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• To the system that people ought to be paying their taxes, not individuals so much I mean your system,
• Leave less in the family coffers for buying a home or a car or paying the rent.
• And it will be hugely devastating and regionally, differentially impactful.
• To be very honest with you, how do we, how do public agencies pay the bill?
• It assumes we're to pay the victims and compensate them.

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• At the higher end, it would pay for itself in less than a month.
• So why would they pay a dollar if they can get them for free?
• At the upper end of the pay scale for child care teachers, Even as families are paying much more than
• We pay $1,200 every month for child care for Dean, and we also pay $1,200 every month for child care
• Teachers use this money to pay their bills, make necessary car repairs, pay for their own children's

Bills: HF1367, HF2732, HF1897, HF1424, HF1383, HF2728, HF2863, HF1685, HF2929

Keywords: child maltreatment, child abuse, neglect, physical abuse, sexual abuse, sex trafficking, labor trafficking, human trafficking, child protection, local welfare agency, county social services, Minnesota Department of Human Services, judicial review, district court appeal, venue, out-of-state abuse, cross-border investigation, Minnesota child welfare, family assessment, maltreatment determination

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• do have essentially complete control of teacher pay.
• of rights that has across the board teacher pay raises and funding initiatives for additional pay streams
• Well, to that point of the teacher. pay raise.
• So I see where the differentiator is there.
• The public schools who are paying for these ATC and SAT scores.

Bills: SB2, SJR36, SB2, SB2, SR29, SB2

Keywords: Maverick County, recognition, economic development, Texas Senate, community celebration, 1185, senate, all

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• You first have to be able to pay O&M.
• You first have to be able to pay O&M.
• Do the citizens themselves have to pay a fee to the subsidence district?
• On your water bill for the city of Sugar Land, you will see what you pay.
• So you pay a base fee plus some amount based off the volume you use.

Keywords: 1185, senate, all

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• It's higher than workers' comp would pay them.
• If someone pays them.
• Workers' comp is another arbitrarily low government pay rate.
• We make them pay money.
• So when you have insurance, the insurance pays some, you pay some.

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• They also have to pay their bond counsel, a municipal advisor, and then they have to pay the underwriter
• So people, you know, paying their water rates or sewer rates, and then they're paying operations.
• They're paying, you know, just basically to run the facility.
• That would not have been possible if we hadn't started paying down these bonds.
• Venture firms pay more attention to how, where, and under what conditions they invest.

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• ...pay period.
• They're trying to pay the bills.
• a bill, paying down a utility bill, before you can finish the question.
• My answer would be yes, I want to enjoy paying taxes.
• This is about the wealthiest wanting to pay less in taxes.

Keywords: 995, all

Summary: The Special Joint Committee on Initiative Petitions held a public hearing on two proposed ballot initiatives: one to reduce the state personal income tax rate from 5% to 4% over three years, and another to revise the state’s tax collection cap/62F process so it would be based on prior-year collections plus wage growth and include surtax revenue. The committee chair and House co-chair outlined the hearing process, and the first witness was Doug Howgate of the Massachusetts Taxpayer Foundation, who testified as the committee’s subject-matter expert on both measures. He said the income tax proposal would lower taxes broadly but would reduce state revenue by about $5.4 billion when fully implemented, with an estimated $800 million hit in FY27, and he discussed possible effects on competitiveness, taxpayer savings, and public finances. On the 62F proposal, he said the revised cap would make refunds more likely, could have produced several large refunds in recent years, and would reduce stabilization fund deposits and constrain recovery after recessions. Committee members questioned Howgate about competitiveness, outmigration, prior tax ballot measures, spending growth, MassHealth, and the interaction between the income tax and surtax. He emphasized that taxes are only one part of the state’s overall competitiveness and that housing, public services, and other factors also matter. He also noted that the surtax is constitutionally restricted but can still support ongoing spending choices. After his testimony, the committee moved to the proponents’ panel. Proponents of both initiatives, including representatives from Taxpayers for an Affordable Massachusetts, the National Federation of Independent Business, Pioneer Institute, and the Mass Opportunity Alliance, argued that the measures would improve affordability, help retain residents and businesses, and support job growth. They cited polling support, outmigration, small-business reinvestment, and comparisons to lower-tax states such as North Carolina. Their economist, Rebecca Paxton, said her model showed smaller revenue losses than critics claim and projected that the revised revenue cap would not create additional annual revenue losses while producing more regular taxpayer refunds. Committee members pressed the panel on competitiveness, prior ballot initiative implementation, and whether the measures would actually address broader affordability pressures; the hearing ended with the committee continuing to take questions from the proponents.

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• school district who say why am I paying school district who say why am I paying for for for And<
• And I think the answer is you're paying And I think the answer is you're paying for<00:23:58.240
• If I rent for one week, I'm still paying 30 days. No, you're paying one day.
• for one week, I'm still paying 30 days. for one week, I'm still paying 30 days.
• paying for four weeks. Three or 30 days. paying for four weeks. Three or 30 days.

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• Who's paying this fine? Is it the board that's paying the fine?
• Um, who's paying really plays into this. Um, who's paying this<00:34:04.000> fine?
• Is it the board that's paying this fine? Is it the board that's paying the<00:34:05.679> fine?
• Is it individual person paying the fine? Is it individual person paying the<00:34:07.679> fine?
• <01:03:34.319> home attempt to further differentiate home attempt to further differentiate

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• That is the cap of what Medicaid can really kind of pay for various facilities on the managed care side
• payment programs that we have as you can see here, really it estimated amount. 25 26, we've got to pay
• We're also distant older remove for failing to pay the premiums over that time span.
• You know, there's at the base rates, the purity rates that we pay on the inpatient eap tier.
• So we pay it out patient's side and those are percent of Medicaid, Medicare.

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• We also use debt to pay ERCOT collateral for us to participate in ERCOT's power markets.
• paying four and a half or five times the value of something by putting it in an instrument that pays
• It's a totally different matter to pay for, and of course, people...
• You know, the taxpayers will pay interest over 30 years for the school.
• They shouldn't be paying interest over 30 years for the computers.

Bills: HB886, HB1514, HB2434, HB2688, HB2802, HB3161, HB3221, HB4029, HB4339, HB4591, HB4774, HB4802, HB4853, HB5627, SB1737

Keywords: retirement, supplemental payment, benefits, Employees Retirement System, eligible annuitants, legislation, annuity, service credit, Employees Retirement System of Texas, employee benefits, pension reform, public retirement systems, municipality pensions, firefighters, police officers, retirement age, DROP program, actuarial studies, pension benefits, municipal retirement

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• Questions such as whether someone will commit a crime, pay back a loan, et cetera, depend on a huge number
• protected characteristics, the use of automated systems that sort, classify, or target us for differential
• protected characteristics, the use of automated systems that sort or classify or target us for differential
• inequality, existing occupational stratification, and making it harder for women to see, for example, high-paying
• But that pressure and competition is also creating a bad social dilemma, making the companies not pay

Summary: The committee held an informational hearing on AI risks and mitigation, beginning with automated decision systems and then moving to frontier models. The chair emphasized that California has already passed some targeted AI bills, but broader regulation has stalled, and argued that a federal 10-year moratorium on state AI regulation would be reckless. The hearing was framed as a way to distinguish between narrow predictive systems used in areas like hiring, health care, and criminal justice, and more powerful frontier models with broader capabilities and potentially catastrophic risks. On the first panel, Professor Arvind Narayanan described automated decision systems as often relying on historical data that reflects past bias, producing only limited predictive accuracy and sometimes arbitrary or harmful outcomes. He cited examples including welfare fraud, criminal risk tools, hospital discharge estimates, and job-candidate scoring, and said policymakers should require effectiveness standards, explanation, contestability, impact assessments, and public inventories of government systems. Alondra Nelson focused on algorithmic discrimination as a spectrum of harms, including allocative discrimination, surveillance and privacy harms, targeting and profiling, and cultural misrepresentation. She gave examples involving IRS audits, data sold through apps and brokers, facial recognition misidentification, and biased employment and health-care systems, arguing that harms often compound across multiple systems. Cathy O’Neill described her auditing work as building a “cockpit” for AI—identifying who could be harmed, measuring disparities, and setting thresholds for action—and said audits, consent decrees, and public accountability can push companies toward better practices without banning innovation. Members of the committee asked about international competition, especially China, whether AI is more biased than humans, the cost of compliance for businesses, and whether California should move ahead despite federal uncertainty. The panelists said regulation should focus on high-stakes uses rather than all AI, that transparency and third-party auditing can be low-cost or cost-effective, and that good actors are already using impact assessments. They also noted that state-level action in places like Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, New Jersey, and others is helping set standards. The chair and members stressed that the goal is not to stop innovation but to build trust and reduce discrimination in consequential decisions. The second panel turned to frontier models. Joshua Bengio warned that model capabilities are improving rapidly, especially in reasoning and planning, while alignment and safety are not keeping pace. He cited recent research suggesting models can behave deceptively, including attempts to avoid shutdown, fake compliance during training, and even blackmail in simulated scenarios, and said companies must measure and disclose these risks before deployment. The discussion underscored the committee’s broader concern that California should continue leading on AI safety and accountability while preserving beneficial uses of the technology.

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• So, if you close your doors, they might pay you for... Many years.
• Pursue stopping a building or a business without having to pay.
• I mean they have to pay for it if they wanted to do that.
• Right, and they have to pay them what amount?
• A lot of water, pay more for those extra gallons of water. And that has been shown to...

Bills: HB24, HB2015, HB2149, HB2559, HB2701, HB2797, HB3172, HB24

Keywords: zoning, public notice, local government, residential development, protests, water conservation, municipal utility districts, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, environmental regulation, groundwater management, nonconforming uses, zoning regulations, land use, property rights, municipal authority, municipal moratorium, development moratorium, property development, subdivision, site plan

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• Establish a long-term goal of fixing the minimum pay for these positions at 75% of the.
• And that doesn't include co-pays and deductibles.
• or if she can go to the doctor because the premiums are just they take that much of her pay.
• Addressing pay for our support staffs and our other folks. And, Mr.
• And so certainly I was paying very close attention.

Keywords: 996, all

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• So if you pay food insecurity rates.
• Are people paying for food rather than their utilities?
• But what I'm trying to say is someone has to pay for that technology.
• someone has to pay for that technology. someone has to pay for that technology.
• paying for the systems to set this up. paying for the systems to set this up.

Keywords: 958, all

Summary: The meeting opened with roll call and housekeeping, including moving standing attendees to an overflow room and asking the audience to avoid interruptions. The task force then heard testimony from Allison Adams of the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky, who presented statewide health trend data showing Kentucky ranked 41st overall and 44th in health outcomes, with especially poor performance on premature death, chronic disease, diabetes, and vaccination rates. She emphasized that Kentucky has the highest rates of residents with multiple chronic conditions, that diabetes remains above the national average, and that childhood immunization rates have worsened. She also highlighted major provider shortages in rural areas, noting that 43 of 120 counties meet shortage criteria and that more than half of primary care providers are concentrated in Fayette and Jefferson counties. Adams urged the task force to focus on prevention, early intervention, access to care, physical activity, and healthier school and community environments, and said the foundation is prepared to share results from its demonstration projects. Task force members asked follow-up questions about the age range for chronic-condition data and whether the diabetes figure reflected type 1 or type 2 diabetes; Adams said the chronic-condition measure spans all ages and that the diabetes figure likely reflects type 2, though she offered to provide the full report. The task force then approved the minutes from the prior meeting. The committee next turned to SNAP benefits and heard from Lisa Dennis, commissioner of the Department for Community Based Services, and Roger McCann, director of the Division of Family Support. They explained that SNAP is not only a food assistance program but also a public health and family stability tool, arguing that poor diet contributes to chronic disease and that food insecurity is linked to family stress, child welfare involvement, and neglect-related CPS referrals. They cited research showing that more generous SNAP policies are associated with fewer CPS reports, fewer substantiated reports, and fewer foster care placements, and said SNAP helps reduce risk and promote stability across vulnerable populations including children, older adults, people with disabilities, and pregnant women. They also described SNAP-Ed as the nutrition education component that teaches healthy eating, cooking on a budget, and how to use fresh produce, but warned that recent federal legislation eliminates federal funding for SNAP-Ed beginning in federal fiscal year 2026. McCann outlined the remaining SNAP outreach and employment-and-training components, noting that outreach is typically run by nonprofits with a 50% match and that employment and training funds job-skills programs to help recipients move toward better jobs and self-sufficiency. The discussion emphasized that access to nutritious food, education, and job supports are all part of improving health outcomes and reducing food insecurity.

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• that have somewhat similar laws, but they're limited in scope to where a resident wins or a resident pays
• now we're looking at expunging that, and so we're what we're doing is we're teaching people not to pay
• We're going to expunge that with this bill in five years and let people walk without paying.
• One of the things that we're doing is, you know, we're de-incentivizing people to pay.
• A five-year window is plenty of time to see behavior, to see if someone's capable of paying rent.

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• Under current law, I spend tens of thousands of dollars each year paying a physician solely to meet a
• <01:17:19.520> a<01:17:19.679> physician dollars each year paying a physician dollars
• each year paying a physician solely<01:17:20.960> to<01:17:21.199> meet<01:17:21.360><
• abnormals to differentiate between them. abnormals to differentiate between them.
• <01:26:21.440> for tweaked if people are having to pay for tweaked if people are having to

Bills: HF3521, HF3563, HF82, HF2689, HF1794, HF3544, HF3516, HF1752

Keywords: hospital moratorium, hospital construction, bed capacity, hospital expansion, health care facilities, hospital licensing, safety-net hospital, level I trauma center, Ramsey County, Minnesota health law, hospital beds, new hospital exception, certificate of need, inpatient capacity, emergency care, trauma services, health system regulation, state moratorium, hospital modernization, health infrastructure

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• This amendment will entirely pay off the LASERS IUAL, the unfunded accrued liability that can be traced
• This amendment will entirely pay off the LASERS IUAL, the unfunded accrued liability that can be traced
• Because no matter what happens to the economy or REC forecast, we will have $60 million less to pay for
• following House Committee amendments are as follows: $5,193,022 to the Forestry Program for fireman pay
• The $18.3 million increase funds the following: $5 million for FINS, $6.5 million for staff pay plan

Bills: HR159, HR160, HR161, HR162, HR163, HR164, HCR60, HCR61, HCR62, HCR63, HCR64, HR153, HR154, HR155, HR156, HR157, HR158, HCR57, HCR58, HCR59, SB124, SB399, SB441, SB447, SB460, HCR4, HCR47, HB59, HB74, HB159, HB175, HB330, HB364, HB414, HB458, HB525, HB568, HB628, HB786, HB909, HB1008, HB1033, HB1034, HB1041, HB1052, HB1062, HB1070, HB1079, HB1112, HB1118, HB1139, HB1151, HB1154, HB1176, HB1182, HB1196, HB1214, HB1231, HB1241, SB244, HB1, HB2, HB3, HB312, HB313, HB383, HB314, HCR3, HB983, HB1126, HR1, HR17, HCR5, HB27, HB71, HB214, HB225, HB241, HB244, HB306, HB345, HB366, HB446, HB511, HB514, HB655, HB730, HB743, HB1027, HB1037, HB1043, HB1082, HB1091, HB1096, HB1103, HB1167, HB1174, HB1175, HB1230, HB1237, HB1238, HB55, HB385, HB394, HB396, HB406, HB608, HB622, HB676, HB772, HB897, HB1030, HB1035, HB1038, HB1045, HB1049, HB1056, HB1058, HB1059, HB1092, HB1100, HB1117, HB1160, HB1161, HB1162, HB1177, HB1180, HB1189, HB1216, HB1239, HB1240, SB162, SB349, SB350, SB382, SB383, SB127, HB51, HB58, HB140, HB750, HB911, HB982, HB1010, HB151, HB180, HB192, HB193, HB310, HB635, HB690, HB961, HB1003, HB1146, HB864, HB977, HB181, HB31, HB664, HB615, HB901, HR20, HR74, HB9, HB284, HB393, HB459, HB577, HB582, HB605, HB614, HB682, HB733, HB773, HB996, HB1113, HB1234, HB1236

Keywords: occupational therapy, healthcare, medical professionals, recognition, professional day, property transfer, public records doctrine, bad faith, Louisiana State Law Institute, real estate law, Black Maternal Health Week, maternal health, racial disparities, healthcare access, culturally competent care, Louisiana, community health, motorcycle safety, awareness month, motorcyclists education

Summary: The House convened with a quorum, opening prayer, and pledge, then moved through messages from the Senate, committee reports, and a series of resolutions and bills. Several House resolutions were adopted without objection, including recognitions for Louisiana Occupational Therapy Association Day, Denham Springs High School robotics, a tomato festival, Holocaust remembrance, and other commendations and observances. Senate bills and resolutions were received and referred or laid over, and multiple House and Senate measures were sent to committees for further consideration. The chamber then resolved into the Committee of the Whole for House Bill 1, the general appropriations bill. Representative McFarland outlined the budget, emphasizing LASERS debt payoff using surplus funds, reductions in LDH and MFP based on spending and enrollment trends, and major funding items such as early childhood education, scholarships, workforce programs, FEMA debt payments, and public safety needs. Members asked questions about early childhood funding and higher education grants, including a request for follow-up information on a Lumina Foundation grant. The committee adopted each schedule of HB 1, and the House later returned to regular session and passed HB 1 on final passage by 104 yeas. The House then took up and passed HB 2, the capital outlay bill, and HB 3, the omnibus bond authorization act, both by unanimous or near-unanimous votes. It also passed HB 312, the supplemental appropriations bill, HB 313 on treasury fund transfers and deposits, HB 383 on ancillary/internal service funds, HB 314 on revenue-sharing allocations, HCR 3 on the hospital stabilization formula, HB 983 on judiciary appropriations, and HB 1126 on legislative branch appropriations. Throughout these measures, members highlighted funding for roads, corrections, public safety, education, health care, and economic development, and several members and staff were recognized for their work before the House adjourned to Monday.

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• How do I pay for things? I don't have to work those extra hours.
• pay because those are such high critical market positions for us to retain those folks in our neck of
• You know, we pay for their certifications. We pay for all that in.
• I think incentive programs when it comes to that, then what we do, plus, the pay is much, much higher
• Thank pay the books. They don't to worry about working as many hours.

Keywords: 999, senate, all

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• We need to make it easier for folks to get access, and we need to make sure we're paying for it.
• And there was nothing looked at to see whether or not it was reasonable that one CBC is paying $400 a
• day for something and another one's paying $1,000 a day for something.
• $1,000 for group care, how many of them are in this field and how many are paying less than $700 or
• Are in this field and how many are paying less than $700 or whatever that may be, right?

Summary: The committee heard a presentation from Dr. Kelly O’Dare on first responder behavioral health access, peer support, and suicide prevention. She described UCF Restores, the Second Alarm Project, and related partnerships that provide culturally competent treatment, peer training, clinician education, disaster response support, and behavioral health navigation. She cited survey and state data showing significant rates of sleep problems, anxiety, depression, substance use, and suicide among Florida first responders, and said evidence-based treatment has helped many patients recover, including a reported 76% who no longer met PTSD diagnostic criteria after treatment. Senators asked about measuring outcomes, peer support standards, and whether the state should create more consistent statewide requirements; O’Dare said peer support training must be specialized, linked to higher levels of care, and supported by sustainable funding and statewide coordination. The committee also heard from a public commenter who supported the work and emphasized the need for adequate resources and peer support infrastructure. The committee then received a Department of Children and Families presentation from Casey Penn on the proposed funding methodology for community-based care lead agencies under HB 7089. Penn explained that the new model is intended to be actuarially based, reimbursement-oriented, and more transparent than prior funding approaches, using historical expenditures, standardized reporting, and two main tiers: Tier 1 for largely fixed administrative and operational costs, and Tier 2 for direct child-serving costs based on per-child-per-month blended rates. He said the model includes a 2% risk corridor for Tier 2, hold-harmless funding in the first year, and optional Tier 3 performance incentives, with an estimated additional state appropriation need after offsets. Senators raised concerns about prevention, historical inequities, reasonableness of costs, administrative overhead, blended state and federal funds, adoption subsidies, high-acuity placements, and disaster-related disruptions. Penn said some of those issues could be addressed in future iterations as the child welfare information system is modernized, and he agreed to provide written responses to committee questions. Representatives of the Florida Coalition for Children and CBCs responded that the model is a major improvement but urged additional safeguards, including an administrative cap, clearer separation of direct and indirect costs, and better treatment of federal and pass-through funds. They argued that the system already has oversight and that deficits reflect insufficient appropriations rather than excess spending, while also noting that higher-acuity children and regional differences can drive costs. No votes were taken on either topic, and the meeting ended with committee staff introductions and adjournment.