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• For the record, my name is Anne Schwaggel, and I am a farmer in Big Stone County.
• I also raise from out in Wright County.
• Um, the Austin and Owatonna city councils and the Mower County and Steele County boards have all passed
• well as the Moore and Steel County well as the Moore and Steel County boards<01:03:38.160> are
• 18.719> represent<01:15:19.120> Fueling Dallas Fischer and I represent Fueling Dallas Fischer

Bills: HF1669, HF4709, HF3531, HF4048

Keywords: tax credits, sustainable aviation fuel, environmental policy, corporate franchise, Minnesota taxation, electricity generation, property tax exemption, renewable energy, incentives, economic development, fuel delivery, tax exemption, retail transactions, diesel exhaust fluid, fuel lubricants, healthcare tax, gross receipts tax, hospitals, chiropractors, healthcare providers

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• Eventually, they divulged that a felon was stopped in Dallas County on a traffic violation and had been
• I am a resident anesthesiologist in Dallas, Texas.
• The institute serves two basic functions for Harris County.
• The Harris Center, where I am, serves 58 of these counties.
• And so they're critical up in Tarrant County as well.

Bills: HB46, HB35, HB4490, HB4454, HB2188, HB3078, HB4743, HB2556, HB46, HB5342, HB4783, HB3785, HB5278, HB1639, HB2581, HB4224, HB4070, HB4099, HB4882, HB3794

Keywords: local government spending cap, expenditure limit, political subdivision, property tax, ad valorem tax, budget cap, taxpayer protection, spending restraint, inflation adjustment, population growth, voter approval, supermajority vote, county budget, municipal budget, school district finance, junior college district, hospital district, special district, attorney general enforcement, local fiscal limits

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• In populous counties, this bill is used to promote agricultural support for youth and provide educational
• HB number forty-four by McLaughlin addresses the jurisdiction and operation of the County Court and Law
• of Attascosa County, referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Civil Jurisprudence.
• HB number seventy-three by Bella Montgomery relates to municipal and county financial requirements for
• No. 169 by Gonzalez of Dallas relating to the regulation of the cultivation, processing, packaging, labeling

Keywords: 997, house, all

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• That is Harris County, Austin, and Dallas. But here's the other thing.
• And County, Austin, and Dallas. But here's the other thing. And normally I don't get that upset.
• County, and that's several counties away from Hardin County.
• In Liberty County and pick up and take that load to Montgomery County and then Montgomery County and
• county to county and all that.

Summary: The committee heard testimony on several public safety, criminal justice, and regulatory bills. HB 4995 would create a training and certification program allowing licensed physicians and certain EMS personnel assigned to tactical units to carry firearms during high-risk deployments, with supporters saying it would let tactical medical staff protect themselves while providing immediate care; the bill was left pending. HB 2609 would repeal the failure-to-appear-or-pay/OmniBase license-hold program, with the author and advocates arguing it creates compounding debt and unnecessary barriers to driving, while judges and municipal court representatives said the program is a voluntary, cost-effective tool that improves court appearances and reduces warrants; the bill was also left pending. HB 4879 would create a grant program to help local law enforcement pay for lab testing of suspected hemp/Delta-9 THC substances, and HB 5436 would let licensed auto recyclers buy certain untitled vehicles for scrap or parts to curb illegal sales, VIN cloning, and chop shops; both measures were left pending after brief testimony in support. The committee also heard HB 1777, which would require a discrete designation on driver’s licenses and state IDs for people required to register as sex offenders. The author and supporters argued the marker would help law enforcement and businesses quickly identify potentially dangerous offenders and prevent harm, while opponents called it a stigmatizing “scarlet letter” that would increase harassment, family harm, and reintegration barriers. The bill was left pending. HB 4155 would create a two-year Family Violence Criminal Homicide Prevention Task Force in the Governor’s Office to study family violence homicides, gather stakeholders, and recommend policy changes; the author, HHSC, the Texas Council on Family Violence, and a survivor testified in support, and the bill was left pending. The committee also heard HB 4514, which would authorize DPS to use facial image verification, with consent and privacy safeguards, to help businesses confirm identities and combat fraud; supporters from the lumber and identity-verification industries said it would reduce theft and fraud, and the bill was left pending. Finally, HB 5139 would clarify that peace officers and jailers are justified in using less lethal force weapons when acting within training and official duties; law enforcement groups supported the measure as a way to encourage use of less lethal tools without fear of prosecution, and testimony was underway when the transcript ended.

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• health court proceedings results in their being more hesitant to participate in the process in some counties
• And if some of these hospitals are using, like Dallas may be using Coffman County to somebody. from Coffman
• County having to drive into Dallas and file those with the clerk, it makes no sense. hold those records
• Eventually, the head of hematology at Dallas Children's Medical Center came to Tanya and said, find your
• Texas, including Travis County.

Bills: SB 53, SB53, SB125, SB315, SB379, SB457, SB541, SB599, SB896, SB921, SB963, SB1038, SB1084, SB1330, SB1461

Keywords: voter registration, election procedures, provisional ballot, change of address, residence requirements, mental health, court proceedings, notice requirements, legal filings, electronic documents, autologous blood donation, direct blood donation, blood bank, hospital, Health and Safety Code, physician order, preoperative blood donation, patient blood reserve, transfusion, surgery

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• One of the prominent cities in Hardin County is my hometown of Sillsby.
• , and Sour Lake promoting the development and prosperity of Hartin County, the county.
• Thank y'all for what y'all do there in Lee County. I move adoption.
• Among the fastest-growing counties in the nation, Cobblin County is home to 185 5,000 residents, encompassing
• We have a group from Belton ISD and Bell County.

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• One of the prominent cities in Hardin County is my hometown of Silsby.
• Members, I'd like to welcome the Lee County residents to the Texas House as we celebrate Lee County Day
• Among the fastest growing counties in the nation, Kaufman County is home to 185,000 residents encompassing
• Kaufman County, welcome. Thank you so much and move adoption.
• We have a group from Belton ISD in Bell County.

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• One of the prominent cities in Hardin County is my hometown of Sillsby.
• , and Sour Lake promoting the development and prosperity of Hartin County, the county.
• House as we celebrate Lee County Day at our state capitol.
• Among the fastest-growing counties in the nation, Cobblin County is home to 185 5,000 residents, encompassing
• We have a group from Belton ISD and Bell County.

Keywords: 1184, house, all

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• We've got so many exceptional ones across all 254 counties.
• The Dallas Cowboys hadn't won the Super Bowl since 1979, so Dallas was writing about the Carter High
• The Dallas Cowboys hadn't won the Super Bowl since 1979, so Dallas was writing about the state championship
• So Dallas was writing about the Carter High School Cowboys.
• is one of the fastest-growing counties in the state.

Summary: The Senate Committee on Education K-16 convened with a quorum, adopted its committee rules, and heard opening remarks from members introducing staff and outlining priorities for the session. Members from both parties emphasized education as a major issue, while several Republicans framed the committee’s work around school choice and parent empowerment. Senator West and other Democrats stressed protecting public schools, listening to Texans, and considering the effects of vouchers or education savings accounts on school districts and communities. Chairman Creighton laid out Senate Bill 2, the Texas Education Freedom Act, describing it as a universal education savings account program modeled on similar programs in other states. He said the bill would provide about $200 million for a universal eligibility pool and additional funding for students with disabilities and lower-income families, with priority weighting for former public school students. He also highlighted anti-fraud measures, vendor pre-approval, criminal background checks, cybersecurity protections, annual testing requirements for participating students, and the use of the Comptroller rather than TEA to administer the program. Creighton repeatedly said the bill is not a voucher and argued it would not take money from public schools, which he said would receive separate historic funding increases. Members questioned Creighton about the 500% of federal poverty line definition, the adequacy of the $10,000 ESA amount, whether the program would favor students already in private school, how microschools and homeschool pods would fit, and whether the bill protects religious liberty and private-school autonomy. Democrats raised concerns about disability protections, 504 students, foster children, public-school funding, open records, and the historical context of vouchers. Republicans generally supported the bill as a way to expand options for parents and students, while also asking about administration, fraud prevention, and data security. After member questions, the committee began invited testimony, with EdChoice President Robert Inlow presenting in support of SB 2 and citing the growth and reported success of school choice programs nationwide.

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• Um two county reps, and three city reps.
• My name is Dallas Fischer.
• ><00:45:44.319> the<00:45:45.200> Fueling have Dallas Fiser from the Fueling have Dallas
• My name is Dallas Fischer. I today. My name is Dallas Fischer.
• When someone drives the county road.

Bills: HF3131, HF3436, HF3106, HF3241, HF3531

Keywords: cancer, disability, parking certificates, transportation, state law, school bus, schoolchildren, student safety, traffic safety, stop arm, flashing red lights, amber lights, passing a school bus, 20 feet, vehicle stopping distance, driver duties, school transportation, Minnesota traffic law, school bus law, bus stop signal

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• this changes inspired by a successful dropout recovery program currently being utilized in Exeter County
• intended to encourage more school districts to adopt flexible learning programs like the one in Ector County
• We touched 12 different school districts throughout Harris County.
• Dallas. Chair calls Dallas Kennedy. Dallas Kennedy.
• one of the counties or colonies. If you lived in New York and you were a Baptist, guess what?

Bills: HB4, HB54, SB 10, SB 24, HB4, HB54, HB775, HB850, HB 1122, HB 1249, HB1405, HB2336, HB2757, HB3372, HB3622, HB4442, HB4687, HB4893, HB5089, HB5515, HB5606, SB10, SB24, HB1573, HB3369

Keywords: district composition, congressional election, Texas, legislature, voting districts, citizenship, U.S. citizen, non-citizen, public office, advisory board, task force, state government, local government, political subdivision, commission board, appointment eligibility, officeholder qualifications, public service, naturalization, Texas Government Code

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• He worked with the Dallas County District Attorney's Office on the creation of legislation on the collection
• Senator Hoffman, he worked with the Dallas County District Attorney's Office to pass legislation on a
• Now, members, he's joined on the floor by his wife, Sheila Carter Bass, who is a retired Dallas County
• You have frontier states, counties.
• in-person vote results, and reduces the cost for counties.

Summary: The Senate opened with an invocation and then took up several recognitions and memorial resolutions, including honoring retiring Senate staffer Kelvin Bass and Secretary of the Senate Patsy Spaw and her staff. Members also adopted a series of local and honorary resolutions, including designating Rockport as the Redfish Capital of Texas, San Antonio as Military City, Texas, and Bridge City as the Corn Dog Capital of Texas, along with memorial and medal-of-honor resolutions for Texans and service members. The chamber also received messages from the House reporting passage of various measures and conference committee actions. The bulk of the meeting focused on conference committee reports and related procedural resolutions. The Senate adopted reports and/or out-of-bounds resolutions on SB 293, SB 1610, HB 46, HB 145, HB 1545, SB 650, SB 1660, HB 40, SB 2217, HB 119, HB 493, HB 3642, HB 2963, SB 2024, SB 2972, HB 2516, HB 2885, and SB 2753, among others. Topics included the Texas Civil Commitment Office, the T-Cup prescription program, wildfire mitigation and utility liability, sunset scheduling, alcohol ID swiping at retail and package stores, business court jurisdiction, election administration and data consistency, foreign adversary lobbying, poll watcher qualifications, road naming, right-to-repair, disguised vape pens, and campus expressive activity rules. Several measures passed with near-unanimous votes, while others drew more opposition, including SB 268 on medical board enforcement and SB 2753 on election procedures. There was extended debate on SB 268, which would shift enforcement authority for scope-of-practice complaints to specialty boards rather than the Texas Medical Board. Senators raised concerns about whether the bill would weaken the Medical Board’s ability to stop unlicensed practice of medicine, while supporters argued that specialty boards should police their own licensees and that criminal referrals remain available for unlicensed practice. The Senate also discussed SB 2972 on expressive activities at public universities, with questions about content-neutral restrictions, who counts as the university community, and whether the bill provides a mechanism to challenge campus time, place, and manner rules. Both bills ultimately passed their conference reports, and the Senate later adopted a large package of resolutions by voice vote before adjourning further business.

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• We need to have more court monitoring services that we do here in Travis County. and in other counties
• County.
• Overdose-related... municipalities in Dallas County have increased by a staggering 81% between 2019.
• medics in the Hays County area.
• go through three counties.

Bills: HB 3772, HB 1656, HB 4504, HB 1896, HB 4420, HB 4421, HB 4076, HB 3708, HB 2806, HB 3540, HB 1586, HB 5459, HB 4553, HB 4535, HB 3811, HB 3749, HB 4255, HB 4051, HB 5098, HB 3554, HB 4539, HB 5274

Keywords: e-cigarettes, health and safety, regulations, directory, penalties, regulation, certification, compliance, manufacturers, FDA, nicotine, mental health, emergency detention, paramedic authority, mental illness, healthcare facility, public health, covenants not to compete, health care practitioners, physicians

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• You're not going to deliver babies in every rural county in Texas, but every rural county in Texas has
• I'm the county judge in Tarrant County. I am opposed.
• I'm the county judge in Tara County. I am opposed.
• Tara County.
• And that's why it's going to add more money to Taylor County.

Bills: HB18, HB37, HB 116, HB388, HB879, HB913, HB 1151, HB2216, HB2358, HB2809, SB577, SB1590, SB1782, SB1887, SB2744

Keywords: rural health, hospital funding, healthcare access, mental health services, financial stability, perinatal bereavement, healthcare, hospital training, bereavement support, maternal care, fetal demise, stillbirth, neonatal death, parent-child relationship, involuntary termination, family law, child welfare, child protection, HB 388, HB388

Summary: The Senate Committee on Health and Human Services met with a quorum and took up several House and Senate bills, with public testimony limited to two minutes per witness. The committee first heard HB 2358, a cleanup bill requested by HHSC that would repeal outdated training and conference requirements for long-term care facility surveyors and certain providers; there were no witnesses, and the bill was left pending. The committee then heard HB 18, the rural hospital stabilization bill, which would create financial assessment tools, a rural hospital finance office at HHSC, an academy for rural hospital officers, multiple grant programs, enhanced Medicaid reimbursement tied to average cost, OB/GYN add-on payments, expanded pediatric telehealth connectivity, and a rural pediatric mental health program. Senator Perry and witnesses from TORCH, a rural hospital, AARP Texas, and ARCHI strongly supported the bill as a way to stabilize rural hospitals, improve OB access, and address workforce and financial pressures. Committee members discussed rural hospital closures, low-volume quality metrics, system affiliation, and the need for predictable monthly reimbursement; the bill was left pending after testimony and questions. The committee next heard HB 37, which would create a perinatal bereavement care initiative for families experiencing stillbirth, neonatal death, or intrauterine fetal demise, including counseling, staff training, and access to cooling devices, with possible grants and a recognition program for hospitals. Senator Huffman explained the bill, and several witnesses testified in support, sharing personal stories about infant loss and the importance of time with the baby, trained staff, and cuddle cots or similar devices. A neonatologist also supported the bill while suggesting clarification that hospitals should not be penalized if state funding is unavailable and recommending use of regional advisory councils to help implement training. Public testimony was then closed and the bill left pending. The committee also heard HB 879, which would create a streamlined licensing pathway for veterans with medical or nursing experience to practice in Texas, and HB 913, which would add new state hospitals to statute and split the North Texas State Hospital into two separate hospitals with their own superintendents; both bills had no opposition testimony and were left pending. Later, the committee heard SB 2744, a heart disease screening bill that would update the 2009 Texas Heart Attack Prevention Act to require insurance coverage for coronary CT angiography with plaque analysis, including soft plaque detection, as a preventive screening tool. The author and invited witnesses argued the technology is more effective than calcium scoring alone, can identify patients before symptoms appear, and could save lives at a cost comparable to or lower than colonoscopy. An insurance industry witness opposed the bill, arguing the technology has not been recommended by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force for universal screening and that the mandated coverage and payment level would raise costs; the bill was left pending after testimony. Finally, the committee heard HB 1151, a parental rights bill clarifying that refusing psychotropic medication or psychiatric treatment is not neglect unless the child is harmed. Supporters, including parent advocates and attorneys, said the bill would protect parents from CPS overreach and preserve medical decision-making authority, while one witness urged broader attention to physical causes of behavioral issues. Public testimony was closed and HB 1151 was left pending.

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• , and I'm very happy to be able to support this bill on behalf of our 62 member groups across 21 counties
• Um, The Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex adds a new resident every 3 minutes.
• You know, Houston is drinking what Dallas flushes. Period along the Trinity River.
• And this is multi-counties in the regions that you're talking about. Yes sir.
• We work with public entities, typically cities, counties, water districts.

Bills: SB 7

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

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• He has friends in the sheriff's department and in the county, which keeps him protected.
• It can be different from one court in one county to the next court in another county.
• So in Travis County, it's going to look different from, say, Collin County or from Falls County because
• And that's the Roper case out of Dallas, which is often cited on this issue.
• The judges said that I couldn't file a protective order in the county in which I reside.

Bills: HB809, HB 1193, HB1916, HB2558, HB1973, HB2350, HB2399, HB2340, HB 116, HB330, HB2496, HB116

Keywords: digitized signature, waiver of citation, marriage dissolution, electronic notarization, family law, HB 1193, informal marriage, common-law marriage, declaration of informal marriage, confidentiality, privacy, county clerk, vital statistics unit, Family Code, Health and Safety Code, marriage records, public records, personally identifying information, PII, legal representative

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• You know, counties with large populations like Bear County where I reside, um, are required by state
• OK, thank you Chair calls Josie Castro Garcia from Dallas County Commissioner's Court. Hello, Ms.
• I'm here on behalf of Dallas County in support of SB 651.
• This bill gives counties the flexibility to have the Veterans County Service Office report either directly
• OK, so in my county, if we took away and let Keith be designated to.

Bills: SJR39, SJR47, SB227, SB1942, SB1627, SB625, SB1716, SB1303, SB2180, SB504, SB1209, SB1448, SB1597, SB1679, SB2182, SB2112, SB2170, SB2084, SB1496, SB1595, SB1655, SB1876, SB1621, SB1944, SB1266, SB2072, SB2104, SB1769, SB1827

Keywords: property valuation, tax limit, homestead, income threshold, elderly, constitutional amendment, voter ID, elections, Oklahoma, proof of identity, gross production tax, ad valorem tax, property exemption, Oklahoma Tax Commission, oil and gas production, regulatory impact, economic implications, dental insurance, health care, medical necessity

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• AB 102 enables a county with a population of more than 100,000 or less than 700,000, so Washoe County
• Like the broader county, but how do the two supplement each other?
• Also, you may hear from folks with Eureka County.
• We represent all 17 counties.
• This is Caleb Cage, here on behalf of Eureka County.

Bills: AB6, AB102, AB131, AB212, AB213, AB220, AB259, AB282, AB376, AB396, AB479, AB503, AB570, AB572, AB574, AB576, AB593, SB185, SB207, SB507, AB6

Keywords: fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, FASD, prenatal alcohol exposure, children's health, developmental disability, early intervention, treatment assistance, Aging and Disability Services Division, Department of Health and Human Services, Autism Treatment Assistance Program, public health, parent education, evidence-based treatment, Nevada NRS 427A, disability services, behavioral health, emergency medical services, ambulance, licensing, health district

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• The issue behind this bill was brought to me by my county commissioners in Webb County and I hope that
• We have you registered as John Gallo, county commissioner for Webb County. Is that correct?
• were small counties.
• I know Dallas and Denton County, which are a little larger, well, several actually very large counties
• I would say that Tarrant County, Dallas County, Bexar County are having maybe not the same amount because