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• That includes cost effectiveness, equitably, and to achieve our clean energy and environmental goals.
• </c><00:55:22.000><c> energy</c><00:55:22.240><c> and</c><00:55:22.480><c> environmental</c> our clean
• </c><01:00:11.680><c> energy</c> they also align with our clean energy they also align with our clean
• </c><01:00:53.839><c> energy</c> mitigation resilience clean energy mitigation resilience clean energy
• Abusive or verbal or otherwise conduct on the, and so if this is a hostile work environment claim that

Keywords: 912, senate, all

Summary: The Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee held an informational briefing on the Public Utilities Commission’s performance-based regulation (PBR) framework and the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs’ whistleblower complaint process. Chair Jared Kohole opened the meeting, noted it was informational only with no public testimony, and explained that members would hear presentations and then have an opportunity for questions. The committee heard first from Ulupono Initiative, which provided background on why utilities are regulated, how Hawaii’s cost-of-service model and rate cases work, and why PBR was adopted to shift utility incentives away from a capital-investment bias and toward performance, efficiency, cost control, and policy goals such as renewable energy and reliability. Ulupono described Hawaii’s PBR structure as a five-year multi-year rate plan with annual revenue adjustments, a customer dividend, a Z factor for extraordinary exogenous events, and an exceptional project recovery mechanism for large projects. It also outlined performance incentive mechanisms tied to renewable portfolio standard progress, interconnection speed, reliability, and shared savings. The presentation said the current docket is evaluating a possible hybrid approach that would combine forward-looking forecasting with historical results, and Ulupono advocated for stronger incentives, arguing the current rewards are too small relative to utility revenues and should be more meaningful to better align utility behavior with legislative intent. The PUC then presented its own overview, emphasizing that the PBR docket is open and active and that the briefing was limited to the record to avoid ex parte concerns. The commission described the development of PBR in Hawaii through multiple phases beginning in 2018: an initial collaborative phase to set goals, a formal contested-case phase that produced the initial framework, later phases adding scorecards, reported metrics, and additional performance incentive mechanisms, and subsequent refinements including sunset of some mechanisms and adjustments after the August 2023 Maui wildfires. The PUC said the framework is intended to be customer-centric, administratively efficient, and protective of utility financial integrity, and that current work includes evaluating how to balance forward-looking and historical test-year approaches within the rebasing process. No votes or formal actions were taken at the briefing.

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• </c><00:15:40.639><c> that</c> into a long-term care policy claim that into a long-term care policy claim
• It also denied 24% of claims in their first attempts to qualify for benefits, which is an increase from
• I cannot, cannot, cannot believe you just heard his claim was denied.
• So if we go in and do duct cleaning, we have to collect sales tax.
• However, if we work on the furnace while we do the duct cleaning, we don't have to collect sales tax.

Keywords: 1183, house

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• And the state had a pretty significant economic damages claim of almost $800 million in that.
• And the state had a pretty significant economic damages claim of almost $800 million in that.
• Claims come out of that bank account.
• So what I would tell you is the more folks we add to it, the more claims would go up, right?
• And the question is, do we bring in enough revenue to cover those claims?

Bills: HB165, HB175, HB198, HB272, HB457, HB488, HB566, HB603, HB763, HB902, HB909, HB971, HB981, HB1066, HB1125, HB1154, HB1231

Keywords: HB165, lottery proceeds, Lottery Proceeds Fund, Veterans Service Grant Fund, constitutional amendment, veterans, military veterans, veterans' benefits, veterans services, family support, state lottery, education funding, Minimum Foundation Program, problem gambling, compulsive gaming, state treasurer, ballot proposition, constitutional referendum, lottery revenue, Louisiana resident veterans

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• ,</c> VA medical center contains a clean, VA medical center contains a clean, private<00:47:52.800><c
• </c> the the chairman u has made the claim the the chairman u has made the claim that<00:53:18.640><c
• Uh, he's making a claim.
• Uh he's making a claim. Uh such a name. Uh he's making a claim.
• When the ranking member claims the help.

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Thursday, July 16, 2026, 1012, house, all

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• In other states where they're licensed, they claim to treat, and I'm not talking just about supportive
• care, they claim to treat a wide range of diseases, including cancer.
• Every day, my coworkers and I are on the front lines, keeping all the neighborhoods clean and safe.
• If you support Florida workers, as you claim to, please don't make it harder for my family to live and
• Support Florida workers, as you claim to.

Keywords: 999, senate, all

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• And in the situation that we're in Baton Rouge, now we don't even have the staff to go and clean it up
• So this is cleaning up the backlog.
• So this is cleaning up the backlog. 26, so this is cleaning up the backlog.
• You want to keep the neighborhood clean.
• Are these titles clean and clear, because it sounds like they're not.

Bills: HCR35, HB440, HB515, HB543, HB614, HB1010, HB1039, HB1088, HB1122, HB1179, HB1200

Keywords: tax delinquency, property sale, rehabilitation, Louisiana State Law Institute, legislation, homestead exemption, property tax, parish governance, Louisiana Constitution, voter approval, adjudicated property, real estate, political subdivisions, property sales, government authority, residential lease, tax credit, property valuation, Louisiana constitution, disaster response

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• Senator McIntosh, you were recognized to claim constitutional privilege. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
• President, members, we're just, it's really just a clean-up language trying to consolidate sections.
• We've had a lot of beneficiaries that have lost out on being able to claim property or had to expend
• So we're changing that but also allowing title to be rectified if it is not claimed.
• Do we have numbers on what the bill that we're Cleaning up the cost from last year, thank you, Mr.

Bills: HB2268, HB3000, HB3043, HB3066, HB3078, HB3143, HB3144, HB3244, HB3298, HB3320, HB3467, HB3321, HB3329, HB3431, HB3464, HB3499, HB3500, HB3586, HB3590, HB3650, HB3671, HB3695, HB3700, HB3701, HB3764, HB3767, HB3834, HB3931, HB3934, HB3940, HB3944, HB3979, HB3985, HB4113, HB4294, HB4302, HB4317, HB4324, HB4359, HB4426, HB4427, HB4430, HB4431, HB4434, HJR1077, SR42, SR35, HJR1023, HB1225, HB1374, HB1381, HB1590, HB1675, HB2153

Keywords: HB2268, Oklahoma Health Care Authority, OHCA, appropriation, General Revenue Fund, PACE, Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly, elderly care, aging Oklahomans, long-term care, Medicaid, health care funding, provider reimbursement, rate increase, low-income seniors, senior services, integrated care, emergency measure, cosmetology, barbering

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• And the final piece is an increase of $2.9 million for for board approved increases based on actual claims
• We didn't do that by denying claims. We actually did that.
• We did that by accepting claims, getting the best possible medical care we could, and returning people
• One is- CFO, my chief of internal operations, and she's made some suggestions about we can clean up some
• Claims Benefit Advisors support Veteran VA claim submissions. for veteran employment representatives

Keywords: 1184, house, all

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• up litter in A litter getter in our parish to help clean up litter in our waterways.
• When I was there, we were trying to clean up blight and all our notices are that as we tried to clean
• And so there was no way to really clean it out.
• This is kind of providing the carrot versus the stick on cleaning up blighted properties.
• Members, this is a clean-up bill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Members, this is a clean-up bill.

Bills: HR94, HR95, HR96, HR97, HR98, HR99, HR100, HR101, HR102, HR103, HR104, HR105, HR106, HR107, HR108, HR109, HR110, HR111, HCR45, HCR46, HCR47, HCR48, HCR49, HCR50, HR92, HR93, HCR44, SB11, SB72, SB78, SB151, SB207, SB210, SB219, SB241, SB286, SB324, SB351, SB376, SB409, SB411, HR74, HCR26, HB4, HB98, HB108, HB131, HB151, HB161, HB244, HB288, HB294, HB305, HB310, HB320, HB336, HB380, HB392, HB403, HB420, HB459, HB476, HB513, HB540, HB596, HB608, HB615, HB631, HB637, HB648, HB665, HB682, HB789, HB813, HB815, HB835, HB870, HB905, HB915, HB933, HB938, HB944, HB971, HB987, HB1040, HR15, HR20, HCR14, HCR6, HCR19, HCR10, HB81, HB134, HB154, HB163, HB170, HB194, HB217, HB220, HB254, HB259, HB290, HB308, HB311, HB360, HB382, HB401, HB410, HB417, HB463, HB575, HB592, HB718, HB723, HB750, HB755, HB776, HB812, HB844, HB882, HB888, HB961, HB966, HB980, HB54, HB67, HB73, HB125, HB133, HB158, HB168, HB169, HB191, HB195, HB245, HB280, HB283, HB296, HB319, HB339, HB399, HB407, HB448, HB550, HB591, HB826, HB995, HB1085, HB1086, HB722, HB140, HB468, HB546, HB746, HB842, HB923, HB166, HB349, HB352, HB429, HB436, HB588, HB747, HB780, HB782, HB911, HB827, HB953, HB796, HB901, HB9, HB52, HB58, HB193, HB284, HB400, HB570, HB577, HB582, HB605, HB733, HB735, HB868, HB952

Keywords: Sanfilippo Syndrome, awareness, genetic disorder, cognitive impairment, Louisiana, Alzheimer's, dementia, caregivers, public health, health education, civil bench warrants, judgment debtors, notification process, judgment debtor examination, Louisiana State Law Institute, Knock Knock Children's Museum, early childhood education, economic development, community engagement, Louisiana legislature

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• But nonetheless, we, we have committed to go ahead and clean up any of the issues that were outstanding
• water and clean air, or can we mutually support those two?
• And do, do you support clean water and, and, and, uh, clean energy, and if we can, and, uh, And clean
• Uh, clean water energy sources, clean energy, uh, you know, clean, uh, ability to, to have fresh air
• This will just clean it up.

Bills: HB206

Keywords: HB206, school district bonds, bond election, voter approval, Education Code, Chapter 45, Section 45.003, Section 45.0034, Texas schools, school finance, local tax election, bond referendum, school construction, capital improvements, election frequency, five-year waiting period, district bonds, public school funding

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• Thank you. refund claims.
• And we're just applying it to a different type of claim for managed audits, is that correct?
• It speeds up these claims, gets them faster.
• How many claims are we talking about? Um, I don't have an exact number.
• It's unfortunate, but it's necessary because refund claims...

Bills: HB19, HB30, HB851, HB1663, HB1681, HB1769, HB1937, HB1979, HB2428, HB2433, HB2825, HB3159, HB3424, HB3486, HB3487, HB3504, HB3605, HB3879, HB3994, HB4382, HB4752, HB5444, HB5446, HB5447, HB3199, HB4847, HB19

Keywords: local government debt, property tax, ad valorem tax, bond election, certificate of obligation, anticipation note, school district tax rate, voter-approval rate, debt service cap, municipal finance, county bonds, flood control district, hospital district, public works, tax transparency, property tax notice, November uniform election date, general obligation bonds, local debt reform, taxpayer notice

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• Cleaning up pay for every single day.
• Let us each claim a new today living.
• ,</c> them adjudicate a crop insurance claim, them adjudicate a crop insurance claim, making<04:26:55.359
• The Biden-Harris administration cycled through repeated falsehoods, claiming the border was secure, claiming
• </c> Trump's leadership, we are cleaning Trump's leadership, we are cleaning house.<04:39:53.200><c>

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Tuesday, May 6, 2025, 1012, house, all

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• They're ready to get clean and they simply don't know how.
• who</c><00:03:11.680><c> want</c><00:03:11.920><c> to</c><00:03:12.000><c> get</c><00:03:12.159><c> clean
• </c> all the time who want to get clean. all the time who want to get clean.
• to get clean and they simply<00:03:14.000><c> don't</c><00:03:14.159><c> know</c><00:03:14.319><c> how
• And there's a lot of defendants who have children and are going to now claim they are caretakers.

Keywords: 958, all

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• The state has spent over $500 million cleaning up landfills, and hundreds of millions are needed, not
• including the cost to clean up the freeway landfill.
• </c><00:27:41.159><c> up</c><00:27:41.320><c> landfills</c><00:27:42.200><c> and</c> million cleaning
• </c><00:27:46.760><c> up</c> 250 not including the cost to clean up 250 not including the cost to clean
• uh the city has claimed that the uh the city has claimed that the exemption<00:46:52.440><c> would</c

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• But according to the conversations that we've had with the Hawaii State Public Library System, they claim
• </c><00:20:15.159><c> that</c> public library system they claim that public library system they claim
• </c><00:54:09.520><c> we</c><00:54:09.720><c> need</c><00:54:10.000><c> to</c><00:54:10.200><c> clean
• </c><00:54:10.480><c> our</c><00:54:10.640><c> voter</c> to be cleaned we need to clean our voter to
• be cleaned we need to clean our voter RS<00:54:11.400><c> before</c><00:54:11.680><c> we</c><00:54:11.920

Keywords: 912, senate, all

Summary: The committee opened its first hearing of 2025 and announced that all measures heard that day would be deferred to the next committee hearing for decision-making on Thursday, January 30. The agenda centered largely on procurement and government-operations bills, with testimony generally split between state agencies and local governments. On procurement measures, SB 254 and SB 383 would raise small-purchase thresholds; the State Procurement Office opposed both, while county officials, the City and County of Honolulu, the state librarian, and others supported them. SB 382, which would bar disclosure of a competing offeror’s proposal or evaluation score, and SB 462, which would require performance incentive contracts to specify pricing bases, goals, and formulas, drew mostly written comments and some support from agencies such as the Department of Transportation and Department of Education. SB 615, which would treat certain large change orders as new contracts, received opposition from the Comptroller and engineering interests. The committee also heard several bills on vacancies, appointments, and legislative oversight. SB 5 on state legislative vacancies had one supporting testifier, while SB 300 on deadlines for filling certain Senate vacancies drew opposition from several individuals and support from one late testifier. SB 1081, which would create a legislative budget office to provide fiscal analysis and reports on bills, received broad support from advocacy groups, civic organizations, and individuals. SB 711, requiring Senate advice and consent for certain executive-branch appointments, drew written opposition from the Governor’s Office and support from one individual. SB 375, establishing a select commission on government restructuring, had one written supporter. SB 418, which would require the Attorney General’s office to review a portion of administrative rules each year, prompted extended discussion about outdated rules, the difficulty of repealing or amending rules, and whether the bill should be refined; the AG’s office indicated the process is burdensome and could be streamlined. The committee then took up transparency and access measures. SB 55, requiring agency rules to be posted online in a digitally accessible format, received support from several advocacy and civic groups and written comment from the Lieutenant Governor’s Office. SB 870 would direct the comptroller to identify state office buildings that could provide equitable telecom access for remote participation in hearings, especially for residents with disabilities; the Comptroller supported the concept, and members discussed using libraries, DAGS facilities, county facilities, and other public buildings, with concerns raised about staffing, bandwidth, and competing public use. SB 270, a sunshine-law measure allowing board members to attend informational meetings and presentations, drew opposition from the Public First Law Center, which argued it would create a broad loophole and should be narrowed to existing county-council provisions. SB 45, concerning neighborhood board meetings and third-party presentations, prompted discussion about whether it actually addressed neighborhood boards’ Sunshine Law concerns; the committee was told it was not the right vehicle for that issue. SB 406, which would cap copying fees for government records at 5 cents per page with exceptions, drew support from media and transparency groups but opposition from DAGS, which said its actual per-page cost is much higher; members discussed possible electronic-copy alternatives and asked for more cost information before the next hearing.

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• A clean bill of health.
• And I know a lot of you claim to be Christians, so show us that you are.
• You know, the claim that people will lose health care that we've heard is not true.
• This is not who we claim to be as Minnesotans.
• She has lived here for 15 years cleaning houses and working in restaurants.

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• Paragraph C is similar, but the House language allows 2026 appropriation to be spent on unpaid claims
• from the previous fiscal claims from the previous fiscal year.<00:31:10.080><c> Page</c><00:31:10.480
• </c> authority can appropriate from the clean authority can appropriate from the clean water<00:39:40.720
• It amends the PAS prohibition, so the subdivision no longer applies to cleaning products as defined in
• I won't go through this bond claims.

Keywords: 919, house, all

Summary: The Agriculture Conference Committee met for an initial organizational and comparison session on House File 2446, the agriculture broadband and rural development bill. Members introduced themselves, noted that no conference target had yet been set, and agreed to begin with a side-by-side review of House and Senate positions. No oral testimony was taken; instead, the chair listed written testimony submitted by a wide range of agricultural, environmental, local government, food bank, and industry groups. Nonpartisan fiscal staff walked through the major funding differences. Both bills included some shared items such as operating adjustments, wolf and elk damage compensation, and certain technical changes, but they differed on several major appropriations. The House generally proposed larger increases for meat inspection, local food purchasing, and the Board of Animal Health, and added items such as county inspector grants, biofertilizer innovation, a biosolids/PFAS-related study, a soil health study, broadband installation study funding, an Agri Works program, an Agri Support program, a milk grant program, and several House-only transfers and grants. The Senate included items such as a climate coordinator position, biofuel-related reductions and policy changes, livestock processing funding, farm-to-school and urban agriculture changes, MARL funding, cottage foods licensing updates, and several Senate-only pass-through grants and transfers. Staff also noted differences in the agriculture emergency account transfer approach and in how the two bodies handled the Second Harvest Heartland and related food distribution provisions. House Research then reviewed the policy language differences in the bill. The House language included provisions allowing more flexible use of grant administration funds, unpaid prior-year claims, county inspector grants, and updates tied to its own policy article, while the Senate language included the climate coordinator, PFAS-related commercialization language, cooperative development grant permissive language, and other Senate policy changes. The committee did not take any votes or final actions at this meeting; the session was informational and focused on identifying differences for later negotiation.

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• We do not want a precedent whereby an operator that claims it cannot plug its abandoned wells is able
• And I think fundamentally, owners and operators that create problems, they clean them up.
• The last bit of toothpaste out of this, and then someone else is gonna clean up the mess.
• , keep our water clean, and keep our lands clean for our future generations.
• This program, under the Clean Water Act, is designed to.

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• The SAVE Act claims to prevent non-citizens from voting in federal elections.
• Because the problem they claim to be solving simply doesn't exist.
• </c> to go help clean up the damages of 911. to go help clean up the damages of 911.
• Musk claims to have maximal transparency.
• Musk claims to after day. And yet Mr.

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Tuesday, April 1, 2025, 1012, house, all

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• You referenced the important work going on in cleaning up the wildfire sites in Los Angeles.
• Some of their products include disinfectants, cleaning products, and pest control solutions.
• Some of their products include disinfectants, cleaning products, and pest control solutions.
• Some of their products include disinfectants, cleaning products, and pest control solutions.
• And what has happened is it requires the ingredients of cleaning products to be on the label.

Summary: The joint oversight hearing focused on DTSC’s implementation of SB 158 reforms, including enforcement, community engagement, fee stability, the hazardous waste management plan, permitting backlogs, and the Safer Consumer Products program. Senators and Assembly members emphasized protecting overburdened communities and asked how DTSC and the Board of Environmental Safety are using their authority to improve accountability, reduce delays, and address hazardous waste facilities and consumer product chemicals. The hearing also included discussion of extended producer responsibility programs and whether DTSC can support them more efficiently, including through coordination with CalRecycle. DTSC Director Katie Butler said the department is now more transparent, accountable, and fiscally stable, citing stronger enforcement actions, an interactive inspections map, expanded community outreach, and emergency response work on the Los Angeles wildfire cleanup. She said DTSC has made progress on fee reform, the hazardous waste management plan, cleanup grants, permit renewals, and safer consumer products rulemaking, including adding microplastics to the candidate chemical list. Board Chair Andrew Rakestraw said the board has held multiple public meetings and hearings, is working on fee rates and performance metrics, and is revising the hazardous waste management plan after public comment, including removing a proposal to send certain contaminated soil to municipal landfills. He also noted remaining concerns about fee structure, permit delays, and the pace of the safer consumer products program. Public witnesses offered sharply different views. A representative of the California Council for Environmental and Economic Balance said SB 158 reforms have improved permitting and transparency, but urged more attention to risk-based decision-making, reduced duplication, and possible General Fund support for plan implementation rather than relying only on fees. Earthjustice argued DTSC remains too slow and that communities continue to suffer from long-delayed permits and weak protections, urging the Legislature to take a more active role and to prioritize eliminating hazardous substances rather than minimizing costs. Committee members pressed the witnesses on permit renewals, community impacts, and the pace of the safer consumer products program, while DTSC defended its progress and said further legislative collaboration may be needed on hazardous waste management and emerging waste streams.