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• <01:06:33.000> decisions<01:06:33.400> that that you can use to track decisions that
• that you can use to track decisions that this<01:06:33.760> committee<01:06:34.240> makes<
• I was just trying to track the money as we were going, but it looks like we've crossed over the level
• track we're not supplementing<03:46:33.399> anything<03:46:33.760> yet<03:46:34.040>
• I think it's a question of what's the best location, how can we get the best bang for the buck, Mr.

Keywords: 928, house, all

Summary: The committee held a public hearing and work session on House Bill 25A, the capital improvements appropriations bill, which Representative David Mills said was based on Governor Ayotte’s budget and included appropriations for capital improvements and extensions of prior appropriation lapses. The hearing drew testimony on several requested additions to the bill, with the chair noting the unusually large turnout and moving quickly through speakers. No questions were taken on the initial bill presentation, and the public hearing on HB 25A was later closed. The Community College System of New Hampshire asked for an additional $2.6 million, including $800,000 for IT infrastructure, $1.3 million for critical maintenance, and $500,000 for energy management systems. The witness said the money would address cybersecurity and online learning needs, replace failing boilers and a roof at several campuses, and prevent costly damage such as frozen pipes. The New Hampshire Veterans Home requested $1.5 million for ADA compliance and safety improvements, including floor replacement and wider doors, citing an upcoming VA inspection and the importance of preserving federal funding. Testimony also focused on career and technical education and airport funding. Milford CTE sought to keep $9.9 million in the budget for renovations after a local vote fell short, explaining the project had been scaled down from an earlier $60 million concept and that the school board wanted another chance to seek voter approval. On aviation, Concord, the New Hampshire Municipal Association, and Department of Transportation representatives urged restoring state matching funds for FAA airport grants, saying roughly $3.6 million in state money would leverage about $62 million to $65 million in federal funds for safety and infrastructure projects at public airports. Committee members asked about project selection, matching requirements, and the airport priority process, and witnesses said the program is driven by FAA-approved capital improvement plans and safety needs rather than business-return rankings.

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• All right, just talking about other locations, and I'll whip through some of these, but Valley City,
• Be on the second floor of Health Center West, where our nursing programs are located right now.
• With regards to graduates, do you track how many of your students are filling jobs in market?
• With regards to graduates, do you track how many of your students are filling jobs in market?
• Then we will do internal tracking to verify that outcomes are similar, regardless of whether you went

Summary: The committee met at Dakota College at Bottineau, approved the January 15, 2026 minutes, and heard an extensive campus update from Dean Corey Gorder and other DCB leaders. Gorder described the college’s affiliation with Minot State and its growing use of shared services, including business office functions, HR, institutional research, Title IX, printing, financial aid support through UND, and payroll support through NDSU. He said the arrangement lets DCB focus on its core mission while relying on system partners for specialized administrative work, and noted that accreditation concerns were not believed to limit those shared-service arrangements. He also highlighted DCB’s mission, enrollment growth, dual-credit reach across rural schools, and the college’s emphasis on nursing, dental, paramedic, farm management, and other workforce-oriented programs. Committee members asked detailed questions about dual credit, program delivery, and whether DCB’s partnerships were exclusive. Gorder said the relationships are generally collaborative rather than exclusive, that schools can choose other providers, and that many partnerships began through personal outreach and ongoing relationships with rural schools. Lisa Johnson of the university system added that transfer complaints are rare and that dual credit generally transfers well within North Dakota, though highly selective out-of-state institutions may treat credits differently. Members also asked about stipends for high school instructors, the share of K-12 versus DCB instructors, and the capacity limits in dental hygiene and other programs. Gorder said dental hygiene is capped by space and staffing, that there were more applicants than seats, and that expansion is being considered; he also said he would provide follow-up information on the paramedic program and instructor breakdowns. Gorder closed by identifying long-term challenges, including aging residence halls, recruiting faculty and staff, and the need to review low-enrollment programs. He said DCB should consider expanding into more high-demand trades such as welding, HVAC, and electrical work, and should streamline dual credit and strengthen its Minot programming. The committee then heard from the North Dakota Student Association, whose leaders outlined student priorities from the last session and the interim. Their main concerns included campus housing quality and affordability, food insecurity and food pantries, mental and physical health resources, student-led research funding, academic and career readiness, internships, and campus collaboration. They also discussed dual credit, saying it is valuable but uneven across the state, and raised questions about how to better retain students in North Dakota through the system. Members asked follow-up questions about housing, transferability of dual credit, and whether incentives could be used to encourage students to stay in-state for higher education.

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• The current operator at that location runs on a volunteer model.
• That is a number that we track closely. It's one of CYFD's performance measures.
• Second kind of key challenge we often track as a state has to do with workforce.
• That's the document we often use on the LFC to track the individual funding changes.
• This tracks budgeted federal revenue to actual revenue collected over time.

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• Many of those devices also now have a built-in GPS that tracks the location even while it's activated
• So the ability for the farm to then carry it to a location now...
• One is delivering it to a third location.
• In terms of the location, yes, ma'am.
• tracks all licensees, their practice, any disciplinary data.

Bills: HB3000, HB2622, HB2283, HB541, HB1776, HB1803, HB1669, HB2588, HB220, HB3415, HB50, HB1314, HB 107, HB220, HB50, HB107

Keywords: ambulance service, rural healthcare, grants, financial assistance, qualified counties, mental health, patient transport, female attendants, security measures, healthcare regulation, epinephrine, anaphylaxis, health care, school safety, training, emergency response, direct patient care, healthcare, physicians, medical services

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• The department routinely challenges the location of use, requiring taxpayers to submit affidavits or
• Minnesota's existing data center sales tax exemption has a proven track record of success.
• The department routinely challenges the location of use, requiring taxpayers to submit affidavits or
• Minnesota's existing data center sales tax exemption has a proven track record of success.
• Because those are the norm in places where data centers have already located.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• <01:36:02.239> Um, uh, but who's keeping track? Um, uh, but who's keeping track?
• Do you guys keep any track of that?
• Do you guys keep any track of that?
• ,<01:53:21.199> an fieldhouse with a walking track, an fieldhouse with a walking track, an
• :56.960> requested walking track is highly requested walking track is highly requested amenity

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• And a site might be open, and what that means is that any child can go to that location.
• um they don't have to go to location um they don't have to go to school<00:12:02.560> there<00
• There are some locations that do operate a summer program, but they're closed sites, which means that
• The Summer Food Service Program, depending upon your application and what location you submit for it,
• you submit application and what location you submit for<00:15:03.800> it<00:15:03.959> could

Keywords: 928, house, all

Summary: The Finance Committee Division II met with the New Hampshire Department of Education to review school nutrition programs and related funding. Department staff Melissa White and Kelly Rambo walked through a packet covering the National School Lunch Program, Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program, Community Eligibility (CEP), After School Snack Program, Child and Adult Care Food Program, and Summer Food Service Program, explaining that these are federally funded USDA programs, with some state supplemental funding in certain areas. They also reviewed reimbursement rates for lunch, breakfast, child/adult care, and summer meals, noting that summer rates follow calendar-year timing while most others follow the state fiscal year. Members asked several questions about how the funding works, especially the difference between federal reimbursements and the state match. Staff explained that the state lunch line in the budget is a fixed match amount tied to federal participation, while breakfast funding is broken out by meal type and reimbursement category. They also discussed why FY 2022 federal spending was much higher during COVID, when USDA covered meals at the free rate for all students, and why FY 2023 and FY 2024 dropped as normal income-eligibility rules returned. A committee member also asked about the “severe need lunch” two-cent rate, and staff said they did not know USDA’s formula. A substantial portion of the meeting focused on summer meals and the distinction between the Summer Food Service Program and Summer EBT. Staff explained that SFSP provides meals at approved sites, which can be open or closed sites, while Summer EBT is a separate DHHS-operated benefit program that provides funds to families. They said some schools or sites may not qualify under USDA rules, but eligible children can often use another nearby open site, and the department posts an interactive map and phone line to help families find locations. The committee also discussed the Community Eligibility Provision. Staff said New Hampshire currently has three CEP schools, that the eligibility threshold had recently been lowered from 40% to 25% identified students, and that the program allows participating schools to offer free meals to all students while the local district covers the non-federal share. Members asked whether any districts in the 25% to 40% range had joined; staff said no. The department offered to provide the eligibility report in Excel and noted that the CEP intent is to reduce application burden, though the lower threshold can make the local cost share harder for some districts to absorb.

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• So maintains its own locates notification system and completes its own locates.
• based off this locate.
• per locate.
• those locates.
• location and then GPS locating them and then entering that into GIS.

Bills: HB206

Keywords: HB206, school district bonds, bond election, voter approval, Education Code, Chapter 45, Section 45.003, Section 45.0034, Texas schools, school finance, local tax election, bond referendum, school construction, capital improvements, election frequency, five-year waiting period, district bonds, public school funding

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• May operate up to eight retail locations.
• And for retail, we allow an additional retail location if you agree to open that location in what we
• > we agree to open that location in what we agree to open that location in what we would<00:22
• we can move additional retail locations we can move additional retail locations into<00:23:02.360
• Thank you for your dual-track insurance.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• One dispatcher began receiving calls from a location upriver.
• It had been moved to that location.
• the data you're trying to track, does not make sense.
• Non intersecting tracks at this point.
• , and every individual location has its own odds.

Keywords: 1185, senate, all

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• request. for a person or persons locating for a person or persons locating underground<00:19:35.040>
• utilities have responded to a locate utilities have responded to a locate request. request. request
• facility owners to locate if anything is<00:24:38.880> um is um is um located<00:24:40.040>
• Um and located in that water bottom.
• I'm not driving on a railroad track.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• She said Minnesota cooperatives are on track to meet the state’s 2040 carbon-free standard.
• on the communities where they're located on the communities where they're located section<00:30:
• But in the case of moving ahead to the small modular plant maybe located in Northwest Minnesota or up
• <00:31:45.880> in small modular plant maybe located in small modular plant maybe located in
• when it comes to energy and track when it comes to energy and affordability<00:53:40.400> so<

Keywords: 1183, house

Summary: The House Energy Finance and Policy Committee met to approve the January 16 minutes and then heard House File 9, which was referred to the Committee on Taxes after the committee’s action. The bill was presented as an energy policy measure aimed at reliability and affordability. It would expand hydroelectric power’s eligibility under the state’s energy standard, delay certain carbon-free compliance requirements for utilities that do not meet a retail rate benchmark, prohibit local permits to demolish fossil fuel plants under certain conditions, state support for carbon capture and sequestration without creating a state funding obligation, end the nuclear moratorium, and expand the sales tax exemption for residential natural gas and electricity used as primary heat year-round starting after June 30, 2026. The committee also took up and adopted the A1 author’s amendment, which clarified that the carbon capture language does not obligate state spending. The bill’s sponsor argued that Minnesota’s current energy policy is driving up costs and threatening reliability, especially during extreme cold, and said the bill would create “off-ramps” from existing mandates to protect ratepayers and businesses. He cited reliability concerns, MISO/NERC risk assessments, rising utility rates, and the need for an all-of-the-above energy approach, including hydro and nuclear. He also said the bill would reduce taxes by broadening the sales tax exemption for residential heating. Testimony was mixed but generally focused on reliability, affordability, and the role of nuclear power. The Minnesota Rural Electric Association and the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce supported the bill’s emphasis on keeping power reliable and affordable, with both saying Minnesota needs dispatchable, carbon-free resources and noting concerns about high electricity costs and future demand from data centers and AI. The Prairie Island Indian Community opposed lifting the nuclear moratorium without a viable waste solution, describing the long-term burden of spent nuclear fuel on its community and asking for more consultation. Xcel Energy said its nuclear plants have operated safely and reliably for decades, support low-cost and low-carbon power, and could be part of the state’s energy transition, but it emphasized the need for tribal participation and said decisions about retiring fossil plants should remain within the existing Public Utilities Commission resource planning process.

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• TAL is an advocacy organization for assisted living in senior living communities with members located
• Secondly, Texas needs to set an upper limit on how long a referral agency can track a lead or own a lead
• cancel their arrangement with a referral agency, it does not prohibit the company from continuing to track
• show consumers all of the healthcare options meeting the consumer's criteria in their geographic location
• DFPS does not currently track the numbers of times reported time reported incidents have resulted in

Bills: HB 1531, HB 2667, HB 2809, HB 2865, HB 3589, HB 3151, HB 3748, HB 3750, HB 4419, HB 4643, HB 3597, HB 4129, HB 4130, HB 4131

Keywords: workplace violence prevention, health and safety code, Chapter 331, facility definition, home and community support services agency, home health agency, home health care, nursing staff, registered nurses, health care workplace safety, hospital, nursing facility, ambulatory surgical center, freestanding emergency medical care facility, mental hospital, Texas health care regulation, provider compliance, occupational safety, senior living, referral agencies

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• DPS is also in the planning phase for the construction. section of two regional headquarters located
• We can track our assets and we can also control access to these databases for a lot of.
• Cellular tracking. The cellular tracking vehicles. We used one.
• We launched one from Austin to go to San Angelo. were able to locate it and arrest that person with the

Keywords: 1184, house, all

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• So we're on track to hit that mark if it keeps going.
• And what data are you currently tracking?
• We asked, what do you track?
• We asked, what do you track? And almost everyone is tracking the case type.
• And these were the ones that came back as likely tracked. Next, please.

Summary: The committee received agency updates on several behavioral health and justice programs. The Health Care Authority reported that assisted outpatient treatment (AOT) has expanded from two counties to eight, with a ninth expected in December, and described AOT as a court-ordered, least-restrictive treatment model that depends on close coordination among courts, treatment providers, and local officials. The agency also reviewed Joel’s Law, which lets family members, guardians, conservators, or tribes petition for an initial involuntary detention when they disagree with a designated crisis responder’s decision. Judges Ferreira and Larson said petition use has increased significantly statewide and in Snohomish County, but many cases do not proceed beyond the initial detention stage; they also noted family frustration, disjointed processes, and bed shortages as ongoing issues. Committee members asked about expansion criteria, the law’s effectiveness, and how the system fits together with other mental health interventions. The Attorney General’s Office presented on the hate crimes and bias incidents hotline created by SB 5427. The hotline began a pilot in King, Clark, and Spokane counties on July 1, 2025, with a statewide launch planned for 2027. Officials said the advisory committee helped shape the referral process, intake questions, outreach materials, and public branding. In the first five months, the hotline received 301 reports, with roughly 45% from King County and about 38% from outside the pilot counties; 42% requested follow-up, and only about a quarter of those wanted law enforcement referral. Testimony emphasized that the hotline is non-emergency, anonymous if desired, and focused on referrals rather than investigation. Members asked about why callers do not seek law enforcement involvement, how the hotline compares with Oregon’s launch, and what kinds of incidents are being reported. The Office of Independent Investigations reported progress on its work investigating police deadly force fatalities. Director Roger Rogoff said the agency has grown to 66 employees, including 31 investigators, and has completed six fatality investigations, with two public final reports posted. He said the office now operates in Region 1 and plans to expand statewide as staffing allows, with a future east-side expansion dependent on additional investigators. He also said the office has 29 requests to review prior cases, but those reviews are time-intensive and limited to cases with new evidence. Committee members asked about staffing needs, local cooperation, and whether the office conducts parallel investigations; Rogoff said OII performs the criminal investigation, while agencies may still do administrative reviews. The committee then heard a lengthy panel on public defense caseload standards and funding. The Washington State Bar Association, Washington Defender Association, county representatives, and city representatives all discussed the new caseload standards and the implementation timeline. Speakers said the standards reflect modern public defense realities but warned that funding, attorney recruitment and retention, office space, and data collection remain major barriers. Survey results from county offices showed wide variation in readiness, with many counties uncertain about timelines and most citing lack of funding as the biggest obstacle; attorney attrition was also described as high. County and city representatives argued that the new standards will require far more attorneys and support staff, and that local governments cannot absorb the cost without substantial state funding. They urged the Legislature to increase state support, improve workforce pipelines, and address structural issues in the public defense system.

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• And it's more expansive than even last times, fast-tracking.
• And we have a great track record on asset management.
• But that's why we have 11 concrete structures and no track.
• Does California have the real estate locations?
• I understand you're trying to fast-track it.

Summary: The hearing opened with budget framing from the chair and the LAO, who said the May Revision addresses roughly a $14 billion budget problem and that the environment and transportation subcommittee’s proposals account for about $1.9 billion of the solution. The LAO urged members to focus on solutions that do not worsen out-year deficits, to preserve reserves, and to defer major policy changes that are not necessary to pass the budget, including the newly introduced water-related trailer bills. Members also raised concern about a late-dropped Olympic-related trailer bill, which the LAO likewise suggested should be deferred for fuller review. The first major item was the Delta Conveyance Project and related water quality control plan trailer bills. The administration argued the proposals would streamline permitting, water rights proceedings, judicial review, and land acquisition, and would clarify DWR’s bond authority for the project. DWR said the project is needed to protect water supply reliability against drought, earthquakes, sea level rise, and other climate-related disruptions, and that the tunnel would help move water when conditions are wet and safer for the environment. Committee members from both parties questioned the timing, the use of budget trailer bills for major policy changes, the scope of the CEQA and water-rights changes, the lack of a bond cap, cost growth, and eminent domain protections. The LAO recommended deferring both water trailer bills without prejudice. Public comment was sharply divided, with labor, water agencies, and some business groups supporting the project as climate adaptation and reliability infrastructure, while environmental, tribal, fishing, county, and community groups opposed it as an attempt to bypass public process and weaken protections. The committee then briefly heard the DMV’s Digital Experience Platform fee trailer bill, which would reinstate a $1 system improvement fee to help fund the vehicle-registration phase of the project. DMV said the fee would raise about $7 million annually and offset roughly $59 million to $60 million of project costs, while the LAO noted it would help but would not solve the Motor Vehicle Account’s broader structural gap. The hearing then moved to California High-Speed Rail, where the new CEO presented an updated plan and said the project remains a major climate and infrastructure investment. He reported a revised Merced-to-Bakersfield cost range of $34.9 billion to $38.5 billion, said the agency is trying to reduce risk through direct procurement of materials, and argued that stable annual funding is needed to avoid higher costs from delays.

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• The legislature also, on your topic of gaming, appropriations committees have now tracked...
• Here is a map of where IMDs are located in North Dakota. Currently, there are six.
• The Kaiser Family Foundation does an incredible job of tracking waivers by state.
• It would just be those two locations. Okay. I would move that amendment. Representative...
• It would just be those two locations. Okay. I would move that amendment. Representative.

Keywords: 908, all

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• What we find is that employees will most likely choose a farm that has a pickup location in somewhat
• What we find is that employees will most likely choose a farm that has a pickup location in somewhat
• What we find is that employees will most likely choose a farm that has a pickup location in somewhat
• <00:32:09.120> employee track farm impacts to track employee track farm impacts to track employee
• , could look like, where it's located, could look like, where it's located, what<00:45:49.200>

Keywords: 958, all

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• appropriately track folks's eligibility for<00:28:37.640> the<00:28:37.880> program<00
• And I'm not sure if you knows what harm he's causing, but you guys keep track of what people that are
• Do you keep track of that at all, Miss Bailey?
• <00:31:08.960> of he's causing but you guys keep track of he's causing but you guys keep track
• Service delivery uh by by uh location Service delivery uh by by uh location all<01:05:07.839>

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• It lets the care team know if what they're doing is helping the patient get back on track, but if not
• It lets the care team know if what they're doing is helping the patient get back on track, but if not
• Thank you. helping the patient get back on track helping the patient get back on track but<00:14:16.720
• So the location of the doctor who is running that service is what's most important there.
• <00:36:41.440> of the claim for that so the location of the claim for that so the location

Keywords: 1183, house