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• My name is David Trumbull from the town of Ware, and I oppose this bill for a few reasons.

Committee: House Election Law

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• Okay, because I'm looking at slide 41, and I'm looking at food service funding.
• And I'm wondering why that is not within the matrix, if it's school, if it's food service funding.
• But there are some federal funds that are included, I think, with this food service fund there.
• So you're saying this body has not deemed food service as...?
• You all, we're talking about food service not being part of the matrix and not being able to provide

Summary: The House/Joint Education committee continued its adequacy study with a Bureau of Legislative Research presentation on resource allocation, focusing first on matrix spending and then non-matrix spending. Staff explained the methodology for mapping APSCN expenditure data to matrix lines, reviewed district and school categories used in the analysis, and highlighted key findings: foundation funding covered a large share of matrix costs but total spending on matrix items exceeded foundation funding, with classroom teachers making up the largest share. Members asked for additional breakdowns on waivers, superintendent survey responses, trend data, and spending by district type, size, and rural/urban status. Staff also noted limitations in tracking two matrix lines—salary enhancement for other employees and all personnel health insurance—because of coding and definition issues. The committee then reviewed non-matrix expenditures, including instructional aides, facilities, school safety, mental health, dyslexia services, gifted and talented, and career and technical education. Staff reported that non-matrix spending remained above $2 billion over the last three years, with most of it coming from other funds rather than foundation funding. Members raised concerns about dyslexia identification and funding, mental health needs, school safety, food service, athletic transportation, and whether some items should be added to the matrix. The Department of Education clarified that the building fund reflects district-held funds for construction and maintenance projects, while the facilities partnership program is a separate state process for approved projects. In the final discussion, staff summarized total spending as more than $15,800 per student in 2025, with about 69% going to matrix resources and 31% to non-matrix resources. The chair explained the adequacy process and the committee’s role in setting future funding recommendations, and members discussed the recommendations worksheet included in the binder. The chair then proposed postponing the remainder of Part Two of the presentation until a May meeting after the fiscal session, along with inviting the Department of Education back for more detailed questions; with no objections, the committee adjourned.

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• the commencement of Ramadan across the globe, where healthy adult Muslims abstain from things like food
• Helps put food on their table. How many of them are out there, Mr.
• What this bill is doing is actually going to wind up taking food off of their table.
• Those small people out there trying to make a living and put that extra food on the table.
• Small people out there trying to make a living and put that extra food on the table.

Bills: SB5223 , SB6071 , SB5966 , SB6061 , SB6016 , SB5973 , SB5053 , SB5249 , SB6190 , SB5574 , SB6263 , SB6282 , SB5950 , SB6074 , SB6096 , SB5609 , SB5943 , SJM8016 , SB5907 , SB6155 , SB6158 , SB6227 , SB6085 , SB6234 , SB6274 , SB5909 , SB6045 , SB6089 , SB6170 , SB5954 , SB5762 , SB6032 , SB6082 , SB6164 , SB6176 , SB6319 , SB6308 , SB6177 , SB6052 , SB6182 , SB6335 , SB6017 , SB5470 , SB5990 , SB5046 , SB5387 , SB5637 , SB5647 , SB5839 , SB5888 , SB5962 , SB6018 , SB6037 , SB6047 , SB6078 , SB6130 , SB6147 , SB6256 , HB2155 , HB2304 , HB2367 , HB2606 , SB5998 , SB6005

Summary: The Senate opened with ceremonial remarks, approved the previous day’s journal, and then moved through introductions, committee referrals, and caucus breaks. A resolution recognizing Ramadan, Senate Resolution 8680, was adopted after remarks from Senator Trudeau emphasizing charity, self-reflection, and restraint, and several members spoke in support of religious inclusion and community recognition. The chamber then took up several bills on final passage. House Bill 2304, expanding warranty options to encourage more condominium construction, passed overwhelmingly. Substitute House Bill 2492, requiring behavioral health and wellness training in construction apprenticeships, also passed after supporters cited high rates of mental health struggles and suicides in the trades. Substitute House Bill 2228, directing work on scissors stairs to improve housing efficiency, passed as well, as did Second Engrossed Substitute House Bill 1541, which revises the Veterans Affairs Advisory Committee to add more military and veteran experience. The most extended debate centered on Substitute House Bill 2355, the Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights. Supporters argued it would provide basic labor protections, written agreements, minimum wage, and remedies for domestic workers, while opponents warned it would burden families, independent contractors, and small jobs with contracts, notice requirements, and private lawsuits. Several proposed amendments to narrow coverage or remove the private right of action were rejected, and the bill ultimately passed 28–20. The Senate also passed House Bill 2155 on nursing title use in the context of AI, Engrossed Substitute House Bill 2242 on preventive services and state health guidance, Substitute House Bill 2269 on middle housing in unincorporated areas, and Engrossed House Bill 1501 on HOA/unit-owner inquiries after adopting a committee striking amendment. The Senate adjourned until the next morning.

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• Nutrition Advisory Committee. is not allowed to maintain an ownership interest in a farm pharmaceutical food
• Consanguinity is not allowed to maintain an ownership interest in a pharmaceutical food. company.
• And in dealing with the main and other food retailers that gives them a lot of time the choice being
• you're going to put the label on your food or you're gonna take those additives out of your food.
• We saw what they did to us in COVID with the bad information, misinformation, and in our food supply,

Bills: SB502 , SB513 , SB622 , SB670 , SB731 , SB732 , SB916 , SB961 , SB1122

Committee: Senate Health & Human Services

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• Microplastics are now commonly detected in air, drinking water, and food.
• benefits, such as reducing food waste.
• I'm sustainability director at Amy's Kitchen, a California-based organic food company.
• Amy's Kitchen and other California food companies are looking for sustainable packaging alternatives
• At Amy's, as with all food companies, packaging has to keep food safe first and foremost.

Summary: The committee heard several bills, with SB 1350 by Senator McNerney presented first. The measure would expand California’s use of renewable hydrogen in the power sector by allowing renewable portfolio standard credit for power plants using green hydrogen, with supporters emphasizing grid reliability, clean-energy goals, in-state investment, and construction jobs. Support came from labor, clean-energy, municipal utility, and local government representatives; NRDC Action Fund withdrew opposition after amendments, while a few groups remained opposed or neutral. The committee later took a roll call and SB 1350 passed out on a due pass recommendation. The committee also heard SB 1180 by Senator Allen, which would set operational rules for the Plastic Pollution Mitigation Fund created under SB 54, including clearer eligible uses, transparency, technical assistance, and access for tribes and smaller community groups. Environmental justice, ocean, conservation, and local government groups strongly supported the bill, saying it would ensure the fund addresses plastic pollution’s public health and environmental harms. Industry and manufacturing groups opposed unless amended, arguing the bill should stay tightly tied to plastic waste reduction and not broaden into source-reduction policy. After quorum was established, the committee approved SB 1180 on a due pass recommendation to Appropriations. SB 1326 by Senator Wahab was then heard to strengthen tribal consultation and tribal cultural resource protections under CEQA by recognizing tribal registers and requiring feasible avoidance or mitigation measures when tribes identify resources. Tribal representatives and supporters said the bill would better protect sacred sites and tribal knowledge, while cities, counties, utilities, builders, and rural county groups opposed unless amended, citing implementation concerns, possible litigation, and uncertainty for infrastructure and housing projects. The committee voted the bill out on a due pass recommendation to Appropriations. Finally, SB 954 by Senator Blakespear was presented as a cleanup of last year’s SB 131 advanced-manufacturing CEQA exemption, narrowing eligible projects and adding guardrails such as setbacks, air-quality limits, tribal consultation, labor standards, and habitat protections. Environmental and labor groups supported the bill as a needed correction to an overly broad exemption, while business, manufacturing, housing, and local-government groups opposed, warning it could make the exemption unusable and slow investment. Members debated the balance between environmental protection and manufacturing competitiveness, and the committee voted SB 954 out on a due pass recommendation to the Labor and Employment Committee; the transcript then moved on to SB 1031 on compostable plastics, which was introduced but not acted on in the portion provided.

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• And, of course, there was food everywhere. Filipino Democratic Club.
• You couldn't do any business until you filled your plate with food.
• We fill our plates with food before we do business.
• I rise in opposition to my colleagues for not bringing food.
• I rise in opposition to my colleagues for not bringing food.

Summary: The Assembly convened after a quorum call, prayer, and pledge, then moved through a busy floor session with several procedural motions and bill actions. Members suspended rules to allow speeches and guests, withdrew AB 362 from Appropriations to the second reading file, and voted 41-13 to suspend the rules for that motion. The body also took up a number of items on the daily and third reading files, with several measures passed, retained, or moved to inactive file. The main policy focus was ACR 70, designating September as Suicide Prevention Awareness Month. Assembly Member Pellerin presented the resolution with a personal account of losing her husband to suicide and urged greater use of 988, secure firearm storage, and open conversations about mental health. Many members from both parties and caucuses spoke in support, sharing personal experiences with suicide and emphasizing stigma reduction, access to care, and the importance of checking in on others. The resolution was adopted by voice vote, Senate amendments were concurred in, and suicide awareness pins were distributed to members. The Assembly also concurred in Senate amendments to AB 977 on Native American human remains, with unanimous support and a 68-0 vote, and to AB 1510, the Assembly PERS Committee bill, which passed 66-1. Members then adopted H.R. 65, recognizing October as Filipino American History Month, after extensive remarks celebrating Filipino American history, labor organizing, public service, and community contributions; 63 co-authors were added without objection before the voice vote. Later, the chamber passed SB 81, protecting access to health care facilities from immigration enforcement, and SB 98, requiring schools and campuses to notify communities when immigration enforcement is present; both were framed as part of a broader package to protect immigrant communities and passed on urgency votes. The session concluded with debate on SJR 9, a resolution condemning mass immigration raids and defending civil liberties, which drew sharply divided remarks from supporters and opponents, with no final action shown in the transcript excerpt.

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• The other big thing that was important was food insecurity.
• </c><00:04:49.680><c> Again,</c> important was uh food insecurity.
• Again, important was uh food insecurity.
• And I have a provision within the bill that provides food security for some of the people in greater.
• </c><00:32:55.760><c> security</c> the bill that provides um food security the bill that provides um

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• Specific to food and egg businesses, the funds will support expansion for low to moderate income food
• </c> Minnesota's vital child care and food Minnesota's vital child care and food entrepreneurs<00:46:
• </c><00:46:47.680><c> and</c> focusing on child care, food and focusing on child care, food and agricultural
• </c> food, and agriculture small businesses. food, and agriculture small businesses.
• The funds will food and egg businesses.

Committee: Senate Jobs and Economic Development

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• The groups that we work with, so I interchange agriculture, food, and natural resource education, or
• The groups that we work with, so I interchange agriculture, food, and natural resource education, or
• One for the metro is the interest in food and where food comes from and to give students more opportunities
• One for the metro is the interest in food and where food comes from and to give students more opportunities
• </c> promote our region as a world class food promote our region as a world class food and<01:34:40.480

Bills: HF711 , HF653

Committee: House Agriculture Finance and Policy

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• </c> buying this promised life-saving food buying this promised life-saving food aid.<00:44:34.400><c
• </c> received food backpacks each weekend. received food backpacks each weekend. and<07:54:16.240><c>
• Shelf and Sebath Food Shelf.
• </c><08:07:26.558><c> Shelf</c> services, Gloand Emergency Food Shelf services, Gloand Emergency Food
• Ted truly and Sebath Food Shelf.

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• When we think about food security, food insecurity is worse for households with incomes below the poverty
• which provides food to pregnant people, are very important.
• </c> incarcerated when we think about food incarcerated when we think about food security<00:28:16.440
• :17.720><c> for</c> security food insecurity is worse for security food insecurity is worse for households
• /c><00:28:32.200><c> to</c> wick program which provides food uh to wick program which provides food uh

Committee: Senate Health and Human Services

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• Solutions $36 million for the summer… Conduent State and Local Solutions $36 million for the summer food
• I’m assuming that includes providing the food for the students in the summer.
• Sorry—providing the money on the SNAP benefits for the summer food program.
• We were trying to send them to We were trying to send them to churches and food banks and places like
• Thank you. >> Kristen Robinson here with a 2-year contract for food services for the Alabama School of

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• Still, far too many Arizonans are struggling to keep up with the cost of housing, food, health care,
• We can put more money in the pockets of Arizona families, money that will help them put food on the table
• We delivered 10 million school meals to children who needed them, while Washington cut food assistance
• School meals to children who needed them, while Washington cut food assistance, and then held it hostage
• life-threatening medical conditions, many have had to make impossible choices: pay off debt, or put food

Summary: The transcript is the opening joint session of the Arizona Legislature’s 57th Second Regular Session, featuring remarks from House and Senate leaders and Governor Katie Hobbs. House and Senate leaders emphasized a conservative governing agenda focused on affordability, public safety, parental rights, accountability, school choice, election integrity, and water policy, while also highlighting plans for tax cuts and cooperation across chambers. Governor Hobbs centered her address on the “Arizona promise,” stressing affordability, security, and freedom. She highlighted prior actions on job growth, medical debt relief, housing, public safety, border security, water management, and economic development, and announced new proposals including a middle-class tax cut package, a capacity and efficiency initiative to save state funds, a new active management area for La Paz County, a Colorado River Protection Fund, elimination of the data center tax exemption, a housing acceleration fund, and an Arizona Affordability Fund funded in part by a short-term rental fee. She also called for more accountability in the ESA program and for renewing Prop. 123 to support public schools. The governor and legislative leaders also addressed political violence, honoring retiring Senator Lela Alston and recognizing public safety and firefighting personnel. No formal votes or legislative actions were taken in the session; it concluded with the joint session being dissolved after the governor’s remarks.

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• Still, far too many Arizonans are struggling to keep up with the cost of housing, food, health care,
• We can put more money in the pockets of Arizona families, money that will help them put food on the table
• We delivered 10 million school meals to children who needed them, while Washington cut food assistance
• School meals to children who needed them, while Washington cut food assistance, and then held it hostage
• life-threatening medical conditions, many have had to make impossible choices: pay off debt, or put food

Summary: The transcript is the opening joint session of the Arizona Legislature’s 57th Second Regular Session, featuring remarks from House and Senate leaders and Governor Katie Hobbs. House and Senate leaders emphasized a Republican governing agenda focused on affordability, public safety, parental rights, tax cuts, election integrity, school choice, and holding government accountable, while also highlighting cooperation on water policy and border security reimbursement. Senate President Warren Petersen said the legislature would pursue a major tax cut, send an election integrity measure to voters, defend women’s sports and school choice, and continue negotiations on Colorado River guidelines. Governor Hobbs framed her agenda around the “Arizona Promise,” stressing affordability, public safety, water security, housing, and economic opportunity. She highlighted prior-year accomplishments including job growth, medical debt relief, lower costs for child care and housing, public safety investments, and major business recruitment. She called for an immediate middle-class tax cut, more efficient government spending, and new initiatives including a Colorado River Protection Fund, elimination of the data center tax exemption, a housing acceleration fund, and an Arizona Affordability Fund financed in part by a nightly fee on short-term rentals. Hobbs also announced a new active management area for La Paz County to address groundwater depletion, defended her administration’s water and housing policies, and urged renewed funding for public schools while criticizing the ESA program for lack of accountability. She called for bipartisan action on disaster relief after floods in Globe and Miami, and condemned political violence. No legislative votes were taken; the joint session concluded with the governor’s address and the session was dissolved.

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• Additionally, for general operations, what we're going to do is put out a request for proposal for statewide food
• We would like to see proposals for statewide food services, and we have food service managers and food
• It is extremely hard to hire for that job classification, so a lot of facilities have no food service
• They say it was one of the best things they've ever done—to contract out that food service.

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• a robust domestic food supply is the difference between knowing the food we put on our families' table
• move the food, they go to small businesses.
• move the food, they go to small businesses.
• move the food, they go to small businesses.
• , now don't have the opportunity to access food stamps.

Summary: The House opened with prayer, a moment of silence for former member Chester Clem, the Pledge of Allegiance, and quorum verification. Members then adopted the special order report and a Rules and Ethics Committee report amending House Rule 15.3 to allow fundraising under certain circumstances during extended or special sessions. The chamber also recognized Deputy First Class Stefano Gargano as law enforcement officer of the day and several visiting groups in the gallery. On the floor, HB 1405 on a statewide project for missing persons with special needs passed unanimously, 109-0. The House then took up CS/CS/CS/SB 290, the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services bill, which drew questions about surplus conservation lands and oversight by the Acquisition and Restoration Council; it passed 94-10. CS/CS/CS/HB 905, the “Fire Act” on foreign influence, foreign-country-of-concern restrictions, critical infrastructure, gifts, contracts, sister city agreements, and related ethics and criminal provisions, passed 80-20 after debate and a germane amendment was adopted over objections. The House also passed CS/CS/HB 1197 on information technology procurement and contracting, aimed at modernizing oversight of major IT projects, by 109-0. CS/CS/CS/HB 399 on land use development and development regulations passed 71-38 after extensive debate over development fees, manufactured homes, and reducing local supermajority requirements for comprehensive plan changes; an amendment to preserve Orange County’s rural boundary vote failed, and a strike-all amendment was ruled out of order. Members then adopted a technical amendment clarifying manufactured homes language. Several local bills also advanced: HB 1103 on local administration of vessel restrictions passed 109-0; HB 4051 and HB 4053 on Santa Rosa County fire protection district assessments passed 84-25 and 83-27, respectively, after compromise amendments; HB 4081 on the East Point Water and Sewer District passed 110-0; and HB 4093 on the Felsmere Water Control District passed 109-0. The transcript ended as the House moved on to HB 4095, with no final action shown.

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• non-perishable food.
• </c> current exemption we have for for food current exemption we have for for food being<00:13:37.240
• </c><00:13:45.360><c> and</c> between perishable food and between perishable food and non-perishable<
• 00:13:46.080><c> food.
• </c> non-perishable food. non-perishable food.

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• Uh, I understand your statistics, but what you're going to do in 20 years when there's no food to eat
• Uh, I understand your statistics, but what you're going to do in 20 years when there's no food to eat
• The implications on if solar destroys food because I've never heard that statistic before.
• The implications on if solar destroys food because I've never heard that statistic before. >> Okay.
• because I've never heard that food because I've never heard that statistic<00:33:35.679><c> before.

Bills: SB341 , SB340 , SB341 , SB354 , SB340

Committee: Senate Transportation and Energy

Keywords: SB341, Alabama, veteran license plate, veteran tag, distinctive license tag, specialty plate, radiation exposure, atomic bomb testing, ionizing radiation, World War II veterans, Vietnam veterans, Korean War veterans, Cold War veterans, Desert Storm, Desert Shield, Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Enduring Freedom, Operation Inherent Resolve, Department of Veterans Affairs, probate judge

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• , but they usually have really good food.
• I'll be very disappointed in them if there's not really good food tonight, but everybody is invited.
• ><c> good</c><00:39:30.960><c> food.
• So, I'm just have really good food.
• </c><00:39:38.720><c> tonight,</c> there's not really good food tonight, there's not really good food

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• They are passed on through higher food prices, reduced production, or in some cases our very own New
• You could buy more food for your family. And that's all I have to say. Thank you.
• That means failed crops, less food, and less traditional medicine.
• That means failed crops, less food, less traditional medicine.
• In fact, we're fat now instead of skinnier because we have too much food. And so it's just not...

Bills: SB12 , SB36 , SB92 , SB120 , SB133 , SB151 , SB18 , SB96

Committee: Senate Senate Tax, Business & Transportation

Keywords: tax credit, physician, healthcare, income tax, rural health, quantum technology, infrastructure, economic development, New Mexico, corporate tax, research and development, innovation, affordable housing, gross receipts tax, tax deduction, construction materials, multifamily housing, low income, journalism, local news