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• All right, members, by your vote of 9...
• All right, by your vote of 10, I, 0,000.2 absent. All right, by your vote of 10,0, 0.0.
• So there is an active action of private equities trying to come in here and buy up the facilities, and
• The other half of it... ...and I think this has come up around this idea of private equity, right?
• My right, we're out of order. I'm out of order. I can move. I censor myself. All right. All right.

Bills: SB1052 , SB1115 , SB1118 , SB1120 , SB1121 , SB1124 , SB1171 , SB1172 , SB1174 , SB1175 , SB1214 , SB1233 , SB1235 , SB1316 , SB1345 , SB1372 , SB1399 , SB1458 , SB1494 , SB1496 , SB1564 , SB1602 , SB1621 , SB1628 , SB1630 , SB1631 , SB1668 , SB1672 , SB1814 , SB1821

Committees: House Health & Human Services , House House Health & Human Services Committee of Reference

Keywords: assisted living, health care, hyperbaric oxygen therapy, physician orders, informed consent, AHCCCS, remote work, state agency, employment, public health, housing, zoning, middle housing, urban development, duplexes, triplexes, fourplexes, townhomes, historic preservation, radiation protection

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• Can you kind of just give us an example of this because this is kind of convoluted, right?
• having people in state government who will defend his rights and the rights of his unborn child.
• We have a need for rights of our people.
• Um and it is rights of my unborn child.
• </c> of things. of things. &gt;&gt; Right. &gt;&gt; Right. &gt;&gt; Right.

Bills: SB23 , SB71 , SB105 , SB109 , SB115 , SB131 , SB148 , SB165 , SB23 , SB71 , SB105 , SB109 , SB115 , SB131 , SB148 , SB165

Committee: Senate County and Municipal Government

Keywords: law enforcement, taser, restrained individuals, police procedures, civil rights, income tax, tax exemption, Alabama tax code, Section 40-18-3, civilian employees, Department of Defense, DoD, Armed Forces, military pay, combat zone, deployment, National Guard, Reserve components, emergency response, federal employees

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• There isn't even a single private school in the entire southern half of the parish.
• Chairman, for the help of your staff as well. All right.
• Right. So more people will be taking advantage of it, and that's the intent of the bill.
• Right. So how then... ...or the number of people that qualify, correct? Right.
• That right. GNO Inc. David Koch, Regional Economic Alliance of Louisiana.

Bills: HB12 , HB42 , HB205 , HB222 , HB324 , HB325 , HB350 , HB416 , HB482 , HB610 , HB749 , HB797 , HB807 , HB821 , HB979 , HB992 , HB1193

Committee: House Appropriations

Keywords: survivor benefits, law enforcement, reserve officer, auxiliary officer, public safety, phased retirement, Teachers Retirement System, faculty retention, administrative fees, public postsecondary education, Medicaid, dental coverage, healthcare access, medical necessity, Louisiana Department of Health, judicial salaries, judges, judiciary compensation, cost of living adjustment, COLA

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• Journal of the Day. The Secretary will read.
• I move that the reading of the journal be dispensed with, and the journal of the previous day's business
• Senator Ritchey has moved that the reading of the journal be dispensed with, and the journal of the previous
• Senator Ritchey has moved that the reading of the journal be dispensed with, and the journal of the previous
• Secretary of State message received. The Secretary of State message received. Senator Ritchey.

Bills: SB5068 , SB5109 , SB5188 , SB5223 , SB5280 , SB5420 , SB5467 , SB5581 , SB5649 , SB5705

Keywords: employment eligibility, firefighters, law enforcement, citizenship, legal authorization, public safety, mortgage lending, fraud, prosecution, financial regulations, consumer protection, broadband, infrastructure, loan assistance, economic development, technology access, criminal offense, fingerprinting, state regulations, SB 5280

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• Thank you so much, and I'm going to get your last name pronunciation right one of these days.
• All right, you may proceed. Members of the committee, my name is Charlie Maloff.
• has prepared me for the aggravated consequences of my actions. of knowing that my trafficker walks free
• All right. Please go ahead. Thank you. Good morning, Chair and members of the committee.
• This individual has a history of committing various crimes and receiving lenient treatment for his actions

Bills: HB153 , HB1828 , HB2306 , HB2498 , HB3464 , HB3488 , HB3636 , HB3673 , HB3834 , HB3860 , HB4120 , HB4937 , HB1515 , HB153

Committee: House Corrections

Keywords: education, funding, student resources, technology access, equal opportunity, veterans treatment court, mental health, criminal justice, rehabilitation, eligibility criteria, veterans, treatment court, military service, legislation, legislative leave, correctional officers, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, accumulated leave, compensatory time, parole eligibility

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• Like Representative Cotaldo, I want to thank House Counsel as well, who jumped right into action and
• We share the representation of the wonderful town of Topsfield.
• until he reaches the age of 68, the date of his retirement, or the date he's relieved of his duties
• a lot of these.
• out of turn.

Bills: S3051 , H5380 , H5384 , H5389 , H5420 , H5428 , H5427 , H5429 , H5435

Committee: Joint Joint Committee on Public Service

Keywords: retirement benefits, police officer, surviving spouse, pension, public service, police chief, deputy police chief, civil service exemption, local governance, Medford, H5384, Craig Riley, Haverhill, firefighter, fire department, civil service, civil service examination, maximum age requirement, age waiver, age exemption

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• It's not, you might consider I'm building a subdivision of home. Right.
• Clerk of court. And the assessor. Yeah, the assessor, right, because we take a copy of that.
• In fact, all of them are terming out right this year.
• I trust the people of St. Helena to do what's right.
• I trust the people of St. Lena to do what's right.

Bills: HR217 , HB66 , HB204 , HB208 , HB326 , HB472 , HB483 , HB484 , HB793 , HB1051 , HB1080 , HB1087 , HB1111 , HB1215 , SB78 , SB148

Committee: House Municipal

Keywords: rent stabilization, affordable housing, cost burdened, Louisiana housing, housing policy, emergency rental protections, Alexandria, municipal ordinances, administrative adjudication, code enforcement, housing violations, building codes, zoning, nuisance ordinances, vegetation ordinances, sewerage, drainage, licensing, permits, local government

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• of Revenue.
• Chairman, we do have a set of amendments. They are being distributed right now.
• All right, Mr.
• So I called one of the parishes not listed, or that's not included in the list right now, and even though
• It basically repeals Section 4 of Act 707 of 2024 and then repeals Section 5 of Act 411 of the 2025 Regular

Bills: HR118 , HB1120 , SCR11 , SB73 , SB89 , SB128 , SB149 , SB180 , SB191 , SB196 , SB238 , SB318 , SB340

Committee: House Ways & Means

Keywords: water utility, tax credit, excessive rates, residential service, subcommittee, tobacco tax, excise tax, smokeless tobacco, vapor products, public health, FDA, risk-proportionate, tax credits, higher education, workforce development, brain drain, economic incentives, SB 73, Act 10, Act No. 774 of 2024

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• Chairman. 4488 is a right to appraisal.
• And for all of the members of this committee that continue to work on this.
• being out of school and working for a year right now.
• I believe there was a bit of a branding issue and frankly a bit of a communication issue.
• But we are here concluding our work of chamber of origin, the House of Representatives.

Bills: HB3783 , HB2955 , HB3802 , HB4488 , HB2471 , HB3781 , HB3127

Committee: House Commerce & Economic Development Oversight

Keywords: HB3783, plumbing apprentice, endorsed apprentice, endorsed plumbing apprentice, journeyman plumber, plumbing license, Construction Industries Board, Committee of Plumbing Examiners, apprenticeship, trade license, vocational education, occupational licensing, professional licensing, Title 59, Plumbing License Law of 1955, licensure exam, journeyman examination, apprentice registration, plumbing industry regulations, administrative penalty

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• . >> I'll take care of it.
• No, no, no. >> Take over and then he can get there. >> That's right. >> 10 minutes, right?
• >> 10 minutes, right? >> You got 10 minutes. >> It depends. Full professor 15, right?
• My I said that now. >> I live in Hill right now. >> I live in Hill right now. >> Oh yeah, that's right
• </c> week in hours of operation. Burger King. week in hours of operation. Burger King.

Bills: HB418 , SB138 , SB215 , HB418 , SB138 , SB215

Committee: House Commerce and Small Business

Keywords: financial services, banking, insurance, debanking, social credit score, ESG, environmental, social, and governance, diversity, equity, and inclusion, DEI, religious freedom, free speech, viewpoint discrimination, political discrimination, firearms, gun industry, ammunition, fossil fuels, oil and gas, mining, timber

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• So one of the main tenets of a private insurance company is when they collect premiums, they get to invest
• That's helpful because that's one of the first identifiers of why other states are getting it right.
• All right. of that maybe I've never heard anybody say that.
• Right now, the list is unfortunately too over-inclusive, and a total elimination of the statute of limitations
• Right now, the list is unfortunately too over-inclusive, and a total elimination of the statute of limitations

Bills: SB41 , SB153 , SB165 , SB261 , SB264 , HB99 , HJR5 , HM39 , HB206 , HB213 , SB41 , SB153 , SB165 , SB261 , SB264

Committees: Senate Senate Judiciary , Senate House Judiciary

Keywords: sexual crimes, statute of limitations, criminal justice, victim rights, child abuse, procurement, contracting, small business, local government, disaster recovery, emergency procurement, certification, public spending, juvenile justice, delinquency, rehabilitation, community corrections, risk assessment, public safety, health regulations

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• right here, a fierce advocate for patients of New Mexico.
• the Sexual Assault Survivors Bill of Rights, which established the standard that testing of sexual assault
• the Sexual Assault Survivors Bill of Rights. ...in 2019 of the Sexual Assault Survivors Bill of Rights
• to be notified of hearings; you have all the rights that a victim would have when they're a victim of
• And Madam Chair and Representative, so the act, one of the victims' rights under the act is the right

Bills: HB99 , HJR5 , HM39 , HB206 , HB213 , SB41 , SB153 , SB165 , SB261 , SB264

Committee: House House Judiciary

Keywords: medical malpractice, malpractice reform, patient's compensation fund, PCF, health care liability, tort reform, damage caps, punitive damages, hospital liability, physician liability, nurse practitioner, certified nurse-midwife, outpatient facility, ambulatory surgical center, urgent care, free-standing emergency room, insurance surcharge, superintendent of insurance, New Mexico hospitals, medical review process

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• Go right ahead. Good morning, Chair Cleveland and members of the committee.
• I'm Director of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights.
• I'm Director of the Citizens Commission on Human Rights.
• But like all of us right now, I'm also seeing its limits.
• And we believe that the absence of care right now is a patient safety crisis in and of itself, and maintaining

Bills: SB6226 , SB6305 , SB5924 , SB5990 , SB5185 , SB5845 , SB6071 , SB6258

Committee: Senate Health & Long-Term Care

Keywords: SB 6226, Washington, audiology, audiologist, hearing aid specialist, speech-language pathologist, telehealth, teleaudiology, clinical autonomy, clinical judgment, in-person care, remote care, Board of Hearing and Speech, hearing instruments, hearing aids, dispensing hearing aids, standards of care, professional licensure, health professions regulation, patient-centered care

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• right of action.
• Yeah, this is an amendment to remove the private right of action from this bill.
• And so we'd like to take out the private right of action. Thank you.
• into spaces of work of private people.
• why why we are so interested in inserting ourselves as lawmakers into spaces of work of private people

Bills: HB2188 , HB2563 , HB1571 , HB2144 , HB2191 , HB2218 , HB2243 , HB2372

Committee: House Labor & Workplace Standards

Keywords: transparency, industrial insurance, insurance rate increases, financial disclosure, regulatory oversight, unemployment, electronic notices, compensation, digital communication, order processing, workers' compensation, occupational disease, firefighters, fire investigators, law enforcement officers, first responders, heart disease, cardiac conditions, respiratory disease, cancer presumption

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• So, all right, well, friends, if you need help in this committee, this is your first line of defense
• All right, well, we had the opportunity to introduce the members of the committee yesterday, so we’re
• Yeah, that's right. To quote you, actually. So I know a lot of just burst there. So about.
• We are going to defer action on House Bill 1735 for the purpose of amendment.
• We are going to defer action on House Bill 1976 for the purpose of further amendment.

Bills: HB2238 , HB1311 , HB1608 , HB1735 , HB1825 , HB1976 , HB2062

Committee: House Agriculture & Natural Resources

Keywords: HB 2238, HB2238, statewide food security, food security strategy, hunger, food insecurity, food access, food assistance, anti-hunger, nutrition education, food system literacy, agricultural viability, supply chain resilience, Washington Department of Agriculture, food policy forum, BIPOC, tribal consultation, small farmers, diet-related health disparities, food affordability

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• Marcus Adams: From the Department of Banking's perspective, that is the extent of our oversight of that
• Currently, the process for victims of coerced debt and other identity theft victims to take legal action
• thousands of dollars of debt in her name that she had no way of addressing, no way of paying, and that
• And there's a lot of shame that comes with this type of coercion.
• We service millions Clay Shotsak: of customers across the nation, including hundreds of thousands of

Bills: HB3803 , HB3804 , HB3805 , HB3806 , HB3833 , HB4134 , HB4233 , HB4238 , HB4243

Committee: House Pensions, Investments & Financial Services

Keywords: HB 3803, Texas Health and Safety Code, Chapter 712, perpetual care cemetery, perpetual care trust fund, cemetery regulation, financial confidentiality, confidential records, regulatory examination, Texas Department of Banking, commissioner disclosure, interagency information sharing, state agency enforcement, federal agency disclosure, trust fund oversight, burial services, cemetery trust, consumer protection, state banks, Texas Finance Code

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• All right, first of all, I'd like to welcome the members back. Thank you all.
• the time of purchase.
• Just to give you a little history of what AMAA... ...little history of what AMAA— I think several of
• Currently, there are 127,000 open positions in the state of... ...in the state of Alabama, but we have
• That includes one of 40 counties that have no broadband wiring at all as of 2022.

Bills: HB93 , HB160 , HB29 , HB29 , HB93 , HB160

Committee: House State Government

Keywords: HB93, Alabama State Port Authority, State Auditor, property inventory, inventory control, audit exemption, state property, personal property inventory, public authority, port authority, Section 36-16-11, Code of Alabama 1975, administrative oversight, state audit, conforming changes, government property, Alabama Municipal Electric Authority, AMEA, municipal electric authority, board of directors

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• There may be a lot of unforeseen actions taken.
• Maybe some of those changes aren't so good. Right.
• This has consequences, and we're seeing the consequences of those actions now. All right. Mr.
• Those actions happened right in the heat of the debate about this HCM in the House.
• When we curtail the civil rights of one group, we put at risk the civil rights of all of these groups

Bills: HB2908 , HB4042 , HCM2001 , HCM2002 , HCM2005 , HCM2006 , HCR2047

Committees: Senate Federalism and Family Law , Senate Senate Federalism and Family Law Committee of Reference

Keywords: constitutional convention, faithless delegates, state delegates, oath of office, class 2 felony, civil penalties, parent-child relationship, termination of parental rights, child welfare, court procedures, abandonment, neglect, reunification services, felony conviction, Muslim Brotherhood, terrorism, foreign terrorist organization, national security, Islamist extremism, Congress

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• Chair, members of the committee.
• is their line of credit.
• HB 395 is carried over to call the chair. >> All right, members of the Department of Commerce, welcome
• </c> advantage of not not charging consumers. advantage of not not charging consumers.
• </c> All right, members of the Department of Commerce, welcome Ed. Ed, still good to see you.

Bills: SB277 , HB395 , HB482 , SB251 , HB513

Committee: House Economic Development and Tourism

Keywords: decentralized nonprofit association, unincorporated nonprofit association, blockchain, distributed ledger technology, smart contract, digital asset, crypto, web3, DAO, decentralized autonomous organization, nonprofit governance, digital membership, consensus mechanism, ledger, Alabama nonprofit law, entity formation, liability protection, service of process, real property, winding up

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• measure of tax.
• Okay, so we will recess the meeting and we will return at a quarter to five for purposes of taking action
• the expense, some of the costs of the bridge, and goes toward those payments of the cost of the bridge
• of these encounters by looking at fencing and... ...upper part of the state, where we've had a lot of
• Following that, there will be a possible executive action on the rest of the Senate bills that the committee

Bills: HB2306 , HB2711

Committee: House Transportation

Keywords: transportation budget, capital budget, operating budget, appropriations, Washington State Department of Transportation, WSDOT, Washington State Patrol, Department of Licensing, ferry funding, state ferries, highway maintenance, road preservation, bridge replacement, tolling, express toll lanes, traffic safety, speed cameras, ignition interlock, transit grants, public transit