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• </c> your child right now? your child right now?
• Um, but my understanding is that it is a child-led approach to educating your child.
• I'd also like to note that technically my child is not of the age to be enrolled for schooling, etc.
• ,</c> my child, my child, I<02:06:18.160><c> oppose</c><02:06:18.760><c> that.
• </c> interests of their child. interests of their child.

Committee: Senate Education

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• care of your child.
• You know, they've got a child. She obviously is extended the courtesy.
• When I was a child, no one taught me what grooming looked like.
• When I was a child, no one taught me what grooming looked like.
• costs for her child.

Committee: Senate Education

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• She is enrolled in the Navajo tribe.
• that registered child care homes, licensed family child care homes, and licensed group child care homes
• care homes, licensed family child care homes, licensed group child care homes, or licensed child care
• centers, providing that licensed child care... ...child care homes, or licensed child care centers,
• care home, licensed family child care home, or licensed group child care home.

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• You made me think about open enrollment, and I know open enrollment is not law right now, but there's
• open enrollment, and I know open enrollment<00:46:34.720><c> is</c><00:46:34.840><c> not</c> enrollment
• </c> should the open enrollment pass. should the open enrollment pass.
• </c> enrolled in their district school. enrolled in their district school.
• So, they pay the property taxes, but they choose to home educate their child or send their child to a

Committee: Senate Education

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• She said that at a time when low-income Washingtonians are already struggling with cuts to child care
• This cap on enrollment was adopted in the 2023-24 school year and was increased from 1.2 FTE.
• Enrollment has surged to a 40% increase. Summer participation is over... 1.4.
• Enrollment has surged to a 40% increase. Summer participation is over 400%.
• Forty-one percent of our low-income students now enroll in summer quarter.

Bills: HB2747

Committee: House Appropriations

Keywords: budget sustainability, state finance, fiscal policy, economic growth, government spending

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• The educational property exemption is expanded to include Gold Seal certified child care facilities if
• For child support enforcement.
• In the bill, our premise in this state is that money follows the child.
• We're seeing growing enrollment in charter schools.
• There are schools under-enrolled, which now is totally out of a school district's hands.

Summary: The House convened on the final day of session, observed a moment of silence for the Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband, and for Representative Rosenwald’s father, then swore in and seated new members Boyles and Hodgers. The Speaker also outlined the chamber’s end-of-session priorities, including action on the budget and related conforming bills. The House then took up H.J.R. 5019, a constitutional amendment to expand Florida’s budget stabilization fund by raising the cap, requiring annual transfers, and allowing withdrawals for critical state needs. After sponsor explanations and questions about what would qualify as a critical need and how the fund might respond to possible federal funding cuts, the House adopted an amendment that added more flexibility for suspending transfers and withdrawals. The joint resolution then passed on final passage. Members next considered HB 7031, the tax package conference report. The bill repeals the business rent tax and aviation fuel tax, delays the natural gas fuel tax, creates or extends several sales tax exemptions and holidays, and makes changes affecting property taxes, local taxes, pari-mutuel taxes, and revenue distributions. Debate focused heavily on the new permanent exemption for ammunition and hunting-related items, the elimination of recurring housing trust fund and transit-related distributions, and the shift of some funding from recurring to nonrecurring status. Supporters argued the package provides tax relief and preserves annual budget flexibility, while opponents criticized the ammunition exemption and the reductions in recurring housing and transit support. The conference report was adopted and the bill passed. The House then passed HB 5017, which creates a debt reduction program funded by a recurring transfer from general revenue to retire state bonds early, and HB 5015, the state group insurance conforming bill, which directs DMS to develop a formulary management plan and codifies the administrative health insurance assessment. Finally, the chamber began explanation and questions on the General Appropriations Act conference report for fiscal year 2025-26, described as a $115.1 billion budget that is down from the current year and includes more than $12 billion in reserves. Subcommittee chairs summarized major budget areas, including K-12 education, health care, transportation and economic development, agriculture and natural resources, higher education, state administration, justice, and information technology, highlighting funding for school choice, Medicaid, housing, transportation infrastructure, Everglades restoration, workforce programs, cybersecurity, and technology modernization.

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• According to PE, 140 school districts and charter schools have enrolled participants in letters training
• Just quickly, our demographics, we, in Roswell, we have an enrollment of 9,243 students.
• Like they have, they have an enrollment of 246, they are 30% EL, 19% uh special education, but their
• You know, I think it's more important that parents are informed of what their child is learning.
• We are not really telling parents, uh, you know, your, your child has uh characteristics of dyslexia.

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• >> Thank you, Representative Selig. consider what the child needs in terms consider what the child needs
• </c> However, we were unable to enroll them. However, we were unable to enroll them.
• They would be, uh, if you're previously enrolled, if you're currently enrolled in the EFA program, if
• Also, a child who at a public services.
• Their child gets expelled. So, they out. Their child gets expelled.

Committee: House Education Policy and Administration

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• And just as a reminder, the goal of the READ Act is to ensure every child in Minnesota is reading at
• . enrollments. enrollments.
• And then, um, in your preschool program, how many students would you say you have enrolled?
• I remember that moment very well, and I want to see every child in Minnesota experience that.
• I remember that moment very well, and I want to see every child in Minnesota experience that.

Committee: Senate Education Finance

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• measures and 32 adult submits 27 child measures and 32 adult measures.<00:15:53.640><c> And</c><00:15
• </c><00:25:11.560><c> So,</c> enrollment, expenditures, and data.
• So, enrollment, expenditures, and data.
• </c> Of we have cancer screenings and child Of we have cancer screenings and child at<00:26:52.560><c
• </c><00:31:28.240><c> and</c><00:31:28.320><c> for</c> our provider enrollment and for our provider enrollment

Summary: The subcommittee held its first meeting to discuss creating a Healthcare Transparency Dashboard focused largely on Kentucky Medicaid. Members introduced themselves and described their interest in using data transparency to improve policy, access to care, and program efficiency. The co-chairs said the dashboard should begin with a basic framework and expand over time, with a mission centered on collaboratively designing and maintaining a secure, data-driven dashboard housed with the Legislative Research Commission. Discussion focused on what should be measured and how data should be organized. Members agreed the dashboard should segment Medicaid populations rather than aggregate them, with separate attention to aged and disabled enrollees, expansion adults, and children. Suggested measures included emergency department utilization and follow-up, cancer screenings, child and adolescent well visits, adult well visits, postpartum care, newborn screenings and follow-ups, hospitalization and readmission rates, pharmacy, behavioral health, and claims data. Several members emphasized the need to include demographic and geographic information, while noting some items such as education may not be readily available in Medicaid data and that HIPAA and access issues will affect how detailed the public-facing dashboard can be. Members also discussed existing data sources and warned against duplicating work already being done by the cabinet, the Office of Data Analytics, CMS scorecards, and university Medicaid directed payment reporting. The group was encouraged to review the Medicaid and CHIP scorecard, which includes quality, administrative, and program characteristic measures, as a possible model. No formal votes were taken, but the subcommittee agreed to continue refining the mission statement, identify priority metrics, and consider benchmarking, outcomes, data-sharing, and technical platform issues before the next meeting.

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• students about the closure; providing parents of enrolled students information and assistance to enable
• the students to enroll in another school; transferring student records to the students' resident school
• just like with school districts, the charter schools design the special education program for each child
• in consultation with that each child in consultation with that child's<00:29:31.760><c> parents</c><
• </c> the the child will receive. the the child will receive.

Bills: HF3487 , HF3421

Committee: House Education Policy

Keywords: anonymous reporting, school safety, education, crisis intervention, threat reporting, early literacy, reading instruction, teacher preparation, teacher candidates, teacher licensure, educator licensing, Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board, PELSB, field experience, supervised practicum, evidence-based reading, science of reading, literacy methods, teacher training, preservice teachers

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• Any student can enroll in this program.
• Any student can enroll in this program.
• </c> student would cost if they were enrolled student would cost if they were enrolled in<00:44:30.480
• </c><00:45:09.520><c> in</c> and students who expected to enroll in and students who expected to enroll
• </c> removes case services such as child removes case services such as child care,<03:31:49.680><c> tutoring

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• </c> for which they are enrolled in. for which they are enrolled in. uh<02:55:10.560><c> the</c><02:55
• enrollment and kind of the percent of their total enrollment that is made up from that virtual education
• </c> have more than 50% of their enrollment have more than 50% of their enrollment made<03:00:14.479>
• </c> programs uh the total uh enrollment programs uh the total uh enrollment equates<03:00:39.279><c>
• Senator Scott, when you get a family that wants to enroll a child in your program, what do you tell them

Committee: Joint Education

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• Not respecting the value and importance of child care is personal. I am a granddaughter of Soledad.
• That's why it pains me to say this, if we move. forward with freezing Medi-Cal enrollment and charging
• while we have had an opportunity to continue to double down as a legislature on our commitment to child
• Of immigrants enrolled in Medicaid and Medi-Cal as a part of that. We have a lot of work to do.
• It's paying for the child care of 8,000 children.

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• Child care.
• And when we talk about the tax provisions, we have an increase in the child tax credit.
• And when we talk about the tax provisions, we have an increase in the child tax credit.
• Expenses in excess of the taxpayer's federal child and dependent care credit.
• care deduction...” “...overtime, senior deduction, child care deduction.

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• life skills to better equip our youth for their futures, and since then they have worked hard to enroll
• Among them, over 630 were enrolled in job training with an impressive 74% completion rate.
• We have 400 that are enrolled.
• To share a little bit about me, I enrolled in the Father Project in March of 2023.
• </c><01:48:17.679><c> Care</c> insecurity Transportation Child Care insecurity Transportation Child Care

Committee: Senate Jobs and Economic Development

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• members, as amended by the Committee on Education, House Bill 2423 requires each public school to enroll
• members, as amended by the Committee on Education, House Bill 2423 requires each public school to enroll
• It also modifies the definition of resident pupil as it relates to open enrollment.
• to the school district's enrollment capacity is less than 50 percent.
• House Bill 2995 rewrites Arizona's child custody domestic violence statute to make a domestic violence

Summary: The meeting was a lengthy caucus-style review of many bills and resolutions across multiple committees, with staff giving brief descriptions and most items placed on consent or third-read consent calendars. Topics included appropriations, commerce, education, government, health and human services, environment, public safety, and transportation. Measures discussed ranged from school policy and board continuations to housing, water, public safety, licensing, and election-related changes. Several bills were noted as strike-everything amendments or as having been amended in committee. A number of bills drew sponsor comments or brief questions. In education, members discussed bills on teacher strikes, school math placement, school meals, student clubs, bond election disclosures, and a proposed commission on student outcomes. In health and human services, members discussed nursing board rules, pharmacist testing and treatment authority, medical records timelines, opioid antagonist expiration dates, and a proposed constitutional amendment on the right to refuse medical mandates. In government and public safety, members debated funding and staffing issues for DPS and corrections, including a proposed public safety parity fund, as well as bills on county sheriffs, legal representation for DPS, and corrections oversight funding. There was also discussion of election and local government measures, including inactive voter list procedures, circulator disclosure rules, and committee termination filings. Other topics included housing affordability districts, development fees, historic-area middle housing exemptions, water and groundwater management, environmental compatibility siting, and trade-related commissions. One notable exchange involved HB 4044, where members debated whether using rainy day fund interest for public safety pay was fiscally responsible; supporters argued it was a practical way to fund raises, while opponents said it would weaken the fund and should instead be handled through the general fund. No roll-call votes were taken in the transcript, and most items were simply presented, briefly discussed, and left on consent or third-read consent calendars.

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• </c> prevention and detection for the child prevention and detection for the child care<00:06:00.280>
• support, child care programs, and provider licensing and fraud investigation functions.
• </c> the process of applying and enrolling the process of applying and enrolling easier<00:26:34.760>
• The first one would strengthen our provider enrollment process.
• It specifies that um enrolled providers.

Committee: Senate Health and Human Services

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• The bill is ordered to enrollment. The Assembly has concurred in the amendment.
• The bill is ordered to enrollment. Assembly Member Houtigee. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
• The bill is ordered to enrollment. Assembly Member Houtigee.
• The bill is ordered to enrollment. Let's go back to Order Business.
• The bill is ordered to enrollment.

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• And I don't want another child to be human-smuggled into the state of Florida.
• And I don't want another child to be human-smuggled into the state of Florida.
• We have open enrollment. We have open enrollment. So what kind of message?
• Imagine coming over here when you are a child.
• Imagine coming over here when you are a child.

Summary: The Senate opened with a prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and the reading of an amended joint proclamation expanding the Legislature’s immigration agenda. The proclamation added items calling for financial penalties for government officials, enhanced criminal penalties for offenses committed by illegal aliens, and programs and appropriations to support law enforcement in enforcing federal immigration law. The chamber then took up the special order calendar, beginning with Committee Substitute for Senate Bill 2B, the immigration bill. Most of the meeting was devoted to debate and questions on the strike-all amendment to SB 2B. Sponsor Senator Gruters described the bill as a broad immigration enforcement package aligned with President Trump’s agenda. He said it would require greater cooperation with federal immigration authorities, strengthen participation in the 287(g) program, create a chief immigration officer and council, authorize financial penalties for noncompliance, provide bonuses for officers assisting ICE, and direct information-sharing with federal agencies. He also said the bill would bar DHSMV from issuing licenses or ID cards to unauthorized aliens and would end in-state tuition waivers for undocumented students. Senators Polsky, Pizzo, Smith, Jones, Berman, Osgood, and others questioned the scope of the bill, whether it would affect schools, churches, cities, nonprofits, and green-card holders, and how the 287(g) provisions would work in practice. Gruters repeatedly said the operational focus was on jails and detention facilities, not street-level enforcement. A major point of controversy was the bill’s proposed mandatory death penalty for unauthorized aliens convicted of certain capital offenses. Senator Fine said the covered crimes were the most serious capital felonies, including murder, child sexual battery, destructive-device offenses causing death, and certain trafficking offenses, and argued the provision was intended to withstand constitutional challenge. Senator Pizzo raised Eighth Amendment concerns and questioned whether the bill could mandate death sentences. The tuition waiver provisions also drew extended debate: Fine said the state would save about $41 million by ending discounted tuition for undocumented students, while Democrats argued the savings would not return to general revenue and that the policy would harm students who are already enrolled. Fine and Gruters said green-card holders would not be affected and that the bill targeted only students in the country illegally. The discussion also covered appropriations and implementation. Senator Smith asked about the bill’s large funding levels, and Fine broke down the spending as including $375 million for the chief immigration officer, $100 million in grants to local law enforcement, $29 million for the new Office of State Immigration Enforcement, and $10 million for an unauthorized-alien transport program. Gruters said the funds would reimburse local governments and help address staffing shortages, while critics questioned the lack of benchmarks and the fiscal impact. No final vote or disposition on the bill appears in the transcript excerpt.