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• INTEGRATE AI CONCEPTS INTO LEARNING STANDARDS AND CURRICULUM SO STUDENTS GRADUATE READY FOR AN AI EMBEDDED
• FOR EXAMPLE, THE TIME AND INTRODUCTION TO AI COURSE THEY ARE ALSO DOING A USE OF AI WHICH IS EMBEDDED
• RIGHT NOW IT IS EMBEDDED IN OUR IMPLEMENTATION GUIDE WHICH RIGHT NOW PRE-K THROUGH SEVEN THERE RIGHT
• NOW IT IS EMBEDDED IN OUR IMPLEMENTATION GUIDE WHICH RIGHT NOW PRE-K THROUGH SEVEN THERE IS NO AI USAGE
• >> Speaker: THAT IS NOT AN EXPENDITURE WE WOULD USE FOR E RATE BUT THE COST OF THOSE ARE EMBEDDED WITHIN

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• However, over the last year, we very intentionally developed a strategic roadmap, and AI is embedded
• I worry about the person who wants to become a software engineer.
• I worry about the person who wants to become a software engineer.
• <01:48:42.880> And software companies along the way.
• And software companies along the way.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• Sources include cloud services, including software as a service software value added reseller services
• , technology, hardware, software and services.
• It software as a service. We can't then going procure it platform as a service.
• That's not just software based right there services.
• I don't want to talk about software and I want to talk.

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• simple as Microsoft Word from publishing a book if they've written it in Word because a lot of the software
• technologies have included AI embedded in them.

Keywords: 993, senate, all

Summary: The committee met at 9:34 a.m. on April 1 with a quorum present and considered several Internet and technology-related bills. The first, S.1815 (Fernandez), would require books created with generative AI to include a disclosure; one member raised concern that the language could unintentionally cover ordinary software like Microsoft Word, and the chair said she would relay that concern to the sponsor. The bill was reported to the Consumer Protection Committee with five in favor, one opposed, and one without recommendation. The committee then advanced S.4609A (Gounardes), establishing a stop-online-creditors measure, to the Finance Committee, with one opposed. S.7713A (Krueger), restricting the use of automatic license plate reader information, was reported to the floor with five in favor and two opposed. S.7974, the chair’s bill on recovery of online accounts for mobile telephones, also moved to the floor with two opposed. Two additional bills passed unanimously or near-unanimously: S.8641 (May), giving website and mobile app users the right to refuse non-essential cookies, and S.9097 (May), concerning social referral services, both were reported to the floor with seven in favor. The meeting concluded after a motion to adjourn.

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• don't know for sure what's being proposed, and I think we have taken into account the concept of embedded
• It's amazing how many software companies are now stepping up and saying, we can do it with this gadget
• Software companies will have... You're making it sound like no one else is doing this.
• Software companies will have this done. It's going to be very easy.
• You're talking about software. I'm talking about people. Right.

Keywords: 959, house, all

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• The next line down is software service inflation increases.
• The next five down are softwares, actually four, are softwares that the institutions use for various
• The Ad Astra, that's the facilities and classroom management software to help with the scheduling of
• And then the parking software is $280,000.
• It's a software that creates the trainings for us to keep up with federal and state guidelines.

Keywords: 908, all

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• I think the point is that the statute does not have that feature directly embedded into it.
• We've seen legitimate access such as for maintenance, software updates, and warranty support becoming
• We can build firmware and software to the cows come home, effectively, but we can build that, we can
• So replacing the software is also a security control, which is kind of a strange catch-22 in this: to
• You want to update your software and firmware to make sure you don't have another vulnerability in it

Summary: The Senate Committee on Business and Commerce held its first interim hearing on securing critical infrastructure and supply chain integrity, with a focus on Texas’s electric grid and the Lone Star Infrastructure Protection Act. The chair also highlighted Texas’s relatively low electricity prices and welcomed new committee members. ERCOT, the Public Utility Commission (PUC), and the Attorney General’s office were invited to explain how the state screens market participants and grid equipment for ties to China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea, and how the agencies respond to noncompliance. ERCOT testified that it has implemented the requirements of three related Senate bills by requiring attestations on corporate affiliations and on critical grid equipment and services. ERCOT said it has processed thousands of attestations, used additional requests for information and third-party verification tools such as Dun & Bradstreet, and terminated nonresponsive market participants. ERCOT also said it has not seen a case requiring direct Attorney General involvement, but it does refer matters to the PUC when needed. The PUC said it can investigate suspected violations and impose penalties of up to $1 million per violation per day, and that most investigations into late or missing attestations have been resolved through compliance, market exit, or removal by ERCOT. The Attorney General’s office said its role is currently limited to audits and court involvement, and that it lacks broad independent investigatory authority under the act. Members pressed the panel on whether the current system is too reliant on self-reporting and whether it adequately addresses indirect foreign influence, especially through supply chains for batteries, inverters, transformers, and other equipment with routable connectivity. ERCOT acknowledged that the current attestation process has gaps and said it plans to refine definitions of critical grid equipment and grid services, improve information requests, and continue stakeholder rulemaking. The panel also discussed possible legislative changes, including tying prohibitions to the Department of Defense Section 1260H list and the Texas Prohibited Technologies list, clarifying warranty and service access, and expanding the statute to cover grid services more directly. Several senators raised concerns about cost, reliability, and the extent to which foreign-sourced components remain embedded in Texas infrastructure, while others suggested incentives for domestic manufacturing and stronger verification tools, including possible work with national labs such as Sandia.

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• We are requiring generative AI software providers to automatically add provenance data to any content
• We are requiring generative AI software providers to automatically add provenance data to any content
• We're requiring generative AI software providers to give users the option to add provenance data to an
• Is it metadata that's embedded in the photo that you're uploading, that perhaps it should, Chair, thank
• Is it metadata that's embedded in the photo that you're uploading, that perhaps it should, ...uploading

Summary: The committee first took up SB 702, as amended by a strike-all amendment on digital content provenance and authenticity. Senator Burgess said the bill would require generative AI providers to add provenance data to content wholly generated by AI, allow provenance tags on AI-modified images, require social media platforms to retain and display provenance data in an accessible format, and apply content credentials to online election advertisements. He also described a two-year pilot program for the Division of Emergency Management to test provenance data in emergency communications, and said the bill would be enforced only by the Attorney General with no private right of action. Supporters from Microsoft and Adobe waived in support, while TechNet and the James Madison Institute raised concerns about broad definitions, implementation burdens, and the possibility that the rules could be easily circumvented. The committee adopted the amendment and then reported CS for SB 702 favorably. The committee next considered CS for SB 282 on home and service warranty association financial requirements, which would allow extended warranty companies to use multiple insurance policies to back obligations and let companies with a $100 million net worth satisfy proof requirements through SEC filings or an audited financial statement. The Florida Service Agreement Association supported the bill, and the committee reported it favorably. The committee also passed CS for SB 678, which allows pawnbroker transaction forms to be printed or digital; the Florida Pawnbrokers Association and a business representative supported the change, the amendment was adopted, and the bill was reported favorably. The committee then heard SB 1132, the Portable Wireless Device Repair Act, which would require manufacturers to provide diagnostic tools, repair information, and parts to owners and independent repair providers, and would also extend right-to-repair concepts to agricultural equipment through an amendment. Supporters argued the bill would expand consumer choice and repair access, while opponents including TechNet, the Repair Done Right Coalition, the James Madison Institute, and the Taxpayers Protection Alliance warned about privacy, cybersecurity, trade secret, safety, and compliance concerns. After debate, the committee reported CS for SB 1132 favorably. Finally, the committee took up SB 676, which would create a framework for employees to knowingly and voluntarily waive the Florida minimum wage in certain internship, apprenticeship, and work-study settings, with a parent or guardian sign-off for minors. The sponsor said the bill was intended to expand job training and first-job opportunities for young people and others seeking experience, but multiple speakers and senators argued it conflicted with the Florida Constitution and existing case law, could be exploited by employers, and would undermine the voter-approved minimum wage. The committee continued extensive debate on the bill, with strong opposition testimony and questions about constitutionality, definitions, and enforcement.

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• In 1998, I wrote patient software for the home health care industry that had to coordinate the care of
• So embedded in the cost.
• But there are problems with PBMs, and the PBM is embedded inside an...

Bills: SB502, SB513, SB622, SB670, SB731, SB732, SB916, SB961, SB1122

Keywords: SB 502, Texas peace officers, Health and Human Services Commission, HHSC Office of Inspector General, OIG investigators, law enforcement classification, Schedule C, state employee benefits, injury benefits, peace officer status, commissioned officers, state auditor classification, Government Code, Code of Criminal Procedure, human services, health and human services, law enforcement compensation, public employee benefits, Texas state law enforcement, child welfare

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• This appropriation is for ongoing costs associated with already purchased equipment, such as software
• So, something<00:32:24.840> things<00:32:25.120> like<00:32:25.280> software<00:
• 32:25.679> licenses something things like software licenses something things like software licenses
• The proposal is intentionally focused, yet does not address embedded batteries or broader electronic
• We did not think we were at a place where we could do embedded batteries, so we are only looking at loose

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• <01:24:20.080> project, been through a large software project, been through a large software
• It's yet another SaaS solution, software as a service solution.
• So, you kind of lease access to the software from the vendor.
• cover how they um uh different software cover how they um uh different software and<01:42:53.360
• 47:34.159> the new software solution provides the new software solution provides the ability<01

Keywords: Meeting Start 00:00:00 Roll Call 00:00:27 Legislative Research Commission 00:01:15 KentuckyWired Operations Company 00:17:30 Wireless Internet Service Providers Association 00:40:15 Administrative Office of the Courts 01:08:55 Kentucky Auditor of Public Accounts 01:33:00, 958, all

Summary: The committee first approved the July 9 minutes without objection and heard from Jay Hartz and Jonathan Harris of the Legislative Research Commission. Members asked about Capitol and legislator security in light of recent targeted shootings in other states. Hartz said LRC had removed members’ home addresses from its website, was reviewing other state-government records for similar information, and was working with the Speaker, Senate President, Kentucky State Police, and outside security experts on broader safety measures. He also said LRC is exploring commercial products to help block personal contact information from public view, but declined to name vendors publicly. Harris added that driver’s license scans at the Capitol are handled by Kentucky State Police, while LRC has a process for flagging high-volume or concerning contacts for police review. The LRC also reported that redistricting work has already begun, with census coordination underway, evaluation of redistricting software including Mapitude and open-source tools, and plans to make the same tools available to the public in the LRC library. The committee then heard from Kentucky Wired Operations Company CEO Robert Morphonius, COO Tom Snyder, and counsel Patrick Hughes about the Kentucky Wired network. They explained the corporate structure: Kentucky Wired Operations Company is a private for-profit special purpose entity that designs, builds, operates, and maintains the network; Kentucky Wired Infrastructure Company is a nonprofit instrumentality used for financing; and Open Fiber Kentucky handles commercialization of excess capacity under a wholesale agreement. They said Kentucky Wired Operations is in the operations and maintenance phase, with those obligations continuing until 2045, and that technical changes to the network generally require KCNA approval through formal change-order processes. They also said the company conducted a market test in June 2023 under Schedule 19 of its contract, considered proposals including Open Fiber and the incumbent service provider, and retained the existing provider. Members asked about KCNA’s role, procurement, network customers, and revenue. The witnesses said Quac operates outside normal state procurement because its process is governed by contract, while KCNA acts as the Commonwealth’s oversight authority and filter for changes. They identified current network users as including AOC, KCTCS, postsecondary education, and other Commonwealth agencies, with all requests routed through KCNA; they also said a separate change process for Exceliccom is in litigation. On funding, they said the operation is paid through monthly appropriations, with roughly a million dollars a month for the service provider and a couple hundred thousand for Quac’s oversight, not including debt service, which is bundled into the availability payment. The discussion ended as members began asking about responsibility for damage-related costs such as squirrel-related outages.

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• It is very much embedded in our, uh, standards and, uh, and there are religious schools who, uh, make
• It is very much embedded in our, uh, standards and, uh, and there are religious schools who, uh, make
• It is very much embedded in our, uh, standards and, uh, and there are religious schools who, uh, make
• It is very much embedded in our, uh, standards and, uh, and there are religious schools who, uh, make
• It is very much embedded in our, uh, standards and, uh, and there are religious schools who, uh, make

Keywords: 928, house, all

Summary: The Education Funding Committee met to consider eight bills, beginning with HB 443 on the terms of appointment for members of the Higher Education Commission. Department of Education Director Steve Applebee explained that the commission supported a language change to address a holdover issue, but members raised concerns that the bill did not solve the problem of inactive members and might not address the broader question of whether the commission should continue to exist. The committee agreed to retain HB 443 for further work and voted 18-0 to do so. The committee then voted on HB 137, which would allocate excess statewide education property tax funds for local school and municipal purposes. Supporters of ITL argued that using the statewide property tax to reduce the state’s school funding obligation could create a slippery slope and shift more burden to property taxpayers. The committee voted 15-3 to ITL the bill, with a minority report to be written. HB 237, which would prohibit the use of special education and differentiated aid funds on students not receiving special education services, was also ITL’d after members said federal law already governs how IDEA-related funds may be used and that the bill was unnecessary. That motion passed 16-0, with some members not voting because they were out for medical reasons. The committee next advanced HB 354, creating alternative certification pathways for career and technical education instructors. Members said the bill could help recruit qualified tradespeople and retirees to teach in CTE programs, and it was approved 18-0 and placed on the consent calendar. HB 491, establishing a committee to study alternative public education funding methods and reduce reliance on local property taxes, was retained for further study after members said the committee or a subcommittee could continue the work over the year; it passed 18-0. HB 656, concerning local school districts’ authority to accept federal grants, was also retained after discussion focused on transparency, grant conditions, and the need to avoid delays in services; it passed 18-0. The committee then moved on to HB 729, an appropriation for an attorney to recodify education laws, but the transcript cuts off before that bill was acted on.

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• AI also, a human creation, is software code designed to do the bidding of its creators.
• <01:07:56.720> Whether<01:07:57.039> the<01:07:57.200> software<01:07:57.520
• Whether the software is of its creators.
• Whether the software is operating<01:07:58.079> correctly<01:07:58.400> or<01:07:58.559
• The software is the predator that weaponizes impulsivity.

Bills: HF357, HF3389, HF1434, HF2500, HF1606

Keywords: HF357, hasenpfeffer, card games, social skill game, Minnesota gambling law, tournament, contest, prize limit, low-stakes gaming, card game exemption, gambling exemption, cribbage, bridge, euchre, pinochle, Texas hold'em, whist, skat, sheepshead, gin

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• Madam Chair, thank you. it's also embedded in one of the letters it's also embedded in one of the letters
• <00:21:38.080> is electricity is Exempted and software is electricity is Exempted and software
• Now, the software and building materials exemptions are refund-based exemptions.
• Now, the software and building materials exemptions are refund-based exemptions.
• Now, the software and building materials exemptions are refund-based exemptions.

Bills: HF1277, HF1006

Keywords: data centers, tax exemption, Minnesota statutes, economic development, employment growth, property tax, abatement, land bank, redevelopment, political subdivision, 1183, house

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• They could have better support rather than everybody using a different software.
• We didn't want to—network engineers didn't want to know anything about the HR software.
• We didn't want to—network engineers didn't want to know anything about the HR software.
• the need for certain types of software or certain more efficient ways to do it.
• It doesn't matter what software you have.

Keywords: 908, all

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• And these are specific programs, again, that train for an occupation, but also have an embedded articulation
• college credit certificates, our college credit programs that are less than an as degree that are embedded
• The largest right now is the college career certificates that we have, those embedded college career
• They're up programmable mannequins, cultural reality equipment, software to replicate real-world son

Keywords: 999, senate, all

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• In 1998, I wrote patient assessment software for the home healthcare industry that had to coordinate
• Embedded in the cost and I, I can't argue that this is, um, an ERISA preemption because the Supreme Court
• was given at the, when the bill was laid out, there are problems with PBMs, but they, but the PBMs embedded

Bills: SB 502, SB 513, SB 622, SB 670, SB 731, SB 732, SB 916, SB 961, SB 1122

Keywords: SB 502, Texas peace officers, Health and Human Services Commission, HHSC Office of Inspector General, OIG investigators, law enforcement classification, Schedule C, state employee benefits, injury benefits, peace officer status, commissioned officers, state auditor classification, Government Code, Code of Criminal Procedure, human services, health and human services, law enforcement compensation, public employee benefits, Texas state law enforcement, child welfare

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• Again, it's embedded in the executive branch, and maybe in the short run there will be independence somewhat
• And I think if everything is just embedded in the executive branch, especially over time, it will not
• And I think if everything is just embedded in the executive branch, especially over time, it will not
• But we do need to upgrade our software programs.
• But we do need to upgrade our software programs.

Keywords: 1183, house

Bills: SB1110, SB1140, SB1234, SB1275, SB1426, SB1436, SB1470, SB1489, SB1512, SB1540, SB1556, SB1568, SB1569, SB1573, SB1585, SB1609, SB1627, SB1634, SB1635, SB1648, SB1654, SB1687, SCR1027, SCR1040

Keywords: home confinement, electronic monitoring, community supervision, criminal justice reform, recidivism, expungement, misdemeanor, criminal record, Arizona Revised Statutes, judicial process, record sealing, juvenile court, legal representation, appointed attorney, guardian ad litem, child welfare, veterans, mental health, criminal diversion, military service

Summary: The Judiciary and Elections Committee met with a hard stop at 4:30 and approved the February 4, 2026 minutes. The chair announced several bills would be held for a later supplemental meeting, then took up SB 1426, the “squatter” bill. The bill was described as changing forcible detainer rules for unauthorized occupants and requiring immediate writs of restitution after judgment. Testimony from the Arizona Association of Chiefs of Police and the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office supported the measure as a practical, collaborative response to unlawful occupancy. SB 1426 received a do-pass recommendation on a 7-0 vote. The committee next considered SB 1687, a strike-everything amendment moving the primary election date from late July to the Tuesday before Memorial Day starting in 2027. The sponsor said the goal was to give more time between the primary and general elections and align Arizona more closely with other states. County election officials testified in neutral, saying they generally supported more time but flagged several issues, including filing deadlines, consolidated election dates, polling place availability, redistricting timelines, signature calculations, and possible conflicts with presidential preference elections. The amended bill passed 4-3, with concerns raised about clean elections qualification periods and state versus local control over elections. The committee then approved SB 1110, which creates a home confinement program for certain nonviolent inmates, with GPS monitoring, eligibility limits, and a 50-to-1 inmate-to-officer ratio. Supporters said it would help families, reduce recidivism, and save money; an opponent criticized the retroactive effective date and questioned funding and monitoring capacity. SB 1110 received a do-pass recommendation on a 5-1 vote. SB 1275, which allows courts to consider PTSD and related service-connected conditions when sentencing certain veterans and first responders, drew support from the sponsor and advocates but opposition from county officials who argued it would undermine mandatory sentencing and victims’ rights; it passed 7-0. Finally, the committee heard SB 1140, as amended, which allows expungement of eligible misdemeanor records after a waiting period, with exclusions for serious offenses and special rules for shoplifting and peace officer employment. Supporters, including a formerly incarcerated advocate and a retired police chief working on anti-trafficking issues, said expungement would improve employment and stability and give people a real second chance. The committee adopted the amendment and then passed SB 1140 as amended on a 7-0 vote before adjourning.

Bills: SB1277, SB1531, SB2452, SB2520, SB2521, SB2529, SB2538, SB2539, SB2541, SB2873

Keywords: municipal sales tax, street maintenance, local option tax, Tax Code Chapter 327, sales and use tax, street repair, sidewalk maintenance, water infrastructure, wastewater system, stormwater system, local election, ballot language, reauthorization, municipal finance, infrastructure funding, Texas municipalities, street and sidewalk tax, special district tax, public works, property tax