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• The bill requires the board to adopt substantive policy statements for each authority that is delegated
• What we're doing here is we're consolidating that, giving the committee the delegated authority to make
• Authorized by the facility. And with that, I'm available for questions.
• It was just quite literally a plain reading of the statute and saying, we don't have the authority to
• It was just quite literally a plain reading of the statute and saying, we don't have the authority to

Bills: SB1023 , SB1145 , SB1242 , SB1247

Committee: House Health & Human Services

Keywords: optometrists, eye exams, eyeglass prescriptions, healthcare, vision care, behavior analysis, licensing, psychologist examiners, state regulations, committee authority, mental health, court-ordered treatment, outpatient treatment, audiovisual technology, secure facilities, evaluations, guardian powers, patient rights, assisted living, occupants

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• It will simply, on our ports of entry, give Corporation Commission officers the authority to stop the
• It simply just gives them the authority.
• It doesn't really increase their area of authority.
• It's not giving them statewide authority to go out and stop people, just in their current area of authority
• So I move to adopt and yield to questions. ...area of authority.

Bills: HB4284 , HB1250 , HB4190 , HB3086

Committee: House Public Safety

Keywords: animal abuse, offender registry, public safety, animal welfare, criminal justice, Oklahoma legislation, local law enforcement, Public Safety Technology Revolving Fund, grants, state funding, law enforcement technology, cyber crime, fraud prevention, Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, insurance fee, digital forensics, investigative support, revolving fund, prisons, corrections

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• </c><00:08:21.280><c> could</c> amount of bonding authorizations could amount of bonding authorizations
• , as well as any new debt that might get authorized this year.
• Also in 2011, they were authorized to close a budget gap.
• > legislation,</c><00:47:55.760><c> the</c> for that authorizing legislation, the for that authorizing

Committee: Senate Capital Investment

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• </c> inspection-related licensing authority. inspection-related licensing authority.
• </c><01:05:15.960><c> to</c> The board currently has authority to The board currently has authority to
• provider types in the program. tightened up that authority and um tightened up that authority and um
• from the new payment withhold authority from the new payment withhold authority<01:33:02.200><c> issued
• </c><02:04:34.520><c> to</c> would give us explicit authority to would give us explicit authority to

Committee: Senate Health and Human Services

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• A report pursuant to the Intergovernmental Cooperation Authorities Act of October 24, 2018, for cities
• of the third class from the Intergovernmental Cooperation Authority.
• A report pursuant to the Intergovernmental Cooperation Authorities Act of October 24, 2018, for cities
• of the third class from the Intergovernmental Cooperation Authority.
• of the third class from the Intergovernmental Cooperation Authority.

Summary: The House convened at noon with prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance, then proceeded to routine legislative business. The Transportation Committee reported House Bill 2227 and Senate Bill 1377, and the Judiciary Committee reported House Bill 1434, House Bill 2273, Senate Bill 45, Senate Bill 111, Senate Bill 1235, and Senate Bill 1259, with several bills reported as amended. The House also received multiple bill referrals, including Senate Bill 482 to Aging and Older Adult Services; House Bills 2672 and 2674 to other committees; several Senate bills to Judiciary; and House Resolution 581 to Veterans Affairs and Emergency Preparedness. The chamber received a series of reports, including a Joint State Government Commission report on recruitment and retention challenges for police, corrections, and prosecutors, along with annual reports from the Pennsylvania Island Trade Commission, the Pennsylvania Commission on Sentencing, the General Building Contractors Association, the Affordable Housing Center of Pennsylvania, the Judicial Conduct Board, and the Intergovernmental Cooperation Authority. The House also received notice that the Senate had passed House Bill 1667 with amendment and requested concurrence. On motions from the Majority Leader, House Bill 2460 was recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations, and House Bills 2146, Senate Bills 971, 972, and 1259, along with House Resolutions 165 and 462, were removed from the tabled calendar and placed on the active calendar. The House then adopted a motion to adjourn and stood adjourned until Saturday, June 27, 2026, at noon, unless sooner recalled by the Speaker.

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• It authorizes and directs the Department of Public Service to conduct a study on the deployment of energy
• Bill Number 1227A, sponsored by Senator May, authorizes and directs the Department of Public Service
• Number 2708, sponsored by Senator May, is an act amending the Public Service Law and the Public Authorities
• Bill Number 4205, sponsored by Senator Comrie, an act to amend the Public Service Law and Public Authorities
• Number 4205, sponsored by Senator Comrie, is an act to amend the Public Service Law and Public Authorities

Committee: Senate Energy And Telecommunications

Keywords: 993, senate, all

Summary: The Senate Standing Committee on Energy and Telecommunications met for its first March meeting, chaired by Senator Kevin Parker. Members discussed a short agenda of energy-related bills focused on grid modernization, interconnection studies, geothermal development, microgrids for extreme weather resilience, and a proposed Grid Modernization Commission. Senators Mattera and Walczyk were absent but had voting sheets submitted; Senator Kavanagh joined later in the meeting. The committee advanced several measures: S.1227A, directing the Department of Public Service to study deployment of the energy interconnection process into the electrical grid, was moved to third reading; S.2708, advancing grid enhancement technologies, was also sent to third reading. S.2486A, creating geothermal energy generation facilities, was advanced to the Finance Committee, as was S.4205 on microgrids for extreme weather and public security, and S.4590 establishing the New York State Grid Modernization Commission. During the votes, some members were recorded as voting without recommendation, including Senator Walczyk on multiple bills and Senator Hinchey on the geothermal bill. No testimony or substantive debate was presented beyond brief procedural questions, and the meeting concluded with a motion to adjourn.

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• </c><00:08:49.519><c> the</c> program is created to authorize the program is created to authorize the
• </c> program managers granted APA authority program managers granted APA authority to<00:10:28.000><c
• </c><00:14:43.920><c> This</c><00:14:44.160><c> authority</c> delegate that authority.
• This authority delegate that authority.
• This section authorizes the funds.

Keywords: 927, senate, all

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• </c><00:08:41.599><c> So,</c> a GOP author that is championing it.
• So, a GOP author that is championing it.
• ><c> to</c><00:42:49.599><c> use</c><00:42:49.839><c> their</c> authority uh currently to use their authority
• Um, one infrastructure bonds authority.
• </c><00:43:40.000><c> a</c> doing allotting 50 and authorizing a doing allotting 50 and authorizing a

Keywords: 1183, house

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• The clerk will read the last line: An act relating to authorizing bonds for transportation.
• We did that by utilizing existing bond authority.
• We are creating a new authority, and it will exercise significant government powers.
• Many other states have transmission development authorities, Mr. Speaker.
• So I don't think that the transmission authority itself is designed yet to handle that.

Bills: HB2720 , HB2073 , SB5816 , SB5919 , SB5831 , SB6244 , SB6044 , SB5109 , SB5877 , SB6258

Keywords: behavioral health, emergency services, health insurance, provider access, mental health funding, premium assistance, funding, healthcare, subsidies, juice grapes, agriculture, commerce, state regulation, market access, fire safety, insurance incentives, best practices, community protection, voluntary measures, mortgage modification

Summary: The House first took up Substitute Senate Bill 6225, a transportation bond measure. Supporters said it was needed to fund preservation and maintenance of Washington’s transportation system, including road upkeep and emergency repairs, while opponents argued the state had already addressed current needs through a recent unanimous budget and existing bond authority. The bill passed final passage 59-38, meeting the required three-fifths vote. The House then considered Gross Substitute Senate Bill 6260, an education budget-related bill with many floor amendments focused on transition to kindergarten, alternative learning experience (ALE) funding, local effort assistance (LEA), educational service district reserves, superintendent pay, MSOC funding, and collective bargaining limits. Most proposed amendments were rejected, though Amendment 2654 on TK priorities was adopted. After the committee amendment as amended was adopted, the bill advanced to third reading and then passed 50-47. Supporters described it as a necessary budget reduction and risk-management measure; opponents argued it cut K-12 funding too deeply, especially in rural and property-poor districts, and would worsen inequities and invite litigation. The House also concurred in Senate amendments and passed several other bills. House Bill 1796, about school construction financing and capital levy use, passed 95-2. Second Substitute House Bill 2105, dealing with immigrant worker protections, passed 58-38. Engrossed House Bill 2211, on food sourcing for a health-related program, passed unanimously. Engrossed Substitute House Bill 2225, regulating companion chatbots and child safety, passed 74-21. Engrossed Substitute House Bill 2247, related to animal care, passed unanimously. Engrossed Second Substitute House Bill 2418, streamlining permitting timelines to support housing affordability, also passed unanimously. The House then moved on to additional Senate-concurred bills, beginning with Second Substitute House Bill 1906.

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• So, DLI enforcement authority: DLI is vested with the authority to investigate complaints, issue compliance
• So, DLI enforcement authority: DLI is vested with the authority to investigate complaints, issue compliance
• ><c> authority</c><00:14:28.639><c> to</c><00:14:28.880><c> investigate</c> vested with the authority
• DLI already has the authority to include plan review in these delegation agreements.
• . authority. authority.

Committee: Senate Labor

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• until Wednesday, December 3, 2025, the time within which the Committee on Aging and Independence is authorized
• 2026, the time within which the Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure is authorized
• to extending until Friday, October 31, 2025, the time within which the Committee on Housing is authorized
• Lovely for legislation to authorize the Retirement Board of the City of Salem to retire Kathleen Roachville
• Lovely for legislation to authorize the Retirement Board of the City of Salem to retire Kathleen Roachville

Keywords: 995, all

Summary: The House began with the Pledge of Allegiance and then took up several Committee on Rules reports extending committee reporting deadlines on various House orders. The House suspended the rules as needed and adopted each extension, including for the Committees on Aging and Independence, Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure, Housing, and Transportation. The House also concurred in several Senate petitions referred under Joint Rule 12, including proposals on charter school funding, a Salem police retirement, utility shut-off protections during extreme heat, and seatbelt education for passengers in large vehicles. The Committee on Steering, Policy and Scheduling reported four local bills for House consideration: legislation concerning employees of the Dedham-Westwood Water District, the membership of the Prim Board, the Williamstown Library Trustees, and rodeos. After suspending Rule 7A, the House gave each bill a second reading and ordered them to a third reading. The House then passed several local bills to be engrossed, including measures on the Cotuit Fire District water commissioners, the town charters of Acushnet and Provincetown, the elected term of Holden’s moderator, and a bill designating Veterans Suicide Awareness and Remembrance Day, which was amended to add an emergency preamble. The House also adopted an amendment substituting a new bill for House Bill 2244, relating to making the Chicopee city charter gender neutral, and passed the amended bill to be engrossed. Later, the House considered and enacted additional measures, including House Bill 4530 making fiscal year 2025 supplemental appropriations, House Bill 4531 establishing the 2026 state primary election day, and House Bill 3298 designating July 2 as Machado-Joseph Disease Awareness Day. The session ended with the House adopting an adjournment order and adjourning to meet the following Monday at 11 a.m. in informal session.

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• Lord, Your word instructs us to pray for those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives
• a resolution relating to approving certain proposed permanent rules of the Oklahoma Health Care Authority
• a resolution relating to approving certain proposed permanent rules of the Oklahoma Health Care Authority
• resolution relating to approving certain proposed permanent rules of the Oklahoma Medical Marijuana Authority
• Assigned to Administrative Rules. ...marijuana authority. Assigned to Administrative Rules. Mr.

Bills: SB1687 , HB1687 , HB4431 , HB2894 , HB2979 , HB3262 , HB3298 , HB3369 , HB3431 , HB3462 , SB1226 , SB1876 , SB1916 , SB1920 , HB3467 , HB3498 , HB3500 , HB3521 , HB3581 , HB3650 , HB3673 , HB3764 , HB3767 , HB3781 , HB3800 , HB3831 , HB3834 , HB3941 , HB2749 , HB3970 , HB3972 , HB3979 , HB3980 , HB3981 , HB3996 , HB4095 , HB4104 , HB4191 , HB4248 , HB4298 , HB4338 , HB4427 , HB4428 , HJR1023 , HB3660 , HB3718 , HB4326 , HB3443 , HB3880 , HB3649 , HB3000 , SB1651 , SB504 , SB372 , SB1326 , SB1633 , SB248 , SB1242 , SB1238 , SB423 , SB1989 , SB1286 , SB904 , SB1213 , SB1216 , SB1827 , SB65 , SB1390 , SB259 , SB1944 , SB540 , SB2139 , SB346 , SB1595 , SB1400 , SB1555 , SB1209 , SB2110 , SB1670 , SB1061 , SB2104 , HR1057 , SB1946 , SB1734 , SB1316 , SB1360 , SB1557 , SB1684 , SB2049 , SB1410 , SB2011 , SB1437 , SB1204 , SB1732 , SB1775 , SB2084 , SB1380 , SB1572 , SB1772 , SB1224 , SB710 , SB1338 , SB1266 , SB1303 , SB1307 , SB1562 , SB1794 , SB1191 , SB1983 , SB1832 , SB1448 , SB1534 , SB1593 , SB1597 , SB1630 , SB1489 , SB1726 , SB1796 , SB1806 , SB1877 , SB1451 , SB1553 , SB1632 , SB1423 , SB1425 , SB1502 , SB2180 , SB1725 , SB2182 , HB3003 , HB3004 , HB4434 , HB4324 , HB4342 , HB2137 , HB4432 , SJR50 , SJR52 , SJR53

Keywords: driver licenses, exam proctor, Service Oklahoma, commercial training, background checks, advance directive, advance health care directive, health care proxy, medical power of attorney, durable power of attorney for health care, living will, surrogate decision-maker, default surrogate, health care agent, capacity determination, supported decision making, mental health directive, psychiatric advance directive, end-of-life care, life-sustaining treatment

Summary: The House convened, completed the roll call, prayer, Pledge of Allegiance, and recognized Eileen Cooper Grubbs as Nurse of the Day. The chamber then took up several procedural items, including second-reading referrals of Senate Joint Resolutions 50, 52, and 53 to Administrative Rules. Speaker Hilbert also announced the House would continue working despite uncertainty about action in the other chamber, and members were told dinner had been ordered for a long day of floor work. On legislation, the House rejected Senate amendments to House Bill 1728 and House Bill 3021 and requested conference on both. It adopted Senate amendments to House Bill 2137, a criminal procedure bill, and then passed the bill. The House also approved a motion by Speaker Hilbert to override the governor’s veto of House Bill 4432, with a recorded vote of 68-15, allowing the bill to become law notwithstanding the governor’s objections. The House then adopted House Concurrent Resolution 1028, which authorizes the House or Senate to modify legislative deadlines for the remainder of the 60th Legislature. Members discussed that the change was intended to keep legislation moving while the Senate was not meeting and to preserve the ability to hear bills and return them between chambers. The resolution passed after a recorded vote of 77-4. Finally, the House suspended certain rules for the rest of the session by a 68-15 vote and recessed until 1 p.m., with a reminder that the rural caucus would meet in Room 206.

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• Bill 331 and ask the author to explain the bill. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
• stakeholder concerns and better aligns the bill language with existing practices and HHSC's regulatory authority
• First, it aligns the facilities that must comply with this bill to those within HHSC's regulatory authority
• Senator Kolkhorst sends up the committee substitute for Senate Bill 884 and asks the bill's substitute author
• The chair lays out the committee substitute for Senate Bill 926 and recognizes its author, Senator Perry

Committee: Senate Health & Human Services

Keywords: 1185, senate, all

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• Senator Colquhart sends up a committee substitute for Senate Bill 331 and asks the author to explain
• stakeholder concerns and better aligns the bill language with existing practices and HHSC's regulatory authority
• things: aligns the facilities that must comply with this bill to those within HHSC's regulatory authority
• Ask the bill's substitute author to explain the bill.
• The chair lays out committee substitute for Senate Bill 926 and recognizes its author, Senator Hancock

Committee: Senate Health & Human Services

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• Whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities, you have created all things, through you and for
• Although the decisions before us may not always be clear, we know that you are not an author of confusion
• For co-authors, clerk will open the roll for co-authors, please.
• Members, this is for co-authors. All members vote who desire to vote.
• Without objection, there are 67 co-authors added.

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• The goal of HCR 4 and SCR 24 is to remove decision-making authority from the CWD process at the Louisiana
• I'm familiar with the department and their use of that term and that authority that they have.
• I'm familiar with the department and their use of that term and that authority that they have.
• So my concern is the emergency authority.
• What is the emergency, or why does the department need emergency authority here if we're not going to

Summary: The Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission met on April 17, 2026, with a quorum present, adopted the agenda and prior minutes, and then focused primarily on chronic wasting disease (CWD) management in light of a new positive deer detection in Washington Parish. Staff explained that the March 11 declaration of emergency expanded the CWD control area into portions of Washington and surrounding parishes, including parts of Morehouse, Union, Lincoln, and Jackson, and that the emergency rule remains in effect for 180 days unless rescinded earlier. The commission also discussed the task force’s report and recommendations, but the chair indicated those recommendations would be tabled pending legislative action on Senate Concurrent Resolution 24 (SCR 24)."} 0}

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• These proposed changes to Idaho Code 18-808 will equip prosecuting authorities with timely information
• The prosecuting authorities with timely information, useful in assuring persons convicted of DUI honor
• We think that with those reports the prosecuting authority will be able to make a better decision.
• But if this were to pass, then each time the prosecuting authority would be notified of all of those
• And we help participants achieve that stability by leveraging judicial authority.

Committee: Senate Judiciary and Rules

Keywords: 989, all

Transcript Highlights:

• the school by the owner of such property or by a person whose presence on the property has been authorized
• The bill authorizes the Department of Legal Affairs to issue and serve complaints and cease and desist
• And if we are authorizing actual arrests under this new expansion of state surveillance, will that be
• Or is this something that they would be authorized to do outside of the state of Florida?
• Would they be authorized to do that under this bill? Thank you. We couldn't offer.

Bills: S0086 , S0642 , S0712 , S0758 , S0896 , S1224 , S1300 , S1370 , S1712

Committee: Senate Criminal Justice

Keywords: unauthorized aliens, commercial motor vehicles, safety regulations, civil penalties, law enforcement, bail bond, insurance regulation, foreign insurers, financial disclosure, premium reporting, pyramid schemes, consumer protection, fraud prevention, legal affairs, penalties, justice, administrative commission, membership, state attorneys, public defenders

Summary: The committee met with a quorum present and took up a series of bills, beginning with SB 1300 on education and workforce development for current and former inmates. Senator Claudio explained that the bill is intended to expand collaboration between the Department of Transportation and the Department of Corrections to provide training opportunities tied to Florida’s need for CDL drivers. The bill was reported favorably without debate. Members then considered SB 896 on campus safety, as amended by strike-all and late-filed amendment. The bill would require postsecondary institutions to adopt active assailant response plans, conduct security risk assessments, improve threat reporting and information sharing, and allow voluntary participation in the guardian program; the late-filed amendment removed a prohibition on guardians wearing uniforms. After questions about the firearm-discharge provision near campuses and testimony both for and against, the committee reported the bill favorably. The committee also reported favorably SB 86 on commercial motor vehicles operated by unauthorized aliens, SB 642 on foreign and alien bail bond insurers, and confirmed appointees listed on tabs 10 through 19. The committee next heard SB 712 on pyramid promotional schemes, which would create a new prohibition and increase penalties while preserving legitimate direct sales plans. Members raised concerns about whether participants in such schemes might themselves be victims, and the sponsor said prosecutorial discretion would distinguish victims from primary wrongdoers; the bill was reported favorably. SB 1224 on rental housing application fraud was also amended and reported favorably after testimony from apartment and realtor groups in support. In the latter part of the meeting, Chair Martin presented SB 1370 to expand habitual traffic offender status to repeated unlicensed driving, and SB 1712 to create a statewide FDLE counterintelligence and counterterrorism unit. SB 1370 was reported favorably unanimously. SB 1712 drew extensive questioning and public opposition over concerns about broad language, surveillance, and possible impacts on speech and protest, but the sponsor said the unit would focus on protecting the state from adversary intelligence threats and operate within constitutional limits; it was reported favorably. Finally, SB 758 on the Justice Administrative Commission was amended to adjust commission membership and reported favorably unanimously. The committee then recorded additional votes for members and adjourned.

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• . [00:39:35.000] The bill also clarifies a personal representative’s authority to access the decedent
• It expressly authorizes personal representatives to initiate enforcement proceedings under the probate
• It provides DFS with the authority to audit or examine stablecoin issuers.
• It also provides authority to the state to purchase multi-year software licenses and subscriptions to
• Florida originally enacted captive insurance legislation in 1982, but has yet to authorize protected

Bills: S0158 , S0314 , S0618 , S0684 , S0838 , S0990 , S1000 , S1082 , S1452 , S1494 , S1500 , S1568 , S1706

Committee: Senate Banking and Insurance

Keywords: pet insurance, consumer protection, insurance regulation, policy disclosure, agent training, payment stablecoin, financial regulation, anti-money laundering, state oversight, digital currency, financial services, workers compensation, Florida statute, commercial insurance, insurance board, electronic signatures, vehicle titles, insurance regulations, auditing, total loss vehicles

Summary: The Banking and Insurance Committee heard and advanced a wide range of insurance, financial services, and probate bills. Early in the meeting, SB 1000 on trust fund interest for attorney trust accounts was explained as setting a floor and ceiling tied to the Wall Street Journal prime rate and was reported favorably. The committee then took up CS/SB 1082 on a statewide provider and health plan claim dispute resolution program for emergency out-of-network claims. After extensive discussion about the relationship between the state and federal No Surprises Act processes, an amendment was withdrawn due to concerns about clarity and scope, but the bill itself was supported by providers and insurers and was reported favorably. The committee also approved SB 684 on electronic signatures for total loss vehicles and vessels, CS/SB 158 on pet insurance consumer disclosures and agent education, SB 1494 expanding breast cancer screening coverage, CS/SB 314 on digital assets and stablecoin issuers, and CS/SB 1500 on uncontested probate procedures and small-estate administration. SB 618 on workers’ compensation insurance was amended to raise the consent-to-rate cap for workers’ compensation policies from 10% to 20% and then reported favorably, with supporters saying it would help keep higher-risk employers in the voluntary market. CS/SB 1568 creating a Florida Stablecoin Pilot Program was amended to remove authority for a Florida coin and limit the program to existing stablecoins, then passed. Later, the committee approved CS/SB 838 on electronic payment convenience fees for retail installment contracts, with the sponsor emphasizing that a fee-free payment option must still be offered. SB 1452, the Department of Financial Services agency bill, was amended and reported favorably; it covered My Safe Florida Home administration, insurance and licensing changes, unclaimed property updates, and other DFS-related provisions. The committee also passed SB 1706 on the My Safe Florida Condominium Pilot Program, targeting owner-occupied condominiums at or below 80% of area median income, and SB 990 on protected cell captive insurance companies, which supporters said would modernize Florida’s captive insurance laws and encourage more competition. The meeting ended with all listed bills reported favorably and the committee adjourned.

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• I prefer to call these people undocumented is authorized to work in the United States.
• I prefer to call these people undocumented is authorized to work in the United States.
• federal authorities.
• authorities.
• The agency that arrests you must notify the federal authorities.

Bills: SB1055 , SB1065

Committee: Senate Military Affairs and Border Security

Keywords: immigration enforcement, law enforcement, illegal aliens, state legislation, civil penalties, hyperbaric oxygen therapy, veterans, military health, mental health treatment, funding allocation, 1182, all