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• I can't teach you to be 6'5. I can't teach good customer service skills.
• I can't teach you to be 6'5.” I can't teach good customer service skills.
• I can't teach you to be and a layup.
• <02:37:27.520> teach<02:37:27.840> good<02:37:28.080> customer 6'5.
• I I can't teach good customer 6'5. I I can't teach good customer service<02:37:28.720> skills.

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• that teach at 600 hours or more of education that is in line with our national standards.
• massage teaching and educating massage therapists<00:32:43.960> that<00:32:44.240> teach
• at 600 hours or therapists that teach at 600 hours or more<00:32:46.320> of<00:32:46.440>
• Hmong American Heritage Week we teach.
• And every day when we teach our America.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• This is my 23rd year of teaching. teaching. teaching.
• I want to teach them to fish.
• We're talking about people who work in public education, people who we entrust our children to teach
• Um, as a person who is still in the classroom and [laughter] have had the privilege of teaching both
• Um, as a person who is still in the classroom and [laughter] have had the privilege of teaching both

Bills: HF3490, HF4040

Keywords: education finance, scholarship-granting organizations, charitable purposes, student scholarships, nonpublic schools, K-12 education, tax credit, advance payment, Minnesota tax law, child education expenses, taxpayer assistance, 1183, house

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• And you look at teaching, oh my gosh, of course you're not going to be a teacher because it's just way
• saying, but but I think with teaching saying, but but I think with teaching you<00:29:45.360>
• skilled trades healthcare and teaching skilled trades healthcare and teaching and<00:33:00.640><
• Every student has access to safe, modern, and healthy learning environments that support teaching and
• to any educator that's teaching in the schools<01:26:06.080> that<01:26:06.320> are<01

Bills: SB2901, SB2902, SB2903, SB2904, SB2905, SB2906, SB2907, SB2908, SB2909, SB2910, SB2911, SB2912, SB2913, SB2914, SB2915, SB2916, SB2917, SB2918, SB2919, SB2920, SB2921, SB2922, SB2923, SB2924, SB2925, SB2926, SB2927, SB2928, SB2929, SB2930, SB2931, SB2932, SB2933, SB2934, SB2935, SB2936, SB2937, SB2938, SB2939, SB2940, SB2941, SB2942, SB2943, SB2944, SB2945, SB2946, SB2947, SB2948, SB2949, SB2950, SB2951, SB2952, SB2953, SB2954, SB2955, SB2956, SB2957, SB2958, SB2959, SB2960, SB2961, SB2962, SB2963, SB2964, SB2965, SB2966, SB2967, SB2968, SB2969, SB2970, SB2971, SB2972, SB2973, SB2974, SB2975, SB2976, SB2977, SB2978, SB2979, SB2980, SB2981, SB2982, SB2983, SB2984, SB2985, SB2986, SB2987, SB2988, SB2989, SB2990, SB2991, SB2992, SB2993, SB2994, SB2995, SB2996, SB2997, SB2998, SB2999, SB3000

Keywords: geological subsurface characterization, groundwater, geothermal resources, environmental review, Hawaii groundwater and geothermal resources center, scientific research, non-extractive, public trust doctrine, clean energy, greenhouse gas, carbon sequestration, climate change, energy policy, Hawaii state energy office, emissions reduction, sustainable development, fare-free transportation, greenhouse gas emissions, public transit, tax on petroleum

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• In general, we have $180 million to achieve our land-grant mission, looking at research, teaching, and
• In general, we have $180 million to achieve our land-grant mission, looking at research, teaching, and
• In general, we have $180 million to achieve our land-grant mission, looking at research, teaching, and
• <00:58:25.280> at<00:58:25.480> eight faculty Physicians who teach at eight faculty
• Most of the instructors are high school teachers in the Twin Cities and Rochester area who teach the

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• our youth that they will carry teaches our youth that they will carry forward<00:45:43.960> into<
• the skills of the sport Beyond teaching the skills of the sport it<00:46:00.920> involves<00:
• <01:22:55.280> our<01:22:55.520> kids our lives and who thereby teach our kids our
• And for my grandmother, teaching me those lessons embedded in me that what it means to be sovereign,
• And for my grandmother, teaching me those lessons embedded in me that what it means to be sovereign,

Keywords: 1183, house

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• that are designed specifically by grade level for students K through 12, and they are designed to teach
• so yes Senator Apprentice thank teach so yes Senator Apprentice thank you<01:32:53.840> thank
• They're going to use it when they go into the workforce, and we remove the opportunity to teach them
• The issue is not for the kids to sit there with the cell phones, but the teachers is trying to teach,
• <01:41:37.880> them we remove the opportunity to teach them we remove the opportunity to teach

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

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• Maybe your mask gets knocked off; this teaches you how to replace your mask and clear it safely.
• Besides the medical part of it, it teaches you if you need to drop your weights in an emergency.
• Maybe your mask gets knocked off; this teaches you how to replace your mask and clear it safely.
• Besides the medical part of it, it teaches you if you need to drop your weights in an emergency.
• It teaches you how to replace your mask and clear it safely.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• Senator Putnam knows what pedagogy means, but for the rest of us, pedagogy is the study of how to teach
• the teaching license is obtained<00:57:44.280> in<00:57:44.440> order<00:57:44.680>
• There are many other hearing people who want to teach deaf and hard of hearing children too, but they
• There are many other hearing people who want to teach deaf and hard of hearing children too, but they
• Stephan heart people who want to teach Stephan heart of<01:01:51.319> hearing<01:01:51.640>

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

Summary: The committee met to hear a presentation from the Commissioner of Revenue on Governor Walz and Lieutenant Governor Flanagan’s tax proposal, with members told no public testimony would be taken because bill language was not yet available. The commissioner said the proposal would lower the statewide sales tax rate by 0.75 percentage points while expanding sales tax to selected professional services such as legal, brokerage, banking, and accounting, with several carve-outs. He emphasized that the plan would not add business-to-business sales taxes, arguing that taxing business inputs leads to tax pyramiding and higher hidden consumer costs. The commissioner said the rate cut would be the first sales tax rate cut in state history and estimated it at about $95 million annually, while the service expansions would raise about $203 million to $205 million annually, for a net increase of roughly $110 million per year. He said the proposal is part of the governor’s broader budget, which he described as addressing long-term structural deficits and funding other priorities such as an R&D credit, an expanded sustainable aviation fuel credit, fraud prevention, and service-member retention bonuses. He also said the carve-outs and exemptions would be reflected in the revenue estimate. Members questioned whether the proposal was truly a tax cut or instead a tax increase, and several asked for a revenue-neutral rate if all or more services were taxed. One member raised concerns about how pro bono legal work with a fee would be treated, and another asked about possible streamlining issues and whether fees are treated as taxes in statute. The commissioner said a fee would be taxable depending on the arrangement and that the department would review the language carefully once drafted. He also said the department would provide more detailed estimates later, including what the rate would be if the tax were made revenue neutral. No votes or formal actions were taken.

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• So nurses are going to many other occupations, teaching.
• Some may leave the bedside to go to teach, and if you leave the bedside to go to teach, yes, you're helping
• If you leave the bedside to go to teach, yes, you're helping the future generation.
• But the patients are still suffering because that experience that you have is you're teaching others,

Summary: The Senate Committee on Labor met with a quorum, adopted the June 4 minutes, and then took up Senate Bill 948, the Workplace Employees Boundaries Act (WEB Act), after adopting an S-1 substitute by a 4-1 vote. Senator Geis presented the bill as a Michigan “right to disconnect” measure that would generally bar employers from requiring employees to access or respond to work communications outside usual work hours, allow employees to set availability hours, prohibit retaliation, direct LEO to write rules, and provide complaint and enforcement procedures with exceptions for emergencies and existing collective bargaining agreements. In questioning, Senator Albert raised concerns about how the bill would apply in small businesses and practical situations like staffing calls, school notifications, and emergency-like circumstances; Geis said the bill was meant to protect non-work time while preserving emergency carve-outs and informational messages. NFIB’s Amanda Fisher opposed the bill, arguing it was too broad, difficult to define across industries and schedules, potentially duplicative of existing wage-and-hour law, and likely to create confusion and reduce flexibility, especially for small employers. The committee then shifted to testimony on health care workforce and labor disputes. Nurses from Teamsters Local 332 described a 291-day strike at Henry Ford/Genesis over safe staffing, return-to-work terms, and alleged union-busting, saying the hospital’s staffing levels and use of replacement workers threatened patient safety and could displace experienced specialty nurses. Michigan Nurses Association president Aaron McCormick and Marquette RN union president Christina Hanson said Michigan’s problem is not a shortage of licensed nurses but of nurses willing to stay in overworked, hostile workplaces; they cited retaliation, slow grievance/arbitration processes, hospital consolidation, rural OB closures, and unsafe staffing ratios as drivers of burnout and departures. They urged stronger protections and faster dispute resolution, especially given the limited effectiveness of the NLRB and delays in labor processes. Additional testimony came from UAW Local 4911’s Kim Wheeler, who said UMH Sparrow was outsourcing two low-paid support groups—patient transport/housekeeping and food and nutrition—despite their importance to hospital operations and despite a recently ratified contract, and asked for transparency and limits on corporate outsourcing. Don Hill of SEIU Health Care Michigan described chronic understaffing in nursing homes, mandatory overtime, burnout, retaliation fears, and the need for enforceable patient-to-staff ratios and stronger wage support; he also noted that home care workers are negotiating first contracts after restored bargaining rights. The committee took no vote on SB 948 beyond adopting the substitute, heard extensive testimony, and adjourned without further business.

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• Our traditions teach us.
• Our traditions teach us that remembering injustice is essential to preventing it from happening again
• From teaching you how to ride a bike to cheering you on from the sidelines at your favorite games, his
• By teaching you how to ride a bike to cheering you on from the sidelines at your favorite games, his
• Fathers teach us to stand up for what is right, to recognize what is wrong, and to face life's challenges

Keywords: 987, senate, all

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• In the shadow of the cross, teach us to seek justice and compassion, to speak truth with grace, and to
• In the shadow of the cross, teach us to seek justice and compassion, to speak truth with grace, and to
• give that flexibility for parents to be able to choose where and how and what they're going to be teaching
• tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, can be going to some backyard fly-by-night school that teaches
• perspective, this top-down approach discounts professional expertise, overlooks the realities of classroom teaching

Keywords: 1182, all

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• Nothing changes in statute for that very important group of children that do require us to teach them
• Nothing changes in statute for that very important group of children that do require us to teach them
• people, and we look forward to the work that we have started with the Office of Special Education to teach
• I'm an educational leader with 25 years of public school experience teaching math, supporting students
• I teach the courses needed to receive the gifted endorsement in our state.

Bills: SB64, SB19, SB44, SB83

Keywords: special education, office of special education, deputy secretary, public education department, IEP, individualized education program, students with disabilities, IDEA, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, dyslexia, dyslexia screening, structured literacy, reading intervention, multilayered system of supports, MTSS, student assistance team, free appropriate public education, FAPE, special education compliance, charter schools

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• These categories are safety, interpersonal relationships, teaching and learning, physical and social
• Every learning experience is connected, coherent, and designed with one purpose: to improve teaching
• She has six middle schools where they're teaching together, and it's all about scheduling.
• So they have managed to change their schedule so that they're teaching with other teachers.
• Let's look at the teachers that are teaching by themselves and change that.

Keywords: 996, all

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• And so we we actually teach leisure and Recreation's bill we have we're having to teach the students.
• You know, so the requirement law is we don't just hand this to the families were supposed to teach the
• So you know that like my boss said, you know, Chris, Teach all the transition lives in your head.
• of accessibility features are now offering mobile devices and a bleep or what we're not doing is teaching

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• Line 888 includes no-cost modifications to the Teach Scholarship Program, and line 890 includes technical
• This modifies the TEACH scholarship program, which is a scholarship program for the early care and education
• $10,000, the program will provide scholarships in amounts that are consistent with the national teaching
• Having well-educated, qualified, well-trained, emotionally healthy Trustworthy, supported teaching staff
• Paying my teachers less would have the exact opposite effect of what we need for our teaching staff in

Bills: HF2436

Keywords: child welfare, economic assistance, child care, grant program, video security cameras

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• They not only teach the kids, but they teach the families how to decompress, how to... ...hey, you don't
• And it teaches the parents how to parent, right?
• I have since moved into the role of social professor and have devoted my research and teaching to better
• We need to invest in rehabilitating and teaching young people. Thank you again.

Bills: HB1511, HB1831, HB1988, HB2147, HB2234

Keywords: housing, affordable housing, state regulations, zoning, local government authority, drug court, juvenile justice, diversion programs, rehabilitation, criminal justice reform, remote proceedings, depositions, virtual hearings, court technology, criminal responsibility, age of maturity, expungement, mental health services, juvenile record sealing, 1184

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• I TEACH DEFAMATION LAW. I OPPOSE 752 BECAUSE IT CALLS FOR AIRBRUSHING HISTORY.
• WE BRING THEM IN AND TEACH THEM SOFT SKILLS.
• THIS TEACHES PRIORITIZING IMMEDIATE FINANCIAL GAIN OVER LONG TERM EDUCATIONAL AND CAREER ASPIRATIONS
• DO WE TEACH IN SCHOOL?
• BETWEEN PARENTS AND TEENAGERS IN CONFLICT WITH FEDERAL LAW AND HINDERS THE DIGITAL LITERACY INSTEAD OF TEACHING

Keywords: 999, senate, all

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• in our high school diploma. programs, our teachers are all certified in the subject area that they teach
• Stayed a couple of months, a semester. and they leave when they don't know how to teach. is a profession
• the state of Texas to mandate in our code a higher standard for teacher certification for people who teach
• . illegal alien criminals than who teach American citizen students in our ISDs.
• Art Technology Training Grant, which is a re-entry initiative where we are teaching technology skills

Keywords: 1184, house, all

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• They would have teach-out plans.
• had not met the audit thresholds and targets, they would submit to the department a phase-out and a teach-out
• had not met the audit thresholds and targets, they would submit to the department a phase-out and a teach-out
• hard when you talk to an elementary school student who has only heard of firefighting, nursing, and teaching
• Electrical control troubleshooting learning systems teach troubleshooting skills and relay logic and

Summary: The Education Postsecondary Committee met to hear an overview of Florida career and technical education (CTE) from Chancellor Kevin O’Farrell and presentations from Big Bend Technical College and Santa Fe College. O’Farrell described Florida’s CTE structure, including career clusters, postsecondary program types, enrollment and completion growth, apprenticeship expansion, and the state’s credentials review process. He said postsecondary CTE enrollment is near 480,000 students and completions reached a record 76,806, with strong growth in nursing, law enforcement, EMT, and other public-safety credentials. He also discussed the CTE audit, which uses retention/success, employment or continued education, and labor-market demand metrics; programs not meeting thresholds would eventually require phase-out plans beginning in 2026. He highlighted the workforce development capitalization grant as a major driver of program expansion and facility renovation, and answered questions about business outreach, construction trades, apprenticeships, and space-industry training. Shelby McCall of Big Bend Technical College described how the college responded to hurricanes, mill closures, and regional economic disruption by expanding rural workforce training. She highlighted aluminum welding, millwright, welding technology, health sciences, and a new advanced manufacturing facility funded by state grants and local partnerships, along with a new LPN-to-RN bridge program. She said the college has strong placement and certification results and is working with employers such as Lippert, NAMO, and others to align training with local demand. Senator Simon praised the college’s role in Taylor County’s recovery and workforce development. Dr. Paul Brody of Santa Fe College said state workforce grants have helped the college expand nursing, skilled trades, apprenticeship, automotive, diesel, and manufacturing programs, including partnerships with Bradford County Technical College, UF Health, Habitat for Humanity, and local employers. He reported growth in CTE enrollment, nursing credentials, apprenticeship enrollment, and job placement rates, and described new efforts in semiconductor training, CDL training, and a charter school model that combines high school, an AS degree, and industry credentials. The committee took no formal action beyond hearing the presentations and adjourned after Senator Berman moved to adjourn.