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• that you all have um that the document that you all have um that goes<00:31:18.760> over<00:31
• <00:38:00.440> and<00:38:00.640> filing<00:38:01.119> requirements documentation
• and filing requirements documentation and filing requirements assessments<00:38:02.599> treatment
• Some of 256B is also in the Health Committee, but there are various sections listed in this document
• Sections listed in this document relate to adult and children's mental health services covered by MA

Keywords: 1183, house

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• 18, 2026, the time within which the Committee on Revenue is authorized to report on current House documents
• , 2026, the time within which the Committee on Revenue was authorized to report on current House documents
• , 2026, the time within which the Committee on Revenue was authorized to report on current House documents

Keywords: 995, all

Summary: The House opened with the Pledge of Allegiance and then took up several Rules Committee reports. Members adopted resolutions congratulating Auburn on the 100th anniversary of the world’s first liquid-fueled rocket launch and welcoming Boston’s new National Women’s Soccer League team, the Boston Legacy, to Massachusetts. The House also adopted orders extending the reporting deadlines for the Committee on Revenue on two House documents into 2026. The chamber suspended joint rules to allow several petitions to proceed, including proposals on social media regulation for minors, a sick leave bank for a Department of Children and Families employee, retirement credit for a probation employee, taxation of certain foreign government pension benefits, and naming the American lobster the official crustacean of the Commonwealth. The Steering, Policy and Schedule Committee then listed bills for consideration, including measures on private road maintenance in Gloucester, property valuation and assessment fairness, municipal tax collectors, preservation of historic resource information in community preservation funds, and Salem liquor license changes. The House advanced those bills through second and third readings, then passed to be enacted local bills involving compensation for a Revere widow, a Wellesley senior tax deferment change, and a Hopkinton library trustees charter amendment. It also engrossed a bill directing the Boston Police Department to waive the maximum age requirement for a specific applicant, Edney Joseph. The session ended with a moment of silent tribute to Adrian Dolan of South Boston and an order to adjourn until the next Thursday morning in informal session.

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• I'm not sure. >> That would become a shredded document. >> Shredded documents. >> Yes, sir. >> I'm just
• >> That would become a shredded document. >> Shredded<00:37:59.200> documents.
• >> Shredded documents. >> Shredded documents. >> Yes,<00:37:59.839> sir.
• :44:56.640> destroyed, before their documents are destroyed, before their documents are destroyed
• And again, what is that documentation?

Keywords: MS House Floor - 10 February, 2026; 10:00 AM, 925, all

Summary: The House convened with prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance, then established a quorum and dispensed with the reading of the journal. Members also introduced a number of guests and visitors, including University of Southern Mississippi programs, 4-H participants from across the state, and several local constituents. A Mississippi 4-H president, Morgan White, addressed the chamber and spoke about the value of 4-H in building leadership, confidence, and agricultural skills, and noted the state’s first-in-the-nation 4-H slingshot curriculum and competition. The chamber then moved to the calendar and took up several bills. House Bill 943 was called up and passed after a committee substitute was adopted; the bill was explained as removing a repealer related to joint reports of examination by the Commissioner of Banking and Finance and the Federal Reserve Bank. House Bill 1265 also passed after being explained as extending a repealer for the debt service management act. House Bill 1477 was taken up next and generated extended discussion; it would create a process for abandoned safety deposit box contents, requiring notice to owners, allowing a period to cure delinquency, and then transferring contents to the Treasury Department for eventual disposition. Members asked several questions about House Bill 1477, especially about how long property would be held, how heirs would be notified, how cash and tangible items would be treated, and whether documents such as wills should be scanned or preserved before destruction. The bill’s sponsor said cash would remain unclaimed property, tangible items would generally be sold at public auction, and the Treasury Department would hold property for a minimum period before sale, with heirs still able to claim it for a time. The sponsor also said the bill had support from banking and credit union groups. No final vote on House Bill 1477 is shown in the transcript excerpt.

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• The senior DHS official told me to delete a number of paragraphs of the document that I had sent.
• of the document that I had sent. of the document that I had sent.
• Inspector General Keith. >> Uh, Chair, members, I want to mention that so we have on this document it
• I want to mention that so we have on this document it says five referrals to BCA.
• c> this<01:47:18.040> committee And we've documented in this committee And we've documented

Keywords: 1183, house

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• And, um, I guess my question to you is, is there a lack of documentation?
• <00:30:14.799> of<00:30:14.960> these<00:30:15.279> events the documentation
• of these events the documentation of these events sometimes<00:30:16.720> it<00:30:16.960>
• <00:30:31.760> Is is there a lack of documentation? Is is there a lack of documentation?
• Um, happy to send you an analysis of their technical documents.

Keywords: 958, all

Summary: The committee approved the October 22, 2025 minutes and then heard a presentation from the Child Fatality and Near Fatality External Review Panel on accidental ingestion of illegal drug products by children. Panel members said pediatric ingestions have become the most common case type they review, with the highest-risk children ages one to four, and that fatal cases have increased in recent years. They reported that the substances most often involved are fentanyl, cannabinoids including THC products, methamphetamine, and increasingly xylazine; they also noted a decline in buprenorphine-related ingestions, which they viewed as a positive trend. The panel used several case examples to highlight recurring problems in investigations and medical response, including delayed DCBS involvement, failure to administer Narcan, inadequate drug testing, lack of child abuse team involvement, and limited or absent law enforcement investigation. They said law enforcement issues are especially common in pediatric ingestion cases and are concentrated in Jefferson County and the Bluegrass/KIPA regions. One example involved a one-year-old who died from fentanyl and Benadryl intoxication; another involved a two-year-old who died after ingesting multiple substances; and a third involved a four-year-old with near-fatal THC gummy ingestion where delayed treatment worsened the child’s condition. They also described a 10-month-old THC ingestion case that resulted in a criminal abuse conviction, which they presented as an example without missed investigative opportunities. Committee members discussed possible policy responses, including creating a more specific criminal child abuse offense or clarifying existing abuse and neglect definitions to cover unsafe access to illegal drugs, while preserving room for true accidents and prescribed medications. Members also raised the need for statewide standardization in reporting, investigation, and medical response, and suggested the panel should be able to call in agencies such as law enforcement, DCBS, judges, and hospitals for closed-session review of selected cases. The panel chair said they were already pursuing meetings with LMPD and would provide Jefferson County-specific breakdowns, and members expressed interest in additional data and agency follow-up before considering legislation.

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• to application but Standalone document to application but we<00:30:23.399> look<00:30:23.519>
• The technology exists today, and it's much more advanced than producing a Word document or a PDF and
• <00:39:32.119> or<00:39:32.280> a producing a Word document or a producing a Word document
• They don't already exist, but counties and cities already have procedures in place and documentation
• in place to document that chain of custody that's already happening.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• This is under definitions, yeah, but then it throughout the document it calls out a person or country
• it calls out a throughout the document it calls out a person<00:14:36.639> or<00:14:36.880>
• <00:35:19.560> that<00:35:19.680> are a copy of all documents that are a copy of all
• documents that are relevant<00:35:20.240> a<00:35:20.359> couple<00:35:20.640> other
• <00:37:38.760> before review of any relevant documents before review of any relevant documents

Keywords: 928, house, all

Summary: The committee held a public hearing on HB 733-FN, a bill on third-party litigation financing (TPLF). Representative Cole, the prime sponsor, described TPLF as outside investors financing lawsuits in which they have no personal stake, arguing that the practice is largely unregulated, can involve foreign entities, and contributes to litigation abuse, higher insurance costs, and what he called a “tort tax.” He said the bill is modeled on an NCOIL proposal and would require disclosure of TPLF agreements, with specific references to foreign-entity restrictions, consumer-protection guardrails, and reporting requirements. He also noted a few technical fixes to the draft, including adding the word “knowingly” and restoring a section that had been omitted. Committee members questioned how the bill’s foreign-entity language would work, including whether a governor or the Department of Safety would designate countries of concern, and whether the bill would bar foreign parties from using litigation funding. Cole and others clarified that the bill was intended as a reporting measure, not a ban on litigation funding itself, and that the goal was to disclose who is funding lawsuits and to what extent. Representative Sal asked whether the bill would prevent a litigant from getting outside financing; Cole answered no, emphasizing disclosure rather than prohibition. Brandon Grat of the Attorney General’s Consumer Protection and Antitrust Bureau testified that the bill’s enforcement provisions were too limited. He said the draft appears to give the Attorney General only a civil-penalty remedy, likely too small to deter violations, and not the broader Consumer Protection Act tools such as injunctions, restitution, or investigation authority. He also raised concerns about whether the Attorney General or Insurance Department would have proper jurisdiction, given that the product may be financial or insurance-related. Insurance Commissioner DJ Benton Court said the department sees possible benefits from transparency because disclosure of litigation funding could help insurers assess risk, improve underwriting, and potentially ease hard-market pressures, especially for nonprofits and child care providers. He also said the bill’s language likely needs further work to clarify agency authority and suggested involving the Attorney General, Insurance Department, and banking regulators. Opposition testimony came from the New Hampshire Trial Lawyers Association. Marissa Chase and Samantha Hering argued the bill is one-sided because it requires disclosure only on the plaintiff side and not from defendants or insurers. They said New Hampshire already has court rules and discovery procedures that cover relevant disclosures, making the bill unnecessary, and questioned whether the existence of a funding contract is even relevant in litigation. The hearing ended with the committee continuing to discuss possible revisions and enforcement options, but no vote or final action was taken in the transcript.

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• The system is open all year round for them to submit their documentation.
• to submit in submit their documentation. to submit in submit their documentation.
• There are put that documentation in.
• <04:03:59.040> So documentation for any federal funds.
• So documentation for any federal funds.

Keywords: 928, house, all

Summary: The committee first took up SB 209, which would require schools seeking building aid for construction or reconstruction projects to use an owner’s project manager. The chair explained an amendment that would remove the bill’s requirement that the manager be engaged before application and instead revert to current law, while updating the project threshold from the older $1 million figure to a more current amount and clarifying that the manager’s role is to protect the project owner’s interests. Members asked about the cost of hiring a project manager over several years before a project is funded, the 1.5% fee in rule, and whether the rules already define the manager’s duties. The chair said the amendment addressed those concerns by leaving the timing to current law and relying on existing administrative rules for qualifications and responsibilities. The committee then voted 18-0 to adopt the amendment and 18-0 to recommend SB 209 OTPA, placing it on the consent calendar. The committee then moved to SB 99, which concerns allowing students enrolled in career and technical education programs at receiving comprehensive high schools to take additional academic courses there. The chair said the bill was intended to make it easier for students to access CTE without being blocked by scheduling conflicts in their sending schools, and to clarify how agreements between sending and receiving districts would work. He described concerns about the bill’s cost formula, transportation, part-time versus full-time status, and whether the proposal could unintentionally create open-enrollment or athletic-transfer issues. He said the amendment would mirror existing treatment for homeschool and charter school students, use a familiar funding model, and limit participation to students already enrolled in one or more CTE classes at the receiving school. The chair also emphasized that comprehensive high schools already have a statutory definition and that the bill would help more students participate in CTE, which he said currently reaches only a relatively small share of students statewide. He noted that transportation would be covered only when a CTE bus is available, otherwise students would be responsible for arranging travel as under current practice. After brief discussion, the committee voted 18-0 to adopt the amendment and 18-0 to recommend SB 99 OTPA, also placing it on the consent calendar.

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• without documentation without documentation to<00:16:32.000> engage<00:16:32.480> in
• that other Americans carry documentation that other Americans don't.<00:24:16.320> And<00:24:
• <00:35:11.520> like<00:35:11.760> passports<00:35:12.320> and carry documents
• like passports and carry documents like passports and things<00:35:12.720> like<00:35:12.800>
• Most of the time, the defense attorney will file a motion for request production of documents, but then

Keywords: 1136, house, all

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• You know, there's no documented issues, no proof, no criteria.
• You know, there's no documented issues, no proof, no criteria.
• Our insurer acknowledged receipt of all of our documentation, but months later, we were told that it
• Of all of our documentation, but months later, we were told that it wasn't enough, and our policy was

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• It's an available document.
• quarter performance report because you'll see second and third quarter next to each other in this document
• quarter performance report because you'll see second and third quarter next to each other in this document
• And on page 6, we'll show you what the documented miscellaneous categories were from page 5.

Summary: The Joint Committee on Aging, Children, and Youth first approved the February 11 minutes and then reviewed a DCFS policy manual update from Director Tiffany Wright. The rule changes were described as largely terminology and compliance updates to align with new laws, an executive order, and current practice, including moving internal procedures out of the public manual and into DCFS’s internal procedure manual. Members asked whether the changes altered practice or just wording, and Wright said they were mainly procedural and vernacular updates, such as changing terms like “protection plan” to “immediate safety plan” and “safety factor” to “safety threat.” The committee then reviewed and accepted the rule without objection. Wright also presented DCFS performance data for the third quarter of FY 2026, including hotline reports, investigations, foster care, in-home services, permanency, and adoption measures. She noted staffing shortages in some counties, lower timeliness in completing maltreatment reports, and efforts to support those areas with central office staff and daily calls. Members asked about neglect trends, sexual abuse/exploitation categories, behavioral issues, and workforce recruitment and retention. Wright said DCFS is expanding hiring support, outreach, retention efforts, trauma support through UAMS, and a new staff training model beginning July 1. She also presented the biannual overturned investigations report, which tracks hotline calls, true findings, appeals, and reversals by county, and answered questions about comparing it with prior years. Major Jeff Drew of the Crimes Against Children Division presented the 2025 annual report, saying the hotline received 67,987 calls and 37,986 were accepted for investigation, with 6,539 CACD investigations assigned and a 28% substantiation rate. He described hotline operator training, including a four-week program with policy review, scenarios, recorded calls, live call monitoring, and evidence-chain and decision-making instruction. He said the starting salary for hotline operators is $43,888 plus benefits and would check on comparisons with other states. Elizabeth Pooley of the Children’s Advocacy Centers of Arkansas reported that the state’s 29 CACs and 64 multidisciplinary teams served 13,568 children and families in 2025, up about 3,000 from the prior year, and hosted 259 trainings. Members asked about funding, and she said state funding is the same for each center at roughly $70,000 to $75,000, supplemented by federal and community support, with work underway on Arkansas-specific best practices. The meeting ended after a brief unrelated question about Meals on Wheels and a Project Zero adoption event announcement.

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• We are asking to create a reporting function within OMES for agency reporting and document whether contracts
• We are asking that the CIO document negotiation efforts and we are asking that proof of Concept programs
• And we're seeing the CIO on a public forum to document all negotiation efforts for explorative projects
• A lot of the problem I I think we will be able to take care of it strictly with documentation and perpetuity

Bills: HB1739, HB1784, HB1889, HB2116, HB2206, HB3625, HB2939, HB3028, HB3265, HB3313, HB3413, HB3414, HB3415, HB3416, HB3417, HB3418, HB3420, HB3588, HB3748, HB3721, HB3852, HB4132, HB4263, HB4303, HB4311, HB4428, HB4429, HB4434

Keywords: retirement, law enforcement, disability benefits, pension system, Oklahoma, education reform, local control, student outcomes, curriculum changes, school funding, public retirement systems, pension, retirement benefits, cost-of-living adjustment, COLA, inflation adjustment, CPI-U, Consumer Price Index, firefighters pension, police pension

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• That is where you will Find this document.
• proposed, adopted, not adopted items, and the one that's titled SFC is the one that will be this document
• It's hard because it's the first time I've seen the finished document, and I'm trying to search for some
• Chair effectively because of the way the LSE prepared this document here, it pulled it from a different

Keywords: 996, all

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• regarding any of the detail. a kind of laundry list of items that would be supplied, along with the documentation
• Estates Code to strengthen oversight, transparency, and guardianship proceedings by specifying documentation
• This might be a voucher, credit card receipts, bank statements, or other documents like that so that
• I actually have a local rule that requires them to provide the vouchers and the other documentation that

Bills: SB1960, SB1730, SB766, SB2342, SB2501, SB2903

Keywords: digital rights, replication, Voice likeness, visual likeness, private causes of action, fee structure, online service providers, postmortem rights, self-defense, stand your ground, castle doctrine, use of force, deadly force, civil immunity, civil liability, tort claims, attorney fees, court costs, lost income, Chapter 9 Penal Code

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• certificate of occupancy to the business owner at that time, but they still require the original document
• currently allow a business owner to obtain... ...and a copy from them if they don't have the original documentation
• The committee's substitute of HB1535 allows a property owner to acquire a document proving that a certificate
• of occupancy was issued from the municipality and allows this document to serve as a replacement for

Bills: HB198, HB303, HB1535, HB2742, HB3305, HB3348, HB3505, HB3711, HB4753, HB2715, HB21, HB30, HB21, HB198, HB303

Keywords: HB 198, Wade Cannon Act, firefighter cancer screening, occupational cancer screening, fire protection personnel, local government, political subdivision, Texas Commission on Fire Protection, National Fire Protection Association, NFPA standards, occupational medical examination, public safety, firefighter health, cancer prevention, annual health screening, confidential medical exam, pulmonary function test, electrocardiogram, chest x-ray, blood test

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• This section set a limit on the number of days a person had to in effect go and inspect documents provided
• ><00:03:14.000> go<00:03:14.239> and<00:03:14.480> inspect<00:03:15.280> documents
• to in effect go and inspect documents to in effect go and inspect documents provided<00:03:16.319

Bills: HF2300

Keywords: 1183, house

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• By land grant, it's a pretty useful document, so I just wanted to show that to everybody.
• That's the level of documentation. That's not really what auditors can do to help them.
• going to try and do is expand our efforts to include audit preparation to help people get their documentation
• The documents that were given to us, and I'm just reading off the header, these are the non-compliant

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• processes for managing key asset information to support proper asset management, including accurate documentation
• Overall, we found that the agency was not consistently conducting or appropriately documenting OSHA safety
• inspections of building assets used. appropriately documenting OSHA safety inspections of building assets
• We also found asset management, including tracking and documenting, were not consistently or accurately
• standardized naming conventions, refining data entry expectations, and clarifying requirements for documentation

Keywords: 907, all

Summary: The Joint Interim Committee on Legislative Audits met on June 17 for informational presentations. The Department of Administrative Services, through Chief Audit Executive Eli Ritchie, gave an overview of statewide internal audit requirements and the fiscal year 2025 report. He explained the difference between internal and external audit, described Oregon’s statutory and rule-based internal audit structure, and reported that 30 agencies had internal audit functions, with most meeting required standards. He said 73 audits and 49 advisory/consulting engagements were completed statewide, with strong compliance overall, though a few agencies were rebuilding audit committees after vacancies. No committee questions were raised after the presentation. The Secretary of State’s Audits Division then presented its Government Waste Hotline annual report. Director Steve Bergman and audit manager Olivia Rekhed described changes made to align the hotline with statute, including renaming it the Government Waste Hotline, creating a review panel, improving anonymity protections, removing fraud reporting from the hotline’s scope, and adjusting reporting timelines. They said hotline volume increased modestly in 2025, most reports were referred elsewhere or closed for insufficient evidence, and two reports were substantiated, including questioned costs of about $856 for personal use of a state vehicle and about $2.9 million tied to the Preschool Promise program. Committee members asked about hotline staffing, cost, anonymity, and follow-up on findings; staff said the hotline is lightly resourced, uses a contracted intake service, and referrals or recommendations are followed up through management letters and later reviews. The committee also heard an audit of the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department’s safety inspections and asset tracking. The Secretary of State’s office reported that OPRD had not consistently conducted or documented quarterly OSHA safety inspections and had incomplete asset records, including missing acquisition dates and costs for many assets. The audit made eight recommendations covering safety inspection policies, asset management guidance, tagging, reconciliations, disposition controls, training, and a new asset management system; OPRD agreed to all recommendations. OPRD officials said they had already begun training staff, improving inspection procedures, and working toward a replacement asset system, while noting operational challenges from a large, dispersed park system and manual processes. Committee members asked about what kinds of assets are tracked, how tagging works, whether items were actually being lost, and how much tracking is necessary for low-value tools; OPRD said the main issue was inconsistent classification and documentation rather than widespread loss. The meeting ended with no votes or formal actions taken.

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• implementation through developing a clear and consistent leadership framework. which will be a companion document
• we will be through our accreditation process, moving from compliance of turning in all of those documents
• We are seeing an uptick in the required documents. as Assistant Secretary Waneku described, really taking
• a second look at the documents from the schools and the districts.
• And I wonder if that's part of the reason it may not be reflected in this document from the department's

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• We want to address a documented research imbalance.
• We can document this in this annual report. We can actually make significant headway.
• We can document this in this annual report, inform the legislature, and that will be good for the state
• What is unusual would be to actually document this in an annual report that comes to you, the legislators
• I had not thought of having a document that would actually memorialize all the work that we're doing

Keywords: 959, house, all