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MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Judiciary Finance and Civil Law Committee 3/10/26

Judiciary Finance and Civil Law

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Summary: The committee approved the minutes from March 5 by voice vote and welcomed new member Representative Van Binsbergen. It then took up House File 2354, which Chair Liebling moved to re-refer to the Public Safety Finance and Policy Committee. Representative Norris presented the bill as an updated version of the Medical Assistance Protection Act, aimed at strengthening the Attorney General’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, closing loopholes, equalizing fraud penalties, and increasing penalties for large-scale Medicaid fraud. Attorney General Ellison said the bill would add 18 specialized staff to the unit, moving it from 32 to 50 positions, and argued the federal-state matching structure makes the Attorney General’s office the proper home for the funding because the unit is dedicated to Medicaid fraud work. Nick Wonka, director of the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, explained the bill’s provisions affecting committee jurisdiction: expanded subpoena authority to obtain financial account contents in provider-fraud investigations, conforming legal representation language to preserve the unit’s authority, venue changes to allow charging in counties where parts of the offense occurred, and a restitution change to let courts order restitution for related conduct in the same scheme. He said the subpoena change would speed investigations and align the Attorney General’s authority with other agencies, and that the restitution change would help recover more fraudulently obtained Medicaid funds. No public testimony was offered. Members questioned why the funding should go to the Attorney General’s office rather than the BCA, whether the new records authority was federally required, how the venue language would work across state lines, and whether the added FTEs indicated the fraud problem was larger than expected. Ellison and Wonka responded that the federal grant requires the work to stay within the Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, that the unit’s investigators are specialized and work with, but separate from, law enforcement, and that the venue provision applies only within Minnesota while out-of-state matters would be referred to the appropriate authorities. The amendment that had been posted was withdrawn and not offered.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Education Policy Committee 2/18/26

Education Policy

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  • Do they have a judicial warrant? Then they can have access. Do they not? No.
  • We educate independents. It doesn't matter to us.
  • We educate independents. It doesn't matter to us.
Bills: HF3435, HF3409
TX
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  • HB 2760 clarifies and standardizes the Judicial Review Process for individuals appealing unemployment
  • The bill addresses this issue by explicitly allowing agreed parties to file for judicial review in either
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

State Affairs Apr 9th, 2025

State Affairs

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  • It give us more independence here in Texas. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Glass.
  • Uh, currently, when someone makes a direct expenditure, often called an independent expenditure to support
  • We in the energy efficiency community like our acronyms, the largest independent energy efficiency focused
TX

Texas 89th Regular

State Affairs Apr 9th, 2025

State Affairs

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  • This idea was brought to me by Matagorda County Judicial - Bobby Schiefferman, who sees the need for
  • Supreme Court muster, and I would love to see it give us more independence here in Texas.
  • But HB 4406, currently when someone makes a direct expenditure, often called an independent expenditure
  • ACEEE is the largest independent energy efficiency-focused non-profit organization advancing solutions
TX
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  • Study by Judicial Watch found that 33 Texas counties had registration rates. exceeding 100% of eligible
  • audit. independent audit board of some sort rather than having the election office doing the counting
  • These same protections should be applied to independent expenditures to avoid creating an unnecessary
  • Independent studies debunk all of those claims.
  • I'm the chief financial officer for the Katy Independent School District, and I'm here in opposition
TX
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  • you still have is the Court of Criminal Appeals, the expert... in criminal law within the Texas judicial
  • They're parallel, but they're independent.
  • My name is Philip Mack Furlow, I'm the Judicial District Attorney. for the 106th Judicial District, which
  • The three branches of our government are separate and independent, but I doubt that any branch that wholly
  • The Constitution requires the courts to independently adjudicate cases within their jurisdiction, but
TX
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  • committee substitute adds current and former employees and commissioners of the State Commission on Judicial
  • I am the general counsel for the Commission on Judicial Conduct.
  • I serve on the State Commission on Judicial Conduct, and I too want to express my appreciation to Senator
  • So that provision allows court staff, or clerk staff, or Judicial Conduct Commission staff to use their
TX
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  • The substitute also removes the judicial remedies that require the tenant's rent to be paid into the
  • Like Petco and PetSmart, as well as small independents, have already done so, proving success is possible
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Judiciary Finance and Civil Law Committee 3/18/25

Judiciary Finance and Civil Law

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TX

Texas 89th Regular

Senate Session (Part III) Aug 26th, 2025

Texas Senate Floor Meeting

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  • Various matters of judicial administration are always in this bill.
  • On the floor, a couple more local changes were made to the 501st Judicial District in Fort Minn County
  • It contains my Senate Bill 1575, which implements vital recommendations of the Texas Judicial Council
  • Or are other candidates for judicial office subject to the same restrictions?
  • I hear that they are through judicial canon.