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• Anybody wants to come first? Ladies first? Ladies first? Ladies first? Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
• Anybody wants to come first? Ladies first? Ladies first? Ladies first? Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
• Okay, is this your first bill?
• And this is different from the LA Wallet? 100%.
• And this is different from LA Wallet? 100%.

Bills: SCR58, SB309, SB514, HCR63, HCR69, HB401, HB487, HB722, HB730, HB745, HB988, HB989, HB1001, HB1024, HB1032, HB1050, HB1081, HB1086, HB1108, HB1172, HB1173, HB1175, HB1192, HB1218, HB1244

Keywords: SCR 58, Senate Concurrent Resolution, DOTD, Department of Transportation and Development, public-private partnership, P3, public-private partnership contracting, Belle Chasse Toll Bridge, Belle Chasse Bridge, toll bridge, tolling, tolls, transportation infrastructure, roads and highways, Plaquemines Parish, bridge project, toll fees, unauthorized charges, contract oversight, procurement

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• They are available on our landing page within that first hyperlink.
• From Las Cruces or Santa Teresa in that area, connect that.
• Senator Padilla, you're first on the list.
• What we have right now would be the first, if this goes through, this would be the first enactment. surcharges
• This is the first part of the change. And so that's my word of caution.

Bills: SB2

Keywords: SB 2, State Highway Project Bonds, highway funding, transportation bonds, state road fund, motor vehicle fees, vehicle registration fees, electric vehicle fee, EV surcharge, plug-in hybrid fee, weight distance tax, road construction, infrastructure financing, Department of Transportation, State Transportation Commission, bonding authority, county road funds, municipal road funds, transportation improvement program, state highways

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• And once you hit our landing page, it'll be the second or the first. It's the first hyperlink.
• They are available on our landing page within that first hyperlink.
• The first one is on page 23 between lines 22 and 23. Insert under F.
• Las Cruces Or Santa Teresa in that area.
• Senator Padilla, you're first on the list.

Bills: SB2

Keywords: SB 2, State Highway Project Bonds, highway funding, transportation bonds, state road fund, motor vehicle fees, vehicle registration fees, electric vehicle fee, EV surcharge, plug-in hybrid fee, weight distance tax, road construction, infrastructure financing, Department of Transportation, State Transportation Commission, bonding authority, county road funds, municipal road funds, transportation improvement program, state highways

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• rochelle Jessica La Rochelle.
• Jessica La Rochelle, followed by Aaron Katz.
• The first is the creation of a centralized data dashboard.
• People wouldn't be in parking decks in the first place.
• These... ...should probably become the first option.

Keywords: 995, all

Summary: The hearing opened with remarks from House Chair Mindy Domb and Senate Vice Chair Robyn Kennedy, who outlined procedures for the hybrid public hearing, noted the committee would hear testimony on 15 bills related to treatment settings, and recognized members present. The first major bill discussed was H. 4200, authorizing a pilot program for psychedelic-assisted treatment in licensed facilities. Representative Jim O’Day and witnesses from Control Z supported the bill, describing it as a tightly controlled, medically supervised pilot with DPH oversight, limited sites, and screening requirements. Committee members asked about the number of sites and whether Column Health still existed; witnesses said the bill contemplated three separate pilot programs and that Column Health no longer existed after being purchased by another company. The committee also heard testimony on S. 1405 to make the drug stewardship program permanent by removing its 2026 sunset date. Senator John Keenan and others said the program helps collect and safely dispose of unused medications, reduces diversion, and should remain in place because manufacturers should bear disposal costs. A member from Boston added support based on local concerns about people searching through bags for drugs, and Keenan explained the original sunset reflected pilot status and industry pushback. A large portion of the hearing focused on S. 1394 and H. 2193, which would strengthen implementation of the 2023 Roadmap for Behavioral Health Reform. The Children’s Mental Health Campaign, Parent/Professional Advocacy League, Massachusetts Association for Mental Health, and Elliott Community Human Services testified that the roadmap’s helpline, community behavioral health centers, and crisis services are important but unevenly implemented. They urged a single point of accountability within EOHHS, regular strategic planning, a public data dashboard, and financial analysis of the behavioral health system and the access and crisis intervention trust fund. Witnesses said commercial insurance often does not fully reimburse community behavioral health center services, making sustainability difficult, and asked for better coordination across agencies and crisis response systems. Committee members asked whether the roadmap includes substance use disorder; witnesses said it is intended to cover behavioral health broadly, including mental health and substance use. The committee also heard testimony on bills to ban aversives and on suicide prevention signage. Lisa Jean Graff testified in support of S. 1394 by urging a statewide ban on aversive practices, including electric shock, withholding food or bathroom access, and other painful interventions, arguing disabled people deserve the same protections from harm as others. Fonda Bryant and Carol McLean supported a bill requiring suicide prevention signs on tall parking garages, describing personal experiences and saying the signs could create a brief pause and connect people to 988 or other help. McLean said her son died by suicide from a parking garage and that signage might have made a difference. The committee also heard strong testimony in support of creating intensive stabilization and treatment units within DMH facilities (S. 1398/H. 2204), with the Massachusetts Nurses Association and a DMH nurse arguing that highly assaultive patients need specialized, more secure units to protect staff and other patients and to improve care. Additional testimony supported creating a dedicated board for licensed mental health counselors (H. 4696/S. 1382), with Rep. John Badger, the Mass Mental Health Counselors Association, and others saying LMHCs are a large and growing workforce that needs its own licensing board, clearer standards, and faster implementation of existing licensure reforms. The committee also heard extensive testimony on H. 2223 regarding benzodiazepines and non-benzodiazepine hypnotics. Survivors and advocates described severe withdrawal, lack of informed consent, cognitive harms, and long-term disability, while a physician supported the bill as a way to improve disclosure of risks. Finally, the committee heard multiple witnesses in favor of H. 2231/S. 1383 to establish peer-run respite centers statewide. Advocates and people with lived experience said peer respites provide non-coercive, home-like alternatives to hospitalization, can reduce trauma and repeated admissions, and may be especially important for marginalized communities; they also cited cost savings and existing positive outcomes from current respite programs. No votes or final committee actions were taken during the hearing portion reflected in the transcript.

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• Is the state maximizing different funding sources, like Medicaid and Family First, to best serve this
• So again, the first slide here is really just the research.
• So, in the first bucket.
• La Placita is in my district. I'm glad you had contact with them.
• Molina, La Crosse, and Presbyterian exceed a 95 percent compliance for the standard request.

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• We should be talking about where we're first.
• We did our first board meeting the first week of January. So that is moving as well.
• That's why this is a first hearing, not a final hearing.
• So I wanted to highlight that first.
• I'd first like to thank the two analysts sitting next to me.

Keywords: 996, all

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• Let's do the study first. And I don't think anybody in this room... Thank you. First.
• Chair, Representative, just as an example, your two home districts, Las Vegas City Schools, West Las
• Your two home districts, Las Vegas, Las Vegas—these are a little dated FY25, but you have approximately
• So, being a member of, this is my first...
• So that's the first piece.

Bills: HB2, SB204, SB241, HB34

Keywords: general appropriation, budget, Medicaid, education funding, public safety, higher education, research funding, federal funding, New Mexico, appropriation, University of New Mexico, New Mexico State University, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, child care, child care assistance, child care subsidy, early childhood education, early childhood care, daycare, preschool

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• I spoke about this in October in Las Cruces.
• Let me see which one I want to ask first.
• My first question on row 16 Where it says an average salary increase.
• The first bill we discussed pretty substantially the last time.
• And why is it just for first grade, Mr. Chair?

Keywords: 996, all

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• quadrant of Albuquerque, and I'm a proud member of the Piro Manzo Tihua Pueblo tribe down from Dona Ana, Las
• I am a representative from District 6, which covers Cibola and McKinley County, and this is my first
• I represent Chavez County District 58, and happy to be here for the first time.
• It is um Welcome to the freshmen that have come in as your first interim, and thank you for those that
• So this is her first interim meeting. And welcome to your cross course.

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• First, I want to thank you and the committee for working with us on this bill.
• But this is the first step.
• Let me take the easy one first, if that's all right.
• Redwood is building the first fully integrated U.S. battery supply chain.
• So, first, I want to thank both of the witnesses here.

Summary: The committee first established a quorum, adopted the consent calendar for SB 423 and SB 581, and then heard a series of bills, most of which were presented as streamlining or safety measures tied to transportation, climate, public lands, health care, and higher education. SB 71 by Senator Wiener would extend and expand a CEQA exemption for sustainable transportation projects, adding modes such as microtransit, paratransit, shuttles, and ferries, while also accepting committee amendments that narrowed a Tier 4 diesel rail provision, restored existing right-of-way language with utility protections, and set a new sunset date. Support came from transit agencies, local governments, and advocacy groups; some members raised concerns about the diesel rail language and possible interactions with housing-related legislation, but the bill advanced on a due pass vote as amended. The committee then heard SB 614 by Senator Stern on carbon dioxide pipeline safety. The bill would direct the State Fire Marshal to adopt safety standards for intrastate CO2 pipelines, building from federal draft rules and adding state discretion and possible enhanced protections such as planning zones and more detailed exposure modeling. Supporters argued California needs to fill a federal regulatory gap to advance carbon capture and climate goals, while environmental justice and conservation groups opposed unless amended, citing risks from CO2 leaks and asking for stronger siting restrictions and more specificity. The bill passed on a due pass vote to Appropriations, with members noting the need for continued work on the safety provisions. Senator Arreguín also presented SB 304, which would temporarily lift public trust use restrictions on specific land at Jack London Square to allow the Port of Oakland more leasing flexibility under conditions and annual reporting. The measure was described as a limited, time-bound effort to address high vacancy and revitalize the waterfront, and it drew support from Oakland city and county representatives with no opposition in the room. The committee then approved SB 304 on a due pass vote. Arreguín’s SB 830 followed, creating CEQA streamlining for Sutter Health’s new Emeryville hospital campus and designating the City of Emeryville as lead agency; supporters said it would preserve East Bay hospital access before seismic deadlines, and the bill passed with broad support and no opposition. Finally, Senator Caballero presented SB 486, a higher education planning bill intended to align UC and CSU enrollment growth with regional sustainable communities plans and to remove the need to analyze a no-project alternative in certain long-range development plans. Supporters said the bill would better integrate university enrollment forecasting into regional planning, while opponents warned that eliminating the no-project analysis could weaken accountability for housing and infrastructure impacts around campuses. Committee members expressed mixed views and asked for further clarification, but the bill was moved out on a due pass as amended vote to Appropriations. The transcript then shifted to SB 629, a fire response and rebuilding bill, with the author describing amendments to apply fire safety requirements in wildfire-burned areas, update fire mapping, and require annual defensible space inspections, though the discussion was cut off before any final action was shown.

Transcript Highlights:

• The first significant difference is that in this bill...
• So first, nonsensical.
• Let me ask you a quick question first.
• On my first day, I was glad that she didn't fire me.
• So the first one is a...

Bills: HB256, HCR19, HB256, HB1308, HB1554, HB1743, HB2308, HB2351, HB2858, HB3676, HB3784, HB4312, HB4552, HB4823, HB4852, HB5007, HB5010, HB5520, HB5524, HCR19

Keywords: severe weather, adaptation plan, vulnerability assessment, environmental protection, state agencies, federal agents, transparency, law enforcement, identification, public trust, immigration enforcement, HCR 19, Texas concurrent resolution, federal immigration enforcement, masked agents, facial coverings, visible identification, uniforms, badges, name tags

Transcript Highlights:

• And first of all, good evening; I really appreciate.
• De La Rosa, Sarah Beck, and Sarah Ramirez.
• How does this avoid violating the First Amendment?
• De La Rosa. Megan Fairbanks, Autumn Launer, Sara Ramirez, Aiden De La Rosa, Kelly Marshall.
• I failed my first transition.

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

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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• First, I would like to thank the committee staff for their hard work on this bill.
• First, I would like to thank the committee staff for their hard work on this bill.
• First, I would like to thank the committee staff for their hard work on this bill.
• First, it requires local agencies to provide applicants with an estimated timeline.
• So I guess you go first.

Keywords: 987, senate, all

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• Richard Sweat again from the New Hampshire LA to give his testimony on HB 539.
• speak before I missed your your first speak before I missed your your first two<01:29:43.719>
• open a couple of exec sessions the first open a couple of exec sessions the first exec<02:07:54.320
• yes let's take the clarification first yes let's take the clarification question<04:30:17.479> first
• it appears to me to be the first it appears to me to be the first character<05:33:11.958> of<

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• De La Cruz, for five minutes.
• in teamwork and execution, defeating LA in teamwork and execution, defeating LA County<00:41:38.240
• first responders. Thank you. Thank you. first responders. Thank you. Thank you.
• Las Cruces police officer J.R.
• First, he can couple of options.

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Thursday, May 15, 2025, 1012, house, all

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• First order of business is excuse of absent senators. Senator from Taylor. >> Mr.
• committee, uh, unanimously and it la committee, uh, unanimously and it la last<00:08:23.440>
• First order of business upon return is report of committees. Mr. Clerk, please report.
• I've known him since I first got here.
• But there's so many others such as military personnel and our first responders, law enforcement.

Keywords: 958, all

Summary: The Senate opened with an invocation, pledge, roll call, and approval of the previous day’s journal. The House clerk then reported that the House had passed House Bills 134, 214, 281, and 416 and requested concurrence. The clerk also read the second-reading calendar, including Senate Bills 1, 3, 48, 84, 105, and 122, and a new filing, Senate Bill 141 on legal advertisements. The Rules Committee later reported those bills to the regular orders or to appropriations, and the Committee on Committees referred several bills to Agriculture and to Economic Development, Tourism, and Labor. The chamber then took up and passed Senate Bill 20, relating to city government and training incentive programs for appointed and elected local officials. The sponsor described it as a straightforward measure to encourage training for city officials and board members; it passed unanimously, 35-0. Senate Bill 68, relating to the Kentucky Horse Park, also passed unanimously. Its sponsor said the bill would give Horse Park leadership authority to remove individuals restricted by U.S. Center for SafeSport actions in order to protect guests, staff, and participants. Members also adopted Senate Resolution 65 honoring John and Debbie Rogers on their 50th wedding anniversary and Senate Resolution 50 honoring the Lexington Opera House on its 140th anniversary. Several members requested co-sponsorships on bills and resolutions, and announcements were made about Military Kids Day on February 19 and the Black History Celebration beginning February 3 at the Thomas D. Clark Kentucky History Center. New floor amendments were introduced to Senate Bills 3, 34, and 39, and new filings included Senate Bills 142 and 143 and Senate Resolutions 69 and 70. The Senate then adjourned until 4 p.m. Monday, February 2, 2026.

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• We have an office in Albuquerque and an office in Las Cruces.
• My first question, I was curious, Sonny, on item 16 on this, on page 3.
• First one is about STEM. I'm also on the Education Committee.
• I would first like to take a moment to thank DFA, Lori, and the LFC, Ms.
• So the first line item for the Opportunity Enterprise Fund, can you tell me?

Keywords: 996, all

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• We will now recess the regular session to convene the first extraordinary session.
• We are now in the first extraordinary session.
• For those items in the first extraordinary session.
• Becoming the first African-American mayor of the city of Carson.
• of the city of Carson and he also became the first city manager for the city of Carson.

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• Juro felida a la bandera de los Estados Unidos de América y la república que representa una nación bajo
• 22 of the New Mexico Constitution, I have signed Senate Bill 283, enacted by the 57th Legislature, First
• House Joint Memorial 2, introduced by Representatives Herrera (member_13772), De La Cruz (member_13080
• When I first came to this body, I know that when you came to this body, Mr.
• This recognizes the essential public services provided by volunteer first responders, incentivizing and

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• So, first up, we have Aloha Care.
• So, first up, we have Aloha Care.
• So, first up, we'll have uh corner? So, first up, we'll have uh action<00:33:27.840> digital.
• <01:49:57.360> Lahina to serve all four public La Lahina to serve all four public La Lahina
• PAC was really my first imagine.

Keywords: 910, house, all

Summary: This joint informational briefing on Act 310 grants and aid focused on organizations describing how federal funding cuts, Medicaid/SNAP changes, and related policy shifts are affecting their services and budgets. Committee members explained there would be no Q&A, testimony would be limited to one minute, and in-person participants would be heard before Zoom callers. Members repeatedly asked testifiers to identify the amount of federal funding lost or at risk. Testimony came from a wide range of nonprofits and community providers, including Aloha Care, Hawaii Bicycling League, Hawaii Literacy, Hawaii Youth Symphony, Healthy Mothers Healthy Babies Coalition of Hawaii, the Tsunami Museum, The Kohala Center, West Hawaii Community Health Center, West Hawaii Region Hospital Foundation, Sounding Joy Music Therapy, Big Brothers Big Sisters Hawaii, Dynamic Community Solutions, Feeding Hawaii Together, Girl Scouts of Hawaii, Hawaii Disability Rights Center, Hawaii Youth Services Network, Hawaiian Lending and Investments, Homana, Honolulu Theatre for the Youth, Kids Hurt Too Hawaii, and Kokua Kalihi Valley. Most described reduced or threatened federal support and requested state funding to maintain services such as health care access, food security, disaster preparedness, literacy and digital inclusion, youth mentoring, arts education, housing, and climate or agricultural resilience. Several speakers emphasized direct impacts on vulnerable populations, including kūpuna, low-income families, immigrants, homeless youth, and people with disabilities. Requests ranged from relatively small planning or program grants to multi-million-dollar stabilization asks, with some organizations citing specific losses such as reduced Medicaid or USDA funding, canceled EPA or FEMA support, or expiring federal grants. No votes or formal committee actions were taken during the briefing.