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• Services in our rural areas and trying to look to do as much as possible to provide that coverage.
• The board's executive director is legally mandated to be a Texas license holder. which would be a Doctor
• Different objectives consistent with its mandate, and this upcoming IAM is no different.
• In Texas, we have over 160 companies writing homeowners coverage.

Bills: SB1, SB 1

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

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• as policy recommendations I would say it's always really important to have clear their statewide mandates
• have got to get better at this and then the balance between like I said at local control and state mandate
• Even though we were well prepared to go one-to-one, the coverage within our city was terrible.
• That was a mess, and it's still a mess in terms of coverage.

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• Any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the House proceedings for political or commercial purposes
• ANY USE OF THE CLOSED-CAPTIONED COVERAGE OF THE HOUSE PROCEEDINGS FOR POLITICAL OR COMMERCIAL PURPOSES
• I rise tonight to remind this body that the American people elected all of us with one clear mandate:
• I RISE TONIGHT TO REMIND THIS BODY THAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ELECTED ALL OF US WITH ONE CLEAR MANDATE,

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Tuesday, February 4, 2025, 1012, house, all

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• You've got to comply with these federal mandates.
• of you know, Amy Baker and the Office of Edr and every 3 years, Amy and her team do statutorily mandated
• We know how detrimental the effects of negative media coverage on our state can be.
• Hurricanes, Debbie Helene and Milton combined resulted in 176.9 million dollars in negative media coverage

Keywords: 999, senate, all

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• open space, the building coverage open space, the building coverage requirements<00:11:01.680>
• Means Committee reviews um zoning mandates.
• You guys review a lot of zoning mandates. That's surprising.
• :07.359> locally<00:47:07.680> and mandates and requirements locally and mandates and requirements
• I also want to flag the zoning mandate in section 2, lines 16 through 26.

Keywords: 928, house, all

Summary: The Ways and Means Committee held a public hearing on Senate Bill 291, which would update religious land-use and property tax exemption rules for church-owned parsonages, parish houses, and similar properties. Senator Tim Lang, speaking for the sponsor, said the bill was intended to address situations where former parsonages are no longer occupied by clergy and are instead used for church-related purposes such as housing staff, religious education, or congregate living tied to ministry, including addiction recovery. He emphasized that the bill was not meant to create commercial rental housing and that it also preserves reasonable zoning and environmental regulations. Committee members pressed the sponsor on how the bill would be applied, especially the meaning of “religious purposes,” the six-unit limit, the “same lot” language, and whether churches could use the exemption to rent units for revenue. The sponsor said the six-unit cap was added to prevent large-scale commercial rental use, that congregate housing would be limited and defined, and that the bill was meant to cover uses like substance abuse recovery, homes for unwed mothers, and religious education, but not apartments converted for ordinary rental. He also said churches would still file annual exemption paperwork and towns could challenge claims they believed were commercial. Questions also raised concerns about whether the bill treated religious and nonreligious housing trusts differently; the sponsor responded that the bill was aimed at church-owned property used in pursuit of a religious mission. Several witnesses testified in support. Representative Mark Pearson, an active clergyman, said the bill would not remove additional property from the tax rolls because clergy housing allowances typically lead clergy to buy taxable homes elsewhere, while the church-owned parsonage remains exempt. Nick Taylor of Housing Action New Hampshire supported the bill as a modest expansion that could help create more attainable housing by allowing better use of existing religious land and structures, though he noted his organization would support even broader use. The hearing ended without a vote or final action, and the chair closed questions after the testimony.

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• and counties that we completed for this study, we heard that there remain major gaps in sidewalk coverage
• the individuals and teams who are currently undertaking these programs and executing their program mandates
• And it can often have a lot to do with how that team sees their core mandate, for example.
• So how closely does a program, for example, align with the administering agency's core mandate and their
• media with all networks and we get covered a lot, and then we're small enough that we do get that coverage

Summary: The committee began with member introductions, then heard a presentation on a draft final report studying alternative funding mechanisms for sidewalks and related pedestrian infrastructure. Consultants said current local funding sources are insufficient, with most jurisdictions unable to complete planned sidewalk networks within 50 years. They evaluated four options: a sidewalk utility fee, a modified transportation benefit district sales tax, a new real estate excise tax option, and expanded stormwater fee use for ADA sidewalk ramps. The consultants recommended authorizing the modified TBD sales tax and new REET option, considering a sidewalk utility despite legal uncertainty, broadening any authorization to all pedestrian improvements, and not pursuing the stormwater fee option. Members asked about legal authority, fairness, revenue adequacy, and whether jurisdictions had been consulted; the presenters said state enabling legislation would likely be needed for a sidewalk utility and that fairness could be defined either by direct benefit or by need. The committee then received an update on the 2025 assessment of city transportation funding needs. The consultants reported that city transportation revenues have grown in some local and federal categories since 2019, but state revenues have remained relatively flat and smaller cities are especially affected by declining fuel tax revenues and limited tax bases. They estimated annual city transportation needs at $4.25 billion, average annual spending at $1.89 billion, and a funding gap of $2.37 billion, larger than in the prior study because of updated data, inclusion of system improvements, and higher preservation costs. Draft recommendations focused on reducing costs and improving efficiency, preserving and increasing state support, and expanding local funding options, including preservation-first spending, a permanent federal fund exchange program, streamlined review processes, better coordination with WSDOT, possible property tax flexibility, and exploration of new local tools. Members raised questions about design standards, the role of density and transit, federal compliance, and whether the report would identify specific consolidation or process changes. The committee also heard a project update on evaluating zero-emission vehicle and electrification programs funded by the Climate Commitment Act. Consultants said they had reviewed roughly 23 programs and projects across seven agencies and were now evaluating options to improve delivery, including process improvements, reorganizing programs, or consolidating governance and administrative functions. Early findings highlighted staffing shortages, duplication and variation across agencies, differing levels of risk, and the challenge of coordinating climate priorities across agencies with other core missions. Members asked about program outcomes, administrative costs, whether some programs should have exit strategies, and how to strengthen the EV Coordinating Council. Finally, WSDOT provided an implementation update on its new public-private partnership authority under SB 5801, saying work is underway to prepare governance, legal, policy, and organizational structures ahead of the January 1, 2027 effective date.

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• My A1 amendment does one additional thing, and it provides some data collection services, mandating that
• accessibility that they want, and the people living out there certainly should have that kind of coverage
• accessibility that they want, and the people living out there certainly should have that kind of coverage
• And I appreciate the kind of coverage.
• uh around the clock to ensure coverage uh around the clock to ensure coverage for<00:47:08.480><

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• roof, insurance costs through the roof, property tax through the roof, employers are drowning in mandates
• World Health Organization created what the sponsors describe as, and I quote, a void in world health coverage
• World Health Organization created what the sponsors describe as, and I quote, avoid in world health coverage

Keywords: 1146, all

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• part, attorneys are required to electronically file and pro se litigants are encouraged to but not mandated
• getting medication developing a provider network that is qualified and ensuring that the broadest coverage
• Coverage of 66% have transition to incident based reporting and are submitting data to 5 years criminal

Keywords: 999, senate, all

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• Any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the House proceedings for political or commercial purposes
• With the historic victory by President Donald Trump, receiving a mandate for re-election, he has been
• This mandate to print the annotated Constitution, which I'm sorry I didn't bring a physical copy.
• ANY USE OF THE CLOSED-CAPTIONED COVERAGE OF THE HOUSE PROCEEDINGS FOR POLITICAL OR COMMERCIAL PURPOSES
• This would require deep cuts to Medicaid, specifically, which helps provide coverage for over 40% of

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Monday, March 31, 2025, 1012, house, all

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• Both of these are both federally and state mandated.
• You wanted to talk about how there's mandates and all that stuff under it.
• I was discharged home, not because I had miraculously recovered, but because my coverage ran out.
• Soon after, I was sent to an inpatient facility, and again, Because my coverage ran out.
• Imagine what it's like for someone without that kind of coverage or no insurance at all.

Keywords: 995, all

Summary: The Joint Ways and Means Committee held its final public hearing on the FY26 state budget, with chairs and members emphasizing that public testimony would help shape the budget and asking speakers to keep remarks brief. Committee leaders introduced members, explained the hearing process, and repeatedly thanked residents, students, and advocates for participating. No votes were taken during the hearing. Testimony focused heavily on education funding and the Chapter 70 formula. Students from Amherst, Northampton, Gateway Regional, Chester Elementary, and other districts described budget-driven cuts to electives, special education supports, paraprofessionals, counselors, transportation, and building maintenance. They urged higher Chapter 70 aid, increased minimum aid, rural school aid, and a reopening or restructuring of the funding formula, arguing that current formulas leave many districts unable to meet student needs and force local layoffs and overrides. Other speakers urged funding or protection for a range of programs and facilities, including the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute for homicide survivor services, the Museum of African American History, the Massachusetts Commission for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing and CART/interpreter services, the Access to Counsel housing legal aid program, the Department of Mental Health and Pocasset Mental Health Center, and Pappas Rehabilitation Hospital for Children. One speaker opposed offshore wind-related spending and urged a reset of the state’s energy approach, while another advocated ending the aircraft sales tax exemption. Committee members responded sympathetically to many speakers, asked a few follow-up questions, and several expressed support for maintaining or expanding the programs discussed.

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• This change item request is raising fees collected by the board to cover statutorily mandated operating
• This change item request is raising fees collected by the board to cover statutorily mandated operating
• There's been a new federal regulation and new requirements the legislature adds health coverage mandates
• legislature adds uh health coverage legislature adds uh health coverage mandates<01:03:53.640>
• by the US EPA although um there mandated by the US EPA although um there are<01:07:50.000> new

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

Summary: The Senate Health and Human Services Committee met on January 28, 2025, to review Governor’s budget proposals for several health-related licensing boards. The chair said no formal action would be taken and noted that final budget language was not yet available. The committee began with an overview from Bridget Anderson of the health-related licensing boards, who explained that the boards are fee-funded, operate as independent executive agencies, and handle licensing, complaints, rulemaking, and disciplinary matters. She also noted that the Board of Dentistry’s budget includes the Administrative Services Unit and criminal background check program, which can make the budget graphs appear larger than the dentistry board’s own operations. The Board of Dentistry requested funding for a new administrative staff position, estimating about $100,000 in salary, insurance, and fringe costs, to replace support lost when an administrative position was reclassified. Anderson said the board handled more than 300 complaints last year, with cases becoming more complex, especially involving surgical and implant procedures and imaging. Members asked about dental Medicaid access, but Anderson said that issue would be better directed to DHS’s Medicaid oral health division. The Board of Behavioral Health and Therapy requested a full-time position due to rapid growth in the number of regulated professionals, from about 4,000 in 2014 to nearly 10,000 now, and also sought authority to set a fee for out-of-state applicants under the Counseling Compact, with a cap of up to $100 though the board expects to charge much less. The Board of Podiatric Medicine asked to raise its fee ceiling, saying fees had not been increased since 1999 and that the board now faces a structural deficit of about $40,000 per year and declining reserves. Several senators expressed concern about “not-to-exceed” fee authority, calling it too open-ended and suggesting the legislature should scrutinize specific fee needs rather than approve broad ceilings. Similar concerns were raised during the Board of Chiropractic Examiners presentation, where the board sought $100,000 in additional spending authority and a fee increase after 32 years without an adjustment; members questioned the proposed ceiling approach and asked for more historical information before deciding. The Board of Dietetics and Nutrition Practice also discussed fee-setting authority, with the executive director explaining that the board had previously lowered fees without clear authority and later faced audit questions; she requested funding for a vacant administrative position, saying applications and revenues have increased sharply and no fee increase would be needed. The final presentation began with the Board of Pharmacy, which said it serves more than 26,000 licensees and oversees the Prescription Monitoring Program and opioid product registration. The board requested an extension of previously appropriated general fund dollars through fiscal year 2027 to continue paying legal costs tied to the insulin safety net lawsuit, emphasizing that this was not a new funding request but an extension of existing authority. No votes or formal actions were taken during the meeting.

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• The Senate eliminates excess insurance coverage on line. 55, this insurance was mostly used for state
• So why are we mandating this and and requiring this fee to be paid for people who are doing these jobs
• Furthermore, I strongly recommend amending the bill to mandate targeted continuing education for home
• heard speak today are the associations who can who provide the continuing education and whether it's mandated
• And this bill simply says it is not government mandated.

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• These same families could afford state-mandated fees on desks. air conditioning, drinking fountains,
• You do a mandated report.
• I'd like to begin by expressing the severity of the 15-day drop mandate and why it needs prompt attention
• If the school does not send this mandated report to the counties, counties do not receive this information
• insurance providers have begun to raise premiums and deductibles, and in some cases have limited coverage

Bills: HF51, HF1161, HF2201, HF2786, HF1053

Keywords: HF51, Sibley County, State-Aid Highway 21, capital investment, bonding bill, general obligation bonds, transportation infrastructure, road improvements, sanitary sewer, water main, storm sewer, local infrastructure, county grant, Minnesota Department of Transportation, bond proceeds fund, public works, utility infrastructure, education finance, school district funding, tax base adjustment

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• The bill mandated annual payouts for unused compensatory leave, while the substitute bill requires employees
• utilize accrued compensatory leave because management is unable or unwilling to grant the leave due to coverage
• Will it be mandated?
• This doesn't mandate anything; it talks about best practices and zoning.
• The working group has been meeting regularly, and that's all rooted actually in a 2014 presidential mandate

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• Mandated annual payouts for unused compensatory leave, while the substitute bill requires employees to
• utilize accrued comp time as leave because management is unable or unwilling to grant the leave due to coverage
• question is, will this mean municipalities will have to cooperate with the State strategies, will it be mandated
• This doesn't mandate anything.
• The working group has been meeting regularly, and that's all rooted in a. the 2014 presidential mandate

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• SO THERE'S A NUMBER BECAUSE THE LAW TODAY MANDATING SOME FORM OF COMPLIANCE WITH 287 ONLY APPLIES TO
• LANGUAGE GIVE YOU ANY CONCERN ABOUT FAILURE FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT TO PARTICIPATE OR BE ASSERTIVE AS OUR MANDATE
• MORE PEOPLE AND I CAN SEE THE GOVERNOR IF THIS PASSES THIS IS SOMETHING HE SIGNS OFF ON THAT HE WILL MANDATE
• ARE THE LARGEST, WE ARE SOME OF THE SHERIFF'S MIGHT NOT GET ON BOARD QUICKLY BUT HE WILL PROBABLY MANDATE
• COUNTIES WANT FEWER PEOPLE IN PLACE ON THE STREETS SO UNLESS WE ARE GOING TO HAVE A COMPROMISE OF THAT COVERAGE

Keywords: 999, senate, all

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• Well, aren't they mandated to do a reserve study? It's not about the study.
• That's a mandate, isn't it? Yes. Okay, so this is beyond the reserve study. Thank you, Mr.
• House Bill 1112, Health Insurance Coverage Protection Commission Study on Individual and Group Health
• House Bill 1112, health insurance<01:18:50.080> coverage<01:18:50.520> protection<01:18
• :51.000> commission insurance coverage protection commission insurance coverage protection commission

Keywords: House streaming session for Wednesday, March 18, 2026, 957, house, all

Summary: The House convened with a quorum and then moved through messages from the Senate, introducing several Senate bills and referring them to committees. It then took up multiple third-reading calendars and considered a large number of bills across public health, criminal law, education, estates and trusts, social services, and state government. Most bills passed with broad margins, including measures on fiduciary attorney-client privilege, food labeling and prohibited ingredients, human trafficking awareness training, pharmacy prescriber-pharmacist agreements, provisional social work licensure, structural racism training funding sources, youth delinquency prevention funding, menstrual hygiene product labeling, school resource officer sexual activity prohibitions, nurse licensure enforcement, physician delegation changes, child support income definitions, AI-related child sexual abuse material, trauma-informed care resources, restrictive housing for people with developmental or intellectual disabilities, open movie captioning, autism and dementia police training, gift card fraud, scholarship eligibility, retention proceeds, graduate scholarship eligibility, intercepted communications penalties, benefits for children in custody, juvenile supervision petitions, institutional debt reporting, contraception access reporting, surgical smoke evacuation systems, tax foreclosure notice requirements, special police officer study, child advocacy center standards, victim notification at charging, human trafficking reporting, drug dispensing cost surveys, school board nominating commission changes, the Henrietta Lacks Commission, ID card photograph requirements, and several others. A few bills drew substantive floor discussion. House Bill 963 on appointment of personal representatives was supported as a way to help families and heirs access assets, including in cross-border situations. House Bill 877 on institutional debt reporting prompted debate over whether the bill was useful and whether it would burden colleges; supporters said it would create needed aggregate data and a data dictionary to better understand debt incurred directly from institutions. House Bill 1076 on over-the-counter contraception access and reporting was clarified as a reporting measure that harmonizes prior reporting requirements and does not use taxpayer funds to purchase contraception, though grants had supported vending machine installation. House Bill 288 on extending a state of emergency for schools was explained as applying to natural disasters, civil disasters, public health emergencies, or specific security threats, with one member expressing concern about state involvement and learning loss from prolonged closures. House Bill 746 on the Medicaid/health insurance collaborative care model was briefly delayed by a computer issue, then passed after a short pause. Several members announced vote changes after the roll calls, including corrections on House Bills 65, 771, 769, 900, 1058, 1076, 1490, 1540, and 1554. Final actions on the floor were overwhelmingly favorable to the bills considered, with only a handful of measures drawing notable negative votes, including House Bills 410, 963, 1042, 1058, 1076, 1152, 1540, and 1554. The House also passed a number of local and policy bills with strong bipartisan support, and no amendments or motions to postpone were recorded in the excerpt.

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• contractual agreements every six months between private bar advocates and CPCS, requiring minimum coverage
• It will mandate that DESE create regulation qualifications for school interpreters because no parent
• sensitivity any initiative that comes from Beacon Hill to impose something on every city and town as a mandate
• sensitivity any initiative that comes from Beacon Hill to impose something on every city and town as a mandate

Keywords: 995, all

Summary: The Senate first debated and advanced Senate Bill 2561, an act to promote student learning and mental health, centered on a statewide bell-to-bell restriction on student cell phone use in schools. Supporters argued the bill would reduce distraction, improve academic performance and mental health, and encourage social interaction, while preserving flexibility for districts and exceptions for emergencies, special education, health needs, and instructional uses. Several senators emphasized local control and the need for public input, and a number of amendments were considered: some were withdrawn, some were rejected, and others were adopted, including an amendment requiring consistent and necessary exceptions and another requiring public hearings and local public input. The bill was then ordered to a third reading and passed to be engrossed by a roll call vote of 38-2. The Senate also took up a conference committee report on a $259 million FY2025 supplemental appropriations bill. The report funded EMS costs, home care, the Healthy Incentives Program, DTA chip card technology, veterans benefits, the state police crime lab, the SSI state supplement, the Fair Housing Fund, and the National Guard, and included major indigent defense provisions: $40 million for 320 new CPCS staff attorneys, rate increases for private bar advocates, guardrails to reduce future work stoppages, and an independent review of the indigent defense system. Senators questioned the timing of the report, the inclusion of items not previously voted on by either branch, and the funding sources, including use of the transitional escrow fund and excess revenues. The report was accepted, the emergency preamble was adopted, and the supplemental budget was enacted. In addition, the Senate passed other measures, including a bill authorizing the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority to supply water to the Linfield Center Water District and a municipal roads and bridges financing bill, both by roll call vote. The chamber also enacted a health care protections bill, and it concurred in referrals on a governor’s municipal empowerment legislation. The session included a brief memorial tribute and adjournment in memory of Harry C. Christensen.

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• So there's no mandate. There's no government funds going out.
• And that's important to our people. >> Follow-up follow-up. >> How can you say there's no mandate and
• The solution is saying, okay, we're not going to have a convoluted state law that mandates mandatory
• Brittany is also here with us. >> You are right on the verge of losing your only a plus points to your coverage

Keywords: 999, senate, all