimony was heard, and the committee adjourned after the HB 3416 hearing without taking a vote.

Transcript Highlights:

• Public health, we're cutting a million dollars there in home visiting.
• A home visiting program is one of the best prevention tools...
• A home visiting program is one of the best prevention tools to keep kids out of foster care.
• Senators, if you ever need to feel uplifted, go into the archives and watch that video of her.
• To go into the archives and watch that video of her presenting that bill in State Affairs.

Transcript Highlights:

• Outpatient visits had 10,000 folks impacted, and from November, folks impacted seriously by the flu in
• outpatient visits went from less than 1% in November to 3.4% now.
• demonstrably impacted by the flu, and anything that can be done to keep them out of the hospital with a flu visit
• either under the virtual direct supervision of a physician through real-time interactive audio and video
• Physicians to provide direct supervision of virtual, direct, real-time interactive audio and video technology

Bills: HB2110 , HB2113 , HB2122 , HB2152 , HB2168

Committee: House Health Care & Wellness

Keywords: ambulance, interfacility transport, specialty care transport, emergency medical services, EMS, registered nurse, nurse staffing, paramedic, emergency medical technician, EMT, patient transfer, hospital transfer, critical care transport, medical transport, workforce shortage, scope of practice, Department of Health, RCW 18.73, first responder, basic life support

Transcript Highlights:

• 00:08:38.640><c> to</c><00:08:38.880><c> choose</c><00:08:39.120><c> between</c><00:08:39.440><c> visiting
• </c><00:08:39.839><c> my</c> having to choose between visiting my having to choose between visiting my
• lascivious exhibition of genitals or pubic area by either enticing or distributing the photos or videos
• </c><00:36:05.520><c> So</c><00:36:05.760><c> what's</c> photos or videos of it.
• So what's photos or videos of it. So what's lascivious?

Bills: HB0008 , HB0009 , HB0028

Committee: Senate Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:

• Section 6218.19 prohibits an individual from posting a video online if the fraud organization says you
• want to extend my sincere thanks to the United Hellenic Societies of California for organizing the visit
• I recently visited a communication center. public safety telecommunicators.
• I recently visited a communication center in Rialto, and staff there shared that due to funding challenges

Transcript Highlights:

• Also, no video or pictures are allowed unless you are credentialed press.
• This bill would require a brief board-approved mental health screener to be used in routine doctor visits
• It requires Department of Mental Health staff to accompany these individuals on therapeutic visits.
• Anytime we send an individual out for therapeutic visits, conditional release, or potential discharge

Bills: SB1328 , SB1380 , SB1436 , SB1558 , SB1572 , SB1651 , SB1805 , SB1831 , SB1836 , SB2014 , SB2023 , SB2044 , SB2179 , SB933

Committee: Senate Health and Human Services

Summary: The Health and Human Services Committee met to consider a series of Senate bills, beginning with SB 2014, which would allow ivermectin to be sold over the counter with FDA approval. After questions about whether a prescription would still be required and how FDA guidance would affect the law, the bill passed 9-3. SB 1805, as amended, barred detention and youth facilities from using temporary agencies or contracting organizations for staffing; the author said the change was intended to address transparency and records issues in a related lawsuit. That bill passed 12-0. SB 2044, also amended, clarified chiropractic-related language regarding serum and multiple vitamins; members discussed whether the bill changed scope of practice, and it passed 10-2. The committee then approved SB 1836, which requires a board-approved mental health screener during routine annual primary care visits. The author said it was meant to normalize mental health screening and noted an updated fiscal impact estimate of $284,000 to $560,000; some members raised concerns about mandates and cost, but the bill passed 8-4. SB 1380 would require the Oklahoma Health Care Authority to verify Medicaid eligibility against death records and conduct monthly death-record checks for enrollees; after questions about current practice, costs, and recoupment from deceased enrollees, the author requested title be stricken, and the bill passed 10-2. SB 2179, dealing with not-guilty-by-reason-of-mental-illness cases, adds staff accompaniment for therapeutic visits, requires structured violence-risk assessments before discharge or conditional release, and adds drug screening when substance-use monitoring is ordered; Department of Mental Health staff testified about treatment planning and monitoring, and the bill passed 11-1. Later, the committee passed SB 1436, which requires families to be informed of their right to certification after fetal death or miscarriage, and SB 1558, which clarifies that older youth in OJA custody may be placed in Level E group homes. SB 933, the “Right to Try for Individualized Treatment Act,” passed 11-0 and would allow certain terminally ill patients to seek individualized investigational treatments after informed consent. SB 1651, an Oklahoma Medical Board cleanup bill covering several licensed professions, also passed 11-0. Finally, SB 1328 modernizes parental access to minor medical records with safeguards for abuse situations, and SB 1572 removes the DHS and OJA directors from the OCCY board; both passed 11-0. The committee adjourned after noting a possible interim meeting for a Tier 1 nomination.

Transcript Highlights:

• Health insurers in the state: how much are going to be reimbursed for everything—doctor's visits, you
• You have to make another visit.
• You have to make another visit.
• </c><02:36:40.359><c> it</c> provided in a noticeably short visit it provided in a noticeably short visit
• </c><03:41:36.319><c> Lottery</c> taking something called a video Lottery taking something called a video

Summary: The committee heard testimony on House Bill 224, which would redirect most money from New Hampshire’s renewable energy fund back to electric ratepayers. The bill sponsor argued the measure would lower energy costs, noting recent utility rate increases and estimating annual savings of roughly $2.5 million to $7.3 million for ratepayers. Supporters said the fund has accumulated money that should be returned to customers rather than used for subsidies, and they emphasized that the state has already rebated similar funds from RGGI for years. Opponents, including Rep. Kat McGee, argued the renewable energy fund is a successful, nonlapsing dedicated fund that supports local clean-energy projects, energy resilience, emissions reductions, and private investment. McGee said the fiscal note overstated the benefit of rebates and understated the loss of investment, claiming the average annual rebate would amount to less than $10 per customer while the program has helped leverage significant private dollars and nearly 10,000 projects. She urged the committee to reject the bill as a poor deal for the state and ratepayers. Committee members questioned the fiscal note, the size of the rebate, whether the bill would set a precedent for other dedicated funds, and whether the program’s incentives amount to picking winners and losers. The Department of Energy testified neutrally, explaining how the renewable energy fund works, including renewable energy credits, alternative compliance payments, and the fund’s use for renewable energy initiatives. No vote was taken in the portion of the hearing provided.

Transcript Highlights:

• She's a junior at the University of Missouri-Columbia studying journalism and came down to visit with
• Top 10 or top 15 ranking in terms of visitation.
• And so we're able to track some level of visitation using that.
• Another way we look at visitation is through Visa credit card spending.
• So you'll see, and I'm going to try to play a video if the technology works.

Committee: House Special Committee on Tourism

Transcript Highlights:

• I'm happy to introduce students from Wyo Elementary School who are visiting the Capitol today.
• Mahalo to the Water and Land chair and vice chair for all their help in coordinating the students' visit
• 27.519><c> coordinating</c><00:13:28.160><c> the</c><00:13:28.399><c> students</c><00:13:28.800><c> visit
• </c><00:13:29.360><c> and</c> in coordinating the students visit and in coordinating the students visit
• It will also be saved as an archive video for your future viewing pleasure.

Bills: HB1974 , HB1853 , HB1973 , HB1574 , HB2619 , HB1966 , HB1643 , HB1671 , HB2558 , HB1854 , HB2173 , HB1575 , HB2229 , HB1535 , HB1978 , HB2508 , HB1549 , HB2187 , HB1550 , HB1977 , HB2314 , HB1871 , HB2319 , HB1591 , HB1858 , HB1898 , HB2372 , HB1765 , HB2012 , HB1706 , HB1962 , HB1963 , HB1975 , HB2009 , HB2083 , HB2224 , HB1877 , HB1959 , HB1626 , HB1665 , HB2488 , HB2456 , HB2548 , HB2207 , HB1832 , HB2079 , HB1985 , HB1618 , HB2486 , HB2242 , HB2045 , HB1703 , HB2236 , HB2480 , HB1976 , HB2287 , HB2288 , HB1777 , HB276 , HB1660 , HB1676 , HB1605 , HB1751 , HB1967 , HB2383 , HB2340 , HB1946 , HB2268 , HB1950 , HB2156 , HB2118 , HB1859 , HB1863 , HB1996 , HB2114 , HB2423 , HB2429 , HB2475 , HB2534 , HB2545 , HB1813 , HB1941 , HB2474 , HB2583 , HB1576 , HB1886 , HB1939 , HB2540 , HB2590 , HB2000 , HB2163 , HB2386 , HB1691 , HB1680 , HB2516 , HB1993 , HB2442 , HB1510 , HB1958 , HB1692

Transcript Highlights:

• The library archives the audio and video files of both the House and Senate for permanent retention.
• The library archives the audio and video files of both the House and Senate for permanent retention.
• The library archives the audio and video files of both the House and Senate for permanent retention.
• The library archives the audio and video files of both the House and Senate for permanent retention.
• </c><01:26:01.600><c> our</c> thousand History Day students visit our thousand History Day students visit

Committee: Senate Education Finance

Transcript Highlights:

• These are non-current law changes relative to video lottery terminals.
• These are non-current law changes relative to video lottery terminals.
• revenue from video lottery terminal proposal in the Senate.
• </c> the introduction of federal video the introduction of federal video lottery<01:29:49.679><c> terminals
• </c><01:30:41.199><c> lottery</c> in the state that the video lottery in the state that the video lottery

Summary: The Legislative Budget Assistant staff presented an overview of the Senate changes to the House-passed budget, focusing on revenue estimates, appropriations, and ending balances across the general fund and education trust fund. The presentation emphasized that the Senate’s budget reflected higher revenue assumptions than the House, driven in part by updated April revenue figures, changes to business, tobacco, and real estate transfer tax splits, and different assumptions about video lottery terminal revenue. The Senate also adjusted lapse estimates upward, especially for HHS, after receiving updated information that lapses could be much larger than originally assumed. The presenter walked through the major differences in the surplus statements for fiscal years 2025 through 2027. Compared with the House, the Senate budget generally showed higher revenues, lower or different appropriations in some areas, and larger balances carried forward, including a larger education trust fund balance and a different rainy day fund transfer. The Senate’s approach also changed several policy assumptions, such as maintaining liquor revenue dedication, removing the House’s meals-and-rooms distribution cap, changing the treatment of unique revenue, and altering the process for meeting a targeted revenue amount by giving the governor more flexibility. On the appropriations side, the Senate removed or modified several House reductions and added funding or adjustments in areas including the judicial branch, corrections, HHS, the Human Rights Commission, and certain settlement costs. The presenter also highlighted Senate changes in House Bill 2 and related budget provisions, including a new arts tax credit, a nursing home bed fee, changes to Medicaid premium assumptions, and differences in how motor vehicle inspection repeal and BLT-related revenue are handled. No votes were taken in the portion shown; the discussion was informational and comparative, aimed at explaining the Senate budget changes before conference committee negotiations.