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• We stand on our wants and what the party wants, and that should not be what we do.
• They will be the nominee of their party.
• I just went downstairs and we was talking about the error rate for SNAP, right?
• The error rate for what? >> SNAP benefits, EBT, right?
• I've had lifelong Republicans tell me that they don't recognize their party anymore.

Keywords: 1136, house, all

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• The chair will alternate recognition between the parties, with time equally allocated between the parties
• The chair will alternate recognition between the parties, with time equally allocated between the parties
• between the parties and each member between the parties and each member other<00:06:23.960> than
• <00:12:13.160> snake attending physician on her third snake attending physician on her third
• Either way, I wish you well in this third act.

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Tuesday, January 21, 2025, 1012, house, all

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• 40,000 deaths last year in the United States, and just shy of 90% of them were attributed to human error
• . 80% of them were attributed to human error, and over 30% of them were due to drunk driving.
• during this 96 million miles traveled, of those 45 incidents, 41 were found to be a result of human error
• anyways with the other party in the incident.
• The third bullet here really gives you a sense of some of the key aspects of this.

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• The Clerk will give the bill a third reading. Third reading, House File Number 747. Third reading.
• The Clerk will give the bill a third reading. Third reading, House Bill 944.
• The Clerk will give the bill a third reading. Third reading, House Bill 1346.
• The Clerk will give the bill its third reading. Third reading, House Bill 1034.
• The Clerk will give the bill a third reading. Third reading, House Bill 1058.

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• :02.720> parties<00:04:03.519> exists this bill about third parties exists this bill about
• <00:04:13.120> Without<00:04:13.599> third-party genetic material.
• Without third-party genetic material.
• This includes in vitro fertilization and third-party services as included in the bill.
• party services provided by or to a third party and<00:20:32.559> the<00:20:32.799> definition

Bills: HF4609, HF4401

Keywords: infertility, fertility treatment, fertility preservation, IVF, assisted reproductive technology, ART, oocyte retrieval, embryo transfer, egg freezing, sperm freezing, reproductive health, maternity coverage, health insurance mandate, health plan benefits, Medical Assistance, Medicaid, MinnesotaCare, family planning, oncology fertility preservation, chemotherapy

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• Bill's on third reading.
• Third reading of the bill. The bill is advanced to third reading with the right to amend.
• Bill's on third reading.
• Bill's on third reading. Bill's on third reading.
• parties.

Keywords: 994, senate, all

Summary: The Senate considered and passed a series of House bills on third reading, with several title amendments and a few effective-date motions adopted. Early in the session, members passed HB 4452 removing acreage limits on land owned by church or religious trustees, HB 4577 creating reciprocal driver’s license recognition agreements with Ireland and Japan, HB 4588 authorizing West Virginia participation in a federal tax credit scholarship program, and HB 4592 requiring higher education institutions to create coordinated campus safety maps. HB 4602 was amended to align with a prior Senate child welfare pilot program, and members discussed its projected cost and implementation timeline before passing it. HB 4603 created a pre-adjudicatory alternative disposition process in abuse and neglect cases, and HB 4606 narrowed bail rules by requiring consideration of residency and community ties while prohibiting personal recognizance bonds for violent felony offenses after an adopted amendment. The Senate also passed HB 4710 changing the party-registration deadline for candidates from 60 to 180 days before an election, with debate over its impact on independents, and made it effective January 1, 2027. HB 4712, known as Bailey’s Law, increased penalties for DUI causing death and related conduct, with emotional testimony from members about the victim and similar tragedies. HB 4765 established a pay raise for teachers, school personnel, and state police and added a market-pay enhancement system based on county cost-of-living differences; an amendment to the amendment capped county differentials and guaranteed at least a 1% increase in every county. HB 4865 created an optional program for high school and homeschool students to serve as election official trainees, and HB 4869 established narrow guaranteed-issue rights for Medicare supplement policies. Later bills included HB 4995, which strengthened video/audio recording rules in special education classrooms and was passed, then reconsidered and passed again; HB 4996 creating a new crime for making threats of violence against schools or children; HB 5048 guaranteeing virtual instruction for foster children in temporary placement; HB 5065 adding recordkeeping and geolocation requirements for hotel marketplace facilitators to ensure proper hotel tax remittance; and HB 5074 reallocating medical cannabis fund revenues to child protection, homeless services, research, law enforcement, and other purposes. The Senate also passed HB 5101, the Joanna Phillips Domestic Violence Prevention Act, which increased penalties for domestic violence offenses and adjusted bail provisions, after amending it to conform with the earlier bail bill. Additional measures passed included HB 5166 requiring notice before political committees are fined for filing violations and allowing limited extensions, HB 5168 directing $12 million in lottery funds to EMS first responders and county EMS support, HB 5182 authorizing certain state treasurer security personnel to carry concealed firearms, HB 5212 streamlining higher-education financial aid rules, HB 5214 allowing court-ordered drug testing of parents before reunification in abuse and neglect cases, HB 5353 regulating virtual currency kiosks with licensing, disclosures, and transaction limits, and HB 5366 exempting J-LAP records from FOIA to protect confidentiality for lawyers and judges seeking assistance. Most bills passed with strong bipartisan support, though HB 5074 and HB 5353 drew some dissenting votes.

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• discontinued, and the department was to request from the SFOs the return of all funds received in error
• , which would be March through June 2025, were based on survey results from October, which was the third
• example, 341 accounts with nearly $2.2 million in excess FES UA funds and student accounts for the third
• But I think getting all the parties involved in the same room, the legislature, the department, the SFOs
• Ideally, it's supposed to be completed in December, and then they do the third calculation.

Summary: The Senate Appropriations Committee on Pre-K-12 Education met for its first meeting of the 2025 session to hear the Auditor General’s operational audit on 2024-25 school funding accountability challenges, focused largely on the Family Empowerment Scholarship and its interaction with the FEFP. Deputy Auditor General Matthew Tracy described rapid growth in scholarship enrollment, timing mismatches between scholarship payments and public-school funding calculations, delayed membership survey processing, weak cross-check and recoupment procedures, inconsistent handling of parent survey responses, and limited documentation for withholding and returning funds. The audit said these issues contributed to funding inequities, duplicate-payment risks, and an unexpected draw on state education funds, and it recommended separating scholarship funding from the FEFP, aligning application windows with budget timing, strengthening controls and staffing, and creating clearer, documented recoupment and balance-limit processes. Committee members questioned whether current law gives the department and scholarship funding organizations enough authority and whether the system is effectively a pay-and-chase model. Several senators expressed concern about the lack of timely reconciliation, the size of the funds involved, and the absence of clear records showing how money was recovered or withheld. Adam Emerson, executive director of the Office of School Choice, said the department is working more closely with school districts and scholarship funding organizations, including pausing payments when districts identify students still enrolled in public schools, and said the office wants to improve the process. President Gates then previewed legislation he said would address the audit’s findings by funding Family Empowerment Scholarships as a separate FEFP categorical, expanding the Education Stabilization Fund, setting clearer application and acceptance deadlines, moving to monthly payments with eligibility verification before each payment, assigning student IDs for scholarship assistance, lowering SFO management fees, requiring annual audits, and requiring prompt return of audit-related funds. Public comment included a private-school attorney describing losses from unpaid scholarship amounts. Members generally supported the need for reform, with several senators saying the program should be preserved but better structured and more accountable. The committee adjourned after the discussion, with no vote taken on the legislation.

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• And he was convicted under a theory of law known as parties? Law of parties. Yes, sir.
• I'd asked a couple of questions earlier about law parties.
• Law parties theory should obviously be considered for release as well.
• And the other third party who played a larger role, Jason essentially sat, while he was inside the pawn
• I'm in my third term.

Bills: HB285, HB795, HB1795, HB1871, HB2407, HB2461, HB2695, HB3507, HB4911, HB200

Keywords: animal cruelty, nonlivestock, prosecution, veterinary defense, animal welfare, aggravated assault, penal code, public servant, deadly weapon, mass shooting, Penal Code, penalties, felony, Texas Penal Code, felony enhancement, first-degree felony, second-degree felony, violent crime, assault punishment, serious bodily injury

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• SB 608 is the third year in attempt. SB 608 is the third year in attempt.
• As a result, many patients must rely on financial assistance from third parties to afford their vital
• Patients must rely on financial assistance from third parties to afford their vital medications, even
• This would require health plans and insurers to count manufacturer copay coupons and other third-party
• captures what the health plan or the insurer pays directly to the broker, missing compensation from third-party

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• you know with within various parties. you know with within various parties.
• And then also, if we have an error rate above 6%—and New Hampshire has an error rate below the national
• So the first level of error is a 5% pickup of that, which used to be 100%.
• So if we keep our error rate below 6%, we'll have no financial obligation.
• We need to work with other, um, parties I think that can support people who can be compliant.

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• Third reading. bill its third reading. Third reading.
• The clerk will give the bill its third reading. Third reading. House File 1290. Third reading.
• It's a rounding error.
• It's a rounding error. But if change. It's a rounding error.
• <02:27:09.520> Third the bill its third reading. Third the bill its third reading.

Keywords: 1183, house

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• third party sources, uh, professionals third party sources, uh, professionals in<00:56:41.599>
• We modeled this using professionals, third-party professionals that do this for a living.
• > and relative to third party code review and relative to third party code review and inspection<
• We already have in place third-party inspectors and a process and qualifications for electrical.
• report to the governor, not a third report to the governor, not a third party.<04:13:02.880>

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• It corrects grammatical errors and miscellaneous drafting, grossing, and other errors.
• grammatical errors and miscellaneous grammatical errors and miscellaneous drafting<00:13:32.560>
• . errors. errors.
• Third reading. Any other discussion?
• give the bill its third reading. give the bill its third reading.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• <00:08:40.880> for for small wineries and the third for for small wineries and the third for
• Third, I will talk international level.
• And then, third, we look at evaluation practices at other states.
• So each one kind of introduces more potential for error.
• So again, I just potential for error.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• It's just some minor tweaks, um, that I think that, that would make the bill much better for all parties
• I think this will eliminate a lot of errors that are made. So thank you very much. Yeah, thank you.
• As you can imagine, when you have all these forms, the possibility of errors goes up exponentially.
• And unfortunately these errors can sometimes lead to these nasty surprise bills, or as I like to call

Bills: HB138

Keywords: voter registration, application rejection, transparency, election integrity, state law

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• And what I think will help the Senate position for both parties is that once there is a Senate policy
• And what I think will help the Senate position for both parties is that once there is a Senate policy
• And what I think will help the Senate position for both parties is that once there is a Senate policy
• and across parties. So um and across parties. So um I'm<00:50:10.040> optimistic.
• or something or understandable error or something or waive<01:20:20.280> much<01:20:20.560>

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• <01:54:12.600> professional a qualified third-party professional a qualified third-party professional
• A qualified third-party professional, A qualified third-party professional, this<01:55:30.200> includes
• party should the an associated third party should the financial<02:08:33.840> institution<02:
• <02:08:57.440> party disclose their concerns to a third party disclose their concerns to a
• a third party may be if they suspect a third party may be involved<02:09:00.680> in<02:09:00.800

Keywords: 927, senate, all

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• > siloed<00:12:24.279> office<00:12:25.079> which It creates a completely siloed third-party
• kind of a a you know nonpartisan<00:35:34.720> you<00:35:34.800> know<00:35:35.079> third-party
• <00:35:36.079> hotline nonpartisan you know third-party hotline nonpartisan you know third-party
• or the agency it's for regulated party or the agency it's for all<00:47:48.520> parties<00:47
• He said that what they really want in this process is to have an impartial third party, not a smoke screen

Bills: HF8, HF1416

Keywords: wetlands, environmental review, permitting efficiency, Pollution Control Agency, construction permits, environmental impact statements, local government, business regulation, environmental assessments, HF1416, relocation grants, economic development, business relocation, site selection, business incentives, grant extension, appropriation extension, DEED, Department of Employment and Economic Development, request for proposals

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• Apologies for the error. And the AFL-CIO is also in opposition, correct?
• This clarifies that the bid incentive given to bidders for public works construction projects for parties
• projects for parties to an apprenticeship<00:09:47.040> agreement<00:09:48.000> is<00:
• <00:28:10.120> on<00:28:10.279> the<00:28:10.480> third but no later than 7:
• 45 a.m. on the third but no later than 7:45 a.m. on the third business<00:28:11.399> day<00:28

Keywords: 912, senate, all

Summary: The committee met for joint decision-making on several measures related to elections, telework, procurement, hiring, public records, and public meetings. On Senate Bill 444, testimony was largely opposed or in comment, and the chairs said the bill raised real issues that needed more time; they deferred it for the year. Senate Bill 1091 on telework and space allocation drew support and discussion about DAGS’ role versus the Department of Human Resources; the committee agreed to amend it in a Senate Draft 1 to remove reference to OE, add a DAGS management analyst position, change “positions” to “allocations,” limit the assessment to executive branch departments in DAGS-managed or DAGS-leased facilities, and add a defective date, then passed it with amendments. Senate Bill 1057 on apprenticeship-related bid incentives received mixed testimony, including support from labor and opposition from some contractor groups, and was passed as a Senate Draft 1 with technical amendments and a defective date. Senate Bill 1065 on skills-based hiring, which would bar bachelor’s degree requirements for most state jobs with exemptions, had support from the Comptroller and outside groups and was passed with technical amendments and a defective date. The committee also took up several procurement and accountability measures. Senate Bill 92 on emergency medical response/defibrillators was deferred indefinitely because a pilot project is already underway in the Capitol building and the committee wants to use that information before expanding. Senate Bill 1175 on a past-performance procurement database was amended to add general fund appropriations and committee-report language about funding needs, then passed. Senate Bill 1587 on retainage was heavily amended to define total project budget, revise retainage language, leave key percentage and day limits blank for further review, limit application to contracts executed after January 1, 2026, and add a defective date; it passed as amended. Senate Bill 1543 on government accountability was amended to incorporate procurement officer changes and add language ensuring inherent government functions are not delegated to contractors, then passed. Senate Bill 1255 on government records was amended to clarify that records used in performing a government function are public records subject to UIPA, add contractor recordkeeping/access requirements, protect certain confidential contract information, and add a defective date; it passed. Additional measures were either deferred or advanced with amendments. Senate Bill 1513 on appropriations was deferred to a time certain on February 11. Senate Bill 1616 on care centers was converted into a feasibility study and passed with a defective date. Senate Bill 74 on state construction projects was deferred indefinitely due to concerns it could slow projects and duplicate another measure. Senate Bill 125 on state organizations and administrations was amended to codify Administrative Directive 19-02, with a note about a possible title issue, and passed. Senate Bill 786 on government records was deferred to February 11 for further amendment work. Senate Bill 1611 on government positions was amended by removing section two and passed. Senate Bill 1637 was deferred for the year after testimony indicated the action could already be done. Senate Bill 1651 on public meetings was amended to require board packets by the third business day before a meeting, remove the word “full,” and adjust notice language, then passed. Senate Bill 1617 on public meetings was deferred because the Office of Information Practices reported no complaints. Senate Bill 1253 on boards and commissions was deferred indefinitely due to no testimony. Senate Bill 1031 on advisory referendums was deferred to February 11 for possible amendments. Senate Bill 1306 on a procurement automation special fund was amended to align procurement statutes and add the School Facilities Authority executive director as a chief procurement officer, then passed.

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• <00:11:53.279> with<00:11:53.440> the errors oh not errors problems with the errors
• oh not errors problems with the 21<00:11:54.320> code<00:11:54.720> so<00:11:54.959>
• He asked whether that was because of a drafting error.
• The response was that yes, it was because of a drafting error.
• > was the drafting error but because it was the drafting error but because it was eliminated<01

Keywords: 928, house, all

Summary: The committee first took up House Bill 1/CAC 1, which concerned gubernatorial succession and incapacity. Members supporting an ITL motion said the bill was not workable as written and that New Hampshire already has a constitutional structure that has functioned for more than 200 years. Others noted the state’s two-year gubernatorial term and said the existing protections were sufficient. The committee voted 16-0 to inexpedient to legislate, and the item was placed on consent. The committee then considered House Bill 96, the energy code bill. Supporters argued that updating the code would reduce long-term energy costs, improve climate resilience, help the construction industry, and keep New Hampshire eligible for federal funding. Opponents of ITL said the bill was premature because the 2024 energy code was already under review, housing costs were a major concern, and the testimony on costs was conflicting and not well supported. The committee voted 12-4 for ITL, and a minority report was requested. House Bill 161, dealing with the Native American Affairs Commission, was also sent to ITL by a 16-0 vote and placed on consent. Members cited serious concerns about vacancies, expired terms, missing annual reports, and whether the commission was functioning effectively. Several members said the committee lacked the expertise to resolve the underlying cultural and intergovernmental disputes and that the issues were beyond the committee’s scope. Finally, the committee took up House Bill 428 and adopted Amendment 0328 by a 16-0 vote. The amendment would preserve municipalities’ ability to make administrative building-code amendments, such as permit, inspection, occupancy, and fee procedures, while still barring local governments from setting higher construction standards than the state code. Testimony emphasized that the amendment was meant to clean up and consolidate related language and make the bill administratively workable. After the amendment passed, members discussed the bill in amended form, with supporters and opponents focusing on housing costs, local control, flood protection, and the risk of inconsistent local codes.