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• 8, the agency shall notify the camp operator of the plan's deficiencies.

Summary: The meeting included a Senate recognition ceremony honoring the Winona High School boys basketball team for winning the 2026 Alabama High School Athletic Association 5A state championship. A resolution was read commending the team for its 101-40 victory over Silicag, noting the team’s record-setting performance, Brendan Davis’s MVP honor, the contributions of other players, and Coach Cedric Lane’s leadership. Senators and the lieutenant governor praised the players’ sportsmanship, the school community, and the team’s historic season, and copies of the resolution were presented to the team, coaches, and administrators. Several guests and school representatives also spoke briefly, including the coach and principal, who thanked the Senate and noted the team’s success and the principal’s retirement after 35 years. After the recognition, the Senate returned to session and adopted the Committee on Rules report setting the special order calendar. The calendar included Senate Bill 99 on the Ten Commandments, Senate Bill 298 on Class 3 municipalities, House Bill 381 on camp safety, Senate Bill 370 on tax increment districts, Senate Bill 363 on the Department of Economic and Community Affairs, House Bill 466 on firefighters, House Bill 95 on elections, House Bill 259 on stablecoin, and Senate Bill 342 on education. The chamber then took up SB 99, sponsored by Senators Kelly and Sessions. Senator Kelly described the bill as requiring local school boards to display the Ten Commandments, together with founding documents such as the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Bill of Rights, and Alabama Constitution preamble, in certain history classrooms and common areas for grades five through 12, using donated displays and funds when available. He said the bill was intended as a historical and educational measure, not religious instruction, and emphasized the inclusion of a disclaimer stating Alabama is not establishing a religion. After extended debate and a petition to close debate from the Rules Committee, the Senate voted on the bill by long roll and passed SB 99, with the recorded vote announced as 30 yeas and 4 nays.

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• Nevada Conference of Operating Engineers.
• Across state agencies.
• And while many state agencies operate their own radio systems as users, PSC provides support and connectivity
• The operations, the operational, demands on regional public safety resources.
• The operations, the operational, ...and local roles will have separate public safety responsibilities

Committee: House Emergency Management

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• Operations Officer Wes Morehead.
• We've been operating since 1963, so 62 years of continuous operations.
• Uh, the continued maintenance under agency-defined standards and so when an agency is setting up an agency
• Very few federal or state land agencies own and operate their own fleet.
• In either case, Texas has operational control of the aircraft. The operator doesn't.

Committee: House State Affairs

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• However, our commercial disposal operators, that is, operators who are accepting wastewater that's been
• on the common operating picture.
• So operating in that space is alarming.
• So my work, as an agency with Treasury, my work with an agency with Mike Waggishback and the LLA team
• Preparedness, GOSEP, and all the agencies to operate 24 hours over three days to be able to respond

Summary: The committee met on May 26, 2026, and first approved the minutes from the May 22, 2025 meeting. The main topic was the Northwest Louisiana earthquake cluster, with testimony from Louisiana Department of Conservation and Energy staff, LSU and Tulane geoscientists, and later LSU law professor Keith Hall. Witnesses said the cause of the swarm has not been definitively identified, but induced seismicity from wastewater injection or hydraulic fracturing remains a concern. They described 50 earthquakes reported by the USGS in Red River, Bienville, DeSoto, and Natchitoches Parishes, including a magnitude 4.9 event on March 5, 2026, and explained that Louisiana’s sparse seismic network limits detection and depth/location estimates. C&E said it inspected Class II injection wells within 12 miles of the events, found no violations, now requires more frequent injection reporting, and is working with researchers and LSU on a possible state monitoring network and future policy changes. Committee members asked about injection depths, fault locations, whether the activity could be natural, and whether Louisiana should adopt stronger monitoring or a traffic-light regulatory system like other states. The witnesses said more data is needed before firm conclusions can be drawn, but that denser monitoring can detect smaller quakes and help identify patterns. Professor Hall summarized responses in other states, including more frequent reporting, increased monitoring, injection reductions, moratoria, and traffic-light systems in Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas, Ohio, and Illinois. Members also discussed whether operators should share more seismic and geologic data, and several said the state should avoid jumping to conclusions while still improving oversight. The committee then heard from William Berger, a Texas geoscientist, who described using AI and operator data to model wastewater injection and seismic risk, and said broader data sharing would improve forecasting and siting decisions. He and another witness emphasized that many earthquakes arise from clusters of wells rather than a single well, and that proprietary concerns limit voluntary disclosure. The committee also received a brief update from GOSEP and the Louisiana National Guard on the Barksdale Air Force Base drone incursions. GOSEP said it logged the incident in WebEOC and shared releasable information, while State Police and the FBI said they were limited in what they could disclose. Officers said a task force has been formed, some personnel have received federal drone-mitigation training, and House Bill 940 is intended to mirror the task force MOU. Finally, Major General Thomas Friloux and Brigadier General Jason Maffus updated the committee on the merger of GOSEP into the Louisiana Military Department. They said the merger has reduced GOSEP from seven divisions to three, brought back employees to in-person work, modernized the state’s common operating picture, and produced about $10.5 million in first-year cost avoidance through staffing and contract changes. They also noted the planned transfer of the Louisiana Center for Safe Schools to the Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement, ongoing hurricane preparedness, and continued coordination with parish emergency managers. No votes were taken on the substantive topics, and the meeting ended with the committee moving through its agenda items and receiving informational testimony.

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• END OF THE NEXT CHART BREAKS DOWN HISTORICAL FUNDING BY AGENCY.
• OPERATING NOW WE ARE TRACKING DENTAL SERVICE PROVISIONS BY THE AGENCY AS AGENCY AS WELL AS THE EXPENDITURES
• ONE IS THE ODD BUDGET WAIVER WHICH IS ONE OF THE MEDICAID PROGRAMS ARE AGENCY OPERATES.
• WE HAVE ONE STATE AGENCY. THE AGENCY FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES THAT HAS A PROGRAM.
• ABOUT $8.000000. 5 PERCENT OF MY OVERALL AGENCY BUDGET.

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• resources transfer from operating resources transfer from originating<00:28:53.960><c> agencies</c><
• agencies.
• agency would continue its work, and how DCF functions could also be done at the new agency.
• agency would continue its work, and how DCF functions could also be done at the new agency.
• She said those were things needed to manage the agency and support program operations, and she would

Committee: House Children and Families Finance and Policy

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• But you don't think that... and other operators.
• They're relatively broad for operating expenditures.
• All four of these agencies are having operational shortfalls that they're hoping to shore up with things
• Was that the operational fiscal difficulties right now?
• This loan is critical for Bay Area transportation agencies and their operations.

Committee: Senate Budget and Fiscal Review

Summary: The Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee heard two measures: AB 107, a budget bill junior making largely technical changes to the 2023, 2024, and 2025 budget acts, and AB 117, a trailer bill authorizing a $590 million loan structure to support four Bay Area transit agencies through the Metropolitan Transportation Commission using unallocated Transit and Intercity Rail Capital Program funds. Finance explained AB 107 included technical fixes such as extending encumbrance periods, updating federal authority, correcting fiscal language, moving $20 million for California travel promotion from Visit California to GoBiz, and adding an APA exemption for implementation of already-approved climate bond programs. AB 117 was described as a cost-neutral regional solution with a 12-year loan term, two years interest-only, and repayment secured through existing state transit funding streams, with oversight by CalSTA, CTC, and MTC to limit impacts on other projects. Members raised concerns about transparency, competitive bidding, and whether APA exemptions and no-bid or emergency processes could reduce oversight, while supporters argued the exemptions were needed to get voter-approved climate and wildfire-related funds out the door. On AB 117, senators questioned whether the loan could become a de facto bailout if a Bay Area sales tax measure fails, whether post-pandemic ridership declines and safety/fare-evasion issues are temporary or structural, and whether the loan could jeopardize TIRCP-funded capital projects such as BART Phase 2. Transit agencies and local representatives testified in support, saying ridership is recovering, the loan is critical to avoid service cuts, and the Bay Area economy depends on transit stability. The committee first passed AB 107 on a 9-4 vote and AB 117 on a 9-4 vote, then held both bills on call. After recess, absent members returned and both measures were lifted from call and passed with 11 votes each. The committee then adjourned.

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• As a reminder, I requested agencies to submit a 2% to 3% reduction of their operating budgets.
• We are not an agency with a lot of fat, despite their agency head.
• The team was really great at explaining the agency structure, the day-to-day operations.
• They're moving to paperless, and the agency is not funded through general revenue and operates entirely
• They've suggested some regulation changes for their agency that should reduce operational costs, and

Summary: The subcommittee met to review agency travel, budget reduction exercises, and member reports from agency meetings. Early discussion focused on the Department of Management Services (DMS), where members questioned the cost of travel for four out-of-state data/cyber staff and the secretary’s absence. DMS defended the hires as highly specialized enterprise cybersecurity and data personnel, said the positions were lawfully paid and posted, and explained that the staff work on statewide data cataloging and cyber risk reduction rather than agency-by-agency systems. Members also raised concerns about fleet inventory discrepancies and requested follow-up information on hiring, travel, and data inventory timelines. The chair said she would consider travel guardrails and possible reductions, and noted that DMS, the Lottery, and the Florida Commission on Human Relations did not meet the requested reduction target, while the Public Employee Relations Commission did not submit reductions. The committee then heard from the Florida Lottery about the secretary’s trip to Paris for the World Lottery Convention. Lottery staff said the trip was reimbursed through the multi-state lottery organization and was intended to share best practices and improve operations, though members questioned the value of the travel and requested reimbursement records and the trip agenda. The subcommittee also reviewed agency reduction exercises from several agencies. The Department of Revenue exceeded its target and was praised for frugality; DFS, the Florida Gaming Control Commission, the Office of Financial Regulation, the Office of Insurance Regulation, the Public Service Commission, the Division of Administrative Hearings, and the Department of Business and Professional Regulation each described how they met or approached their reduction goals, often through vacancies, reversions, or expense cuts. OIR warned that further reductions could hurt insurance regulation capacity, while OFR and PSC said their reductions were based on historical reversions and lower post-COVID travel or vacancy levels. Members then reported back on agency meetings. DMS members raised fleet tracking, real property audits, salary studies, and health plan savings ideas, and asked for follow-up on the Florida PALM project, cybersecurity grants, and state IT modernization. DFS members said the agency was efficient and that its Palm-related work and insurance consumer programs were important. Lottery members emphasized the agency’s revenue generation for education and its low administrative overhead. Gaming Control members highlighted storage costs for seized gaming equipment and suggested technology-based alternatives. PERC members said a union-related law had doubled their workload and asked for more staffing and possible AI assistance. OIR members stressed the need for a Tampa satellite office and more resources to recruit and retain specialized staff. The chair closed by saying the committee would continue reviewing travel, staffing, and reductions with an eye toward taxpayer value and transparency.

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• Today we're going to engage in a discussion on agency program funding.
• , but we are probably first and foremost a finance agency.
• operations and maintenance of Camp Landing Joint Training Center.
• My question is, how do we help smaller agencies? to help fund.
• Small agencies don't get to play in this.

Summary: The committee met to review agency program funding as it prepared to build the budget, hearing brief presentations from six agencies and then taking member questions. Florida Division of Emergency Management highlighted its role in response, preparedness, recovery, and mitigation, describing a largely federal pass-through budget, major technology investments, and large disaster and preparedness grant activity. The Department of Commerce, Department of State, Florida Housing Finance Corporation, Department of Transportation, Department of Military Affairs, Florida State Guard, and Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles also summarized their budgets, staffing, and major programs, including workforce and economic development, elections and arts funding, housing assistance, transportation work programs, military readiness, state guard expansion, and highway safety and motorist services. Members focused questions on several issues: arts and library grant funding and whether award criteria had changed; Commerce’s rural infrastructure and job growth grants and why funds were not being disbursed faster; Florida Housing’s use of SAIL, Live Local, Hometown Heroes, and SHIP funds and how smaller agencies learn about and access funding; and DOT’s work program gap between agency and governor proposals. The most extensive questioning was directed to Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles about long DMV lines, vacancies, overtime, staffing shortages, and the ability to shift funds between divisions. The department said staffing and pay constraints, especially in South Florida, were driving service delays and vacancy rates, and that overtime was being used because troopers were leaving for better-paying jobs. The Florida State Guard was also questioned about its spending and procurement pace, including aircraft purchases and facilities. Its director said long procurement timelines explained the low initial spending and that obligations had risen sharply as contracts matured. Members also asked about the department’s public opposition to Amendment 3 and whether agency resources were used in that effort; the director said no contracts or purchases were made to influence the vote and said the colonel’s comments were made off the clock. The meeting ended with the chair asking agencies to respond promptly to unanswered questions, and the committee adjourned without any recorded votes or formal actions beyond receiving the presentations and questions.

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• Agencies are probably working with two or three of our agencies, and so those case managers can utilize
• Now our current operations and maintenance request would shift into GR the operations and maintenance
• There would be pure operations and maintenance.
• Amongst agencies, that would look like creating layers of work groups at all levels within the agencies
• Full integration and operation of all of our different agency partners' workforce systems will occur.

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• Thank you for having me today to present to you on two agencies.
• Always happy to talk to you about our agencies that we deal with.
• So, this is where Don has chosen to locate their operation.
• essentially operated by the Department of Aerospace.
• So, the airport manager is kind of the day-to-day operations, keeping things operating at the spaceport

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• The agency estimates to operate the childcare subsidy I appreciate the opportunity to be here today to
• The agency only has so many dollars to operate these programs, and when we look at the child, yes, it
• Don't think that this agency or anyone at the agency would ever say it's ok for a six year old To go
• I think that this agency, the director of this agency, isn't able to solve any of these problems alone
• I'm not opposed to anything that makes it simpler for the agency and the providers to operate under that

Committee: House Appropriations and Budget

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• So same operating budget process.
• State funding supports operational readiness, emergency operations center functions, and planning and
• We've sorted our agency priorities into three buckets: modernizing the agency, focusing on the Rio Grande
• We've sorted our agency priorities into three buckets: modernizing the agency, focusing on the Rio Grande
• The agency has relied for agency operations on these two trust funds for quite a few years.

Committee: Senate Senate Finance

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• I don't have a specific fact on how much the agency has spent. ...agency has spent related to complaints
• However, as a small agency, we simply are unable to compete with... salaries offered by larger agencies
• , the agencies that we recruit from.
• The support of this committee ensures that agencies like ours can continue operating efficiently and
• All agencies have deployed caps. I thought I saw funding in one of the agencies requesting funding.

Bills: SB1 , SB 1

Committee: Senate Finance

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• But you don't think that... and other operators.
• They're relatively broad for operating expenditures.
• All four of these agencies are having operational shortfalls that they're hoping to shore up with things
• Was that the operational fiscal difficulties right now?
• This loan is critical for Bay Area transportation agencies and their operations.

Summary: The Senate Budget Committee heard two bills: AB 107, a budget bill junior making largely technical changes to the 2023, 2024, and 2025 Budget Acts, and AB 117, a trailer bill authorizing a regional transit loan package for Bay Area agencies. Department of Finance staff said AB 107 contains no new state money or new policy items, but makes adjustments such as extending encumbrance periods, updating federal authority, moving $20 million in tourism promotion funding from Visit California to GoBiz, and adding an APA exemption for certain climate bond program guidelines. AB 117 would allow CalSTA to loan up to $590 million from unallocated Transit and Intercity Rail Capital Program funds to MTC, which would then lend to BART, Muni, Caltrain, and AC Transit; the loans would run 12 years with two years interest-only, and the state said the structure is intended to be cost-neutral and protected by repayment safeguards. Committee discussion focused heavily on transparency, oversight, and whether the transit loan could jeopardize future projects or become a de facto bailout if a Bay Area sales tax measure fails. Several senators questioned the need for the APA exemption in AB 107, arguing that emergency or existing public processes might provide better oversight, while supporters said the exemption was needed to get voter-approved climate bond funds out the door and that the language had already been agreed to in the budget process. On AB 117, senators raised concerns about declining ridership, fare evasion, safety, post-pandemic travel patterns, repayment sources, and the impact on other TIRCP projects such as BART Phase 2. Finance staff and transit representatives responded that ridership changes were driven by COVID-era shifts, labor and safety issues, and changing commute patterns, and that the loan would be secured against existing state transit assistance streams rather than general fund dollars. Public comment was largely supportive of both bills. Water, natural resources, and environmental groups backed the APA exemption in AB 107, saying it would speed implementation of Proposition 4 funding for water recycling, wildfire, coastal resilience, and related projects. Transit agencies and labor groups supported AB 117, saying the loan is needed to stabilize operations and preserve service while local revenue measures and efficiency efforts are pursued; San Francisco, Caltrain, BART, and AC Transit all testified in favor, though San Jose asked for stronger protections for previously approved TIRCP-funded projects. The committee first passed AB 107 and AB 117 on 8-4 and 9-4 votes, placed them on call, then later lifted the calls and both bills ultimately passed with 11 votes each and were sent out of committee.

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• operations.
• Currently, our agency operates in two Bell helicopters.
• We're one of four agencies within the state that do operate helicopters, and we do provide services to
• Several For emergency management operations.
• for the program or agency being evaluated.

Summary: The committee heard six bills on January 27, 2026. Senate Bill 6084 would clarify the prohibition on voting more than once in an election, in response to a court ruling that interpreted “election” narrowly; the sponsor and Secretary of State’s office said the bill is meant to ensure a person votes only once in Washington or in one state and another on the same election date. Testimony was brief and supportive, and the hearing was closed with many people signed in pro and con but not testifying. Senate Bill 6044 would recognize Diwali and Bandi Chhor Divas as a legislatively recognized day, and Senate Bill 5950 would add several non-legal holidays, including Sikh, Baha’i, Jewish, and Buddhist observances. Sponsors and supporters described the bills as a way to acknowledge minority faith traditions, promote inclusion, and help communities feel seen; testimony came from Jewish, Sikh, multi-faith, Hindu, Zoroastrian, and Buddhist representatives. The committee recorded substantial support for both measures, with no opposition testimony, and closed both hearings. Senate Bill 6046 would establish the Washington Division of Civil Air Patrol within the Military Department to better coordinate volunteer aviation support for disasters, search and rescue, cybersecurity, and other missions. The sponsor, Military Department, Civil Air Patrol, and veterans’ representatives said it would improve command and control and help the state use Civil Air Patrol more efficiently at no added cost. Senate Bill 5763 would create a grant program for local law enforcement aviation support units and expand wildfire-related aviation support to sheriff’s offices; sheriffs and police chiefs strongly supported it as a way to sustain helicopter-based search and rescue and disaster response, while DNR raised concerns about wildfire aviation standards, liability, and possible bill drafting issues. The committee also heard Senate Bill 5784, which would require agencies to collect and report more detailed demographic data under updated federal standards; the sponsor said better disaggregation is needed for accountability and to identify disparities, and the Office of Equity supported the policy while noting fiscal and privacy concerns and the need for possible amendments. The meeting ended after the final hearing, with no votes taken.

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• of Homeland Security was in charge of the entire operation, our law enforcement agencies, state and municipal
• . operation. operation.
• So I mean that is how they would have to operate: there is no other federal agency that asks our state
• So I mean that is how they would have to operate: there is no other federal agency that asks our state
• is that there is no other operate is that there is no other federal<01:20:37.920><c> agency</c><01:20

Committee: Senate Judiciary

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• The agency is primarily a pass-through entity.
• We have set up internal operations such that we continue to review how we operate.
• So, big part of that was really no loss for the agency in our operations.
• We are the lead agency.
• And they are operate.

Committee: House A&B Health Subcommittee

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• the agency.
• For operating costs, yes.
• Right, so on to agency challenges.
• These elements are crucial for ensuring we operate as a high-performing accountability agency.
• 85 state agencies.

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• ground crews across multiple government agencies.
• Aircraft, drone operators, and ground crews across multiple government agencies.
• Let's talk about those operational security risks.
• LET'S TALK ABOUT THOSE OPERATIONAL SECURITY RISKS.
• Small aircraft operators and regional jet operators could face significant challenges integrating new