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• the Big Island uh excuse me Hawaii the Big Island uh excuse me Hawaii Hawaii<00:28:50.919> Island
• there was overwhelming Hawaii Island there was overwhelming testimony<00:28:54.000> in<00:28:
• that my respected chair from Hawaii that my respected chair from Hawaii Island<00:37:40.720>
• The advocates from the Hawaii Water Safety Coalition have been working on legislation regarding swim
• It's an incredible opportunity if we can make geothermal energy work in Hawaii.

Keywords: 910, house, all

Bills: HB199, HB222, HB223, HB224, HB235, HB246, HB405, HB535, HB554, HB907, SCR3, SB43, SB52, SB54, SB113, SB168, SB219, SB222, SB270, SB311, SB359

Keywords: nursing facilities, moratorium, healthcare, patient care, data collection, Medicaid, dental coverage, healthcare access, medical necessity, Louisiana Department of Health, Department of Children and Family Services, sunset law, statutory entities, regulatory authority, re-creation, termination dates, child welfare, foster care, children's rights, legal guardianship

Bills: HB517, HB520, HB233, HB354, HB517, HB520, HB233, HB354

Keywords: underground damage prevention, one-call notification system, utility locating, excavation safety, dig safe, call before you dig, 811, utility lines, underground utilities, pipeline safety, gas pipeline, electric utility, telecommunications, water utility, wastewater, cable television, locate request, premark, tolerance zone, positive response

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• So, there are many states operating on a file-and-use system. It is not unheard of.
• I just think over regulation and switching a system that there's a lot of factors.
• the consumer and the insurer, and It's incredibly important to the wellbeing of our state that this system
• I think a profit cap in a free market system is just It's not the answer to me.

Bills: SB1969, SB1953, SB1277, SB1287, SB1061, SB1916, SB1589, SB2178, SB1444, SB1438, SB1501, SB1873, SB1364

Keywords: massage therapy, licensing, multistate compact, regulation, healthcare, professionals, Employer Health Plan Transparency Act, health insurance, claims data, contract provisions, health care providers, auditable materials, HIPAA compliance, insurance regulation, unemployment benefits, employment security, work search, job search, reemployment, jobless benefits

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• My team indicated that there are significant costs associated with this proposal, such as system changes
• I don't know why we worry about taking people that are abusing a system off of it.
• So how are we, how is the system, how are you going to differentiate between the bad actors and those
• And so for the next 25 years, they made the state build the system.
• And so the system has been built around Arnold v. Sarn.

Bills: HB2408, HB2434, HB2725, HB2728, HB2729, HB2730, HB2731, HB2732, HB2733, SB1192, SB1398, SB1399, SB1494, SB1557, SB1813, SB1821

Keywords: nursing board, regulatory actions, disciplinary actions, expungement, healthcare professionalism, controlled substances, prescription monitoring, opioid crisis, healthcare regulations, patient safety, prescription drugs, opioids, healthcare, pain management, utilization controls, AHCCCS, Department of Economic Security, social services, welfare programs, vocational rehabilitation

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• Any excess revenue after actual costs are recovered must be reinvested in the utility system or returned
• Any excess revenue after actual costs are recovered must be reinvested in the utility system or returned
• of a day, and this is a great thing that will actually help more people engage in our government system
• There is a cost to extend infrastructure and maintain that system.
• Would you say that the current system or setup at the state level mirrors the requirements that we're

Bills: S0018, S0028, S0260, S0848, S0934, S1014, S1102, S1264, S1566, S1622, S1724

Keywords: negligence, compensation, child welfare, law enforcement accountability, personal injury, police negligence, law enforcement, monetary compensation, civil rights, city liability, electric vehicle, EV, battery fire, lithium-ion battery, towing, wrecker service, vehicle storage, submerged vehicle, saltwater damage, fire marshal

Summary: The committee heard and advanced a wide range of bills focused on water safety, utilities, housing, transparency, and claims relief. CS/SB 848 on stormwater treatment was presented as a follow-up to prior water-quality legislation and reported favorably with one support waiver. SB 28, a claims bill for Reginald Jackson against the City of Lakeland, was also reported favorably. CS/SB 658, a bipartisan child-drowning prevention bill for rental properties, drew extensive testimony from child advocacy and drowning-prevention groups in strong support; amendments required rental license applicants to certify compliance and removed local-government add-on authority, and the bill was reported favorably. CS/SB 18, a claims bill involving the estate of a deceased minor and the Broward County Sheriff’s Office, prompted questions about settlement and responsibility but was ultimately reported favorably despite opposition from a waiver form. Several utility and infrastructure measures were considered. CS/SB 1724 would regulate municipal utility service outside city limits, limit revenue transfers, require public meetings, and cap rate differences; an amendment added gas utilities, and the bill was reported favorably after testimony from municipal utility representatives and small-county advocates. CS/SB 1014 would require municipal utilities to extend water and wastewater service to certain nearby residential properties without conditioning service on annexation; an amendment narrowed the bill to residential uses and clarified capacity and grandfathering provisions, and it passed favorably. CS/SB 1102 would allow local infrastructure surtax revenue to fund body camera programs, with an amendment making the surtax authorization prospective and requiring a new referendum; it was reported favorably. CS/SB 260 on electric-vehicle storage in towing yards was amended to focus on storage only and to tie the higher fee to the period before fire-risk inspection, then reported favorably after testimony from insurers, fire officials, and EV industry representatives. The committee also advanced education, housing, and ethics-related bills. SB 1264 would ease zoning and code barriers for small private schools and micro-schools, with supporters arguing it would expand school choice and opponents raising implementation concerns; it was reported favorably. SB 934 on Florida Keys areas of critical state concern was amended to remove a tax-exemption section that conflicted with the Live Local Act, then reported favorably. SB 1622 would provide a one-time waiver of late financial-disclosure fines under specified conditions and was reported favorably. Finally, CS/SB 1566 on local government spending and transparency required online posting of budgets and related materials, and an amendment added utility revenue reinvestment and other changes while removing DEI spending restrictions; the bill drew support for transparency but concern from small cities and counties about cost and workload, and it was reported favorably. The meeting ended with adjournment after senators recorded votes on selected bills.

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• It creates a redundant system that Arizona would now be responsible for administering.
• It creates a redundant system that Arizona would now be responsible for administering.
• Madam Chair: Kelsey, if I understand right, it would be very, very hard under the system that's being
• Obviously you're concerned about this system here where it offers the telemedicine.
• This is a very long time to wait to be paid, and the system... It is a problem.

Bills: SB1021, SB1144, SB1164, SB1178, SB1181, SB1241, SB1247, SB1286, SB1415, SCR1011

Keywords: health profession, regulatory boards, criminal activity, notification, auditor general, investigations, veterinary technicians, certification, education alternative, Arizona Revised Statutes, veterinary education, ALTCS, providers, ownership change, healthcare, Arizona Long Term Care System, naturopathic physician, naturopathic medicine, naturopathic doctor, naturopathic physicians medical board

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• 1908 relates to a study by the Coordinating Board on the feasibility of implementing a statewide system
• The price of the lawyer was daunting, and he warned us that it is a biased system.
• Senate Bill 111 brings much needed transparency and accountability to this broken system.
• I want to cast light on solutions because I discovered in our system... ...of education, we have laws
• The existing system isn't working.

Bills: SB205, SB582, SB625, SB1884, SB1903, SB2600, SB2617, SB2751, SB111, SB3061, SB1908

Keywords: fetal development, health curriculum, public schools, middle school health education, grade 7, grade 8, State Board of Education, school health advisory council, Texas Education Code, pregnancy, reproductive health, infertility, birth defects, prenatal development, unborn child, trimester, medically accurate instruction, age-appropriate instruction, drug and alcohol effects, lead exposure

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• She was airlifted and had to be revived multiple times on her way to the trauma hospital.
• In order for individuals to get a fair system, they need to have a fair shot.
• There's almost always a systemic reason. Failure of the company to enforce safety rules.
• I've used the Harris County Toll Road System as a model for the state.
• The system has expanded, and they've taken great care of it.

Bills: SB39, SB2129, SB2141, SB2246, SB2323, SB2439, SB2722, SB 39

Keywords: commercial motor vehicle, truck liability, motor carrier, trucking, civil liability, respondeat superior, negligent entrustment, negligent maintenance, negligent loading, negligent repair, bifurcated trial, exemplary damages, punitive damages, personal injury, collision, employer liability, vicarious liability, Civil Practice and Remedies Code, Texas tort reform, commercial truck accident

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• These are the data that our system analysts provided for the City of Houston.
• those funds to be diverted from the toll system.
• Their toll road system would put that money into the non-toll County roads.
• In 2024 alone, constable deputies handled nearly 160,000 incidents on our system.
• When EMS comes onto our system, they do come onto our system.

Bills: SB39, SB2129, SB2141, SB2246, SB2323, SB2439, SB2722, SB 39

Keywords: commercial motor vehicle, truck liability, motor carrier, trucking, civil liability, respondeat superior, negligent entrustment, negligent maintenance, negligent loading, negligent repair, bifurcated trial, exemplary damages, punitive damages, personal injury, collision, employer liability, vicarious liability, Civil Practice and Remedies Code, Texas tort reform, commercial truck accident

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• This, sir, is in effect system financing—regional mobility made possible by developing.
• Fort Bend County Toll Road relies on system financing to fund critical infrastructure.
• System financing is relatively new, over the past maybe two decades.
• Our transportation system isn't working as well as it could for most Texans.
• I gave them the system map.

Bills: HJR58, HJR63, HB263, HB542, HB905, HB 1288, HB1402, HB2003, HB2262, HB2323, HB2429, HB2876, HB3019, HB263

Keywords: healthcare, insurance, elderly, retirement, benefits, transit-oriented projects, constitutional amendment, state highway fund, funding allocation, voter approval, highway fund, funding, public transportation, transit projects, transportation, local transit, fund allocation, voting rights, election integrity, ballot access

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• Spend that whole first week going over your classroom management systems and rehearsing those systems
• And if you don't have a system in place to train them on how to do that, then your classroom quickly
• One classroom had clear systems, clear consequences, clear rules.
• A system that's kind of like what we have in our, in our correction system. Totally.
• And to share how a phone-free system has transformed our campus.

Bills: HB6, HB27, HB123, HB210, HB213, HB222

Keywords: hemp, consumable hemp products, hemp-derived cannabinoids, CBD, cannabidiol, CBG, cannabigerol, Texas hemp law, hemp regulation, cannabinoid products, delta-9 THC, intoxicating hemp, hemp gummies, hemp vape, retail registration, product registration, QR code labeling, child-resistant packaging, youth access, minor sales

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• The bill leverages a system that's already in place today.
• As a result of these initiatives, infrastructure such as walls roads and surveillance systems have been

Bills: HB195, HB247, HB255, HJR2, HJR4, HJR6, HJR31, HJR34, HB195, HB247, HB255, HJR6, HJR31, HJR34

Keywords: school district, ad valorem tax, local revenue, tax collection, education funding, border security, tax exemption, ad valorem, real property, infrastructure, Texas-Mexico border, ad valorem taxation, farm products, livestock, timber, death tax, inheritance tax, estate tax, property transfer, constitutional amendment

Keywords: HI Senate YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS0VbQIk5fQ, 2026-07-02T01:22:43+00:00, 2.2.24, Data collected via generic collector engine, Scheduled for February 4, 2020: Ke Kōmike ‘Enehana COMMITTEE ON TECHNOLOGY Kenekoa/Senator Jarrett Keohokalole, Luna Ho‘omalu/Chair Kenekoa/Senator J. Kalani English, Hope Luna Ho‘omalu/Vice Chair Ke Kōmike Hana Aupuni COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS Kenekoa/Senator Laura H. Thielen, Luna Ho‘omalu/Chair Kenekoa/Senator Lorraine R. Inouye, Hope Luna Ho‘omalu/Vice Chair ‘Ōlelo Ho‘olaha No Ka ‘Aha Ho‘olohe NOTICE OF HEARING Lā / DATE: Pō‘alua,Pepeluali 4, 2020 / Tuesday, February 4, 2020 Hola / TIME: 3:45 p.m. Wahi / PLACE: Lumi ‘Aha Kūkā 225 / Conference Room 225 Ke Kapikala Moku‘āina / State Capitol 415 South Beretania Street Papa Kumuhana A G E N D A SB 3031 RELATING TO INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY. Requires the department of accounting and general services and the department of budget and finance, in consultation with the office of enterprise technology services, to develop and implement a uniform financial database, with parameters, benefits, and features that are compatible to the software system currently being implemented by the office of enterprise technology services at other agencies for use by all state agencies. Appropriates funds. TEC/GVO, WAM No Ka ‘Ike ‘Ē A‘e, E Kelepona Aku I Ke Kākau ‘Ōlelo Kōmike Ma (808) 587-7217. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL THE COMMITTEE CLERK AT (808) 587-7217., 912, senate, all, 2.2.42, 2.1.47

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• You can become a California Board Approved Program and we wouldn't have a two tiered system.
• AI systems misrepresenting themselves as health professionals.
• On AI systems, powerful capabilities can enable it to convincingly mimic a health professional.
• Allowing for an AI system to claim physician status could be dangerously misleading.
• I'll Hawaii I on the consent calendar a Hawaii a Hawaii I Bonta. Aye. Aye. Okay.

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• And joining us, kind of spread all over the gallery this morning, are members of the Hawaii Building
• Construction Trades Council, which represent over 30,000 unionized workers in the trades in the state of Hawaii
• Regimental Combat Team, Veterans Club, sons and daughters of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, and the Hawaii
• 442nd re uh regimental combat team and 442nd re uh regimental combat team and the<00:02:54.239> Hawaii
• the Hawaii Coalition for Civil Rights. the Hawaii Coalition for Civil Rights.

Keywords: 912, senate, all

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• We have Jay Morford, Hawaii Funeral and Cemetery Association.
• We have Jay Morford, Hawaii Funeral and Cemetery Association. Good afternoon, chair, vice chair.
• Um, I'm president of the Hawaii Funeral and Cemetery Association and we stand on our written testimony
• > Funeral<00:20:48.640> and have Jay Morford, Hawaii Funeral and have Jay Morford, Hawaii
• president of the Hawaii Funeral and Cemetery<00:20:59.200> Association<00:21:00.000> and

Keywords: 912, senate, all

Summary: The Government Operations Committee met on March 20, 2025, and heard two resolutions. STR 239/SR 215 would request the Department of the Attorney General, Department of Land and Natural Resources, and Honolulu Department of Parks and Recreation to provide universal changing accommodations in state facilities, state parks, and city and county parks. The only testimony noted was late comments from DAG; no one testified in person or on Zoom. The committee also heard STR 44, which seeks to convene a legislative working group to recommend family notice and standardized consent provisions for pre-contracts governing cremation. Testimony was mixed: DCCA’s complaints and enforcement office asked to include the Department of Health Environmental branch, while the Hawaii Funeral and Cemetery Association, Mililani Group, Dodo Mortuary, and Soy Garden Mortuary opposed the measure, saying funeral homes already provide the relevant disclosures; Senator Carol Fukunaga and one individual testified in support. The chair said the issue belonged more properly in the consumer protection committee, but the committee would still move the resolution forward and note the concerns in the report. In decision-making, the committee adopted both measures as Senate Draft 1 with technical, non-substantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style. For STR 44, the committee also agreed to keep DCCA in the working group, add the Department of Health Environmental branch, and change the phrase “mainland jurisdiction” to “other states.” The measures passed with the vice chair and Senator Sam Bentura voting yes, while Senators Morawaki and Favilla were excused.

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• want to say mahalo to Senator Chris Lee as he turns 45 today and inches toward that milestone of Hawaii
• of Hawaii 50. Please give him a hand. of Hawaii 50. Please give him a hand.
• deputy agent general for the<00:05:25.600> state<00:05:25.840> of<00:05:26.000> Hawaii
• <00:05:26.560> Department<00:05:26.960> of the state of Hawaii Department of the state
• of Hawaii Department of Defense,<00:05:27.759> he's<00:05:28.080> with<00:05:28.320>

Keywords: 912, senate, all

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• Conference committee meeting, 10:15 a.m., agenda in Conference Room 16, Hawaii State Capitol.
• Up first we have Senate Bill 855, Senate draft 1, House draft 1, relating to Hawaii Retirement...
• Relating to Hawaii Retirement Savings Act, Senate conferees are myself as chair, Co-chair Senator Inouye
• working group the executive director, working group the executive director, the<00:08:16.960> Hawaii
• State Commission on the the Hawaii State Commission on the Status<00:08:18.479> of<00:08:18.639

Keywords: 912, senate, all

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• adult justice system.
• Comprehensive reform of our bail system. I move passage.
• The Texas public school finance system, and I'm impressed. Thank you.
• acquiring a small water system with compliance.
• So, Texas Health Resources is a faith-based nonprofit health system.

Bills: SB4, SB23, SB3, SJR2, SJR85, SB34, SB60, SB75, SB706, SB1814, SB1220, SB523, SB565, SB1253, SB840, SB764, SB2383, SB2155, SB1535, SB1405, SB1423, SB1566, SB1804, SB1728, SB1816, SB1952, SB1948, SB2037, SB2068, SB1455, SB213, SB243, SB627, SB646, SB670, SB896, SB917, SB1184, SB971, SB1255, SB1261, SB1283, SB1358, SB991, SB1733, SB21, SB231, SB739, SB1252, SB1371, SB664, SB40, SB9, SJR1, SB687, SB1332, SB458, SB482, SB927, SB984, SB651, SB1620, SB2124, SB2448, SB841, SB843, SB402, SB2662, SB2053, SB2332, SB2112, SB745, SB1247, SB1789, SB27, SB207, SB2938, SB1901, SB1227, SB1248, SB912, SB1321, SB2143, SB2145, SB1497, SB1239, SB2180, SB1388, SB1662, SB1951, SB1537, SB493, SB378, SB1020, SB1018, SB992, SB958, SB920, SB1350, SB1762, SB552, HCR109, SB2185, SB4, SB23, SB3, SJR2, SJR85, SB34, SB60, SB75, SB706, SB1814, SB1220, SB523, SB565, SB1253, SB840, SB764, SB2383, SB2155, SB1535, SB1405, SB1423, SB1566, SB1804, SB1728, SB1816, SB1952, SB1948, SB2037, SB2068, SB1455, SB213, SB243, SB627, SB646, SB670, SB896, SB917, SB1184, SB971, SB1255, SB1261, SB1283, SB1358, SB991, SB1733, SB21, SB231, SB739, SB1252, SB1371, HB2970, HB 109, SB2308

Keywords: property tax, homestead exemption, school funding, state aid, constitutional amendment, elderly, disabled, ad valorem taxation, school district funding, SJR 2, Senate Joint Resolution 2, property tax relief, school property tax, ad valorem tax, residence homestead, school district taxes, Texas Constitution Article VIII, public school finance, homeowner exemption, elderly exemption