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• So that could be an off-site auditorium, as Rep. Marcel says. Be an off-site auditorium, as Rep.
• And if you've ever been to Cape Canaveral for a space launch, you'll know that they hold the public back
• as the rockets are being launched.

Bills: HR188 , HR189 , HR190 , HR191 , HR179 , HR180 , HR181 , HR182 , HR183 , HR185 , HR186 , HR187 , HCR75 , HCR76 , HCR77 , HCR78 , HCR79 , SCR24 , SCR36 , SCR39 , SB64 , SB107 , SB152 , SB185 , SB217 , SB232 , SB278 , SB290 , SB294 , SB320 , SB321 , SB419 , SB424 , SB436 , SB440 , SB468 , SB470 , SB476 , SB482 , SB489 , HCR32 , SCR11 , HB12 , HB42 , HB205 , HB222 , HB267 , HB324 , HB325 , HB350 , HB478 , HB610 , HB617 , HB679 , HB745 , HB749 , HB797 , HB807 , HB821 , HB896 , HB979 , HB992 , HB1000 , HB1024 , HB1050 , HB1166 , HB1172 , HB1173 , HB1193 , HB1207 , HB1218 , HB1223 , SB256 , SB180 , HR1 , HR17 , HCR5 , HCR4 , HCR47 , HB59 , HB74 , HB159 , HB330 , HB364 , HB414 , HB458 , HB525 , HB568 , HB786 , HB1008 , HB1033 , HB1034 , HB1041 , HB1062 , HB1070 , HB1079 , HB1112 , HB1118 , HB1139 , HB1151 , HB1176 , HB1182 , HB1196 , HB1214 , HB1241 , HB87 , HB115 , HB162 , HB368 , HB433 , HB441 , HB447 , HB466 , HB481 , HB741 , HB1242 , HB362 , HB893 , HB990 , HB1007 , HB1153 , HB1243 , SB162 , SB349 , SB350 , SB382 , SB383 , SB127 , SB244 , HB615 , HB864 , HB1103 , HB1175 , HB31 , HB225 , HB608 , HB664 , HB897 , HB977 , HB1003 , HB1160 , HB1180 , HB911 , HB306 , HB366 , HB1161 , HB1230 , HB181 , HB901 , HR20 , HR74 , HB284 , HB393 , HB459 , HB577 , HB582 , HB605 , HB614 , HB682 , HB733 , HB772 , HB773 , HB996 , HB1035 , HB1058 , HB1082 , HB1113 , HB1189 , HB1234 , HB1240

Keywords: hunting dogs, field trials, working dogs, dog training, greyhound protection, Farm Bill, federal overreach, sportsmen, sportswomen, wildlife management, conservation, rural communities, Louisiana hunting, hunting tradition, animal welfare, dog breeders, dog owners, outdoor recreation, Kathy Taylor, musical achievements

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• At Harris County Public Health, we launched our substance use prevention program back in 2020, and we're
• In 2010, the county health department launched its plan in Austin, but later that year, the Affordable
• The training for that is generally a one-day on-site training where trainers and representatives come
• They can get that with multiple people on site.

Bills: HB1320 , HB2012 , HB2293 , HB2655 , HB3174 , HB4108 , HB4661 , HB4799 , HB5534 , HB5580

Committee: House S/C on County & Regional Government

Keywords: transportation, infrastructure, funding, state budget, public safety, child welfare, county boards, membership, local governance, public welfare, government service, social services, Texas Family Code, regulation, vendors, solicitors, roadside sales, county authority, Sweeny Hospital District, board of directors

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• to consider making sure that there's regional technical assistance for existing and expanded school sites
• We want to make sure that teachers can continue to seek leadership positions on school sites as principals
• We want to make sure that teachers can continue to seek leadership positions on school sites as principals
• In Marin, we are launching multiple Promise Neighborhoods, working closely with our community schools
• We were there in East Oakland when we first launched this five years ago, and seeing the state really

Summary: The Assembly Budget Committee met to consider the 2026 Budget Act, which leaders said was the negotiated compromise with the Senate and was expected to move to the floor that evening. Opening remarks emphasized that the plan balances the budget over two years, reduces the structural deficit, and builds reserves, while also protecting core services in the face of federal cuts. Jason Sisney outlined the legislative budget framework and the likely floor bills, including AB 109, SB 110, SB 122, and SB 125. Department of Finance representative Eric Khali said the administration appreciated the two-year balanced approach and supported the modification in SB 122, while noting the package uses additional revenues and new spending to soften or reject some proposed cuts. Most of the discussion focused on major spending areas. Members and subcommittee chairs highlighted protections and additions for health care and human services, including rejecting the proposed Medi-Cal asset limit change, delaying premium increases, restoring clinic and dental funding, supporting distressed hospitals and county indigent care, and expanding county eligibility staffing to handle H.R. 1-related workload. Education members described record or expanded support for TK-12 schools, child care, special education, community colleges, teacher recruitment, and higher education, including a change to extend Cal Grant eligibility to age 30 for some community college students. Housing and homelessness funding was increased for HAP, multifamily housing, and the low-income housing tax credit, while public safety members pointed to investments in victims’ services, restorative justice, and prison closure savings. Several members also raised concerns or priorities tied to the budget deal. Some praised the package as a moral document that protects vulnerable Californians, immigrant communities, LGBTQ residents, seniors, and people with disabilities. Others noted unresolved issues, including the MCO tax’s impact on districts, the need for more support for local journalism, arts, biotech R&D incentives, transit and GGRF-related concerns, and the need for continued work on Prop. 98 and long-term fiscal resilience. The vice chair cautioned that despite the current progress, the state remains vulnerable to revenue volatility and warned that the budget should build more resilience against a possible downturn. No formal vote was taken in the portion provided, but the committee was preparing the budget package for floor action and final negotiations.

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• Jessica Sites, the executive director of Missouri Network Against Child Abuse.
• MoK is launching a learning management system.
• This goes without saying, but is completely unacceptable for teachers to use our school as dating sites
• And then in March, we decided to launch Evan's Voice.
• Hi, Jessica Sites, Missouri Network Against Child Abuse.

Committee: House Children and Families

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• Both agencies are going to hire people that have had L3 site evals. They're going to...
• What has brought on the need here is the Taser 10, which was launched in January of '23.
• So, that is a projectile that's launched? Yes, sir. Pretty good velocity.
• enforcement and peace officers be able to determine where the threat is when there are numerous people on site
• address these concerns by allowing election judges, who are responsible for maintaining order at polling sites

Bills: HB259 , HB259 , HB 1128 , HB1337 , HB1506 , HB1794 , HB2215 , HB2470 , HB2771 , HB2882 , HB2993 , HB3053 , HB3428 , HB3669 , HB3789 , HB3924 , HB4201 , HB4675

Committee: House Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs

Keywords: redistricting, Independent Citizen Redistricting Commission, Texas Legislature, elections, district boundaries, voter representation, healthcare, insurance, patient rights, medical expenses, access to care, affordability, legislation, firearms, penal code, regulation, short-barrel firearms, ammunition, gun control, public safety

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• We launched the Blueprint Project in this region 25 years ago, and the successful completion of that
• Understanding what refinery site cleanup will cost, how long it will take, and how it will get done if
• To talk about the future use of the refinery site and its supporting infrastructure.
• We are not in a position to provide them with the kind of hard information about the site cleanup that
• Urban planners looking at the future of southwestern Philadelphia in 2016 simply assumed that the site

Committee: Senate Environmental Quality

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• over 8,000 applications submitted in response to Governor Green's Executive Order 252, which was launched
• as Operation Hire Hawaii in launched as Operation Hire Hawaii in February<00:03:20.720><c> 2025.
• So we've moved to a SharePoint site, and it kind of walks them through the process.
• Are these all off-site or even on the next page? Perform on-site monitoring of WA grants.
• So, if it's on-site, what are the costs associated with it? Is it mileage?

Bills: SB1 , SB4 , SB6 , SB9 , SB16 , SB17 , SB20 , SB22 , SB28 , SB29 , SB36 , SB41 , SB45 , SB77 , SB85 , SB87 , SB96 , SB98 , SB110 , SB126 , SB139 , SB143 , SB164 , SB167 , SB171 , SB186 , SB188 , SB195 , SB197 , SB198 , SB204 , SB205 , SB206 , SB207 , SB209 , SB210 , SB211 , SB217 , SB219 , SB220 , SB225 , SB231 , SB237 , SB238 , SB241 , SB244 , SB246 , SB247 , SB272 , SB294 , SB315 , SB346 , SB364 , SB366 , SB367 , SB386 , SB392 , SB403 , SB415 , SB427 , SB431 , SB437 , SB457 , SB459 , SB469 , SB471 , SB478 , SB484 , SB489 , SB502 , SB503 , SB507 , SB508 , SB510 , SB516 , SB517 , SB518 , SB519 , SB521 , SB535 , SB543 , SB550 , SB564 , SB568 , SB570 , SB575 , SB577 , SB578 , SB590 , SB607 , SB616 , SB621 , SB634 , SB644 , SB647 , SB649 , SB652 , SB655 , SB656 , SB663

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• non-compete agreements, and increasing protections for workers in Amazon warehouses, construction sites
• workers in Amazon<00:50:52.600><c> warehouses,</c><00:50:53.400><c> construction</c><00:50:54.040><c> sites
• ,</c> Amazon warehouses, construction sites, Amazon warehouses, construction sites, hospitals,<00:50:
• Since paid leave successfully launched on January 1st, we've approved more than 54,000 applications for

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• We're in a race against time to get these projects sited, permitted, and built.
• This executive order directs state agencies to accelerate siting, permitting, and construction of clean
• This urgency should also be seen as a launch pad for other reforms that are very much needed to shape
• They may experience a permitting issue at the beginning when they're trying to permit and site their
• that we heard we've also collected through the TED Task Force in terms of, you know, permitting and siting

Summary: The Assembly Committee on Utilities and Energy held an oversight hearing on accelerating clean energy development and helping projects capture expiring federal tax credits. The chair framed the hearing around federal actions under HR 1, which sharply shortens the timeline for wind and solar projects to qualify for tax credits, and Governor Newsom’s Executive Order N-3325, which directs state agencies to speed siting, permitting, and construction. Sarah Fitzsimmons of the Independent Energy Producers Association explained the federal deadlines, the shift from the 5% safe-harbor test to a physical-work test, and the main bottlenecks California projects face, especially interconnection delays, environmental review, and limited transparency around self-build options for network upgrades. Panelists from the Union of Concerned Scientists, Southern California Edison, and EDF Power Solutions largely agreed that transmission constraints, permitting, and queue management remain the biggest barriers. UCS emphasized long-standing transmission delays, the need for more accountability and standardized reporting, and the importance of keeping reforms focused on the projects most likely to reach completion. SCE said it has increased interconnection throughput through process changes, digital tools, and coordination with regulators, while noting that developers and utilities must work closely together on project-specific issues. EDF described how overlapping permitting, interconnection, and procurement timelines create risk, and argued that clearer policies on self-builds, equipment standards, and affected-system studies could help reduce delays. State agency representatives from the CPUC, CAISO, and Go-Biz reported strong recent clean energy progress, including record levels of new capacity and battery storage coming online, and described ongoing efforts such as the Integrated Resource Planning process, General Order 131-E updates, the Transmission Project Review Process, the Transmission Development Forum, and the TED Task Force. They said these efforts are helping identify delays, improve transparency, and coordinate solutions, including possible self-build arrangements and local permitting reforms. Committee members pressed the agencies on who is ultimately in charge of the effort, whether the state has quantified the ratepayer impact of losing federal tax credits, and whether the 90-day report required by the executive order is complete; the agencies said the report is still in development. Public commenters echoed the need to move beyond monitoring toward stronger prioritization and accountability to meet the 2029 and 2030 project deadlines.

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• We're in a race against time to get these projects sited, permitted, and built.
• This EO directs state agencies to accelerate siting, permitting, and construction of clean energy projects
• This urgency should also be seen as a launch pad for other reforms that are very much needed to shape
• They may experience a permitting issue at the beginning when they're trying to permit and site their
• things that we heard, we've also collected through the TED Task Force in terms of permitting and siting

Committee: House Utilities and Energy

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• Our research was really launched.
• And so sometimes those urinary analyses will be kept in a computer system off-site because there's an
• Well, a lot of sober living homes have house managers that have jobs off-site.
• Then on 7-1-2025, Access showed up for an unannounced site visit.
• transparent oversight, honor statutory requirements, and ensure that tribal members and the people... ...site

Committee: Senate Senate Health and Human Services COR

Summary: The committee continued its fourth hearing on fraud, waste, and abuse involving Arizona’s Medicaid and behavioral health systems, with a major focus on Access/ALTCS eligibility, behavioral health licensing, and payment delays. Senator Shamp presented findings alleging large gaps in ABD Medicaid asset verification, including that only a portion of enrollees were checked and that many with substantial liquid assets remained on the program. She argued the state’s waiver and lack of asset limits created a compliance and fiscal risk, and urged referrals to law enforcement, tighter verification, and broader reforms. Heather Dukes, representing behavioral health and sober living operators, testified that ADHS and Access have become overly punitive toward licensed providers, often sending technical paperwork violations straight to enforcement instead of allowing correction plans, and that zoning and licensing delays are harming legitimate businesses. Reva Stewart testified that patient brokering and fraudulent recruitment of vulnerable people into behavioral health and sober living settings remain ongoing, especially through social media, and called for stronger accountability and enforcement against bad actors. ADHS Deputy Assistant Director Tiffany Slater said the department has received more than a thousand complaints about unlicensed sober living operations, which has diverted staff from routine oversight of licensed facilities. She said ADHS has expanded enforcement tools for sober living homes, is using a new licensing system to flag repeat bad actors, and is trying to make the application process easier, while acknowledging that inspections can tip off unlicensed operators. Access Director Virginia Roundtree described steps the agency has taken since the prior hearing, including daily staff huddles, live dashboards, added project management support, an external claims vendor, and an independent review of the Division of Fee-for-Service Management. She said Access is trying to balance fraud prevention with support for legitimate providers, and committed to follow up on a specific provider payment dispute by early the next week. Committee members repeatedly pressed Access and ADHS on delayed claims processing, prepayment review, and whether the current system is driving providers out of business. Roundtable testimony from Access staff described the new Provider Resolution Roundtables, which are intended to work with a small number of providers facing the most claims and authorization problems. Members questioned why claims are being denied or held for long periods, why some providers are still waiting on payments from 2023 and 2024, and whether the agency’s actions are sustainable. Access also explained the Targeted Investment Program, saying it is a federally approved Medicaid initiative with large dollar amounts still being paid out on a delayed schedule, and agreed to provide more information on provider participation and payment timing. No formal votes or committee actions were taken in the portion provided, but the chair indicated the committee would continue reviewing the issue and requested additional reports and follow-up information from Access and ADHS.

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• governing body, the presiding officer of the governing body may provide for a special meeting at a site
• other than the regular meeting site, for a remote meeting without a physical location.
• Site other than the regular meeting site for a remote meeting without a physical location or for a meeting
• In a likely scenario, an agency working with WOTEC to launch a statewide digital portal exchanges emails

Bills: HB2235 , HJR4210 , HB2520 , HB2491 , HB2499 , HB2408 , HB2435

Committee: House State Government & Tribal Relations

Keywords: public records, concealed pistol licenses, firearm purchases, transfers, exemptions, transparency, Constitution amendment, legislative sessions, session duration, state legislature, governance, emergency meetings, public agencies, accountability, open government, HB2491, WaTech, Washington Technology Solutions, public disclosure, public inspection

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• the emergency, the presiding officer of the governing body may provide for a special meeting at a site
• other than the regular meeting site, for a remote meeting without a physical location. ...site other
• than the regular meeting site for a remote meeting without a physical location, or for a meeting at
• In a likely scenario, an agency working with WOTEC to launch a statewide digital portal.

Summary: The committee first heard staff and sponsor testimony on House Joint Resolution 4210, which would remove constitutional limits on the length of regular legislative sessions and instead let the legislature set adjournment dates by statute. Rep. Breonna Thomas and supporters said the measure would give lawmakers flexibility to set a sustainable schedule and improve working conditions, while opponents argued it would concentrate more power in the legislature and could lead to a year-round session. No vote was taken on the resolution during the hearing. Members then heard House Bill 2520, which would clarify that county governing bodies may hold emergency special meetings outside the county seat or remotely during true emergencies and may act at such meetings even if the public cannot first listen in. Rep. Deborah Lekanoff said the bill was prompted by the Skagit Valley flooding and was meant to help local governments respond quickly in disasters. Testimony was split: counties and some others supported the clarification, while open government advocates urged tighter language defining “emergency” and limiting the bill to state or federally declared emergencies. The hearing was closed without a vote. The committee also took testimony on House Bill 2499, in proposed substitute form, concerning conservation district supervisors. The substitute would let conservation districts opt into the general election system under Title 29A, remove the landowner requirement, keep a farm-operator requirement for some seats, extend terms from three to four years, and require financial disclosure filings in some circumstances. Supporters argued the bill would modernize elections, increase transparency, and improve voter access; opponents warned it could be costly for small districts, reduce participation, and create unintended consequences. No final action was taken in the hearing portion shown. In executive session, the committee voted 7-0 to report House Bill 2408, a cleanup bill removing obsolete references to the Office of Financial Management, with a due pass recommendation. It also voted 5-2 to report House Bill 2435, creating a legislative office of Indian affairs, with a due pass recommendation; some members supported the bill as improving government-to-government relations with tribes, while others wanted a fiscal note before fully supporting it.

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• risk assessment tool, which informs eligibility and placement onto this type of program, which was launched
• They've toured some and evaluated some sites as directed by the proviso.
• capacity include considerations for remodel needs and cost, space for future expansion, readiness of sites
• duplicative requirements during the licensing process by allowing experienced providers to open new sites
• Is it a check-in, a phone call, physical, on-site, take a look around?

Bills: HB1544 , HB2219 , HB2253

Committee: House Early Learning & Human Services

Keywords: child welfare, risk assessment, investigation, child abuse, neglect, HB 2219, child care licensing, early learning, DCYF, Department of Children Youth and Families, Washington child care, preschool licensing, family child care, child care centers, nature-based child care, outdoor preschool, mixed-age ratios, staff-to-child ratio, group size, zero tolerance

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• maintain that accreditation we do an annual review every single year in four years we will have a site
• We've gone into Tulsa and Oklahoma City and removed those sites and cleared Them off.
• Troop F, the city of Ardmore came to us and wanted us to build on the current site where the building
• The city of Ardmore came to us and said, 'We want you to build it on the same site where you're at.'
• Right now, we have 1,600 on that, we've only had it launched for six weeks.

Committee: House Public Safety

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• AB 2698 simply opens the door to local governments launching their own version using the same proven
• framework. ...to local governments launching their own version using the same proven framework.
• One of them is me visiting those sites.
• Some sites are addressed, while others are left behind to sit and decompose and off-gas toxic fumes over
• In some areas, dump sites exist near schools, which kids walk through on a regular basis because we're

Committee: House Public Safety

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• </c> part of its operational launch. part of its operational launch.
• , we've already invested $2.4 million to relocate the flood-prone athletic facilities prior on the site
• </c> athletic facilities prior on the site athletic facilities prior on the site and<01:36:46.440><c>
• 01:37:12.320><c> the</c> you are familiar and have toured the you are familiar and have toured the site
• We are happy to bring a much site.

Committee: Senate Transportation

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• We recently launched a program called the ZIP Program, Zero Interest Homebuyer Program, recently launched
• No site check of the home.
• The last one I'll highlight is the B-Pro Be Proud program, which I think we actually launched in your
• The last one I'll highlight is the B-Pro Be Proud program, which I think we actually launched in your
• So this is just a screenshot of DFA's new tracking system that they just launched about a week and a

Committee: House House Appropriations & Finance

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• to the full data system, we are also building a secure data enclave, which we expect to pilot and launch
• Today, Marysville is a SIP demonstration site, and we are continuing to scale this work across grade
• The infrastructure just is that at CDE or at the site level?
• District sites. Okay, thank you very much for your presentation.
• first right to occupy that site.

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• No, it doesn't go to the historical sites.
• No, it doesn't go to the historical sites.
• We manage 30 historical sites across the state.
• And then looking at how we acquire or we're asked to pick up historic sites or heritage sites, I was
• It doesn't seem like we have to have six sites.

Bills: SB1 , SB 1

Committee: Senate Finance