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• So especially when we need interventions, but it doesn’t mean those parents should be able to access
• but it doesn't mean need interventions but it doesn't mean those<03:34:55.479> parents<03:34:
• Custody determinations should be based on specific behaviors and the actual well-being of the child,
• <03:56:35.239> and<03:56:35.359> the<03:56:35.560> actual specific behaviors
• and the actual specific behaviors and the actual well-being<03:56:36.479> of<03:56:36.640>

Keywords: 928, house, all

Summary: The Children and Family Law Committee opened its March 4 meeting with procedural announcements, including a deadline for any Minority Report, notice that the committee would not meet the following Tuesday because of town meeting day, and a preview of its March 18 agenda. The chair said that meeting would include hearings and executive sessions on HB 518, requiring DHHS to provide a detailed annual report of DCF costs, and HB 775, directing DHHS to seek proposals for supervised visitation centers; HB 553 was also slated for executive session. The committee also heard an update on Representative Grossman’s son, who remained in the PICU at Mass General. The main hearing was on HB 493, which would require child abuse and neglect education for physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants as a condition of licensure. Representative Alicia Gregg presented the bill and an amendment reducing the required training from two hours to one hour, saying the goal was to improve recognition of abuse and prevent both missed cases and false accusations. Cassandra Sanchez, the state Child Advocate, strongly supported the bill, describing a 2020 review of nine cases of non-ambulatory infants with serious injuries and later system mapping that identified gaps in medical recognition; she said the training should be part of existing continuing education hours and that voluntary uptake had been limited. Dr. Michael Matos of Wolfeboro Pediatrics also testified in support. Ben Bradley of the New Hampshire Hospital Association opposed legislating the requirement, saying hospitals already train staff and that the legislature should not single out one topic for statutory mandate when other reporting obligations are handled differently. In questioning, committee members asked whether the hour would be part of existing continuing education, whether hospitals already provide similar training, and whether the bill should be placed in the continuing medical education statute instead of child protection law. Bradley said hospital members already provide annual training and collaborate with proponents, but did not support putting the requirement in statute. Sanchez said the bill was intended to use one of the hours already required for training, though members noted that the bill text did not clearly say so. The committee also heard broader testimony about the Family Division of Circuit Court, including a proposal to create a subcommittee to study more difficult issues such as pre-trial counseling, evidentiary practices, and domestic violence-related cases, with the Speaker appointing members to that subcommittee.

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• appropriated $196 million into the fund to cover operating losses and support providers adding behavioral
• Services primarily within Behavioral Health, Primary Care, and Maternal and Child Health.
• Behavioral health represents the largest share of awards, supporting common outpatient and telehealth
• , that can look like an existing dental clinic adding a hygienist or an operating station, or a behavioral
• can we please look at these children who are sleeping in offices, who have multiple diagnoses, behavioral

Keywords: 996, all

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• You know, we talk about different versions of substance use disorder, whether it's a behavioral health
• health issues that we have behavioral health issues that we have failed<00:53:48.400> to<00:53
• and what is a person's criminal behavior and what is the<00:54:48.079> best<00:54:48.240>
• Addiction in itself is compulsive behavior despite negative consequences unto death.
• batteries intervention all around that. batteries intervention all around that.

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• birth, lower cost of care due to less medical intervention, and reduction of preterm birth and other
• terror in our communities across California, often while masked, and their increasingly lawless behavior
• Individuals can absolutely argue good faith behavior, but if they are found...
• SB 627 is about protecting all Californians from behavior that keeps nobody, including law enforcement
• As my colleague pointed out, it's for egregious behavior, and egregious behavior already means you lose

Summary: The Assembly convened, established a quorum after a roll call, observed a moment of silence for John Burton, and proceeded with the Pledge of Allegiance and routine procedural motions. Members approved a rule suspension to allow floor amendments on SB 271 and SB 67, and several committee notices and bill referrals were handled. The chamber then moved through a long third-reading file, with many bills passed and a number of items temporarily passed or retained on file. Among the major measures approved were bills on civil rights and public safety (SB 477, SB 19, SB 36, SB 571, SB 580), health care and coverage (SB 257 on pregnancy as a qualifying life event, SB 530 on Medi-Cal access standards, SB 660 on health data exchange, SB 754 on menstrual product contaminant disclosure), housing and disaster recovery (SB 610, SB 655), transportation and climate (SB 533 on EV charging payments, SB 30 on diesel locomotives, SB 71 on CEQA exemptions for transit, SB 263 on tariff impacts), and natural resources/energy (SB 283 on battery storage safety, SB 88 on biomass emissions, SB 427 extending the Habitat Conservation Fund). The Assembly also passed urgency measures including SB 864 on tribal gaming compacts, SB 663 on wildfire-related property tax relief, SB 471 expanding DDS ombudsman authority, and SB 497 on privacy protections for legally protected health services. Several bills drew notable debate. SB 41 on pharmacy benefit managers saw opposition over concerns about moving ahead before broader PBM data and licensing reforms take effect, but it still passed. AB 1340, a concurrence item on gig worker collective bargaining rights, prompted extended debate over labor rights, consumer costs, and union influence. Other concurrence items included AB 671 on restaurant permitting, which passed without opposition. The Assembly also took up SB 640 on direct admission to CSU, SB 702 on demographic reporting for appointees, SB 710 preserving a solar property tax exclusion, and SB 793 on counterfeit lighter safety, all of which passed. The session ended with the Assembly continuing through the file, including concurrence votes and additional bill actions, with most measures approved by substantial margins.

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• so I think the types of questions that both students and institutions might have about transfer behavior
• so I think the types of questions that both students and institutions might have about transfer behavior
• :08:46.640> the training competency grants, and the training competency grants, and the intervention
• <00:08:47.360> for<00:08:47.519> college<00:08:47.839> attendance intervention for
• college attendance intervention for college attendance program<00:08:48.720> grants.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• Despite the assistance of the behavioral health navigator team at my health insurance company and my
• Therapy relies heavily on assessment and intervention provided verbally, compared to other disciplines
• where physical assessment or intervention is required.
• In a time of provider shortages, behavioral health crises, and public health emergencies, the compact
• after a 90-minute interview that not only focused on the ear infections, but also on things like his behaviors

Keywords: 995, all

Summary: The Joint Committee on Public Health held a hearing to take testimony on a wide range of bills involving professional licensure, clinical practice, and public health-related workforce issues. The chair explained that no votes would be taken at the hearing and that the purpose was to gather public input. Early testimony focused on Marnie’s Law, with supporters describing the bill as a no-cost, preventive measure to require nursing education on inflammatory breast cancer after a family tragedy and arguing it could reduce misdiagnosis and save lives. A major portion of the hearing centered on bills affecting clinical decision-making and licensure compacts. Supporters of the physician ownership/clinical autonomy bills argued they would protect independent practices from corporate interference after the Steward collapse, while supporters of EMS, dental, psychology, physical therapy, and physician assistant compacts said the measures would improve workforce mobility, reduce delays, and expand access to care, especially for rural patients, military families, and telehealth users. Several witnesses emphasized that the compacts would not reduce standards and would strengthen public protection through shared disciplinary databases and streamlined credentialing. There was also testimony on bills to ensure safe medication administration and to protect the independence of complementary and alternative health care practitioners. Nursing representatives urged that only licensed professionals administer medications in hospitals, hospices, and home care settings, warning that delegation to unlicensed staff could endanger patients and nurses’ licenses. A complementary and alternative care witness supported consumer access with mandatory disclosures and limits on reserved medical acts. On the dental compact, witnesses were split: some supported portability and workforce flexibility, while others warned the compact lacked a hands-on skills exam and could weaken Massachusetts’ regulatory authority and patient safety. The hearing concluded with continued testimony on the psychology compact, physical therapy compact, and physician assistant bills, with most speakers favoring expanded interstate practice and reduced administrative barriers.

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• You are normalizing drug behavior that we should be discouraging.
• You are normalizing drug behavior that we should be discouraging.
• <01:36:52.720> that You are normalizing drug behavior that You are normalizing drug behavior
• Hey, this intervention worked.
• hey, this intervention worked. hey, this intervention worked.

Keywords: 910, house, all

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• Full rights of public intervention. Can you explain to me what intervention is?
• Um, so I think public intervention just refers to interveners, right?
• So the I think public intervention just refers to interveners, right?
• So they're support for our intervention.
• <03:59:44.720> of about eliminating that risky behavior of about eliminating that risky behavior

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• creates a more practical and effective pathway by allowing first responders to request that county behavioral
• I'm the father of a young man who died last year for lack of interventions like are addressed under this
• Simon Vu, let me have with the California Behavioral Health Planning Council in opposition.
• Medi-Cal ensures that millions of Californians can see a doctor, fill a prescription, or get behavioral
• Now, under H.R. 1... ...or get behavioral health care when they need it.

Summary: The Assembly Health Committee heard several bills focused on mental health access, preventive care, health care costs, detention oversight, and daylight saving time. SB 989 would streamline Care Court referrals by allowing first responders to ask county behavioral health agencies to review and file petitions; supporters, especially firefighters and families, said the current process is too burdensome, while Disability Rights California and other opponents argued Care Court is coercive and unproven. SB 1089, as amended, would direct CalRx/HHS to help distribute GLP-1 medications more broadly and more affordably; the author described her own experience with the drugs, and the bill drew support from medical and life sciences groups with no opposition. SB 1309 would eliminate out-of-pocket costs for medically appropriate lung cancer screening follow-up care; cancer advocates and survivors strongly supported it, while health plans and insurers opposed it as costly and said the bigger problem is low initial screening rates. The committee also heard SB 1284, which would require DHCS to report large employers whose workers are enrolled in Medi-Cal and estimate taxpayer costs, framed by supporters as a transparency measure about corporate reliance on public coverage. SCR 7, urging permanent standard time for health reasons, passed with support from medical groups and no opposition. SB 995, the Masuma Khan Justice Act, would create statewide inspection and enforcement standards for large involuntary residential facilities, including private immigration detention centers and certain youth facilities; supporters cited unsafe and inhumane conditions, while county probation officials objected to duplicative oversight for secure youth treatment facilities. The committee took votes on each measure, and the bills and resolution advanced, with SB 1309 and SB 1284 moving on amended and the others also reported out; the consent calendar was approved as well.

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• governments are on the front lines of providing services such as health care, emergency shelter, crisis intervention
• Similarly, street medicine teams prioritize urgent medical and behavioral health stabilization, which
• acupuncture provides non-pharmacological treatment options that can reduce reliance on more invasive interventions

Summary: The Assembly Health Committee heard several bills on June 9. SB 1023 by Senator Laird would require insurers that cover injectable HIV PrEP under the medical benefit to also cover it through the pharmacy benefit, with supporters saying the change would reduce reimbursement delays and expand access, while health plans opposed it as an unnecessary mandate that interferes with benefit design. SB 964 by Senator Smallwood-Quivas would limit prior authorization for certain dose or frequency adjustments to covered medications, especially for chronic complex conditions; medical supporters said it would prevent harmful delays in care, while insurers argued it weakens safety and utilization controls. SB 1323 by Senator Rubio, as amended, would strengthen protections for people in immigration custody receiving medical care by requiring hospitals and facilities to inform staff how to respond to requests and allowing patients to notify family members of their location; it passed with one no vote. SB 1099 by Senator Reyes would clarify local governments’ authority to provide state and local public benefits to all residents under federal PRWORA rules, with supporters saying it would reduce legal uncertainty for safety-net services; it passed, though one member later changed a vote to no on the add-on roll call. The committee also took up SB 895 by Senator Wiener, a proposed $12 billion science research bond for the November ballot that would create a California scientific research funding institute. Supporters from UC, UAW, hospitals, and advocacy groups said the measure would help offset federal cuts, protect research jobs, and sustain California’s leadership in biomedical and other research; there was no opposition, and the bill passed on a party-line style vote with two no votes. SB 944, also by Senator Wiener, would stabilize Medi-Cal coverage for acupuncture, which supporters described as a cost-effective, non-pharmacological treatment for pain and other conditions that has repeatedly been threatened in the budget process; it passed unanimously. The committee also approved consent items SB 918 and SB 1202, and later cleared the remaining measures on call after roll votes and add-on votes were taken.

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• opportunity that people have to get mental health care, drug treatment, or any other types of intervention
• Problematic sexual behavior courses for children that are involved in difficult households are not available
• Some have batterer's Intervention program known as BIP that can cost up to $2,000 dollars.

Keywords: 914, all

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• I am the executive director for Angel Wings Family Crisis and Intervention Center.
• I am the executive director for Angel Wings Family Crisis and Intervention Center.
• There needs to be clear penalties for reckless and careless behavior that results in death or serious

Summary: The Criminal Justice Subcommittee heard and advanced a series of bills on inmate medical billing, court-order transmission, animal abandonment during disasters, first responder peer support, firearm purchase waiting periods, capital felony aggravators, domestic violence protections, boating safety, restitution for leaving the scene of a crash, xylazine trafficking, and offenses against law enforcement officers. Testimony was generally supportive across the agenda, with some opposition or caution raised on the xylazine bill, the boating safety bill, and parts of the law-enforcement-officer bill. Several measures were presented as responses to specific tragedies, including the Martin County jail medical billing bill, the Baker Act transmission bill, Trooper’s Law for restrained dogs, the Jason Rayner Act, and Lucy’s Law. HB 407 would cap certain emergency medical charges for Martin County jail inmates at 110% of Medicare rates, mirroring Department of Corrections practice; it passed 15-0. HB 513 would require faster electronic transmission of certain court orders, including Baker Act orders, to law enforcement within six hours; it passed 15-0. HB 205, Trooper’s Law, creates a third-degree felony for abandoning a restrained dog during a natural disaster; it passed 15-0. HB 421, as amended, expands peer support for first responders to certain support personnel involved in crime scene work or evidence handling; it passed 16-0. PCS for HB 383 would let law enforcement, correctional officers, correctional probation officers, and active military service members bypass the three-day handgun waiting period without a concealed carry permit; it passed 18-0. HB 693 adds an aggravating factor in capital cases when the victim was gathered with others for a school, religious, or public government meeting; it passed 17-1 after opposition testimony from Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty. PCS for HB 19 and HB 41, the Haven Act, would expand domestic and dating violence protections, including a feasibility study for a web-based 911 alert system and confidentiality/public-records protections for victims; both passed 18-0. PCS for HB 289, Lucy’s Law, would align boating penalties with driving offenses and expand boating safety card requirements; it passed 18-0 despite concerns from one witness that the bill should go further. HB 479 would allow courts to order restitution in leaving-the-scene property-damage cases; an amendment changing mandatory to discretionary restitution was adopted, and the bill passed 18-0. PCS for HB 57 would regulate xylazine, add trafficking penalties, and include veterinary-use exceptions; it passed 17-0 after one witness opposed mandatory minimums. HB 175, the Jason Rayner Act, clarifies that officers are protected when acting within the scope of their duties and adds manslaughter of a law enforcement officer to offenses requiring life imprisonment; it passed 17-0 after debate over self-defense and unlawful police conduct.

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• <00:24:38.120> of<00:24:38.480> a misconduct and criminal behavior of a misconduct
• As someone who's worked in behavioral health for 45 years and attended hundreds of family meetings on
• As someone who's worked in behavioral health for 45 years and attended hundreds of family meetings on
• Why does it... someone who's worked in behavioral someone who's worked in behavioral health<04:34:22.920
• or violent Behavior then Mr Speaker<04:58:28.840> would<04:58:28.958> I<04:58:29.120><

Keywords: 928, house, all

Summary: The House opened with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, the national anthem, leaves of absence, guest introductions, and memorial remarks honoring former Representative Carolyn Gargas of Hollis, who was remembered for her long House service, work on child and family issues, and community involvement. The House then adopted a consent calendar and approved a motion to withdraw House Bill 431, which would have created a commission to review draft rules on minimum standards for public school approval and state academic standards; the motion failed after a roll call vote, so the bill remained in play. The House next took up House Bill 109-FN, relative to false reports to law enforcement. The majority supported the bill as a way to add penalties for knowingly false reports about law enforcement officers, arguing officers deserve protection from false accusations and that the knowingly standard is a high bar. The minority opposed it as duplicative of existing law and warned it could chill legitimate complaints against police. After debate and a division vote, the majority committee report of ought to pass was adopted, 198-173. The House also considered House Bill 218-FN, which would provide victims of crime a free police report. The committee amendment changed the bill so victims would receive a written confirmation that a crime occurred rather than the initial police report, to avoid conflicts with right-to-know law and active-investigation confidentiality. Supporters said the change was a small but important clarification agreed to by law enforcement and domestic violence advocates, while opponents argued the original language was already workable and that the floor amendment was unnecessary. A division vote was requested on the amendment, and the transcript ends during that debate before the final outcome on HB 218 is shown.

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• <00:24:50.799> It's specific intervention program. It's specific intervention program.
• 00:25:08.320> run typically those interventions can run typically those interventions can run
• <00:25:33.440> goes intervention program that typically goes intervention program that typically
• that make up an interventions toolbox. that make up an interventions toolbox.
• <00:27:27.360> that's that this is an intervention that's that this is an intervention that's

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• is our reading assessment intervention is our reading assessment intervention program.<01:21:28.320
• Having that something they could earn changed that set of behavior significantly.
• Having that something they could earn changed that set of behavior significantly.
• Having that something they could earn changed that set of behavior significantly.
• . behavior. behavior.

Keywords: 916, all

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• It relates to a termination for past behavior of your past terminations.
• Oh, Trust-Based Relational Intervention—it's a program that's out of TCU that was developed by a lady
• Trust-Based Relational Intervention. So Trust-Based Relational Intervention helps train our people.
• It allows courts to step in when a parent's behavior is putting a child at risk, even if the worst hasn't

Bills: HCR 16, HB 782, HB 2159, HB 2288, HB 3281, HB 3819, HB 4656, HB 4696, HB 5494

Keywords: fatherhood, family support, fatherlessness, community engagement, youth development, social policy, male role models, child development, policy reform, role models, mental health, parenting, single-parent homes, welfare reform, economic opportunity, mentorship, community initiatives, children, welfare programs, education

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• It relates to a termination for past behavior of your past terminations.
• Oh, Trust-Based Relational Intervention, it's a program that's out of TCU that was developed by a lady
• Trust-Based Relational Intervention. ...So Trust-Based Relational Intervention helps train our people
• It allows courts to step in when a parent's behavior is putting a child at risk, even if the worst hasn't

Bills: HCR16, HB782, HB2159, HB2288, HB3281, HB3819, HB4656, HB4696, HB5494, HCR16

Keywords: fatherhood, family support, fatherlessness, community engagement, youth development, social policy, male role models, child development, policy reform, role models, mental health, parenting, single-parent homes, welfare reform, economic opportunity, mentorship, community initiatives, children, welfare programs, education

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• Investigating that behavior.
• A child might be allowed or encouraged to indulge in certain behaviors. behavior by their parents at
• Any behavior exhibited by a human is human behavior, even if it makes someone uncomfortable.
• behavior.
• The others are behavioral and as the courts used to say it's really good standards for behavior toward

Bills: HB4, HB54, SB 10, SB 24, HB4, HB54, HB775, HB850, HB 1122, HB 1249, HB1405, HB2336, HB2757, HB3372, HB3622, HB4442, HB4687, HB4893, HB5089, HB5515, HB5606, SB10, SB24, HB1573, HB3369

Keywords: district composition, congressional election, Texas, legislature, voting districts, citizenship, U.S. citizen, non-citizen, public office, advisory board, task force, state government, local government, political subdivision, commission board, appointment eligibility, officeholder qualifications, public service, naturalization, Texas Government Code

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• It changes both child traumatic symptoms in terms of their behaviors and challenges with engaging in
• We have to start really looking at prevention and early intervention, right?
• We have to start really looking at prevention and early intervention, right?
• We have to start really looking at prevention and early intervention, right?
• I'm Jenny O'Higgins, and I'm the legislative liaison for Behavioral Health at DHHS.

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

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• Machine learning is a subfield of AI requiring human intervention to learn differences between data inputs
• Deep learning eliminates a portion of the manual human intervention.
• issues are very important, but I think also there's broad consensus for regulating these types of behaviors
• We began as strangers raising awareness against the worldwide push for forced medical intervention.
• Sometimes that can lead to some bad behavior.

Summary: The committee held its first meeting on artificial intelligence and data centers, establishing its purpose as a study and policy-development body rather than one aimed at producing many bills. Majority Leader Hogue urged members to move quickly, focus on federal and other states’ AI laws, consider possible federal preemption, child protections, and the siting and economic impacts of data centers. Committee leadership echoed that the goal is practical, balanced governance that protects North Dakota while allowing innovation to continue. Legislative Council staff provided a background memo and NCSL presented a detailed overview of AI concepts and the current state legislative landscape. The presentations distinguished narrow AI, generative AI, agentic AI, and theoretical AGI/ASI, and summarized major state policy themes: comprehensive AI laws in states such as Utah, Colorado, Texas, California, and Illinois; targeted laws on deepfakes, chatbots, health, education, notifications, and digital likeness; and growing use of appropriations and agency inventories. Members asked about Colorado’s repeal and reenactment, Texas’s sandbox and training provisions, oversight structures, and whether AI regulation is bipartisan; presenters said most issues cut across party lines, with broad agreement on child safety and deepfakes but more division on broader regulatory approaches. The federal update focused on executive orders, preemption, and congressional activity. NCSL described a White House framework favoring a single federal standard, a DOJ litigation task force, Commerce Department review of state laws, and possible funding conditions tied to state AI policy, though no formal state-law challenge had yet occurred. The presentation also covered a recent executive order creating a voluntary federal vetting process for advanced frontier models after safety concerns, and congressional proposals including a failed 10-year state moratorium, Senator Blackburn’s child-safety bills, the Kids Online Safety Act, a House-passed children’s digital safety package, a Senate data center moratorium proposal, and a House ratepayer/data-center bill. The committee took no formal action beyond receiving testimony and asking questions.