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• The dog had been abandoned by his owner in rising flood waters.
• So Cs for SB 50 directs the Florida Flood Hub to develop guidelines and standards for optimal combinations
• Assistant to the development of workforce training, including flood and sea level Rise.

Keywords: 999, senate, all

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• had become hijacked by this material after one or two exposures because this content is extremely flooding
• released today from The Wall Street Journal, and the headline is "Meta Apologizes for Error That Flooded
• But there’s a flood that are coming right behind us because it’s so important, and as you heard from

Bills: SB186, SB187

Keywords: internet filtering, child protection, obscene content, civil liability, manufacturers, app store, app store provider, app developer, mobile app, age verification, parental consent, minor safety, child online safety, parental controls, age gating, digital privacy, data protection, in-app purchases, online consumer protection, deceptive trade practice

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• Many of you have talked to me, and many of you know families that have perished in that terrible flood
• These are people who not only do not have flood insurance—because why would they?

Keywords: 997, house, all

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• Committee on Disaster Preparedness and Flooding will come to order. Clerk, call the roll.
• emergency plan, and also ensuring there's safe access to get out of the camp. ...in the event of a flood
• Generally, there shouldn't be cabins in the flood plains unless certain standards are met.
• testified during our 23rd hearing about disaster scams that proliferated in the wake of the July 4th flooding

Keywords: 1185, senate, all

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• blending nature with innovation and promoting mangroves, oyster reefs, and living shorelines to reduce flooding
• It also mandates a statewide study to assess nature-based flood mitigation, economic and environmental
• applied research and innovation, ensuring it remains focused on scientific research, Senator Garcia: flood
• infrastructure to address sea level rise and storm surges, Senator Garcia: support modeling efforts to assess flood

Keywords: 998, house, all

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• and then they're going to say, well, they... it's like the bill that wanted the book had to be on a flash
• Who uses flash drives?

Keywords: 928, house, all

Summary: The subcommittee work session of the Education Policy and Administration Committee focused on House Bill 131 and House Bill 781, which were described as nearly identical bills addressing student cell phone use in schools. Members noted that HB 781 is an early bill and therefore needed committee action by Wednesday, while HB 131 did not face that deadline. The chair and members discussed the bills’ shared goal of requiring school boards to develop and adopt policies on student personal device use, with debate over whether the state should set minimum standards or leave more to local control. A major topic was funding. One member urged the committee to avoid creating an unfunded mandate and asked for some funding support, while others argued it was too early to commit money and that the committee should first establish the policy framework. The governor’s proposed funding was discussed, including a $1 million figure in the budget and a separate $250,000 amount referenced in the bill, but several members said the money would likely be insufficient to cover all students or pouch systems statewide. The committee also reviewed a handout reflecting proposed budget language that would require school boards to adopt policies on personal device use during the school day, with schoolwide implementation and exceptions for medical disability or language proficiency needs, and a DOE-administered grant program. Members spent considerable time on drafting details, especially deadlines and exceptions. They debated whether the bills should require school boards to “develop,” “adopt,” or also “implement” policies, and whether the effective date of the act should also serve as the deadline for school boards. They also discussed whether exceptions for classroom instructional use should be mandatory or merely encouraged, and whether the bills should explicitly include or exclude charter schools. Additional proposed exceptions included IEPs, 504 plans, English learners, and medical needs such as glucose sensors or insulin pumps, with some members suggesting medical issues be certified by a physician. No final vote or formal action was taken in the work session.

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• to several correction officers that have filed reports on behalf of women who have been harassed, flashed
• to several correction officers that have filed reports on behalf of women who have been harassed, flashed

Keywords: 1183, house

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• So in this section, we have the flood control facility, which references 244-276. is 244-276.
• allows them to vacate, change, adjust an alley, street, or thoroughfare, or an area that's near a flood
• So are we going to be building homes where the county will be allowed to basically build near a flood
• So I can't imagine anything being built in a flood zone. Anything being built in a flood zone.
• ... ...if a real property is sold or leased and then it has the flood control piece here but I did it

Keywords: 909, all

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• If you have an office inspector general, I think they're going to get flooded with tips and phone calls
• If you have an office inspector general, I think they're going to get flooded with tips and phone calls
• If you have an office inspector general, I think they're going to get flooded with tips and phone calls
• But also the other one is saying, look, we're going to be flooded with these.
• we're going to be flooded with these. we're going to be flooded with these.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• along with other states, has experienced an increasing frequency of disasters, wildfires, droughts, floods
• . floods after wildfires, snowmageddons, and water system failures, the middle one is important as well

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• When floods, storms, and blizzards hit our state, it is the Guard that rescues neighbors, clears the
• Yet deployments abroad often overlap with crises at home, as we've seen in recent years, with floods
• Whether it’s battling floods along our coast, responding to nor’easters, or even mitigating a school
• Whether it’s battling floods along our coast, responding to nor’easters, or even mitigating a school
• bus driver shortage during COVID... ...battling floods along our coast, responding to nor’easters, or

Keywords: 995, all

Summary: The committee held a hybrid public hearing on seven House bills and seven Senate bills related to the Massachusetts National Guard and U.S. Armed Forces Reserves. Opening remarks covered hearing procedures, livestreaming, testimony limits, and expected reporting dates, and chairs noted the committee’s focus on Guard and Reserve issues. Testimony then moved through several bills, including S. 2465 to expand the National Guard welcome-home veterans bonus to all deployed Guard members regardless of residency, H. 3876/S. 2462 to authorize military-style headstones for long-serving or deceased Guard members, and S. 2482/H. 3833 to establish a Massachusetts National Guard Museum in Salem. Supporters of the bonus and headstone bills argued they would correct inequities and better honor service; Senator Lovely described the museum proposal as a way to preserve the Guard’s history in Salem and potentially support federal funding for the project. A major portion of the hearing focused on H. 3829/S. 2471, the “Defend the Guard” proposal that would bar Massachusetts National Guard deployments into active combat absent a formal congressional declaration of war. Supporters argued the bill would restore constitutional war powers, reduce repeated undeclared deployments, and protect Guard members’ mental health and state readiness. Opponents, including retired Guard leaders and current service members, warned it could conflict with federal law and Title 10 authority, undermine federal funding and training, and harm readiness, force structure, and unique Guard capabilities. Committee members repeatedly questioned the bill’s legal authority, constitutional basis, and practical effects under the Supremacy Clause and Title 10, and several witnesses were asked to submit additional written legal support. The committee also heard testimony on H. 3831, which would extend Chapter 115 benefits to currently serving Guard and Reserve members who do not meet federal veteran-status thresholds, and on related proposals to clarify Guard command structure and the duties of the Adjutant General. Supporters said these changes would improve access to benefits, reduce confusion in the chain of command, and strengthen discipline and responsiveness. Separately, the National Guard Association of Massachusetts backed H. 3860/S. 2458, the Guard Enlistment Enhancement Program, as a recruiting tool, while opposing the Defend the Guard bills. No votes were taken during the hearing.

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• Representative Sam Jackson to urge and request DOTD to study the recent occurrences of rainwater flooding
• Representative Sam Jackson to urge and request DOTD to study the recent occurrences of rainwater flooding
• Representative Sam Jackson to urge and request DOTD to study the recent occurrences of rainwater flooding
• Fish and Wildlife Service to conduct a study on the impact of flooded corn on migratory waterfowl behavior
• It is essentially Senator Kennedy writing a letter about flooding duck fields in the Midwest for study

Bills: HR286, HR287, HR288, HR289, HR290, HR291, HR292, HR293, HR294, HCR114, HR275, HR276, HR277, HR278, HR279, HR280, HR282, HR283, HR284, HR285, HCR112, HCR113, SCR62, SCR64, SB132, SB135, SB405, HR179, HR216, HR223, HR225, HR274, HCR89, SB39, SB99, SB111, SB112, SB124, SB134, SB174, SB189, SB190, SB201, SB233, SB236, SB258, SB270, SB273, SB288, SB307, SB313, SB320, SB321, SB325, SB326, SB331, SB339, SB341, SB345, SB346, SB347, SB353, SB357, SB359, SB387, SB393, SB401, SB415, SB419, SB422, SB426, SB435, SB437, SB440, SB451, SB464, SB470, SB487, SB488, SB495, SB504, SB505, SB518, SB523, SB228, SB408, HR168, HR174, HR194, HCR54, HCR74, HCR79, HCR87, HCR94, HCR95, HCR97, HCR98, HCR102, HCR104, SCR23, SCR38, HCR26, HB250, HB265, HB339, HB427, HB445, HB463, HB468, HB606, HB639, HB649, HB665, HB746, HB781, HB853, HB861, HB872, HB886, HB916, HB937, HB1054, HB1068, HB1117, HB1237, HB75, HB705, SB34, SB164, SB172, SB198, SB208, SB232, SB281, SB286, SB317, SB322, SB334, SB380, SB385, SB409, SB417, SB421, SB430, SB439, SB447, SB458, SB510, SB54, SB56, SB72, SB79, SB97, SB105, SB123, SB125, SB129, SB163, SB171, SB252, SB287, SB375, SB386, SB461, SB466, HR84, SCR3, HB582, HB625, HB646, HB998, HB1191, HB1255, SB81, SB100, SB109, SB197, SB374, SB479, SB78, HB901, HR20, HR74, HCR65, HCR71, HB284, HB302, HB306, HB341, HB366, HB393, HB458, HB577, HB603, HB605, HB614, HB733, HB752, HB773, HB798, HB911, HB955, HB996, HB1035, HB1069, HB1113, HB1140, HB1180, HB1240, SB82, SB89, HB134, HB258, HB359, HB782, SB149, SB382, SB441

Keywords: HR286, House Resolution 286, LED, Louisiana Economic Development, rural development, energy efficiency, renewable energy, public-private partnership, tax credits, economic development, workforce training, school energy costs, community colleges, technical colleges, local government, building modernization, on-site energy generation, public facilities, rural parishes, distressed communities

Summary: The House met with a quorum, received a guest minister for prayer, approved the journal, and heard several announcements and recognitions, including NEC Awareness Day, a European Union delegation visit, and the Glenmore Wildcats baseball team’s state championship. Members also received Senate messages, including concurrence on some House measures, the filing of Senate bills, and several Senate resolutions and bills laid over for later consideration. The chamber then took up a long series of resolutions and bills. Among the resolutions adopted were measures on a Louisiana-United Kingdom Trade Commission, support for migratory waterfowl studies, hunting education in schools, SNAP delivery-fee studies, fraud prevention for seniors, subsurface data preservation, boating safety reporting, and visual acuity screening data. Some items were temporarily returned to the calendar, including a sales-tax uniform-base rule resolution and several Senate measures. The House also adopted a resolution creating an agricultural national security task force and another supporting a letter to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. On legislation, the House passed bills on missing-person alerts for people with disabilities (“Brian’s Call”), first responder status for public works employees, planning commission procedures, historic preservation district rules, judges’ supplemental compensation, the Baker Economic Development District, New Orleans downtown development district tax authority, a local crime prevention district, clerks of court records, hotel occupancy taxes in Shreveport-Bossier, firefighter cancer screenings, Shreveport police civil service rules, local ethics entity funding, hemp/alcohol age restrictions, OMV digital signatures, LED recreation, TOPS Tech eligibility for veterans, anatomical gift recordkeeping, crypto kiosk fraud protections, firefighting foam definitions, and consumer data privacy. Several bills failed, including HB 705 on legislative contempt penalties and HB 75 on gaming promotional play. One bill on vehicle insurance reinstatement fees was amended and passed, and a bill on judicial compensation fund adjustments was amended and passed after questions about CPI indexing.

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• When we think about the city of Santa Clara and the indigenous communities, more recently, the flooding
• We had flooding, great lake levels, and rivers running.
• I know flooding; it was historic flooding there in Coyote Creek even just recently, as of a few months
• State parks are very vulnerable to things out of our control: wildfire, flooding, you know, all of those

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• The Columbus Flood Control Project is probably the biggest project that we have.
• It looks like down south in Columbus when there's flooding and there's no berm.
• on the border and so many possibilities, but if we don't have that berm project that prevents the flooding
• They're actually grants for water and wastewater particularly, but also for flood control, which does
• That water, that community, is built on a dry lake bed, so the flooding is actually water that wants

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• At the federal level, a pandemic, floods, and fire, and so much else that seems sometimes destined to
• After the fires here, the fires, the flooding, etc., did you see an uptick in physical and mental effects
• devastation, what I call the aftermath of COVID, and then on top of that here for our county, fire and flood
• It's growing on a foundation that was strong, but now we're in a flood.
• We're in a flood.

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• a retired teacher of almost 30 years, uh, delighted to be back and hope that there's no lasting flooding
• damage, thank gosh, that we did not have that right now, and it, it, it had an impact of that, of that flood
• . 82 students became homeless as a result of the floods here in Travis County, uh, raising the number
• the, the, uh, southwest part of town, uh, that are still, you know, uh, uh, being impacted by that flood
• could be used to power emergency generator, emergency generators in case of something like a lot of flooding

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• Mouse River flood control.
• Valley City flood control has been at $15 to $16 million, $14. They asked for $16 million.
• We've helped every community with flood control.
• help them out somewhere along the line, because they do have a lot of citizens now that are paying flood
• We just removed that language that basically said Bismarck was exempt from the stormwater flood control

Keywords: 908, all

Summary: The Senate met with a quorum present and handled a mix of conference committee appointments, appropriations bills, policy bills, and House amendments. Early in the session, the chamber appointed conference committees for SB 2399 and for House-amended SBs 2213 and 2354, and also named conference committees for HB 103, HB 1308, and HB 1169. The Senate then took up several appropriations measures, including HB 1612, which creates the North Dakota Center for Aerospace Medicine at UND; the Senate adopted an amendment shifting the funding to a one-time $250,000 Community Health Trust Fund appropriation with a required $250,000 match from other sources, and the bill passed 39-7. HB 1193, the “Back the Blue” grant, was amended to make the funding one-time and focus on officer retention, then passed 41-5. HB 1329, a government spending database proposal for school districts, was amended into a legislative study and passed 42-4. HB 1020, the water budget, received extensive amendments reducing and reallocating funding across major water projects, adding studies and oversight changes, and passed 45-0 with the emergency clause. HB 1581, a tribal tourism grant, also passed 40-6. The Senate rejected HB 1330, which would have authorized divestment from direct investments in Chinese companies; after debate over the prudent investor rule, trade impacts, and whether the bill singled out one nation in law, it failed 20-26. HB 1534, limiting property valuation increases, and HB 1266, adjusting the disabled veterans property tax credit, both failed unanimously or nearly so after committee recommendations against them. HB 1566, which would have created a regulatory framework for a product discussed as kratom, was amended on the floor to convert it into a study and then passed 31-15. The chamber also passed HB 2241 on charter schools after a House amendment changed the funding formula to the statewide average from the prior year, and HB 2022, the indigent legal counsel budget, after House changes added funding flexibility, offset lost fee revenue, and included a study on a public defender office. The Senate concurred in several House amendments and then passed a number of Senate bills. SB 2375, allowing joint negotiations between dental providers and insurers under Attorney General oversight, passed 44-2. SB 2251, clarifying that open records requests during state audits should be referred to the audited agency, passed 46-0. SB 2159, related to nuclear energy research, passed 43-3 after House amendments required Industrial Commission approval and consultation with the radioactive waste advisory council. SB 2155, changing gratis antelope license rules, passed 30-16 after debate over landowner rights and tag distribution. SB 251, setting fees and an audit for the Private Investigative and Security Board, passed 44-2. SB 2280, the prior authorization health insurance bill, passed 43-3 with a House-added study and consumer protections. SB 2023, the Racing Commission budget, passed 41-5 after a House change made internship funding one-time. SB 2232, changing prenatal substance exposure reporting requirements and related toxicology rules, passed 44-2. SB 2241, authorizing public charter schools, passed 39-7. The session ended while the Senate was still processing SB 2022’s final passage vote, but the bill had already cleared concurrence on House amendments.

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• A few weeks ago, we experienced devastating flooding that resulted in several deaths, hundreds needing
• I was born and raised in the Valley, and I've lived my life watching these flooding incidents come and
• that would allow people to live without the fear of losing everything they own to these biannual floods
• Our Rio Grande Valley community just... ...offered a historic flood, and the state does not even have
• of dollars that could have strengthened emergency response teams, supported local schools, funded flood

Bills: HB1320, HB2012, HB2293, HB2655, HB3174, HB4108, HB4661, HB4799, HB5534, HB5580

Keywords: transportation, infrastructure, funding, state budget, public safety, child welfare, county boards, membership, local governance, public welfare, government service, social services, Texas Family Code, regulation, vendors, solicitors, roadside sales, county authority, Sweeny Hospital District, board of directors

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• So when you say, I understand, like taking it off, like there’s going to be this flood, it’s not going
• There’s not going to be a flood. The first priority is the free and reduced lunch students.
• Going to be a flood. The first priority is the free and reduced lunch students.
• large number of applications into the program because the program is so low profile that it won't be flooded
• <00:59:40.119> with profile that it won't be flooded with profile that it won't be flooded

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

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• <00:46:36.319> It<00:46:36.480> was to closures due to flooding.
• It was to closures due to flooding.
• This relocation clears the flood plane and essential infrastructure flood plane and essential infrastructure
• It is a problem with flooding.
• It is a problem with flooding.

Bills: HF1569, HF460, HF850, HF707, HF798, HF852, HF366, HF365, HF836, HF866, HF885, HF959, HF1196, HF1788, HF1349, HF2272, HF2652, HF1251, HF607

Keywords: transportation, bond issuance, capital investment, infrastructure, road improvements, HF460, Sibley County, Highway 21, County State-Aid Highway, bonding bill, state bonds, bond proceeds fund, transportation grant, infrastructure improvements, sanitary sewer, water main, storm sewer, stormwater, public works, local infrastructure