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• fact, 79% of all roadside litter comes from motorists, pickup trucks, garbage trucks, and unsecured loads
• Secure your load and prevent litter from taking flight. Look at this stuff.
• Now that's a secured load. Don't you feel more secure? Littering is illegal.
• cup or cigarette butt out the window, if loose items fly out of your truck bed or off an unsecured load
• Secure your load so we can keep Louisiana beautiful. Anyone else? Come bring some fries.

Keywords: 974, senate, all

Summary: The Louisiana Commission on Civic Education met with quorum, approved the minutes from its previous meeting, and took several action items related to the Legislative Youth Advisory Council (LIAC). The commission unanimously approved the 2026-27 LIAC membership slate after reviewing recommendations from the selection committee, and it also approved the council’s budget and mileage reimbursement guidelines, noting the only change was an updated IRS mileage rate. Members thanked the legislature for continuing to fund LIAC after earlier years when it relied on outside donations. The meeting featured presentations on civic education resources and America 250 programming. Brandon Burris, representing the Lieutenant Governor’s office, highlighted Louisiana state parks, the Checkout Louisiana library backpack programs for parks and museums, Keep Louisiana Beautiful’s anti-litter campaign, and Homework Louisiana. Liam Julian of the Sandra Day O’Connor Institute discussed national civics education trends, teacher discomfort with controversial topics, and the institute’s teacher training, student camps, debate programs, and civics app. Louisiana Public Broadcasting’s Katie Stark and Nancy Torren presented America 250-related materials, including a PBS Kids feature on a Louisiana child and LPB’s “Louisiana’s Hidden History” videos and teacher resources on Bernardo de Galvez and Spanish Louisiana. LIAC members then reported on their work, including school safety efforts, digital service-hour tracking, AP self-study access, minor work permits, AI-generated harassment concerns, and local civic engagement projects. Peggy Cotonia of the Louisiana Center for Law and Civic Education reported 87 Law Day presentations and 287 total Law Day and Constitution Day presentations reaching about 9,400 students, along with updates on awards and a shortened but still free summer institute for teachers. Barry Irwin reported that legislation to clean up outdated commission membership and quorum language had passed the House and been heard in Senate Education, moving toward final passage. The commission adjourned after no further business.

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• The thing that we're most excited about is because on a double-loaded corridor, your market tends to
• The thing that we're most excited about is because on a double-loaded corridor, your market tends to
• going from the third floor to the ground floor in both a single-stair building and a large double-loaded
• apartment building, and it took me three times the length of time to get out of the double-loaded corridor
• So you think about the friction that people The length of time to get out of the double-loaded corridor

Bills: HB447, HB897, HB993, HB2673, HB3671, HB3680, HB3897, HB4506, HB4753, HB4812, HB4894, HB5148, HB5437, HB5650, HB5652, HB5654, HB5656, HB5661, HB5665

Keywords: traffic impact studies, municipal utility district, bonds, road projects, eminent domain, HB 897, Texas land sale, state property, Austin real estate, Travis County, General Land Office, Texas State Library and Archives Commission, HHSC, Health and Human Services Commission, state records facility, archives building, library funding, capital improvements, lease of state land, public land disposition

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• I think front-loading a lot of the credits is not the right way to go.
• For wind load, for wind load. For instance, Monroe County, we're at 185.
• For wind load, for wind load. For instance, Monroe County, we're at 185.

Summary: The Natural Resources and Disaster Subcommittee heard and acted on several bills related to wetlands, emergency management, fishing licenses, disaster recovery, the Florida Keys, brownfields, wastewater treatment, and spring protection. HB 1175 on mitigation banking drew the most discussion, with supporters saying it would create more predictable release of mitigation credits and help address shortages, while opponents warned it could weaken watershed-based wetland protection and allow credits to be used farther from the impact site. The committee adopted a strike-all amendment making the changes prospective after July 1, 2025, and then reported the bill favorably with committee substitute by a 12-3 vote. The committee also considered HB 1535, a broad emergency management strike-all that would expand local storm-preparedness information, debris removal coordination, shelter planning, permitting procedures after storms, limits on post-storm fee increases and moratoria, and changes to election procedures after disasters. Members raised questions about FEMA coordination, shelter standards, impact fees, and the 100-mile post-storm land-use restrictions. After adopting the strike-all, the bill was reported favorably with committee substitute on a 17-0 vote. HB 673, which would extend the same fishing-license convenience to freshwater guides that saltwater captains already have, and HB 705, which extends a public-records exemption for disaster recovery assistance applicants, were both reported favorably without amendment. Later, the committee approved HB 995 for the Florida Keys, which combines affordable-housing incentives, a Habitat for Humanity bond exemption, an extension of the Florida Keys Stewardship Act, and a modest increase in hurricane evacuation time to allow additional residential permits; it was reported favorably on a unanimous vote. HB 733 on brownfields received a technical strike-all and was also reported favorably. HB 645 creating a general permit for distributed wastewater treatment systems passed unanimously, and HB 691 on a reclaimed-water project tied to Outstanding Florida Springs passed 16-1 after concerns were raised about cost, water quality, and whether the bill could broaden the intent of existing spring-protection law. The meeting adjourned after all agenda items were completed.

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• /c><00:38:01.520> is from fossil fuel combustion is from fossil fuel combustion is responsible
• fuel, labor, insurance, and other costs. fuel, labor, insurance, and other costs.
• Two things: fuels, electrifying things, making fuels more efficient, and setting up our lives so we can
• Two things, fuels, transportation.
• > fuels<01:56:28.960> more electrifying things, making fuels more electrifying things,

Bills: HF2438

Keywords: transportation finance, transportation policy, MnDOT, Minnesota Department of Transportation, Department of Public Safety, Metropolitan Council, highway funding, trunk highway fund, county state-aid highway fund, municipal state-aid street fund, state aid roads, local roads, bridge funding, road construction, transit funding, passenger rail, freight rail, aviation, airport development, safe routes to school

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• It's a fueling station that is an industry standard across all FBS schools, where you walk in and you
• It's a fueling station that is an industry standard across all FBS schools, where you walk in and you
• It's a fueling station that is an industry standard across all FBS schools, where you walk in and you
• It's a fueling station that is an industry standard across all FBS schools, where you walk in and you
• fueling fueling station<00:32:31.639> I<00:32:31.720> hope<00:32:31.880> that<00

Keywords: 910, house, all

Summary: The House Committee on Higher Education met at the University of Hawaiʻi’s Bachman Hall and heard testimony on several UH-related bills. HB 542 would expand the Hawaiʻi Promise Program to provide unmet-need scholarships at four-year UH campuses. UH system officials, the UH Student Caucus, and a Honolulu Community College student testified in support, emphasizing college affordability, student retention, and workforce needs. Committee members asked about current program data, eligibility, transfer patterns, and cost; UH said it had data available, noted about 10% of current Hawaiʻi Promise students transfer to four-year campuses, and estimated the full expansion would cost about $12 million. UH also suggested a possible alternative of focusing on transfer opportunities from two-year to four-year campuses. The committee then heard HB 840, which concerns athletics appropriations for UH. UH Mānoa and UH Hilo supported the bill. UH officials said the funding would help cover recurring athletics operating costs, women’s sports travel and recruiting, Austin Awards, and a new nutrition fueling station, while Hilo said the money would help with travel, per diem, and conference-related costs. Members asked about the history of the athletics funding, the difference between Austin Awards and special talent waivers, NIL planning, and whether the appropriation should be restored to the base budget. UH explained that a $4 million athletics appropriation was originally made in 2018 or 2019, later removed from the base, and has been reappropriated annually since then. Finally, the committee heard HB 842, which would fund three additional permanent mental health practitioner positions at UH Mānoa’s Counseling and Student Development Center. UH supported the bill, and Academic Labor United and a high school student testified in favor, citing student stress, overwork, and the need for more counseling access. In questions, members discussed the current counselor-to-student ratio, recruitment challenges in a tight labor market, and strategies for hiring, including looking at candidates on soft-money grants who may be seeking stable employment. No votes or final committee actions were taken during the portion of the meeting provided.

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• Uh, we have to get off of fossil fuels. We are in, um, getting pretty desperate here.
• You guys have really been working hard to um get us clean energy and get us off of fossil fuels.
• Uh we have to get off of fossil<00:52:59.680> fuels.
• We are in um getting it's fossil fuels.
• You guys have really been working hard to um get us clean energy and get us off of fossil fuels.

Bills: HB2245, HB1618, HB1985, HB2079, HB1921, HB2232, HB1567, HB1984, HB2608, HB2435, HB1623, HB1774

Keywords: wastewater systems, denitrification, environment, pollution, coral reefs, nearshore waters, public health, shoreline regulations, cesspool conversion, cesspool replacement, wastewater, sewer connection, sewerage systems, septic system, pollution control, water pollution control revolving fund, Hawaii Green Infrastructure Authority, HGIA, low-interest loans, forgivable loans

Summary: The committee heard testimony on several bills related to cesspools, wastewater, and clean water protections. On HB 2245, which would require additional denitrification capacity in wastewater systems near shorelines, the Department of Health offered comments, DLNR supported the bill, and multiple environmental and ocean groups testified in strong support, emphasizing nitrogen pollution from cesspools, reef damage, and the need to prioritize shoreline systems. Testifiers said the bill should move forward, with technical issues such as GIS mapping to be worked out later. No member questions or votes were taken on this measure. On HB 1985, concerning the Hawaii Green Infrastructure Authority and accessible conversion loans for cesspool homeowners, HGI supported the bill and suggested making the program a revolving loan fund; DLNR and the Public Utilities Commission also supported it, while the Department of Health supported the concept. Committee discussion focused on program design, possible forgivable loans for low-income homeowners, and whether the program should be administered through existing infrastructure rather than a new procurement process. The committee then moved to HB 1985’s companion discussion on cesspool conversion outreach and deadline extensions, where DLNR and DOH supported outreach but DLNR and ocean advocates expressed reservations about extending deadlines, especially for financial hardship, saying that issue would need careful work. The committee also heard testimony on HB 2079, which would reestablish the accessible upgrades inversion or connection income tax credit. The Department of Taxation raised administrative and fraud concerns about refundable credits, explaining that nonrefundable credits reduce tax debt while refundable credits can function like cash payments and require more oversight. DOH, DLNR, OPSD, counties, Hawaii Realtors, and environmental groups supported the bill, with one ocean coalition witness saying tax credits could help homeowners but grants would be preferable. Members asked about the difference between refundable credits and grants and about whether the credit would cover sewer connections versus individual wastewater systems. The committee then heard brief testimony on HB 1921, allowing certain priority-three cesspools to add a bedroom, with support from Hawaii Realtors and some other groups and no opposition discussion. HB 2232, preserving state water-quality protections at least as strong as the federal Clean Water Act, drew support from DOH and ocean advocates, with no questions. The committee also began hearing energy-related bills, including HB 1567 on energy equity and HB 1984 on self-certification for distributed energy resources, with a mix of support and some opposition or requested amendments, but no votes were taken in the portion provided.

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• If you notice that this measure before us also included Red Hill and the bunk fuel storage facility,
• If you notice that this measure before us also included Red Hill and the bunk fuel storage facility,
• If you notice that this measure before us also included Red Hill and the bunk fuel storage facility,
• It establishes the community fuels reduction project to be administered by the Department of Land and
• <00:40:54.000> Reduction terms of the community fuels Reduction terms of the community fuels

Keywords: 912, senate, all

Summary: The committee first took up SB 534, a measure concerning development in Kakaʻako Makai involving the Hawaii Community Development Authority and the Office of Hawaiian Affairs. The chairs explained that the hearing was decision-making only and no testimony would be accepted, though members could ask clarifying questions. The chair outlined amendments to clarify HCDA’s approval process, require an environmental impact statement before residential development proposals are submitted, require Department of Health documentation on hazardous substances, and specify that only OHA-owned parcels would be eligible for certain residential development with a 400-foot height limit and maximum floor area ratio of 10.0. The amendments also addressed affordability, owner-occupancy, association fees, and a special fund, while noting Attorney General concerns that the fee could be construed as a tax and suggesting further review by Judiciary and Ways and Means. Members discussed the affordability threshold, with one senator suggesting 160% AMI instead of 140% due to high housing costs and concern that essential workers could be priced out. Others raised concerns about Native Hawaiian affordability, the long-term effect of perpetuity restrictions, and whether the process would protect OHA’s interests. An HCDA representative said 140% AMI was used in existing reserve housing rules and that lower thresholds could make development economically infeasible. OHA and other supporters said the proposal was still early in planning and emphasized the need for public hearings, community input, and compliance with environmental and remediation standards. The committees voted to pass SB 534 with amendments: Water and Land approved it 4-1, and Hawaiian Affairs also adopted the chair’s recommendation, with one member excused and one voting no. The meeting then moved to SB 3, relating to water resource management. The bill would authorize the Commission on Water Resource Management to retain independent legal counsel, create an executive director position, allow challenges to emergency orders under certain conditions, establish fines for water use offenses, and revise emergency and shortage declaration procedures; Red Hill-related provisions were noted as removed from this version. Testimony was largely supportive, including from DLNR, the Board of Water Supply, OHA, and Sierra Club, with OHA stressing the measure’s importance to Native Hawaiian water rights and past litigation. A Department of Hawaiian Home Lands representative supported the bill with amendments and recommended explicit language directing the commission chair or designee to advocate for water rights and reservations for homelands. The chair indicated the committees would use the prior Senate-passed version as the basis for further action, and the discussion then moved on to SB 130, a search-and-rescue reimbursement bill.

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• 12.040> and understand where their food, fiber, and understand where their food, fiber, and fuel
• So, I think it's all fuel comes from.
• ,<00:23:54.520> and<00:23:54.640> fiber to to produce the food, fuel, and fiber to
• to produce the food, fuel, and fiber for<00:23:55.240> this<00:23:55.440> country<00:23
• So, with that we do need to move fuel.

Keywords: Meeting Start: 00:00 Attendance Roll Call: 00:15 HB 195 Discussion: 05:22 HB 195 Roll Call Vote: 16:33 SB 199 Discussion: 18:34 SB 199 Roll Call Vote: 41:25 SB 5 Discussion: 43:50 SB 5 Roll Call Vote: 46:35 HB 687 Discussion: 48:10 HB 687 Roll Call Vote: 50:15, 958, all

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• Uh, energy costs for renewable energy is cheaper than the cost for fossil fuel.
• c> energy is cheaper than the cost for energy is cheaper than the cost for fossil<00:59:53.520> fuel
• fossil fuel. This is easily verifiable. fossil fuel. This is easily verifiable.
• source will reduce using LG as a fuel source will reduce costs<01:03:25.440> and<01:03:25.680
• or missed opportunities for deeper fuels or missed opportunities for deeper savings<01:03:51.920>

Bills: HB2198, HB2021, HB1881, HB1964, HB1990, HB2151, HB2599, HB2414

Keywords: gambling, prediction markets, Hawaii gambling laws, financial contracts, ethical concerns, electric bicycles, micro-mobility devices, safety regulations, traffic laws, insurance exemption, high-speed electric devices, land use, ropeway, transportation, state regulation, government exemption, building code, permitting process, training, state council

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• based on the equal $86 million a year based on the current<00:02:37.360> case<00:02:37.599> loads
• current case loads. current case loads.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• putting an allowance rather than a requirement on the ACA to use available resources to improve motor fuel
• gasoline resilience rather than fuel and gas prices in Arizona is probably chief among those agreed-upon
• amendments, extending the repeal date for the ACA fuel and gas resilience requirements from January
• intent of having many people in the room to go ahead and come to some conclusions on where we are with fuel
• Next bill, please: House Bill 2696, an act providing for the Arizona Commerce Authority reduced fuel

Keywords: 1182, all

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• I've sat here in the House when we debated fuel tax, fuel toll fees, and the compromise that happened
• in the house when we uh when<00:13:31.519> we<00:13:31.680> debated<00:13:32.240> fuel
• <00:13:32.639> tax<00:13:33.360> uh<00:13:33.519> fuel when we debated fuel
• tax uh fuel when we debated fuel tax uh fuel toll<00:13:35.519> fees toll fees toll fees and<00

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

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• But what would work out is multiple major companies have new generation hydrogen fuel cell and hydrogen
• But what would work out is multiple major companies have new generation hydrogen fuel cell and hydrogen
• And treating all these fossil fuels the same, um, like just assuming they're evil by existing, natural
• And treating all these fossil fuels the same, um, like just assuming they're evil by existing, natural
• Unfortunately, coal's very plentiful, but we can't be demonizing all of these fuels because the number

Keywords: 1183, house

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• When the power goes out, every fueling station goes dark: gas, diesel, natural gas, hydrogen, they all
• Emergency preparedness should address all fuels rather than giving 100% of its focus to 7% of vehicles
• Emergency preparedness should address all fuels rather than giving 100% of its focus to 7% of vehicles
• The only state that has requirements related to backup fueling capacity is Florida, but that requires
• And I think that, especially if we're going to rely on electricity to be more of a backbone fuel supply

Keywords: 987, senate, all

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• It is a project that has been worked on by Fueling Minnesota together with the Department of Commerce
• is a project that has been worked<00:38:26.640> on<00:38:26.880> by<00:38:27.520> Fueling
• <00:38:27.880> Minnesota<00:38:28.520> together worked on by Fueling Minnesota together
• worked on by Fueling Minnesota together with<00:38:29.320> the<00:38:29.920> Department
• So, that'll help us... ...use different fuels to actually save our environment, too. Thank you, Mr.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• You've got to cut them out away from all the other fuel and let them burn out.
• My name is Alessandra Mignasco and I'm here on behalf of the California Fuels and Convenience Alliance
• In many rural areas we have very few fueling stations and so the loss of even a single fueling station
• Chair and members of this committee, my name is Alessandra Mignasco, and I represent the California Fuels
• Many of which are critical to California's fuel supply out of business for reasons beyond their control

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• skimmers, which are devices manufactured for the sole purpose of stealing payment � card information from fuel
• And so as they do it they find out that not only is it fuel pump skimmers It's in ATM machines and other
• to law enforcement, and reducing adapted intelligence to industry as well, such as the banks, the fuel
• I'm the Director of Government Relations. for the Texas Food and Fuel Association here to testify in
• The Texas Food and Fuel Association, our members, own the Texas Food and Fuel Association, and we operate

Bills: SB1281, SB1300, SB1379, SB1451, SB1497, SB1498, SB1499

Keywords: mail theft, postal theft, package theft, identity theft, negotiable instrument, check theft, mail receptacle key, mailbox lock, postal key, delivery service, courier, USPS, United States Postal Service, fraud, property crime, elderly victims, disabled victims, identity information, rebuttable presumption, felony enhancement

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• Many elected leaders across Minnesota and across our country really provided some fuel for this, whether
• We have a negative view of law enforcement, and this is providing some of the fuel of what we're seeing
• they make the decision about whether to pull over or not to pull over. country really provided some fuel
• for country really provided some fuel for this<00:09:25.120> whether<00:09:25.360> it's
• of what we're seeing on some of the fuel of what we're seeing on our<00:09:43.720> roadways<00

Keywords: 1183, house

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• , we now have fuel depots that are just being established left and right, right on the border.
• And they transfer whatever they have, whether it's fuel or oil, from one tanker to another tanker.
• a little over 30 FTEs across the division, and typically that is for tax compliance, whether it's fuels
• Glenn Hager: ...typically for tax compliance, you know, whether it's fuels, whether it's cigarettes,
• Typically, say for example, with stealing, not paying taxes on dyed fuels, using off-road fuel on-road

Bills: SB 1, SB1

Keywords: campground safety, youth camp regulations, flood safety, emergency evacuation, health and safety standards, appropriations, budget, state funding, education, healthcare, infrastructure, 1185, senate, all

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• GENERATE THEIR OWN ENGINE ENTITY HAVE TO TAKE ACTIONS EVERYDAY THAT HAVE THE EFFECT OF RESTRICTING FUEL
• A MUNICIPAL UTILITY ON A SUNNY DAY WOULD RUN SOLAR PLANS FIRST AS THEY DON'T HAVE FUEL COSTS.
• PLANNING DECISIONS INHERENTLY INVOLVE ACTIONS AND CHOICES REGARDING FUELS UNINTENDED COSTS.
• IT DOESN'T SERVE THE PEOPLE OF FLORIDA, IT SERVES THE FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRY.
• OUTDATED EXPENSIVE FOSSIL FUELS AT A TIME WE SHOULD BE EMBRACING CLEANER, CHEAPER ALTERNATIVES.

Keywords: 999, senate, all