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• dissolution resolution on the ballot and access the funds to establish the Andrew Gibbs Memorial Nursing Endowment

Bills: HB9 , HJR1 , SB1331 , SB1375 , SB1443 , SB1578 , SB2251 , SB2519 , SB2553 , SB2655 , SB2764 , SB2907 , SB3030 , SB3033 , SB3035 , SB3036 , SB3037 , SB3043 , SB3047 , SB3050 , SB3051 , SB3056 , SB3057 , SB3063 , HB9 , HB467 , HB331 , HB1244 , HB1399 , HB2559 , HB2730 , HB3307 , HJR1 , HJR99 , SB3048 , SB3052 , SB3053 , SJR78 , HB1327 , HB2723

Committee: Senate Local Government

Keywords: HB 9, Texas Tax Code, property tax, ad valorem tax, voter-approval tax rate, no-new-revenue tax rate, truth in taxation, local government finance, municipality, county, special taxing unit, sales and use tax, sales tax revenue, tax rate calculation, tax levy, maintenance and operations, debt rate, unused increment rate, disaster relief rate, taxing unit

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• can all agree with the declaration of independence assertion that every person is created equal and endowed

Bills: HF1837 , HF361 , HF2725 , HF2566 , HF2744 , HF1685 , HF501 , HF1889 , HF1389

Committee: House State Government Finance and Policy

Keywords: state policy, employment, health insurance, fossil designation, public funds, community resources, Capitol Mall, grantmaking, community vitality, livability, funding, healthy aging, aging policy, older adults, seniors, elderly, gerontology, long-term care, assisted living, nursing homes

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• My questions are purposely intended to figure out now that you have...” “...the gift of hindsight in
• At 1:00 p.m., the first donations were arriving from the COAD, which helped with hotel vouchers and gift
• I used to work in that space of funneling that information and then saying it's like a gift registry
• I used to work in that space of funneling that information and then saying it's like a gift registry
• They provided diapers, dry goods, gift cards—anything people needed.

Summary: The joint Senate and House disaster preparedness and flooding hearing opened with quorum calls, prayer, testimony time limits, and remarks from legislative leaders emphasizing decorum, respect, and the goal of learning from the July 4 flood to prevent future loss of life. Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick and Speaker Dustin Burrows said the special session and hearings were intended to hear directly from local officials and residents, and that the state would pursue immediate and longer-term legislation and continue working beyond the current session. The committee then heard invited testimony from Kerr County, Kerrville, Kendall County, Real County, and the Upper Guadalupe River Authority, followed by member questions. Kerr County Judge Rob Kelly, Sheriff Larry Leitha, and emergency management coordinator William B. Thomas described the flood as a sudden, unprecedented event that overwhelmed local systems before many officials or residents understood the danger. They said the county received multiple National Weather Service and IPAWS alerts, but the rain fell in remote upstream areas with limited gauges, and the flood rose too quickly for normal response. They detailed the emergency response, including dispatchers handling heavy call volumes, deputies and volunteer firefighters conducting rescues, and state and federal partners assisting. County officials said 108 people died, including 37 children, and two remained missing. They called for better real-time flood detection, stronger rural emergency management resources, improved broadband and cell coverage, and more funding for swift-water rescue and warning systems. Kerrville Mayor Joe Herring and City Manager Dalton Rice said the city had floodplain rules, emergency plans, and prior preparedness efforts, but the event exposed gaps in communications and regional warning capacity. They urged the Legislature to fund a flood warning system, whether sirens, automated alerts, or a hybrid, and asked for support for predictive weather modeling, broadband expansion, a hazard mitigation fund, and disaster recovery resources. The Upper Guadalupe River Authority said it had long funded gauges and pursued flood-warning and mitigation projects, including a new software-based flood prediction system and possible retention dams, and planned to dedicate reserve funds to feasibility studies and infrastructure improvements. Kendall County Judge Shane Stolarczyk said his county’s emergency action plan and early alerts helped prevent deaths there, and he recommended easier access to alerting tools, a river-wide warning system, simpler grant applications, and regional coordination. Real County Judge Bella Rubio said rural counties face major challenges because of limited cell service, broadband, staffing, and funding, especially for camps and visitors along the Frio and Nueces rivers, and argued that reliable alert systems should be treated as a necessity, not a luxury. Members asked about the timeline of the flood, low-water crossings, communications failures, sirens, bridges, and funding, and several witnesses said the key lessons were better communications, better warning systems, and more investment in rural flood mitigation and emergency response.

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• purchases that consisted of holiday decor, kitchen items, personal hygiene items, fashion accessories, gift
• purchases that consisted of holiday decor, kitchen items, personal hygiene items, fashion accessories, gift
• purchases that consisted of holiday decor, kitchen items, personal hygiene items, fashion accessories, gift
• purchases that consisted of holiday decor, kitchen items, personal hygiene items, fashion accessories, gift
• purchases that consisted of holiday decor, kitchen items, personal hygiene items, fashion accessories, gift

Committee: All LEGISLATIVE JOINT AUDITING

Summary: The Legislative Joint Auditing Committee approved the February 13 minutes and then heard several committee reports. The executive committee report noted that audit and special reports were scheduled for presentation, one requested report remained outstanding, and staff was asked to review selected Benton County circuit court case transfers. The committee also received and adopted reports from the counties and municipalities committee, the education committee, and the state agencies committee. Those reports covered delinquent private water and sewer audits, education audit reports, and state agency findings such as duplicate vendor payments, collateral issues, record-keeping problems, and vehicle log deficiencies. In each case, the committee voted to file or adopt the reports, with some reports deferred for follow-up or for officials to appear at a later meeting. A major portion of the meeting focused on the City of Pine Bluff’s 2024 financial audit. Auditors said the city received a clean opinion overall, but management letter findings identified serious issues in the mayor’s office, Parks and Recreation, and the finance department. The Parks and Recreation finding involved $179,629 in manual receipts that could not be traced to city deposits, missing receipts from several facilities, $48,415 in unallowable purchases, $13,000 in questionable purchases, altered invoices, unapproved vendors, and missing equipment; those matters were referred to the prosecuting attorney, attorney general, Governmental Bonding Board, and Arkansas State Police. The finance finding cited weak cash-receipting and bank-reconciliation procedures and late or missing deposits. City officials, including the mayor, finance director, and parks director, testified that the problems predated the current administration and said they had taken corrective steps. They described hiring a forensic audit firm, creating or updating standard operating procedures, improving receipting and deposit processes, adding procurement oversight, and moving Parks and Recreation to electronic or system-based receipting. Committee members questioned the officials about oversight, nonprofit relationships, and whether theft or system failures were to blame. After discussion, the committee voted to file the Pine Bluff report. The next meeting was announced for June 4-5, 2026.

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• Again, I'm not saying they must accept the gift.
• Again, I'm not saying they must accept the gift.
• Again, I'm not saying they must accept the gift.
• Now they can start taking gifts, you know.
• Now they can start taking gifts, you know, to—they can take gifts to start recruiting for their program

Committee: Senate Education

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

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• If you’ll come up here, we do have a gift for you and a few other items. Here’s the gift.
• If you’ll come up here, we do have a gift for you and a few other items. Here’s the gift.
• Here’s the gift. Thank you. There’s a card. Thank you.

Committee: House Health and Welfare

Keywords: 989, all

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• Your nephew and all human beings are endowed by the creator, by the world, with inalienable rights.
• 00:52:37.200><c> are</c> Your nephew and all human beings are Your nephew and all human beings are endowed
• endowed endowed by<00:52:40.319><c> the</c><00:52:40.640><c> creator,</c><00:52:41.200><c> by</c><00

Bills: HF4133 , HF3419

Committee: House Commerce Finance and Policy

Keywords: homeowner's insurance, peace officer, property damage, just compensation, exclusion policy, corporate powers, entity law, business corporations, nonprofit corporations, LLC, limited liability company, cooperative, partnership, trust, foreign entity, campaign finance, election spending, political spending, ballot measure, ballot initiative

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• Individually created by a creator and are endowed with inalienable rights you yourself as an individual
• ><00:42:22.840><c> creator</c><00:42:23.960><c> and</c><00:42:24.160><c> are</c><00:42:24.360><c> endowed
• </c><00:42:25.520><c> with</c> by a creator and are endowed with by a creator and are endowed with inalienable

Committee: Senate State and Local Government

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• who's tasked with securing the rights of all the citizens of Colorado, those self-evident creator-endowed
• citizens of Colorado those those certain self-evident<01:51:42.560><c> creator</c><01:51:43.040><c> endowed
• </c><01:51:43.440><c> rights</c> self-evident creator endowed rights self-evident creator endowed rights

Keywords: 981, all

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• <02:46:26.720><c> these</c><02:46:27.040><c> big</c> Why should we not tax these big university endowments
• The Senate reduces our tax on university endowments to raise revenue by 20%.
• reduces our tax on university endowments reduces our tax on university endowments to<02:46:43.520><c>

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Friday, June 27, 2025, 1012, house, all

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• My assumption is that those are endowments that those universities are investing, and because those endowments
• My assumption is that those are endowments that those universities are investing, and because those endowments

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• Well, that's not the gift, but you like that part of the gift. Okay. So I, so I.
• Have you liked that part of the gift? Okay. So I believe that you serve three committees.
• It's, it was down there in the gift shop. It's an Idaho type. So, yes.

Committee: House Local Government

Keywords: 989, all

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• HB 6061 relating to the reporting of gifts or the receipt of gifts or honoraria by Rep Benarroch.
• Benarroch: So this is the annual disclosure form for gifts and honoraria-related expenses.
• The disclosure forms are now filed with the Commission of Ethics, but the gift statute was never updated

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• It was given as a gift to Americans here, really to symbolize.
• This is a remarkable gift.
• In 1903, our first Korean Americans arrived, and I think the greatest gift they gave to our family, And
• I think the greatest gift they gave to our family were April, my niece, and Stephen, my nephew.
• Elizabeth Morgan, a gifted psychologist, a talented hairstylist, a salon owner.

Keywords: 987, senate, all

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• money, and some of that goes to poverty, some of that goes to schools with special education and gifted
• We actually raised the weights for poverty, special ed, and gifted in that calculation.
• We increased the amount of funding for the gifted line item.
• </c><00:09:00.560><c> We</c><00:09:00.800><c> increased</c><00:09:01.120><c> some</c> the gifted line
• We increased some the gifted line item.

Bills: SB342 , SB342 , SB159

Committee: House Ways and Means Education

Keywords: land bank, land bank authority, local land bank authority, Alabama Land Bank Authority, tax delinquent property, tax sale, tax lien, redemption period, quiet title, blight remediation, vacant property, foreclosure, ad valorem tax, property tax exemption, intergovernmental agreement, county government, municipal government, redevelopment, brownfields, floodplain management

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• for the purchases related to restocking their stores, like the one here at the state capitol, those gift
• understanding is that some of these shelves are having a difficult time stocking these shelves at their gift
• My one question is, do we currently stock any state use items in the gift shops?
• And would this bypass us putting state use related items in the gift shops?
• one concern would be if we're bypassing that, you know, are there items that would be good in these gift

Bills: SB1307 , SB1425 , SB1826 , SB1365 , SB1696

Committee: Senate Economic Development, Workforce and Tourism

Keywords: Oklahoma Historical Society, Oklahoma Arts Council, J.M. Davis Memorial Commission, historical preservation, arts funding, museum, gun collection, state agency contracts, 501(c)(3), nonprofit corporation, public funds, sectarian, religious funding restriction, appropriations, fiscal oversight, cultural institutions, historical artifacts, SB1425, health care, healthcare workforce

Summary: The Economic Development, Workforce and Tourism Committee heard a presentation from Tourism Director Amy Blackburn on the Oklahoma Tourism spring 2026 marketing campaign. She described the agency’s new advertising contractor, spending plans split between in-state and out-of-state markets, and campaign themes centered on Route 66, state parks, fishing, Western heritage, and spring travel. She said the campaign’s goal is to increase visitation, bookings, park revenue, and traffic to TravelOK.com, and noted the use of data tools to track marketing performance. The committee then considered several Senate bills. SB 1307, by Sen. Daniels, would remove language that could bar religious organizations from receiving neutral public benefits or grants; it passed 7-1 after questions about church-state concerns. SB 1425, also by Sen. Daniels, repealed an obsolete healthcare workforce assistance board/program and passed 9-0. SB 1826, by Sen. Reinhart, removed the sunset on the Oklahoma Local Development and Enterprise Zone Incentive Leverage Act; members discussed reporting and oversight, and it passed 7-1. SB 1365, by Sen. Fricks, was amended to add an emergency clause and to raise from $25,000 to $75,000 the threshold for Tourism Department retail purchases exempt from the Central Purchasing Act, with testimony that it would help stock gift shops and support local vendors; it passed 8-0. SB 1696, by Sen. Coleman, created a Commerce Department grant program to help cities and counties recruit new residents through local incentives advertised on MakeMyMove.com; members raised concerns about sunsets, audits, and overlap with other incentives, and the bill passed 5-3.

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• You had commented that it removes gifted education. Where does that put gifted education?
• And I realize gifted students don't have disabilities.
• I think the intent here is that just for clarification: gifted education and gifted children who are
• Now, New Mexico does provide additional funding for gifted education, and that gifted education is lumped
• There are plans for those gifted students.

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• Madam Chair and members, by way of 163, if a school district receives a grant or a gift that is less
• Senate Bill 1763 repeals the requirement for a governing board to deposit specified grants or gifts into
• a separate bank account if the grant or gift is not deposited with the county treasurer and directs
• Madam Chair and members, by the way of 163, if a school district receives a grant or a gift that is less
• a separate bank account if the grant or gift is not deposited with the county treasurer and directs

Bills: SB1004 , SB1424 , SB1497 , SB1507 , SB1572 , SB1684 , SB1711 , SB1741 , SB1754 , SB1763 , SB1798 , SCR1012 , SCR1041 , SCR1051

Committee: Senate Education

Keywords: sex offender registration, sex offender registry, A.R.S. 13-3821, sexual offenses, public safety, GPS monitoring, electronic monitoring, transient offender, homeless registrant, online identifiers, internet identifiers, sheriff notification, Department of Public Safety, DPS, DNA collection, juvenile adjudication, kidnapping of a minor, unlawful imprisonment of a minor, lifetime registration, community notification

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• Well, that's not the gift, but you like that part of the gift. Okay. So I, I.
• Have you liked that part of the gift? Okay. So I believe that you serve three committees.
• It's, it was down there in the gift shop. It's an Idaho type. So, yes.

Committee: House Local Government

Summary: The Local Government Committee meeting was largely a farewell and recognition session for a page, Allie, rather than a policy hearing. Members invited Allie to share what she learned during her time with the committee, what surprised her about the legislative process, and what she enjoyed most. She said she was surprised by having to speak through the chair, enjoyed learning how local bills are made, and especially liked getting to know the committee members and learning about topics such as mosquito spray. She also said she would tell friends back home that the legislative process is more fun behind the scenes than it appears. Committee members, including Representative Cheatham, asked Allie what she would remember and whether she would stay in touch with people she met. She said she would definitely keep in contact with peers and others she worked with. The committee then presented her with gifts, including a signed Capitol photo/card from multiple committees, Idaho-themed items, a Spuddy Buddy, and a State of Idaho pendant necklace, along with a small gift for Elijah from the gift shop. No bills were debated or voted on during this portion of the meeting. The chair noted that minutes were not yet available and that the committee might return later for another bill, likely a Senate bill, but for the moment the committee remained at the call of the chair and then adjourned the meeting.

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• encourage you all to come and celebrate with us and have some dessert and celebrate Regis's wonderful gifts
• But we are so grateful to Anne and Regis for this gift in honor of their daughter Erica, and we will
• :22.879><c> this</c> so grateful to Anne and Regis for this so grateful to Anne and Regis for this gift
• </c> gift in honor of their daughter Erica. gift in honor of their daughter Erica.

Keywords: 927, senate, all