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• We have the maternal death studies that conducts studies giving money to, especially minority why mothers
• We have the maternal<00:03:43.200> death<00:03:43.519> studies<00:03:44.400> that
• ><00:03:44.879> conducts maternal death studies that conducts maternal death studies that conducts
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Keywords: 1183, house

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• And I know the bill was deferred in favor of a study last session.
• We can’t wait for a study, although that’s important.
• We can't wait for a study, although that's important.
• I underscore: studies were conducted.
• After several decades, we have completed that cancer study.

Keywords: 995, all

Summary: The hearing covered a broad set of environmental and water-related bills, with much of the testimony focused on blue economy and circular economy proposals, drought management, drinking water safety, flood resilience, and water infrastructure funding. Supporters of bills such as H. 987 and H. 988 described grant programs for blue economy workforce development, research, small businesses, and public education about a circular economy. Other speakers backed measures on coastal erosion research, recreational boating dredging, cranberry water-right transfers, sand mining oversight, and a voucher program for home water filtration in PFAS-impacted communities. Several elected officials and advocates also urged passage of bills to require private well testing, improve school drinking water safety, and address sand mining pollution and PFAS contamination. Water supply and drought issues drew extensive testimony. Senator Eldridge and others supported legislation to let the state, through DEP and the drought management task force, impose regional water-use restrictions during droughts and make the task force permanent in statute. Advocates from watershed groups, farms, and environmental organizations said the current town-by-town approach is inconsistent and ineffective, and they described drought impacts on rivers, farms, private wells, and wildfire risk. A related bill on private wells was supported as a way to help homeowners test and remediate contaminated wells, especially in rural areas without public water. The committee also heard testimony on a bill to allow the Lynnfield Water District to join the MWRA, with local officials saying the move would help address PFAS and other contamination and improve supply reliability. Another major panel supported a water infrastructure funding bill, arguing that aging drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater systems need major new investment, including support for PFAS treatment, sewer rate relief, biosolids research, and regional interconnections. Members asked about costs, funding sources, and the relationship to existing revolving loan funds; witnesses said the bill would need to be paired with future bond funding and new revenue ideas. No votes were taken during the hearing, and the chairs repeatedly invited written testimony and noted the large number of speakers.

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• Since 1997, as you've heard, there have been literally hundreds and hundreds of studies—188 studies in
• In 1997, as you've heard, there's been literally hundreds and hundreds of studies, or actually 188 studies
• This self-study process at a school, if done well, is collaborative.
• This self-study process at a school, if done well, is collaborative.
• This self-study process at a school, if done well, is collaborative.

Bills: SB 2

Keywords: 1185, senate, all

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• 1280, establishing a commission to study 1280, establishing a commission to study public<00:13:05.279
• > could legislative study commission could legislative study commission could address<00:14:42.560
• However, I study open enrollment.
• And um, you study this? Absolutely.
• We'll study it together.

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• certainly is a strategy for engaging our students in understanding the relevancy of their academic studies
• As I noted, the data for this study come from ERDC's integrated data system.
• They’re more likely to be employed and less likely to be enrolling in post-secondary studies.
• I don't have my finger immediately on what the studies are that have looked at this.
• I don't have my finger immediately on sort of what the studies are that have looked at this.

Summary: The House Education Committee received status updates on career and technical education (CTE), including OSPI’s work under 2024 legislation on allied health pathways and a statewide CTE task force, an update from Core Plus Maritime, and findings from an Education Northwest longitudinal study of Washington CTE access and outcomes. OSPI described development of allied health guidance such as a home care aide to nursing assistant bridge, model curricula, updated course equivalency frameworks, and coordination with health agencies and employers. It also reviewed Core Plus framework work, task force expansion under later legislation, and the timeline for recommendations due in November 2026. Committee members asked about health profession outreach, equitable access for rural districts, data updates, and employer support for local programs; OSPI said it continues to work with agency and industry partners and that local labor-market alignment varies by region. Core Plus Maritime presenters described expanding maritime career exploration into middle school through low-cost ROV curriculum, student visits to ferries and vessels, Sea Scouts partnerships, and ship-based safety and welding experiences. Industry representatives from the Northwest Marine Trade Association, American Seafoods, and Vigor Marine Group emphasized the maritime sector’s economic importance, aging workforce, and need for hands-on training to build the pipeline for family-wage jobs. A teacher from South Kitsap High School said the program gives students a clear pathway and has helped connect them to careers in shipyards, fishing, and related trades. Vigor also noted support for a student welding competition and equipment donations for a Rainier Beach shop. Dr. Sam Riggs of Education Northwest presented a longitudinal study using state data from 2013-14 through 2023-24. The study found CTE access has been relatively steady statewide, but offerings vary by school size, locale, and income, with rural and lower-income schools generally offering fewer pathways. Participation is high: nearly all students earn at least some CTE credit, and more students are accumulating multiple credits over time, though fewer go deep within a single pathway. Students who earned more CTE credits, especially within pathways such as agriculture, manufacturing, transportation, and construction, were more likely to graduate on time and later had stronger postsecondary certificate attainment and earnings. Riggs recommended addressing local barriers to participation, considering whether the CTE graduation requirement should better encourage depth while preserving flexibility, and aligning offerings more closely with labor-market needs. Committee members asked about COVID-era trends, student motivation, early workforce entry, delivery settings such as skill centers, and how to interpret the comparison groups used in the analysis.

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• In fact, when I got into college, I was the first person in my family who was sent to college to study
• And to attain that, that requires a system-level study.
• So precision agriculture is a science that studies spatial changes, and temporal changes that happen
• So last year I worked on a federal study that was asked by GAO, the Government Accountability Office
• So we're going to start with the ag competitiveness study.

Summary: The House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee held an interim work session focused on Washington agriculture’s viability, workforce, and competitiveness. Director Derek Sanderson of the Washington State Department of Agriculture and WSU Dean Raj Kosla described the size and diversity of the state’s farm sector, declining farm numbers, major export markets, and pressures from labor costs, low commodity prices, trade barriers, drought, regulatory burdens, and pests and disease. Kosla emphasized WSU’s land-grant role in education, research, and extension, including precision agriculture, broadband needs in rural areas, and the need for state support to help producers adopt new technologies and train the next generation of agricultural workers. Members asked about retaining farmland, increasing workforce capacity, and the role of precision agriculture. Kosla said precision agriculture can help address labor shortages and water scarcity, but adoption is limited by cost and rural broadband gaps. He explained precision agriculture as tailoring inputs to the right place, time, amount, and manner, and said WSU is working on low-cost sensor technologies and other innovations. Members also asked about how widely precision agriculture is used and whether it improves farm bottom lines; Kosla said adoption varies by tool and that he would follow up with more data. The committee then heard from Dr. Randy Fortenberry of WSU’s Impact Center on an agricultural competitiveness study and the effects of tariffs and trade. He reported that Washington’s competitiveness has generally declined relative to peer states in dairy, grapes, hops, apples, and wheat, with potatoes as the main bright spot. Surveyed producers said a substantial share of revenue is tied to regulatory compliance, with labor-related costs a major driver, and small diversified farms reported land access, capital, and profitability as bigger barriers than regulation. On trade, Fortenberry said Washington agriculture is highly export-dependent and vulnerable to retaliation, citing past losses in wheat, apples, pulses, and cherries when tariffs disrupted markets, while noting current uncertainty around China and India. The committee asked follow-up questions about compliance time, peer-state comparisons, and regulatory burdens; no votes were taken, and the department said it plans an interim report by the end of the year and a final report by June 2026.

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• off with HCR 43, requesting the Department of Transportation and Department of Law Enforcement to study
• off with HCR 43, requesting the Department of Transportation and Department of Law Enforcement to study
• Department of Law Enforcement to study Department of Law Enforcement to study the<00:47:00.400><
• Um, the recommendation is to pass this out as an HD1, adding language to specify that the study should
• and submit the subsequent report study and submit the subsequent report to<00:56:25.760> the<

Keywords: 910, house, all

Summary: The joint Transportation and Public Safety hearing considered HCR 121/HR 117, which asks federal and state transportation and defense agencies to coordinate on expanding Kle Pass as an emergency exit route. Testimony was overwhelmingly in support from state departments and community representatives, though one member raised equity concerns about other communities needing similar access solutions. Both committees recommended passage, and the resolutions were adopted in tandem. The Transportation Committee then heard a series of road safety and mobility resolutions. These included HCR 43 on studying highway patrol and speed cameras in speeding hotspots; HCR 52/HR 48 on a sidewalk between Iroquois Point and Ewa Beach; HCR 57/HR 53 on traffic calming around Piywa Street in Waipahu; HCR 112/HR 108 on a pedestrian-first policy; HCR 129/HR 125 on safety and congestion near Haiku Elementary; HCR 131/HR 127 on rural air service and short takeoff/landing aircraft; HCR 136/HR 130 on reflective gear for pedestrians at night; HCR 137/HR 131 on school crosswalk safety at Kipapa Elementary; HCR 177/HR 173 on a summer streets pilot; and HR 43 on an emergency access road on the YNI coast. Testimony was mixed but generally supportive of pedestrian and school safety measures, while some transportation and bicycling advocates opposed the reflective-gear resolution as placing too much responsibility on pedestrians rather than improving the built environment. During decision-making, the committee advanced all measures. HCR 43 was amended to specify the study should include district court impacts. HCR 131/HR 127 was amended to shift the rural air service study from the Legislative Reference Bureau to the Department of Transportation. HCR 136/HR 130 was amended to change the reflective-gear proposal from a requirement to an encouragement. HCR 137/HR 131 and HCR 45/HR 38 were also advanced with technical or clarifying amendments, and the remaining resolutions were passed as is. Several members noted reservations or no votes on the reflective-gear measure, but all recommendations were ultimately adopted and the committee adjourned.

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• means is not, not a single damn product that goes into the operating room ever had a human safety study
• Of making awareness and actually having the scientific studies showing what's actually in our food and
• No, they're safe because there have been numerous peer-review studies and scientific studies, not just
• We commend the Texas Nutrition Advisory Committee's charge to study the role that ultra-processed foods
• Including the study of macronutrients, micronutrients, therapeutic diets, advanced clinical nutrition

Bills: HB25, HB38

Keywords: ivermectin, pharmacist authority, prescription-free, healthcare regulation, patient access, interest rate, ad valorem taxes, homesteads, property tax, tax deferral

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• This takes that idea and will ask for a study the PCA to do a study and make some recommendations back
• And I I wonder if that should be study.
• <00:16:54.120> can study what I think the study can study what I think the study can accomplish
• I'm a professor of political science, legal studies, and environmental studies at Hamline University.
• I'm a professor of political science, legal studies, and environmental studies at Hamline University.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• She studied this quite Hernandez. She studied this quite extensively. extensively. extensively.
• in this study here. in this study here.
• this study. this study.
• that Stanford study. that Stanford study.
• In fact, a study uh their literacy.

Keywords: 916, all

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• It ensures stability and consistency of service for students with disabilities and provides for the study
• A study in 2025 discussed 23,000 occurrences per year.
• In December 2025, a white paper study conducted by Everetics examined reading growth using the Lexile
• What that study demonstrated was significant.
• Are there any anticipated costs to this study? Mr.

Bills: HB30, HB120, HJR1, SB210, SB306

Keywords: teacher residency, Teacher Residency Act, public schools, teacher preparation, educator pipeline, teacher recruitment, teacher retention, student teachers, apprenticeship, co-teaching, mentor teachers, residency stipend, teacher salary, level one teacher, charter schools, school districts, New Mexico education, teacher workforce, principal stipend, cohort model

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• It waters it down to a study by DOT. Okay, members, do we have any questions on the amendment?
• Just for clarity's sake, is it a strike-all that just creates a study of the issue itself?
• A study by DOT that'll review the emerging technologies in railway crossing safety.
• And we are in support of the study.
• In fact, I look forward to the study. I wish we were doing something right now.

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• Listen to the first reading of the bill. >> S. 325, an act relating to studying the creation of model
• <00:07:33.599> the >> S 325, an act relating to studying the >> S 325, an act
• relating to studying the creation<00:07:34.240> of<00:07:34.479> model<00:07:34.880>
• He completed a Master of Arts in East Asian studies at Yale University in 1993.
• masterers of arts in East Asian studies masterers of arts in East Asian studies at<00:12:32.320>

Keywords: 927, senate, all

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• I was part of the committee that worked on that task force to study it.
• My expert witness is Annie Armitage from... the Legislative Education Study Committee.
• Is that we need to study the issue.
• "Quote, unquote," study the effectiveness of this.
• Chair and Madam Chair, I think Have we done any studies?

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• Any more discussion on interim study? Any more discussion on interim study?
• >> interim study.
• Interim study. Yes.
• So the motion is interim study. Right. All those in favor of interim study.
• Uh all those in favor of interim study. study. study.

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• Heritage did a study that showed it makes no difference.
• It's a basic study resolution to look at illegal dumping. I'll take any questions.
• It's a basic study resolution to look at illegal dumping. I'll take any questions.
• That is, members, just whenever you do create these study resolutions, it often gets forgotten.
• I assume this study will bring out what the definition of excessive rate is.

Bills: HR118, HR196, HR237, HR285, HCR85, HB442, HB443, SCR5, SCR29, SCR33, SCR63, SB25, SB202, SB319

Keywords: water utility, tax credit, excessive rates, residential service, subcommittee, fallen trees, property damage, insurance, property values, hurricanes, storm damage, local government, homeowners, risk management, committee study, census, military population, Department of Defense, representation, federal funding

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• We also have another Phase 2 study and design.
• They're studying it, and it's based on our location studies procedures.
• We have some studies in progress right now on our RFP schedule.
• And then the other one is the operations improvement study for the big I.
• We launched a study to widen the road and add room for bikes and so forth.

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• The findings are consistent across many studies and populations.
• So there was a meta-analysis, a study of a lot of other studies. There have been so many studies.
• So there was a meta-analysis, a study of a lot of other studies.
• And the studies all agree that it doesn't.
• And I've studied the history of law. Virginia studied the history of law.

Summary: The committee met to approve prior minutes and then heard a presentation from Dr. Ramona Danielson on adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), focusing on the economic and public-system impacts in North Dakota. She explained that ACEs are a population-level measure, not a diagnostic tool for individuals, and said higher ACE exposure is consistently associated with more chronic illness, mental health challenges, child welfare involvement, justice-system contact, and reduced workforce participation. She emphasized that precise dollar estimates are difficult because of the many interacting factors across a person’s life course, but said the direction of the impact is clear and that evidence-based prevention and protective factors can reduce harm. Members asked about definitions of a “healthy family,” same-sex couples, divorce, substance abuse, historical trends in ACEs, and the role of positive childhood experiences and home visiting. The committee then heard from Allison Mahoney and Missy Barranco about evidence-based home visiting programs in North Dakota, including Healthy Families, Early Head Start, Nurse-Family Partnership, and Parents as Teachers. They described home visiting as voluntary, relationship-based, and tailored to family needs, with referrals coming from hospitals, WIC, human service zones, pregnancy navigators, self-referrals, and other community sources. A parent, Abby, shared that home visiting helped her family after premature births and NICU stays by providing support with postpartum mental health, breastfeeding, developmental screenings, referrals, and parenting guidance. The presenters said the programs are funded through a mix of federal MIECHV/Title IV-E dollars, Medicaid targeted case management, state and tribal funds, philanthropy, charitable gaming, and grants, and they noted that current funding is fragmented and insufficient to serve all eligible families statewide. Members discussed whether the state should expand or better fund these services and how to improve outreach and referrals. Later, the committee received a memorandum on artificial intelligence and sexual exploitation, followed by a presentation from a BCI special agent on how AI is already affecting child exploitation investigations in North Dakota. The memo and testimony described AI-generated child sexual abuse material, deepfakes, sextortion, and risks posed by chatbots, along with relevant federal and state law and recent executive orders. The agent said North Dakota saw 2,698 cyber tips in 2025, the highest on record, and that investigators are increasingly encountering AI-assisted exploitation that is harder to detect and verify. Members discussed the need for child-safety protections, the limits of executive orders, and broader concerns about AI undermining critical thinking and spreading misinformation. No votes were taken on the AI materials during the portion provided, and the committee recessed briefly after the report.

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• We'll do a comparison to previous studies.
• overview of the study and why we do it. overview of the study and why we do it.
• For those of you previous studies.
• > all<00:03:13.200> Minnesota Um, the study includes all Minnesota Um, the study includes
• So, it's a study of of this magnitude.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• The Association has studied it.
• So, it's not well studied, especially in the U.S. population, because it's been hard to study.
• It is a dated study.
• We've heard a lot of studies show, I've heard that a lot today. Well, who conducted those studies?
• The studies you referenced—because a big deal has been made—these are not peer-reviewed studies.

Bills: SB5, SB11, SB12, SB 5, SB 11, SB 12

Keywords: hemp regulation, consumable products, cannabinoids, occupational licenses, criminal offenses, SB 11, Texas attorney general, election crimes, election law enforcement, criminal prosecution, Election Code, Government Code Chapter 402, local prosecutors, county attorney, district attorney, grand jury, probable cause reports, state election offenses, voter fraud, election integrity