Transcript Highlights:

• A split-second misjudgment could be punished the same as a planned death.
• A split-second misjudgment could be punished the same as a planned, pre-planned death.
• A split-second misjudgment could be punished the same as a planned in.
• A split-second misjudgment could be punished the same as a planned, pre-planned death.
• Under HB. 17, those people get mandatory life the same who plan and killed the officer.

Summary: The Criminal Justice Subcommittee met to consider three bills. HB 199, relating to Veterans Court, was presented as a repeat measure aligning Veterans Court procedures with mental health and drug court laws and allowing post-adjudicatory referrals. A technical amendment was adopted, numerous witnesses waived in support, and the bill passed unanimously 17-0. The committee then took up HB 45, which would add public swimming pools and public bathing places to existing sex offender residency, work, volunteer, and visitation restrictions. The sponsor argued it would protect children and apply only to specified sex offenses. Several members and public witnesses raised concerns that the bill’s definitions were overly broad, could effectively ban registrants from much of Florida, and could increase homelessness and make offenders harder to track. An amendment narrowing the bill’s scope and definitions was adopted after debate, and the bill passed 11-5 as amended. Finally, HB 17, the Jason Rayner Act, was heard to clarify that force may not be used to resist an arrest by an officer acting in the performance of official duties, retain good-faith language, add manslaughter to offenses requiring a life sentence when reclassified, and increase the severity level for battery on a law enforcement officer. The sponsor said the bill was intended to strengthen protections for officers; opponents argued it could sweep in accidental or less culpable conduct, while supporters said existing law already covered serious cases. A clarifying amendment was adopted, and the bill passed 16-0 as amended. The committee then adjourned.

Transcript Highlights:

• Specifically, SB 224 would require DWR to continue implementing its plan to update water supply forecasting
• also request the implementation of formal policy and procedures for documenting DWR's operational plans
• Accurate water data modeling and planning is critical for our communities and the agriculture industry
• the Senator: more information for our growers is better, so the more information that they have to plan
• Bill Eisenstein, planning director at River Partners, is also available for any answers to technical

Summary: The committee heard and advanced several natural resources and water-related bills. SB 224 by Senator Hurtado would require the Department of Water Resources to implement audit recommendations, improve climate-informed water supply forecasting, and provide annual updates to the Legislature; supporters emphasized the need for better transparency and more accurate water planning, and the bill passed as amended to Appropriations. SB 556, also by Senator Hurtado, would fund floodplain restoration in the Tulare Basin to reduce flooding, recharge groundwater, and provide habitat and other community benefits; local officials and conservation groups supported it, some initial concerns about Proposition 4 were resolved, and the bill passed as amended. SB 630 by Senator Allen would streamline State Parks and other state real property acquisitions by raising review thresholds and reducing duplicative approvals; conservation groups and park advocates supported the measure, while some members raised oversight and fiscal concerns, and it passed as amended. SB 718 by Senator Allen would reduce hunting and fishing license costs for low-income Californians, framed as helping subsistence users and disabled veterans and seniors, and it passed as amended. The committee also approved SB 427 by Senator Blakespear, which extends the sunset of the Habitat Conservation Fund from 2030 to 2035. Supporters said the fund has protected more than 1.2 million acres, leverages other funding, and supports habitat, recreation, and climate resilience; members highlighted its importance for areas like the Salton Sea and the need to protect the funding stream from future sweeps. SB 586 by Senator Jones, an e-moto off-highway vehicle bill, was taken up with little discussion and passed as amended. SB 639 by Senator Ashby would extend the deadline for Sacramento-area flood protection projects in the Natomas Basin and Beach Lake subareas from 2025 to 2030 to allow completion of remaining work and avoid delays to infill housing; city, county, and flood agency representatives supported it, and it passed as amended. Throughout the hearing, witnesses and members repeatedly emphasized water reliability, flood protection, conservation funding, and reducing bureaucratic delays. Several bills drew broad support from local governments, water agencies, tribes, and conservation organizations, and multiple members requested to be added as coauthors. All of the measures discussed were reported out of committee, generally with amendments and with some items left open for add-on votes.

Transcript Highlights:

• Your plan is next year to tighten this up a little. Yeah. My plan is to bring something over.
• </c><00:21:09.679><c> to</c><00:21:09.840><c> tighten</c><00:21:10.080><c> this</c> Your plan is next
• year to tighten this Your plan is next year to tighten this up<00:21:10.400><c> a</c><00:21:10.559><
• </c><00:21:11.120><c> My</c><00:21:11.360><c> plan</c><00:21:11.520><c> is</c><00:21:11.840><c> to</c
• My plan is to bring up a little. Yeah. My plan is to bring something<00:21:12.480><c> over.

Keywords: 928, house, all

Summary: The subcommittee took up Senate Bill 19, which was described as repealing an archaic requirement that hotel keepers post rental-rate notices in rooms. Most of the discussion focused on an amendment addressing whether hotels may refuse rentals to people under 21. Supporters argued the bill’s purpose was to clean up outdated, unenforceable laws and that the amendment would clarify the age-discrimination issue by allowing businesses to set and consistently apply their own policies, such as 21-and-under thresholds, to avoid problems like underage drinking, property damage, and liability. A representative from the New Hampshire Lodging and Restaurant Association said the current language is unclear because it does not define the age threshold, creating uncertainty about whether a hotel could be compelled to rent to very young minors. Several members emphasized that owners should be able to set policies for their properties, including age-based rental restrictions, so long as they are clear and consistently applied. One member said the amendment should be more explicit about policy and thresholds, while another noted a future bill might further tighten the language. The discussion also touched on vacation rentals, deposits, and the practical differences between hotels and other rental properties. The amendment was approved by the subcommittee, and the bill was then moved as amended. In the later executive session, the committee voted 11-0 to adopt amendment 1689, then voted 11-0 ought to pass as amended, and finally voted unanimously to place the bill on the consent calendar.

Transcript Highlights:

• Watch a strategic planning knowing what our goals are.
• And we are working with him on a strategic plan to keep moving a college forward with the way.
• We are planning to break ground there.
• Even during COVID part of our body biggest Crist strategic plan moving forward.
• So local civil engineering surveying in planning company, located in Kissimmee, Florida.

Keywords: 999, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• THIS TAKES ME BACK TO A TEACHER AND I FEEL LIKE ALL OF YOU ARE MY STUDENTS AS I JUMPED INTO MY LESSON PLANS
• IT'S ABOUT COLLABORATIVELY PLANNING WITH TEACHERS. IT IS ABOUT DATA ANALYSIS.
• THE SCHOOLS AND DISTRICTS WORK ON AN INDIVIDUALIZED PLAN TO MAKE SURE THAT THOSE STUDENTS RECEIVE THE
• STRATEGIC PLANNING, THEY APPROVE ANY GRANTS THAT MIGHT APPLY.
• WE ARE NOW REDOING THE STRATEGIC PLAN BECAUSE WE HAD THE EXPERTISE WITHIN HOUSE.

Keywords: 999, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• </c> need to know that their treatment plan need to know that their treatment plan cannot<00:48:17.040
• And so it's very plan and diagnosis.
• Through an update in planning or intent.
• And we have been doing treatment plan.
• There have to be guardrails for plan.

Keywords: 981, all

Transcript Highlights:

• They updated the KCTCS strategic plan and values, and adopted a resolution that, as of the date of the
• Updated the KCTCS strategic plan and values, and adopted a resolution that, as of the date of the June
• ongoing</c><00:16:27.600><c> training</c> We have also planned ongoing training We have also planned
• </c> officers to develop a sustainable plan. officers to develop a sustainable plan.
• </c> cost of attendance so that they can plan cost of attendance so that they can plan properly.<01:09

Keywords: 958, all

Summary: The Interim Joint Budget Review Subcommittee on Education met to hear updates from Kentucky public universities and the Kentucky Community and Technical College System on compliance with House Bill 4, which restricts DEI-related activities and requires institutional and viewpoint neutrality. The chair emphasized that the hearing should focus on both compliance and the financial effects of the law. Eastern Kentucky University said its board adopted a House Bill 4 compliance resolution and an institutional neutrality policy. KCTCS reported systemwide reviews of programs, websites, scholarships, personnel, and admissions language, along with board actions removing a cultural competency course requirement, adopting institutional neutrality, and certifying compliance. KCTCS said about $2.5 million annually had been reallocated to other needs, and that no personnel were eliminated, though some roles were reassigned and DEI-related offices closed. Kentucky State University said it had already dissolved DEI offices before the bill passed, ended DEI-specific training, revised policies and gift acceptance rules, adopted a viewpoint neutrality policy, and was conducting ongoing reviews of programs, job descriptions, and web content. KSU said it had achieved substantial compliance, expected full operational integration by August 1, and had not terminated staff or closed academic programs because of the law. In response to questions, KSU said it was broadening outreach to all students rather than targeting specific populations and that its prior diversity finding was tied to not meeting a diversity quota. Morehead State University said it had no DEI office before House Bill 4, amended its non-discrimination statement to include political and social viewpoint neutrality and condemnation of religious and ethnic discrimination, and remained focused on serving its largely low-income student body. Murray State University reported reviewing scholarships, expenditures, training, and academic programs to ensure no differential treatment or indoctrination, revising its neutrality policy, and updating non-discrimination posters and training. When asked about a statement that DEI would “look different,” the university said it meant student support services would continue in a different form. Northern Kentucky University said it dissolved its diversity office and chief diversity officer position in 2024, reviewed programs, events, scholarships, and employee affinity groups, adopted a statement on intellectual diversity and viewpoint neutrality, and reviewed about 2,000 courses for compliance. NKU also said its new Center for Belonging would focus on first-generation and commuter students rather than rebrand prior DEI efforts. The University of Kentucky began its presentation by describing earlier changes made in August 2024, including disbanding its office of institutional diversity, removing diversity statements and mandatory training, adopting institutional neutrality, and ending race-based consideration in admissions and scholarships; the transcript cuts off before the rest of UK’s testimony and any committee votes or formal actions beyond receiving the presentations.

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• As a city of Grant, where I reside, as a former Planning Commission and city council member, only an
• Commission and city as a former Planning Commission and city council<00:04:01.480><c> member</c><00:
• and budget and that the public work plan and budget and that the public school<00:43:23.200><c> can<
• </c><00:43:39.520><c> and</c><00:43:39.920><c> budget</c> must include uh a work plan and budget must
• include uh a work plan and budget it<00:43:41.200><c> can't</c><00:43:41.680><c> be</c><00:43:42.079

Committee: Senate Education Policy

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• Significant planning and construction are underway for the facilities.
• It's sort of about $19,500 for family planning clients receiving services.
• Our state plan amendment was approved in January of 2024. I don't have the specific.
• How are the plans upholding their contractual requirements?
• All of those audits were also included in our annual audit plan. either the plan for fiscal year 24 or

Committee: House Appropriations

Keywords: 1184, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• This wasn't planned, but I do want to share with you that 29 years ago I arrived to the country.
• This wasn't planned, but I do want to share with you that 29 years ago I arrived to the country.
• This wasn't planned, but I do want to share with you that 29 years ago I arrived to the country.
• </c><01:06:11.480><c> which</c> our Council strategic planning which our Council strategic planning which
• In 2025, we have some big plans that are already underway.

Committee: Senate State and Local Government

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• John Here is a director of storage and planning, and Jamie Fitz is a director of government affairs.
• and then Jamie Fitz who's a planning and then Jamie Fitz who's a director<00:03:04.879><c> of</c><00
• I'm the director of storage and supply planning at CenterPoint Energy.
• </c> to producing integrated resource plans to producing integrated resource plans that<00:08:27.720>
• Chair, um, can I ask if the plan is for the bill after today? Chair: Sure, thank you.

Committee: Senate Energy, Utilities, Environment, and Climate

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• I have never drawn a redistricting plan.
• I don't intend to draw a redistricting plan, and so I leave it to Mr.
• Does this plan increase the compactness scores? It's consistent with the benchmark.
• You talk about that in a sense of when you change plans in areas with more growth.
• And I know everybody says this, but I really wasn't planning on debating.

Committee: Senate Rules

Keywords: 999, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• Um, and are planning ahead for a busy session.
• Um and are planning ahead for a a week.
• DLI already has the authority to include plan review in these delegation agreements.
• The A1 is adopted. of plan review, they recommended against of plan review, they recommended against
• review</c><00:41:41.839><c> is</c> where delegating plan review is where delegating plan review is appropriate

Committee: Senate Labor

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• Senate Bill 5862 provides a cost-of-living adjustment for Plan 1 retirees of the Teachers' Retirement
• Senate bill 5862 provides a cost-of-living adjustment for plan one retirees of the teacher's retirement
• Number nine, Senate Bill 5862, providing a cost-of-living adjustment for Plan 1 retirees.
• to fulfill the high school and beyond plan requirements.
• plans.

Summary: The Ways and Means Committee met in executive session on February 9, 2026, first hearing a staff briefing on Senate Bill 6346, which would impose a tax on individuals earning over $1 million. Staff described the bill’s revenue and spending impacts and reviewed a proposed substitute and 11 amendments addressing items such as public defense funding, charitable deductions, out-of-state tax credits, small business credits, diapers, constitutional issues, and a contingent constitutional amendment. The committee later took up the bill and rejected all of the offered amendments, then advanced the substitute bill with a due pass recommendation to the Rules Committee. Members supporting the bill argued it would help address tax fairness and fund public services, while opponents raised concerns about constitutionality, economic harm, and the effect on businesses and charitable giving. The committee also acted on a series of policy bills. It advanced a substitute bill on grocery store closures in food deserts after adopting a narrower substitute, despite concerns from some members about burdening grocers. It approved a substitute bill expanding voting access for military, overseas, Native American, and disabled voters, adopting a second substitute that removed a cybersecurity review requirement. The committee also advanced bills on tort claim arbitration against governments, victim and witness protections in sexual assault and domestic violence cases, JLARC review of student aid fraud, agricultural collective bargaining, labor relations if federal preemption ends, a cost-of-living adjustment for Plan 1 retirees, workers’ compensation and medical care access, line-of-duty death reimbursements, law enforcement background checks and eligibility, veterans’ discharge definitions, and extraordinary medical placement. Several of these bills had amendments adopted, including changes to tort claim oversight, victim-requested standby counsel, agricultural labor definitions, workers’ compensation penalties, law enforcement volunteer support, and extraordinary medical placement criteria. In the second group of bills, staff briefed measures affecting property taxes, housing, cannabis, disaster-related tax relief, technical tax code changes, aircraft fuel tax revenues, the estate tax, and a pesticide tax exemption. The committee heard that a substitute for the fire protection district bill would alter how city or town levy capacity is reduced and include consultation requirements and board-creation provisions. It also heard that the property tax relief expansion for seniors and disabled retirees needed a substitute to make the consolidated school levy revenue-neutral. Other bills would expand tax exemptions for low-income housing and nonprofit homeownership, authorize local cannabis excise taxes, extend disaster repair tax relief, expand housing-related local sales tax uses, make technical tax code changes, redirect aircraft fuel tax revenues to aeronautics, reduce the estate tax rate, and extend a pesticide tax exemption. The transcript ends during the committee’s consideration of Senate Bill 6346, with the committee debating and rejecting amendments before moving the bill forward.

Transcript Highlights:

• But these decided to go forward with just these two different plans.
• This is an alternate plan to the present one.
• And a lot of that is also planning for a campus.
• the pay plan.
• But then we did a pay plan and we input all of our positions in the pay plan like all state agencies.

Keywords: 908, all

Summary: The Higher Education Funding Committee met to discuss possible changes to North Dakota’s higher education funding formula, with a particular focus on separating the UND School of Medicine and Health Sciences MD program from the general formula. Dr. Jenkins outlined several options for the MD program, including a fixed-funding model, a hybrid model, or keeping it in the formula, and emphasized the need to preserve strong support for medical education while making future funding clearer. He also discussed efforts to increase the share of North Dakota students in the MD program through ND85, expanded recruiting, early acceptance pathways, MCAT prep, a four-plus-one program, and the Primary Care Accelerated Track, along with future cost pressures such as AI licensing and residency growth. The committee then reviewed a simplified funding model from the University System Office that would base funding more heavily on student FTE, credentials awarded, and a few incentive factors such as small institution and research adjustments. Members questioned the use of placeholder numbers, the lack of a clear methodology for the small institution and research factors, and whether the model would adequately account for differences among institutions, high-cost programs, and graduate education. Several members raised concerns that arbitrary factors would be hard to defend politically and could distort funding or create competition between schools, while others said the exercise was useful as a starting point for discussion. Alex presented a second alternative that kept the current SIP-code structure but increased CTE weighting, added a progressive economic size factor, and separated out the MD program. His model also added an on-campus face-to-face headcount component and a credentials component, with the intent of rewarding in-person enrollment and completions. Members questioned the use of headcount instead of FTE, how hybrid, online, dual-credit, and off-campus students would be treated, and why face-to-face enrollment was weighted more heavily than completion. No formal votes or final actions were taken; the committee instead continued discussion and asked members to provide direction on which elements, if any, should be developed further.

Transcript Highlights:

• Finally, in the health space, the budget and Proposition 35 expenditure plan includes $303.9 million
• plan, including funding for Proposition 36 that supports behavioral health, courts, and probation.
• Also, this plan maintains, through bipartisan effort, $100 million for VOCA and adds $10 million for
• In these times of fiscal challenges and political uncertainty, I am thankful that this plan preserves
• In these times of fiscal challenges and political uncertainty, I am thankful that this plan preserves

Summary: The Assembly Budget Committee held an informational hearing on the final three-party budget agreement and related trailer bills, with the Department of Finance outlining the major budget bill and omnibus measures. Finance described a package built around balancing the state budget amid economic uncertainty, preserving core health and safety-net programs, and making significant ongoing reductions in some state programs. The budget bill included major items such as shifting $1 billion from the General Fund to the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund for Cal Fire, funding universal transitional kindergarten, deferring some UC and CSU funding, supporting foster care and homelessness programs, providing Proposition 36 implementation funding, and achieving Medi-Cal savings through changes to benefits and eligibility. The committee also heard that votes on the budget bills were expected later in the week and the following Monday. Finance then walked through the trailer bills, including health, human services, early learning, education, resources, energy, transportation, labor, housing, tax, public safety, courts, general government, cannabis, and energy-related measures. Notable provisions included a Medi-Cal enrollment freeze for certain adults, new premiums and benefit changes for some immigrants, child care COLA changes, education funding for literacy, teacher support, universal meals, and community college student support, as well as resource and climate measures affecting Cal Fire staffing and energy permitting. The housing trailer bill drew the most discussion, with provisions on CEQA streamlining, a vehicle miles traveled mitigation banking program, a renters’ credit trigger, and a six-year moratorium on new residential building standards. Members also discussed a film tax credit expansion, cannabis enforcement funding, a tribal police pilot program, and changes to tax policy, including military retirement income exclusions and wildfire settlement payment exclusions. Committee members largely praised the staff and the budget process, but several raised concerns and asked detailed questions, especially about the housing trailer bill’s new wage standards, tribal consultation provisions, and possible effects on prevailing wage protections. Finance explained that the housing language was intended to set wage floors for market-rate projects receiving CEQA streamlining, with different county-based tiers and a notwithstanding clause preserving existing prevailing wage laws. Members also questioned the size and timing of funding for the Children and Youth Behavioral Health Initiative, Clean Cars for All, Proposition 36, and the film tax credit expansion. Other members highlighted support for public safety, veterans’ tax relief, child care providers, housing production, and higher education, while some expressed concern that the budget’s policy changes were being negotiated too quickly or without enough stakeholder input.

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• </c><00:05:09.199><c> in</c><00:05:09.360><c> our</c> response plans in our response plans in our schools
• </c> discuss the issue and work out a plan discuss the issue and work out a plan for<00:16:06.240><c>
• Be planning purposefully.
• </c> true that it helps school districts plan true that it helps school districts plan but<00:31:58.240
• Be planning know that that's coming.

Keywords: 1183, house

Transcript Highlights:

• What's great about this program, making it permanent, is that it can be combined with their plans to
• Department of Planning and Permitting in opposition. Lina Strong in opposition.
• Office of Planning and Sustainable Development with comments, standing on testimony. Thank you.
• Department of Planning and Permitting in opposition. Hawaiʻi Appleseed in support.
• </c><01:02:24.760><c> to</c> slightly different things so I plan to slightly different things so I plan

Committee: House Housing

Keywords: 910, house, all

Summary: The House Committee on Housing held a public hearing on a series of housing bills. HB 1432 and HB 1428 drew support from HHFDC, and HB 1428 also received testimony from Hawaiian Community Assets, which said housing counseling funding is needed to meet demand for financial education tied to affordable housing, and that such counseling can help reduce evictions, prevent foreclosure, and stabilize households. HB 833 on community land trusts received broad support from HHFDC, county housing officials, community land trust representatives, and a local developer; testimony emphasized keeping housing affordable in perpetuity, but also asked for clearer access to financing, longer repayment terms, and inclusion of additional land trusts in the bill. Peter Savio argued that community land trusts are the best way to control demand and keep housing tied to local incomes. The committee also heard HB 19 on the Dwelling Unit Revolving Fund, which HHFDC said should be made permanent because the pilot has been successful, with 81 units in the program and $7.4 million of the $10 million allocation already committed. HHFDC said the fund helps stalled for-sale projects by providing state equity that revolved back when homes are sold. HB 529 and HB 432 were also heard; HB 432 would create a subaccount in the rental housing revolving fund for projects above 60% AMI, and HHFDC said this would help finance housing for households at 65% and 80% AMI. The bill drew support from several housing, business, and industry groups. Several other housing measures were discussed with mixed testimony. HB 419 had HHFDC support, Limby Hawaiʻi opposition, and support from the Grassroot Institute and others; members asked about whether councils approve these projects in one or multiple readings. HB 527 and HB 416 also drew a mix of support and opposition, with questions focused on county approval timelines and whether state-financed projects would still go through normal local review. HB 417 on the rental housing revolving fund prompted questions about how it differs from the Dwelling Unit Revolving Fund and whether it should be more flexible for mixed rental and for-sale projects. HB 418’s proposed working group was noted as potentially unnecessary because HHFDC said a public working group was already being formed. HB 1411 on housing preference raised questions about what happens if a recipient changes jobs, and HB 374 drew an Attorney General’s Office recommendation to remove a duration requirement to avoid possible constitutional travel issues. HB 373 and HB 1492 were also heard, with strong testimony from Peter Savio in favor of a broader trust-based model for affordable housing. No votes or final actions were taken during the hearing.

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• It's actually part of our strategic plan.
• It's actually part of our strategic plan.
• It's actually part of our strategic plan.
• It's actually part of our strategic plan.
• And I plan on talking about one of them.

Committees: Joint Education , Joint Education Committee

Keywords: 908, all

Transcript Highlights:

• Requires a first responder interaction plan.
• Requires a plan to integrate with public transit.
• </c> modifying a plan and a permit. modifying a plan and a permit.
• Requires a plan to smartphones.
• . plan. plan.

Committee: Senate Transportation

Keywords: 1187, senate, all