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• relating to the use of funds awarded under the Jobs and Education for Texas, uh, better known as the JET Grant
• child, um, but also we'll expand the number of those programs actually available by, by providing grants
• This change came from TechNet recommendation to promote consistency and ease of compliance.
• I'm trying to focus in the best way I can, that the compliance has not been met, according to the laws
• And everything that has been presented to everyone down the line has been in deception of compliance

Bills: HB74, HB175

Keywords: environmental project, public money, political subdivision, greenhouse gas emissions, federal law compliance, renewable energy, water conservation, retroactive child support, child conception, paternity, family law, health care expenses

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• We have other receiving stations in Grant County that has been stricken.
• We have other receiving stations in Grant County that has been stricken.
• We have other receiving stations in Grant County that has been stricken.

Bills: HF3553, HF3513, HF3576

Keywords: vehicle platooning, transportation, public safety, pilot project, Wilkin County, Grant County, autonomous vehicles, transportation regulations, driverless cars, safety standards, first responder interaction, school bus, third-party testing, driver certification, transportation regulation, 1183, house

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• The College Grant awards were changed to 50% of the average awards granted to students at the public
• The maximum Washington College Grant is the average of the awards for the same academic year granted
• So a student at my campus gets $7,700 for the College Grant.
• A student at Gonzaga gets $9,700 for the College Grant.
• The Washington College Grant is what made my education possible.

Bills: SB5826, SB5828, SB5909, SB5954

Keywords: medication abortion, public education, access, healthcare rights, postsecondary institutions, college grant, scholarships, higher education, private institutions, Washington State, undergraduate programs, enrollment, program review, public institutions, veterans, tuition waiver, education, survivors, eligibility, 904

Summary: The Workforce Development Committee heard public testimony on several higher education bills. SB 5954 would align Washington’s veteran survivor tuition waiver rules with federal survivor education benefit eligibility, extending age and time limits for children, spouses, and domestic partners in certain cases. Senator Wagner said the bill would help families who lost state eligibility while waiting for federal certification, and veteran advocates supported it as a way to expand educational opportunity for military families. The committee then heard SB 5826, which would require public colleges and universities to provide access to medication abortion through student health centers or referrals and online information by the 2027-28 academic year. Supporters, including students and reproductive health advocates, said the bill would reduce travel, wait times, stigma, and barriers to care for students. Opponents, including religious and anti-abortion witnesses, argued the bill would promote abortion, impose costs on campuses and taxpayers, and expose students to medical and moral harms. No vote was taken. Members also heard SB 5828, which would restore and adjust Washington College Grant and College Bound Scholarship awards for students attending private, not-for-profit four-year institutions so the amounts are tied to public four-year averages. Senator Nobles and supporters said the bill would preserve student choice and prevent aid cuts from disrupting students mid-degree, while public university faculty opposed shifting more aid to private schools during a tight budget year. The committee also heard SB 5909, which would require public baccalaureate institutions to review and report low-enrollment undergraduate programs and potentially discontinue them after repeated low enrollment, with teach-out plans and exceptions for workforce, equity, and accreditation needs. Supporters framed it as a transparency and efficiency measure; faculty and campus representatives opposed it as too blunt and likely to harm small, specialized, and underrepresented-student-serving programs. The hearing concluded without recorded votes or final action on the bills.

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• So in my current role, I supervise actually a jail diversion grant, uh, where my diversion coordinator

Bills: HB268, HB305, HB307

Keywords: gun show, firearm sales, criminal background check, firearm regulation, gun show promoter, election procedures, voter registration, residence requirements, change of address, voter eligibility, youth camp, flood safety, life jackets, grant program, flotation devices

Bills: SB15, SB65, SB241, SB304, SB402, SB413, SB427, SB499, SB583, SB621, SB673, SB840, SB850, SB854, SB974, SB1023, SB1024, SB1025, SB1106, SB 15

Keywords: SB 15, Texas Local Government Code, zoning preemption, housing affordability, small lots, lot size, lot density, single-family zoning, residential subdivision, municipal land use, local control, state preemption, parking requirements, setbacks, infill development, missing middle housing, lot width, lot depth, homebuilders, housing supply

Bills: HB609, HB630, HB654, HB676

Keywords: oyster mariculture, aquaculture, farming, water quality, regulations, outboard motors, certificate of title, vessel regulation, Texas Parks and Wildlife Code, marine documentation, hunter education, criminal charge, illegal hunting, mule deer, white-tailed deer, sustainability, wildlife conservation, unmanned aircraft, wildlife retrieval, Hunting

Bills: SB 324, SB 1978, SB 2139, SB 2401, SB 2587, SB 2610, SB 2858, SB 3016

Keywords: E-verify, employment verification, state contracts, immigration, labor compliance, Sunset Review, government accountability, Texas Lottery Commission, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, Texas Ethics Commission, government agencies, regulatory review

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• How much each individual county gets. grants is a direct appropriation in the grants is a direct appropriation
• </c> with more dollars for SCORE grants. with more dollars for SCORE grants.
• </c> almost 50% more of their SCORE grants almost 50% more of their SCORE grants available<01:28:05.800
• The SCORE grants are not funding counties adequately to provide for that recycling.
• :49.000><c> counties</c> grants are not funding counties grants are not funding counties adequately<01

Bills: HF3426, HF3896, HF1426, HF3793, HF4061, HF4246

Keywords: natural resources, environment, sustainability, conservation, outdoor recreation, wild rice, watercraft regulation, environmental protection, aquatic ecosystems, HF1426, product stewardship, extended producer responsibility, EPR, electronics recycling, e-waste, battery recycling, circuit boards, printed circuit boards, electrical products, covered products

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• With me today is the mayor of Arden Hills, David Grant. David Grant, mayor of Arden Hills.
• </c><00:10:34.120><c> please</c> David Grant uh thank you Mr Grant please David Grant uh thank you Mr
• mayor of Arden may proceed David Grant mayor of Arden Hills<00:10:40.360><c> Madam</c><00:10:40.680>
• Representative Grant, I meant Mayor Grant. We wouldn't want to downgrade your position.
• Representative Mohler, thank you for making your way down, Mayor Grant, to testify on behalf of Arden

Bills: HF220, HF230, HF240, HF241, HF295, HF429, HF490, HF505, HF574, HF576, HF581, HF865, HF918, HF1085, HF1449, HF1452, HF1454, HF602

Keywords: HF220, Minnesota transportation, highway user tax distribution fund, trunk highway fund, Minnesota Department of Transportation, MnDOT, transportation finance, dedicated funds, funding restrictions, arts in transportation, cultural strategies, transportation project planning, project design, project construction, placemaking, public art, infrastructure spending, state statutes 161.045, HF230, Wyoming

Bills: SB1767, SB1859, SB1767, SB1859

Keywords: alcoholic beverages, shipping, retailers, legal compliance, civil penalties, interstate regulation, enforcement, cyber crime, fraud unit, digital evidence, Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, investigative powers, financial deception, ransomware, 914, all

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• child, and identified by the Department of Children, Youth, and Families as consistent with and in compliance

Bills: HB2200, HB2468, HB2660

Keywords: developmental disabilities, residential settings, data access, safety, stability, terminology correction, social services, healthcare, regulatory compliance, department reorganization, child welfare, court authority, shelter care, family law, court conditions, 904, all

Summary: The House Early Learning & Human Services Committee met in executive session on three bills. HB 2200, dealing with JLARC review of safety and stability outcomes for DSHS developmental disabilities clients and replacing a public dashboard with annual reporting, was amended with a technical fix and then reported out with a do pass recommendation on a 9-2 vote. Supporters said the substitute would reduce fiscal impact while still producing useful, comparable data; opponents raised concerns about how the data might affect providers and whether it could stigmatize difficult placements. HB 2468, which updates statutory references to DSHS divisions after agency restructuring and makes related technical changes, was advanced without amendment. The substitute restored two current-law provisions: the expiration date for the Dementia Action Collaborative and the requirement that DSHS employ two permanent full-time staff to review and maintain the no-paid-services caseload. The committee reported the bill out unanimously. HB 2660, authorizing courts to order parents to comply with safety conditions for children under age five after shelter care hearings, was amended with a tribal-requested change requiring the conditions to be the least restrictive necessary, reviewed every 30 days, and consistent with state and federal Indian Child Welfare Act requirements. Members said the bill responds to rising critical incidents and aims to improve child safety, while acknowledging broader system challenges. The committee then reported the substitute bill out on a 9-2 vote and adjourned after noting it had reached the end of its first half of work.

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• grants, and then $500,000 for the Metro Meals on Wheels.
• There were two named grants in the base, and the funding has been reallocated within the bill.
• , or the CVSO grants, and then $500,000 for the Metro Meals on Wheels.
• We did leave some funding at the base, and granted it's not enough. I understand that.
• We did leave some funding at the base, and granted it's not enough. I understand that.

Bills: HF2446, HF2563, HF2444

Keywords: agriculture finance, broadband development, Department of Agriculture, Board of Animal Health, Agricultural Utilization Research Institute, Office of Broadband Development, food safety, food handler license, cottage food, home processed food, livestock dealer, meat packing company, milk marketer, milk marketing license, grain buyer, grain storage, beginning farmer, emerging farmer, farm down payment assistance, livestock investment grant

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• Instead, they created two grant programs: an Agri Works program for small grants and an Agri Support
• program for larger grants.
• We created two uh grant nonprofits.
• <00:10:31.600><c> grants.
• It's a assistance grants program.

Bills: HF2446, HF2563, HF2444

Keywords: agriculture finance, broadband development, Department of Agriculture, Board of Animal Health, Agricultural Utilization Research Institute, Office of Broadband Development, food safety, food handler license, cottage food, home processed food, livestock dealer, meat packing company, milk marketer, milk marketing license, grain buyer, grain storage, beginning farmer, emerging farmer, farm down payment assistance, livestock investment grant

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• larger grants.
• </c> agri support program for larger grants. agri support program for larger grants.
• grants.
• , or the CVSO grants.
• , or the CVSO grants.

Bills: HF2446, HF2563, HF2444

Keywords: agriculture finance, broadband development, Department of Agriculture, Board of Animal Health, Agricultural Utilization Research Institute, Office of Broadband Development, food safety, food handler license, cottage food, home processed food, livestock dealer, meat packing company, milk marketer, milk marketing license, grain buyer, grain storage, beginning farmer, emerging farmer, farm down payment assistance, livestock investment grant

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• And the law also requires that you be a nonprofit school to participate in this grant as well.
• Funds through the Alabama Student Grant Program will assist the university's work of reaching students
• With regard to this situation, we're concerned about a dilution of the grant.
• We have to withhold taxes or we don't want to go through the compliance for that, so it's become... .
• ..compliance for that, so it's become...

Bills: HB46, HB379, SB22, HB487, HB273, HB525

Keywords: rural physician, tax credit, healthcare access, physician recruitment, Alabama, HB379, Alabama income tax, nonresident exemption, remote workers, traveling employees, mobile workforce, withholding tax, state tax reciprocity, multistate employees, temporary work, work location tracking, time and attendance system, remote work taxation, professional athlete, professional entertainer

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• We have compliance to do.
• So my question is have compliance to do.
• happens when you’re not in compliance, this is really stressful.
• Um the MSSP grant is one that shelves.
• We are also not grant funded.

Bills: HF45, HF1148, HF3624, HF3586, HF777

Keywords: HF45, Lake Benton, capital investment, bonding bill, state bonds, bond proceeds fund, Public Facilities Authority, public infrastructure, sanitary sewer, water main, storm sewer, utility replacement, U.S. Highway 75, road reconstruction, municipal infrastructure, local government grant, Minnesota bonding, capital appropriation, food insecurity, prepared meals

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• Additionally, our Funds for Veterans Assistance grant program provides grants. to community partners
• But in short, the Defense Economic Adjustment Assistance Grant Program is an infrastructure grant program
• SAWS has been awarded two DEAG grants in the past.
• These grants and any future grants would be done in conjunction with a community-wide effort, where water
• Grant Program.

Bills: HCR92, HB 114, HB561, HB 1171, HB1894, HB2026, HB2143, HB2337, HB2564, HB114

Keywords: Tuskegee Airmen, commemoration, African American history, civil rights, military recognition, veterans, mental health, Texas Veterans Commission, peer support, suicide prevention, community mental health, grant program, defense, grants, local government, economic support, community development, health and wellness, outdoor recreation, state land use

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• going to be hearing several bills, four bills total, from Representative Gaj, which include a couple Grant
• Representative Gaj, which include a couple Grant bills and several more as well from other members, and
• There's a small business assistance partnership grant program with Indeed that may be applicable.
• There's a small business assistance partnership grant program with Indeed that may be applicable.
• </c><01:14:40.120><c> program</c> program I think there's a grant program program I think there's a grant

Bills: HF339, HF1272, HF2121, HF2122, HF1216, HF1003, HF2319

Keywords: HF339, Nursing Home Workforce Standards Board, nursing homes, long-term care, elder care, workforce standards, certified worker organizations, labor funding, general fund appropriation, worker grants, Minnesota labor law, nursing home staffing, caregiver workforce, section 181.214, HF1272, nursing home, boarding care home, nursing home workers, labor standards, Medicaid-certified facility

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• It's about $400 million worth of grants. It's a mix of, you know, large grants and small grants.
• It's about $400 million worth of grants. It's a mix of, you know, large grants and small grants.
• /c><00:52:21.480><c> representative</c> Grant uh grants are given representative Grant uh grants are
• year in Grants that were granted<00:53:08.040><c> by</c><00:53:08.280><c> this</c> granted by this granted
• </c> Grants and those were only the grants Grants and those were only the grants that<01:26:57.199><c

Bills: HF1, HF98

Keywords: Office of Inspector General, inspector general, legislative audit, fraud prevention, waste and abuse, public funds, grant oversight, state grants, grant management, whistleblower protection, retaliation, subpoena power, data practices, government transparency, accountability, law enforcement referrals, sanctions, debarment, payment withholding, public assistance fraud

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• </c><00:04:05.840><c> with</c> compensation evidence of compliance with compensation evidence of compliance
• grant reportings on<00:08:53.600><c> time.
• </c><00:17:43.440><c> or</c> that will run through other grant or that will run through other grant or
• My next question has to do about the enforcement of compliance.
• </c> who who would enforce the compliance? who who would enforce the compliance?

Bills: HF858, HF2577, HF2576

Keywords: bioincentive payments, agriculture, job creation, environmental compliance, financial reporting, waste handling, sewage sludge, PFAS regulation, environment, record retention, fertilizer disposal, pesticide disposal, environmental impact, safety regulations, burning prohibition, 1183, house