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• HB 3479 by Morgan relating to procedures or treatments for the subcommittee on Family and Fiduciary Relationships
• meetings with the state agency's internal auditor to deliver or receive information about certain auditing
• HB 3508 by Trey Wharton relating to the insurance responsibility to review and audit a third-party administrator
• beverages at certain racing facilities, referred to the Committee on Licensing and Administrative Procedures

Keywords: 1184, house, all

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• There are administrative procedures in order for them to do so. It is all laid out.
• PERFORMANCE AUDITS EVALUATE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF PUBLIC PROGRAMS AND FINANCIAL AUDITS TO ENSURE FINANCIAL
• SO TOO WOULD THE AUDIT FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS.
• WE TALK ABOUT INSPECTORS GENERAL AND AUDITING.
• OTHER STATES ARE JEALOUS OF FLORIDA LEGISLATURE AND AUDIT.

Bills: SB 2, HB 2, HB 2000, HB 2196, HB 213, HB 222, HB 645, HB 1458, HB 1022, HB 141, HB 502, HB 643, HB 3093, HB 1700, HB 117, SB 503, SB 2, HB 120, HB 20, HB 150, HB 6, HB 100, HB 210, HB 215, HB 1393, HB 1151, HB 1268, HB 142, HB 451, HB 124, HB 2, HB 2000, HB 2196, HB 213, HB 222, HB 645, HB 1458, HB 1022, HB 141, HB 502, HB 643, HB 3093, HB 1700, HB 117

Keywords: public education, teacher compensation, certification, funding, school finance, educator rights, education funding, charter schools, staff compensation, state aid, retention allotment, child grooming, sex offender registration, criminal justice, reportable conviction, law enforcement, virtual education, hybrid learning, school funding, average daily attendance

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• procedures and policies and laws. procedures and policies and laws. year-end<00:20:58.400> reporting
• <01:07:47.520> in uh which was a finding in our audits in uh which was a finding in our audits
• And quickly on the top of that auditing.
• This transfer has zero audit compliance.
• Add additional policies and procedure.

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

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• follow the procedural requirements. follow the procedural requirements.
• , because of the audit, because of the audit, right?
• procedure can come to there with their procedure can come to there with their proposal<02:21:21.520><
• what they think correct the procedural. what they think correct the procedural.
• PUC at that time ordered an audit. Yes. PUC at that time ordered an audit. Yes.

Keywords: 912, senate, all

Summary: The Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee held an informational briefing on the Public Utilities Commission’s performance-based regulation (PBR) framework and the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs’ whistleblower complaint process. Chair Jared Kohole opened the meeting, noted it was informational only with no public testimony, and explained that members would hear presentations and then have an opportunity for questions. The committee heard first from Ulupono Initiative, which provided background on why utilities are regulated, how Hawaii’s cost-of-service model and rate cases work, and why PBR was adopted to shift utility incentives away from a capital-investment bias and toward performance, efficiency, cost control, and policy goals such as renewable energy and reliability. Ulupono described Hawaii’s PBR structure as a five-year multi-year rate plan with annual revenue adjustments, a customer dividend, a Z factor for extraordinary exogenous events, and an exceptional project recovery mechanism for large projects. It also outlined performance incentive mechanisms tied to renewable portfolio standard progress, interconnection speed, reliability, and shared savings. The presentation said the current docket is evaluating a possible hybrid approach that would combine forward-looking forecasting with historical results, and Ulupono advocated for stronger incentives, arguing the current rewards are too small relative to utility revenues and should be more meaningful to better align utility behavior with legislative intent. The PUC then presented its own overview, emphasizing that the PBR docket is open and active and that the briefing was limited to the record to avoid ex parte concerns. The commission described the development of PBR in Hawaii through multiple phases beginning in 2018: an initial collaborative phase to set goals, a formal contested-case phase that produced the initial framework, later phases adding scorecards, reported metrics, and additional performance incentive mechanisms, and subsequent refinements including sunset of some mechanisms and adjustments after the August 2023 Maui wildfires. The PUC said the framework is intended to be customer-centric, administratively efficient, and protective of utility financial integrity, and that current work includes evaluating how to balance forward-looking and historical test-year approaches within the rebasing process. No votes or formal actions were taken at the briefing.

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• continuing on to the next page, allows the Comptroller General to conduct performance and financial audits
• . ...and financial audits for any non-state agency that receives grant and aid funds, and also allows
• Section 15 outlines procedures and reporting requirements related to the law enforcement grant funding
• Section 15 outlines procedures and reporting requirements related to the law enforcement grant funding
• The report shall include corrective actions, any governance changes, personnel actions, and audit plans

Summary: The Joint Finance Committee met to review and vote on the fiscal year 2027 Grants and Aid Act, which was expected to be pre-filed as Senate Bill 337. Members first reviewed Section 1, covering county seat payments, paramedic operations, senior center allocations, senior center transportation, and Homeland Security grants. They approved Section 1 after discussion of how senior center transportation is being moved from DART to grant-in-aid and how some organizations can appear in both the senior center formula and the general aging category. The committee then worked through Section 2, which included one-time appropriations and the various grant categories for aging, arts/historical/recreation, economic housing or labor services, family and youth services, health or disability services, and neighborhood and community services. Members discussed several specific items, including New Castle County reassessment-related funding, Friends of Cooch’s Bridge, Slaughter Neck Community Action Organization, Plastic-Free Delaware, Love, Inc. of the Delmarva, and the Southern Delaware Horse Retirement Association. One aging line for Slaughter Neck was reduced back to flat funding after members questioned a large increase, and the revised category total was adjusted accordingly. Each of the Section 2 subcategories was then adopted. Section 3, covering fire companies and public service ambulance companies, was approved with increases across apparatus, ambulance, rescue truck, aerial truck, rescue boat, substation, and insurance rebate equalization funding. Section 4, for veterans organizations and youth programs such as Boys State, Girls State, and Trooper Youth Week, was also adopted. The committee then approved the epilogue sections, which included eligibility, audit, payment, and reporting rules; special provisions for the Wilmington Senior Center contingency; conditions tied to several one-time appropriations; withholding funding from Merri-Dell Volunteer Fire Company pending a corrective report; and reprogramming $1,485,000 from a prior SMART food program appropriation toward SNAP/WIC-related food access initiatives. The meeting ended with remarks thanking staff and noting that it was likely the last JFC meeting for two members, followed by adjournment.

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• I think what that is, is one, it's a significant procedural obligation on the agency, but two, it gives
• My name is David Osman, and in my role at Gibson Consulting Group, I lead assessment audits in districts
• Our audits consistently show that students experience a large number of assessments.
• These audits show that teachers have great concern about these locally created assessments often more
• In one district that we audited, middle school students participated in about 29 different benchmark

Bills: SB8, SB 8

Keywords: education, accountability, public school assessment, state law, transparency, intervention, performance ratings, sex designation, restroom access, civil penalties, private civil right of action, women's privacy, 1185, senate, all

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• The AO has the authority to audit any entity that receives state funds, and we conduct all of our audits
• All of those audits were also included in our annual audit plan. either the plan for fiscal year 24 or
• There are two additional as a result of a writer a writer that were forensic audits a forensic audit
• Was that audit ever completed? No sir. What is the status of that audit? It's... It's still open.
• Because it's an open audit and any information associated with that audit is considered working papers

Keywords: 1184, house, all

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• AND DOES THE DEPARTMENT REQUIRE PACE ORGANIZATIONS TO AUDIT FINANCIALS OF THE DEPARTMENT?
• WE ALSO PROVIDE AND ENDODONTIC TO DOMINIC AND PERIODONTICS TREATMENTS AS WELL AS SURGICAL PROCEDURES.
• SOMETIMES AND HE IN ORDER TO HAVE A SIMPLE PROCEDURE DONE SO WE DON'T WANT OUR MEDICAID DOLLARS THEY
• AND X RAYS ARE LESS COSTLY THAN A SURGICAL PROCEDURES THAT SOME CLIENTS NEED.
• RATHER THAN MEDICAL PROCEDURES.

Keywords: 999, senate, all

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• firms that work with grain facilities and the high cost of obtaining reviewed and audited financial
• of obtaining reviewed and audited of obtaining reviewed and audited financial<01:09:58.800> statements
• You know, if you guys want to investigate why it cost so much to do these audits, there's a place to
• you are having um a review or an audit you are having um a review or an audit done<01:17:02.600>
• it cost so much to do these audits it cost so much to do these audits there's<01:19:31.120> a

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• It includes conducting internal audits and process checks to ensure that we're following those procedures
• It includes conducting internal audits and process checks to ensure that we're following those procedures
• It includes conducting internal audits and process checks to ensure that we're following those procedures
• It includes conducting internal audits and process checks to ensure that we're following those procedures
• internal Audits and process checks<01:44:42.599> to<01:44:42.800> ensure<01:44:43.199>

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• company we hired to do an equity audit company we hired to do an equity audit for<00:15:05.600><
• So what we have are these biennial audits, and they check for things like: is the data being destroyed
• Like, why are you getting all these strange audits? Yeah. Anyone else?
• to ensure and try to find that audits to ensure and try to find that balance<00:36:11.920> between
• is audit logs. the existence of audit is audit logs. the existence of audit logs<00:37:23.599>

Keywords: 1183, house

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• importance of maintaining procedures importance of maintaining procedures that<01:09:27.920>
• a<03:08:50.720> long-term The audit estimates that a long-term The audit estimates that
• It was mentioned that a safety audit was done. Has a traffic calming study been done?
• This road safety audit of February 2024—what was the scope of that study?
• um road safety audit of February 2024. um road safety audit of February 2024.

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• We've heard oblique or maybe even direct criticism of the audit and risk assessments.
• To protect industry innovation, the individual audit reports remain strictly confidential.
• searches on behalf of immigration agencies that were somehow missed by existing audits.
• SB 1013 addresses this by requiring audits by the California Department of Justice.
• The audit has revealed...

Summary: The committee heard several bills focused on artificial intelligence, child safety, mental health, and privacy. SB 574 by Senator Umberg would require transparency and human oversight when attorneys, judges, and court neutrals use AI; it drew support from privacy advocates and committee members, with no opposition. SB 1276, the End Child Exploitation Act, would update child sexual exploitation laws to cover live-streamed and AI-generated abuse material and clarify that viewing such content can be criminally punishable; prosecutors, child advocacy groups, and others supported it, while no one appeared in opposition despite opposition on file. SB 813 would create a California AI standards and safety commission and a voluntary two-tier certification framework for AI safety standards; supporters said it would create scalable, independent oversight, while TechNet and CalChamber opposed it as duplicative, under-defined, and likely to create a de facto mandate. The committee discussed market pressure, federal preemption concerns, and the role of voluntary standards, but no final vote was taken in the excerpt. Senator Padilla also presented SB 300, which would strengthen protections for minors from sexually explicit chatbot content by moving from a reasonableness standard to an affirmative duty to prevent such exposure and to prohibit facilitation. Supporters said new evidence showed greater risks and that companies can and should build stronger safeguards; opponents, including TechNet and CCIA, argued the bill was premature because SB 243 had only recently taken effect and warned it could create strict-liability-like exposure. Padilla then presented SB 903, which would bar AI chatbots from being advertised as therapists, require licensed clinician oversight and informed consent for AI use in psychotherapy, and protect patient confidentiality; it received broad support from mental health professionals and labor groups, while industry and health associations were opposed unless amended over triage and crisis-detection language. The committee members emphasized the need for human judgment in mental health care and noted ongoing negotiations on amendments. The committee also heard SB 1119, a companion to AB 2020, which would require annual risk assessments, crisis-response protocols, default child settings, parental controls, limits on data use, public incident reporting, and third-party audits for chatbots used by children. Supporters argued the bill would address documented harms and improve transparency, while industry groups objected to ambiguous standards, liability exposure, and the private right of action. A roll call vote was taken on SB 1119 after quorum was established; the motion to pass to Appropriations succeeded on a 5-1 vote, with one no vote and the measure left on call for absent members. Finally, SB 354, a privacy bill for insurance consumers, would modernize outdated insurance privacy rules, bar sale of personal information, and expand consumer rights to know, correct, and delete data. Supporters said it would implement Proposition 24’s privacy mandate, while a large coalition of insurers, agents, brokers, and related businesses opposed unless amended, mainly seeking a small-business exemption and narrower treatment of publicly available information; members and the author said negotiations were ongoing and the bill had already been substantially revised.

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• SB 1690, visually impaired voters, access procedures. June elections.
• SB 1694, charter schools meeting reporting audits.
• SB 1702, qualified schools audit reporting requirements.
• It's staff, technology, training, audits, and all of that takes money.
• It's staff, technology, training, audits, and all of that takes money.

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• <01:06:09.279> even accepted in a Recon procedure even accepted in a Recon procedure even
• So is it your desire to have both training and auditing as well as the penalties?
• This was the election procedure manual in 1989; this is the election procedure manual today.
• ago this was the election procedure ago this was the election procedure manual<01:23:18.280>
• 1989 this is the election procedure 1989 this is the election procedure manual<01:23:23.000>

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• He double dipped in the audit findings.
• Chair, I'm not on the J-LAC committee, but I do see a lot of those audits from the Auditor General.
• Well, that business... district, they have just absolutely clean audits year after year.
• We talk to the superintendents when they've been audited.
• And that was months before they were actually hit with all the audit stuff.

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• , customer service centers, and administrative fees, to establish procedures to dispute fees and charges
• and ensures that recoupments or repayments are based Provider audits and ensures that recoupments or
• and this bill seeks to strictly prohibit managed care organizations from using extrapolation in the audit
• Representative Egan: This bill prohibits the use of extrapolation in the audit of health care providers
• This bill is procedural in nature and cleans up what the special school district board is allowed to

Bills: HR188, HR189, HR190, HR191, HR179, HR180, HR181, HR182, HR183, HR185, HR186, HR187, HCR75, HCR76, HCR77, HCR78, HCR79, SCR24, SCR36, SCR39, SB64, SB107, SB152, SB185, SB217, SB232, SB278, SB290, SB294, SB320, SB321, SB419, SB424, SB436, SB440, SB468, SB470, SB476, SB482, SB489, HCR32, SCR11, HB12, HB42, HB205, HB222, HB267, HB324, HB325, HB350, HB478, HB610, HB617, HB679, HB745, HB749, HB797, HB807, HB821, HB896, HB979, HB992, HB1000, HB1024, HB1050, HB1166, HB1172, HB1173, HB1193, HB1207, HB1218, HB1223, SB256, SB180, HR1, HR17, HCR5, HCR4, HCR47, HB59, HB74, HB159, HB330, HB364, HB414, HB458, HB525, HB568, HB786, HB1008, HB1033, HB1034, HB1041, HB1062, HB1070, HB1079, HB1112, HB1118, HB1139, HB1151, HB1176, HB1182, HB1196, HB1214, HB1241, HB87, HB115, HB162, HB368, HB433, HB441, HB447, HB466, HB481, HB741, HB1242, HB362, HB893, HB990, HB1007, HB1153, HB1243, SB162, SB349, SB350, SB382, SB383, SB127, SB244, HB615, HB864, HB1103, HB1175, HB31, HB225, HB608, HB664, HB897, HB977, HB1003, HB1160, HB1180, HB911, HB306, HB366, HB1161, HB1230, HB181, HB901, HR20, HR74, HB284, HB393, HB459, HB577, HB582, HB605, HB614, HB682, HB733, HB772, HB773, HB996, HB1035, HB1058, HB1082, HB1113, HB1189, HB1234, HB1240

Keywords: hunting dogs, field trials, working dogs, dog training, greyhound protection, Farm Bill, federal overreach, sportsmen, sportswomen, wildlife management, conservation, rural communities, Louisiana hunting, hunting tradition, animal welfare, dog breeders, dog owners, outdoor recreation, Kathy Taylor, musical achievements

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• Uh, we're also moving to monthly audits of our bonds and share data.
• So once all of the cleanup work is done, we'll be making sure monthly we go through an audit to ensure
• Uh, I've also attached updated procedures, uh, which I'd like to, um, shout out Torrance Mendoza.
• Not the most popular of procedures in a project, but very important questions. Thank you.
• Other sections that we made some additions to were Section 3, policies and procedures were added.

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• And if they've repaid some of that, though, those receipts were not provided to audit.
• And the audit, of course, I'm sure y'all have seen, has said that that would not be sufficient.
• And the audit, of course, I'm sure y'all have seen, has said that that would not be sufficient.
• You need to make sure you document that in very detail for audit purposes. Okay.
• I know enough to get through the audit meetings, and that's about it.

Keywords: 1204, all

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• audit or consultant to look at operations. >> I think we can add an audit's an audit.
• I mean, if we're going to do an audit, you just hire an audit firm and you go audit.
• audit or consultant to look at operations. >> I think we can add an audit's an audit.
• I mean, if we're going to do an audit, you just hire an audit firm and you go audit.
• I mean, if we're going to do an audit, you just hire an audit firm and you go audit.

Keywords: 916, all