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• Next up, final GM 753, the seat submitted for consideration and confirmation to Language Access Advisory
• Next up, final GM 753, GM 753, the seat submitted for consideration and confirmation to the Language
• <00:14:54.480> uh<00:14:54.560> private<00:14:54.800> sector<00:14:55.040> seat
• c><00:14:55.839> to<00:14:55.960> use<00:14:56.120> my this uh private sector seat
• to use my this uh private sector seat to use my 30-plus<00:14:56.920> years<00:14:57.120>

Keywords: 912, senate, all

Summary: The Health and Human Services committee heard and considered several gubernatorial nominations to advisory boards and councils. Early in the meeting, members heard testimony in support of Miriam Chang for the Health Planning Council Windward O‘ahu subarea, with supporters highlighting her long medical practice on the Windward side, work at Ko‘olau Health Center, and community involvement. Chang said she wanted to help improve health, especially in rural areas. The committee also heard support for Terrilyn Luke’s nomination to the Center for Nursing Advisory Board; the Center for Nursing director and nursing organizations backed her, and Luke said she would bring a front-line nursing perspective, focus on workforce conditions, retention, and collaboration, and help address tensions between the Center and nursing labor groups. The committee then heard support for Valerie Rose’s nomination to the Language Access Advisory Council; Rose briefly noted her prior work in the Chronic Disease Branch and Bilingual Health Aide Section. The committee also took up nominations in a later agenda segment. James Montgomery was heard for the State Rehabilitation Council and described his interest in serving based on a family experience with disability and his work in talent management, saying he wanted to help people with disabilities gain opportunities. Kevin Nakamura was heard for the Board of Certification of Operating Personnel in Wastewater Treatment Plants and said his 30-plus years of wastewater experience would help ensure operators are properly trained and certified to protect resources and the environment. Pina Lemusu was heard for the State Council on Developmental Disabilities; she said her long career with the Division of Vocational Rehabilitation and personal experience with disability would help her contribute to the council. Additional testimony in support came from the State DD Council and Voc Rehab representatives. The committee voted to recommend advise and consent on the nominations it considered, including Miriam Chang, Terrilyn Luke, Valerie Rose, James Montgomery, Kevin Nakamura, and Pina Lemusu. Most recommendations were adopted without objection, though Senator Dela Cruz voted no on some of the later nominations. The meeting also briefly noted another nomination, Olivia Kim, which was recalled and advanced with an advise-and-consent recommendation before adjournment.

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• Representative, have a seat and proceed when you are ready. Proceed when you are ready.
• Have a seat and proceed when you're ready. Good morning. Good morning, Mr. Chairman.
• Have a seat and proceed when you are ready. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
• At your witness form, have a seat and proceed, sir, when you're ready. Mr.
• Have a seat and proceed when you're ready. Thank you. Ready. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Keywords: 959, house, all

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• investors, especially in small community banks, say like in Immokalee or other small towns, but central seats
• refill out an appearance record with that information because it looks like you're just in private seats
• refill out an appearance record with that information because it looks like you're just in private seats
• Murphy, if you could take a seat up front, we'll get to you right after. So, Mr.
• Murphy, if you could take a seat up front, we'll get to you right after. Mr.

Summary: The committee heard several bills and amendments, beginning with CS/SB 498 on trust fund interest for IOTA accounts. The sponsor said a 2023 Florida Supreme Court rule sharply increased interest paid into legal aid funding, creating a windfall and making participation difficult for banks. An amendment was adopted requiring savings institutions to pay the higher of 0.25% or the highest comparable rate offered on certain non-IOTA accounts, and the bill then passed favorably after testimony from banks, legal aid representatives, and other stakeholders both supporting and opposing the measure. The committee also approved CS/SB 232, which clarifies Florida’s consumer collection law applies only to phone calls during restricted hours and not emails or text messages, after a delete-all amendment and supportive testimony from industry groups. It then approved SB 132, as amended, to designate gold and silver as legal tender and set rules for custody, audits, electronic transfer, and government acceptance of payments; supporters called it a sound-money measure, while the banking association said it still had unresolved technical concerns. Later, the committee passed SB 1466 to create a trust fund for the My Safe Florida Home Program, with an amendment funding it from 20% of collected insurance premium tax revenue. It also considered SB 1206 on transportation network company insurance, reducing coverage during the “dead-leg” period before a rider is picked up from $1 million to lower limits; the bill drew sharp opposition from trial lawyers and support from insurers and some business groups, and the committee adopted a clarifying amendment before reporting the bill favorably. Finally, CS/SB 924 on fertility preservation for cancer patients was amended several times to narrow scope and clarify coverage rules, then passed favorably after debate over cost, preauthorization, and post-treatment storage obligations. The committee adjourned after allowing technical and conforming changes to implement the adopted amendments.

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• If you'd like to have a seat, you can. We'll start with LBB. Thank you.
• Are all the seats on the council filled right now?
• So I don't think that that seat has been filled, but I could be wrong.
• Senator Paxton: And how will that seat be filled?
• So, it's not them that are doing the appraising, but they do have seats on the board.

Bills: SB 1, SB1

Keywords: campground safety, youth camp regulations, flood safety, emergency evacuation, health and safety standards, appropriations, budget, state funding, education, healthcare, infrastructure, 1185, senate, all

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• Will the House please come to order and members kindly take their seats. Good afternoon.
• creating voluntary, resourced, community-driven merger groups that put Vermonters in the driver's seat
• That put Vermonters in the driver's seat of how best they see their districts moving forward in an era
• Will the House please come to order, and members kindly take their seats.

Keywords: 926, house, all

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• Members, take your seats. Take your conversations outside.
• I now therefore move that the person named in said list be declared duly elected, qualified, and seated
• Members, take your seats. Take your conversations outside.
• So, take your seats or take your conversations outside. We have business, we have bills to hear.

Keywords: 914, all

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• The Chair would like to take this opportunity to welcome, seated in the Fourth Division this morning,
• The Chair would also like to take this opportunity to welcome, seated in the First Division, guests of
• The Medfield Girls Soccer State Champions, Division 3, are seated in the First Division.

Keywords: 995, all

Summary: The House opened with the Pledge of Allegiance and adopted a congratulatory resolution honoring Oxford Fire Chief Laurent R. McDonald for 45 years of public service. Members also adopted an order creating a special joint committee on initiative petitions to review petitions transmitted by the Secretary of the Commonwealth. In addition, House Bill 862, providing for the recall of elected officers in the town of Sharon, was passed to be enacted. The House then acted on several procedural and scheduling matters. It suspended Joint Rule 12 to send three petitions to committee, and the Committee on Steering, Policy and Scheduling reported a group of local and special bills for consideration, including measures on home insurers and tree removal, housing for families with pets, public safety in Stoneham, community housing funds in Chatham, the Provincetown rental housing trust fund, a disability pension for Christopher Taylor, and a sick leave bank for Sonia Felix. These bills were ordered to a third reading. The House also welcomed visiting students from Four Rivers Charter Public School and the Medfield Girls Soccer State Champions. On third reading, the House passed to be engrossed four police-age waiver bills for Antonio Perez, Sherell Malas, Jonathan Telford, and Jose Ortiz, all directing the Boston Police Department to waive the maximum age requirement. The chamber also observed a moment of silent tribute for the late Honorable Francis J. Larkin of Hopedale, recognizing his long career in public service, law, and education. Finally, the House adopted an order to meet again Monday at 11 a.m. and then adjourned.

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• In Todd County, there are 900 kids under the age of five and only 100 child care seats available
• It's their smallest county, and they have zero seats available. Zero child care seats.
• Zero child care zero seats available.
• Zero child care seats.<00:45:14.000> So,<00:45:14.319> we<00:45:14.560> can<00:45
• So, we can give somebody a child seats.

Keywords: 958, all

Summary: The subcommittee met without a quorum and first heard from Kentucky Department of Education officials on career and technical education funding. KDE explained that House Bill 499 created a CTE funding formula using 60% weighted full-time equivalent enrollment and 40% incentives, but House Bill 6’s budget language excluded area technology centers (ATCs) from that supplemental funding. KDE requested approval of an additional budget request of $14,789,352 in each fiscal year 2027 and 2028 to include ATCs in the formula and hold local districts harmless. Officials said ATCs serve students from 117 of Kentucky’s 171 districts and argued the change would reduce funding disparities and better reflect the return on investment from CTE programs, citing growth in dual credit and work-based learning participation. Members asked whether the issue would need to be revisited each budget cycle. KDE responded that the problem could be fixed by removing the notwithstanding language from the budget bill, which they said would allow ATCs to be included under the existing statute. Representative Klein supported the request, saying the current clause could lead to stagnation and that the committee should help the program continue to grow. No vote was taken on the CTE item during the portion of the meeting provided. The committee then heard a presentation from PreK for All on expanding preschool access in Kentucky. Advocates said the state’s preschool program has been funded since 1990 and currently serves about 14,200 children at roughly $84 million per year, but that many working families still fall into a coverage gap. They proposed expanding eligibility to 250% of the federal poverty line, which they said would add about 9,600 children at a cost of $40 million in year two, after a planning year. The proposal also included regulatory flexibility for classrooms and partnerships with private child care providers and nonprofits, with speakers emphasizing child care deserts in some counties and citing research that early learning improves kindergarten readiness and later outcomes. No action or vote was taken on the preschool proposal in the transcript provided.

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• and yet held a small... had a something like one-third of all, if not less, of all the congressional seats
• the numbers came out, it didn't reflect the estimates of previous years, and Texas received fewer seats
• Any good political party would want more seats in Congress.
• , my only question to the senators and everyone involved in the redistricting of the congressional seats
• An unpopular billionaire has weaponized the DOJ against Texas to give him five more Republican seats

Keywords: 1185, senate, all

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• on empty seats. on empty seats.
• Other states were rushing to get every four-year-old a seat, and often times you do sacrifice quality
• had the teachers in order to be able to fill those classroom seats, and we certainly would not have
• Other states were rushing to get every four-year-old a seat, and often times you do sacrifice quality
• to be able to fill those classroom seats to be able to fill those classroom seats and<01:19:06.320

Keywords: 958, all

Summary: The committee began with introductions of student guests, including an FCCLA national officer who spoke in support of career and technical education. She emphasized that CTE connects classroom learning to real careers, builds leadership and employability skills, and deserves continued state supplemental funding to keep programs current, expand offerings, and support student organizations. Members thanked her for her remarks and for representing FCCLA students. The committee then considered House Bill 67, a cleanup bill to address unintended consequences from last session’s Senate Bill 181 on traceable communication in schools. Rep. Josh Calloway explained that the substitute clarified definitions of family members, coaches, volunteers, certified/classified/contract employees, and virtual instruction; exempted group messaging, public social media posts, translation services, parent-provided phone numbers, emergency communications, and field trip/work-based learning contacts; and allowed teachers to disclose outside commercial or nonprofit involvement so they can communicate with students for those purposes. He said the bill was developed with input from school boards, administrators, KDE, school HR groups, Kentucky League of Cities, and Farm Bureau. The committee approved the substitute and passed HB 67 favorably. Next, the committee heard House Bill 759, which KDE described as a consistency bill for teacher certification pathways. The bill renames and standardizes alternative certification routes, clarifies content mastery requirements, allows teachers to add certifications more consistently, and lets educators extend certification into lower grade bands if they already hold higher-level certification and pedagogical knowledge. Members asked about chemistry majors, CTE occupational pathways, the veterans pathway, and grade-band “bandwidth”; KDE said the bill preserves the veterans route, does not create a new pathway but reorganizes existing ones, and will help make certification options easier to understand. HB 759 also passed favorably. Finally, Rep. Shane Baker presented House Bill 654, a follow-up to last year’s effort to reduce administrative burdens on schools. He said the bill would eliminate additional reporting requirements, bar KDE from requiring components of a comprehensive improvement plan not expressly required by statute or federal law, and allow EARS to temporarily authorize reports when the legislature is not in session while preserving necessary reporting tied to SEEK funding and school operations. The committee took up the substitute and began discussion of the bill.

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• If you could take your seat, I'd appreciate it.
• I'd appreciate it if you could be here on time, be in your seat, and ready to go.
• appreciate last year the working relationship we were able to develop, which So, but now being in the seat

Keywords: 996, all

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• But I also just want to highlight two more key critical components of this bill before I take my seat
• But I also just want to highlight two more key critical components of this bill before I take my seat
• I always say to them, if I had a magic wand and I can do something from my seat in the Massachusetts
• putting in those same original seats; there’s a lot more space.
• You’re telling me that a single 130-passenger trolley in Mattapan is ranked higher than 800 seats on

Keywords: 995, all

Summary: The Senate took up Senate House No. 4010, a fiscal year 2025 supplemental appropriations bill funded largely by surplus Fair Share revenues. The Ways and Means chair described the bill as a $1.28 billion package, with major investments in education and transportation, including special education circuit breaker aid, higher education deferred maintenance, career technical education capital grants, school construction relief, high-dosage tutoring, English language learning grants, MBTA reserve replenishment and safety training, commuter rail maintenance, Chapter 90 local road aid, regional transit authority support, ferry and micro-transit funding, and a small World Cup transportation appropriation. Members from both parties generally praised the bill’s one-time, regionally balanced approach while emphasizing fiscal discipline and the limited, surplus-based funding source. The minority leader and others questioned the fund balances and the use of the education and transportation innovation and capital fund, the Student Opportunity Act trust fund, and the transitional escrow account; the chair said the bill would zero out the innovation and capital fund, leave about $430 million in the SOA trust, and about $200 million in the escrow account. Several members highlighted specific priorities. Senator Cronin and Senator Feeney strongly supported the $100 million career technical education investment, arguing it would expand vocational opportunities in comprehensive high schools and help meet workforce needs. Senator Feeney also emphasized MBTA funding, special education, local road repairs, English language learning tied to workforce needs, and World Cup preparations in Foxborough. Senator Comerford praised the bill’s regional equity, higher education maintenance funding, special education support, and transportation investments, while also noting the need for broader future work on Chapter 70 and school finance. Senator Tarr supported the bill but repeatedly stressed that the spending was a unique one-time opportunity and that the Commonwealth should preserve fiscal reserves and continue to address school funding inequities and MBTA finances more broadly. The chamber then considered numerous amendments. Amendment 1 on tariff pricing transparency was withdrawn after brief remarks, and Amendment 14, proposing a DESE study on educational outcomes for young men and boys, was rejected. Amendment 182, funding Worcester Regional Transit Authority capital expenses, was adopted. Amendment 228, adding $500,000 for Free Period to expand access to menstrual products in schools, was adopted. Amendment 257, funding Springfield Public Schools communication and safety systems, was also adopted. Other amendments, including Tarr amendments on supplemental district aid, MBTA reporting, and the Foundation Budget Review Commission, were rejected. Amendment 308 concerning MBTA Communities and Milton was withdrawn, after which Senator Driscoll began a presentation arguing Milton was being misclassified under the MBTA Communities Act and should be treated fairly under the law.

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• Each senator needs to be at their seat. Clerk, call the roll. Senator Bergman, yes.
• All senators to your seats, please. If you wish to vote no, please raise your hand.
• All senators to your seats, please. If you wish to vote no, please raise your hand.
• I'll send us to your seats, please. We are voting. I'll send us to your seats.
• All senators to your seats, please. We are voting. If you wish to vote no, please raise your hand.

Keywords: 996, all

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• at ECCD, which really helps ensure that Head Start has a direct line into senior leadership and a seat
• In the last year, we brought down the car seat technician training from Safer New Mexico to Dona Ana
• County and certified 16 car seat technicians in our community.
• We educate them around car seat safety.
• That was one of my passions 40 years ago when we had the first car seat program with the Department of

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• RCV by a vote of the residents; it establishes standards for implementing RCV in single- and multi-seat
• :08:16.639> a ramay and again if you can just take a ramay and again if you can just take a seat
• 17.960> yourself<00:08:18.360> and<00:08:18.479> you<00:08:18.599> can seat
• statistic says women hold 52% of seats statistic says women hold 52% of seats in<00:31:29.080>
• The Chair invited Miss Freeman to take a seat at the table and introduce herself.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• legislature has this authority, but it has never used it to reverse the court's conclusions and remove a seated
• One, you know, does the legislature have the ultimate authority to make the decision to seat their members
• ultimate authority to make the decision ultimate authority to make the decision to<00:30:09.520> seat
• <00:30:12.720> Saul,<00:30:13.440> uh to seat um their members? Mr.
• Saul, uh to seat um their members? Mr.

Keywords: 1183, house

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• Yeah, you get in a car, you got to put your seat belt on.
• Yeah, you get in a car, you got to put your seat belt on.
• Yeah, you get in a car, you got to put your seat belt on.
• Yeah, you get in a car, you got to put your seat belt on.
• Yeah, you get in a car, you got to put your seat belt on.

Keywords: 910, house, all

Summary: The meeting included a joint public hearing of the House Housing and Transportation committees, followed by a Transportation Committee hearing. In the joint hearing, members considered SB 662 SD1, which concerned transportation and included two parts: transferring certain streets to the city and clarifying police authority on state streets. The chair recommended moving the bill out as an HD1 with Part One removed, explaining that the street-transfer issue should be worked out by the county and state and that removing it would improve the bill’s chances. The committees voted to pass the measure with amendments, and the recommendation was adopted. The Transportation Committee then heard several bills. SB 1095, relating to license plates, would increase decal size restrictions for special number plates; the Department of Transportation offered written comments, with testimony split between two individuals in opposition and one in support, and no questions were raised. SB 344 would require skateboard users under 16 to wear helmets; DOT supported the bill, as did TRIAA Hawaii, the Injury Prevention Coalition, and other individuals, while two individuals opposed it. SB 30 would require all moped riders to wear helmets regardless of age; DOT supported it, but Moped Doctors and Hawaiian Style Rentals and Sales opposed it, arguing the bill was overreaching, could be hard to enforce, and should be more narrowly targeted or replaced with education efforts. The committee also heard SB 1216, which would tighten noisy muffler and exhaust enforcement by conditioning inspection certificates, adding inspection-station penalties, increasing fines, and prohibiting repair or installation of noisy systems. DOT supported the measure, and Waiʻanae Neighborhood Board testified in support, while Moped Doctors and the Motorcycle Industry Council opposed it, saying the bill would burden inspection stations, create liability concerns, and raise questions about insurance-related language as applied to mopeds. The hearing included discussion of enforcement, inspection burdens, and whether the bill’s insurance references applied to mopeds. No final vote was taken on the Transportation Committee bills in the portion provided, and the hearing adjourned after testimony and discussion.

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• Members, take your seats. Take your conversations outside.
• Members, take your seats. Take your conversations outside. We have a long day.
• I'm going to say for a third time, take your seats and take your conversations outside.

Bills: SB1687, HB1687, HB4431, HB2894, HB2979, HB3262, HB3298, HB3369, HB3431, HB3462, SB1226, SB1876, SB1916, SB1920, HB3467, HB3498, HB3500, HB3521, HB3581, HB3650, HB3673, HB3764, HB3767, HB3781, HB3800, HB3831, HB3834, HB3941, HB2749, HB3970, HB3972, HB3979, HB3980, HB3981, HB3996, HB4095, HB4104, HB4191, HB4248, HB4298, HB4338, HB4427, HB4428, HJR1023, HB3660, HB3718, HB4326, HB3443, HB3880, HB3649, HB3000, SB1651, SB504, SB372, SB1326, SB1633, SB248, SB1242, SB1238, SB423, SB1989, SB1286, SB904, SB1213, SB1216, SB1827, SB65, SB1390, SB259, SB1944, SB540, SB2139, SB346, SB1595, SB1400, SB1555, SB1209, SB2110, SB1670, SB1061, SB2104, HR1057, SB1946, SB1734, SB1316, SB1360, SB1557, SB1684, SB2049, SB1410, SB2011, SB1437, SB1204, SB1732, SB1775, SB2084, SB1380, SB1572, SB1772, SB1224, SB710, SB1338, SB1266, SB1303, SB1307, SB1562, SB1794, SB1191, SB1983, SB1832, SB1448, SB1534, SB1593, SB1597, SB1630, SB1489, SB1726, SB1796, SB1806, SB1877, SB1451, SB1553, SB1632, SB1423, SB1425, SB1502, SB2180, SB1725, SB2182, HB3003, HB3004, HB4434, HB4324, HB4342, HB2137, HB4432, SJR50, SJR52, SJR53

Keywords: driver licenses, exam proctor, Service Oklahoma, commercial training, background checks, advance directive, advance health care directive, health care proxy, medical power of attorney, durable power of attorney for health care, living will, surrogate decision-maker, default surrogate, health care agent, capacity determination, supported decision making, mental health directive, psychiatric advance directive, end-of-life care, life-sustaining treatment

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• Members, please take your seats or take your conversations outside. Outside, please.
• Members, please take your seats or your conversations outside.
• You may be seated, Mr. Leader. Thank you, Mr. President.

Keywords: 914, all

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• I cannot be the fishermen’s representative when the fishermen has to have a seat at the table.
• has<00:22:50.080> to<00:22:50.320> have<00:22:50.640> a<00:22:50.799> seat
• <00:22:51.120> in<00:22:51.279> the fisherman has to have a seat in the fisherman has
• to have a seat in the table<00:22:52.480> so<00:22:53.480> on<00:22:54.200> advice<
• and classrooms across the these seats and classrooms across the state<00:43:08.240> full<00:43

Keywords: 1189, house, all