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• members of the public that we support more than 100,000 barbering and cosmetology professionals statewide
• So can you please give us an understanding when there is something identified, Statewide with just 26
• If there is one tribe that signs onto the amended and revised 2021 Compact, they would be entitled to
• First, we have revised and implemented standard licensing policies.
• event revenues, Management oversight procedures to ensure it receives accurate event revenues and revise

Committee: Senate Senate Regulatory Affairs & Government Efficiency Committee of Reference

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• we would have a downward revision to our greenhouse gas reduction fund revenues.
• We're looking at a May Revision, a budget by June. How do you, how would you do it? We're in April?
• And then all of those findings will be uplifted into a statewide report as well.
• And then all of those findings will be uplifted into a statewide report as well.
• We support a revised budget that maintains the Legislature's discretion in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction

Summary: The subcommittee heard testimony on the governor’s proposed sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) tax credit, which would provide a $1 to $2 per gallon credit against the diesel excise tax for SAF sold for use in California from 2026 to 2036. The Department of Finance and CARB argued the credit would help decarbonize aviation, support refinery transitions, and keep fuel production and jobs in California. The Legislative Analyst’s Office recommended rejecting the proposal, saying it is a relatively expensive way to reduce greenhouse gases, could have uncertain or limited climate benefits, and would reduce diesel excise tax revenue that supports highways, local streets and roads, and other transportation programs. A major point of debate was whether the credit would simply shift limited feedstocks from renewable diesel to SAF rather than create new low-carbon fuel supply. Professor Aaron Smith and the LAO said that because feedstocks such as used cooking oil, tallow, and vegetable oils are limited and already used in other fuel markets, the policy could increase SAF at the expense of renewable diesel, with possible increases in fuel prices and little net emissions benefit. Administration and CARB staff disputed that outcome, saying additional waste-based feedstocks are available and that the policy would not meaningfully raise gasoline or diesel prices. Senators focused on feedstock availability, impacts on road funding, fairness to consumers, and whether the proposal was really aimed at preserving specific refineries such as Phillips 66. Public comment was sharply divided. Labor representatives, refinery workers, airlines, Boeing, airports, and some local residents supported the proposal, emphasizing jobs, refinery investment, and aviation’s need for a liquid-fuel decarbonization pathway. Environmental and transportation groups, including the Center for Biological Diversity, World Resources Institute, Earthjustice, California Environmental Voters, counties, cities, and trucking and asphalt associations, opposed it, citing weak net climate benefits, possible fuel-price impacts, and losses to transportation funding. No vote was taken; the chair announced all items would be held open for a future hearing.

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• It creates two sections of law for an electronic monitoring pilot rather than a statewide system for
• The House bill amends a domestic and repeat violence injunction statewide verification system to include
• The House bill does not revise various provisions relating to auditing and reviewing septic tank permits
• The House bill does not contain the provision revising building height maximums for multi-family projects
• The revised rule provides new MFLs and a strategy to implement them.

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• Health, sadly, has not provided any epidemiological modeling to estimate what this policy change statewide
• It creates two sections of law for an electronic monitoring pilot rather than a statewide system for
• The House bill amends a domestic and repeat violence injunction statewide verification system to include
• The House bill does not revise various provisions relating to auditing and reviewing septic tank permits
• The revised rule provides new MFELs and a strategy to implement them.

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• entity or body has a specific charge of aligning Department of Defense priorities with Arizona's statewide
• The Revised Military Affairs Commission fills that gap.
• has a specific charge of aligning the Department of Defense priorities with the Arizona's statewide economic
• The Revised Military Affairs Commission fills that gap.
• veterans that are in Yuma, and they deserve this, and the rest of the state over in the West Valley and statewide

Summary: The committee first approved the February 9, 2026 minutes and then took up SB 1618, which restructures the Military Affairs Commission to add governor-appointed defense and industry experts, expand advisory participation, require more frequent meetings and reporting, and create a commission fund. The sponsor and a witness from the Southwest Mission Acceleration Center said the bill would modernize Arizona’s approach to retaining and attracting military missions and defense-related business. After adopting a Gowan amendment, the committee voted 6-1 to give SB 1618 a do pass recommendation as amended. The committee then heard SB 1047, the “Defend the Guard” bill, which would bar deployment of the Arizona National Guard into active combat without a congressional declaration of war. Supporters, including veterans and activists, argued it would restore constitutional limits and protect Guard members from unauthorized foreign wars. Opponents, including a retired National Guard officer, warned it could harm readiness, create tension with the Pentagon, and risk federal funding or missions. The committee voted 4-3 to give SB 1047 a do pass recommendation. Next was SB 1474, which preempts state and local restrictions on cooperation with federal immigration authorities, requires immigration-enforcement training, and, under amendment, requires county sheriffs to enter 287(g) agreements with ICE by January 1, 2027. The sponsor said the bill would improve cooperation and enforcement consistency, while opponents—religious leaders, public servants, and others—argued it would expand federal immigration enforcement, increase fear in communities, and burden local agencies with an unfunded mandate. After a lengthy and contentious debate, the committee voted 4-3 to give SB 1474 a do pass recommendation as amended. Finally, the committee considered SB 1620, which changes Arizona Space Commission membership by reducing governor appointments, adding the lieutenant governor as chair, and making legislative and executive leaders nonvoting advisory members. The commission chair said the changes would align Arizona with other states and improve structure and continuity. The bill passed 5-1 with a do pass recommendation. The committee then heard SB 1365, a strike-everything amendment removing the income cap for disabled veterans’ property tax exemption on a primary residence; members discussed whether very high-income veterans should still qualify, but agreed the bill would help disabled veterans. The committee adopted both amendments and gave SB 1365 a do pass recommendation.

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• We have over $600 million that come to our state statewide through Ski New Mexico.
• working families across northwest New Mexico, and she serves as president of New Mexico 211, the statewide
• So 211, the statewide helpline number that also supports communities to ensure that they get quickly
• introduced by Senators Lopez, Pope, Pinto, Charley, and Hickey, an act relating to the legislature, revising
• introduced by Senators Lopez, Pope, Pinto, Charlie, and Hickey, an act relating to the legislature, revising

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• And today, we will hear Senate Bill 156, which revises provisions relating to the prevention of gun violence
• And today, we will hear Senate Bill 156, which revises provisions relating to the prevention of gun violence
• As reported by Johns Hopkins, the urgency for a dedicated and coordinated statewide response has never
• be creating a permanent leadership role to coordinate gun violence prevention strategies across statewide
• agencies, collect and share data, support evidence-based community efforts, and drive a comprehensive statewide

Bills: SB156

Committee: Assembly Government Affairs

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• Regarding litigation on page 24, last year we were in court on approximately 40,000 cases statewide for
• We have 43 significant cases that our attorneys call pending statewide.
• numbers and the time frames to see how... numbers and the time frames to see how they need to be revised
• The Community Mental Health Center will be negotiating a revised contract with Hill Crest to add additional
• Originally, we were looking at expanding this model statewide, which would have taken $2 million to implement

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• It's a statewide initiative that equips youth with the skills and platform to shape public policy based
• Article four deals with the revisions to the Read Act.
• </c><01:19:59.120><c> We</c><01:19:59.280><c> have</c> revisions to the read act.
• We have revisions to the read act.
• ><c> reporting,</c><01:20:27.360><c> no</c> timely statewide data reporting, no timely statewide data

Committee: House Education Policy

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• after taking office as president, I convened a committee of JCTA leaders to lead our organization, revising
• And so we took all of the data, we saw patterns, and these repeated answers informed our revised organizational
• </c> patterns informed our revised patterns informed our revised organizational<00:27:14.960><c> platform
• </c><00:59:15.040><c> fiscal</c><00:59:15.599><c> risk</c> magnifying the statewide fiscal risk magnifying
• the statewide fiscal risk associated<00:59:16.799><c> with</c><00:59:17.040><c> governance</c><00:59

Committee: Senate Education

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• It is the essential step toward setting a clear statewide standard for safety.
• The amendment revises the section that allows the Board of Nursing to consider adverse actions taken
• The staff summary says Senate Bill 254 as amended revises regulatory oversight of pre-licensed nursing

Committee: Senate Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services

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• upcoming monitoring that they're conducting right now in relation to that rule will provide clear statewide
• contaminant standards that have been promulgated but remain subject to ongoing judicial review and federal revision
• . ...remain subject to ongoing judicial review and federal revision, leaving the final scope of those

Committee: Senate Resources and Environment

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• The most recent NAAQS revision.
• The most recent NAAQS revision for ozone, completed in 2015, took seven years for EPA to complete.
• prohibition on cosmetic animal testing and deems the regulation of the sale of cosmetics as a matter of statewide

Committee: Senate Senate Natural Resources Committee of Reference

Summary: The Natural Resources Committee approved the minutes from January 20 and January 27, 2026, and then heard several bills dealing with water policy, environmental regulation, wildlife management, and cosmetics testing. SB 1278 would ban intentional solar radiation management activities in Arizona and bar public entities and recipients of public funds from supporting such technologies; supporters argued it was needed to stop geoengineering, while opponents said it would block research and distract from real pollution problems. The committee voted 5-2 to give SB 1278 a do pass recommendation. The committee then considered SB 1279, which updates Arizona’s weather modification/cloud seeding permitting process by adding ADWR and ADEQ review, public notice and meetings, and a licensing database. A nine-page amendment shifted complaint enforcement to ADWR, added cease-and-desist and fine authority, and changed rulemaking timelines; the amendment was adopted, and the bill passed 5-2. Testimony was mixed: supporters emphasized transparency and safety, Salt River Project was neutral after stakeholder work, and ADEQ said it was neutral but warned it lacked standards, resources, and time to develop the required chemical limits and rules. SB 1005, which would prohibit the sale of cosmetics developed with animal testing beginning in 2027, received a do pass recommendation 4-2 after supporters cited cruelty concerns and the availability of non-animal testing methods. SB 1202, requiring ADWR to include outline data in five-year groundwater supply-and-demand assessments, also passed 4-2 despite agency concerns that the bill would require extensive hydrologic modeling, significant resources, and could produce misleading conclusions about available water. SB 1280, barring state transport or use of public resources to move Mexican gray wolf pups into Arizona, passed 4-2 after testimony split between conservation advocates, who said it would hinder recovery, and supporters concerned about livestock impacts; Game and Fish was neutral. Finally, SB 1287, with a conforming amendment, passed 5-1 to extend a groundwater-use provision for irrigation grandfathered rights from initial AMAs to subsequent AMAs, which ADWR said would reduce burden and create parity across management areas.

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• So we will start with House Bill 2468, correcting terminology to align the Revised Code of Washington
• House Bill 2468, correcting terminology to align the Revised Code of Washington with recent reorganization
• Communities and Schools of Washington works statewide to ensure that young adults have the stability

Bills: HB2455 , HB2468 , HB2529

Committee: House Early Learning & Human Services

Keywords: housing assistance, youth, foster care, pilot program, social services, terminology correction, healthcare, regulatory compliance, department reorganization, Washington, DCYF, Department of Children, Youth, and Families, accountability board, oversight board, child welfare, juvenile rehabilitation, juvenile justice, early learning, family preservation, children and families

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• In the context of this amendment, this bill essentially sets a standard statewide so that people know
• Ladies and gentlemen, Senate Bill 474 revises provisions of Florida law relating to military service
• Ladies and gentlemen, Senate Bill 474 revises provisions of Florida law relating to military service

Committee: Senate Governmental Oversight and Accountability

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• So you're revising the program but extending an existing program that expires at the end of 20.
• The revised program is going to cost approximately the same as the existing program does in its last
• The Opioid Abatement Fund Council was created to ensure that money recovered through statewide opioid

Bills: SB214 , SB935 , SB1030 , SB1901 , SB2018 , SB2020 , SB2066 , SB2206

Committee: Senate Finance

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• Specifically, we'll be looking at some critical issues involving the state's women's prisons and a revised
• Our lieutenant and executive leadership trainings are also being revised.
• We also maintain a statewide complaint intake process where anyone can raise to us their concerns of

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• Board of Massage Therapy engaged in rulemaking to amend the application forms and make substantial revisions
• Rule promulgation to incorporate revised application forms will begin this spring to prepare for the
• Bill 1716, the program received additional funding and is currently in the process of expanding statewide

Summary: The Health Professions and Program Subcommittee met for an introductory and oversight briefing from the Florida Department of Health on implementation of several 2024 laws. The committee heard first from Jennifer Winhold on practitioner-regulation measures, including SB 1716 and SB 1600, which expanded workforce pathways through foreign-trained physician licensure, area-of-critical-need temporary certificates for APRNs and physician assistants, graduate assistant physician licenses, interstate compacts, and a new universal licensure-by-endorsement process. She also reviewed HB 197 on massage therapy enforcement, HB 975 on broader background screening, HB 1561 on office-surgery and liposuction safeguards, HB 159 on pharmacist HIV post-exposure prophylaxis certification, and HB 1063 on chiropractic dry needling and foreign degree licensure. Members asked about compact scope, foreign graduate requirements, massage enforcement overlap with DBPR, and registration thresholds for liposuction procedures. Dr. Emma Spencer then outlined implementation of SB 76 and related programs, including changes to the FRAME and dental loan repayment programs, the volunteer health care provider program, the Casey DeSantis Cancer Research Program, the Health Care Innovation Council and revolving loan program, and the Andrew John Anderson Pediatric Rare Disease Grant Program. She said the department had updated portals, posted forms, launched or was developing public search tools, and submitted required reports and contracts. Members questioned whether loan repayment funds were reaching rural and underserved areas, how nonprofit applicants were being informed about the Alphonse screening grant program, the short application window for that grant, and how the department would evaluate whether the programs were improving recruitment and retention. A third presentation, delivered by Mike Mason standing in for Shea Holloway, covered maternal and child health and other public health initiatives. He reported on the telehealth maternity care program’s expansion from a pilot in Duval and Orange counties to 23 counties, the pregnancy-and-parenting resources website required by HB 415, CMV newborn screening requirements under SB 168, sickle cell registry and research grants under HB 7085, and the swim lessons voucher program under SB 544, which received nearly 10,000 requests for 3,500 vouchers and enrolled 86 facilities. Members asked about utilization, marketing, website launch timing, and how the department was promoting these services. No bills were voted on; the meeting concluded with the chair noting that more committee presentations and bills would follow and that briefing materials would be distributed to members.

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• According to the California Department of Education, there were more than 10,000 teacher vacancies statewide
• So based on a lot of those calculations, the initial estimate was $220 million statewide.
• I serve as the director of the statewide arts initiative for the California County Superintendents.
• From the statewide implementation perspective for our educators, AB 2440 addresses...
• CalBridge is a statewide intersegmental program of the community colleges, CSU, and UC systems.

Committee: Senate Education

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• I had kind of flagged in my testimony around looking at the statewide disaster plan for early learning
• So as far as the Child Care and Development Fund, we are mandated to include a statewide child care and
• I'm the executive director of Every Child California, where we are a statewide community of over 2,500
• Develop statewide protocols for when families are detained or fail to arrive, prioritizing emotional
• And hopefully the state can actually revise them and come to an agreement.

Summary: The California State Assembly Select Committee on Child Care Costs held its second hearing focused first on disaster response, especially wildfires and flooding, and how they affect child care infrastructure. State agencies described their disaster preparedness and response work, including evacuation notifications, shelter coordination, emergency guidance, waivers, and support services. The Department of Education said wildfires have displaced tens of thousands of families and impacted thousands of preschool families, and recommended statutory changes to help rebuild programs, require early childhood programs to be included in local recovery plans, expand mental health supports, and review disaster, tax, and insurance policy gaps. Child care advocates and providers described major losses from the L.A. fires and San Diego flooding, including destroyed homes and businesses, lack of insurance, delayed permits, lost income, and the need for emergency grants, relocation help, and better disaster planning for child care programs. Several providers gave personal testimony about rebuilding after fires and floods, including one family child care provider from Pasadena/Altadena whose home and business were destroyed and who is still trying to reopen while paying rent, a mortgage, and permit costs. Another provider described flood damage, health impacts on children, and thousands of dollars in losses. Committee members emphasized that child care is often overlooked in disaster recovery and asked state officials what is being done to integrate child care into emergency planning and to improve coordination among state and local agencies. Officials said the statewide child care disaster plan exists and has been updated over time, but acknowledged more work is needed and that the hearing itself should inform future improvements. The second panel addressed immigration enforcement and its impact on the child care system. Advocates from the Children's Partnership, Every Child California, and CHIRLA said immigration raids and enforcement activity are causing families to keep children home, reducing attendance and enrollment, increasing fear and trauma, and destabilizing providers and the broader early learning workforce. They argued that child care settings are trusted spaces and that enforcement undermines continuity of care, child development, and program viability. They urged stronger privacy and safety protections, statewide training and technical assistance, trauma-informed guidance, legal support for families, transportation and subsidy protections, and emergency funding for providers. Speakers also highlighted recently enacted laws AB 49 and AB 495, but stressed that implementation will require funding and clear guidance. Committee members agreed that funding and implementation are critical and heard public testimony from providers describing fear, family separation, and the need to keep child care safe and stable for immigrant families.