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• All right quorum is present. A couple of administrative comments today.
• I mean, private donors could also help with some of the start-up? Yes, sir, absolutely.
• not aware of that data. All right thank you. Members any further questions?
• Right to close is reserved. What we're going to do is we're going to call a panel of three.
• All right, the chair's going to call another group of folks.

Bills: HB1784 , HB2088 , HB3062 , HB3475 , HB3741 , HB4279 , HB4763 , HB5154 , HB5294 , HB5508 , SB1401 , HB232 , HB232 , HB232

Committee: House Higher Education

Keywords: students, homeless, foster care, higher education, liaison officer, housing assistance, transition support, law school, Rio Grande Valley, legal education, public university, accreditation, fentanyl prevention, drug poisoning awareness, mental health resources, substance abuse education, El Paso, university system, funding, public education

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• Section 121.101 contains a private right of action.
• And the private right of action is going to make sure those that have app stores are not going to mess
• And lastly, the private right of action within the bill is a concern.
• The private right of action within the bill is a concern.
• The private right of action is going to be removed in our committee substitute.

Bills: HB2963 , HB3005 , HB3287 , HB3288 , HB3289 , HB3290 , HB3344 , HB3712 , HB3862 , HB3874 , HB4196 , HB4308 , HB4901 , HB4984

Committee: House Trade, Workforce & Economic Development

Keywords: digital equipment, repair rights, manufacturers, maintenance, consumer rights, construction contracts, payment regulations, public works, dispute resolution, audit procedures, construction, trust funds, mechanic's lien, contractor, subcontractor, residential properties, disputes, payment obligations, accountability, payment disputes

Summary: The committee heard testimony on several bills related to technology, construction, economic development, and consumer protection. HB 3862 would restrict minors’ access to certain social media apps and limit smartphone use in classrooms; supporters, including Champions for Childhood, argued that smartphones and social media contribute to addiction, distraction, depression, self-harm, and trafficking risks, and the bill was left pending. HB 3712 would change Texas retainage rules so owners could not withhold payment on specially fabricated construction materials once they are delivered, approved, and warranted; subcontractors and suppliers said current retainage practices delay payment for years and create financial risk, and the bill was left pending. HB 2963, the right-to-repair bill, would require manufacturers to provide parts, tools, and information for independent repair of digital devices, with exemptions for medical devices, vehicles under existing agreements, and trade-secret protections; consumer, environmental, business, and repair advocates supported it, while Safelite asked that automotive manufacturers not be excluded from the bill, and it was left pending. HB 4308 would create county industrial development districts to attract major employers and finance infrastructure through local elections and bonds; Fort Bend County supported it as a tool to add jobs and broaden the tax base, and it was left pending. The committee also heard HB 3344, which would create a licensing system for re-roofing contractors, require insurance and bonding, and establish a public database and complaint process. Supporters said it would help curb storm chasers and protect homeowners after storms, while opponents argued it would add burdens on legitimate small roofers, duplicate existing fraud laws, and potentially restrict consumer choice and contractor pricing flexibility. After extensive testimony and questions, the bill was left pending. HB 4196 would create a task force on modernizing manufacturing through digital integration and automation; Schneider Electric and the Texas Workforce Commission supported it as a way to improve competitiveness and create skilled jobs, and it was left pending. HB 3874 would require contractors to receive copies of incorporated contract documents before signing if requested; subcontractors and construction attorneys said it would improve transparency and prevent parties from being bound by unseen terms, and it was left pending. In pending business, the committee voted out several bills. HB 74, creating the Port Verde Port Authority District, was reported favorably to the full House without amendment. HB 112, relating to a science park in certain counties, was reported favorably as substituted. HB 2214, on floodplain notice requirements for leased dwellings, HB 3016, on rental vehicle damage waivers, HB 3133, on explicit deepfake material on social media, HB 3173, on workforce development program planning and evaluation, HB 3807, on child care waiting list priority for children of certain child care workers, HB 463, on unilateral memoranda of contract for residential property, HB 4115, on shareholder proposals to certain domestic corporations, and HB 5008, on use of the Skills Development Fund by certain entities, were all reported favorably, most without amendment and some as substituted. HB 2652, creating a certified caregiver pilot program in the Borderplex workforce area, was also reported favorably and sent to the Committee on Local and Consent Calendars.

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• opposed to just sort of liking the author in this case, right?
• Members, any questions for this panel of witnesses? All right.
• Members, any questions for this panel of witnesses? All right. Thank you all.
• All right, thank you very much for your time. Testimony of Mr. Leslie.
• Don't ban this product right a lot of a lot of pressure from your group not to so I'm just curious in

Bills: HB367 , HB497 , HB549 , HB983 , HB 1188 , HB 1290 , HB1368 , HB2243 , HB2310 , HB2849 , HB3099 , HB3546 , HB3629 , HB3627

Committee: House Public Education

Keywords: education, absences, severe illness, life-threatening, school policy, verification, healthcare, insurance, affordability, coverage, patient rights, school health, respiratory distress, airway clearance devices, medication training, public health, HB 983, Texas Education Agency, TEA, educator privacy

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• So all of our support functions right now from HR to booking travel to be here for our meetings and such
• All right, I show you registered as Matthew McCormick testifying on behalf of Texas Public Policy Foundation
• Right.
• I have the bill in front of me right now. and I don't see anything about sex education in there specifically
• And I show you registered as Lee Spiller, testifying on behalf of Citizens Commission on Human Rights

Bills: HB367 , HB497 , HB549 , HB983 , HB 1188 , HB 1290 , HB1368 , HB2243 , HB2310 , HB2849 , HB3099 , HB3546 , HB3629 , HB3627

Committee: House Public Education

Keywords: education, absences, severe illness, life-threatening, school policy, verification, healthcare, insurance, affordability, coverage, patient rights, school health, respiratory distress, airway clearance devices, medication training, public health, HB 983, Texas Education Agency, TEA, educator privacy

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• We have a variety of topics to cover today and a lot of witnesses.
• But I can tell you that there is an apartment complex right next to this graveyard of windmill blades
• Also clear that Sweetwater didn't have the right zoning in place to prevent this kind of use within their
• All right, members, are there further questions? Questions of the witness?
• I am the Director for the South Texans Property Rights Association, and on behalf of myself and our membership

Bills: HB246 , HB796 , HB 1056 , HB1544 , HB1846 , HB2001 , HB2618 , HB2625 , HB2869 , HB2898 , HB3069 , HB3114 , HB3157 , HB3228 , HJR98 , HB246

Committee: House State Affairs

Keywords: federal directives, state authority, Tenth Amendment, government enforcement, local governance, gold standard, legal tender, currency, transactional currency, financial transactions, electronic payment systems, state finance, regulatory compliance, electric trucks, charging infrastructure, advisory council, transportation, sustainability, criminal penalties, official information

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• Maybe not all of them will get hearings, right?
• of a federal court, is that right?
• The Texas state legislature is the guardian and the protector of the rights of the people of Texas.
• A little of them, 0.26 grams of gold. All right, Mr.
• Chair, honorable members of the committee, I'm also the president of Convention of States Action, though

Bills: HB246 , HB796 , HB 1056 , HB1544 , HB1846 , HB2001 , HB2618 , HB2625 , HB2869 , HB2898 , HB3069 , HB3114 , HB3157 , HB3228 , HJR98 , HB246

Committee: House State Affairs

Keywords: federal directives, state authority, Tenth Amendment, government enforcement, local governance, gold standard, legal tender, currency, transactional currency, financial transactions, electronic payment systems, state finance, regulatory compliance, electric trucks, charging infrastructure, advisory council, transportation, sustainability, criminal penalties, official information

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• I feel like we should just stop right now, like that kind of end on a high note.
• All right, members, it's that time of day where we have messages. We've got three messages.
• Members, at this point, we're going to go right into third reading of legislation.
• Do we have a picture of a baby, right?
• Big bottle of ketchup. All right, members, thank you for a great productive day.

Bills: HB111 , HB103 , HB60 , HB108 , HB120 , HB145 , HB154 , HB164 , HB291 , HJR6 , HR1 , HJM2 , HJM3 , HJM1 , HM7 , HM17 , HM4 , HM22 , HM23 , HM24 , HM26 , HM2 , HM16 , HM32 , HM13 , HM47 , HM11 , HM14 , HM21 , HM34 , HM50 , HB38 , HB47 , HB63 , HB64 , HB127 , HB165 , HB184 , HB200 , HM20 , HM51

Keywords: water law, state engineer, civil penalty, compliance order, water rights, overdiversion, illegal diversion, groundwater storage and recovery, well license, permit violation, water enforcement, New Mexico water code, irrigation district, conservancy district, water diversion, unauthorized water sales, measuring device, district court appeal, water resources, water compliance

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• There are a lot of other activities of large consumers of water, which frankly, if my guys in Beckham
• Him and I both visited with a lot of stakeholders on both sides of this.
• of the abuse.
• Representative, I'm really looking more at the fiscal side of it right now with this question.
• The majority of the people do it right.

Bills: SB259

Committee: House Energy

Keywords: groundwater, water rights, Oklahoma Water Resources Board, OWRB, water permits, water use reporting, metering, permit enforcement, groundwater waste, well permitting, cease and desist, fines and penalties, permit suspension, data centers, data processing facilities, cooling systems, evaporative cooling, closed-loop cooling, dielectric immersion cooling, animal feeding operations

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• All right, SB 325 is the Department of Commerce bill that we dealt with yesterday regarding AIDT.
• of Commerce bills, and a multitude of things.
• </c> to alcohol bills to Department of to alcohol bills to Department of Commerce<00:08:27.800><c> bills
• We did not see any multitude of things.
• I think each of you have added a back.

Bills: SB325 , SB370

Committee: House Economic Development and Tourism

Keywords: AIDT, Alabama Industrial Development Training Institute, Department of Commerce, procurement, competitive bidding, contract review, legislative oversight, economic development, workforce development, Strategic Workforce Plan, state purchasing, state contracts, public procurement, exemption, higher education, universities, community colleges, public hospitals, health care procurement, transportation procurement

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• It increases the dedication of a certain portion of insurance premium assessments into the municipal
• So with the absence of that task force and all of the stakeholders in there, what's the effort now to
• We seek input from members of the legislature, members of the public, and municipalities as well.
• We seek input from members of the legislature, members of the public, and municipalities as well.
• chair of Natural Resources.

Bills: HB27 , HB290 , HB308 , HB311 , HB382 , HB417 , HB575 , HB755 , HB980

Committee: House Appropriations

Keywords: HB 290, Act 426, sunset law, Department of the Treasury, Louisiana Treasury, re-creation, reauthorization, statutory entities, termination date, sunset review, Title 49, fiscal administration, state finance, agency continuation, legislative authority, insurance premiums, Municipal Fire and Police, dedicated fund, assessments, Louisiana legislation

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• As a reminder, the board sets policies and approves actions in a number of different land management
• located out of state who have treaty and reserved rights within our state.
• the trusts in the direction of serving primarily community preservation interests, right?
• sure that the tribal representative came from one of the quote-unquote timber tribes, right?
• All right. Thank you, Chair Reeves, and members of the committee.

Bills: SB5919 , SB5816 , SJM8015 , HB2737

Committee: House Agriculture & Natural Resources

Keywords: fire safety, insurance incentives, best practices, community protection, voluntary measures, juice grapes, agriculture, commerce, state regulation, market access, federal response, wildfire protection, community safety, infrastructure, natural resources, commercial shellfish, shellfish fees, Department of Health, biotoxin testing, export certificate

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• terms of the costs of managing the Civil Rights Act.
• step of passing a state civil rights law to protect the people of this state from civil rights abuses
• passing a state civil rights law to protect the people of this state from civil rights abuses at the
• reality of being at an elevated risk of having our civil rights violated, and having little time or
• So, the current version of the Civil Rights Act eliminated the defense of qualified immunity.

Bills: SB246 , SB146 , SB300 , SB301 , SB309 , SM17

Committee: Senate Senate Health & Public Affairs

Keywords: massage therapy, licensure, health and safety standards, continuing education, establishment licensing, civil rights, sovereign immunity, damages, public body, lawsuit limitations, legal notice, child welfare, computing infrastructure, data management, Department of Health, appropriation, foster care, Indian children, cultural competency, training services

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• And Northern New Mexico College is one of our historical, in fact, it was one of the eras of during the
• That additional monies could be put in to Grow to handle more of these kinds of projects. 1 percent of
• I'm writing grants to you know, private foundations right now, but it's not.
• I've had a chance to meet with those, the deans of pharmacy, and all of that and all of the other schools
• Translation, but I thought it was right in my mind, and everybody kind of looked at me like, 'What's

Bills: SB106 , SB171 , SB179 , SB106 , SB171 , SB179

Committees: Senate Senate Education , Senate House Education

Keywords: graduate scholarship, higher education funding, New Mexico, appropriation, financial aid, education, documentary, historical figure, Padre Antonio Jose Martinez, Northern New Mexico State School, SB179, Senate Bill 179, UNM, University of New Mexico, medical Spanish, Spanish-language curriculum, health sciences, health professions education, language access, bilingual healthcare

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• All right, thank you. So we'll go to our audience. Is anybody here in support of House Bill 120?
• We stand here in strong support of this bill. We feel like it moves us in the right direction.
• All right, by a vote of seven to five, you have a do pass in House Bill 120.
• This includes corrective action, threats of termination, threats of being removed from school or recognized
• All right. So we have a do pass motion on House Bill 170 of the second.

Bills: SB106 , SB171 , SB179

Committee: House House Education

Keywords: graduate scholarship, higher education funding, New Mexico, appropriation, financial aid, education, documentary, historical figure, Padre Antonio Jose Martinez, Northern New Mexico State School, SB179, Senate Bill 179, UNM, University of New Mexico, medical Spanish, Spanish-language curriculum, health sciences, health professions education, language access, bilingual healthcare

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• The standard of proof and actions before the CJTC is a preponderance of the evidence.
• Turning to House Bill 2220, the standard of proof and actions before the CJTC is modified.
• to a certification action of a peace officer or corrections officer.
• Fortunately, it's still a very small number of the total number of officers, as we would hope, right?
• Right. Chair Goodman, members of the committee, my name is Kimberly Bliss.

Bills: HB2220 , HB2362

Committee: House Community Safety

Keywords: criminal justice training commission, CJTC, law enforcement training, peace officer certification, decertification, corrections officer certification, tribal police certification, police accountability, police oversight, public safety, academy training, in-service training, continuing education, use of force, misconduct investigations, disciplinary hearings, administrative law judge, hearing panel, law enforcement standards, background investigations

Bills: HB472 , HB542

Committee: Senate Finance and Taxation General Fund

Keywords: state employees, meal allowance, per diem, travel expenses, Alabama law, HB542, district attorney, prosecutor, supernumerary district attorney, Employees' Retirement System, ERS, Alabama retirement, public employee retirement, pension, retirement benefits, post-retirement employment, salary cap, dual participation, double dipping, District Attorneys' Plan

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• I represent NetChoice, the right-of-center tech trade association.
• I'm Becky Garritson with Eagle Forum of Alabama, and I'm going to just kind of combine a couple of things
• So at some point in time, the rights of people who seek knowledge and know how to use it... how do we
• All of that stuff can be done right now, and the Supreme Court will say that it's already available,
• It might have prevented a private civil action. This would clarify that it does still allow it.

Bills: SB186 , SB187

Committee: Senate Children and Youth Health

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

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• Chair and members of the committee.
• The Land of Enchantment Legacy Fund, as many of you know, is a really successful program that you all
• Chair, members of the committee. I'm Johanna Gilligan. I am the president of HomeWise.
• of their school employees.
• We are not a part of GSD.

Bills: HB63 , HB64 , HB184 , HB200 , HB47 , HB48 , HB2 , HB9

Committee: House House Appropriations & Finance

Keywords: water project fund, New Mexico Finance Authority, NMFA, Water Trust Board, water infrastructure, wastewater, drinking water, flood prevention, watershed restoration, water storage, conveyance, delivery, water treatment, recycling, reuse, municipal infrastructure, local government finance, capital outlay, grants, loans

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• All the members of the board are state agencies that do the increases, right?
• You have DFA notes of why they're justifying this proposed change. Right?
• I'm sorry, stepped out of them since we're right here on page 4.
• All right. Thank you. And this, I don't believe, was part of the exec rec. Mr.
• They're going to use their own funds, right? My understanding, kind of.

Bills: HB63 , HB64 , HB184 , HB200 , HB47 , HB48 , HB2 , HB9

Committees: Senate Senate Finance , Senate House Appropriations & Finance

Keywords: water project fund, New Mexico Finance Authority, NMFA, Water Trust Board, water infrastructure, wastewater, drinking water, flood prevention, watershed restoration, water storage, conveyance, delivery, water treatment, recycling, reuse, municipal infrastructure, local government finance, capital outlay, grants, loans

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• Purchase rights, water rights from disclosure requirements that are not pertinent to the nature of water
• I get that private property rights.
• help adjudicate most of the water rights along the continent.
• , so these things really don't apply. to a water rights transaction, the buyer of water rights is not
• That's right. We simply have the burden of bureaucracy setting on top of them in ordinance.

Bills: HB1520 , HB1525 , HB1530 , HB1535 , HB2068 , HB2091 , HB2347 , HB2372 , HB2805 , HB2815 , HB2867 , HB3154 , HB3482 , HB3483 , HB3663 , HB3781 , HB3901 , HB3915 , HB4135 , HB4153 , HB4158 , HB4329 , HB4331

Committee: House Natural Resources

Keywords: Angelina and Neches River Authority, river authority, Sunset Advisory Commission, Texas Sunset Act, Special District Local Laws Code, local government, natural resources, board of directors, director training, board governance, public testimony, open meetings, public information, conflict of interest, ethics, complaint system, general manager, board president, staggered terms, removal of director