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• And, you know, Senator Sokola, when I was first elected, we were on Sunset together.
• should be on Sunset just to know how state government works.
• That's still very formative right now, and then it runs through the FERC review.
• FERC reviews that, issues their order.
• They're the ones who are reviewing that. Is it imminent?

Keywords: 1064, all

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• appellet or judicial It does not remove appellet or judicial It does not remove appellet or judicial review
• It does not review of rulings or cases. It does not review of rulings or cases.
• this bill you got what happened you got this bill you got what happened you got that re look back or review
• you I got that re look back or review you I got that re look back or review you I think you know what
• Which bail bonding sunset board, right? Which bail bonding sunset board, right?

Bills: HB265, HB146, SB254, HB202, HB3, HB42, SB18

Keywords: resisting arrest, penalties, criminal justice, law enforcement, public safety, youthful offender, capital murder, victims' rights, SB254, Alabama, statute of limitations, civil procedure, civil action, sex offense, sexual abuse, child sexual abuse, survivor rights, tolling, disability, minor plaintiff

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• Senate Bill 143 basically removes the sunset from the assessment tax to nursing homes.
• Senate Bill 143 basically removes the sunset from the assessment tax to nursing homes.
• So once we remove that sunset, then it'll be there from now. >> Motion for favor. >> Have a motion in
• <00:20:30.000> calls providers assessment sunset calls providers assessment sunset calls removed
• sunset on our our ambulance providers. sunset on our our ambulance providers.

Bills: SB146, SB143, SB144, SB145, HB224, SB152, SB153, SB154, SB162, SB226, SB146, SB143, SB144, SB145, HB224, SB152, SB153, SB154, SB162, SB226

Keywords: supplemental appropriation, FY2025 budget, general fund, Alabama State Board of Public Accountancy, Unified Judicial System, court automation, advanced technology and data exchange, judiciary funding, transportation debt service, highway bonds, bridge bonds, Alabama Department of Transportation, ALDOT, public highways, federal matching funds, state appropriations, bond principal and interest, special funds, budget amendment, SB143

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• For their plan review has been much slower than the Department of Health.
• I know that the Department of Labor sees over 200 well plan reviews a year, and this costs money.
• Right now, the way that this would imply that MDH would be the one doing plumbing plan reviews, I want
• There's a reason that we have those plan reviews happening.
• But to just simply sunset this without a plan is no plan at all. This is not going to work.

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• Thank you from review my and then say he him.
• The Open Government Sunset Review for specific cyber security information held by a state agency.
• Our review date out for another year to allow us to examine the section 2.82, DOT 3, 1, 8, public record
• This bill also moves the date for Open Government Sunset Review of one year for the chapter one 19 provision

Keywords: 999, senate, all

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• Agencies would be required to quickly review and resolve payments flagged for elevated risk of fraud
• Americans data in violation of to review Americans data in violation of the<07:54:51.280> minimal
• In any event, when section 702 of FISA sunsets on June 12th, if that's the will of the majority, the
• on June 12th, if that's the will sunsets on June 12th, if that's the will of<08:01:57.680> the
• So there's no reason we cannot sunsets.

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Wednesday, June 10, 2026, 1012, house, all

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• Now, the Medical Review Commission was established in 1976, and the old premise is to review the malpractice
• So now, the review commission has rendered essentially ineffective.
• So now attorneys can skip the panel review process and go straight to trial.
• Also, hospitals and their staffs have been excluded from the panel review.
• Drafted for review, but because we won't. We're done.

Summary: The committee first approved the minutes from its fourth meeting, held October 27-28 in Santa Fe, with Representative Duncan moving approval and no opposition. The chair then introduced a panel on the cost of providing medical care in New Mexico, focusing on physician shortages, rising practice costs, and access problems, especially in southern New Mexico and Las Cruces. Panelists included family physicians, a pediatrician, a cardiologist/electrophysiologist, and a community health center medical director, who described their backgrounds and practices before turning to the policy discussion. The doctors argued that New Mexico is losing physicians because of three main pressures: medical malpractice exposure, gross receipts tax on medical services, and low Medicaid reimbursement. They said malpractice premiums are much higher than in neighboring states, punitive damages and venue shopping increase risk, and the patient compensation fund and attorney fee structure create additional costs. They also described administrative burdens from insurance billing and referrals, the high debt and long training period for physicians, and the effect of corporate medicine and private equity on practice decisions. One panelist emphasized the economic impact of each physician on jobs and local spending, while another noted that shortages force patients into emergency rooms and delay specialty care. The panel presented a list of proposed solutions: reform punitive damages, limit venue shopping and stacking, restore lifetime medical payments from the patient compensation fund, enact apology protections, cap attorney fees, continue Medicaid funding improvements, and eliminate gross receipts tax on medical and dental services. Committee members generally agreed the presentation was thorough and useful, but several noted that some proposals fall outside this committee’s jurisdiction and would likely need to move through other committees, especially judiciary and tax. Some members supported drafting legislation or working on separate bills, while others urged caution, requested more input from hospitals and economists, and raised concerns about local government revenue impacts from GRT changes. The chair concluded by encouraging members to continue discussions offline and noted that the tax-related issue would be taken up further in the next day’s work.

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• We've been include them in our Support Our Troops Grant Review Team to help us make decisions in those
• include them in our Support Our<00:02:47.520> Troops<00:02:47.959> Grant<00:02:48.880> Review
• Team<00:02:49.880> to<00:02:50.000> help<00:02:50.200> us Our Troops Grant Review
• Team to help us Our Troops Grant Review Team to help us make<00:02:50.600> decisions<00:02:52.000
• We also eliminated the 8-year sunset for surviving spouses to receive the homestead market value exclusion

Keywords: 1183, house

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• Resolution by Representative Mack to urge and request the Department of Conservation and Energy to review
• Board of Medical Examiners to study the feasibility and advisability of establishing a physician review
• Representative Kerner, urging and requesting the Department of Justice to conduct a comprehensive review
• Representative Kerner, urging and requesting the Department of Justice to conduct a comprehensive review
• Basically, it is to extend the expiring sunset, clarify how members are nominated or elected, and to

Bills: HR286, HR287, HR288, HR289, HR290, HR291, HR292, HR293, HR294, HCR114, HR275, HR276, HR277, HR278, HR279, HR280, HR282, HR283, HR284, HR285, HCR112, HCR113, SCR62, SCR64, SB132, SB135, SB405, HR179, HR216, HR223, HR225, HR274, HCR89, SB39, SB99, SB111, SB112, SB124, SB134, SB174, SB189, SB190, SB201, SB233, SB236, SB258, SB270, SB273, SB288, SB307, SB313, SB320, SB321, SB325, SB326, SB331, SB339, SB341, SB345, SB346, SB347, SB353, SB357, SB359, SB387, SB393, SB401, SB415, SB419, SB422, SB426, SB435, SB437, SB440, SB451, SB464, SB470, SB487, SB488, SB495, SB504, SB505, SB518, SB523, SB228, SB408, HR168, HR174, HR194, HCR54, HCR74, HCR79, HCR87, HCR94, HCR95, HCR97, HCR98, HCR102, HCR104, SCR23, SCR38, HCR26, HB250, HB265, HB339, HB427, HB445, HB463, HB468, HB606, HB639, HB649, HB665, HB746, HB781, HB853, HB861, HB872, HB886, HB916, HB937, HB1054, HB1068, HB1117, HB1237, HB75, HB705, SB34, SB164, SB172, SB198, SB208, SB232, SB281, SB286, SB317, SB322, SB334, SB380, SB385, SB409, SB417, SB421, SB430, SB439, SB447, SB458, SB510, SB54, SB56, SB72, SB79, SB97, SB105, SB123, SB125, SB129, SB163, SB171, SB252, SB287, SB375, SB386, SB461, SB466, HR84, SCR3, HB582, HB625, HB646, HB998, HB1191, HB1255, SB81, SB100, SB109, SB197, SB374, SB479, SB78, HB901, HR20, HR74, HCR65, HCR71, HB284, HB302, HB306, HB341, HB366, HB393, HB458, HB577, HB603, HB605, HB614, HB733, HB752, HB773, HB798, HB911, HB955, HB996, HB1035, HB1069, HB1113, HB1140, HB1180, HB1240, SB82, SB89, HB134, HB258, HB359, HB782, SB149, SB382, SB441

Keywords: HR286, House Resolution 286, LED, Louisiana Economic Development, rural development, energy efficiency, renewable energy, public-private partnership, tax credits, economic development, workforce training, school energy costs, community colleges, technical colleges, local government, building modernization, on-site energy generation, public facilities, rural parishes, distressed communities

Summary: The House met with a quorum, received a guest minister for prayer, approved the journal, and heard several announcements and recognitions, including NEC Awareness Day, a European Union delegation visit, and the Glenmore Wildcats baseball team’s state championship. Members also received Senate messages, including concurrence on some House measures, the filing of Senate bills, and several Senate resolutions and bills laid over for later consideration. The chamber then took up a long series of resolutions and bills. Among the resolutions adopted were measures on a Louisiana-United Kingdom Trade Commission, support for migratory waterfowl studies, hunting education in schools, SNAP delivery-fee studies, fraud prevention for seniors, subsurface data preservation, boating safety reporting, and visual acuity screening data. Some items were temporarily returned to the calendar, including a sales-tax uniform-base rule resolution and several Senate measures. The House also adopted a resolution creating an agricultural national security task force and another supporting a letter to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. On legislation, the House passed bills on missing-person alerts for people with disabilities (“Brian’s Call”), first responder status for public works employees, planning commission procedures, historic preservation district rules, judges’ supplemental compensation, the Baker Economic Development District, New Orleans downtown development district tax authority, a local crime prevention district, clerks of court records, hotel occupancy taxes in Shreveport-Bossier, firefighter cancer screenings, Shreveport police civil service rules, local ethics entity funding, hemp/alcohol age restrictions, OMV digital signatures, LED recreation, TOPS Tech eligibility for veterans, anatomical gift recordkeeping, crypto kiosk fraud protections, firefighting foam definitions, and consumer data privacy. Several bills failed, including HB 705 on legislative contempt penalties and HB 75 on gaming promotional play. One bill on vehicle insurance reinstatement fees was amended and passed, and a bill on judicial compensation fund adjustments was amended and passed after questions about CPI indexing.

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• of crossbow hunting and fishing sunset of crossbow hunting and fishing uh uh uh to<00:59:33.200>
• I see, again, we put out the sunset on the crossbow hunting.
• I see, again, we put out the sunset on the crossbow hunting.
• I see, again, we put out the sunset on the crossbow hunting.
• Senate File 2781, certain environmental review reporting requirements modifications.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• H E D, to all of our different committees, to really have L A C convene a broad working group to review
• It asks us to review all of the existing plans that exist and the fiscal Staffing and statutory considerations
• that work would include, for example, it states earlier that we would be requested to a statutory review
• Maryland, for example, did theirs through an actual commission that has about a 15-year sunset date.

Keywords: 996, all

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• They would get frustrated that the, well, the fiscal note, anybody that's been on fiscal review, anybody
• Like, I know when we get information from fiscal review, I know DOR works through those... information
• from fiscal review.
• And I said on fiscal reviews, so I see those notes quite often, and we get a lot of unknowns.
• So that would be the only bill they ever draft, which a revision bill is the, you know, that sunsetted

Keywords: 959, house, all

Summary: The Budget Committee met in executive session and considered Senate Bill 1470, as amended by a House Committee Substitute. The bill would update the Joint Committee on Legislative Research and oversight provisions, including reducing the committee from 20 members to 12, adding legislative leadership and minority leader appointments, allowing electronic delivery of reports, changing references to public colleges and universities, and creating post-implementation fiscal notes to compare projected and actual fiscal impacts after enactment. Supporters said the changes would modernize the process, improve engagement, and help lawmakers better evaluate fiscal estimates over time. A major point of discussion was a new provision allowing oversight staff to access certain Department of Revenue tax-return information for fiscal note work, subject to confidentiality requirements and criminal penalties for unauthorized disclosure. Several members raised privacy concerns and asked how the information would be used and protected; the sponsor said committee members themselves would not see the data, only authorized staff, and that the intent was to allow independent verification of tax-related fiscal estimates. Members also discussed striking language barring committee employees from opposing or urging legislation, with the sponsor explaining that LR no longer drafts general legislation and now mainly handles revision bills, so the language was outdated. The committee adopted the House Committee Substitute and then voted the substitute do pass. The final roll call passed the bill 25-1, and the committee adjourned.

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• Or they're going to sunset it, slots become available.
• So when you're looking at reviewing this, if ABC is ours, are we going to look a little bit at changing
• So the adequacy review is being conducted. The adequacy review is being conducted.
• And then there's the maintenance of the ongoing duty to study, review, and adjust public school needs
• In 2011, the General Assembly added the requirement that the adequacy study include the review of new

Summary: The meeting began with approval of the prior minutes and then shifted to an update from Department of Education Secretary Jacob Oliva and Deputy Commissioner Stacey Smith on early childhood education, especially the state-funded Arkansas Better Chance (ABC) program. They said Arkansas had received a federal Preschool Development Grant and described ABC as a large state program with about 23,800 funded slots and roughly $114 million in annual appropriations. Department officials said they are reviewing slot allocations because about 1,000 seats are funded but unfilled, while more than 2,000 families are on waiting lists, and they plan to reduce or reallocate slots from providers that have not filled them over several years. They also said they are examining whether income thresholds, curriculum expectations, daily rates, and summer programming should be updated, and members raised concerns about access, local control, transportation, and whether the program should better align with K-12 choice and school readiness goals. The committee agreed to form an early childhood subcommittee and asked the Bureau of Legislative Research to help gather historical data and other information for future discussion. The committee then received a legal presentation from BLR attorney Taylor Lloyd on the constitutional and statutory framework for education adequacy in Arkansas. She reviewed the Dupree and Lake View cases, explaining that the state must maintain a general, suitable, and efficient system of free public schools, and that adequacy and equity are distinct but related concepts. She emphasized that the General Assembly is responsible for defining adequacy, studying whether the system meets that standard, and reacting to the evidence, while the courts ultimately decide constitutional compliance. Lloyd also explained the current adequacy definition, the role of the matrix as a funding tool rather than a spending mandate, and the distinction between unrestricted foundation funding and restricted categorical funding. BLR’s Elizabeth Bynum followed with a historical overview of how Arkansas responded to the court cases and developed the current adequacy process. She traced major legislative actions from the 1980s through the Lake View litigation, including the creation of funding formulas, categorical aid, isolated funding, declining enrollment funding, and the 2003-2004 adequacy study that led to the Continuing Adequacy Evaluation Act and the matrix used to set foundation funding. She also described later changes to the adequacy statute, the financial reporting requirements for districts, and the ongoing use of surveys, stakeholder testimony, and consultant studies in the biennial adequacy process. Members asked questions about whether private or homeschool programs could use public funds for expenses like utilities, whether stakeholders should include those groups, the difference between average daily membership and attendance, and whether school board members are surveyed; staff said those issues would need further research or were outside the scope of the presenters’ role.

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• If you've submitted written testimony, the committee has reviewed the testimony.
• agenda moving, that you not read verbatim your written testimony because we've already seen it and reviewed
• And just let you know again, we've reviewed your testimony.
• <00:01:10.280> the testimony the committee has reviewed the testimony the committee has reviewed
• it uh we have a number of bills reviewed it uh we have a number of bills and<00:01:37.920> we

Keywords: 912, senate, all

Summary: The committee opened by outlining hearing procedures, including a two-minute limit for live testimony, a request not to repeat written testimony, and a reminder about decorum. The first bill heard was SB 697, which would create a nonrefundable individual income tax credit for expenses to retrofit residences with wind-resistive devices. The Insurance Division said it supported the concept but noted it may need an appropriation or outside expertise to develop certification standards, while the Department of Taxation said the bill should retain a third-party certification requirement if the Insurance Division cannot administer the credit. The Hawaii Insurers Council supported the bill, and the Tax Foundation suggested a subsidy-style program would be more efficient than a tax credit and criticized the bill’s 100% credit structure. A testifier in support argued the measure would help homeowners fortify houses against hurricanes and reduce shelter demand; written testimony from several others, including HIEMA, was noted as supportive. The committee then moved through SB 76, which would require the Hawaii Property Insurance Association to provide commercial property coverage after two private-market denials, and SB 83, which would require insurers to give advance written premium-change notices and explanations to common-interest community policyholders and the insurance commissioner, along with a report on premium increases. For SB 76, the State Insurance Division stood on its written comments, and testimony in support came from Michael Honda, the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies, and Jessica Herzog. SB 83 drew more extensive discussion: the Insurance Division supported the need for better transparency, while the Hawaii Insurers Council opposed the bill, arguing that agents—not insurers—typically communicate with AOAO boards and that the measure could worsen an already difficult market. Insurance Division staff acknowledged widespread complaints from condo associations about lack of transparency and said the division had received many calls about premium increases and nonrenewals. The discussion on SB 83 expanded into broader concerns about condo insurance, nonrenewals, surplus lines, and the difficulty of getting timely explanations for large premium increases. Committee members and testifiers described older buildings struggling to fund repairs and upgrades while facing steep insurance costs, and some urged the committee to craft baseline statutory protections for unit owners. The Insurance Division said surplus lines serve a critical gap-filling role and warned against regulating that market in a way that could slow access to coverage. No votes or final committee actions were taken in the portion of the meeting provided.

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• “Uh, secondly, there is a good, a beautiful little sunset here on page 15.
• Uh, secondly, there is a good, a beautiful little sunset here on page 15.
• Management Council is urged to review Management Council is urged to review the<04:25:39.120>
• Wyoming to review and evaluate.
• Did the committee review the accuser's interview with the media as well?

Keywords: 916, all

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• the collection of school impact fees, and it requires SFA to report to the legislature before the sunset
• The proposed CD1 would be effective upon approval and sunset in 5 years, and the footer of that CD1,
• The CD1 proposed CD1 would sunset date.
• <00:04:49.440> in be effective upon approval and sunset in be effective upon approval and
• sunset in 5<00:04:50.759> years<00:04:51.759> and<00:04:52.000> the<00:04:52.639

Keywords: 912, senate, all

Summary: The joint House and Senate conference committee met on April 25 to consider several bills, mostly related to housing, transportation, school impact fees, and housing finance programs. HB 1294 HD2 SD1, relating to agricultural workforce housing, was deferred because final release was not yet available. HB 286 HD2 SD1, relating to the individual housing account program, was agreed to but also rolled over to a later 3:30 p.m. meeting pending final release. The committee then took up HB 1298 HD3 SD1, relating to housing, and HB 422 HD1 SD2, relating to school impact fees. HB 1298 was agreed to but postponed to later in the day pending final release. HB 422 was described as repealing the construction cost component of school impact fees, exempting government housing, affordable housing, and Hawaiian homeland housing from those fees, and requiring School Facilities Authority rules and a report to the legislature; the committee approved a CD1 with mostly technical amendments by unanimous vote, with one Senate member excused. Later, the committee reviewed additional measures including SB 662 on transportation, HB 1409 on transit-oriented development, SB 26 on affordable housing, HB 740 on housing, HB 432 on the rental housing revolving fund, SB 1229 on the dwelling unit revolving fund, and SB 944 on the low-income housing tax credit. Most of these bills had agreement on a CD1 or draft agreement but were deferred or rolled over to 3:30 p.m. in Room 16 because WAM, final, or web releases were still pending; HB 740 had no agreement yet, while HB 432 was said to need revisions. The meeting adjourned after scheduling the remaining items for later consideration.

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• It's current law, but it's up for a sunset provision.
• The chair replied that if they sunset, they have nothing.
• there we're going to see some um sunsets there we're going to see some um sunsets and<00:50:22.960
• , they're they're going to if they sunset, they're they're going to if they sunset, they<00:50:51.119
• <00:53:11.200> all time where um we weren't sunsetting all time where um we weren't sunsetting

Bills: HB187, HB341, HB4, HB175, HB326

Keywords: HB187, court fees, docket fee, sheriff's fund, sheriff's office, jail operations, law enforcement, county sheriff, court filing fees, Alabama Code 12-19-312, solicitor's fund, clerk's fund, forensic services trust fund, budget flexibility, public safety, municipal court, district court, circuit court, cosmetology, makeup application

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• HB 2916, utility resource prime commission review. HB 2917, tariff industry fingerprint clearance.
• some concerns about what the continued assessment for those fees will be used for, why there's not a sunset
• As you may know, as Senator Ortiz mentioned, it will sunset.
• And I'm happy to work on an amendment in the House if that is an issue, because I'm, ...sunset, and I'm

Keywords: 1182, all

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• also has the obligation of the Technology Crimes Advisory Board, and that advisory board is being sunset
• position is going to be opening up some hours on the plate in terms of their workload with the sunsetting
• But it will be the special counsel that... ...sunsetting of the crime advisory committee, but it will
• We were reviewing for a final exam when we heard the strange, loud bang.

Bills: SB156

Keywords: gun violence, firearm safety, special counsel, data collection, community initiatives, grants, Attorney General, public safety, suicide prevention, 909, all

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• . >> [Clears throat] >> And it will be reviewed by Senate Council. >> Thank you, Madam Chair.
• pass it to Council. >> Yes, Chair Rest. >> The A11 amendment. >> [Clears throat] >> And it will be reviewed
• We provided homeless aid, which we're getting rid of the sunset in this bill, which helps ensure that
• this<00:52:29.440> bill,<00:52:29.960> which<00:52:30.320> helps the sunset
• in this bill, which helps the sunset in this bill, which helps ensure<00:52:31.080> that<00:52

Keywords: 1187, senate, all