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• Even in the NCHRP report that I chair, very smart people from Iowa State and ITE and street light data
• that I the panel I chair, uh,<01:19:42.320> very<01:19:42.880> very<01:19:43.200> smart
• <01:19:43.760> people<01:19:44.160> from<01:19:44.400> Iowa uh, very very smart
• people from Iowa uh, very very smart people from Iowa State<01:19:45.080> and<01:19:45.200>
• and uh being denied but in contracting and uh being denied access<03:31:43.760> to<03:31:44.160

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• They allow dealers to complete sales contracts, title applications, and related forms much quicker.
• They allow dealers to complete sales<00:33:07.919> contracts,<00:33:08.799> title<00:33
• :09.120> apps,<00:33:09.440> related sales contracts, title apps, related sales contracts
• We believe it's a smart, targeted opportunity to advance economic vitality, and for those reasons, the
• We believe it's a smart our city.

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• Are we as smart as we used to be? Are we more intelligent? What is the deal?
• Are are we as smart as we measured it?
• Are are we as smart as we used<00:10:43.920> to<00:10:44.000> be?
• I'm a contract water wastewater operator.
• contract water wastewater operator. contract water wastewater operator.

Bills: HF2418, HF1666, HF232, HF344, HF402, HF431, HF468, HF547, HF583, HF1476, HF1711, HF2787, HF2788, HF3207

Keywords: capital investment, political subdivisions, state assistance, funding, project grants, child care, Slayton, state bonds, economic development, extended time revenue, school funding, state aid, career and technical education, CTE, STEM, secondary credit, after-school programs, summer school, learning year program, extended day

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• So it's a smart thing to do; I appreciate it. Yeah, no, thank you. That's exactly right.
• I will not see a normal paycheck again until I begin my new contract in August.

Bills: HB123, HB5606, HB549, HB2757, HB4359, HB5381, HB1939, HB123

Keywords: HB 123, kindergarten readiness, early literacy, early numeracy, reading screening, math screening, foundational literacy, foundational numeracy, dyslexia screening, reading intervention, math intervention, teacher academy, literacy academy, mathematics academy, interventionist academy, K-3 assessments, school readiness, prekindergarten, tutoring grant, parent-directed tutoring

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• , it prohibits covered financial institutions with certain ratings from receiving state funds or contracts
• AB 801 is a smart, future-facing solution by expanding the reinvestment obligation to all lenders and

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• You have to sign the contract.
• Imagine being held a contract that's two or three, four pages.
• You have to sign the contract.
• You have to sign the contract.
• serviced by open market contracts.

Summary: The committee first heard House Bill 1904, which would classify intentionally released helium balloons as litter and create criminal penalties for balloon releases. The author and supportive witnesses argued that balloon releases harm wildlife, livestock, waterways, and infrastructure, and that the bill would close a loophole in current litter law. Several members questioned whether criminal penalties were appropriate, and the author said he was willing to work toward civil penalties and fines instead. No vote was taken, and HB 1904 was left pending. The committee then took up several pending bills and reported them favorably to the full House, including HB 3249, HB 3866, HB 4112, HB 1768, HB 1499, HB 573, and HB 464. These measures dealt with topics such as TCEQ contested-case procedures, outdoor storage containers, high-level radioactive waste, concrete plant permitting and grants, unannounced concrete batch plant inspections, and a scrap tire grant program. Most were adopted with substitutes and passed on recorded votes, generally with unanimous or near-unanimous support. A major portion of the meeting focused on HB 3997, which would create expedited permitting timelines for LNG facilities and related wastewater permits. Industry witnesses said the bill would provide certainty for multibillion-dollar projects without eliminating public participation, while environmental groups opposed parts of the bill that they said could limit contested-case participation and be unrealistic for SOAH timelines. TCEQ staff described the current wastewater permitting process and said some of the bill’s timing provisions could be workable, especially with an expedited fee. The bill was left pending after the author said he would continue working on committee substitute language. The committee also heard HB 1237 on extending the renewal window for expired TCEQ occupational water licenses, and HB 4519, a TERP consolidation bill that would combine several clean transportation grant programs into fewer programs. HB 1237 was left pending without testimony, while HB 4519 drew broad support from environmental and industry witnesses who favored simplifying the program, though some asked for stronger emphasis on particulate matter and hydrogen funding. The committee withdrew the substitute on HB 4519 and left it pending. Finally, HB 5033, which would eliminate the motor vehicle emissions inspection and maintenance program if federal authority changes, drew opposition from environmental and inspection-industry witnesses who warned it would weaken air-quality protections and could remove an important enforcement tool. The author said the bill was intended as a trigger mechanism and would be refined, and HB 5033 was left pending. The committee also heard HB 1227 on municipal solid-waste franchise fees and private-provider access; the author said he would bring a substitute after hearing concerns from cities, and the bill was left pending.

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• Why would we interfere with the contract that was negotiated at arm's length?
• WHY WOULD WE INTERFERE WITH THE CONTRACT THAT WAS NEGOTIATED AT ARM'S LENGTH.
• We ask a judge to actually make a decision on honoring the contract that was signed.
• Contracts mean something, and they have to continue to mean something here.
• CONTRACTS MEAN SOMETHING AND THEY HAVE TO CONTINUE TO MEAN SOMETHING HERE.

Keywords: 993, senate, all

Summary: The Senate convened, approved the prior day’s journal, and then processed a large number of motions to discharge bills from committees and substitute identical Senate or Assembly versions for third reading. The chamber also adopted the resolution calendar with exceptions and took up several resolutions and ceremonial recognitions, including a resolution mourning Hudson Talbott, a Dairy Month resolution highlighting New York’s dairy industry, and introductions honoring Niskayuna academic teams, Gabriella Scheer for receiving the Liberty Medal, the Hartstein family’s civic engagement, and Diana Cochran’s advocacy for safe firearm storage. The Senate then moved through the calendar and passed many bills on topics including insurance, public health, education, labor, social services, banking, local government, veterans, public service, consumer protection, criminal procedure, cannabis, parks, taxation, election law, and highway matters. Several members explained votes on notable measures: support for acupuncture insurance coverage, consumer protections for doorbell-camera data sharing, expanded protections in debt collection cases, trauma-informed procedures for sexual assault survivors, a Legionnaires’ disease awareness program, changes to mandatory minimum sentencing, and universal safe storage of firearms. A number of home rule and local authorization bills were also approved, including parkland alienation measures and local tax exemption authorizations. Most measures passed with broad bipartisan support, though some drew recorded opposition. Notable roll calls included the consumer debt uniformity bill, the mandatory minimum sentencing bill, the safe storage/firearms bill, and the public housing and public health measures, each with more divided votes. The chamber also accepted a lengthy Rules Committee report sending many additional bills directly to third reading, and then began the supplemental calendar, passing at least the first items before the transcript ended.

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• We do have some concerns that we'll see detailed on the next slide about growth contraction.
• Tax contracted by 29.
• another about 1% contraction to continue on into FY27.
• Tightening and contracting, I think these are different.
• Do we, you're smart, you're young. I have a stranded asset.

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• THIS IS YEAR 2 IN A FIVE-YEAR CONTRACT WITH CENTURY ON HEALTH.
• THIS WAS THE FUNDING WE PUT IN THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS TO SUPPORT THAT CONTRACT.
• THE RULE WILL BE ADDITIONAL DISCUSSIONS THIS NEXT SESSION ABOUT ADDITIONAL FUNDING FOR THAT CONTRACT.
• WE FUNDED RESIDENTIAL CAPACITY EXPANSION AND WE FOCUS A LOT ON CONTRACTED STAFF PAY INCREASES SO FOR
• BASELINE IS LEARNING HOW TO READ AND GET A GED AND WE TRIED TO START THERE BUT WE ARE TRYING TO BE SMART

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• business, when you hire a third-party contractor to perform a specific task, the contractor The contract
• utilities in transmission and distribution is similar to the existing exemption for public work contracts
• HB 3306 would add utility contracting for the installation and construction of vegetation management
• The goal of this bill is simple: just ensure smart contracting by holding the responsible parties accountable

Bills: HB778, HB 1266, HB1576, HB2213, HB2517, HB2518, HB2841, HB3306, HB3320, HB3388, HB3508, HB3520, HB3689

Keywords: credentialing, healthcare, physician assistants, advanced practice nurses, managed care, hurricane, windstorm, loss mitigation, grants, insurance discounts, property retrofitting, insurance, Texas Windstorm Insurance Association, board composition, coastal counties, property insurance, taxation, Texas FAIR Plan Association, premium taxes, maintenance taxes

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• We know that will be appealed, this is a contract. and the Delta Stewardship Council will then hear those
• We are looking at procuring those materials through contracting directly with the steel manufacturers
• Are you familiar with the non-execution of contract portion of the high speed rail contract?
• Non-execution of contract, if you tell me a little bit more, I'd probably know if I.
• have discovered over seven hundred million dollars that has been paid out due to non-execution a contract

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• And it will come off like I'm kind of a smart aleck, but I'm kind of sorry about that because I do have
• have existed in this state for over six years, providing jobs, commercial lease revenue, supplier contracts
• But I think that's a smart thing.
• But I think that's a smart thing.

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• So, a little background on these 14(c) contracts, if you're not familiar with them.
• And it is a good idea to ask the folks that you have that contract with if they're paying their folks
• a lot of them enter into the contracts a lot of them enter into the contracts with<00:58:38.559>
• the folks that you have that contract the folks that you have that contract with<00:58:57.040>
• , I don't have to price of my contract, I don't have to give<01:05:12.799> up<01:05:12.960>

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• From sales of oil to commodities to financial contracts.
• , monetary policy, and federal contracts, monetary policy, and the<03:09:36.960> like.
• You're too smart for that.
• You're too smart for that. ignorance. You're too smart for that.
• million in US in the US for contracts million in US in the US for contracts for<04:14:14.560>

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Thursday, July 17, 2025, 1012, house, all

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• approaches a client to be their PBM claim processor, they're going to have to negotiate in that contract
• allow in Louisiana, as a government is supposed to do in representing its people and negotiating contracts
• I'm smart enough to know that others here can answer that.

Summary: The Senate Finance Committee met with eight members present and deferred HB 127. It then considered a series of bills, most of which were reported favorably without opposition. HB 22 revised COLA rules for the clerks of court retirement system, allowing more frequent COLAs when the system is better funded; HB 324 made judicial stipends permanent and added future COLAs subject to available funding; HB 233 increased jury mileage reimbursement; HB 47 reorganized assessor retirement COLA statutes; HB 533 allowed St. Tammany Parish to transfer unused witness-fee account balances to the 22nd Judicial District Court; HB 980 adjusted eligibility for the Firemen’s Supplemental Pay Board; HCR 45 urged Congress to clarify ARPA deadlines for water projects; HB 559 increased court costs in the 4th Judicial District; HB 290 recreated the Department of Treasury and related entities in statute; and HB 382 addressed Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget review authority over Group Benefits plans. The committee also reported HB 1157 favorably, creating a financing bank mechanism for infrastructure projects, and HB 575 favorably, giving youth aging out of foster care preferred access to surplus state vehicles through the Louisiana Property Assistance Agency. Several measures drew more discussion. HB 1236, dealing with pharmacy benefit managers and professional dispensing fees, prompted extensive testimony from the sponsor, the Legislative Fiscal Office, the Department of Insurance, independent pharmacies, and PBM representatives. Supporters said it clarifies and strengthens enforcement of existing PBM law and protects independent pharmacies; opponents argued the bill’s requirement that PBMs bear dispensing-fee costs would be difficult to implement and could raise premiums. The sponsor said he would work on amendments, including clarifying language and a delayed effective date, and the bill was nevertheless moved favorably. SB 25, on registrar of voters compensation, was amended to a revised pay structure and then reported favorably. HB 47 and HB 533 were also presented as funding and administrative cleanups for retirement and court-related accounts, with local support noted. The committee also heard HB 233 on jury duty mileage reimbursement, which the sponsor said updates a 1961 rate and would be funded locally at an estimated average increase of about $4,000 per judicial district. HB 324 on judicial salaries was described as self-funded by the judiciary and subject to available funding, with no budget impact. HB 575 on foster youth transportation was presented as a non-appropriation measure aimed at helping youth aging out of foster care by giving them preferred access to surplus vehicles. HB 382, which concerns the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget’s role in approving Group Benefits plans, was reported favorably with little discussion. The meeting ended after a motion to adjourn.

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• What I'm trying to elevate here is that here is a nonprofit organization that had a contract with the
• And they probably would have gotten the resources they needed, but because they were already under contract
• seen what your data, where it goes and what happens when you have a conversation from any type of smart

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• storm event on October 19, 2024, requiring approval for federal assistance funding, reimbursement contracts
• storm event on October 19, 2024, requiring approval for federal assistance funding, reimbursement contracts
• The legislation is also a very smart, long-term investment in New Mexico's future. Thank you.

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• force in our region, supporting local entrepreneurs, strengthening key industries, and advocating for smart
• Committee on Higher Education, HB 3702 by Alan Earlings, the applicability of educator certification and contract
• HB 3845 by Oliverson relating to the regulation of certain compensation, contracting, employment, and

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• We did have a dip there in 2024, but that was in 2024 or 2025 there was a disruption in the contract.
• um due to um exhaustion of uh contracted um funding.<00:19:07.760> Um<00:19:09.039> that
• of the contract being in place<00:19:57.919> or<00:19:58.000> able<00:19:58.240> to
• We've continued to work on numerous contracts within the Kentucky Lung Cancer Screening Program that
• We've continued to work on numerous contracts within the Kentucky Lung Cancer Screening Program that

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Summary: The meeting opened with roll call, approval of the September 17 minutes, and an introduction of Sarah Rome to the committee. The chair also noted that the committee would stay on schedule and then moved to presentations. Representative Amy Neighbors and Taylor Williams of the Kentucky Pharmacists Association presented a refiled “pharmacy parity” proposal, formerly House Bill 3, to require Medicaid reimbursement for pharmacist clinical services already authorized under current scope of practice. They said the bill would not expand Medicaid or pharmacist scope, but would align Medicaid with commercial insurance, improve access and outcomes, and likely save money; they cited a Cabinet report under Senate Joint Resolution 26, which found similar laws in other states were producing savings or trending toward savings and would require only modest administrative updates. No member questions were raised after that presentation. The committee then heard an update on the Kentucky Colon Cancer Screening Program from Senator Stephen Meredith, Dr. Whitney Jones, Melissa Carrier, and Representative Neighbors. They described the program’s goals of increasing screening, reducing deaths through earlier detection, and preventing cancers by finding polyps, saying it has produced substantial savings and improved outcomes. Speakers emphasized Kentucky’s high colorectal cancer burden, especially in younger adults, and said the program helps uninsured and underinsured Kentuckians access stool-based screening and follow-up colonoscopies through a network of partners including the Department for Public Health, Kentucky Cancer Link, and university cancer programs. They requested an increase in funding from $500,000 to $1.25 million annually, or $2.5 million over the biennium, to expand services, fill geographic gaps, and support education and navigation. Members asked whether the colon cancer screening was already covered by Medicaid, and the presenters replied that Medicaid does cover it, but the program serves people who are not on Medicaid or who fall into a separate eligibility category based on income and insurance status. A member also clarified the requested funding increase. The committee then moved on to the next agenda item, an update from the Children’s Home of Northern Kentucky, where board member Sal Santoro and CHNK Behavioral Health leaders began a presentation describing the organization’s broader behavioral health work and its request, but the transcript cuts off before that presentation concludes or any action is taken.

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• We were paying a contracted amount of $35,650.92 on that.
• to target those people at year 3 or 4, to get them to be 5 to 10-year prosecutors, I think that's a smart
• We agree we need to be smart with our money that we are given.
• with OES actually right after our meeting last year and found out that they did already lower that contract

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