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• The speaker added that either test can meet the requirements here.
• more than a test score.
• are much more than a test score. are much more than a test score.
• Less testing.
• Less testing.

Keywords: 0:00:03 - Call to Order and Roll Call 0:00:43 - Approval of October 14, 2025 and November 4, 2025 Minutes 0:01:15 - Acceptance of Office of Education Accountability Report: Analysis Of Student Discipline Data in Kentucky Schools 0:02:10 - Implementation Update on 26 RS HB 257 0:49:38 - Career and Technical Education in the Assessment and Accountability System 1:13:50 - Office of Education Accountability Annual Report 1:47:27 – Adjournment, 958, all

Summary: The Education Assessment & Accountability Review Subcommittee approved the minutes from its October 14 and November 4 meetings and also approved the Office of Education Accountability report analyzing student discipline data in Kentucky schools. The main presentation came from KDE Commissioner Dr. Robby Fletcher on implementation of House Bill 257, which he said has two major parts: selection of a statewide college entrance exam through a new procurement process, and development of locally designed indicators of quality for accountability. On the college exam, Fletcher explained that the state had to reopen procurement after Senate Bill 197, with the RFP released May 21, vendor questions handled through the Finance and Administration Cabinet, proposals due June 22, and scoring and review expected in July and August, with a vendor decision not likely until October. He emphasized that the exam is a norm-referenced college-readiness measure, not a test of Kentucky academic standards, which are assessed by the KSA. Members asked about the science requirement in statute, the possibility of multiple vendors or district choice, and whether the CLT could participate; Fletcher said vendors must address science in the RFP, multiple vendors could be possible, and any vendor could submit a proposal if it meets the rubric. He also noted that ACT and SAT differ in structure, that either can meet college-readiness benchmarks, and that there were no major complaints about the SAT during its first year of use. The second major topic was the locally developed indicators of quality under House Bill 257. Fletcher said these are intended to let districts measure themselves against their own goals rather than compare districts statewide, while still aligning with Kentucky standards. He described examples such as achievement, growth, student well-being, safety, fiscal responsibility, civics, internships, apprenticeships, project-based learning, and defenses of learning. He said districts may use local assessments such as MAP, STAR, and I-Ready alongside state data, and that local models should be developed with families, community members, and workforce partners. He added that KDE is providing technical assistance, has applied for a federal CGSA grant, and will use a one-time $15,000 cost offset for districts implementing local accountability models, with a superintendent webcast planned for August.

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• And then we have in-person testing to meet those state requirements for testing. So we are very...
• And then we have in-person testing to meet the state requirements for testing.
• We actually do the same testing.
• We do the COGAT testing in second and fifth grade. We are testing for dyslexia indicators.
• We require all of... And on-site. I can speak briefly to on-site, yes. We require all of...

Summary: The committee met to hear an overview of Washington’s alternative learning experience (ALE) programs and then an update on artificial intelligence in schools. OSPI’s Anissa Sherritt explained that ALE is a course-level funding designation for instruction that occurs partly or wholly away from the traditional seat-time model, with online, site-based, and remote course types. She emphasized that ALE is still basic education, subject to the same public school requirements, and that OSPI provides technical assistance, annual reporting review, and program reviews. Representatives from several programs described different models: Washington Virtual Academy (a large online ALE operated through Omak School District and partnered with for-profit Stride), Columbia Virtual Academy in Valley School District (a district-run, nonprofit online/remote program), Pearl in Quilcene (a K-8 remote parent partnership program), and River Home Link in Battleground (a site-based hybrid program). They discussed student supports, special education, enrichment, family choice, transportation, and how they measure outcomes. Members asked for follow-up information on funding, demographics, racial and ethnic data, multilingual learners, and post-graduation outcomes, and OSPI agreed to provide additional data where available. The committee then heard from OSPI and several districts about AI guidance and implementation. OSPI’s Holly Ryan Calloway described the agency’s human-centered AI framework, three guidance documents for schools, statewide professional learning, an AI innovation summit, and new AI literacy and informatics course frameworks and CIP codes. Quincy School District described a multi-year effort to integrate AI by centering student needs, creating district policy and classroom guidance, and training teachers to use AI responsibly while building an AI readiness plan from elementary through high school. Peninsula School District described its AI action research team, teacher professional learning, and classroom uses of generative AI to support science instruction, communication, and prompt engineering, while stressing that AI should enhance rather than replace learning. Members raised questions about privacy, energy and water use, prompt engineering, workforce and university connections, and the need for clear standards and ongoing educator training. No votes were taken.

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• background checks that are required pursuant to the.
• See, you did your homework, you tested, you, you completed the.
• This test was conceived in the 1960s. There's never been another one.
• Each transition has required us to adapt and reaffirm.
• So, for how many years are you testing?

Keywords: 1184, house, all

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• <00:54:28.240> And this testing will take place. And this testing will take place.
• They have their own testing.
• They have their own testing. The it. They have their own testing.
• stamped on it that they've been tested stamped on it that they've been tested for<01:31:37.040><
• >> testing? >> testing? Thank<01:43:34.800> you,<01:43:35.040> Mr.

Bills: SF0071, SF0088, SF0056

Keywords: homeland security, search and rescue, grants, emergency response, Wyoming, sex offender, child care facility, residency restrictions, public safety, criminal law, sex offenders, child care facilities, legislation, kratom, regulation, healthcare, age restrictions, manufacturing standards, 916, all

Transcript Highlights:

• There's a whole bunch of requirements to and from, OK.
• It's still a requirement.
• the test scores of the students that are online.
• Are they tested? Do they understand?
• Yeah, they're, they're all are required to all the state mandated tests.

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• So that they are not going to require this second exam.
• every state to cover certain eligibility requirements. groups.
• We are eliminating some required annual refresher training.
• Test kits, COVID test kits, the current policy allows for the dispensation of four COVID test kits to
• The prescription to justify dispensing additional COVID test kits.

Keywords: 1184, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• Testing, sound check, test. Test. Testing, testing, sound check. Test, test, let's try it again.
• This does not include things like closed track testing or simulation.
• I know that New Mexico has looked at legislation to allow for AV testing and all that.
• Just one quick question: Does that federal grant require a match? Mr.
• The testing that we did resulted in the bridge; it's hard to tell.

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• Testing technicians administer and score psychological tests under the supervision of a licensed psychologist
• We had to be subjected to VD tests.
• We had to be subjected to VD tests.
• There are 256 cities or municipalities requiring CAMTC, sort of... 256 cities or municipalities requiring
• requirements.

Summary: The joint sunset oversight hearing reviewed five regulatory entities: the Board of Behavioral Sciences, the Board of Psychology, the Physician Assistant Board, the Podiatric Medical Board, and the California Massage Therapy Council. Across the hearing, each entity described recent accomplishments, licensing and enforcement workload, workforce shortages, and efforts to modernize processes. Common themes included streamlining licensure, expanding access to care, addressing telehealth or emerging technology, and balancing consumer protection with workforce needs. For the Board of Behavioral Sciences, members discussed workforce shortages in mental health, supervision barriers, telehealth confidentiality, AI in therapy, interstate compacts, school-based services, and military spouse licensure. The board said it has expanded outreach, improved licensing processes, and created temporary practice authority tracking, while also expressing concern about counseling compacts and emphasizing California-specific law, ethics, and cultural competency. Public commenters supported the board’s work and the possible move to a national MFT exam, while also urging more resources. The Board of Psychology highlighted fee adjustments, streamlined licensure pathways, enforcement process improvements, new CPD requirements, and proposed changes including a psychotherapist-client privilege exception for investigations. Committee members and public witnesses focused heavily on that privilege proposal, with some members opposing it as too broad and privacy-invasive, while the board argued it is needed to obtain records in bias and sexual misconduct cases. The board also discussed workforce shortages, processing improvements, and the use of inactive status for psychological associates. The Physician Assistant Board reported growth in the PA workforce and education programs, SB 697 implementation, and financial pressure from rising enforcement costs. The main policy debate centered on physician-to-PA ratios and practice agreements, with board representatives and many public commenters arguing that current restrictions limit access to care, especially in rural areas, while the California Medical Association defended the need for explicit ratios and agreements. The board also discussed AI, fee increases, and tracking temporary practice authority. The Podiatric Medical Board described licensing and renewal reforms, residency expansion, enforcement support, and budget constraints, while public testimony raised concerns about a proposed fee increase and about reimbursement parity and practice recognition for podiatrists. Finally, the California Massage Therapy Council defended the certification model over licensure, citing lower costs, local government collaboration, anti-trafficking work, and its role in vetting applications and disciplining bad actors; no formal votes or final actions were taken during this portion of the hearing.

Transcript Highlights:

• can't meet that law for this requirement can't meet that law for this requirement and<00:07:13.280
• The first test, basically the way it works is you start with the first test, and if the applicant does
• automatically requires a recusal? automatically requires a recusal?
• >> can we have you summarize test? >> can we have you summarize test?
• <00:53:09.359> The requirements to ensure its use. The requirements to ensure its use.

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

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• It removes Section 1, which would have required labeling on packaging.
• Just recently, a shrimp testing firm tested the shrimp from various restaurants in the Galveston area
• Do they test the shrimp? Do they have standards in place?
• When you say proactively, is that required to provide that?
• This is required—a requirement to put up a sign that says, "Hey, this is not Gulf shrimp."

Bills: HB2226, HB2269, HB2343, HB2760, HB3621, HB4079, HB4204, HB4518, HB4531, HB4555, HB4850, HB4876, HB4903, HB4996, HB5122

Keywords: construction trust funds, Property Code, Chapter 162, construction payments, mechanics lien, contractors, subcontractors, laborers, material suppliers, materialmen, real property improvement, assignment of payment rights, unpaid trust funds, trust fund beneficiaries, construction industry, payment protection, Texas construction law, property owners association, landscaping, grass maintenance

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• <00:07:43.840> sports females by explicitly requiring sports females by explicitly requiring
• That’s required now. A genital exam is not required now.
• Hill well the requirements of the bill Hill well the requirements of the bill as<01:17:48.600> as<
• <01:17:52.840> students examined it at length require students examined it at length require
• They go in and get genetically tested, and they come back—the test comes back with XXY in some cases.

Keywords: 1183, house

Transcript Highlights:

• testing in those grades.
• Um if the principal test.
• How do they test if there isn't, if they don't go to school to at least do the test, right?
• doing the test that is being turned in? doing the test that is being turned in?
• you know required Malama ohana working you know required Malama ohana working group<01:57:01.920>

Keywords: 912, senate, all

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• <00:05:11.080> our in 2023 part of that law required our in 2023 part of that law required
• Thank you, Director Bergstrom. bill requires the uh Department of of bill requires the uh Department
• the test firing be done to the extent testing equipment is available.
• the test test test firing<03:17:54.439> uh<03:17:54.800> that<03:17:55.640> uh<
• testing?

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• , that's statutorily required.
• We've seen it tested in the past.
• It has involved a requirement of training teachers. That's a requirement. It's been an investment.
• It is going to require additional investment. It's going to require that we think.
• Order to change the test.

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• Speaker, replacing CONAN, the print requirement, with a digital requirement is a no-brainer.
• TIME, REQUIRING C.R.S.
• BY REQUIRING THE I.R.S.
• They gave them tests like citizen tests, voucher tests.
• THEY GAVE THEM TESTS LIKE CITIZEN TESTS. VOUCHER TESTS.

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Monday, March 31, 2025, 1012, house, all

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• We're going to view the case test, and we're going to view the budget. Okay.
• We see they're passing all these tests. That's what we expect to see.
• We see they're passing all these tests. That's what we expect to see.
• The rest require some sort of intervention by a financial worker.
• After the vendor is selected, what will the process for beta testing and testing include?

Keywords: 1183, house

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• But that's the requirements of the program. So, Mr.
• The PRC has indicated that the current statute, which identifies the utility cost test as the test that
• The utility cost test is the statutory prescribed test for seeing if a program is cost-effective.
• And so what this is allowing for is a new value inside that cost-effective test, a utility cost test
• The statute does not impose such a requirement.

Keywords: 996, all

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• my constituents that we need to update them an a CT test that's all we're giving a CT test and graduation
• He said that should be something considered, but that all they have is the ACT test.
• Representative Hamilton said she is not saying to get rid of the test.
• She added that the ACT does not test what they teach in Arizona.
• A public school participating in the pilot program may not require a student to participate.

Bills: HB2063, HB2271, HB2416, HB2478, HB2593, HB2692, HB2813, HB2992, HB2993, HB4044

Keywords: corrections oversight, appropriation, independent office, public safety, funding, firefighters, insurance rates, workers' compensation, firefighter cancer reimbursement, rate deviations, cost analysis, premiums, border security, drug trafficking, human smuggling, law enforcement funding, Arizona, immigration, education reform, K-12

Summary: The committee heard several appropriations and policy bills, with testimony often focused on public safety, education, and procurement. HB 263 would appropriate $1.5 million in FY2027 to the Independent Correctional Oversight Office; the sponsor and supportive testimony argued the office is needed to address serious problems in the corrections system, and the bill received a due pass recommendation, 17-1. HB 2993, as amended, would allow DPS to spend on legal services independent of the Attorney General and redirect $5 million from the Consumer Protection/Consumer Fraud Revolving Fund to the Gang and Immigration Intelligence Team Enforcement Mission Fund; the Speaker framed it as supporting law enforcement and public safety, and it passed 17-0. HB 2271 dealt with firefighter cancer coverage and insurance rates. The bill would allow an insurer covering firefighters and fire investigators to file a uniform rate deviation only if it is not reimbursed by the municipal firefighter cancer reimbursement fund. Testimony described the measure as a temporary shell pending a broader consensus agreement to bring fire districts into the reimbursement system; members stressed that firefighters should not see changes in claim handling, but several said the bill still needed work. It received a due pass recommendation on a 16-1-1 vote. HB 2416 would appropriate $20 million to DPS for local border support, including law enforcement positions, prosecution and detention costs, and equipment; sheriffs and the Arizona Sheriffs Association supported it as a continuation of existing funding for drug interdiction and border-related crime, and it passed 11-6-1. The committee also advanced HB 2692, which revises public construction procurement rules and authorizes progressive design-build and one-step competition for certain federally funded projects. Construction and procurement stakeholders said the bill was the product of a long consensus process, while some members worried about taxpayer impacts and the move away from standard procurement; it passed 10-7-1. HB 2478, as amended, creates the Arizona Commission on Student Outcomes to study K-12 accountability, standards, graduation requirements, early childhood education, and a trade pathways diploma, funded by Classroom Site Fund dollars; members debated whether the work should instead be done by ADE or the State Board, and the bill passed 11-7. The committee also heard HB 4044, which would create a Public Safety Parity Fund to support DPS and corrections salaries using investment earnings from the Budget Stabilization Fund and proceeds from forfeited digital assets; the sponsor and a troopers association witness argued it would provide a stable long-term funding source to address chronic vacancies and pay gaps.

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• It was easier to scale up than some of the other designs that were tested.
• All of the designs that were tested were.
• step requires a different license.
• There would be some matching requirements.
• Retainage—those are funds required to be reserved.

Bills: SB1468, SB1612, SB1789, SB2530, SB2571, SB2717, SB2967

Keywords: utility systems, Texas A&M, regents authority, construction, improvement, construction contracts, trust funds, property rights, mechanics lien, contractors, trustee liability, mechanic's lien, liability, attorney's fees, windstorm insurance, Texas Windstorm Insurance Association, insurance regulation, administrative penalties, coastal counties, catastrophe year

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• We have PCS for HB 541 by Representative Chamberlain, Minimum Wage Requirements.
• We have PCS for 41 by Representative Chamberlain, Minimum Wage Requirements.
• The bill standardizes the requirements for teacher mentors and clinical educators and requires the Department
• We have the general knowledge test... ...programs now that we need to test for.
• We have the general knowledge test, for example. Those tests will be phased out.

Summary: The Careers and Workforce Subcommittee met with a quorum and took up four bills. The first, HB 875 on educator preparation, would align teacher-prep programs under a uniform core curriculum, create a competency-based coaching program (CERT), standardize mentor and clinical educator requirements, allow certain certification waivers, and establish a Florida Institute of Teaching Excellence at Miami-Dade College subject to appropriation. Debate focused heavily on language in the bill related to systemic racism, identity politics, privilege, and historical distortion, with supporters saying the bill is about pedagogy and opponents warning it could limit discussion of important historical and social topics. The committee adopted a strike-all amendment and then reported the bill favorably, 12-4. The committee then considered PCS for HB 541 on minimum wage requirements, which would allow employees to knowingly and voluntarily waive the state minimum wage for up to 12 months in certain structured work-based training settings. Supporters argued it would expand access to training and career pathways for inexperienced workers and help address labor shortages, while opponents said it could depress wages, invite coercion, and conflict with the state constitution’s minimum wage provisions. Public testimony included opposition from workers and labor groups and support from NFIB. The bill was reported favorably, 12-4. Next, PCS for HB 681 on apprenticeship and pre-apprenticeship program funding was presented as a transparency and accountability measure to improve funding reporting and address bargaining issues between education agencies and program providers. Support came from industry groups and the ranking member, and the bill was reported favorably without opposition, 16-0. Finally, PCS for HB 1105 on education and Bright Futures would broaden Gold Seal Vocational eligibility, align CTE diploma requirements with Bright Futures, add AP Capstone as an automatic qualifier, and remove barriers for certain military and public service families. The committee supported the bill, which was reported favorably, 15-0. The meeting ended after a correction to the record on one public comment card and adjournment.