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• And the group is going to be bringing their first preliminary findings, and we'll move on from there.
• , as well as targeted discussions and one-on-one conversations with committee leadership and small-group
• focus groups.
• focus groups.
• as part of those focus groups.

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Summary: The Legislative Procedure and Arrangements Committee met with a quorum, approved the previous meeting minutes, and heard an update from Garty Consulting on the interim study of legislative term limits. The consultants outlined their research plan and preliminary themes, including loss of institutional knowledge, shifts in power toward executive agencies and lobbyists, reduced long-term policy capacity, faster leadership turnover, and recruitment/support challenges. They also described possible recommendation categories ranging from constitutional and statutory changes to procedural and cultural adjustments. Committee members asked about how other states repealed term limits, how the public survey would address perceptions of term limits, and how stakeholder focus groups would be selected. The committee also heard a presentation from NCSL on term limits in other states, including examples from Nevada, Montana, and Colorado, with discussion of training programs, staffing changes, annual-session debates, bill limits, and impacts on decorum and leadership continuity. Several members requested follow-up data on part-time versus full-time legislatures, taxpayer costs, and nonpartisan staff devoted to oversight. The committee then considered revisions to the legislature’s workplace harassment policy and related forms. Legislative Council explained changes that clarified the definition of harassment, added captions for readability, extended several deadlines, allowed informal resolution before a review panel is appointed, clarified the role of Legislative Council in intake and documentation, and updated confidentiality/open-records language. Members, especially Senator Hogan, said the revisions better formalize the role of counsel and provide a less intimidating path for resolving complaints. The committee adopted the revised policy and forms by roll call vote. Finally, the committee approved a motion to enter executive session at 1:00 p.m. to review the results of a capital threat assessment and discuss legislator security, citing the applicable open-meetings exemptions. Members were instructed to limit discussion to the stated purpose and not take final action until returning to open session.

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• They had him in a group home. He ran away from the group home.
• You know, we've talked about this work group, but I want to be clear.
• Thomas, and everyone else that was involved with your work group.
• Coffey: I don't think that's the intent of our group, no sir.
• Anything from something minor to something serious.

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• . >> Ranking Minority Member Willner, here. >> Chair Moser. >> I am here. Okay, we have a quorum.
• > >> Ranking minority member Wilner >> Ranking minority member Wilner >> here.
• One key area the group looked at is in regards to the guardian ad litem.
• Uh one key area the group legislation.
• c> >> Ranking Minority Member Wilner, >> Ranking Minority Member Wilner, >> yes.

Keywords: 00:00:06 - Call to Order/Roll Call 00:01:23 - Review of Referred Administrative Regulations 00:02:00 - Discussion of 26RS HB 485 01:00:40 - Roll Call Vote on 26RS HB 485 01:03:25 - Adjournment, 958, all

Summary: The House Standing Committee on Health Services met with a quorum and took up House Bill 485, a major mental health measure addressing both KRS 202C and KRS 202A. The committee first adopted a committee substitute and then approved a committee amendment correcting misspellings in the bill. Members and witnesses described the bill as the product of years of work with judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, mental health professionals, advocates, and the Kentucky Judicial Commission on Mental Health. Testimony on the 202C portion focused on individuals charged with serious violent offenses who are found incompetent to stand trial. Witnesses, including a circuit judge and a family member whose mother was killed by her mentally ill brother, argued that current timelines require repeated evidentiary hearings and impose unnecessary trauma on victims’ families and strain on courts and KCPC. Supporters said the bill would lengthen review intervals, clarify the role and payment of guardians ad litem, and reduce repeated relitigation while preserving due process and public safety. They noted that 202C cases are few in number but consume a significant share of KCPC bed space. The committee then turned to the 202A portion, which covers civil mental health commitments for people who may not have committed a crime. Supporters said current law leaves courts with only two choices—hospitalization or release—and that the bill would create a third option by allowing court-ordered outpatient treatment and other guardrails such as medication compliance and follow-up care. Witnesses emphasized that the bill defines terms such as “benefit” and “serious mental illness,” expands the definition of danger, and aims to provide a least restrictive alternative to inpatient hospitalization. No final vote on the bill itself was taken during the portion of the meeting provided, but the substitute and amendment were adopted and testimony continued in support of the measure.

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• recess it so that our uh, minority recess it so that our uh, minority component<00:23:28.480>
• responsible for the minority report. responsible for the minority report.
• Ward, you'll be responsible for minority Ward, you'll be responsible for minority report.<00:57:
• be responsible for the minority report? be responsible for the minority report?
• We will forward to your minority report.

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• Director of the Sierra Club's Rio Grande Chapter, and we concur with all of the reasons that other groups
• Of just a few groups in New Mexico to one that is definitely more representative of the diverse people
• an appointment, the Minority Leader in the House gets an appointment.
• I started this work in 2021 with a year-long working group of eight other legislators, but I knew.
• Madam Chair and Senator, you look at the legislature now, predominantly female, predominantly minority

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• It's the trade group for real estate appraisers of Texas. I'm in support of the bill.
• This is just solely among those members who choose to participate in that group.
• I represent Texans for Texas Hold'em, the largest nonprofit advocacy group for protecting Texas's most
• Focus on penalty Group One drugs like fentanyl, cocaine, heroin, and meth.
• Children, there will be a heightened exposure that minors could have.

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• Many survivors are disproportionately racial and ethnic minorities, indigenous population, women and
• California, we are committed to partnering with and learning. from survivors and the many advocacy groups
• should probably pass a resolution calling on the Trump administration to allow for DNA testing of minors
• States, somebody who was being investigated for sex trafficking of minors.
• the United States, Donald Trump chose somebody who was being investigated for sex trafficking of minors

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• In '25, stakeholder groups got together, In '25, stakeholder groups got together.
• Minority Leader. Minority Leader.
• I'm in the minority.
• Minority<01:45:09.600> Leader. Minority Leader. Minority Leader.
• Minority Leader. >> Further discussion, Mr. Minority Leader.

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• The second is just a minor thing.
• The second is just a<00:04:49.040> minor<00:04:49.440> thing.
• Um it's changing uh a minor thing.
• The Senate has, in its proposal, struck this language so that there would be no study group.
• The Senate has, in its proposal, struck this language so that there would be no study group.

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Summary: The House took up several Senate amendments and concurred in them after brief explanations from committee members. On House Bill 841, relating to miscellaneous animal welfare procedures, the House suspended rules, heard that the Senate had removed or revised several provisions — including a certified rabies vaccinator program, a fixed limit on breeding dogs, rescue-organization data reporting, and some advertising language — and then concurred 9-0-2 in committee and by voice vote. On House Bill 938, establishing the Vermont homelessness response continuum, members reviewed Senate changes clarifying funding eligibility, municipal grant applications, emergency assistance timing, fair-hearing procedures, rulemaking timelines, a unified housing voucher framework, and a shift of $500,000 from emergency hotel/motel spending to a Burlington day shelter; the House concurred after a question about the fiscal note was answered by noting the amount matched the governor’s budget and existing appropriations. The House also concurred in the Senate amendment to House Bill 941, which would have created a study committee on municipal regulation of agriculture, but the Senate struck that study-group language; the House committee supported concurrence 7-0-1, saying the underlying bill should move forward even without the study group. The House then considered House Bill 957, approving amendments to the Williston charter. The committee explained that the town had voted to eliminate the office of listers and replace it with contracted professionally qualified assessors, with transitional language ending lister terms after passage or upon hiring an assessor; the committee recommended passage 9-0-2, the House ordered third reading, suspended rules to place the bill in all remaining stages, passed it, and voted to message it to the Senate forthwith. At the end of the session, the House noted two additional committee reports: Senate Bill 64 on optometrists was referred to Ways and Means, and Senate Bill 313 on career technical education was referred to Appropriations. The House then adjourned until May 22, 2026, at 10 a.m.

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• I am honored today to recognize a group.
• Representative Stark and I are honored today to recognize a group of outstanding young leaders from the
• So, we're adding them to a group that can approve the curriculum.
• This just modifies the statute dealing with communications with minors in schools. Yield.
• other minors, I think it negates the the.

Bills: HB4104, HB3722, HB3787, HB3700, HB3701, HB3310, HB3404, HB2964, HB2398, HB3024, HB3499, HB3278, HB3279, HB3645, HB3649, HB2293, HB3260, HB3176, HB3177, HB3114, HB3172, HB3322, HB3323, HB4248, HB3720, HB2210, HB1322, HB1937, HB3301, HB4107

Keywords: Oklahoma criminal law, felony classification, Class B5, Class D1, sentencing enhancement, repeat offender, domestic violence, stalking, voyeurism, peeping tom, clandestine recording, hidden camera, privacy offense, sex offender registry, Sex Offenders Registration Act, protective order violation, animal cruelty, cockfighting, dogfighting, public safety

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• Just a reminder that that consent calendar has been something that has been shared with the minority
• uh, have also been the executive, I've been, I am the executive director of the Southwestern Power Group
• Um, uh, Rita's, uh, incentives are, are helping developers like Southwestern Power Group and others,
• quite a bit, a bit of time, uh, and will probably hopefully work very closely with the, uh, finance group
• We want to thank the sponsor for coordinating a large stakeholder group in that we've worked on this

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• This bill only applies to minors.
• This bill only applies to minors.
• It simply ensures they are not sold to minors.
• Bill Barcelona with America's Physicians Group.
• We certainly look forward to working through any minor refinements.

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• Murphys comprise a very small minority and an important part of the conservatorships.
• People in both of these groups are disproportionately likely to be people of color.
• And this is not a minor property crime.
• We already criminalize copper theft by an individual or a group.
• We already criminalize copper theft by an individual or a group.

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• We are not opposed to expanding the group of protected folks in this bill.
• "We are not opposed to expanding the group of protected folks in this bill.
• We are not opposed to expanding the group of protected folks in this bill.
• "We are not opposed to expanding the group of protected folks in this bill.
• misdemeanor, is to deal with minor misdemeanor, is to deal with minor criminal<01:33:57.920>

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Summary: The Judiciary Committee heard testimony on Senate Bill 2246, which would expand public financial disclosure requirements. The State Ethics Commission strongly supported the bill, saying broader disclosure could help restore public trust and potentially deter corruption, and it offered a clarifying amendment to make clear the requirement applies to board and commission members rather than all employees of listed agencies. Several organizations and individuals also testified in support. A committee member asked about the amendment, and the commission explained it was intended as a clarification rather than a substantive change. The committee then took up Senate Bill 2250, which would add homeless facilities to the locations covered by the drug-free-zone offense for promoting controlled substances. The Public Defender opposed the measure, arguing that many homeless facilities are unmarked and not easily identifiable, creating notice, fairness, and due process concerns and risking arbitrary enforcement. The Honolulu Prosecutor’s Office and Honolulu Police Department supported the bill, saying it targets distributors rather than users, that notice can be proven through evidence, and that the law is aimed at protecting vulnerable people in shelters and similar facilities. In questioning, senators asked how homeless facilities would be identified and whether the bill would cover all shelter models; the prosecutor said the definition is cross-referenced in statute and must be proven beyond a reasonable doubt. The Drug Policy Forum of Hawaii and other groups testified in opposition, while several service and advocacy groups testified in support. Finally, the committee heard Senate Bill 2325, which would allow courts to review and potentially reduce sentences for certain juvenile offenders after 15 years if the person is not a danger to the community. Judiciary staff said the court supports the bill’s intent but noted Hawaii’s indeterminate sentencing structure leaves no alternative sentence for a court to reduce to, suggesting the measure may need structural sentencing changes or could instead be directed to the Hawaii Paroling Authority. Public defender representatives and youth-justice advocates supported the bill, emphasizing rehabilitation, adolescent brain development, trauma, and the need for a meaningful opportunity for release. No votes or final committee actions were taken during the portion of the hearing provided.

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• leaders and minority whip is limited to five minutes.
• whip minority leaders and minority whip minority leaders and minority whip limited<00:05:56.960>
• and minority staff. Mr. Harris and Mr. and minority staff. Mr. Harris and Mr.
• His crimes were lewd or lascivious acts with a minor and sexual assault.
• <04:51:49.120> and or lascivious acts with a minor and or lascivious acts with a minor and

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Thursday, June 4, 2026, 1012, house, all

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• After high school, I plan to major in politics at Ithaca College with a minor in economics.
• In the future, I plan to attend the University of Oklahoma to major in journalism and minor in political
• for Warren Hamilton, and I plan to attend Oklahoma State University with a major in finance and a minor
• Members, it is my honor to introduce to you today a group of students from Deer Creek Academy, one of
• Minority Leader Kirt, you're recognized for a question on Senate Bill 1633.

Bills: HB1427, SB1403, SB1448, SB1489, SB1546, SB1557, SB1614, SB1377, SB1990, SB1439, SB1630, SB1632, SB1696, SB1796, SB1824, SB1362, SB1849, SB2066, SB2071, SB2104, SB933, SB1633, SB1224, SB1246, SB1280, SB1303, SB1346

Keywords: tax credit, clean-burning fuel, hydrogen fuel cells, compressed natural gas, liquefied petroleum gas, environmental impact, vehicle modification, renewable energy, job incentives, tax rebates, Oklahoma Quality Jobs Program, employment growth, wage requirements, Oklahoma Consumer Protection Act, consumer protection, unfair trade practices, deceptive practices, exemptions, statutory exemptions, Corporation Commission

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• We have Christian Minor with Florida Juvenile Justice Association, waiving and support.
• So when I first heard about this bill, the provision that really shocked me was that a minor child can
• This is a difficult question to ask, but did you contemplate that that minor child's parent might be
• Anxiety over seeking medical care and talking with their parents about sex and STIs will keep minors
• Next up, we'll have HB 677, State Group Insurance Program coverage of standard fertility preservation

Summary: The committee took up a large health and human services agenda and first approved HB 711, the Spectrum Alert bill, which would create a statewide alert system for missing autistic children and require FDLE to coordinate training with state and local agencies. The measure drew a supportive waiver from the Florida Smart Justice Alliance and passed unanimously, 24-0, reported favorably. Members then considered CS for HB 229 on health facilities, which modernizes the Health Facilities Authority Act to allow additional nonprofit health system structures to use tax-exempt financing. Two amendments were adopted: one requiring advance notice, public hearings, and stakeholder notifications before a nonprofit hospital closure, and another removing a property tax exemption for a nonprofit hospital that closes and fails to maintain emergency services for 120 days, applied retroactively to January 1, 2025. The Florida Hospital Association opposed the amendments, citing workforce and nonprofit-status concerns, but the bill as amended passed 24-0. The committee also approved CS for HB 1405 on juvenile justice status offenders, expanding early truancy intervention, parent involvement, and shelter placement review timelines; it passed 24-0. CS for HB 27, joining the Social Work Licensure Interstate Compact, and its linked public records bill CS for HB 29 both passed unanimously after supportive testimony from several advocacy and business groups. The committee then debated HB 111 on out-of-network referrals and HB 1083 on patient access to records. HB 111 would require referring practitioners to inform patients in writing when a referral is out of network and to apply out-of-network payments to deductibles; it drew opposition from medical groups over administrative burden and patient-care concerns, but passed 17-8. HB 1083 would shorten the time for producing medical records to 14 working days and standardize access rules, with amendments clarifying portal access and delaying the effective date to January 1, 2026; despite opposition from some health information and provider groups over HIPAA and access concerns, it passed 19-7 as amended. Later, the committee approved HB 883, allowing autonomous practice for psychiatric nurse practitioners with the required credentials, after strong support from nurse practitioner groups and opposition from psychiatric and medical associations; it passed 23-3. HB 1297, which aligns Florida’s electronic prescribing exceptions with federal law and removes several state exemptions, passed 19-7 despite opposition from hospice, emergency physician, rheumatology, and medical groups concerned about paper prescriptions in emergencies and hard-to-find medications. HB 1353 on home health care services and CS for HB 989 on foster home licensure transfers both passed unanimously after supportive amendments. The committee also heard HB 1505 on parental rights, which would require written parental consent for many health care services, surveys, and biofeedback devices for minors and expand parental access to records; the bill drew extensive support testimony but also questions and concerns about confidentiality, abuse reporting, and existing exceptions, and the transcript ended before a final vote on that bill.

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• Representatives from Minority Veterans of America, Jewish War Veterans, the National Association of County
• I didn't do that when you were chair, and I don't appreciate it in front of this group, you doing it
• They're the fastest growing group. veterans in the VA system.
• Minority veterans, those who are black, indigenous, veterans of color, women, LGBTQIA, religious minorities
• Group 2 establishments.

Keywords: veteran services, homelessness, unemployment, VA funding, mental health, congressional oversight, testimonies, American Legion, Dole Act, suicide prevention

Summary: This meeting focused on veteran services, emphasizing the urgent need to address the alarming rate of unemployment and homelessness among veterans. Numerous testimonies were presented detailing the impact of mass furloughs and cutbacks at the VA on personnel, notably veterans who were serving as employees. Various representatives expressed deep concern over how these firings could drastically affect the quality of care available to those who have served the nation. There was a strong call for Congress to bolster funding for existing programs aimed at alleviating veteran homelessness and improving overall care quality, especially in mental health services.

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• group this has been exposed to, please. group this has been exposed to, please.
• um, conviction that and it was a minor um, conviction that and it was a minor conviction,<02:00:
• generalized consortium group of books. generalized consortium group of books.
• <02:27:29.680> to remove laws that do not allow minors to remove laws that do not allow minors
• <02:31:48.160> for for parents and students minors for for parents and students minors for

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Summary: The committee first heard Senate Bill 102, which would make informational materials about type 1 diabetes available on the Department of Education website. Senator Ward said the bill is intended to help parents, teachers, and school staff recognize early symptoms such as thirst, frequent urination, fatigue, and weight loss so children can be referred for care before they develop diabetic ketoacidosis. He noted that a newer blood test can identify some children at risk earlier than in the past. Members asked how people would be directed to the website, and Ward said the information would be posted online and also distributed in handouts, with school personnel helping spread awareness. He emphasized the bill is informational only and not a diagnostic or treatment tool. Several supporters testified in favor, including representatives from the Dartmouth Diabetes Link and students with type 1 diabetes who described delayed diagnoses, emergency hospitalizations, and the difficulty of having symptoms misunderstood as stress, athletics, or normal teenage changes. They said the bill could help parents, teachers, and peers recognize warning signs earlier and reduce the risk of life-threatening ketoacidosis. One witness noted that New Hampshire ranks high in childhood type 1 diabetes, and another said even a single person seeing the information could make a difference. A retired diabetes educator and state representative also testified in support. The hearing on SB 102 was then closed. The committee then opened the hearing on Senate Bill 211, which would require school sports teams to be designated as male, female, or co-ed, bar biological males from female-designated teams and locker rooms, and create a cause of action for violations. Senator Avard said the bill responds to constituent concerns and is meant to protect fairness, safety, and privacy for biological females. In questioning, he said girls could still play on boys’ teams, but boys could not play on girls’ teams, and he said he would be open to changes. Opponents, including an attorney from LGBTQ Legal Advocates and Defenders, argued the bill is substantially the same as a law passed the previous year that was already challenged in federal court and found likely unconstitutional under equal protection and Title IX; they urged the committee to mark it inexpedient to legislate. The transcript cuts off before any committee vote or further action on SB 211.

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• Um those symptoms groups of symptoms.
• . groups. groups.
• Again, in small groups strategies.
• <00:43:23.000> size, perhaps we decrease a group size, perhaps we decrease a group size, perhaps
• Tocqueville said Americans have a group Tocqueville said Americans have a group for<01:46:08.920

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