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• Um thank you for your the facilities.
• Simply put, these collections facilities Simply put, these collections facilities house<01:10:05.600
• Mississippi<01:10:24.080> Street The facility at 1500 Mississippi Street The facility at 1500
• , care and management of these facilities, care and management of these facilities, including<01:
• <01:32:14.639> The responsible for the facilities. The responsible for the facilities.

Keywords: 1183, house

Summary: The committee first approved the March 5 minutes, then heard a presentation from Balig Engineering on cost drivers for drinking water and wastewater infrastructure in small Minnesota communities. The testifier said most Minnesota communities are small, and that limited local staff, complex funding requirements, and the need to combine multiple funding sources make projects expensive and labor-intensive. He cited examples of aging infrastructure, including a Tracy street collapse and failing water mains, and said federal funding can help but often requires extensive reports that can cost tens of thousands of dollars and hundreds of staff hours. He also pointed to inflation, supply-chain disruptions, colder climate requirements, higher material and labor costs, limited competition among contractors and suppliers, and newer treatment requirements such as PFAS removal and cybersecurity controls as major cost drivers. Members asked whether reduced bonding or less frequent state funding would lower prices, whether annual bonding bills provide market certainty, how regionalization could be encouraged, and whether tightening specifications adds costs. The testifier said stopping work would likely drive contractors out of the market and reduce competition, which could raise prices later, and that consistent funding helps keep contractors in Minnesota. He said regional water systems such as Red Rock Rural Water and Lincoln Pipestone Rural Water are already helping lower costs and that legislators could encourage more regionalization through incentives. He also said some specifications and federal requirements, especially around treatment plant controls and cybersecurity, increase costs, though some standards like deeper water-main burial are necessary. The committee then moved on to the Minnesota Department of Veterans Affairs, where John Kelly began presenting the governor’s 2026 capital budget recommendations and described the department’s mission, statewide network of veterans homes and cemeteries, and service to nearly 300,000 veterans and dependents.

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• and technical education facilities and technical education facilities across<00:19:40.799> the
• <00:19:56.960> construction for the school facilities construction for the school facilities
• But nursing facility cost increase.
• , do the rest of the of the facility, do the rest of the facility.<00:46:10.720> So,<00:46:10.880
• . facility. facility.

Keywords: Meeting Start 00:00:00 Roll Call 00:00:11 Executive Budget 00:00:50, 958, all

Summary: The committee met to hear a presentation from Dr. Hicks on the governor’s recommended budget for the next biennium. He reviewed the revenue outlook, noting modest general fund growth, a large rainy day fund balance, and the impact of recent income tax reductions. He said the budget was built around recurring reductions, lower debt service and retirement contribution rates, and the use of excess restricted funds, while protecting K-12 education, Medicaid, postsecondary education, public safety, and pension obligations. Dr. Hicks outlined several major spending and reserve proposals, including $350 million from the Department of Insurance’s excess restricted funds to support Medicaid in the first year, $150 million for the affordable housing trust fund, $125 million for rural hospitals, $100 million to offset lost federal ACA premium tax credits, $75 million for utility assistance, and $50 million for food assistance. In education, the proposal included a phased pre-K for all plan funded by sports wagering tax revenue, a 3% annual salary increase for full-time school personnel, continued full funding of teacher pensions, a 2.5% annual increase in SEEK base funding, and additional support for career and technical education and school facilities. He also discussed Medicaid cost pressures, including higher managed care, pharmacy, behavioral health, and nursing facility costs, and explained the expected effects of federal HR1 changes on Kentucky’s Medicaid program. Those changes include work and community engagement requirements and more frequent eligibility redeterminations for expansion members, which the administration estimated would reduce enrollment by about 4,300 in the first year and 28,000 in the second year. No votes or formal committee actions were taken during the meeting, which was limited to the budget presentation and member questions.

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• I've actually been to that facility. It's very nice. If you get to Pembina, just... Facility.
• , and intermediate care facilities for folks with developmental disabilities.
• PRTFs, $135 for basic care, and $135 for intermediate care facilities.
• PRTFs, $135 for basic care, and $135 for intermediate care facilities.
• It's Medicaid in these facilities. Further discussion. Mr.

Bills: HB1603

Keywords: Native American, grave protection, repatriation, cultural heritage, tribal compliance, 908, all

Summary: The Appropriations Committee met with a quorum and announced it would begin meeting at 8 a.m. for the rest of the week to work through a growing bill list. The committee first approved House Bill 1603, a companion to the Historical Society budget dealing with NAGPRA, including a $500,000 matching grant to be divided among North Dakota’s five tribes and a committee to address repatriation of human remains and cultural items. The vote was unanimous, 15-0. The committee then considered House Bill 1225, which would increase penalties for reckless endangerment involving a firearm and create a mandatory prison term. After debate over public safety concerns versus the bill’s fiscal note and prison costs, the committee adopted a do not pass recommendation by a 9-6-1 vote. Members also discussed House Bill 1018, the State Historical Society budget, and approved an amendment that adjusted one-time funding items, including NAGPRA compliance, museum exhibits, military gallery funding, local historic grants, and line-of-credit repayment. The amended bill then received a due pass recommendation by a 14-2 vote. The committee next approved House Bill 1468, a behavioral health facility grant for St. Hayes, which supporters said would expand in-state access to acute and adolescent behavioral health care and reduce the need to send patients out of state. The bill passed 14-1. It then amended and passed House Bill 1485, increasing the personal needs allowance for certain Medicaid recipients by $15 and indexing it to inflation; the amendment and the bill as amended both passed 14-2. Finally, the committee approved House Bill 1016, the Adjutant General/National Guard budget, after adopting an amendment that funded disaster relief, response equipment, IT and website costs, and staffing changes for the watch center; the amended bill passed 14-2. The committee adjourned after completing six bills and planned to resume the next morning at 8 a.m.

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• covers Statewide support for facilities covers Statewide support for facilities for<00:30:02.600
• <00:30:15.120> Regional<00:30:15.640> kitchen move Beyond uh facility Regional kitchen
• move Beyond uh facility Regional kitchen just<00:30:16.559> on<00:30:17.240> Oahu<00:30
• <00:30:21.440> across<00:30:21.760> the but then other facilities across the but then
• other facilities across the state<00:30:23.799> if<00:30:23.919> there<00:30:24.039>

Keywords: 910, house, all

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• It would say that there'd be no new construction of nuclear facilities on Prairie Island, and there would
• /c><00:01:43.360> on<00:01:43.600> Prairie<00:01:43.920> Island of nuclear facilities
• on Prairie Island of nuclear facilities on Prairie Island and<00:01:45.040> there<00:01:45.119
• importantly each nuclear facility importantly each nuclear facility creates<00:13:50.880> hundreds
• a nuclear power facility a nuclear power facility as<00:25:59.440> it<00:25:59.600> continues

Keywords: 1183, house

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• 168 item 4 lster 215 Patrol facility 168 item 4 lster 215 Patrol facility replacement<03:53:57.920
• <03:54:07.920> replacement Pinkham 109 Patrol facility replacement Pinkham 109 Patrol facility
• , is not a facility.
• So keep... this facility that we don't have to this facility that we don't have to incur<04:20:06.520
• they've been living with this facility they've been living with this facility for<04:25:59.119><

Keywords: 928, house, all

Summary: The committee held a public hearing and work session on House Bill 25/25A, the capital improvements budget. Representative David Mills introduced HB 25A, which makes appropriations for capital improvements for the biennium and extends certain lapses from prior appropriations, noting it is based on Governor Ayotte’s budget. The hearing then focused on requests to add or restore funding for several projects, including community college capital needs, Veterans Home ADA and safety upgrades, career and technical education renovations in Milford, and airport infrastructure funding. Shannon Reed of the Community College System of New Hampshire asked for an additional $2.6 million for IT infrastructure, critical maintenance, and energy management systems, citing failing boilers, roof work, cybersecurity needs, and a recent costly water damage incident at Lakes Region Community College. John Graham, representing the New Hampshire Veterans Home, requested $1.5 million for ADA compliance and safety improvements such as floor replacement and wider doors, saying the work would help the home before an upcoming VA inspection and protect federal funding. Lance Whitehead testified for Milford CTE, asking the committee to keep $9.9 million in the budget for a scaled-down renovation; members discussed the town’s failed vote, the need for local matching funds, and the possibility of another vote next year. Tim Thompson of Concord and Margaret Burns of NHMA urged restoration of airport matching funds, arguing that about $3.6 million in state money would leverage roughly $62 million to $65 million in federal FAA funds for safety and infrastructure projects. Trisha Lambert and Andrew Pomroy of the Bureau of Aeronautics and airport management association explained the airport program, the 12 federally funded airports, and how projects are selected through airport master plans and a capital improvement program. After public testimony, the committee closed the hearing on HB 25A. In the work session that followed, staff distributed supporting documents, including cost breakdowns and comparison sheets. The chair indicated the committee would work from the governor’s $143 million capital budget as a baseline and proposed reducing it by about $10 million, largely by removing the Milford CTE item because both towns had voted it down and would not have another vote for a year. The chair said the goal was to bring the overall budget to about $133 million and then repurpose the remaining funds through straw polls and further committee action.

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• EACH FACILITY TYPE WAS ALSO CAPPED AT THE AMOUNT THEY COULD RECEIVE EACH YEAR.
• WERE CAPPED AT $100,000 IN THE FACILITY FOR THE FISCAL YEAR.
• FIFTY NINE PARENT ORGANIZATIONS REPRESENTING THE 229 UNIQUE FACILITIES THROUGHOUT THE STATE.
• BUT THEY WERE CLOSE TO 100 MORE FACILITIES ACROSS THE STATE.
• AND OF THE 210 NONACCREDITED FACILITIES 23 REACH THE CAP OF 75,000.

Keywords: 999, senate, all

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• We have one of the largest fine art foundries and casting facilities here in the Southwest.
• It takes all those facilities to make most of the classes. So we communicate with each facility.
• I'm assuming that's how they are handled with all the nine different facilities? Yes.
• We're very lucky because TRIG and other facilities have donated supplies to us.
• so they stopped the students from going and doing clinicals at that facility.

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• We're working on a psychiatric residential treatment facility; we understand the need.
• I want to stress that DCT is maximizing who they can serve in their current facilities. their current
• facilities.
• An appropriate facility is not what is happening as there's not enough capacity.
• Can we bring some consistency to who would be sent to these kinds of facilities?

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• It's not just leaving the system; it's leaving the facility that you're in.
• It takes the VA three to five years to lease a new facility.
• In Connecticut, we're rebuilding our VA facility.
• the country and maybe build facilities in parts of Kansas that right now don't have any.
• I think that there needs to be a merge between good VA facilities and none.

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• out the double line, the $500,000 for the Chittenden Regional Correctional Facility.
• Correctional Facility was listed twice. Correctional Facility was listed twice.
• ,<00:10:13.560> and new Newport Correctional Facility, and new Newport Correctional Facility
• So, the numbers Correctional Facility.
• <01:18:25.560> or are within a state licensed facility or are within a state licensed facility

Keywords: 927, senate, all

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• The Roslifan facility is the world's largest LNG facility, producing approximately 20% of the world's
• facility in Louisiana is roughly the same.
• We need to be able to site and construct pipelines, compressor stations, processing facilities, LNG facilities
• In addition, our facilities operations provide a $5 to $7 billion annual net positive impact Facilities
• systems, and supporting facilities. unit, carbon dioxide removal systems, and supporting facilities.

Keywords: 1184, house, all

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• It touches all of our campuses and our dozen research and outreach facilities from Crookston to Grand
• the curve and ensure that our facilities the curve and ensure that our facilities remain<00:24:36.960
• <00:44:21.280> So<00:44:21.680> that with better facilities frankly.
• So that with better facilities frankly.
• > facilities<00:54:10.960> where Great 21st century facilities where students can come

Bills: HF4266

Keywords: higher education, state grants, financial aid, college affordability, Office of Higher Education, Minnesota State Grant, need analysis, expected family contribution, student aid, grant formula, living and miscellaneous expense allowance, dependent student, independent student, parental contribution, student contribution, surplus appropriation, biennium, summer 2026, 1183, house

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• And or you could even have an owner in a shared facility which is covered by 540B that has a roommate
• The example that I always use when talking about shared facilities is um grandma has an extra room in
• >> If I may, so as uh the shared facility >> If I may, so as uh the shared facility
• >> Um 540B defines what a shared facility >> Um 540B defines what a shared facility
• Because I am familiar with the shared facilities being a closer, shorter timeline.

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• Every person who died in this facility had a family.
• In facilities like California City in Kern County, the largest ICE detention facility in the state...
• detention facility.
• facilities.
• And it says nothing about shutting down these facilities.

Keywords: 988, house, all

Summary: The Assembly convened, first dealing with quorum and routine procedural matters before moving through a series of third-reading bills, many focused on immigration enforcement, worker protections, child care, and school or voting-site safety. Early measures included AB 2393, AB 1994, AB 1929, AB 1633, AB 1650, AB 1655, AB 1851, AB 1896, and AB 2230, with authors and supporters arguing these bills would provide accountability, protect immigrant communities, preserve access to benefits and services, and limit intimidation by immigration enforcement. Opponents repeatedly argued the bills were anti-law-enforcement, unconstitutional, or based on exaggerated or nonexistent threats. Several bills passed by recorded vote, including AB 2393 (41-15), AB 1994 (58-0), AB 1929 (41-17), AB 1650 (44-19), AB 1655 (50-14), AB 1851 (56-0), AB 1896 (41-19), and AB 2230 (42-15). AB 1633, a 54-vote bill imposing a tax on for-profit detention facilities, was debated at length but the roll was not completed in the excerpt and the item was moved on from temporarily. After a caucus break, the House returned and took up additional bills. AB 2379 would require child care providers to be informed of constitutional protections and receive multilingual training regarding immigration enforcement; it passed 59-10 on both the urgency and the measure. AB 2460 would direct the education department to update referral protocols so schools can better respond to students affected by immigration enforcement trauma and family deportation; it passed 52-8. AB 2495 would expand prohibitions on unfair immigration-related practices by employers, making immigration-related threats unlawful in workplace disputes; it passed 50-15. Throughout the day, debate was highly partisan and often heated, with repeated exchanges over whether the bills addressed real harms or were political messaging, but the Assembly ultimately advanced the measures that came to a vote.

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• , or even just printed and given to them at the facility.
• So we currently do that right now in Austin, and a facility like this would be a more robust facility
• So currently the most high-needs in our jail facility... ...the most high-needs in our jail facility,
• facility.
• And actually, who they delegate to by facility do that.

Bills: HB216

Keywords: HB216, Texas abortion law, abortion-inducing drug, medication abortion, mifepristone, misoprostol, telemedicine, in-person exam, physician presence, out-of-state physician, reproductive healthcare, abortion regulation, Health and Safety Code, Occupations Code, consultation services, remote prescribing, pro-life, pro-choice

Summary: The Committee on Public Health met with a quorum and heard public testimony on a long agenda, with members repeatedly reminded of a two-minute limit for witnesses. Several bills were voted out favorably, including HB 2588 on cottage food, HB 1639 on cancer incidence and female firefighters, HB 2581 on a reporting form for contracted services for pregnant women, and SB 922 on electronic disclosure of certain sensitive medical information. Those measures generally passed on party-line or near-unanimous votes, while HB 216 on itemized medical statements was left pending after the committee substitute was withdrawn. The committee also left pending HB 5141, HB 4638, HB 2035, HB 4813, HB 2264, HB 4014, and HB 3829 after hearing testimony and questions. The final item introduced in the excerpt was HB 4408 on health care market transparency and corporate consolidation, but the discussion was cut off before testimony or action was completed. A major theme of the hearing was mental health diversion and access to treatment. HB 5141, by Rep. Howard, would allow Travis County to use vacated Austin State Hospital property for a local mental health jail diversion center; law enforcement, the Travis County sheriff, county judge, and urban counties group all testified in support, describing the lack of alternatives for people in crisis and the burden on jails and emergency rooms. Members asked about eligible offenses, bed capacity, and whether the facility would serve only Travis County, and the bill was left pending. HB 2264, by Rep. Schoolcraft, would create a friends-and-family form for loved ones to provide information to providers during emergency mental health treatment; NAMI and hospital groups supported it, while one neutral witness and several members raised concerns about patient control, credibility of information, and liability protections. The bill was also left pending. The committee also heard multiple psychedelic-therapy and drug-policy bills. HB 4813 would speed Texas rescheduling of Schedule I substances if the FDA reclassifies them, with testimony focused on psilocybin and MDMA and their potential use for PTSD and depression; members questioned whether the bill was too broad and how state rescheduling works, and it was left pending. HB 4014 would direct HHSC to study psychedelic therapies, building on prior state research, and witnesses said Texas should prepare regulatory and clinical infrastructure before FDA approval; it too was left pending. HB 2035 would require parents to be informed that they may seek substance-use treatment for a child even if one facility turns them away, prompted by a constituent’s account of a fatal fentanyl overdose after receiving incorrect advice; it was left pending. HB 4638 would extend and expand the Texas Pharmaceutical Initiative board and timeline, with the author saying the program is still in early implementation and needs more time, and it was left pending as well. Other bills addressed public health administration and animal welfare. HB 3829 would require a study of the animal-friendly account and its grant process for spay/neuter funding, with the author arguing that the current application and reimbursement process is too burdensome for shelters and nonprofits; no opposition was heard and the bill was left pending. HB 2581 and HB 1639 were reported favorably, while HB 216 drew discussion about enforcement of itemized medical billing and was held after the committee substitute was withdrawn. Throughout the hearing, members also discussed broader concerns about homelessness, competency restoration waitlists, jail overcrowding, and the need for more treatment options outside the criminal justice system.

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• Cloud water treatment facility. I think I've stalled long enough, Mr. Chair.
• It is expected to arrive at the facility this fall.
• <00:26:09.840> that world which is a treatment facility that world which is a treatment facility
• It is expected to arrive at the facility this fall.
• <01:01:41.359> or uh whether it's uh a nuclear facility or uh whether it's uh a nuclear facility

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• assuming that turnkey uh that facility assuming that turnkey uh that facility applies<00:08:11.039
• these facilities. these facilities.
• that are ongoing other facilities.
• <02:01:12.239> in director of the Cassella facility in director of the Cassella facility in
• Three. 123 is going to get... existing facilities? And I keep hearing, existing facilities?

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

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• <00:08:43.520> So DAGS managed facilities. So DAGS managed facilities.
• reconstruction of that facility. reconstruction of that facility.
• a temporary facility.
• temporary facility.
• on on our facilities. on on our facilities. Okay. Okay. Okay.

Keywords: 912, senate, all

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• then locates there, the child care facility does not evict the offender from their home.
• The child care facility then locates there, the child care facility does not evict the offender from
• the child care facility is compromised. the child care facility is compromised.
• The amendment is about residences within 1,000 feet of the existing child care facility.
• The amendment is about residences within 1,000 feet of the existing child care facility.

Keywords: 916, all