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• I believe that we do not have the resources to cover all threats.
• And you agree that we need those additional resources? I do agree. Thank you.
• Is it essential that the Air National Guard has the infrastructure and resources necessary to execute
• Overbaugh, are you familiar with MISSEC and MISSEC's analysis?
• Now, it was the result of much analysis and careful planning. It's this document... right here.

Keywords: Department of Defense, nominations, Matthew Lohmeyer, Justin Overbaugh, global security, military readiness, NATO, Russia, China, defense infrastructure

Summary: The meeting was primarily focused on discussing nominations for key positions within the Department of Defense, specifically for roles such as the Undersecretary of the Air Force and the Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security. Senators expressed urgent concerns about global security threats, the need for robust military readiness, and the emphasis on effective collaboration with NATO allies amidst rising tensions with adversaries such as Russia and China. Several senators highlighted the challenges facing military infrastructure and defense capabilities, suggesting a critical need for improvements and investment in these areas to ensure national security.

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• The Game and Fish Department does not have the resources and tools to monitor and manage all of these
• Madam Chair, Senator, Representative, I appreciate your analysis.
• Sure, if you look at the end of your analysis.
• Yeah, look at the next to the last page of your analysis. It has amendments there.
• And members, if you look at page 4 of your analysis, you'll see the amendments there.

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• Zach McCarty, on behalf of NRDC, the Natural Resources Defense Council, in support. Thank you.
• Zach McCarty, on behalf of NRDC, the Natural Resources Defense Council, in support. Thank you.
• Saccharity, NRDC, Natural Resources Defense Council, supportive if amended.
• Resources on cleanup but lack effective enforcement tools to ensure compliance.
• You can see it in the analysis as well, I believe, but you could point to it in the bill.

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• So that means that we need to not let off on the gap funding resources, which is...
• So to finish up, I think we need to protect and expand gap funding resources.
• And so, ultimately, when you kind of flip to the next page here, you see the analysis produced.
• So that starts to give us our underlying analysis on whether or not this is feasible.
• So CMA is a competitive market analysis.

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• And that was exactly what you were just talking about, the analysis that is done in the negotiations
• And that was exactly what you were just talking about, the analysis that is done in the negotiations
• I think they have the resources to do that at the local government level as well.
• Other resources.
• I mean, if they don't have, if they don't have resources to, to offer, I mean, if they don't have resources

Keywords: 909, all

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• Reagan, that the library is already providing these types of resources.
• <00:20:00.880> the providing these type of resources the providing these type of resources
• I think there has been some past analysis in terms of what the actual cost is.
• I think there has been some past analysis in terms of what the actual cost is.
• <00:44:10.000> and Drive sort of the need for resources and Drive sort of the need for resources

Keywords: 912, senate, all

Summary: The committee opened its first hearing of 2025 and announced that all measures heard that day would be deferred to the next committee hearing for decision-making on Thursday, January 30. The agenda centered largely on procurement and government-operations bills, with testimony generally split between state agencies and local governments. On procurement measures, SB 254 and SB 383 would raise small-purchase thresholds; the State Procurement Office opposed both, while county officials, the City and County of Honolulu, the state librarian, and others supported them. SB 382, which would bar disclosure of a competing offeror’s proposal or evaluation score, and SB 462, which would require performance incentive contracts to specify pricing bases, goals, and formulas, drew mostly written comments and some support from agencies such as the Department of Transportation and Department of Education. SB 615, which would treat certain large change orders as new contracts, received opposition from the Comptroller and engineering interests. The committee also heard several bills on vacancies, appointments, and legislative oversight. SB 5 on state legislative vacancies had one supporting testifier, while SB 300 on deadlines for filling certain Senate vacancies drew opposition from several individuals and support from one late testifier. SB 1081, which would create a legislative budget office to provide fiscal analysis and reports on bills, received broad support from advocacy groups, civic organizations, and individuals. SB 711, requiring Senate advice and consent for certain executive-branch appointments, drew written opposition from the Governor’s Office and support from one individual. SB 375, establishing a select commission on government restructuring, had one written supporter. SB 418, which would require the Attorney General’s office to review a portion of administrative rules each year, prompted extended discussion about outdated rules, the difficulty of repealing or amending rules, and whether the bill should be refined; the AG’s office indicated the process is burdensome and could be streamlined. The committee then took up transparency and access measures. SB 55, requiring agency rules to be posted online in a digitally accessible format, received support from several advocacy and civic groups and written comment from the Lieutenant Governor’s Office. SB 870 would direct the comptroller to identify state office buildings that could provide equitable telecom access for remote participation in hearings, especially for residents with disabilities; the Comptroller supported the concept, and members discussed using libraries, DAGS facilities, county facilities, and other public buildings, with concerns raised about staffing, bandwidth, and competing public use. SB 270, a sunshine-law measure allowing board members to attend informational meetings and presentations, drew opposition from the Public First Law Center, which argued it would create a broad loophole and should be narrowed to existing county-council provisions. SB 45, concerning neighborhood board meetings and third-party presentations, prompted discussion about whether it actually addressed neighborhood boards’ Sunshine Law concerns; the committee was told it was not the right vehicle for that issue. SB 406, which would cap copying fees for government records at 5 cents per page with exceptions, drew support from media and transparency groups but opposition from DAGS, which said its actual per-page cost is much higher; members discussed possible electronic-copy alternatives and asked for more cost information before the next hearing.

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• This is the state's forest inventory analysis.
• <01:21:54.040> um resources um resources um but<01:21:56.639> I'd<01:21:56.800> like
• <01:41:32.520> is the pending cost benefit analysis is the pending cost benefit analysis is
• distributed distributed energy resources distributed distributed energy resources and<04:36:49.959
• <05:16:54.520> um quantifiable cost benefit analysis um quantifiable cost benefit analysis

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• With that, I am happy to take questions. analysis in environmental reviews as a analysis in environmental
• are able to provide the same resources are able to provide the same resources throughout<01:08:40.719
• because it made more fiscal and resource because it made more fiscal and resource sense<02:02:55.760
• <02:19:31.599> The<02:19:31.840> analysis has just been completed.
• The analysis has just been completed.

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

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• There will be a cost associated with it because we need to bring on additional resources to assist us
• There will be a cost associated with it because we need to bring on additional resources to assist us
• There will be a cost associated with it because we need to bring on additional resources to assist us
• into this analysis as well because<00:16:06.279> it's<00:16:06.480> really<00:16:06.880
• <00:31:03.120> of relating to their financial analysis of relating to their financial analysis

Keywords: Due to a technical issue in the room, the quality of the stream will be diminished. We apologize for the inconvenience. Meeting start 00:00:00 Roll Call 00:02:00 SB 61 Discussion Only 00:03:25 SB 13 Discussion Only 00:07:19 SJR 25 Discussion 00:25:33 SJR 25 Vote 00:28:40 SB 61 Discussion Only 00:29:44, 958, all

Summary: The committee first took up Senate Bill 61, relating to swimming pools, but initially had no representative from the governor’s office or cabinet available to explain the fiscal estimate. Senators questioned why the executive branch’s estimate was $4.25 million to $8.5 million while the committee’s internal fiscal note showed little or no impact. When Department for Public Health staff later joined, they explained their estimate was based on a roughly $85,000 cost for a large outbreak investigation, using a 2014 outbreak as a benchmark, and said the bill could increase workload and outside laboratory costs if private swimming pools became more common as rental properties. They reported 822 waterborne cases in 2024, with 8 tied to private swimming pools, and later corrected an earlier figure to 14 private-pool-related investigations over five years. Senators pressed on the discrepancy between those numbers and the projected 50 to 100 incidents, and staff said the higher figure was a ballpark estimate. The discussion also clarified that private pools are generally excluded by definition, while pools held out for rent may be treated as public pools under current definitions. No vote on SB 61 was taken in the portion provided. The committee then heard Senate Bill 13, concerning the reprocurement of managed care organizations for Medicaid. Department for Medicaid Services officials said the bill would require work on a new RFP, system changes, and oversight improvements, and estimated the cost at $2.8 million based on prior procurement spending of about $2.5 million in 2018-2019, with a 10% growth adjustment. They explained that the work is administrative and therefore matched at 50/50 federal-state funding, not the 80/20 rate used for benefits, and said the expense would be incurred whether the bill passed or not if the state proceeded with an RFP. Senators discussed possible savings from reducing the number of MCOs from five to three, but agency staff said those savings were hard to quantify and that provider and member disruption could create offsetting costs. The committee later moved on to Senate Joint Resolution 25, which would ask the Revenue Department to report on the cost of issuing farmers a wallet-sized tax-exempt card instead of a paper certificate. The resolution was adopted by roll call, with all members present voting aye, and it was reported favorably to the floor.

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• We also anticipate that effective implementation would include analysis of the coordination...
• That effective implementation would include analysis of the coordination and alignment of youth paid
• First of all, on the House analysis report on page one, it states that these grants would be made to
• And I'm trying to find the exact page where I saw this in the House Democratic Leadership bill analysis
• Maybe Albuquerque, for instance, has more resources, and another rural community...

Keywords: 996, all

Summary: The House Labor, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee met with a quorum and first addressed a point of order over whether HB 270 could be heard after being taken up earlier in the Transportation Committee. The chair ruled the bill could proceed because it was assigned to this committee and had been properly noticed. The committee then heard HB 280, which would create a three-year pilot program to support paid student internships through grants administered by the Department of Workforce Solutions. Supporters said the bill would help fund internships, mentoring, and transportation, and could improve workforce development, graduation outcomes, and pathways into apprenticeships or higher education. Members asked about administrative costs, student selection, rural and tribal access, payment mechanisms, and whether public entities, land grants, and dual credit could be included. The bill sponsor and witnesses said the program would likely serve about 100 students, use a sliding-scale matching model, and allow local flexibility in program design. The committee voted due pass on HB 280. The committee then heard House Memorial 46, honoring the Hurley family and especially Major General Patrick Hurley and his son Wilson Hurley for military service and artistic contributions in New Mexico. The memorial was presented as a tribute to a family of heroes, and members expressed support. The committee voted due pass on the memorial. Finally, the committee heard HB 270, which would amend the Public Works Apprentice and Training Act to require contributions to apprenticeship and training programs on most public works projects, including road and utility work, while exempting trades without approved programs. Sponsors said the bill would close loopholes, broaden participation, and strengthen the workforce pipeline. Opposition came from asphalt, contractor, and utility groups, which argued the bill would raise costs, duplicate existing training programs, and create access problems for nonunion and geographically distant contractors. Supporters from mechanical contractors, building trades, and labor groups said the bill would improve workforce development and keep training dollars in New Mexico. After debate over the earlier Transportation Committee action and the bill’s cost impacts, the committee voted due pass on HB 270 by a 5-3 roll call.

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• Upfront, you know, as part of the cost analysis when going down the initial path for project development
• So if you're looking at your potential load from a cost-benefit analysis, are you currently using all
• Hodel, just kind of looking at expanding that conversation: have you done a price cost analysis?
• Making these resources available throughout the year would allow us to provide better support to our
• This change would also level out the demand for these resources, which in turn helps improve service

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• campaign will focus on early detection, brain health risk reduction clinical trial access and community resources
• with their doctors about the cut, their cognitive health, and if diagnosed be informed about what resources
• that is extract double and able to be analyzed at the request of the Legislature for better data analysis
• But it's not necessarily going to take the place of I believe the analysis had almost 1500 children who
• These high resource indicators may include but not be limited to the potential for frequent placement

Keywords: 999, senate, all

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• Though more research and analysis is underway, we have looked to Scott County, where their family resource
• Though more research and analysis is underway, we have looked to Scott County, where their family resource
• Though more research and analysis is underway, we have looked to Scott County, where their family resource
• Though more research and analysis is underway, we have looked to Scott County, where their family resource
• Though more research and analysis is underway, we have looked to Scott County, where their family resource

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• She did analysis. She talked to lawyers.
• They give you a racial polarized voting analysis.
• That a lot of parties have done analysis, an analysis of this map, and I have yet...
• Republican performance analysis? I haven't asked that question.
• ...that to make a Jingles analysis and do other determinations.

Bills: SB 2, SB 5, SB 9, SB 7, SB 17, SB 4, HB4, HB1, HB3, HB20, HB22, SB9, SB7, SB17, SB4, HB4, SB2, SB5

Keywords: disaster relief, flood preparedness, emergency funding, local government support, meteorological forecasting, school assessment, public education, accountability, transparency, education standards, STAAR, Texas Education Agency, TEA, public school accountability, school ratings, A-F ratings, assessment reform, student testing, benchmark tests, interim assessments

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• and I I want to site I want our analysis and I I want to site I want our analysis and I I want to site
• that that we have in book the analysis that that we have in book the analysis that that we have in here
• able to run the data and do the analysis able to run the data and do the analysis from 22 and 23.
• to track down and apprehend resources to track down and apprehend resources to track down and apprehend
• from that any resources from that any resources from that defendant, bonding companies are defendant

Bills: HB265, HB146, SB254, HB202, HB3, HB42, SB18

Keywords: resisting arrest, penalties, criminal justice, law enforcement, public safety, youthful offender, capital murder, victims' rights, SB254, Alabama, statute of limitations, civil procedure, civil action, sex offense, sexual abuse, child sexual abuse, survivor rights, tolling, disability, minor plaintiff

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• The state provides the analysis, the care for the child.
• When you all finish your final analysis, we'll be back.
• Has there been, I know we're out of that now, but was there ever an analysis done on?
• We perform extensive research and analysis to evaluate the agency and identify problems.
• Last, the Department of Information Resources.

Keywords: 1184, house, all

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• Demographic analysis is literally an independent way of coming up with the national population.
• Demographic analysis is literally an independent way of coming up with the national population.
• And that's just here, and we're comparatively speaking a relatively well-resourced state.
• This analysis was done for census tracts nationwide.
• So demographic analysis, this— So demographic analysis provides state-level detail, or state and county-level

Keywords: 995, all

Summary: The Senate Committee on the Census met on December 8 at 9:32 a.m. to examine the dynamics that drive census undercounts and overcounts, with testimony first from Joseph Salvo and then from Susan Strait of the UMass Donahue Institute. Salvo explained the Census Bureau’s two main evaluation tools: demographic analysis, which uses vital records, migration estimates, and Medicare data to produce a national benchmark, and the post-enumeration survey (PES), which compares a separate sample-based count to the census. He said the 2020 census showed a small national net undercount, but larger age- and race-based disparities, including the highest undercount among children ages 0 to 4, higher undercounts for men, substantial undercounts for Black, Hispanic, and American Indian/Alaska Native populations, and overcounts among some older and college-age groups. He also described how self-response, non-response follow-up, administrative records, proxy responses, and imputation affected data quality, arguing that proxies and imputation were especially weak and that outreach remains critical for 2030. Committee members asked Salvo to clarify the methods and error bands, the role of international migration estimates, and how the PES differs from the census address list and LUCA. He explained that PES is based on a separate sample of blocks and can add units within sampled blocks, but it does not measure units missed entirely from the original address list; LUCA matters because it improves that list before enumeration. He also discussed age heaping, duplicate responses among older adults, and why group quarters and COVID-related disruptions complicated the 2020 count. Senator Driscoll briefly interrupted to describe Randolph’s successful appeal of its 2020 count after an undercount in disability care homes, and Salvo noted that the post-census group quarters review helped correct some missed facilities. Susan Strait then focused on Massachusetts-specific results. She said Massachusetts’ 2020 count was strong overall, with population growth above the national average and a PES-based finding that the state was overcounted by 2.24 percent, though she emphasized that this did not mean all areas were accurately counted. Using demographic analysis, she said Massachusetts had an estimated 4.15 percent undercount of children ages 0 to 4, with the largest county-level undercounts in Hampden, Suffolk, and Essex, and she linked higher child undercounts to lower educational attainment and female-headed households. Strait also reviewed operational metrics showing that Massachusetts had relatively strong internet self-response, but that non-response follow-up relied heavily on household interviews, administrative records, proxies, and imputation in different counties. She highlighted higher proxy use in college-heavy counties such as Hampshire and Suffolk, and said counties with more minority residents were more likely to have population-count-only cases and other indicators of harder-to-count populations. The hearing ended with discussion of how these findings could inform outreach and census planning for 2030.

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• With full-time research staff providing daily floor reports with analysis on each bill, they provide
• that analysis to their particular members here on the floor.
• She has been a valuable resource, assisting me on natural resources and on the issues of election education
• She showed a great mind for policy and analysis on the Energy Resources Committee and has taken on many
• Manager of Human Resources, Veronica Pang, and her staff.

Keywords: 1184, house, all

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• Speaking with the superintendent and district leadership, we are doing boundary analysis for a separate
• That adding a middle school analysis would then extend our timeline for that.
• Chair, members, on behalf of the Human Resources Department at the PSFA, just some key points on item
• Chair, members, on behalf of the Human Resources Department at the PSFA, just some key points on item
• Legislative initiatives, improving tools and processes and resources is critical.

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• <00:19:05.240> of<00:19:05.960> of<00:19:06.080> the is is kind of an analysis
• of of the is is kind of an analysis of of the sales<00:19:06.559> tax<00:19:06.919> proposal
• of software it takes detailed analysis of software it takes detailed analysis a<00:49:57.520>
• and when there's a superior resources and when there's a resource<01:04:58.400> imbalance<01:
• <01:12:03.800> into employers can reinvest resources into employers can reinvest resources

Keywords: 919, house, all

Summary: The committee took up House File 2437, the governor’s proposed tax bill, and first adopted the A25-Z42 amendment to put the bill in the desired shape. Commissioner Paul Marquardt of the Department of Revenue then presented the bill as part of Governor Walz and Lieutenant Governor Flanagan’s budget, describing it as a response to budget pressures that would make the tax system more fair and stable while supporting economic development and jobs. Marquardt walked through the bill’s major provisions. These included sustainable aviation fuel policy, repeal of K-12 education credit assignment, elimination of the political contribution refund, expansion of the research and development credit, short-line railroad infrastructure modernization, changes to the state airport fund levy, replacement of attachments and appearances with distribution systems, a narrow personal property tax exception for low-income housing tenants, reduced aquatic invasive species aid, and a 34% reduction in PILT payments. He then focused on the sales tax article, saying it would lower the statewide rate by 0.75% while expanding the base to selected professional services such as accounting, banking, brokerage, and legal services, with business-to-business transactions exempt. He said the proposal would be effective for sales and purchases after September 30, 2025, and estimated a first-year rate-cut impact of about $99 million versus $215 million from the service expansion, while arguing that most households would see a net tax cut. He also noted other changes such as landlord penalty adjustments, a 30% reduction in sustainable aviation fuel incentive payments, repeal of local government cannabis aid, and repeal of the tax filing modernization account. Public testimony began with Kyle Playford of the Financial Planning Association of Minnesota, who strongly opposed the proposed sales tax on professional services, especially financial planning. He argued that financial planning is an essential service for retirement, investment, and long-term financial security, and said the tax would raise costs for consumers, reduce access for middle-class families, small business owners, and retirees, and put Minnesota firms at a competitive disadvantage. The chair then indicated that additional public testimony would continue before member questions.