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• H. 5112 ensures that people are evaluated based on their real health, not hypothetical outcomes.

Bills: H5112 , S2921 , H4914

Committee: Joint Joint Committee on Financial Services

Keywords: genetic discrimination, genetic testing, genetic information, DNA, hereditary risk, insurance underwriting, life insurance, health insurance, long-term care insurance, disability insurance, medical privacy, consumer protection, anti-discrimination, insurer regulation, Commissioner of Insurance, chapter 176D, underwriting, hereditary disease, genomics, travel insurance

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• The stoppage in the evaluation time and everything to occur. Thank you for the question.

Bills: HB3041 , HB4428 , HB4429 , HB1064 , HB3265 , HB3721 , HB3028 , HB3313 , HB3588 , HB3020

Committee: House Banking, Financial Services and Pensions

Keywords: credit card transactions, payment methods, service charge, consumer rights, financial regulation, public finance, pension, pension fund, retirement system, board of trustees, proxy voting, proxy proposal, shareholder vote, shareholder activism, fiduciary duty, pecuniary factors, nonpecuniary factors, ESG, environmental social governance, social goals

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• This process requires documented evidence such as teacher's evaluations, investigative reports, and justified

Bills: HB2938 , HB2939 , HB3306 , HB3722 , HB4113 , HB4123

Committee: House Elections and Ethics

Keywords: elections, national elections, state elections, voter intent, election reform, absentee voting, electronic communication, facsimile device, voting materials, military voters, campaign finance, ethics, political contributions, candidate committee, Oklahoma legislation, voter registration, political party affiliation, Independent designation, Oklahoma, voter eligibility

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• THEY MUST BE EVALUATED BY A PROFESSIONAL CREDITOR AND APPROVED BY THE FLORIDA BUILDING COMMISSION.

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• INTENT AND THAT SOUNDS GOOD, EVEN THE TITLE OF IT IS GOOD, THE DEBT REDUCTION PROGRAM BUT AS I'VE EVALUATED

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• Right now, uh, we do have, um, a task order that we're using with ARC, and, uh, we have evaluated 34

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• SB 1266 will amend the Government Code so that the providers are regularly evaluated with clear objectives

Bills: SB500 , SB1522 , SB1137 , SB1266

Committee: House Human Services

Keywords: SB 500, Texas adoption law, Family Code, DFPS, Department of Family and Protective Services, child-placing agency, prospective adoptive parents, adoption records, confidential information, nondisclosure agreement, child history report, health history, social history, educational history, genetic history, termination of parental rights, permanency plan, single source continuum contractor, privacy, redaction

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• In evaluations and surveys of particularly youth, we found that there are very few youth that are willing

Committee: House Arts, Entertainment, Sports, and Tourism

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• THE AMENDMENT REQUIRES THE STUDY TO INCLUDE AN EVALUATION OF TINY HOMES TO HELP MEET THE STATES AFFORDABLE

Keywords: 999, senate, all

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• Research Center, we were able to develop and describe our core values within it, how we're going to evaluate

Committee: Senate Commerce and Tourism

Summary: The Committee on Commerce and Tourism met briefly and first announced that Senate Bill 232 by Senator Rodriguez was temporarily postponed at the sponsor’s request. The main item was a presentation from Leo Garcia of the Office of Broadband on Florida’s broadband programs, current deployment progress, and upcoming funding opportunities. Garcia said the office is administering multiple grant programs that have awarded hundreds of millions of dollars for broadband infrastructure, community facilities, and digital device access, with a focus on rural areas, workforce development, and digital literacy. He also described the state’s strategic plan and partnerships with local governments, ISPs, workforce boards, community colleges, and community action agencies. Garcia explained that Florida has already deployed over 1,100 miles of fiber and enabled about 4,300 connections, and said the remaining unserved and underserved locations should drop significantly by the end of 2026 before the BEAD program addresses the rest. He said BEAD is a fully federal program for Florida, providing $1.16 billion from NTIA, with most of it reserved for infrastructure and additional amounts for workforce training and cybersecurity/digital literacy. He noted that Florida is prioritizing fiber but will also use fixed wireless or satellite where fiber is not cost-effective or feasible. He also said the office is seeking additional spending authority for the Digital Capacity Grant Program. Members asked about county coverage, especially Duval County, and Garcia said Duval and Monroe had not yet received funds because they currently have limited unserved or underserved areas, but they are expected to be addressed through BEAD and related workforce and literacy efforts. Senator Davis raised permitting delays as a major challenge, and Garcia said the office is exploring ways to help local communities process permits more quickly. Senator Wright asked about competition with satellite-based broadband providers, and Garcia said the state is technology-agnostic but prioritizes fiber for reliability. There were no public comments, no votes or formal actions taken, and the meeting adjourned.

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• Education Study Committee, an act relating to human services, requiring that the Department of Health evaluate

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• requirements, this bill would prohibit contracts being put in place that restrict the library from performing
• 00:42:56.200><c> the</c><00:42:56.320><c> library</c><00:42:56.760><c> from</c><00:42:56.920><c> performing
• </c> restrict the library from performing restrict the library from performing customary<00:42:58.480
• a real focused legislative group that is sort of tracking these efforts, monitoring them, maybe evaluating
• , like the duties are stating, that would be to evaluate the state-supervised county administrative approach

Committee: Senate State and Local Government

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• And regardless of that mixed bag, it does have an impact on student performance.
• And regardless of that mixed bag, it does have an impact on student performance.
• So at the impact student performance.
• </c><01:29:34.719><c> Uh</c><01:29:35.040><c> so</c> impede their student performance.
• Uh so impede their student performance.

Committee: Joint Select Committee on School Finance Recalibration

Keywords: 916, all

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• we were kind of, like, in preparing for our remarks today, we were kind of looking at your past performance
• we were kind of, like, in preparing for our remarks today, we were kind of looking at your past performance
• The census was performing, I don't... solving you cannot readjust the census but that's serving as the
• The census was performing I don't...
• Well, the census was performing, and we understand that the Census did all that they could.

Committee: Senate Senate Committee on the Census

Keywords: 995, all

Summary: The committee held a hearing on census preparation, focusing first on testimony from U.S. Census Bureau staff James Whitehorn and Andrea Grace Johnson. They described the Bureau’s decade-long geographic and redistricting programs, including the Boundary and Annexation Survey, School District Review Program, Participant Statistical Area Program, and Local Update of Census Addresses (LUCA), along with the Block Boundary Suggestion Project and voting district collection. They emphasized that Massachusetts has been a strong partner in these efforts and explained how the Bureau is using updated street data, building footprints, machine learning, and change detection to improve address lists and track new housing. Whitehorn also reviewed the 2030 redistricting data program, the legal basis for it under PL 94-171, the role of state nonpartisan liaisons, and the expected timeline for data delivery. He noted that OMB’s revised race and ethnicity standards will merge those questions into one and add a Middle Eastern/North African category. Committee members asked about the new standards, state contacts, and how boundary updates are submitted, and the witnesses said they would provide the slide deck and contact information. Wendy Underhill and Helen Brewer of NCSL then testified about why census preparation matters for states, stressing its impact on data, federal funding, and political representation. They outlined optional steps states can take before 2030, including staying in touch with Census Bureau staff, identifying state and local personnel involved in census work, supporting local participation in Bureau programs, and creating complete count committees or commissions. They cited Massachusetts’s prior complete count committee and grantmaking efforts as an example and said such efforts can improve self-response and overall accuracy. They also noted that state legislatures can act as conveners and trusted messengers, and they discussed broader issues such as privacy protections, differential privacy, budget uncertainty, and the possibility of future litigation or a citizenship question. Secretary of State William Galvin then gave extended remarks on Massachusetts’s 2020 census experience and the need to prepare early for 2030. He said the state faced major challenges in 2020 from the pandemic, litigation, and rhetoric about citizenship, and that Massachusetts relied heavily on local records, university data, and community outreach to document residents, especially students and non-native-born populations. He argued that the state should strengthen local recordkeeping now through LUCA, annual resident lists, assessors’ and zoning records, and other local data sources, and he urged support for a proposed $500,000 appropriation for census-related grants and technical assistance. Galvin said better preparation is needed because housing patterns, population shifts, and local administrative capacity have changed since 2020, and he emphasized that the goal is to improve the completeness of the records the Census Bureau will use in 2030.

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• inappropriate that you, as a licensed attorney, assist someone that does not pass the bar to become and perform
• professional is responsible for those services, and it's their job to make sure that those services are performed
• to allow these nursing homes to have an advanced practice registered nurse or physician assistant perform
• It would allow advanced practice registered nurses or physician assistants to perform physicals for people
• Advanced practice registered nurses or physician assistants to perform physicals for people entering

Summary: The House opened with prayer, approved the previous day’s journal unanimously, and then adopted a motion suspending House Rule 98 to allow members to wear hats on the floor. Members also introduced several special guests, including the Eugene High School Class 2 basketball champions, family members, scholarship recipients, and other visitors. One member used a lengthy personal privilege speech to criticize a recent U.S. Supreme Court voting-rights decision and warn about threats to democracy and minority voting power. The chamber then took up committee reports and several bills. It approved a motion to go to conference on the property-tax omnibus measure tied to Senate Bills 1066 and 1088. House Bill 3329, repealing expired tax credits, passed 142-0. House Bill 3405, clarifying the SALT deduction and improving tax-credit accounting, also passed 138-0. House Committee Substitute for House Bill 2426, a parental-rights bill that also drew criticism over a school financial-ledger requirement and possible burdens on schools and student safety, failed on third reading 70-60. The House next passed House Committee Substitute for Senate Bill 1233, a professional-licensing bill involving CPA exam access and other occupational licensing changes, by 129-6 after adopting an amendment removing compact language and rejecting a nursing-home physicals amendment. It then passed House Committee Substitute for Senate Bill 1408, which raises the maximum rural interstate speed limit to 75 mph and, through multiple amendments, also carried a mix of transportation-related provisions including vehicle inspections, hands-free enforcement, motorcycle lighting, driver education, and specialty license plates for women’s professional sports; the final vote was 82-53. The Speaker also appointed a conference committee for Senate Bill 1066. The final item mentioned was Senate Substitute No. 2 for Senate Bill 863, described as an interscholastic athletic oversight/appeals bill, but the transcript cuts off before its final action is shown.

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• removes the exclusion of a COA or HOA with less than 50 units or lots and that does not contract to perform
• Office of the Auditor General, if requested by the Joint Legislative Audit Committee, to conduct performance
• that we have is that she cannot, without legislative authority, do process audits that would be performance
• only reason that we know that is because of a disclosure of documents in court, not because of a performance
• We have a list of priorities, but they're not performance audits.

Committee: Senate Senate Government Committee of Reference

Summary: The committee first considered SB 1825, which would shift the precinct committeeman vacancy application and nomination process from county party chairs to legislative district chairs where established, and require applicants to submit to the authorized chair within five days. Supporters said the change would streamline appointments, reduce bottlenecks in large counties, and strengthen grassroots, bottom-up party organization. County supervisors’ association staff said they had no objection to the district-chair process but raised concern that the five-day deadline for boards to act was too short. The committee adopted a do pass recommendation on SB 1825, with members noting the five-day issue should be worked out later. The committee then heard SB 1566, as amended, which targets malicious delays by municipalities, counties, the state, or state agencies in licensing and permit decisions, with a civil penalty and Attorney General enforcement. The amendment narrowed the bill to statutory licensing timeframes for single-family residential construction and clarified definitions and certificate-of-occupancy authority. The sponsor and home builders argued the bill would deter intentional delays that add to housing costs, while questions focused on how malice would be proven and whether the language was too broad. The committee adopted the amendment and gave SB 1566 a do pass as amended recommendation. Next, SB 1571, as amended, would bar monopoly utilities from passing marketing, sponsorship, community relations, and similar costs through to ratepayers, require annual reporting and attestation, and define the covered utilities. Supporters said ratepayers should not fund utility advertising or sponsorships, especially amid rising rates, while opponents from municipal and public-power utilities warned the language could sweep too broadly and interfere with legitimate customer communications, especially for smaller not-for-profit systems. The committee adopted the strike-everything amendment and gave the bill a do pass as amended recommendation. The committee also advanced SB 1501, expanding Administrative Rules Oversight Committee review to include whether agency actions exceed statutory authority, and SB 1805, requiring county recorders to verify the notary status on quitclaim deeds before recording them; both received do pass recommendations despite some concerns about scope and administrative burden.

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• house, but two of them had to leave immediately after we played because the Vermont Symphony is performing
• the Vermont after we played because the Vermont Symphony<00:22:55.280><c> is</c><00:22:55.520><c> performing
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• here tonight and Symphony is performing here tonight and they<00:22:56.640><c> had</c><00:22:56.799>
• February 11th is here, and the VSO and the VSO Chorus will be performing here in the chamber tonight

Keywords: 926, house, all

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• We're seeing improved attendance records or attendance performance.
• I'd like to see you know performance data in this brief at some point when you feel comfortable adding
• We know that kids from higher income families perform better in school.
• Across the state, low performances in old school districts.
• It's in Bernalillo County with low performance.

Committee: Senate Senate Finance

Keywords: 996, all

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• trying to build a stronger fall and winter campaign because the spring and summer typically have performed
• The agency met five of its six FY 25 performance targets, including conducting outreach and training
• The agency met three out of its four performance targets, including the target for the number of people
• The agency met 7 out of 11 of its FY25 performance measures, with the administrative services program
• not meeting its performance requirements. targets, and the Disability Determination Program took longer

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• information. technology IT, deliver enterprise IT services and telecommunications for executive agencies, perform
• So one of our performance metrics for our Office of Cyber Security is to get 85% of the patches completed
• where the whole management process was to define the contract in exact terms and then see if the performance
• So when studies like that are performed, and I think in Ray's exchange with the Senator before, We're
• But as studies like that are performed, those become a source for us, right, to be able to look at the

Committee: House Science, Technology & Telecommunications Committee