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• The document provides the surface as well as subsurface characteristics, so it gives a general picture
• workers<01:54:00.199> and<01:54:00.440> the<01:54:00.599> operating Allied craft
• workers and the operating Allied craft workers and the operating engineers<01:54:02.239> uh<01
• testifying that, oh, he just died because he freaked out or he was high on drugs or he had a heart attack
• country, testifying that someone just died because he freaked out, was high on drugs, or had a heart attack

Keywords: 910, house, all

Summary: The committee heard testimony on several housing, land use, and preservation bills. HB 1008 HD2 would require the Department of Land and Natural Resources to complete historic preservation determinations for state affordable housing projects within 90 days and create sensitivity-based review pathways. HHFDC, DLNR’s State Historic Preservation Division, and written testimony from DBEDT supported the bill as an expedited process for projects unlikely to affect significant historic resources. Members asked how the bill would define significant versus non-significant historic properties, how it would interact with Kapakai analysis, and whether burial councils had been consulted; SHPD said the bill would not replace Kapakai review and that burial councils had not been included. Written support also came from OHA, Hawaii Realtors, and the Maui Chamber of Commerce. HB 1093 would clarify the Hawaii Public Housing Authority’s powers relating to housing projects. HPHA supported the measure, saying it would align definitions with prior law and help deconcentrate poverty by allowing mixed-income rebuilding. The director also said the bill was increasingly urgent because of reported federal HUD priorities that could affect public housing and Section 8 funding. HB 1096 HD1 would repeal state low-income housing preferences for disabled veterans and spouses of deceased veterans, with HPHA saying federal veteran programs such as VASH are a better mechanism and that the state preference has not been used in years. HB 1411 would allow HHFDC projects to give sale or lease preferences to applicants who live or work within five miles of a project; HHFDC and the Hawaii Chapter of NAIOP supported it as a way to keep residents connected to their communities, while members raised constitutional concerns about broader local-preference policies. The committee also heard HB 367 HD1, which would create county permit exemptions for certain agricultural and maintenance activities. Written testimony included opposition from the Department of Planning and Permitting and support from the Hawaii Farm Bureau, Grassroot Institute, and others. A public testifier opposed the bill, arguing that permit exemptions could worsen safety and compliance problems. Finally, HB 826 HD1 would allow county planning commissions, by special permit, to authorize residential housing in agricultural districts for agricultural workforce housing, long-term rental, or fee simple ownership under certain conditions. HHFDC supported it as a faster alternative to lengthy state land-use redistricting, but the Department of Agriculture, Land Use Commission, and Office of Planning and Sustainable Development raised concerns about food production impacts, due process, service provision, jurisdictional conflicts, and the use of special permits for what could amount to district boundary changes. Public testimony was mixed, with some support and some opposition. No votes or final actions were taken in the portion provided.

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• After she got that degree, she was physically—her whole life was attacked.
• One is that it could help attackers find cybersecurity holes and find ways to attack computers.
• The United States released a virus to attack Iranian centrifuges.
• Our attackers are going to have these tools. The previous speaker talked about it.
• Our attackers are going to have these tools at their level, right?

Keywords: 908, all

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• we continue to live in divisive times where some of our most vulnerable students are targeted for attack
• Yeah, it's a great question, and I will just say, broadly speaking, our goal has always been to craft
• Yeah, it's a great question, and I will just say, broadly speaking, our goal has always been to craft
• We've not wanted to ask people to, I don't believe it's responsible to craft legislation that ask people
• targets in this case, to not only increase school funding at a time when public education is under attack

Summary: The Assembly Education Committee heard a full agenda of bills, first adopting a consent calendar of 11 measures without individual presentations. The committee then took up AB 1412, which would require California schools to implement or adopt a transferred special education student’s IEP within 30 days for out-of-state transfers and to coordinate more quickly on records. The author and military-family witnesses said the bill would reduce delays for highly mobile students, especially military children; a school administrators group opposed it. The bill received initial support from committee members and was moved on call. The committee also reconsidered AB 281, which would require notice to parents when outside consultants provide sex education instruction; the author accepted amendments removing a copy-right provision, but the bill remained on call after a split vote. The committee heard AB 1005, which would create a statewide drowning-prevention education and swim-lesson voucher framework for underserved communities. The author and supporters described drowning as a preventable public health and equity issue, while the bill was clarified as developing a plan rather than immediately launching a voucher program. It was voted out on a 3-0 roll with the measure placed on call. AB 908, as amended, would add compliance monitoring for existing requirements that schools use LGBTQ-inclusive instructional materials and curriculum under the FAIR Act. Supporters said the bill would improve implementation and student safety; opponents raised concerns about privacy, girls’ sports, and school burdens. The committee approved the bill 5-2 and sent it to Appropriations. The committee then heard AB 1401, which would affirm parents’ access to school records, including unofficial records unless exempt by law. The author argued that parents need clearer access to information held by schools and vendors, while school officials and teachers’ union representatives warned the bill was too vague and could sweep in personal notes, journals, and other sensitive material. The bill failed on a 2-3 vote and was placed on call. Finally, AB 727 would require student ID cards to include the Trevor Project hotline for LGBTQ youth; supporters framed it as a suicide-prevention measure, while opponents argued it conflicted with parental rights and religious beliefs. Committee discussion focused on whether 988 already provides similar access and whether the Trevor Project is an appropriate resource to print on IDs; the hearing continued with the bill still under consideration.

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• Representative Craft. Representative Craft.
• <01:53:47.840> or dying on scenes from heart attacks or dying on scenes from heart attacks
• So the attack is effectively on people who make energy and would be attacks against some of those people
• So the attack is effectively on people who make energy and would be attacks against some of those people
• against make energy and would be attacks against make energy and would be attacks against some

Keywords: 919, house, all

Summary: The House took up House File 4138, a bill aimed at limiting harmful social media features for children and requiring parental involvement for minors using platforms in Minnesota. Early on, members reconsidered and then adopted the Smith amendment (A13) after first rejecting a narrower amendment to the amendment (A18) on a 67-67 tie. Representative Bonner then offered a technical amendment (A14) to address liability and drafting concerns, but withdrew it after saying it contained an unintended drafting error and could create legal problems, including issues around data collection and rulemaking. During third reading debate, supporters described the bill as a first step to protect children from addictive social media design, online exploitation, and harmful data practices. Representative Scott said the bill would require parental consent and limit addictive features for child accounts, while emphasizing that the consent language must be prominent and that the bill’s effective date would not begin until next July. Representative Enen, Representative Feist, Representative Greenman, and others backed the measure as a bipartisan effort to hold big tech accountable and protect kids, though Greenman also noted that the legislature had not shown the same willingness to confront gun violence. Opponents and skeptics raised concerns that the bill relies on parents understanding complex legal and technical terms, that it may not fully protect children, and that it could still leave gaps around liability and privacy. Representative Leeing questioned why the bill does not simply restrict addictive features for all children and asked about parental waivers and location tracking; Scott responded that the bill uses IP address information and does not specifically address liability waivers, but said the measure is a policy choice intended to empower parents. The debate ended with broad support from several members, and the bill was presented as likely to pass, though no final vote on the bill itself was included in the excerpt.

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• OUTLINE ACROSS THE STATE WOULD ELIMINATE ALL DISCHARGES OF NONDOMESTIC WASTEWATER FACILITIES AND SURFACE
• JDA HAS AN EXTREMELY LARGE SURFACE AREA. WE ARE 900 SQUARE MILES OF THE SERVICE.
• WE HAVE A LARGE SURFACE AREA AS ONE OF THE CHALLENGES IS MOVING WATER 20 MILES TO GET TO THE CUSTOMERS
• ABOUT 13 OF THAT GOES TO SURFACE WATER DISCHARGE IN THE REMAINDER OF WHICH IS IN OUR PRIMARY REMEDY TO
• BOTH IN SURFACE WATER WE ARE NOT DISCHARGING TO AS WELL AS A GROUNDWATER THAT WE ARE HOPING MITIGATE

Keywords: 999, senate, all

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• This is important to protect local control of surface water.
• Senate Bill 7 prohibits the use of state funding for new water supply projects to buy in-state surface
• It clarifies that the new water supply may be used to purchase raw water from an owner of a surface right
• I will point out at the very top that the largest bar is 'other surface water', which includes things
• It also includes things like surface water desalination.

Bills: SB7

Keywords: water infrastructure, financial assistance, Texas Water Development Board, water supply, environmental sustainability, 1185, senate, all

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• And the other part of it is to attack the Muslim community.
• was very necessary for them to understand our legislative research and oversight processes in the crafting
• That's something that when we were crafting this legislation, just because we're saying that this doesn't
• I know that there’s not a perfect bill that’s been crafted yet, and this certainly is not one of those
• where their voting rights were taken away on a certain level of And they crafted where their voting

Keywords: 959, house, all

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• The next $250,000 would go to the Alabama Surface Mining Commission.
• <00:13:20.160> Mining would go to the Alabama Surface Mining would go to the Alabama Surface
• , the Alabama Surface Mining Commission, the<00:14:08.480> Jefferson<00:14:08.959> County
• The next 250 would go to the Surface Mining Commission. Okay. Yeah.
• The next 250 would go to the surface The next 250 would go to the surface mining<00:16:20.720>

Bills: HB304, HB285, HB312, HB311, SB60

Keywords: impoundment, driver licenses, vehicle redemption, local identification cards, law enforcement, HB285, TJ's Law, traffic infraction, traffic ticket, uniform traffic ticket and complaint, minor driver, juvenile driver, parent notification, guardian notification, emergency contact, citing agency, traffic citation, driver safety, youth safety, Alabama traffic law

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• support once these individuals leave the workforce. despite the fact that cancer, strokes, and heart attacks
• TITM... emergency operations centers around the state, $257 million for wildfire suppression areas, crafted

Keywords: 1185, senate, all

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• How can we make it work better, and that’s the ongoing challenge, which we’ve crafted in a very bipartisan
• > away<00:10:51.320> from Senator Abeler urged people to steer away from just partisan attacks

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• The task force has crafted these policy recommendations to help prosecutors hold perpetrators of sexual
• Within days after the attack, I was in a coma.
• No charges were filed, no justice was served, and I was left with the fear, the knowledge that my attacker

Bills: HB75, HB108

Keywords: building standards, youth camps, floodplains, safety regulations, environmental policies, drainage utilities, flood management, land use regulation, county authority, drainage fees, 1185, senate, all

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• Mark Bruner, president of the Manufactured Modular Home Association of Minnesota.
• > Mark Bruner, um president of the Mark Bruner, um president of the Manufactured<02:43:31.840> Modular
• ><02:43:32.240> Home<02:43:32.479> Association<02:43:33.040> of Manufactured Modular
• Home Association of Manufactured Modular Home Association of Minnesota.<02:43:34.319> We<02:43
• Um, one thing I want to just add is that this bill was crafted with the input of residents of these parks

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• rely on, and now we are spending millions of dollars in part two of this budget, specifically to attack
• How many millions of dollars will this legislative body spend specifically to attack the gay and trans
• Who have helped me along the way and have helped my team along the way in crafting this over $50 billion
• This is my last time helping to craft a budget in the House.
• policy, to keep in mind your friends who are two floors down, spending hundreds of hours trying to craft

Summary: The House convened with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and approval of the prior day’s journal by a 107-1 roll call vote. Members then spent a substantial portion of the morning introducing guests, including family members, students, interns, nonprofit representatives, a park ranger recognized for life-saving work, and legislative staff being honored for service or graduation. Committee reports and Senate messages followed, including Senate refusals to concur on several amendments to Senate Bill 1421 and the appointment of a conference committee on House Bill 2818. The main floor debate centered on the conference committee report for House Bill 2002, the K-12 education budget. The budget chair explained that the report maintained record-level overall funding for the foundation formula but changed the mix of funding sources, including a reduction in capital commission dollars and use of blind pension funds, with possible later ARPA dollars to offset shortfalls. Several members argued the bill still underfunded schools by about $190 million and raised concerns about relying on projected or one-time funds; others defended the budget as meeting or exceeding constitutional requirements and noted record spending per pupil and recent increases in education funding. A substitute motion to send the bill back to conference failed 62-89, and the conference report was then adopted 83-68; the bill was subsequently third read and passed 83-68. The House then adopted and passed House Bill 2003, the higher education budget, by 119-28 on adoption and 109-32 on third reading. Debate there focused on restoring the governor’s recommended funding while directing higher education institutions to develop a new performance-based funding formula by the end of the year. Members generally described the compromise as a step toward a more sustainable model while preserving current funding levels. Next, House Bill 2004, covering the Departments of Revenue and Transportation, was adopted 128-21 and passed 127-27; discussion highlighted transportation funding, rural roads, and a small local safety appropriation that had already been addressed by MoDOT. The House then began debate on House Bill 2005, the Office of Administration budget, with members emphasizing IT accountability, state employee functions, and ongoing technology consolidation/deconsolidation issues.

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• What they want to do is determine what is the best way to move in and actually attack the problem there
• We can continue the work that we’ve done and attack the other circles.
• We can continue the work that we’ve done and attack the other circles.
• And, you know, why was the RFP not crafted in order for Hawaii Ant Lab to be able to bid into it and
• in order for why was the RFP not crafted in order for Hawaii<01:13:12.920> ant<01:13:13.199><

Keywords: 910, house, all

Summary: The joint House and Senate agriculture committees met on January 17, 2025, for an informational briefing on biosecurity and invasive species; Chair Kahaloa opened by noting there would be no public testimony. Members introduced themselves, and the Hawaiʻi Invasive Species Council (HISC) program manager Chelsea Arnot outlined the purpose of the briefing and the statewide impacts of invasive species, citing examples such as coconut rhinoceros beetle, little fire ant, coquí frogs, albizia, and mosquito-borne disease. She emphasized that biosecurity requires coordinated action across state departments, counties, federal agencies, universities, and communities, and highlighted HISC’s role in funding interagency projects, island invasive species committees, research, outreach, and early detection efforts. Arnot and HISC representatives described major funding and program needs, including a requested $4.25 million increase to HISC to raise its baseline budget to $10 million, support island committee operations, research, biocontrol, marine biosecurity, surveillance, and staffing. They also requested $500,000 for the Hawaiʻi Ant Lab, saying it is critical to invasive ant research and little fire ant response. The briefing also noted HISC’s leverage of federal dollars, including a $4.6 million REPI award with HISC providing the match, and cited successful collaborative eradications and responses, including veiled chameleons on Maui, axis deer on Hawaiʻi Island, and a 2023 coconut rhinoceros beetle response on Maui that prevented further spread. Hawaiʻi Department of Agriculture officials then discussed implementation of updated administrative rules effective January 20, 2025, which permanently restrict movement of coconut rhinoceros beetle host material and give the department stronger authority to stop movement of infested material. They reported 2024 import activity of about 50,000 ship and aircraft arrivals, inspection/clearance of 20 million pieces, and 16,000 interceptions, with additional staffing from Act 231 expected to increase interceptions. They also described Act 231 funding and current spending status: about 65% obligated and 52% encumbered, with some funds tied to contracts for CRB and little fire ant response, plus an $800,000 green-waste hauling RFP that had to be reissued because of a flaw. The department said 580 Oʻahu homes and 290 Hawaiʻi Island homes are slated for little fire ant treatment, while Maui and Kauaʻi will focus on survey and outreach. Members questioned how homes are selected for subsidized treatment, whether HISC and the island invasive species committees received Act 231 support, and whether the state should direct how contracted funds are prioritized. Representative Martin raised concerns that the RFP limited eligibility to private pest control companies and excluded more experienced entities such as the Hawaiʻi Ant Lab. Department officials said they would follow up on prioritization and funding details, and noted that emergency proclamations and procurement flexibility could help with rapid response and hiring during invasive species emergencies.

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• It's a personal attack that makes somebody go on the defensive, but I'll answer the question.
• that makes somebody go personal attack that makes somebody go on<04:27:18.359> the<04:27:18.840
• From down at the surface, extreme hot pressure, and as you move up, the prediction works perfectly when
• <05:27:02.200> to<05:27:02.360> the differs from the Earth's surface to the differs
• from the Earth's surface to the tropopause<05:27:03.360> first<05:27:03.718> and<05:27

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• speeches that spoke to the and crafting speeches that spoke to the heart,<00:25:01.520> to<00
• And then, to add insult to injury, they detain the victims of the attacks.
• It means more asthma attacks, more heart attacks, more strokes, and more cancer diagnoses.
• It means more asthma attacks, more heart attacks, more strokes, and more cancer diagnoses.
• It means more asthma attacks, more heart attacks, more strokes, and more cancer diagnoses.

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Tuesday, April 21, 2026, 1012, house, all

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• There's a concept in security called your threat surface.
• a smaller threat surface and allow us to reduce risk a little bit that way.
• That's the number your threat surface.
• If we increases our threat surface.
• to a smaller uh threat threat surface to a smaller uh threat surface<00:04:39.360> and<00:04:

Keywords: 1:00 Roll Call 2:38 Overview of Citizen Identity Security and Threat Reduction 9:36 Identity Solution and Casts 13:51 System Application and Discovery Issues 21:31 Staffing and Timelines 29:14 Adjournment, 958, all

Summary: The House Budget Review Subcommittee on Personnel, Public Retirement, and Finance received a presentation from Jim Barnhard, CIO of the Commonwealth Office of Technology, and David Carter, deputy CIO/CISO, on the state’s citizen identity management project. They said the project is intended to streamline citizen logins across agencies, reduce duplicated identity-management costs, improve security by centralizing authentication, and provide a flexible system that can scale with demand. The presenters described major implementation challenges, including integrating with diverse and legacy applications, and said the chosen software-as-a-service vendor was selected because it can connect to many systems and maintain the service in a federally certified cloud environment. The presenters emphasized that the project scope is limited to login, authentication, identity management, and identity proofing, while leaving authorization decisions to the individual applications and agencies. They said the work is being done in phases, beginning with discovery sessions with agencies, then selecting representative applications for onboarding rather than attempting a “big bang” rollout. They also said the vendor agreement includes professional services and knowledge transfer to reduce long-term dependence on outside support, and that the state has already begun outreach to agencies, including initial work with the Finance Cabinet and the Department of Revenue. Members asked about staffing, current spending, future costs, and whether existing systems or contracts could be reduced. The presenters said the project is being supported with existing staff, with no expectation of a large increase in positions, and that the vendor will carry most of the operational load. They said they did not have statewide spending figures with them but could try to gather them, and explained that the negotiated pricing is intended to be all-inclusive, with fixed costs for the first five years and capped increases in years six and seven. They said centralizing identity services should eventually allow the Commonwealth to stand down some duplicated agency-level licensing and reduce overall operational costs.

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• That's a good... that's what I was going to start trying to craft is the way to ask it to say I don't
• that's what I was going to start<00:45:47.200> trying<00:45:47.359> to<00:45:47.520> craft
• the<00:45:48.240> way<00:45:48.400> to<00:45:48.560> ask start trying to craft
• is the way to ask start trying to craft is the way to ask it<00:45:49.599> to<00:45:49.839>
• Ukraine likely has dangerous pathogens and remains vulnerable to long-standing threats of Russian attack

Keywords: 928, house, all

Summary: The committee met to review its mission and to discuss recent work on a letter sent to the governor and legislative leaders regarding COVID vaccine safety and related scientific references. Members said the letter, which included 31 cited sources, had been delivered to the governor’s office, the Speaker’s office, and the Senate President’s office, and a press release had been issued. Several members defended the letter’s sourcing and urged the public to read the materials and evaluate the evidence themselves, while also acknowledging questions about the trustworthiness of some cited articles. A major portion of the meeting focused on a research assistant’s effort to use AI tools to help reconstruct and verify the committee’s 2024 COVID report with citations. She reported mixed results from Copilot and Gemini, noting that the tools often produced broad or incomplete outputs and that she would need to break the report into smaller sections and ask for more specific source types. Members advised using more precise prompts and emphasized that any AI output would still need human verification. The committee said it hoped to produce a revised, fully footnoted 2024 report by early September. The chair then outlined the committee’s fall agenda, saying it would examine long COVID treatment, the patient bill of rights as it relates to COVID vaccinations and death reporting, standards of care and professional judgment by New Hampshire health care providers, and oversight of federal COVID-related funding such as CARES Act education relief dollars. He also referenced a recent fraud case involving misuse of COVID funds and suggested the committee may ask the DOJ for information. The committee will not meet in July or August and plans to resume in September and October, with a final report targeted for the end of October. The chair also introduced a recent DNI/Tulsi Gabbard press release about U.S.-funded biolabs overseas, which members discussed as a possible transparency issue relevant to future pandemic policy.

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• regardless of any impervious surface regardless of any spacing<00:18:01.360> um<00:18:01.760>
• So the problem is with this is that this doesn't account for that ground surface underneath in most,
• So the problem is with this is that this doesn't account for that ground surface underneath in most,
• So the problem is with this is that this doesn't account for that ground surface underneath in most,
• So the problem is with this is that this doesn't account for that ground surface underneath in most,

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

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• So I think our current regulations are more than adequate to protect the groundwater and surface water
• So I think our current regulations are more than adequate to protect the groundwater and surface water
• <00:16:33.360> water, that goes through a surface water, that goes through a surface water
• water of the groundwater and surface water of the state<00:17:05.520> is<00:17:05.839> what
• asphalt and those non-pervious surfaces asphalt and those non-pervious surfaces we<00:50:02.319>

Keywords: 928, house, all

Summary: The subcommittee opened discussion on SP 170 and worked through the bill section by section, focusing first on housing discrimination language and then on land-use and development provisions. On the housing section, members discussed adding “school enrollment status” or a similar term as a protected class to prevent municipalities from steering students into specific zones, especially in Durham. Some members questioned whether “status” was too vague and suggested “enrollment status” or “school enrollment status” for clarity. Public testimony raised concerns that adding a new protected class could have broader implications beyond this bill and could affect municipal zoning authority, while supporters argued the language was needed to prevent discrimination against students in housing access. The committee then heard testimony on provisions limiting municipal authority over septic test pits and well-siting requirements. DEES officials and a builder testified that state standards are already protective of groundwater and surface water and that some local requirements are more stringent than the state’s, adding cost and delay to housing projects. Supporters said uniform state standards would make housing development faster and more predictable. Opponents warned that local rules can protect aquifers, wellhead areas, and drinking water in specific communities, and that removing municipal flexibility could weaken those protections. The subcommittee appeared comfortable keeping these sections, though members discussed whether to clarify the language and whether some local review authority should remain. The meeting also covered road-length limits, caps on the number of lots on dead-end roads, and subdivision design rules. Members generally supported prohibiting municipalities from using maximum road length or lot caps to block development, with one amendment suggested to allow such limits where adequate water and sewer capacity is lacking. The committee also discussed allowing utilities and infrastructure such as septic systems, wells, electric systems, drainage structures, and shared leach fields to be placed in subdivision open space or perimeter buffers when those areas are not protected wetlands or shoreland. Finally, the committee reviewed a provision requiring municipalities to stamp and accept plan changes within three days after initial review, with members explaining that the goal is to prevent repeated, incremental changes from dragging out the approval process. No final votes were taken in the portion of the meeting provided, but members indicated general comfort with several sections as amended or clarified.