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• I think having these remote-operated cameras for wolf trappers will make it economically feasible for
• it at the end of the 72-hour mark, then how long until you actually retrieve the animal if you're remotely
• at the end of the 72-hour mark, then how long until you actually retrieve the animal, if you're remotely
• and express my gratitude to all of you for just supporting us throughout the State Revolving Fund, voting

Committee: Senate Resources and Environment

Transcript Highlights:

• Those wishing to provide remote testimony were required to sign up in advance.
• Here to testify remotely in support, we have Sarah Reynolds, town administrator, and Bob Hansaker, town
• Here to testify remotely in support, we have Scott Rodman, Michael Callender, and Ben Sonega.”
• The exemption was most recently extended for an additional three years by vote of Sudbury's 2024 town

Bills: H3012 , H4008 , H4435 , H4444 , H4526 , H4547 , H4574 , H4575 , H4576 , H4577 , H4585 , H4605 , H4687 , H4703 , H4722 , H4754 , H4755

Committee: Joint Joint Committee on Revenue

Keywords: fines, property valuation, commercial property, real estate, tax penalties, property taxes, local option tax, marijuana sales, Salem, revenue generation, taxation, recreation, local government, commercial activities, Charlemont, property exemption, disabled persons, Swampscott, senior exemption, property tax

Transcript Highlights:

• Has every member voted? Representative Paul, how do you vote?
• piece of legislation is a vote for clean energy, it's a vote for good jobs, it's a vote for economic
• Vote no.
• Vote no.
• Urging no vote. I'm not concurring. Urging no vote.

Bills: HB2720 , HB2073 , SB5816 , SB5919 , SB5831 , SB6244 , SB6044 , SB5109 , SB5877 , SB6258

Keywords: behavioral health, emergency services, health insurance, provider access, mental health funding, premium assistance, funding, healthcare, subsidies, juice grapes, agriculture, commerce, state regulation, market access, fire safety, insurance incentives, best practices, community protection, voluntary measures, mortgage modification

Summary: The House convened, established a quorum, approved the previous day’s minutes, heard Senate messages on several bills, and then took up a series of third-reading and concurrence votes. The chamber also received notice that the Senate had concurred in House amendments to several other bills and that the Senate President had signed Engrossed Senate Bill 5068. Members then considered a slate of bills dealing with climate commitment account revenue, court administration, attorney general investigative authority, inmate funds, health care facility transactions, ferry governance, gun violence prevention and 3D-printed firearms, and renewable energy tax treatment. Engrossed Second Substitute House Bill 1170, Engrossed Second Substitute House Bill 2251, Engrossed House Bill 2445, Substitute House Bill 2334, Engrossed Third Substitute House Bill 1960, Engrossed Substitute House Bill 1500, Second Substitute House Bill 1909, Engrossed House Bill 2156, Substitute House Bill 2539, Engrossed Substitute House Bill 2548, Engrossed House Bill 2588, and Engrossed Substitute House Bill 2320 all received final passage after Senate amendments, with several members speaking in support or opposition. Supporters generally described the measures as clarifying revenue accounts, improving court access, protecting consumers, updating inmate account limits, addressing hospital consolidation, enabling local ferry management, and strengthening gun-violence prevention or renewable-energy tax policy. Opponents raised concerns about reduced transparency, expanded bureaucracy, shifting costs, attorney general overreach, limits on local control, and First Amendment or property-rights issues. Recorded votes showed passage on each of those bills, with margins ranging from narrow to broad: 55-38 on HB 1170, 54-40 on HB 2251, 66-29 on HB 2445, 80-15 on SHB 2334, 86-9 on ESHB 1960, 61-34 on ESHB 1500, 57-38 on SSB 1909, 54-41 on EHB 2156 after reconsideration, 57-38 on SHB 2539, 55-41 on ESHB 2548, 56-40 on EHB 2588, and 58-38 on ESHB 2320. The House also agreed to retransmit Engrossed Substitute House Bill 1408 to the Senate after deciding not to concur in the Senate’s fourth amendment. The meeting ended with both caucuses called and the House at ease.

Transcript Highlights:

• So, so vote. All right. Thank you, Vice Chair Grove. With that, we will call the vote.
• Call the vote. Limon? Aye. Grove? Aye. Jones? Aye. Laird? Aye. Reyes? Aye. Five to zero. All right.
• I'd also like to thank the talented team at C.E. and another daughter joining remotely.
• Director Gonzalez to the full floor for a Senate vote. Thank you very much to our Vice Chair Grove.
• All right, the appointment has been approved to move to the full Senate for confirmation with five votes

Summary: The Senate Committee on Rules met with quorum and first approved several governor’s appointments not required to appear, including Deborah Garns, Davis Rabbit, Cindy Silva, Vincent Wells, and Lee Herrick as California Poet Laureate, all by 5-0 votes. The committee also approved reference of bills to committees and floor acknowledgments, each by 5-0 vote, before moving to appointments required to appear. Trista Gonzalez, nominated to lead the Department of Tax and Fee Administration, testified about her 33-year career in tax administration and emphasized taxpayer service, efficiency, and team culture. Members asked about responsiveness to legislators, the lithium extraction tax, online sales tax compliance after Wayfair, and enforcement against illicit cigarette, tobacco, and cannabis activity. Gonzalez said the department is ready for the lithium tax, works to register businesses meeting the $500,000 threshold, and coordinates with law enforcement on inspections and seizures. Public commenters from Ryan LLC and the California Society of Enrolled Agents supported her confirmation. The committee voted 5-0 to send her nomination to the full Senate. Aaron McGuire, nominated as executive director of the Board of State and Community Corrections, described his experience at the agency and its expanded responsibilities, including annual detention facility inspections, major grant administration, and the new in-custody death review division. Senators questioned him about grant oversight, fraud prevention, public access to audits, implementation of SB 519, and conditions in local detention facilities, especially in Los Angeles County juvenile facilities. McGuire said the board uses screening, reporting, site visits, audits, and recovery actions to monitor grants, and that trailer bill language has clarified access to records for in-custody death reviews. He also said staffing shortages remain a major issue in Los Angeles juvenile facilities and that the board continues to work with the courts and local officials. Supporters from Amity Foundation, Health Right 360, Westcare, and Giffords testified in favor, and the committee approved his nomination 5-0 to advance to the full Senate.

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• Representative Berry votes aye. Fosse, aye. Representative Fosse votes aye. Scott votes aye.
• Representative Scott votes aye. Schmidt votes aye. Representative Schmidt votes aye.
• Representative Berry votes aye. Fosse, aye. Representative Fosse votes aye. Scott votes aye.
• Representative Berry votes aye. Fosse, aye. Representative Fosse votes aye. Scott votes aye.
• Ortiz-Self votes aye. Representative Ortiz-Self votes aye.

Bills: SB6134 , SB6136 , SB6188

Committee: House Labor & Workplace Standards

Keywords: unemployment insurance, UI benefits, striking workers, strike, labor dispute, retroactive wages, overpayment assessment, overpayment recovery, Employment Security Department, ESD, claimant notice, benefit recoupment, Washington unemployment law, worker notice, federal unemployment tax credit, state unemployment fund, workers' compensation, industrial insurance, premium rates, rate transparency

Transcript Highlights:

• . >> Senator Carroll, I vote aye and explain my vote. >> Yes, please. >> Just quickly, I don't know that
• , zero no votes, and zero pass votes, Senate Bill 17 as amended by the committee substitute is passed
• Um, to participate remotely today.
• I'm going to vote aye today.
• I'm going to vote I >> Explain my I vote.

Committee: Senate Judiciary

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• House Bill 2464 comes before you, sponsored by Representative Ortiz-Self, passing the House by a vote
• do for individuals and what the risk assessments are telling us, and putting all that together to vote
• do for individuals and what the risk assessments are telling us, and putting all that together to vote
• And we do have the third person that was remote but is no longer on Zoom with us, and that's Alas Santos
• And we do have the third person that was remote but is no longer on Zoom with us.

Summary: The Senate Human Services Committee held a brief Monday meeting to hear two bills and a gubernatorial appointment. House Bill 2464, sponsored by Rep. Ortiz-Self, would require private detention facilities to report serious incidents such as abuse allegations, deaths, suicides, injuries requiring hospitalization, and service disruptions to the Department of Health and local law enforcement by the next business day, and would require annual law-enforcement reporting to DOH. Rep. Ortiz-Self said the bill is needed because private facilities have been inconsistent and delayed in sharing information, while state facilities already provide data more readily. Testimony from Columbia Legal Services, the League of Women Voters, La Resistencia, and the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project strongly supported the bill, citing barriers to reporting crimes and concerns about abuse in private detention. The committee did not vote on the bill during the hearing, but the chair said it would be considered in executive session. The committee also heard Engrossed Substitute House Bill 2253, a DCYF request bill making several licensing-related changes for foster care, crisis residential centers, and child care. The bill would require immediate termination of certain child-specific foster licenses if high-potency synthetic opioids or illicit substances are found, exempt kinship caregivers from blood-borne pathogen training, allow DCYF to close inactive foster homes, remove sex designation from foster licenses, adjust CRC staffing ratios to one staff for four youth during waking hours and one for six during sleeping hours, and strengthen child care subsidy fraud enforcement through electronic attendance verification and possible license revocation. DCYF and Community Youth Services testified in support, describing the changes as technical fixes that align statute with current practice and reduce burden on providers. Committee members raised concerns that some child care provisions may belong in a different committee and noted the need to ensure the bill does not duplicate or conflict with existing licensing and fraud rules. The committee then held a confirmation hearing for Corey McNally, reappointed to the Indeterminate Sentence Review Board. McNally described the board’s role in release decisions, supervision conditions, violation management, and release plans, and discussed his background in community mental health, the Special Commitment Center, DOC sex offense treatment, and ISRB leadership. Members asked about advances in sex offense assessment and treatment, the distinction between ISRB cases and sexually violent predator civil commitment, board consistency and recidivism work, and victim participation in hearings. McNally said the board uses structured decision-making and actuarial risk assessments, remains neutral on legislation, and provides victim liaisons to offer participation options. The chair closed the hearings, noted the committee would meet the next day on a large packet of bills and one appointment, and adjourned.

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• watching this remotely as well.
• the members of the committee will be remote.
• They could work remote.
• We have a part where people can work from home and work remotely.
• We have a part where people can work from home and work remotely from wherever they want.

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• Representative Reed votes aye. Representative Rude votes nay, do not pass.
• Representative Thomas votes aye. Representative Timmons votes aye.
• Representative Rude votes nay, do not pass. Representative Salahuddin votes aye.
• Representative Schmidt votes nay, do not pass. Representative Thomas votes aye.
• Representative Timmons votes aye. Representative Timmins votes aye.

Bills: HB2337 , HB2311 , HB2088 , HB2148 , HB2132

Committee: House Postsecondary Education & Workforce

Keywords: training requirements, caregiving, family member, individual providers, home care, workforce education, investment accountability, administrative changes, oversight, education policy, nutritional health, dietetic professionals, licensure compact, interstate practice, healthcare regulation, education, pay it forward program, tuition, student loans, financial aid

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• Electronic door-locking technologies so that a law enforcement agency could remotely control school access
• I'm not voting yes on any more vendor bills until there's an RFP requirement in all of them.
• The third function we tested was remote access to schools' live security cameras.
• of those, only four of the tests we conducted were successful in demonstrating law enforcement's remote
• I know these bills we voted on this stuff, but it seems to me...

Committee: Joint Joint Legislative Audit Committee

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• The 3rd area is the feasibility invalidity of using remote testing for progress.
• And in Florida, we do allow our of Florida full-time Florida virtual school students to remote test on
• And so the study did look at the data for students test the remotely versus knows not testing remotely
• The recommendation here again is to proceed with caution with any expansion of remote testing because
• I think we learned a lot actually during the pandemic when folks transition to devices remotely.

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• I understand we get one vote, but we get two heads. That's okay.
• I mean, as it relates to remote work, if you have an employee working remotely from home, um, in New
• So working remotely, I think a very long-winded, so forgive me, way of saying it is working remotely
• Um, certainly in the past several years there has been more remote working from home.
• </c><00:52:08.079><c> more</c> there has been more more remote more there has been more more remote more

Committee: House Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services

Transcript Highlights:

• They need to be powering or heating remote areas. They have been used in military bases.
• We cannot build these large reactors in a remote community. We need to transform our thinking.
• GE or NOVA is interested in studying what it would take to remotely operate these reactors because they
• GE or NOVA is interested in studying what it would take to remotely operate these reactors because they
• They cannot have a control room of their own if they're remotely deployed.

Summary: The meeting was an extended briefing from Idaho National Laboratory officials on the lab’s mission, its role in nuclear energy research, and the federal push to accelerate advanced reactor deployment. Speakers described INL’s size and capabilities, including test reactors, fuel and materials facilities, cybersecurity and critical infrastructure work, and partnerships with DOE, the NRC, the Department of Defense, and private companies. They emphasized that the lab is supporting both commercial nuclear development and national security work, while also training a large intern workforce. A major theme was the current federal effort to streamline nuclear regulation and speed up licensing and demonstration. The speakers said recent executive orders and DOE/NRC coordination are reducing redundant requirements, shortening environmental review timelines, and aiming for three new nuclear systems to reach criticality by July 4, 2026. They argued that regulatory uncertainty has been a major driver of nuclear cost and that the administration’s actions, along with DOE’s pilot and demonstration programs, are intended to rebuild the domestic supply chain and industrial base. The discussion also focused on advanced reactor types, including small modular reactors, microreactors, molten salt concepts, and liquid-metal designs. Officials said these technologies are being developed for data centers, military bases, remote communities, industrial heat, hydrogen production, and other nontraditional uses. They highlighted several projects and companies, including Oklo, Aalo, Radiant, X-energy, TerraPower, Kairos, and DOE’s MARVEL and Project Pele efforts, and said some reactors are expected to reach criticality or operation in the next few years. Questions from attendees covered safety, public health impacts, materials and heat management, waste or used fuel handling, costs, and whether nuclear could remain competitive against other energy sources; the speakers responded that advanced reactors are designed with passive safety features, that used fuel should be viewed as a resource, and that cost remains highly design- and supply-chain-dependent.

Transcript Highlights:

• Your vote of seven ayes, zero nays, and one not voting.
• Seven ayes, zero nays, and one not voting.
• Seven ayes, zero nays, and one not voting.
• And I vote aye. Yeah, I get to vote too, you know. Yes.
• So with that, I vote aye. And Jackson, where are we? 790 nays and 1 not voting.

Committees: Senate Natural Resources , Senate Senate Natural Resources Committee of Reference

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• It votes members in, and it votes members out as far as the executive board and so forth.
• When we join the compact, we will have a vote on that compact board. We will have one vote.
• If California or Texas or Alaska join, they will have one vote.
• Do we just have a vote, or can we say we're out? Senator Cook? Mr.
• The chair shows four affirmative votes and five negative votes, so the motion fails.

Committee: Senate Commerce and Human Resources

Transcript Highlights:

• So one of my concerns, and I didn't vote for it on the floor, because I got thinking about this AI thing
• lessons, lesson plans, correct tests, whatever it is teachers are supposed to be doing when you're in a remote
• So one of my concerns, and I didn't vote for it on the floor, because I got thinking about this AI thing
• The State Board of Education unanimously voted to support it.
• So with that, I encourage your vote. Thank you. Is there a motion?

Committee: Senate Education

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• Vice chair for the vote. Chair votes I. Uh, vice chair votes I. Senator McKelie, yes.
• Vice chair for the vote.<00:50:39.839><c> Chair</c><00:50:40.079><c> votes</c><00:50:40.480><c> I.
• </c><00:50:41.839><c> Um</c><00:50:42.240><c> vice</c> vote. Chair votes I. Thank you.
• Um vice vote. Chair votes I. Thank you. Um vice chair<00:50:42.880><c> votes</c><00:50:43.200><c> I.
• </c> chair votes I. Senator McKelie, yes. chair votes I. Senator McKelie, yes.

Committee: Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection

Summary: The Senate Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection held a confirmation hearing on a long list of nominees to state boards and commissions. Early nominees included David Padilla to the State Boxing Commission, Steven Pine to the Board of Dentistry, Deborah McMmen to the Board of Acupuncture, Tiffany Lyn Hmel and Gabriel Aay to the Board of Veterinary Medicine, Nathan Eslin to the Cable Advisory Committee, John Takitani and Tony Lao to the Board of Professional Engineers, Architects, Surveyors and Landscape Architects, John Arbles to the State Board of Public Accountancy, and later nominees to the Board of Psychology, Board of Pharmacy, Hawaii Medical Board, Board of Speech Pathology and Audiology, Board of Chiropractic, Board of Physical Therapy, Board of Private Detectives and Guards, and the Real Estate Commission. Most nominations were for terms expiring in 2027, 2028, or 2029, with one Real Estate Commission term expiring in 2026. Testimony was overwhelmingly in support. DCCA and the relevant boards or commissions generally stood on written testimony supporting each nominee, and many individual supporters also testified, including professional associations, industry representatives, and community members. Several nominees briefly addressed the committee, expressing appreciation and interest in continuing or beginning service. The committee asked a few questions on some nominations, especially about the Real Estate Commission and the Board of Private Detectives and Guards, where members discussed condominium-related complaints, association practices, and whether the board could do more to assist security personnel; the nominee said staffing and authority limits constrained additional training or oversight. For the Real Estate Commission, members also asked about broader housing and market conditions, and the nominee said inventory shortages and housing supply issues remained a major concern. No opposition testimony or contentious votes were described in the transcript. The chair repeatedly asked whether there were questions or additional testimony, and after each nominee the committee generally moved on without objection. The hearing was focused on receiving testimony and evaluating the nominees for later confirmation rather than taking final action during the meeting.

Transcript Highlights:

• The clerk will call the names of the members voting remotely. Yeah, that's right. Just a minute.
• Allen votes I. Berkel. Franson votes yes. Franson votes I. Kozlowski. Go ahead. Kozlowski.
• </c> Kozlowski votes I. Kozlowski votes I. Kozlowski votes I. Kozlowski votes I.
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• Wagamon votes I. The clerk Wagamon I. Wagamon votes I.

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• "If there are no other nominations, then I guess we can vote.
• If the body would take a vote on that charter at the second meeting.
• take those votes.
• take those votes.
• </c> the only folks who can take those votes. the only folks who can take those votes.

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• S. 228, an act relating to collective bargaining over remote, in-person, and hybrid work standards for
• S. 228, an act relating to collective bargaining over remote, in-person, and hybrid work standards for
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• bargaining over remote, in-person, and hybrid<00:07:39.520><c> work</c><00:07:39.840><c> standards</