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• Imagine for a minute that my party is in power, and that because I can, I pass a law that would make
• We could easily be making laws that go after the rampant sexual abuse at the religious camps.
• We could easily be making laws that go after the rampant sexual abuse at the religious camps.
• We could easily be making laws that go after the rampant sexual abuse at the religious camps.
• We could easily be making laws that go after the rampant sexual abuse at the religious camps.

Committee: House Emerging Issues

Keywords: 959, house, all

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• The law allows for it. The conditions are met. So he made that difficult decision as well.
• Safety-net abortion providers are facing an existential threat.
• Since last year's 55% cut to AAP, 77% fewer patients have been able to receive abortion services with
• Washington law requires students to engage in hands-on science, yet we often hear from educators that
• Without more capacity, the laws of the legislature cannot be fully realized.

Bills: HB2289

Committee: House Appropriations

Keywords: appropriations, budget, fiscal matters, state spending, general fund, supplemental budget, biennial budget, substitute bill, public defense, civil legal aid, courts, judicial branch, homelessness, supportive housing, affordable housing, behavioral health, juvenile rehabilitation, youth services, child welfare, foster care

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• a more national scope, we have the contract for this committee's consideration with the Paul Weiss law
• The law firm of Umanon Shenmugam is the primary attorney, Cannon, in Willmark.
• Yes, and this is with the law firm of Paul Weiss. Is that correct? That's correct.
• So, the appellate case currently, the Philip Oley law firm and Pemberton are representing Mr.
• Think in your legal opinion that maybe the decision on O'Brien conflicts with federal law.

Committee: House Joint Committee on State-Tribal Relations

Keywords: 914, all

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• for abortion because of this.
• No abortions after viability. 35-6-503, viability not affected by abortion.
• performed upon a minor will go back into law. 35-6-504 means of treatment for viable abortion. 35-6-
• </c> than a physician to perform an abortion. than a physician to perform an abortion.
• </c> all of these former laws or statutes. all of these former laws or statutes.

Keywords: 916, all

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• AB 1033 by Morales of Maverick relating to the applicability of law governing a grant program for the
• AB 1038 by Morales and Maverick, relating to the applicability of law governing a grant purchase.
• AB 1068 by D'Orazio relating to the law enforcement reports concerning certain arrest informations of
• persons who are not lawful fully present in the United States and for the kids committee on Homeland
• So I'm not concerned about new projects but that law has not been implemented yet.

Keywords: 1184, house, all

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• AB 1033 by Morales of Maverick relating to the applicability of law governing a grant program for the
• It'd be 10:38 by Morales of Maverick relating to the applicability of law governing a grant program for
• Law enforcement reports concerning certain arrests informations of persons who are not lawfully present
• HB 1098 by Cole relating to the coverage and provision of abortion, contraception, sterilization under
• on State Affairs, HB 1112 by Vo relating to licensing and certain persons by the Texas Commission of Law

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• other current law.
• </c><00:04:13.680><c> other</c> when needed to comply with law other when needed to comply with law other
• current<00:04:14.360><c> law.
• And then the dispute um current law.
• Abortion kills uh over a million child children a year in this country.

Keywords: 1183, house

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• agree that there is some government needed for infrastructure, perhaps, and for protection of us by law
• We provide funding with alternatives to abortion money, Show-Me Healthy Babies.
• We provide funding with alternatives to abortion money, show me healthy babies.
• The next one, the certified capital, Missouri capital company law, was originated in 1996.

Committee: House Ways and Means

Summary: The House Ways and Means Committee met in executive session and first took up Senate Bill 994. Members adopted a House committee substitute and a related amendment that removed conflicting language and added a federal tax filing reference. The committee then voted the House committee substitute do pass on an 8-0 roll call, with one member absent. The committee next considered House Bill 2461, with discussion indicating the bill was being rolled together with related bills and that the amendment would extend, not eliminate, a sunset on a tax credit at a 50% level. After adopting the amendment and substitute language, the committee voted the House committee substitute do pass by a 6-2 vote. The transcript also notes procedural action to roll in other bill language before the final vote. In public hearing, the committee heard Senate Substitute for Senate Bill 1032, which would allow a one-time $2,400 state income tax deduction for each child born or adopted in the tax year beginning after January 1, 2027. Senator Moon described it as pro-family tax policy, and Missouri Right to Life testified in support, saying it would help families choose life and offset early child-rearing costs. Members questioned the policy rationale, whether the deduction should be refundable or recurring, and the estimated fiscal impact, but no vote was taken on the bill. The committee also heard House Bill 3329, which would repeal a long list of expired or unused tax credits and clean up outdated statutory language. Representative Thompson and the Department of Revenue supported the bill as a way to reduce administrative burden and eliminate obsolete credits from the books. No opposition testimony was offered, and the hearing concluded without further action before adjournment.

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• Relating to the exception of the otherwise prohibited abortion based on the physician's reasonable medical
• criminal penalty for the failure of certain sex offenders to comply with the sex offender registration law
• HB 2486 by Huffner. relating to the files maintained by the law enforcement agencies, regarding certain
• HB2566 by Spiller relating to the enforcement. of State and Federal Immigration Laws by State Agencies
• By allowing the retroactive laws regarding civil causes of action arising out of a child sexual abuse

Keywords: 1184, house, all

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• They actually might have attempted an abortion; it went wrong.
• You're reviewing this, you know that they've done an abortion, it's not allowable under the law in the
• Under current law, the parents of almost 120,000...
• Parental rights laws are not... themselves enough.
• Is that really the mindset that we wish to codify into law?

Bills: HB1106 , HB3284 , HB541 , HB713 , HB1403 , HB1586 , HB1942 , HB2070 , HB2844 , HB2851 , HB3151 , HB3749 , HB3940 , HB3963 , HB4454 , HB4466 , HB4795 , HB5154 , HB5394 , SB1357 , HB1052 , HB4099 , HB4638 , HB5147

Committee: Senate Health & Human Services

Keywords: child abuse, neglect, gender identity, sexual orientation, child welfare, marriage, family, Texas Commission, family welfare, marriage support, stability, premarital education, child development, strong families, direct patient care, healthcare, physicians, medical services, insurance regulation, maternal health

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• for purposes of the law.
• for purposes of the law.
• They are peace officers under the law, just like any other law enforcement officer.
• They are peace officers under the law, just like any other law enforcement officer.
• under the law.

Committee: House Education

Summary: The committee first took up HB 987, which would move the Louisiana Geological Survey under the LSU Energy Institute to streamline energy-related programs. The author and members described it as an efficiency measure, and the committee reported the bill favorably without objection. Members then heard HB 513 on name, image, and likeness rules for intercollegiate and interscholastic athletes. The bill was presented as a product of a task force and was supported by the Attorney General’s office, coaches, and a student athlete, who emphasized the need for guardrails, education, and protections against exploitation by agents or third parties. Questions focused on high school enforcement, parental consent, and what students may legally do; the committee ultimately reported the bill favorably. The committee also considered HCR 26, which asks BESE to incorporate the science of human growth and development, including prenatal development, into science or health standards and to provide instructional materials. Supporters said it would improve science education and show fetal development more clearly, while opponents raised concerns about medical accuracy, political influence, and lack of safeguards. An amendment requiring parental consent for instruction was offered but failed on a roll call vote, and the resolution was then reported favorably. Later, the committee reported HB 608 favorably as amended to protect confidentiality of documents tied to intercollegiate athletics revenue-sharing, while preserving public disclosure of overall institutional spending. It also advanced HB 380, creating a pilot program to expand CDL workforce training through a community college and school partnership, and HB 392, which would require suicide hotline information on school websites, student ID cards, and, through amendment, visible signs in schools. The committee then reported HB 476 as amended, requiring Safe Haven law flyers in school restrooms, and began discussion of HB 682 to authorize veterans as school resource officers, with amendments addressing qualifications and training.

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• This is just the way that the law is.
• or authorized by state law.
• In fact, state law gives exclusive authority over the budget to the governing board.
• So we currently don't have state law and federal laws to cover this type of conduct.
• She is threatening nuisance laws to some of that.

Keywords: 1182, all

Summary: The meeting covered a long series of bills, mostly in health, education, commerce, federalism, and government. In health, members discussed radiology technology updates (HB 2050), a tribal Medicaid waiver/drawdown measure with no state cost (HB 2177), an emergency medicine study committee (HB 2183), fetal death certificate and remains-transfer requirements (HB 2184), a physician assistant licensure compact (HB 2190), dementia care telemonitoring funding (HB 2202), SNAP error-rate reduction and fraud/eligibility oversight bills (HB 2206, HB 2442, HB 2797), child welfare protections like credit freezes and recorded interviews (HB 2321, HB 2322), and podiatric licensure compacts (HB 2438). Several of these were described as consent-calendar items, while HB 2206 and the SNAP-related measures drew discussion about fraud reduction, administrative burden, and work requirements. In commerce and finance, the committee heard bills on mobile food vendors and local permits (HB 2118), earned wage access services with fee caps and disclosure rules (HB 2309), CPA licensure changes (HB 2476), cash acceptance for retail purchases under $100 (HB 2555), drone delivery and unmanned aircraft guardrails (HB 2875), timeshare salesperson licensing (HB 2877), and a prohibition on state-mandated social credit scoring in lending decisions (HB 2903). The tax and retirement-related items included 529 plan conformity and Roth IRA transfer rules (HB 2477), annual tax conformity to the Internal Revenue Code (HB 2785), ASRS technical and disability-related changes (HB 2089, HB 2090, HB 2092), and a bill on employee health insurance definitions (HB 2089). The Arizona Commerce Authority bill (HB 2754) would add legislative members to the board and shift more control over trade offices and Arizona Competes Fund spending to the legislature. The education section focused heavily on school governance and finance. Bills included patriotic youth group presentations in schools (HB 2312), school board term limits (HB 2318), mandatory training for governing board members (HB 2379), independent municipal advisors for bond elections (HB 2320), restrictions on districts buying operating charter/private school sites to game enrollment formulas (HB 2376), conflict-of-interest limits for school facilities board architects and engineers (HB 2378), public meeting and travel transparency rules for districts (HB 2380), limits on long-term school property leases and reporting requirements (HB 2384), tighter bidding rules for school construction job orders using Building Renewal Grant funds (HB 2482), and a voluntary computer science proficiency seal (HB 2764). Sponsors repeatedly framed these as transparency, accountability, and anti-abuse measures, while some opposition centered on local flexibility, housing use, and existing training providers. In federalism and government, the committee heard bills to give counties more time to mail sample ballots (HB 2006), require courts to identify veterans at first appearance for possible veterans court referral (HB 2226), study veterans’ awareness of benefits (HB 2406), broaden military leave protections (HB 2663), require SAVE verification for voter registration and certain state services (HB 2806), require U.S.-sourced voting machine components by 2029 (HB 2901), affirm the Electoral College (HB 2902), and establish due process protections for justice of the peace courts against outside administrative action (HB 2976). Government committee items included a later deadline for library trustees’ annual reports (HB 2129), a two-year limit on certain adult protective services reports to the Attorney General (HB 2228), and an exemption for public and semi-public cold plunges from ADEQ spa rules (HB 2439). Several bills were reported as consent-calendar items, and a number of sponsors noted committee votes, fiscal neutrality, or favorable testimony in support of the measures.

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• May she carry out our laws with justice and mercy.
• Help us to enact laws founded upon truth, charity, and justice.
• </c> investing it on their law-abiding investing it on their law-abiding citizens<01:22:16.600><c> we
• </c> my heart you've heard about law my heart you've heard about law enforcement<01:26:18.880><c> but
• </c> further restricts access to abortion further restricts access to abortion beyond<01:30:20.719><c

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• Judge Como was a proud graduate of ASU Law School, class of 1990.
• Rogers College of Law, and currently serves as the vice president of the U of A Law College Association
• Rogers College of Law, and currently serves as the vice president of the U of the U of the Law College
• She received her JD from the University of Wisconsin Law School.
• This would be specifically for off-road law enforcement. Very good.

Keywords: 1182, all

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• Judiciary and Civil Jurisprudence, HB 44 by Garin relating to the exception of otherwise prohibited abortion
• AB 2423 by Goodwin relating to the exemption for the definition of abortion for the treatment of miscarriage
• relating to the age at which a person could otherwise prohibit a handgun for the state and federal law
• HB 2524 by Cook relating to recovery fees, court costs, and expenses in family law proceedings.
• HB 2566 by Spiller relating to the enforcement of state and federal immigration laws by state agencies

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• your countenance by guiding these elected representatives gathered here and legislating fair and wise laws
• To keep us in compliance with federal law, I respectfully request your aye vote on SB 169.
• This bill allows increases for the risk for businesses dealing with hazardous waste laws by lowering
• To the law before it goes into effect. There is no registered opposition.
• It's already spelled out in state law, and it is content neutral. In other words, it's fair.

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• can and cannot be, we thought that was the governing law.
• But as the FIR says, Page 4, to summarize current law, fractional interests of profit-making companies
• But as current law stands, at least according to the FAR and the Extensive conversations we had here,
• I assume this is going to be an abortion clinic.
• apparently right on the border, I would imagine to appeal to out-of-state abortion seekers.

Committee: House House Taxation & Revenue

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• the law was not allowing the charter schools to use one of the four options in law.
• Representative, they could follow the law.
• Compensation is a mandatory subject of bargaining under Florida law.
• It repeals sections 18 and 28 of chapter 2025-190, Laws of Florida.
• The local governments have to comply with state law. Further questions?

Summary: The House convened with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, quorum calls, and several recognitions before taking up a series of Senate messages and House motions. Members also recognized House Sergeant at Arms staff, visitors in the gallery, and family members. The chamber approved the journal and then moved into message lists and concurrence motions on several bills. On CS/CS/SB 1668, relating to the Florida Birth-Related Neurological Injury Compensation Association (NICA), the House concurred in a Senate amendment that clarified that if the NICA plan lacks adequate cash flow, the Office of Insurance Regulation may authorize a cumulative transfer of up to $20 million over the life of the plan and removed a proposed time limit on provider assessments. The bill then passed 96-2. The House also concurred in a Senate amendment to CS/CS/CS/HB 905, the foreign influence bill, after debate over a proposed strike-all amendment that would have removed surrogacy-related language; that amendment failed. Supporters said the bill still retained key foreign-influence restrictions, while opponents objected to the surrogacy provisions and other remaining restrictions. The bill passed 83-17. The House then took up CS/CS/HB 1279 on education. The Senate amendment added provisions on tuition residency for certain military and State Department families, a one-year deferral option for Benacquisto Scholarship recipients, virtual school notifications, educational emergency authority for persistently low-performing schools, epinephrine flexibility, VPK and New Worlds Reading changes, math pathways, dance credit, IEP service notifications, charter school safety officer options, and FEFP adjustments for Florida advanced courses, while removing several House provisions including the 95% Florida resident requirement for preeminent universities, the 5% cap on undergraduate international enrollment, and DEI-related provisions. Debate focused heavily on the educational emergency and collective bargaining language for persistently low-performing schools, with supporters saying it would help districts improve student performance and opponents warning it would weaken unions and affect schools that are not truly failing. The bill passed 81-16. Finally, the House considered CS/CS/CS/HB 399 on land use and development regulations. An amendment to repeal portions of last year’s SB 180 was ruled not germane. The House then took up a Senate amendment on compost facilities that would bar local governments from conditioning compost-facility approval on the purchase of additional property to expand a privately owned road and would limit local revocation of permits when facilities comply with state or regional environmental regulation; debate began on that motion as the transcript ended.

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• been specifically defunded at the federal level, mainly through H.R. 1 that was passed and signed into law
• I'm Valerie Dwight, on behalf of the New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty.
• Not being an expert in federal law, Madam Chair, Representative, I would say...
• And New Mexico Planned Parenthood provides both abortion services and chemical and surgical transitions
• New Mexico had over 21,000 clinically assisted abortions in our state last year, just a hundred more

Committee: House House Appropriations & Finance

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• leaders are here today doing a tour of the Capitol, learning a little bit about how a bill becomes a law
• They had such great... ...tour of the Capitol, learning a little bit about how a bill becomes a law.
• campuses access; SB 1393, mobile homes removal contents; SB 1394, fertility treatment access; SB 1395, abortion
• SB 1394, fertility treatment access; SB 1395, abortion reporting requirements repeal; SB 1396, contraception

Summary: The Senate convened with prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance, then approved the journal and recorded attendance. Members observed a moment of silence for former Representative Noel Campbell, and several guest groups were recognized in the gallery, including Greater Phoenix school district leaders, GCU Government and History Club students, Arizona Food Bank Network representatives, and local and tribal officials visiting for appropriations and transportation-related discussions. The chamber also adopted a proclamation recognizing International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Senators and guests offered remarks about the Holocaust, rising antisemitism, and the importance of education and remembrance, followed by a moment of silence. Later, the Senate received and unanimously adopted House Concurrent Resolution 2045 honoring the life and public service of former Congressman Raul Grijalva, with members of the Grijalva family present on the floor and several senators sharing personal tributes. The Senate then processed a long list of governor’s nominations, first readings, and second-reading bill referrals, including measures on natural resources, education, health, public safety, elections, taxation, utilities, and appropriations. Senator Bolick also read a proclamation for National School Choice Week. The body recessed briefly, returned to consider SCR 1036 on Attorney General public statements, and then received committee announcements before adjourning until the next day.