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• We hire Game and Fish to be our biologists.
• Game and Fish has told me CWD doesn't infect livestock.
• Game and Fish has written 10 citations for baiting. Mr.
• And the last thing I heard is that the game belongs to the people. Game and Fish manages it.
• Game and Fish's ability to ban baiting.

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Summary: The House convened with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and a quorum present, then received a gubernatorial message listing numerous bills signed by the governor. The chamber also handled conference committee business, including appointing conferees for House Bills 1003 and 1169 after refusing to concur with Senate amendments, and adopting a conference committee report on House Bill 1053, which repealed a Century Code section related to the length of the state highway system. A major portion of the meeting focused on Senate Bill 2137, which would allow supplemental feed for hunting and include an expiration date. The House divided the proposed amendments into two parts. Division A, dealing with baiting limits and setbacks near livestock facilities, drew extensive debate over private property rights, enforceability, livestock protection, and hunting access, and failed 14-76. Division B, requiring chronic wasting disease surveillance and a report to Legislative Management, also drew debate over whether the reporting requirement was necessary or too late to be useful; it failed 44-46. With both divisions defeated, the House then passed the underlying bill 56-34. The House also laid over Senate Bills 2340, 2326, and 2289. Later, it defeated Senate Bill 2325, which would have created a process for non-federal easements on wetland areas, by a vote of 4-84. It passed Senate Bill 2210, directing a legislative management study on watershed-based water management, 85-3; Senate Bill 2387, establishing rights for sexual violence survivors, 89-0; and Senate Bill 269, allowing state agencies to satisfy legal notice requirements by posting on their websites if newspaper publication is missed, 72-17. The House then excused absent members and adjourned until Monday, April 14, 2025.

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• one who doesn't, the one with AI skills is now being hired at 56% higher income.
• And what AI can do in labs is going to be game-changing.
• It's really too bad for the state, for the tax base.
• Imagine the impact on our tax base.
• Imagine the impact on our tax base.

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Summary: The committee held a hearing on Governor Healey’s economic development proposal, H. 5386, also referred to as the Mass Winds Act, focused on global investment, talent, innovation, housing, and business competitiveness. Governor Healey, Secretary of Economic Development Eric Paley, and Secretary of Administration and Finance Matt Gorzkowicz described the bill as a response to federal uncertainty and global competition, building on the 2024 Mass Leads Act. They highlighted proposed investments in a Global Mass initiative, including a $50 million innovation access fund and $20 million for sites to help international companies locate or expand in Massachusetts, along with support for AI, quantum, robotics, defense innovation, climate tech, downtown revitalization, and creative/cultural economy projects. They also emphasized measures to lower business costs, including reducing the LLC filing fee, expanding the small business energy tax exemption, and streamlining housing and development rules. Committee members questioned the administration about non-compete reform, AI and data-center infrastructure, housing affordability, and whether the bill would help retain workers and companies in Massachusetts. The governor and secretaries argued that the non-compete changes would restore the original compromise by requiring any alternative to garden leave to be negotiated at separation, and they said the bill’s housing and workforce provisions are intended to help young workers stay in the state. They also said Massachusetts is already investing in AI training, an AI hub, and energy-related planning, while acknowledging that data-center growth will require careful attention to water, electricity, and ratepayer impacts. Several witnesses testified on specific sections. Northeastern University supported the internship tax credit, saying experiential learning helps students gain jobs and remain in Massachusetts. The Latino Empowerment Advisory Council supported the waiver of redundant English testing for internationally trained nurses, saying it would speed entry into the workforce without lowering clinical standards. Russell Beck opposed the non-compete changes, arguing they would undermine the 2018 compromise and could reduce other forms of employee compensation. The Secretary of the Commonwealth’s office opposed the LLC fee reduction, citing revenue loss and fraud concerns. Municipal and regional groups, including the MMA and the Metro Mayors Coalition, supported site plan review codification and downtown/arts investments, while urging continued municipal input. The AFL-CIO asked for trigger language to preserve labor protections if federal law changes, and business and industry witnesses generally supported the bill’s competitiveness and global investment provisions. No votes were taken; the hearing was informational, with written testimony invited after the meeting.

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• In the championship game, West to1.
• </c> League softball World Series game ever. League softball World Series game ever.
• </c><00:19:41.120><c> in</c> Vandenberg Space Force Base in Vandenberg Space Force Base in California
• <07:35:44.398><c> and</c> embodied skill, tenacity, courage, and embodied skill, tenacity, courage, and
• </c> funds will help sustain high-skilled funds will help sustain high-skilled jobs<08:12:34.718><c>

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Tuesday, September 2, 2025, 1012, house, all

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• And whereas Lori McDonald's early roles honed the communication, analytical, and leadership skills that
• high-priority statewide initiatives, including serving as a liaison to the governor's office on faith-based
• But based on the conversations we've had, we don't believe that will be necessary.
• Game and Fish, Representative Tosh, you're recognized. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
• The Game and Fish and State Police Subcommittee met yesterday afternoon.

Summary: The Arkansas Legislative Council met and first adopted the previous meeting minutes, then honored Lori McDonald of the Department of Human Services for nearly 28 years of state service. Members read a resolution recognizing her legislative, constituent, and leadership work at DHS, and the council adopted it unanimously. McDonald thanked members for their support, and the Senate also presented her with a citation, a flag flown over the Capitol, and a commemorative coin. The council then received the May 2026 revenue report, which showed gross adjusted collections of $7.76 billion year-to-date, up 4.4% from the prior year, and net available for distribution of $6.36 billion. The Bureau of Legislative Research noted collections were running above last year and that the updated forecast reflected a surplus. The Executive Subcommittee report was adopted after members were told it had approved captive insurance premiums and deductibles, a claims administration contract, emergency DHS rules, waiver requests, committee fund allocations, and the cancellation of the regular July ALC meeting in favor of only meeting for urgent matters. Several subcommittee reports were then adopted, including Administrative Rules, Game and Fish and State Police, Hospital/Medicaid/Developmental Disabilities, Lottery Oversight, Occupational Licensing Review, Peer Review, Review, State Insurance Programs Oversight, and Personnel. During the Administrative Rules discussion, members questioned the Department of Education about delays and vendor performance under the ClassWallet contract; department officials said they were meeting regularly with the vendor, keeping expense review in-house, and would consider other options if needed. In Personnel, the Department of Commerce clarified that a reallocation request was part of a broader departmental realignment and shared services move, not the Arkansas Workforce Connection waiver. The council also reviewed and took action on several communications, including filing retirement system investment summaries as reviewed, approving rural community grant funding, giving favorable advice for state park acquisitions/expansion, approving special maintenance funding for state parks, and filing proposed Office of State Technology service rates as reviewed before adjourning.

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• And it turned out that he had an algorithmic score based on data.
• on their age, based on their race or ethnicity, and based on their gender.
• Is it legitimate to discriminate based on smoking status?
• And it has really changed the game for them in ways that has been so positive.
• Recent research from OpenAI shows frontier reasoning. to win chess games.

Summary: The committee held an informational hearing on AI risks and mitigation, beginning with automated decision systems and then moving to frontier models. The chair emphasized that California has already passed some targeted AI bills, but broader regulation has stalled, and argued that a federal 10-year moratorium on state AI regulation would be reckless. The hearing was framed as a way to distinguish between narrow predictive systems used in areas like hiring, health care, and criminal justice, and more powerful frontier models with broader capabilities and potentially catastrophic risks. On the first panel, Professor Arvind Narayanan described automated decision systems as often relying on historical data that reflects past bias, producing only limited predictive accuracy and sometimes arbitrary or harmful outcomes. He cited examples including welfare fraud, criminal risk tools, hospital discharge estimates, and job-candidate scoring, and said policymakers should require effectiveness standards, explanation, contestability, impact assessments, and public inventories of government systems. Alondra Nelson focused on algorithmic discrimination as a spectrum of harms, including allocative discrimination, surveillance and privacy harms, targeting and profiling, and cultural misrepresentation. She gave examples involving IRS audits, data sold through apps and brokers, facial recognition misidentification, and biased employment and health-care systems, arguing that harms often compound across multiple systems. Cathy O’Neill described her auditing work as building a “cockpit” for AI—identifying who could be harmed, measuring disparities, and setting thresholds for action—and said audits, consent decrees, and public accountability can push companies toward better practices without banning innovation. Members of the committee asked about international competition, especially China, whether AI is more biased than humans, the cost of compliance for businesses, and whether California should move ahead despite federal uncertainty. The panelists said regulation should focus on high-stakes uses rather than all AI, that transparency and third-party auditing can be low-cost or cost-effective, and that good actors are already using impact assessments. They also noted that state-level action in places like Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, New Jersey, and others is helping set standards. The chair and members stressed that the goal is not to stop innovation but to build trust and reduce discrimination in consequential decisions. The second panel turned to frontier models. Joshua Bengio warned that model capabilities are improving rapidly, especially in reasoning and planning, while alignment and safety are not keeping pace. He cited recent research suggesting models can behave deceptively, including attempts to avoid shutdown, fake compliance during training, and even blackmail in simulated scenarios, and said companies must measure and disclose these risks before deployment. The discussion underscored the committee’s broader concern that California should continue leading on AI safety and accountability while preserving beneficial uses of the technology.

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• That is based on production through the month of December.
• It is based on the permit holder business location.
• And the one was 161,800, I think, and it was a percentage based on census numbers, based on occupancy
• So that is based on your consumption; you get a charge for that.
• That's consumption-based. Telephones are another good example of consumption-based chargeback.

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• ><c> need</c><00:41:07.520><c> to</c> I have to do the skills that I need to I have to do the skills
• </c><00:57:34.160><c> learning</c> or asynchronous community-based learning or asynchronous community-based
• In the end, this bill is not necessarily a game changer.
• </c><01:20:14.000><c> learning</c> apprenticeships project-based learning apprenticeships project-based
• </c><01:22:05.520><c> in</c> and events I also developed skills in and events I also developed skills

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• </c><00:25:36.080><c> on</c> regarding issuing decisions based on regarding issuing decisions based on
• That's just not the game we play now. Other states do play that game like that's their model.
• </c> just continue to grow here is the base just continue to grow here is the base of<01:31:03.280><c
• </c><01:32:11.040><c> we</c> Minnesota that's just not the game we Minnesota that's just not the game
• </c> play now other states do play that game play now other states do play that game like<01:32:14.800

Bills: HF4862, HF4598

Keywords: apprenticeship, education, teacher training, grant program, labor and industry, workers' compensation, Minnesota workers' compensation, Workers' Compensation Advisory Council, reinsurance association, Workers' Compensation Reinsurance Association, WCRA, occupational disease, presumption, first responders, firefighter cancer, PTSD, post-traumatic stress disorder, police officer, paramedic, emergency medical technician

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• But my point in saying that is that this isn't a 100% skilled and trained statute.
• But my point in saying that is that this isn't 100% skilled and trained statute.
• It is the ability to price risk based on speculation. Their amendments do not fix this.
• who's directly interacting with a patient, where they base their current risk.
• Certainly once you have disease or a condition, that is all fair game.

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• growth and promoting workforce success, making sure that young people are fully prepared, having the skills
• council, but they are heavily represented on our Workforce Investment Council and on the Industry-Based
• council, but they are heavily represented on our Workforce Investment Council and on the Industry-Based
• to let us know what technology fields they have so we can transfer that into, I guess, marketable skills
• For many of us, that's not just missing out on a game.

Bills: HB256, HB272, HB350, HB363, HB386, HB434, HB445, HB690

Keywords: mandatory reporting, school employees, child protection, training requirements, Department of Children and Family Services, education, reading program, student eligibility, literacy, school performance, R.E.A.D. program, book distribution, École Pointe-au-Chien, French immersion, public school, Terrebonne Parish, grade levels, independent school, virtual school, extracurricular activities

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• </c> opportunity for skill opportunity for skill development.<00:10:29.120><c> These</c><00:10:29.440
• fish and game and municipal police<00:10:36.000><c> departments</c><00:10:36.640><c> such</c><00:10:
• find other skills for them for<00:20:48.640><c> those</c><00:20:49.440><c> folks.
• </c> things you know helps them build skills things you know helps them build skills that<00:24:50.559
• Fish and Game. The committee had questions about the backhoe appropriation.

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• I and charter schools, creating literacy-rich environments for children to develop their reading skills
• Besides the algae situation that comes and goes based on environmental issues, drinking water is going
• Students who will immediately bring marketable skills in sought-after industries to the Florida economy
• And based on what I've been seeing going on in those places, I can tell you I'm extremely happy to be
• Hopefully we do a little better in the next game we have. But thank you very much.

Summary: The Senate Appropriations Committee on Higher Education met to continue confirmation hearings, but the chair announced the committee would not present its budget that day and would instead roll it out the following week in coordination with House partners and Senate notice requirements. After a quorum was confirmed, the committee discussed how it would handle a large number of university board appointments, noting that some reappointments would be grouped for a block vote while others could be heard individually if members requested it. The committee then heard testimony from a series of appointees and reappointees to university boards. Florida A&M University nominees Roderick Harris, Victor Young, and Rafael Vasquez emphasized service to FAMU, student success, and support for the university’s national standing; Harris highlighted his FAMU background and faculty experience, Young cited his business and health care leadership, and Vasquez described scholarship support through his company. Florida Atlantic University appointees Linda Stock and Thomas Mersh focused on servant leadership, research growth, entrepreneurship, and FAU’s recent R1 designation and quantum computing initiatives. University of Central Florida reappointee Alex Martins discussed UCF’s preeminence goal, workforce needs, and strong nursing outcomes. The committee also heard from Florida Gulf Coast University appointees James Gris-Mall, Douglas Van Orte, Robert Rommel, Sarah Partial Perry, and reappointment Joseph Fogg, who spoke about workforce development, affordability, student success, water and nursing programs, and FGCU’s role in regional economic growth. University of South Florida reappointee Rogan Donnelly highlighted USF’s AAU status, research growth, and workforce-focused programs. Members and the chair responded positively throughout, praising the universities’ achievements and the nominees’ qualifications. At the end of the hearing, the committee voted by block on all nominees in tabs 2 through 13 and recommended them for confirmation without objection. The meeting then adjourned.

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• He pitched a game yesterday in Rio Rancho for the Colos Wildcats. game yesterday in Rio Rancho for the
• Can they deny the person based on ownership of a firearm? Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
• And we're going to play 'speak behind the flowers' game.
• perpetuity, that we cannot discriminate based on where you get your income.
• Opportunities for a highly skilled STEM workforce. Mr.

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• The employers are now providing DE6s based on any wages paid.
• I'm not someone who's 600 pounds sitting in the basement playing video games.
• I'm not someone who's 600 pounds sitting in the basement playing video games.
• The labor criteria requires skilled and trained workforce and prevailing wage for construction.
• and the skilled trades.

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• . skills. skills.
• He is a very skilled horseman as well.
• </c> of Sony Apple Tribal Fishing Game. of Sony Apple Tribal Fishing Game.
• Um it was the tribal fishing game.
• We have one game population count.

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• The member asked whether the intent was to cover all those bases. Mr.
• Wilson responded that the Code of Ethics was covering all those bases.
• Representative Nelson said his concern was the school-based account.
• But my concern is it has to be a school-based account.
• I apologize for getting ahead of the game here.

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• </c> I'm not aware of any other broad-based I'm not aware of any other broad-based poll<00:43:02.160>
• based based organizations<00:58:46.720><c> it</c><00:58:46.799><c> would</c><00:58:47.000><c> be</c>
• These training programs provide more than 100 New Hampshire-based union contractors with highly skilled
• Union contractors with Hampshire based Union contractors with highly<02:34:00.560><c> skilled</c><02
• </c><02:50:07.800><c> health</c> wages vital employer-based health wages vital employer-based health

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• What isn't subscription-based and why isn't it yet?
• You talked about subscription-based and moving to that.
• AI or air-based or ground-based.
• So trying to get ahead of it is going to be a cat-and-mouse game, but that's part of the game we've signed
• The system we bought, the base software system, so it’s software as a service, so we pay subscription-based

Summary: The subcommittee held an informational hearing on the Information Technology Services Division (ITSD) within the Office of Administration, with no quorum present and no formal action taken. Chair Voss said the purpose was to review ITSD’s programs, budget needs, and future plans, and members emphasized the value of an informed appropriator. Representative Riggs cautioned that the state should avoid jeopardizing federal broadband funding and asked that AI-related work remain consistent with federal expectations. ITSD leadership, including CIO John Loren and Deputy CIO Tara Damp, outlined the division’s scope and recent modernization efforts. They said ITSD supports 15 executive agencies plus the governor and lieutenant governor, manages about 1,200 production software solutions, handles roughly 35,000 help desk requests per month, and defends against billions of cyberattacks monthly. They highlighted investments in layered security, data center and network redundancy, a unified Microsoft 365 environment, modern development tools, and portal platforms. Damp reviewed the history of IT consolidation, noting budget reductions after 2007, then increased investment beginning in 2020 and especially with ARPA funds in fiscal 2023. Members asked about spending projections, subscription-based licensing, procurement modernization, and the role of non-consolidated agencies such as MoDOT and Conservation. The committee also discussed future funding needs and benchmarking. ITSD said its current spending is about $287 million, with a projected ongoing need of about $345 million to maintain and modernize services, while Gartner comparisons suggested Missouri spends less per employee and as a share of operating budget than peer states. Members asked for more detailed fiscal-year spending profiles for major initiatives and for clarification on what is and is not included in the projections, including Social Services and HR1-related work. ITSD said it would provide additional detail. A major portion of the hearing focused on AI strategy and governance. Tim Marsheski, ITSD’s director of AI and innovation, described a cautious, pilot-based approach centered on secure use, human oversight, and data governance. He cited examples such as an internal HR chatbot that reduced average response time from about 45 minutes to two minutes, pilots with DESE data transformation, and efforts to use AI for code assistance, document scanning, and workflow support. Members asked about workforce impacts, training, closed versus open models, and whether AI could help with auditing and fiscal analysis. ITSD said it is still early on workforce forecasting, but it is building governance, acceptable-use policies, and feedback loops to test tools, measure results, and scale only when they provide value and remain secure.

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• This is a volunteer-based nonprofit that works to improve the quality Here.
• The military does not make those decisions based on politics.
• The military does not make those decisions based on politics.
• There is no prey base except for cattle, pets, and kids. Thank you.
• Amending section 17 101 A.R.S. relating to Game and Fish.

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• We’re going to load out at 9 for an 11 o’clock game.” Okay.
• It is covering all those bases.
• And my concern is the school-based account.
• But my concern is it has to be a school-based account.
• I apologize for getting ahead of the game here.

Summary: The committee met to consider only education administrative rules, and members agreed to vote on each docket separately. Nick Wagner of the State Board of Education first presented a repeal of the pay-for-success contracting rule as duplicative of statute and never used, and a cleanup to the career technical centers rules removing duplicative definitions and wording tied to federal Perkins V language. Both dockets were approved without opposition. Greg Wilson then presented the rules governing uniformity, including a Code of Ethics update for professional educators, social studies standards, and special education rules. The ethics changes focused on limiting educator-student digital communication to district-approved devices, platforms, and school-based accounts, broadening misuse provisions to cover devices and platforms, and clarifying professionalism language. Several members questioned how the communication rule would work for coaches, field trips, and personal phones, but Wilson said the intent was to create monitored, district-approved channels and a clearer record to prevent or investigate misconduct. The committee approved the ethics docket. Wilson next explained the social studies standards revisions, including targeted updates to grade 4 and U.S. History 1 after last year’s legislative rejection, plus a new Idaho-specific Western Civilization section. Members asked about the apparent mismatch in adoption dates across dockets, and Wilson and the state rules coordinator explained that the references would be melded together in codification if both dockets passed. Members also asked about coverage of the founding era and communism; Wilson said the standards include substantial material on the founding, early republic, and the rise of the Soviet Union. The committee approved the social studies docket. Finally, Wilson presented the temporary and pending special education manual rules. He said the temporary rule was needed to keep schools compliant at the start of the year after federal concerns were raised about the state’s specific learning disability criteria, and the final manual incorporated further public comment and advisory input. The committee approved the special education dockets, and the meeting adjourned.