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• I use this program, which is an optional program. It's not an automated program. ...program.
• Yeah, there are other programs that we can use, but this program gets people into my ...
• 30 years to duplicate DPS.
• We have been researching and examining this program specifically for the past seven years.
• I represent 20-year-old guys who, 20 years ago, had sex with a girl who was 15.

Bills: HB1455, HB1777, HB2101, HB2136, HB2609, HB3142, HB3552, HB3846, HB4155, HB4514, HB4879, HB4995, HB5014, HB5139, HB5228, HB5436, HCR40

Keywords: mental health, jail diversion, law enforcement, reporting requirements, criminal justice, data collection, criminal justice reform, intellectual disability, mental illness, data reporting, public safety, reporting, substance abuse, sex offender, driver's license, identification, gunshot detection, unreported gunshots, municipal police, crime investigation

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• That was something that was done many, many years ago.
• I didn't even know I had a state senator 10 years ago.
• But we can learn from this.
• per student per program.
• I'm a third-year law student, and I'm Jewish.

Bills: SB2972, SB1909, SB2815, SB735, SB2233, SB800, SB1069, SB2683, SB2986, SB2058, SB2310, SB2055, SB1032

Keywords: expressive activities, freedom of speech, public forum, higher education, protests, student rights, antisemitism, public institutions, disciplinary policy, student organizations, compliance, institutional policy, disciplinary sanctions, diploma designation, institution merger, academic records, student options, Holocaust education, Holocaust Remembrance Week, genocide education

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• last five years.
• ago, 20 years ago, 10 years from now. doesn't need a bill, it just needs law enforcement to make sure
• I wanted to learn. how to defend my ideas and beliefs.
• I'm also a third-year law student. students at Texas Law.
• as the proposed pilot program.

Bills: SB2972, SB1909, SB2815, SB735, SB2233, SB800, SB1069, SB2683, SB2986, SB2058, SB2310, SB2055, SB1032

Keywords: expressive activities, freedom of speech, public forum, higher education, protests, student rights, antisemitism, public institutions, disciplinary policy, student organizations, compliance, institutional policy, disciplinary sanctions, diploma designation, institution merger, academic records, student options, Holocaust education, Holocaust Remembrance Week, genocide education

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• I know this is something that has been looked at for years and years.
• At 8.9%, it earns $440 million a year.
• That program... ...for about 20 years, but in just the past 10 years, multiple new fund managers have
• Dollars a year.
• In Schulenburg for 30 years, which we have sold.

Bills: HB 104, HB2054, HB3459, HB3745, HB4486, HB4488, HB4601, HB104

Keywords: Texas Future Fund, investment review board, economic stabilization, innovative technology, national defense, HB 2054, Texas volunteer fire department assistance fund, Rural Volunteer Fire Department Assistance Program, volunteer fire departments, wildfire mitigation, wildland fire, rural fire protection, insurer assessment, insurance premium tax, state appropriations, firefighting grants, emergency services, high-risk wildfire areas, Texas Comptroller, Texas Government Code

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• Um and we do not this fiscal year.
• Uh and I think for a number of years.
• And so procedurally what of this year.
• Um, this is a band-aid on a program.
• I believe our uh projected program.

Bills: HF3006, HF2130, HF1290

Keywords: Department of Corrections, DOC, corrections budget, supplemental appropriation, deficiency funding, public safety finance, incarceration, prerelease services, community supervision, postrelease services, supervised release, probation, reentry, reentry services, prison reform, body-worn cameras, corrections officer cameras, ARMER radio system, PREA, Prison Rape Elimination Act

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• every year and in uh this program every year and in uh 2023<00:32:56.519> we<00:32:56.639>
• This is funded through the Agri Grant Program, with a current base of $1 million per year.
• For many years, it's been called the pilot agricultural microloan program, but we've had this program
• program, but we've had this program around for several years and it's been quite successful, so we feel
• <01:15:45.080> requiring program change in recent years requiring program change in recent

Bills: HF2446, HF2878, HF2667, HF1795, HF2683, HF2916

Keywords: agriculture finance, broadband development, Department of Agriculture, Board of Animal Health, Agricultural Utilization Research Institute, Office of Broadband Development, food safety, food handler license, cottage food, home processed food, livestock dealer, meat packing company, milk marketer, milk marketing license, grain buyer, grain storage, beginning farmer, emerging farmer, farm down payment assistance, livestock investment grant

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• in fiscal years 2028-29 to enhance program integrity at DCYF.
• This leaves a base of $1 million per year for the program, which will allow the important work to continue
• Providers aren't going to get the money that they got in the first year of the program.
• Even though that program has about $80 million a year currently, I don't see it in this bill.
• This school year here at Listos, 14 of our 37 students receive early learning scholarships currently.

Bills: HF2436, HF470, HF2643, HF2456, HF102, HF1367

Keywords: child welfare, economic assistance, child care, grant program, video security cameras, early education, scholarships, funding, children, families, Minnesota education, child care licensing, family child care, child care center, Minnesota Department of Children, Youth, and Families, correction order, conditional license, fix-it ticket, documented technical assistance, license suspension

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• in fiscal years 28-29 to enhance program integrity at DCYF.
• in fiscal years 28-29 to enhance program integrity at DCYF.
• 2829 to enhance million in fiscal years 2829 to enhance program<00:03:21.840> integrity<00:03
• year for the<00:08:12.560> program<00:08:13.000> which<00:08:13.120> will<00:08
• scholarships, even though that program has about $80 million a year currently.

Bills: HF2436, HF470, HF2643, HF2456, HF102, HF1367

Keywords: child welfare, economic assistance, child care, grant program, video security cameras, early education, scholarships, funding, children, families, Minnesota education, child care licensing, family child care, child care center, Minnesota Department of Children, Youth, and Families, correction order, conditional license, fix-it ticket, documented technical assistance, license suspension

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• It's allowing them to then do an initial five-year term extension up to 10 years total.
• <00:02:17.680> term then do an initial five-year term then do an initial five-year term extension
• So in extension up to 10 years total.
• So I'll kind of run through those. this program is if the data is public or this program is if the data
• one-year sentence for the individual. one-year sentence for the individual.

Bills: HF1918, HF2305, HF897, HF2191, HF2617, HF2551, HF2137

Keywords: HF1918, Department of Children Youth and Families, DCYF, child welfare, foster care, out-of-home placement, permanency planning, relative search, noncustodial parent, kinship care, family preservation, African American Child and Family Well-Being, racial disproportionality, maltreatment reporting, educational neglect, truancy, school attendance, Great Start compensation, child care provider payments, TEACH early childhood program

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• the state like 25 years ago 30 years ago the state like 25 years ago 30 years ago but<00:36:31.359
• <00:52:28.520> chair bill this year year uh thank you chair bill this year year uh thank you
• programs.
• He's 10 years old. There are 10-year-olds that we are serving in this facility.
• is<01:32:21.080> more program however this program is more program however this program is

Bills: HF2148, HF2693, HF2542, HF1141, HF1770, HF1489, HF1709, HF244, HF1266, HF807, HF2619, HF1340

Keywords: affordable housing, local control, revolving loan fund, community partnerships, Minnesota housing policy, housing, locally controlled housing, Minnesota Housing Finance Agency, housing infrastructure bonds, state bonds, bonding bill, supportive housing, permanent supportive housing, homelessness, veterans housing, senior housing, manufactured home parks, community land trust, single-family housing, multifamily housing

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• As you've seen, there was $30 million allocated for this program, and last year $15 million was awarded
• And we'll see you next year.
• tax rebate program for a good.
• , the qualified hotel program, and then an add-on to that program, right?
• years.

Bills: SB209, SB529, SB1265, SB1592, SB1728, SCR37, SCR38

Keywords: SB 529, Texas Tax Code, municipality, hotel and convention center, hotel convention center project, tourism development, economic development, tax revenue pledge, revenue commitment, qualified project, municipal finance, local government, special district, hotel occupancy tax, nearby establishments, convention center financing, city population 130000, Section 351.155, Section 351.157, child care

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• If you did do a two-year, you weren't married to the two years.
• I think if we put in 100 years, you’d like that. But suppose we put in five years.
• So if you see that he threatened me twice in the last two years, what about the year before that?
• There's a program established under the IC MacGyver program that lends money to providers, the Justice
• Department, so that this five-year program gives child insurance and child benefit, not only to the

Bills: HB809, HB 1193, HB1916, HB2558, HB1973, HB2350, HB2399, HB2340, HB 116, HB330, HB2496, HB116

Keywords: digitized signature, waiver of citation, marriage dissolution, electronic notarization, family law, HB 1193, informal marriage, common-law marriage, declaration of informal marriage, confidentiality, privacy, county clerk, vital statistics unit, Family Code, Health and Safety Code, marriage records, public records, personally identifying information, PII, legal representative

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• I've learned, as no doubt you have, this problem is very complex.
• They learned another unimaginable. truth that they had to deal with.
• Care Waiver Program as an individual with IDD. Leroy Paz. July 30th 2018.
• And it's frustrating to run into this year after year, time after time.
• And we lived in the hospital for practically half a year.

Bills: HB451, HB645, HB 1041, HB 1151, HB 1155, HB1536, HCR12, HCR12

Keywords: commercial sexual exploitation, child sex trafficking, human trafficking, child welfare, foster care, DFPS, Department of Family and Protective Services, juvenile probation, risk assessment, needs assessment, trauma screening, child abuse prevention, exploitation screening, validated screening tool, evidence-informed tool, conservatorship, juvenile justice, at-risk youth, trafficking prevention, Child Sex Trafficking Prevention Unit

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• I've been coming to the legislature for 40 years. to testify for the rights of DeafBlind citizens of
• It's been 40 years, y'all.
• I have lived as a DeafBlind person for all of these years.
• At that time, I learned how to be involved in politics and government.

Bills: HB451, HB645, HB 1041, HB 1151, HB 1155, HB1536, HCR12, HCR12

Keywords: commercial sexual exploitation, child sex trafficking, human trafficking, child welfare, foster care, DFPS, Department of Family and Protective Services, juvenile probation, risk assessment, needs assessment, trauma screening, child abuse prevention, exploitation screening, validated screening tool, evidence-informed tool, conservatorship, juvenile justice, at-risk youth, trafficking prevention, Child Sex Trafficking Prevention Unit

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• In even number years, eight months out of the year elections are happening.
• A nearly six percentage point drop in turnout compared to four years ago.
• So this issue had come up in Bayer right after Labor Day weekend. of last year.
• How many years ago now? I don't even want to tell you.
• Several years ago there was a this is a an Alan Vera story.

Bills: SB108, SB318, SB507, SB511, SB533, SB1026, SB1386, SB1433, SB1434, SB1596

Keywords: elections, Election Code, poll workers, election clerks, presiding judge, alternate presiding judge, polling place, central counting station, county chair, political party, gubernatorial election, vote counting, election administration, Texas elections, precinct officials, ballot counting, county election officials, election integrity, election fraud, Attorney General

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• And thus for 89 years, we've had this ridiculous legal situation which a handgun is fine, a long gun
• If we do pass this bill and in the next two years, the ATF does remove those short-barreled rifles from
• Learn how to carry it. So, with that, if you have any questions about the bill, I do urge passage.
• Many years ago, during the Prohibition era, when they became a weapon of choice, frankly, for mobsters
• You'll recall that's the bill relating to the Compassionate Use Program.

Bills: SB108, SB318, SB507, SB511, SB533, SB1026, SB1386, SB1433, SB1434, SB1596

Keywords: elections, Election Code, poll workers, election clerks, presiding judge, alternate presiding judge, polling place, central counting station, county chair, political party, gubernatorial election, vote counting, election administration, Texas elections, precinct officials, ballot counting, county election officials, election integrity, election fraud, Attorney General

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• However, the short-barrel parts of it were left in, and thus for 89 years we've had this ridiculous legal
• If we do pass this bill and within the next two years the ATF does remove those short-barreled rifles
• Learn how to carry it. So with that, if you have any questions about the bill, I do urge passage.
• And there was a case that did bring this up many years ago. Again, in 1939, the U.S.
• And there was a case that did bring this up and many years ago, again 1939, the US Supreme Court heard

Bills: SB108, SB318, SB507, SB511, SB533, SB1026, SB1386, SB1433, SB1434, SB1596

Keywords: elections, Election Code, poll workers, election clerks, presiding judge, alternate presiding judge, polling place, central counting station, county chair, political party, gubernatorial election, vote counting, election administration, Texas elections, precinct officials, ballot counting, county election officials, election integrity, election fraud, Attorney General

Summary: The committee heard testimony on Senate Bill 1596, which would remove short-barreled rifles from the list of prohibited weapons in the Texas Penal Code. The author, Sen. Hagenbuch, said the bill would align state law with federal realities and argued that the current prohibition is arbitrary and unnecessary. Supporters, including representatives from Gun Owners of America and Texas Gun Rights, said the bill would reduce confusion, protect lawful gun owners, and preserve the ability to use shorter firearms for self-defense, hunting, and for smaller shooters. One supporter also described a recent case in which an AR pistol was mistaken for a short-barreled rifle and led to a state charge that was later dismissed. Public testimony was split. Supporters said stabilizing braces and shorter firearms can improve accuracy, safety, and accessibility for women, children, and smaller-statured shooters. Opponents, including Texas Gun Sense and two Santa Fe shooting survivors, argued that short-barreled firearms are more concealable and dangerous, and pointed to the 2018 Santa Fe High School shooting as evidence of the risks of easier access. They urged the committee to keep the existing restrictions in place to protect public safety. After public testimony closed, the committee took up pending business. Senate Bill 1505, relating to the Compassionate Use Program, was reported favorably to the full Senate on an 8-0 vote. Senate Bill 17, relating to the acquisition of real property by certain aliens or foreign entities, was first amended by adopting a committee substitute and then reported favorably to the full Senate by a 7-1 vote. The committee then recessed until after the Senate’s adjournment or final recess.

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• Our Veteran Stable Housing Initiative and other programs under the agency's veterans program division
• in Housing Initiative and other programs in Housing Initiative and other programs in the<00:01:24.040
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• program staff obvious that veterans program staff supporting<00:03:27.280> atrisk<00:03:27.799
• of Maxis access to Veterans programs of Maxis access to Veterans programs will<00:04:58.120>

Bills: HF1662, HF2115, HF2159, HF1095, HF2160

Keywords: veterans, veterans affairs, State Soldiers Assistance Program, Veterans Stable Housing Initiative, MAXIS, human services data, data sharing, eligibility verification, informed consent, private data, benefits coordination, veteran housing, veteran assistance, Department of Human Services, Children Youth and Families, state benefits, federal benefits, privacy, public assistance, human services

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• What we've learned is we need to do more.
• Killian mentioned, the evaluation program is very important. There's many other programs.
• to this grant for years to come.
• So, in 2017, under House Bill 21, we created the initial grant program. programs, but the intent of those
• As I've talked to my mom this year, I've learned that our school. only gets half of the basic funding

Bills: SB568, SCR5, SB57, SB1447, SB27, SB24

Keywords: special education, funding, individualized education program, visual impairments, accessibility, support services, state education code, SCR 5, Senate Concurrent Resolution 5, Texas School for the Deaf, TSD, Robert Rives, gymnasium naming, building naming, honorary resolution, commemorative resolution, deaf education, hard of hearing, Gallaudet University, alumni hall of fame

Bills: SB568, SCR5, SB57, SB1447, SB27, SB24

Keywords: special education, funding, individualized education program, visual impairments, accessibility, support services, state education code, SCR 5, Senate Concurrent Resolution 5, Texas School for the Deaf, TSD, Robert Rives, gymnasium naming, building naming, honorary resolution, commemorative resolution, deaf education, hard of hearing, Gallaudet University, alumni hall of fame