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• Everybody's done a great job. Takes care of me.
• everybody's<00:03:12.200><c> done</c><00:03:12.360><c> a</c><00:03:12.440><c> great</c><00:03:12.640><c> job
• </c><00:03:12.879><c> takes</c><00:03:13.200><c> care</c> everybody's done a great job takes care everybody's
• done a great job takes care of<00:03:13.480><c> me</c><00:03:13.680><c> I</c><00:03:13.760><c> need<

Keywords: Meeting Start: 00:00 Roll Call 00:18 HB 524 Discussion: 00:45 HB 524 Vote: 02:30, 958, all

Summary: The committee met with a quorum and took up its only item, House Bill 524. Representative Aaron Thompson, joined by State Controller Joe McDaniel and State Risk Director Sher Wisman, explained that the bill would extend the Finance Cabinet’s authority over the state self-insurance fund for state buildings through July 2030. The bill also renames the State Fire and Tornado Insurance Fund to the Commonwealth’s Property and Casualty Insurance Fund to better reflect the more than 7,100 buildings and contents covered. Members briefly discussed the measure, with the chair noting the need to move it before the current authority expires on July 1. A motion and second were made, and the committee voted favorably on the bill. The roll call showed support from the members present, and the chair announced the bill passed with favorable expression. Because there was no consent, the bill will still need to be considered on the floor. The chair thanked staff and attendees and noted the committee was likely nearing the end of its session work.

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• above the surface with your legs going furiously underwater, so apparently they’ve done a heck of a job
• <c> a</c><00:04:54.560><c> heck</c><00:04:54.759><c> of</c><00:04:54.880><c> a</c><00:04:55.080><c> job
• </c> apparently they've done a heck of a job apparently they've done a heck of a job so<00:04:55.759>

Keywords: 912, senate, all

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• Before he would quit the job and go somewhere else so he wouldn't have to test.
• </c> to find the right person for the job to find the right person for the job instead<01:21:10.239><
• paying jobs, less educational opportunity, and the list goes on and on.
• paying jobs, less educational opportunity, and the list goes on and on.
• paying jobs, less educational opportunity, and the list goes on and on.

Keywords: 958, all

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• Healthcare providers see their jobs as a profession, not as a job.
• Healthcare providers see their jobs as a profession, not as a job.
• Healthcare providers see their jobs as a profession, not as a job.
• But our job the nature of our society.
• </c> their jobs. She was fired. their jobs. She was fired.

Keywords: 958, all

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• If they're the best for the job, correct, yeah.
• And that determination as to who's best for the job.
• And, it is the job of parents to provide that guidance.
• What I care most about is getting teenagers to love reading, not always an easy job.
• It's not the parent's job to identify and challenge illegal books.

Bills: SB12 , SB1565 , SB13 , SJR12 , SB686 , SB371 , SB204 , SB609 , SB112 , SB400 , SB813 , SB 12 , SB 13

Committees: Senate Education , Senate Education K-16

Keywords: parental rights, education, social transitioning, diversity, equity, inclusion, school policy, student clubs, school district, grievance procedure, public education, diversity and inclusion, funding penalties, school libraries, library advisory councils, library materials, educational content, challenging materials, constitutional amendment, school choice

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• Yet, this administration chose to jobs.
• This is our job, and instead we're stacking. um unobligated balance $2 million.
• </c> Be professionals and do our job. Sorry.
• So the number of jobs was fairly flat, but unemployment looks like our best model.
• </c> And yes, we were saving jobs, except for long-run economic growth.

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Thursday, September 4, 2025, 1012, house, all

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• He noted 10.3% growth in advanced industry jobs in New Hampshire over the last four years, ahead of the
• He said that when jobs and investment grow in these sectors, there is a significant return on investment
• Skelton said that when it comes to advanced industry jobs, New Hampshire is doing well and has a great
• and to contributing to good paying jobs and to contributing to the<00:12:30.519><c> state's</c><00:12
• bill that, again, what we research and develop today leads to more jobs tomorrow.

Committee: Senate Ways and Means

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• there I want to talk a little great job there I want to talk a little bit<01:09:35.279><c> about</c>
• </c> families uh you know get better jobs families uh you know get better jobs find<01:14:35.679><c>
• I think how far could $600 million have gone if Governor Walz had done his job.
• But that's our job is to be the people that can come up with solutions for it.
• But that's our job is to be the people that can come up with solutions for it.

Committee: Senate Housing and Homelessness Prevention

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• Yet workers are often the last to know when their jobs are being replaced.
• The bill requires that when a company chance to prepare when AI displaces their job.
• 951 directs the Employment Development Department to collect information about how AI is affecting jobs
• There will be 5,000 jobs and public safety and health care that will be protected as a result of Measure
• And that is our job as government.

Keywords: 987, senate, all

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• visitors each year, over a billion dollars in direct travel-related earnings, and more than 460,000 jobs
• I love my job and the nonprofit sector, helping women and girls. and not worried about partisan politics
• believed in you, whether I agreed with every decision or not, and you deserve to know you did a good job
• about how you almost doubted your ability to serve in leadership but had the courage to take on the job
• As for the purpose, think just for clarity and for ease of access, it's one less job that staff had to

Bills: HB4028 , HB4075 , HB4077 , HB4074 , HB4076 , SB1221 , SB1921 , SB2118 , SB1932 , SB2134 , HCR1025 , SB1432 , HCR1024 , HCR1022 , SB1122 , HB4029 , HB4063 , HB4073 , HB4078 , SB1936 , SB44 , SB237 , SB248 , SB1360 , SB985 , SB1204 , SB1239 , SB1307 , SB2143 , SB1428 , SB1390 , SB1400 , SB1405 , SB1732 , SB1832 , SB1859 , SB1989 , SB2018 , SB1427

Keywords: tax deduction, venture capital, economic development, Oklahoma, investment, water resources, appropriations, funding, state treasury, infrastructure projects, emergency act, emergency management, disaster relief, pandemic response, state appropriations, HB4074, Health Care Workforce Training Commission, Health Care Workforce Revolving Fund, health workforce, health care workforce

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• I've visited Kearney many times, but our job, in my opinion, and our obligation as state legislators
• It's our job to make life more economical and more streamlined for them and still maintain that water
• You did such a good job.
• Seeing none, that did such a good job. Thank you. Okay, Mr. Russell Smolman? Thank you, Mr.
• Trent did a nice job of explaining kind of where we are.

Committee: House House Natural Resources, Energy & Water Committee of Reference

Summary: The committee began with a presentation from the Arizona Water Banking Authority on its role storing Colorado River water underground and holding long-term storage credits for CAP municipal and industrial subcontractors, on-river contractors, the Hualapai Tribe, Mojave County Water Authority, and Nevada. Members asked about future firming for CAP subcontractors, recovery constraints, funding sources, and whether the authority could use groundwater withdrawal fee credits for Indian firming and CAP users. The manager explained the authority has no post-2026 firming policy yet for CAP M&I subcontractors, relies mainly on withdrawal fees and ad valorem taxes, and distributes credits on paper through ADWR transfer forms rather than delivering wet water. No action was taken on the presentation. The committee then heard SB 1445, which would allow certain small municipalities to conduct bacteriological testing on site with EPA-approved equipment and originally limited ADEQ sampling requirements to no more than four times per month. The sponsor and the mayor of Kearny argued the bill would reduce costs and travel burdens for rural towns while allowing more frequent testing. Committee discussion focused on whether the change was already possible under existing law and whether the amendment would weaken testing requirements. The Griffin amendment removed the language restricting ADEQ’s sampling frequency. The bill passed as amended on a 6-4 vote. The committee also considered SB 1137, a modernization measure for Arizona’s 811 call-before-you-dig system that sets procedures for large project coordination meetings, positive response communication, and related enforcement. Supporters from Associated General Contractors and an underground utility contractor said the bill reflects stakeholder consensus and would improve safety and efficiency without adding state costs. The Taylor amendment shifted implementation procedures from the Corporation Commission to the One Call Notification Center and made other technical changes. The bill passed unanimously, 10-0. SB 1287, which extends to all active management areas the ability of holders of irrigation grandfathered rights to withdraw up to 10 acre-feet annually for stockwatering or domestic use, also passed 9-1. The committee next approved SB 1335, as amended by a strike-everything amendment tied to the Ag-to-Urban program, allowing a groundwater savings holder to continue irrigating for up to two years after issuance of groundwater savings credits. DWR and irrigation district representatives said the change would address timing problems between relinquishing irrigation rights and finalizing development, while some members objected that it could increase groundwater pumping. The bill passed 5-4. Finally, SB 1336, which continues the State Land Department for four years and adds reporting, planning, and oversight provisions including a new oversight board, passed 5-4 after debate over whether another board was necessary and whether the reauthorization period was long enough. The committee concluded with SB 1677, appropriating $3 million for salt cedar mitigation along the lower Gila River and the Gila-Colorado confluence. Supporters from Audubon Southwest, the City of Buckeye, and local landowners described flood, fire, habitat, and water-supply benefits, while members questioned herbicide use and the need for data. The bill passed 9-0, and the meeting adjourned after all votes were completed.

Transcript Highlights:

• And so, whatever incentives that we can offer, not just in the food area, but also in the area of job
• And so, whatever incentives that we can offer, not just in the food area, but also in the area of job
• And so, whatever incentives that we can offer, not just in the food area, but also in the area of job
• And so, whatever incentives that we can offer, not just in the food area, but also in the area of job
• </c> area, but also in the area of job area, but also in the area of job training<00:21:56.720><c> and

Committee: Senate Families & Children

Keywords: 958, all

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• Let me be very, very clear: hospitals need every community provider of every type to do his or her job
• Let me be very, very clear: hospitals need every community provider of every type to do his or her job
• And so we have many people inside a hospital who work in revenue cycle, and their only job is to track
• That's their only job.
• Did a great job of it. I like it.

Committee: All ALC-HOSPITAL, MEDICAID, & DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES STUDY SUBCOMMITTEE

Summary: The subcommittee met to review Department of Human Services hospital payments in Arkansas Medicaid, with DHS Secretary Janet Mann and Deputy Secretary Misty Eubanks presenting first, followed by Arkansas Hospital Association Executive Vice President Jody Ann Tritt and a brief comment from Arkansas Children’s. DHS outlined the main hospital payment streams: fee-for-service per diem payments, upper payment limit (UPL) supplemental payments, cost settlements, and smaller payments such as graduate medical education and disproportionate share hospital funds. Members asked for plain-language explanations of cost settlements, why per diem rates vary by hospital type, and why UPL applies to private hospitals. DHS said cost settlements and UPL are mechanisms to help offset Medicaid underpayment, with SFY 2025 hospital payments totaling hundreds of millions of dollars and no general revenue used for supplemental payments beyond the state share funded through hospital assessments and related financing structures. Committee members focused heavily on whether Arkansas hospitals are adequately reimbursed and why rural hospitals struggle. Tritt explained that critical access hospitals, rural emergency hospitals, PPS hospitals, and specialty hospitals operate under different federal and state rules, and said lower per diem rates for some facilities help with cash flow and later cost settlement adjustments. She said Arkansas hospitals are under financial strain, citing a negative patient services margin statewide and noting that Medicaid, Medicare, and commercial payers all contribute to the problem. She also said the association had just authorized a statewide survey of hospital finances and costs, which she expected would take about a year to complete. A major theme was commercial insurance reimbursement. Tritt argued Arkansas hospitals are paid far less than hospitals in neighboring states even though premiums are similar, and said administrative burdens, prior authorizations, and denials add to the problem. She said hospitals receive about 52 to 53 cents on the dollar for Medicaid costs without UPL and about 78 cents with UPL, still below cost. Members also discussed Medicare wage index issues, Medicare Advantage, and whether hospitals could use technology or alternative arrangements to improve finances. No votes were taken on the hospital presentation. At the end of the meeting, DHS provided a brief update on Living Choices and assisted living reimbursement. Officials said one assisted living facility, Pillars of the Community in Crossett, had announced closure, with nine waiver clients being transitioned to other settings. DHS said the current cost reporting period was underway and that a new rate study could be ready for review before the end of the fiscal year if reports were submitted on time. Members also asked about the broader waiver plan, and DHS said the next waiver iteration would likely be brought back to the committee in the summer.

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• UI is available to workers who lose their job through no fault of their own.
• It's available to workers who hurt themselves outside of the job and so aren't eligible for workers'
• When you're a payroll employee and you lose your job and you file a claim for unemployment insurance,
• Our job is to support workers during life's more challenging moments.
• And again, I'm not doing... ...and again I'm not doing the job myself.

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• This will impair contracts; that is not our job, and the Constitution says that's not our job.
• This will impair contracts; that is not our job, and the Constitution says that's not our job.
• This will impair contracts; that is not our job, and the Constitution says that's not our job.
• It's not generating any jobs.
• But if there is no market for it, an empty storefront is not going to generate any jobs or any revenue

Bills: SB5820 , SB5995 , SB5467

Committee: House Local Government

Keywords: freight rail, rail corridor, short-line railroad, rail-dependent uses, industrial land use, growth management act, GMA, comprehensive plan, transportation element, land use planning, local government, county planning, city planning, critical areas, agricultural lands, forest lands, mineral resource lands, urban growth area, development regulations, notice on permits

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• I will be brief because I think the speaker did a great job of explaining it. ...strong support.
• I will be brief because I think the speaker did a great job of explaining it, as did Mr. Kolodin.
• So you would have a larger association of transparent bidders that have to fight for those jobs.
• The health plans do a good job of negotiating individually.
• So if I do a job for you that's... ...more money in that 22.

Committee: House House Federalism, Military Affairs & Elections Committee of Reference

Summary: The committee met with all members present, temporarily replacing Vice Chair Keshel with Representative Taylor, and held HB 4014 at the sponsor’s request. It then heard HB 415, which would extend existing state rules on paid petition circulators and initiative/referendum disclosures to municipal and county measures, require paid circulators to display identifying information, and require local measures to disclose expenditures and revenue sources. The sponsor and supporters, including the Arizona Chamber of Commerce, argued the bill would improve transparency and keep initiatives driven by Arizona residents; the bill passed 5-2. The committee also heard the mirror resolution, HCR 2051, which passed 4-3. The committee next considered HCM 2010, urging Congress to propose a constitutional amendment repealing the Seventeenth Amendment and returning selection of U.S. senators to state legislatures. The sponsor argued it would restore state sovereignty and accountability, while opponents raised concerns about direct democracy and the practical problems that led to the Seventeenth Amendment. The motion initially appeared to pass 4-3, but after a vote correction and a present vote, the measure ultimately failed. The committee then took up HB 2940, a complex AHCCCS/DES bill aimed at tightening eligibility verification, expanding competition in managed care contracting, and creating a unified eligibility rules engine. The sponsor said it would improve fiscal discipline and competition; AHCCCS and health plan representatives said many verification steps already exist, some provisions would add cost or duplicate federal/state processes, and the bill would significantly alter the managed care model. Despite those concerns, HB 2940 passed 4-3. Later, HB 2874 passed unanimously 7-0. That bill would ease termination requirements and penalties for candidate committees, PACs, or parties that never received contributions and later file termination statements. The committee then heard HB 467, which would require county recorders to display certain voter status information in precinct registers, signature rosters, or electronic poll books; after testimony from county officials and the Association of Counties, the committee adopted a verbal amendment changing “shall” to “may” and passed the bill 5-2. Finally, HB 2775, as amended, passed 4-3. The bill would bar state and local governments from using state resources to implement or enforce rules or policies of international organizations, and the amendment added restrictions on Arizona public universities’ dealings with certain foreign entities, with ABOR given review authority. Supporters framed it as a sovereignty and anti-foreign-influence measure, while the amendment’s removal of rulemaking authority was cited as important to the vote in favor.

Transcript Highlights:

• I think we will expect a very large amount of contacts, given how many I receive in my current job.
• Representative Baca did a fantastic job as the messenger to get this across the finish line.
• This is a far more important job because lives are at stake.
• And I encourage you to come back year after year and tell us what you need to do your job.
• I encourage you to come back year after year and tell us what you need to do your job properly.

Committee: Senate Senate Rules

Keywords: 996, all

Transcript Highlights:

• Good job. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
• And part of the problem is Congress is not doing their job.
• But either way, Congress needs to reopen up the autopilot, actually do their job, balance this thing
• And we are in a situation where the federal government is not doing its job.
• It's just not doing its job. It's not managing our money properly.

Summary: The Idaho House convened with a quorum, approved the House Journal, and received committee reports printing House Bills 593-599 and advancing several bills, including HB 544, HB 540, HB 541, HB 569, SB 1222, and SJM 108. The House also introduced and referred new bills HB 600-605, covering public records, collective bargaining and taxpayer funding of unions, foreign laws, Capitol Mall/camping and state property management, sex offender registration, and tax subtractions for tips and overtime. Several other measures were moved to second reading, and the chamber briefly went at ease while waiting on Appropriations. The main floor debate centered on House Concurrent Resolution 25, a call under Article V for a balanced budget amendment. Supporters argued the federal debt is unsustainable, that Idaho already balances its budget, and that a convention threat is needed to force Congress to act. Opponents warned a constitutional convention could become a runaway process, create opportunities for lobbying and corruption, and even alter the ratification rules; some also argued the real problem is the monetary system and federal spending incentives, not just the absence of a balanced budget amendment. Members cited historical precedent, Article V, and concerns about delegate selection and sideboards throughout the debate. After extensive debate, the House passed HCR 25 by a vote of 36 ayes to 34 nays, with the title approved and the resolution sent to the Senate. The House then held remaining third-reading bills in place until Monday, heard several personal privilege announcements and committee schedule notices, and adjourned until 11 a.m. Monday, February 9, 2026.

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• That's my regular job.
• institutions do not. offer any medical coverage to their grad workers for effectively doing the same job
• Paradoxically, these very workers struggle to access the health care they need to keep doing their jobs
• It's been addressed here; it's become so a part of our job... ...my job as an educator to work on these
• For starters, my job is I'm the Student Body President of the university, so my constant responsibility

Bills: SB106 , SB171 , SB179

Committee: House House Education

Keywords: graduate scholarship, higher education funding, New Mexico, appropriation, financial aid, education, documentary, historical figure, Padre Antonio Jose Martinez, Northern New Mexico State School, SB179, Senate Bill 179, UNM, University of New Mexico, medical Spanish, Spanish-language curriculum, health sciences, health professions education, language access, bilingual healthcare

Transcript Highlights:

• So I know you’re going to do your usual outstanding job on the rostrum.
• And through the members, you’re doing an outstanding job, and I’m glad that all of that paperwork got
• In my region, a superintendent can be the janitor, which is a worthy job, but the superintendent can
• And for some reason, I have not done a good enough job conveying the nobleness of these people, but I
• And you're doing such a great job at the roster.

Keywords: 1212, all