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• So thank you. >> And thank you for your service on the board, too. >> All right.
• <00:12:49.279> interviewer and I'm a certified forensic interviewer and I'm a certified forensic
• pretty concerning to me as as a forensic pretty concerning to me as as a forensic interviewer<00
• >> and thank you for your service on the board,<00:15:00.160> too.
• <01:21:53.920> We without services those days. We without services those days.

Bills: SF0082

Keywords: registered agents, corporate governance, entity ownership, business regulations, transparency, 916, all

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• fund to three separate funds for a total of $12 million for the benefit of our emergency medical services
• One such fund under the bill is the Medical Services Crisis Response and Mental Health Treatment Fund
• The amendment corrects the oversight to include fees and levies for fire and ambulance services, ensuring
• or attempts to injure, intimidate, or interfere with a person's right to medical care or medical forensic
• ...and county boards with information regarding available post-secondary transition programs and services

Keywords: 994, senate, all

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• Services thank you Senator members there Services thank you Senator members there is<00:04:05.040>
• A specific example of missing infrastructure was the lack of forensic medical services available in our
• critical services closer to home.
• assault Survivor who needed a forensic assault Survivor who needed a forensic exam<00:07:46.520>
• > of legal service Services is comprised of legal service Services is comprised of multiple<00

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

Bills: SB2138, SB2054, SB2987, SB2908, SB2702, SB2924, SB3248, SB2635, SB3127, SB3001, SB2294, SB2037, SB2797, SB2765, SB2961, SB2210, SB2948, SB3108, SB3240, SB2045, SB2675, SB2338, SB2451, SB2552, SB2553, SB3089, SB3176, SB3285, SB2234, SB2219, SB2312, SB2336, SB2343, SB2849, SB2928, SB2930, SB3332, SB2927, SB2983, SB2906, SB2353, SB2848, SB2340, SB2845, SB3246, SB3077, SB3254, SB2934, SB2571, SB2248, SB2471, SB2298, SB2413, SB2425, SB3045, SB2843, SB2595, SB2907, SB3204, SB2311, SB2532, SB2528, SB2313, SB3300, SB2530, SB2693, SB2010, SB3156, SB2697, SB2991, SB3153, SB2812, SB2527, SB2376, SB3081, SB3218, SB3219, SB3333, SB2232, SB2192, SB2378, SB2070, SB3011, SB2676, SB2957, SB2434, SB2673, SB3301, SB2247, SB2453, SB2457, SB2075, SB2811, SB2601, SB2258, SB2612, SB3263, SB3261, SB3334, SB2613

Keywords: SB2138, Hawaii National Guard, state tuition assistance, STAP, graduate degree, graduate education, tuition assistance, University of Hawaii, UH, Department of Defense, adjutant general, enlisted personnel, warrant officers, company grade officers, military education, veterans benefits, higher education, state residency, professional development, retention

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• local law enforcement agency to determine whether a kit should undergo DNA or other appropriate forensic
• The law enforcement agency to determine whether a kit should undergo DNA or other appropriate forensic
• if sexual assault evidence has been collected and has not yet received DNA or other appropriate forensic
• What services will we cut? No one is answering those questions, and no one will.
• What services will we cut? No one is answering those questions, and no one will.

Keywords: Scheduler, 972, senate, all

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• Senator Verbaton, crime victim services Senator Verbaton, crime victim services grants.<00:16:48.800
• and statutoily mandated services. and statutoily mandated services.
• Crime victim services.
• crime victim services. crime victim services. Senator<01:19:55.760> Watz. Senator Watz.
• services providers. services providers. Senator<01:29:07.440> Lur.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• And so, we have just services bill.
• 24.720> or<00:17:24.880> forensic file 2861, forensic rate or forensic file 2861, forensic
• Then we have crime victim services Then we have crime victim services grants.<00:25:30.320> The
• from the driver and vehicle services from the driver and vehicle services operating<00:28:30.520
• This is trunk highway debt service.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• that you may be six months waiting on forensics that totally changes the case.
• forensics that totally changes the case. forensics that totally changes the case.
• The problem is if there's forensic evidence out there and things of that nature, I'm worried about
• Will you just, for the committee, let them know your past history of service to the state of Alabama
• to the state of history of service to the state of Alabama<00:46:50.160> and<00:46:50.600>

Bills: SB118, SB203, HB420, HB414, HB363, HB405, HB261, HB263, HB327, HB348, HB228, HB282, SB273, HB7, SB296, SB199, SB47, SB204, HB80, HB11, HB192

Keywords: bail, offenses, constitutional amendment, criminal justice, law enforcement, public safety, dental insurance, medical loss ratio, premium regulation, insurance commissioner, rebate, consumer protection, Baldwin County, local bill, education funding, school tax, privilege license tax, county tax revenue, municipal school board, Baldwin County Board of Education

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• , the recognition of service overseas.
• And thank you for your service.
• They're related to armed services, right, related to.
• So it would do a lot to have their service honored in my district.
• Thank you for your service, too.

Keywords: 959, house, all

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• Our human service zones make a lot of referrals.
• The services are personalized and it's flexible.
• I am a certified computer forensic examiner with over 15 years of experience in digital forensics.
• I am a certified computer forensic examiner with over 15 years of experience in digital forensics and
• maybe received some mental health services.

Summary: The committee met to approve prior minutes and then heard a presentation from Dr. Ramona Danielson on adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), focusing on the economic and public-system impacts in North Dakota. She explained that ACEs are a population-level measure, not a diagnostic tool for individuals, and said higher ACE exposure is consistently associated with more chronic illness, mental health challenges, child welfare involvement, justice-system contact, and reduced workforce participation. She emphasized that precise dollar estimates are difficult because of the many interacting factors across a person’s life course, but said the direction of the impact is clear and that evidence-based prevention and protective factors can reduce harm. Members asked about definitions of a “healthy family,” same-sex couples, divorce, substance abuse, historical trends in ACEs, and the role of positive childhood experiences and home visiting. The committee then heard from Allison Mahoney and Missy Barranco about evidence-based home visiting programs in North Dakota, including Healthy Families, Early Head Start, Nurse-Family Partnership, and Parents as Teachers. They described home visiting as voluntary, relationship-based, and tailored to family needs, with referrals coming from hospitals, WIC, human service zones, pregnancy navigators, self-referrals, and other community sources. A parent, Abby, shared that home visiting helped her family after premature births and NICU stays by providing support with postpartum mental health, breastfeeding, developmental screenings, referrals, and parenting guidance. The presenters said the programs are funded through a mix of federal MIECHV/Title IV-E dollars, Medicaid targeted case management, state and tribal funds, philanthropy, charitable gaming, and grants, and they noted that current funding is fragmented and insufficient to serve all eligible families statewide. Members discussed whether the state should expand or better fund these services and how to improve outreach and referrals. Later, the committee received a memorandum on artificial intelligence and sexual exploitation, followed by a presentation from a BCI special agent on how AI is already affecting child exploitation investigations in North Dakota. The memo and testimony described AI-generated child sexual abuse material, deepfakes, sextortion, and risks posed by chatbots, along with relevant federal and state law and recent executive orders. The agent said North Dakota saw 2,698 cyber tips in 2025, the highest on record, and that investigators are increasingly encountering AI-assisted exploitation that is harder to detect and verify. Members discussed the need for child-safety protections, the limits of executive orders, and broader concerns about AI undermining critical thinking and spreading misinformation. No votes were taken on the AI materials during the portion provided, and the committee recessed briefly after the report.

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• How would this affect Service members on duty outside of the United States. So, there is a.
• What would the author consider an amendment specifically outlining service members on temporary orders
• Would you be willing to consider an amendment specifically for money sent to service members on active
• you know the The folks at OSBI forecasted what they looked at as the number of agents, analysts, forensic
• It would also go to acquiring digital forensic technology and investigative tools specific to this area

Bills: SB1936, SB1612, SB1543, SB1260, SB1988, SB1859, SB2041, SB1257, HB4272, HB3277, HB3148, HB3651, HB3323, HB4287, HB4105, HB3304, HB3345

Keywords: forfeiture, criminal offenses, law enforcement, Class D1 offenses, property seizure, SB1612, mandatory reporting, violent injury reporting, gunshot wound, stab wound, poisoning, burn injury, explosive injury, medical reporting, healthcare providers, law enforcement notification, evidence preservation, patient video records, confidentiality waiver, misdemeanor penalty

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• <00:04:19.479> provided survivors the types of services provided survivors the types of services
• and resources and other services and resources and other services including<00:04:34.199> those
• We need lawmakers to take immediate action to ensure that services for all crime victim service providers
• about how it's impacting Direct Services about how it's impacting Direct Services organizations<
• Services provided by us as service Services provided by us as service providers<00:26:12.919>

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• And we don't even have a commissioner Services, the agency most overrun with Services, the agency most
• When autism services and housing stabilization services grew by multitudes year-over-year, the state
• For example, many states require electronic visit verification for PCA services and other services.
• services and other services. services and other services.
• addiction services.

Keywords: 918, senate, all

Summary: Senate Republican leaders held a press event to roll out a package of anti-fraud proposals focused on state welfare and human services programs. Mark Johnson opened by citing recent fraud scandals, including a shuttered housing program and reports of vulnerable adults being left without care while providers billed for full services, and said Republicans want top-down reform, stronger accountability, new technology, and tighter oversight of taxpayer dollars. Michael Kreun said Republicans support an independent Office of Inspector General and argued the Senate-passed bill should not be weakened in the House; he also said the Senate should restore its role in confirming agency commissioners, especially at DHS, which he described as central to the fraud problem. Jordan Rasmusson outlined a plan to stop “blank checks” for DHS and DCYF services by requiring legislative audit review when a program exceeds budget by 5 percent and legislative approval for additional spending at 10 percent over budget. He also said DHS should adopt basic integrity tools such as electronic visit verification and client sign-off. Steve Drazkowski described two bills: a statewide “do-not-pay” list to block payments to ineligible people or entities, and an “I’m Not a Robot” proposal for Medicaid managed care that would require enrollee verification forms, with a 2 percent payment withhold used to encourage compliance and potentially fund county system upgrades. Mark Krueger said the state should improve technology and data use for eligibility determinations, citing other states’ rapid fraud-fighting systems, and proposed penalties for false reporting to the Legislative Auditor after a DHS audit found falsified site-visit records. Steve Gruenhagen said his bill would require DHS and DCYF to resume annual fraud-prevention and oversight reports to the legislature, which he said had stopped after 2017 despite rising fraud cases. Michael Holmstrom proposed unannounced site visits for all DHS and DCYF providers before enrollment, reenrollment, and revalidation, funded through provider service fees, and cited a recent case involving a woman with autism who was billed for far more care than she received. In the Q&A, Kreun said House Democrats’ delete-everything amendment to the inspector general bill removed the law enforcement division and stripped the bill of its “teeth,” and he suggested the governor’s office may have been involved in efforts to replace the bill with a weaker coordination council model. No votes were taken in the press conference.

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• [snorts] The DRRA in consultation with the DOE commissioner may require a financial or forensic audit
• 49.840> or commissioner may require a financial or commissioner may require a financial or forensic
• forensic audit to be done. forensic audit to be done.
• Authorizing the Department of Revenue to order a forensic audit, with consultation from the department
• We do get a lot of requests to do a forensic audit.

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

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• It's not a forensic audit. It's not do. It's not a forensic audit.
• ,<00:31:12.720> they with 30 or more years of service, they with 30 or more years of service
• And they 12-month break in service.
• <00:49:40.240> for with less than 30 years of service for with less than 30 years of service
• Uh, when you talk about breaking service of a retiree, you're talking about someone who is breaking service

Keywords: Meeting Start: 00:00:09 Attendance Roll Call: 00:01:42 Approval of Minutes: 00:03:23 Overview of Actuarial Audit Process: 00:03:47 Overview of Reemployment After Retirement Provisions: 00:25:26 Teachers’ Retirement System: 00:25:26 Kentucky Public Pensions Authority: 00:50:32 Adjournment: 01:02:55, 958, all

Summary: The meeting began with quorum, approval of the prior minutes, and an announcement that the June meeting had been canceled and replaced by this combined May/June meeting; the next official PPOB meeting was announced for July 21 at 2:30. Staff then gave an overview of the Public Pension Oversight Board’s required actuarial audit process, explaining that House Bill 238 requires a review every five years of the retirement systems’ actuarial assumptions and methods, funded by the systems themselves. The presentation distinguished this audit from a financial or forensic audit, described the three possible audit levels (full replication, limited/spot review, or basic review), and noted that the last audit in 2021 was a level one performed by Milleman Consulting at a cost of about $190,000. Members discussed timing for the next audit cycle, with a request to LRC likely needed in July or August to target the June 30, 2026 valuation, and several members expressed interest in another level one review. Questions also addressed whether prior audits found major issues; staff said the 2021 review was generally clean but recommended more consistency in reporting and assumptions across systems. The committee then welcomed new staff and interns, including Odet Guanzi of KPPPA and Team Kentucky intern Amamira Bowman. Bo Barnes of the Teachers Retirement System presented an overview of the statutory framework for reemployment after retirement under KRS 161.605. He explained that the law is intended to let retirees return to help with staffing needs, do so in an actuarially sound way through required contributions, and keep TRS compliant with federal tax rules for a qualified plan under section 401(a). Barnes described the required breaks in service and earnings limits for retirees returning part-time or full-time, including the three-month or 12-month break depending on the employer, the 6,900-day limit, and the daily wage threshold based on years of service. He also noted a lightly used critical shortage program that allows school districts to hire retirees without a wage cap, while still observing the break-in-service rules. Members asked questions about who decides the scope and level of the actuarial audit, how the audit would treat leave balances and other benefit-related items, and whether the prior level one audit identified substantial problems. Staff said the committee would request the audit, but LRC would handle contracting, and that the audit scope could include items like sick leave and annual leave costs if requested. On the reemployment topic, Barnes emphasized that the rules are designed to avoid pre-arranged retire-and-return arrangements that could jeopardize TRS’s tax-qualified status. No formal votes were taken beyond approving the minutes, and the meeting concluded with the presentations and discussion of these pension oversight issues.

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• Welcome to the subcommittee, the Appropriations Subcommittee for Health and Human Services.
• So they're migrating services.
• We run all of the state's outpatient services, all of those community-based services.
• Right, so we have the forensic stuff.
• But again, we looked at all those services.

Keywords: 914, all

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• Speaker, your Committee on Health and Human Services, to which was referred Senate Bill No. 192, has
• Speaker, your Committee on Health and Human Services, to which was referred Senate Bill No. 262, is at
• Speaker, I move that Senate Bill 504 be referred to your Committee on Health and Human Services.
• I have Amendment No. 904 proposed by the Committee on Health and Human Services.
• I have Amendment No. 905 proposed by the Committee on Health and Human Services.

Keywords: 909, all

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• already been convictions, where there's some allegations of ineffective assistance of counsel, false forensic
• already been convictions, where there's some allegations of ineffective assistance of counsel, false forensic
• of allegations of ineffective assistance of counsel,<01:00:09.160> false<01:00:09.560> forensic
• <01:00:10.040> evidence,<01:00:11.160> DNA counsel, false forensic evidence, DNA counsel
• , false forensic evidence, DNA stuff.<01:00:11.840> So I can keep going on about how careful I

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• Many parts of the road, there's no cell phone service. So that's number one.
• <00:45:02.480> But service. So that's number one. But service. So that's number one.
• You know, if you social service agency.
• <02:11:09.119> It know, um, you know, social services.
• It know, um, you know, social services.

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

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• When we invest in victim services, we are not just helping an individual child.
• Prioritizing services over detention is not being lenient. It is being effective.
• We provide equipment and supported monitoring services to that agency. ...parole.
• And there's no way for these companies to be able to do their services.
• There's services.

Summary: The committee first handled several housekeeping items, voluntarily deferring HB 123, HB 255, and HB 994 without objection. It then took up SCR 3 by Senator Brock Myers, which would delay and revise implementation of a state police rule affecting criminal history background checks for licensed ambulance personnel and certain health care workers. After adopting Amendment Set 434 to remove a provision involving parish and local law enforcement checks, the committee reported SCR 3 as amended favorably. The committee also heard HB 978 by Rep. Lecombe, which as amended raises the population threshold for municipalities required to remit certain special costs to the District Indigent Defender Fund from under 5,000 to under 9,000; with support from the town of Addis and related stakeholders, the bill was reported favorably as amended. The committee then considered HB 967 by Rep. Moore, which sought to remove language limiting parole eligibility for certain pre-July 2, 1973 life-sentenced offenders to those who had pleaded guilty, thereby allowing a small group of elderly inmates convicted at trial to seek parole consideration. Supporters argued the bill would only create an opportunity for review, not release, and cited rehabilitation and fairness concerns; opponents, including district attorneys and corrections officials, argued the 2022 law already addressed the intended group and that the current bill would reopen cases involving serious violent crimes. After extended debate, the motion to report HB 967 favorably failed on an 8-3 vote. Finally, the committee took up HB 1107 by Rep. Melerine, a bill on determining intellectual disability in capital cases. The bill, as amended, raised the burden of proof to clear and convincing evidence, set an IQ threshold framework, required expert reports and Daubert-type reliability review, and limited the article to post-conviction capital cases. The Attorney General’s office and district attorneys supported the bill as a way to create clearer procedures and speed resolution of Atkins claims, while criminal defense lawyers, disability advocates, clergy, and medical experts opposed it as inconsistent with current clinical standards and potentially unconstitutional, warning that rigid IQ cutoffs and presumptions could wrongly expose people with intellectual disabilities to execution. The transcript ends during closing remarks on HB 1107, with no final committee vote shown.