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• I can't call a hearing unless the prosecutor does it.

Bills: SJR 3, SB 5, SJR 36, SJR 3, SB 616, SB 565, SB 384, SB 5, SB 21, SB 72, SB 140, SB 262, SB 370, SB 372, SB 495, SB 627, SB 703, SB 764, SB 842, SB 971, SB 790, SB 767, SB 480, SB 1066, SR 44, SR 135, SR 171, SR 180, SR 185, SR 187, SR 188, SR 191, SR 197, SR 198, SR 199, SR 200

Keywords: dementia, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, research funding, state budget, prevention, healthcare, medical research, Dementia Prevention and Research Institute, research institute, funding, grants, state health initiatives, aquifer, water management, Edwards Aquifer, sustainability, regulatory framework, SB 565, Texas Water Code

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• released right back into the public, not even being brought into a courtroom, not even given the prosecutor
• If the procedure is today, if you wanted the prosecutor wanted that person to be held, to be detained
• released right back into the public, not even being brought into a courtroom, not even given the prosecutor
• If the procedure is today, if you wanted the prosecutor wanted that person to be held, to be detained
• If the prosecutor wanted that person to be held, to be detained pending their trial, because they deemed

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

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• And then basically it's up to the local prosecutors to prosecute if so.
• the<00:39:52.920> local basically it's up to the local basically it's up to the local prosecutors
• <00:39:56.320> I<00:39:56.400> think prosecutors to prosecute if so.
• I think prosecutors to prosecute if so.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• Senate Bill 634, Office of the State Prosecutor Investigation of Threats to Judges. Yes.
• Senate Bill 634, Office of the<01:44:56.200> State<01:44:56.480> Prosecutor<01:44:57.160
• > Investigation<01:44:57.920> of the State Prosecutor Investigation of the State Prosecutor

Keywords: House streaming session for Friday, April 3, 2026, 957, house, all

Summary: The House convened with 113 members present and took up House Bill 774, a local enabling bill on residential landlord-tenant good-cause termination and eviction standards. The sponsor and floor leader described the bill as intended to create stability for families and communities by limiting nonrenewal of leases without good cause, while emphasizing that it would only take effect if adopted by local counties. The bill’s stated good-cause grounds include repeated late rent payment, lease violations, and other specified reasons. Several amendments were offered and debated. One amendment sought to require tenants to keep paying rent, late fees, and other lease obligations during any legal challenge to a nonrenewal; the floor leader argued this was redundant because existing law already requires payment during holdover proceedings, and the House rejected the amendment by roll call, 79 in the negative. Another amendment added a good-cause ground where housing is tied to employment on the property and the employment ends; the floor leader accepted it as a friendly amendment, and it was adopted. A further amendment exempted short-term rentals such as VRBOs from the bill; it was also accepted as friendly and adopted. The House then rejected another amendment that would have changed the late-rent good-cause standard from four notices in a 12-month period to three. The sponsor argued the change would reduce the time and financial burden on small landlords, while the floor leader responded that the bill did not alter existing eviction timelines for nonpayment and that the current four-instance standard was appropriate. Finally, an amendment to extend access to the state’s eviction counsel fund to low-income landlords was offered, with the sponsor arguing for fairness to small property owners; the floor leader opposed it, saying the fund was created to represent low-income tenants and that most landlords are already represented. The transcript cuts off before the final vote on that amendment.

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• that very, very large game, it was a cease and desist order was given just to say that our county prosecutors
• 01:42:17.199> that<01:42:17.520> our<01:42:17.840> county<01:42:18.159> prosecutors
• just to say that our county prosecutors just to say that our county prosecutors are<01:42:19.119

Bills: SF0110, SF0044, SF0046

Keywords: property tax, residential real estate, tax assessment, primary residence, tax revenue, gambling, lotteries, raffles, social relationships, charitable gaming, gaming, liquor establishments, skill based amusement games, regulations, age restrictions, 916, all

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• in regards to Direct Care and Treatment, where we had heard from public safety officials, county prosecutors
• safety where we had heard from public safety officials,<01:50:56.719> county<01:50:57.040> prosecutors
• ,<01:50:58.320> uh<01:50:58.480> mental officials, county prosecutors, uh mental officials
• , county prosecutors, uh mental health<01:50:59.040> advocates<01:50:59.520> across<01:

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• are here with us now, and I'm glad we're having the conversation on the Miller building and Anoka prosecutor
• c><00:43:07.599> and<00:43:08.240> um<00:43:09.040> Anoka<00:43:09.920> prosecutor
• <00:43:10.880> uh building and and um Anoka prosecutor uh building and and um Anoka prosecutor

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

Summary: Members met to review a budget bill agreement using a nonpartisan spreadsheet and summary materials. Chairs and members thanked fiscal, research, revisers, and agency staff for the collaborative process, noting the bill had been difficult and that the final product reflected compromise. The chair also said only minor technical changes were expected before final enactment, and the spreadsheet walkthrough was then turned over to fiscal staff. Fiscal staff explained that the agreement met the overall budget target and walked through major human services provisions. Key items included nursing facility payment changes, including a phased PDPM change, APS inflation, modified single-bed incentives, and a CPI-U capped payment cap; a nursing facility surcharge; workforce standards board rule costs; continuation of certain nursing facility property tax rates; regulation of for-profit acquisitions of nursing homes and assisted living facilities; repurposing assisted living special project funds; funding the SEIU self-directed worker agreement; CFSS reimbursement in acute care hospital settings; and multiple disability waiver rate and authorization changes, including CPI-U inflation caps, waiver authorization reforms, and a waiver reimagined advisory task force. The agreement also included family residential service rate increases, a temporary extension of customized living disproportionate share payments, tribal eligibility for targeted case management, positive supports training changes, out-of-home respite modifications, swimming lessons as an allowable service for certain children with disabilities, a provisional EID provider license, and program integrity services funded by licensing fee increases. Additional provisions covered MinnChoices studies and assumed savings, behavioral health fund changes, substance use disorder treatment billing and rate changes, supportive recovery housing, housing support supplemental rates for specific providers, disability determinations, enteral nutrition payment timing, temporary funding for Boundary Waters Care Center, several one-time human services grants, senior nutrition funding, and grant reductions and extensions. No formal vote was described in the transcript; the discussion focused on explaining the agreement and its fiscal effects.

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• Senate File 2291, prosecutor training grants. Senator Seaberg, $100,000 each year one time.
• Senate file<00:26:35.000> 2291,<00:26:36.000> prosecutor<00:26:36.640> training<
• file 2291, prosecutor training grants. file 2291, prosecutor training grants.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• And we've got a sheriff sitting up there, and I certainly see my role as a prosecutor where, you know
• :23.359> a up there and I certainly see my r as a up there and I certainly see my r as a prosecutor
• :08:24.560> know<01:08:25.080> we<01:08:25.319> uh<01:08:25.560> we prosecutor
• where you know we uh we prosecutor where you know we uh we failed<01:08:25.920> to<01:08:26.040

Bills: HF2582, HF2266, HF2518, HF2039, HF1941

Keywords: child care, grants, appropriation, workforce development, families, YWCA Minneapolis, job training, child development, economic assistance, WomenVenture, economic development, entrepreneurship, women entrepreneurs, business training, financial support, youth programs, funding, employment, Minnesota, American Indian

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• actors down and make sure they're not taking care of veterans, whether it's the AG or any other prosecutor
• c><00:48:33.720> other whether it's the AG or any other whether it's the AG or any other prosecutor
• 48:34.839> in<00:48:34.920> the<00:48:35.000> state<00:48:35.160> of prosecutor
• out there in the state of prosecutor out there in the state of Minnesota<00:48:35.880> that<00

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• The individual was charged, but those charges were dropped by the prosecutor, and nothing ever happened
• were dropped charged but those charges were dropped by<02:02:29.480> the<02:02:29.639> prosecutor
• <02:02:30.560> and<02:02:30.840> nothing<02:02:31.159> ever by the prosecutor
• and nothing ever by the prosecutor and nothing ever happened<02:02:33.040> uh<02:02:33.480>

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• the complexity, the different stakeholders are involved—the counties, mental health advocates, prosecutors
• 44:56.199> health<01:44:56.560> Advocates<01:44:57.560> uh<01:44:58.000> prosecutors
• mental health Advocates uh prosecutors mental health Advocates uh prosecutors criminal<01:44:59.480

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• The second part of this proposal is around sharing data with county prosecutors, defense attorneys, and
• proposal is around sharing data<00:38:29.400> with<00:38:29.560> County<00:38:29.880> Prosecutors
• <00:38:30.560> defense data with County Prosecutors defense data with County Prosecutors defense

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• We'll have invested a tremendous amount of time and money to train them for positions with prosecutor
• them for of time and money to train them for positions<01:11:39.760> with<01:11:40.000> prosecutor
• <01:11:40.680> offices<01:11:41.280> who've ...positions with prosecutor offices who've

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• I rise in disbelief over the fact that in our own Nation's capital, prosecutors are allowed to prosecute
• Attorney's Office, ensuring that woke, weird prosecutors like D.C.
• ATTORNEY'S OFFICE, ENSURING THAT WOKE WEIRD PROSECUTORS LIKE D.C.

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Tuesday, September 16, 2025, 1012, house, all

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• which allows a civil action—not a private right of action, but a civil action by the AG, local prosecutors
• Local prosecutors, county counsel, city attorney, including up to a $25,000 civil penalty, punitive damages
• is still necessary in the use of AI, and this is especially important for police reports because prosecutors

Summary: The committee heard several AI- and consumer-protection-related bills, with extensive testimony from authors, supporters, and industry opponents. SB 53 by Senator Wiener would create transparency requirements for large AI developers, including disclosure of safety and security protocols, reporting of critical safety incidents, whistleblower protections, and the CalCompute public cloud. Supporters said it is a narrower, transparency-based follow-up to last year’s vetoed AI safety bill, while opponents argued it still relies too much on company size, could expose trade secrets, and should be narrowed further. The committee approved SB 53 on a do-pass-as-amended vote to Appropriations, with the roll held open for absent members. SB 766 by Senator Allen would codify the FTC’s Cars Rule and create a three-day cooling-off period for certain used-car purchases, along with stronger disclosure rules on pricing, add-ons, and government affiliation claims. Supporters said it would save consumers money and time and help buyers avoid bad deals, while dealer and industry groups said amendments addressed many of their concerns. Several former opponents moved to neutral, and the committee passed SB 766 unanimously as amended to Appropriations. SB 7 by Senator McNerney would regulate automated decision-making systems in employment by requiring notice, human review for discipline and termination, and limits on predictive behavior analysis. Labor and consumer advocates supported the bill as a safeguard against biased or overly automated workplace decisions, while employer and industry groups raised concerns about scope, notice burdens, and the predictive-analysis ban. The committee passed SB 7 to Appropriations on a 4-2 vote, with the roll held open. SB 833, also by Senator McNerney, would require human oversight of AI used in critical infrastructure, along with training and system assessments; it drew limited opposition focused on scope, and the committee passed it as amended to Appropriations on a 5-0 vote, also holding the roll open. Later, the committee took up SB 11, which would address AI-generated voice, image, and video cloning and deepfakes by clarifying likeness protections, requiring consumer warnings, and addressing misuse and evidence tampering. Supporters framed it as a targeted response to nonconsensual deepfakes, while industry groups said recent amendments improved the bill but still had concerns about penalties and warning language. The committee also heard SB 720, the Safer Streets Act, which would let cities opt into a revised red-light camera system that shifts from driver to owner liability, removes facial identification, makes violations civil rather than criminal, and directs revenue toward transportation safety projects; the author presented the bill, but the transcript ends before any final action on SB 720.

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• :20:28.400> Senate<00:20:28.720> File<00:20:29.480> 2291,<00:20:30.480> prosecutor
• <00:20:31.200> training of Senate File 2291, prosecutor training of Senate File 2291, prosecutor

Keywords: 919, house, all

Summary: The conference committee met late on Friday evening to discuss the Public Safety and Judiciary budget agreement, beginning with a brief exchange among members about concerns that the executive branch had been delaying the committee’s work by waiting to approve legislative decisions. Members emphasized that the legislature should retain its independence while still allowing normal collaboration with the governor’s office. The committee then moved through several outstanding policy items and adopted them without opposition, including the A38 amendment addressing data-sharing concerns involving disability-related information, a study of firefighting services by the state fire marshal, and an A46 amendment governing access to unredacted portable recording system data in collision investigations, with guardrails on disclosure and use. The committee next reviewed the spreadsheet and budget targets. Fiscal staff explained the judiciary side of the agreement, including funding for court operating costs, a one-time Justice Partner Access Program appropriation, forensic exam rate increases, guardian ad litem funding, public defense, human rights, the competency attainment board, the cannabis expungement board, and fee increases for civil filings and motions. On the public safety side, staff described the target as well as the discretionary items funded, including nonprofit security grants, BCA staffing changes, fire marshal initiatives, a 10-year arson statute of limitations, prosecutor training grants, legal representation for children, E911 funding for critical infrastructure, Philando Castile Training Fund support, corrections-related savings from the Stillwater phased closure and sentence-to-serve elimination, a mandatory minimums task force, a victims of crime account transfer, a decommissioning study, in-service use-of-force training, and extensions of several expiring appropriations. The committee also noted a correction to a spreadsheet label related to the Stillwater closure item. After the spreadsheet walkthrough, the committee took testimony from Chief Justice Natalie Hudson and State Court Administrator Jeff Shorban on behalf of the Minnesota Judicial Branch. Hudson thanked the committee for its work and said the agreement covers some unavoidable costs, including insurance, lease expenses, forensic examiner pay, and the new access system, but argued it does not adequately address the judiciary’s most urgent problem: staffing and judicial compensation. She said court employees are leaving for better-paying jobs, judicial salaries are frozen for two years, and applicant pools for judgeships have declined, especially in greater Minnesota. She also said the judicial branch was not meaningfully consulted on the budget target and urged lawmakers to recognize the courts as a constitutional obligation rather than a discretionary program.

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• House Bill 3185 provides Texas prosecutors with a faster, more effective tool to investigate cyber crimes
• You all, most of you know that I was your Chief Human Trafficking Prosecutor in Harris County for some
• said that because the child was too young to consent and didn't perform... ...that somehow, as prosecutors

Bills: HJR144, HJR218, HB40, HB 101, HB 112, HB146, HB168, HB214, HB413, HB1523, HB493, HB521, HB594, HB557, HB305, HB549, HB854, HB 1057, HB 1052, HB842, HB3174, HB3311, HB2486, HB3196, HB824, HB 1039, HB2529, HB2713, HB4936, HB4995, HB4830, HB4864, HB5219, HB5263, HB5154, HB2674, HB5525, HB5623, HB2545, HB2587, HB2625, HB5520, HB5436, HB4926, HB1573, HB5165, HB4811, HB5081, HB4755, HB3179, HB4310, HB4611, HB2159, HB4626, HB3637, HB3153, HB3066, HB2786, HB2966, HB638, HB640, HB876, HB497, HB5539, HB4809, HB5308, HB4687, HB4070, HB4421, HB4412, HB3284, HB3369, HB3420, HB3449, HB4098, HB4281, HB4120, HB4504, HB4370, HB 1106, HB2370, HB2404, HB3863, HB2407, HB2253, HB2273, HB2040, HB1586, HB3788, HB3993, HB4690, HB4309, HB4696, HB2308, HB 1142, HB1533, HB1621, HB2242, HB2012, HB2193, HB2442, HB2464, HB2348, HB2313, HB2289, HB1942, HB2011, HB1629, HB2993, HB3592, HB3824, HB4076, HB4535, HB4623, HB4773, HB 1091, HB5115, HB5515, HB3372, HB5659, HCR118, HB 1233, HB2239, HB2379, HB2863, HB3368, HB3787, HB3815, HB3898, HB4023, HB4285, HB4329, HB4331, HB4429, HB4646, HB4904, HB5200, HB5320, HB5651, HB5662, HB5668, HB5670, HB5672, HB5674, HB5676, HB5679, HB5688, HCR108

Keywords: regional mobility, transportation authority, local law, constitutional amendment, public projects, Texas energy fund, energy efficiency, retail electric customers, electric generating facilities, business court, civil procedure, litigation, jurisdiction, arbitration, Texas State Guard, task force, professionalization, state missions, critical infrastructure, science park district

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• opposition to any legislation that we concur with marijuana laws for many of the reasons that both the prosecutor
• opposition to any legislation that we concur with marijuana laws for many of the reasons that both the prosecutor
• Any legislation that we concur with marijuana laws for many of the reasons that both the prosecutor and

Keywords: 912, senate, all

Summary: The Judiciary Committee heard SB 1231, which would repeal the Parentage Uniform Act of 1973 and update Hawaii’s parentage laws, including parts of the Uniform Parentage Act of 2017. Supporters said the current statutes are outdated and do not adequately address assisted reproduction, surrogacy, and modern family formation. The Attorney General’s office supported the bill with technical amendments, including conforming changes to the Probate Code and child support provisions, and several testifiers urged passage as a needed modernization of the law. A major point of disagreement was Part 10, which concerns donor anonymity. Some supporters, including members of the task force, the Uniform Law Commission, fertility and family law practitioners, and LGBTQ+ advocates, backed the bill as written or said it should move forward even if Part 10 is removed. Others, including donor-conceived adults, parents, and advocacy groups, opposed Part 10 and urged the committee to adopt the 2024 version of Article 9 or delete Part 10 entirely, arguing that anonymous donation harms donor-conceived people’s access to genetic, medical, and identity information and that anonymity is not realistic in the DNA-testing era. One task force member and attorney said she supported the bill but preferred removing Part 10 if necessary to pass the rest. The hearing included extensive public testimony both in support and opposition, with many individuals describing personal experiences with adoption, IVF, surrogacy, and donor conception. No committee vote or final action on the bill was taken during the portion of the hearing provided.

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• to take an oath, and in perjury charges, it says the perjury charges shall be turned over to a prosecutor
• shall be uh turned over to a prosecutor shall be uh turned over to a prosecutor if<01:43:22.560>
• Criminal prosecutors must prove their cases beyond a reasonable doubt.
• Criminal prosecutors<03:37:28.000> must<03:37:28.239> prove<03:37:28.479> their<
• 03:37:28.720> cases prosecutors must prove their cases prosecutors must prove their cases beyond

Keywords: 1189, house, all