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• Senate Bill 1273 creates the Oklahoma State Agency Board and Commission Review Task Force.
• That would not be an agency-level instruction but a division-level instruction. Thank you, Mr.
• By placing this guidance transparency act within the Oklahoma Administrative Procedures Act, agencies
• I've already received answers from two of those agencies explaining the issues that I had.
• I should not be the only member of the committee that is getting questions for these agencies.

Bills: HJR1032 , SB1273 , SB1433

Committee: Senate Administrative Rules

Keywords: HJR1032, House Joint Resolution 1032, Service Oklahoma, administrative rules, rule repeal, joint resolution, Oklahoma Administrative Code, OAC 670:15-1-10, OAC 670:15-1-14, agency regulation, legislative oversight, Secretary of State, Oklahoma Register, rulemaking, permanent rules, administrative code, state government, task force, agency review, board review

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• House Bill 4319 Primarily does two things: one, it requires that agencies have specific and explicit
• authority for every agency rule that they propose.
• Two, it requires that all agencies inventory all existing rules within the next three years.
• Committee members on these rules after these agencies responded to initial questions both in the House
• If you got one issue that you run across, get with the agency, contact them, let me know that you're

Bills: SJR49 , HB3281 , HB4319 , HJR1086

Committee: Senate Administrative Rules

Keywords: wildlife, conservation, Oklahoma, regulations, permanent rules, administrative procedures, guidance documents, transparency, public inspection, rulemaking, rulemaking authority, specific authority, legislative review, agency rules, judicial rules, public safety, state agencies, legislative approval

Bills: SSB3166 , SF2339 , SF2366 , SF2367

Committee: Joint State Government

Keywords: administrative rules, agency procedures, uniform rules, emergency rules, rulemaking, telepsychology, interjurisdictional practice, psychologist licensing, healthcare access, mental health services, certified medication aides, medication administration, healthcare workforce, certification process, Iowa Department of Inspections, access fees, healthcare, nutrition, food safety, education

Bills: HB3880 , HB3263 , HB2970

Committee: House Tourism

Keywords: Oklahoma Today Magazine, Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Department, tourism promotion, advertising sales, commission pay, employee bonus, sales commission, digital publication, print publication, sponsorships, bulk subscriptions, newsstand sales, ancillary products, public records, procurement exemption, administrative procedures exemption, tourism magazine, revenue sharing, executive director, state agency compensation

Bills: SF304 , HSB605 , HF708

Committee: Joint Health and Human Services

Keywords: minors, medical consent, healthcare services, sexually transmitted infections, privacy, youth healthcare, immunization, vaccination, vaccine exemption, medical exemption, religious exemption, public health agency, Department of Health and Human Services, school enrollment, child care center, elementary school, secondary school, parent notification, guardian notification, public health

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• House Bill 2189 will direct the Tri-Agency Workforce Initiative, the TEA, co-board, and TWC to review
• More process and procedural questions about that? Okay.
• Through the reporting and through the monitoring in this bill, I think TEA or any other agency could
• Good morning, Justin Porter, Texas Education Agency.
• What agency or government can help them, I direct them to the appropriate agency based on where they

Bills: HB295 , HB824 , HB1579 , HB1581 , HB2189 , HB295

Committee: House S/C on Academic & Career-Oriented Education

Keywords: bullying, antisemitism, school policies, school discipline, education, education policy, Texas Education Code, hate speech, student rights, civics education, high school curriculum, government, voting process, elected officials, Texas Seal of Biliteracy, biliteracy, bilingual education, multilingual, language proficiency, high school diploma

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• Back during the Great Recession, we require our general fund agencies, and they still do it.
• The general fund agencies still do that. Uh, you know, it's not like it's just forgotten.
• </c><00:08:02.240><c> and</c> we require our general fund agencies and we require our general fund agencies
• The general fund agencies<00:09:22.240><c> still</c><00:09:22.560><c> do</c><00:09:22.800><c> that.
• Uh you know, agencies still do that.

Bills: HB245 , SB16 , SB59 , SB62 , SB79 , SB88 , HB245 , SB16 , SB59 , SB62 , SB79 , SB88

Committee: Senate Finance and Taxation Education

Keywords: inhalants, controlled substances, butyl nitrite, nitrous oxide, amyl nitrite, health, public safety, SB16, four-point restraint, hog-tie, hog tie, prone restraint, law enforcement, police, sheriff, use of force, restraint techniques, positional asphyxia, arrest procedures, detention

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• to state agencies.
• Texas agencies now each determine. their own grievance procedure policies or lack thereof depriving state
• that there's the rulemaking authority within each of those agencies to set that grievance procedure.
• agency.
• Our role includes responding to inquiries from the public related to agency public participation procedures

Bills: HB512 , HB2248 , HB2679 , HB2832 , HB3112 , HB3368 , HB3490 , HB3512 , HB3623 , HB3666 , HB3700 , HB3711 , HB3770 , HB3963

Committee: House Delivery of Government Efficiency

Keywords: grievance procedures, state agency, employee rights, workplace regulations, employment law, employees, employment actions, appeal, state employees, workplace rights, disciplinary actions, employment conditions, employment disputes, job protections, public information, transparency, government accountability, information access, notification requirements, federal funding

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• The Committee on Licensing and Administrative Procedures will come to order.

Bills: HB1382 , HB3945 , HB4449 , HB5043 , HB5388 , HB5397 , HB5499

Committee: House Licensing & Administrative Procedures

Keywords: education, funding, student support, financial aid, K-12, higher education, weather modification, prohibition, criminal offense, Texas, agriculture, environmental control, agriculture law, Texas legislation, chemical control, Texas law, massage therapy, regulation, licensing, criminal penalties

Bills: HCR1030 , HB1370 , SB893 , SB2 , SB1589

Keywords: legislative procedure, session calendar, deadline schedule, bill deadlines, joint resolution, Oklahoma Legislature, 61st Legislature, regular session, adjourn sine die, floor deadline, third reading, committee deadlines, bill drafting, appropriations, budget bills, ethics commission, agency rules, administrative procedures act, local and special laws, pension legislation

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• specialist, and transportation manager, continually expanding her expertise and impact across the agency
• Representatives proudly recognizes Monie Smith for her extraordinary career, her lasting contributions to the, agency
• Josh of the House and Daniels of the Senate, a resolution relating to establishing a legislative procedure
• our constituents, but it allows us to have additional revenue whenever we aren't able to fund our agencies

Bills: HCR1030 , HB1370 , SB893 , SB2 , SB1589

Keywords: legislative procedure, session calendar, deadline schedule, bill deadlines, joint resolution, Oklahoma Legislature, 61st Legislature, regular session, adjourn sine die, floor deadline, third reading, committee deadlines, bill drafting, appropriations, budget bills, ethics commission, agency rules, administrative procedures act, local and special laws, pension legislation

Bills: HCR1030 , HB1370 , SB893 , SB2 , SB1589

Keywords: legislative procedure, session calendar, deadline schedule, bill deadlines, joint resolution, Oklahoma Legislature, 61st Legislature, regular session, adjourn sine die, floor deadline, third reading, committee deadlines, bill drafting, appropriations, budget bills, ethics commission, agency rules, administrative procedures act, local and special laws, pension legislation

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• Six months ago the federal government used the federal budget reconciliation procedure to enact a new
• And ultimately, to give it a little bit of an incentive to the agency, a possible penalty, which can
• And ultimately, to give it a little bit of an incentive to the agency, a possible penalty, which can
• SB 1162 establishes the Department of Health Services as the agency responsible...
• indicated the intent to consent to the procedure.

Bills: SB1017 , SB1149 , SB1162 , SB1192 , SB1249 , SB1253 , SB1331 , SB1333 , SB1334

Committees: Senate Health and Human Services , Senate Senate Health and Human Services COR

Keywords: informed consent, surgical procedures, healthcare professionals, patient rights, regulatory compliance, child welfare, dependency hearings, foster care, court procedures, parental rights, healthcare compliance, behavioral health technicians, licensing, monitoring, administrative burdens, basic first aid, good samaritan, medical licensing exemption, Arizona medical board, A.R.S. 32-1421

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• When the agency was first created, they agreed to oversee an administrator hearings and and agencies
• cases to the agency now.
• These are just additional agencies they want to incorporate under this current These are not new agencies
• to use multi-agency vendors. agency, multi-award.
• agencies.

Bills: HB3146 , HB3719 , HB3895 , HB3923 , HB4748 , HB4751 , HB4936 , HB4952 , HB4990 , HB4991 , HB5061 , HB5196 , HB5238 , HB5246 , HB5487

Committee: House Delivery of Government Efficiency

Keywords: State Office of Administrative Hearings, SOAH, administrative hearings, contested case, contested case hearing, administrative law judge, ALJ, final decision, proposed decision, agency hearing, hearing continuance, rescheduling, Texas administrative law, Government Code Chapter 2001, workers' compensation, Department of Human Resources, Texas Labor Code, Transportation Code, Agriculture Code, Insurance Code

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• House Bill 4319 is a change in the Administrative Procedures Act requiring specific and explicit authority
• We want to put this in the statute for the Administrative Procedures Act. Move for adoption.
• Under the Administrative Procedures Act, as amended last year by the Raines Act, it requires a comprehensive
• seeing that in your rules, that you kick that out or bring that to my attention, and reach out to the agency

Bills: HB3000 , HB3001 , HB3002 , HB3003 , HB3004 , HB3005 , HB3006 , HB3007 , HB3008 , HB4319 , HB3000 , HB3001 , HB3002 , HB3003 , HB3004 , HB3005 , HB3006 , HB3007 , HB3008 , HB4319

Committee: House Administrative Rules

Keywords: cosmetology, barbering, massage therapy, State Board of Cosmetology and Barbering, Service Oklahoma, license renewal, license reinstatement, licensing fees, sunset extension, board membership, human trafficking, victim services, beauty school, barber school, esthetics, manicurist, eyelash extension, blow-dry styling, makeup artist, occupational licensing

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• It requires that agencies make guidance documents publicly available along with accompanying statements
• put together by my senate counterpart that is looking at setting the administrative rules for each agency
• It does seem like a massive job to review all the rules from all of the agencies.
• And that's where the conversation will be back and forth between us and the agency, just like you do
• Or if we had a new agency created, they would need to be added to that.

Bills: HJR1088 , SB1280 , SB1316 , SB1433 , SB1455 , SB1456 , SB1457 , SB1459 , SB1461 , SB1463 , SB1465 , SB1466 , SB1721 , SB1280 , SB1316 , SB1433 , SB1455 , SB1456 , SB1457 , SB1459 , SB1461 , SB1463 , SB1465 , SB1466 , SB1721 , HJR1088

Committee: House Administrative Rules

Keywords: education rules, administrative rules, joint resolution, Oklahoma State Department of Education, higher education, State Regents for Higher Education, Teachers' Retirement System, charter schools, Statewide Charter School Board, career and technology education, CTE, OEQA, rule approval, legislative oversight, permanent rules, school governance, teacher retirement, education agencies, excise tax, oil tax

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• these procedures and for safety.
• There's not multiple elaborate procedures every day.
• on the sex of the person and not on the procedure itself.
• on the sex of the person and not on the procedure itself.
• Did these procedures or any of these incidents happen here in Arizona?

Bills: HB2049 , HB2050 , HB2051 , HB2072 , HB2082 , HB2085 , HB2177 , HB2178 , HB2179 , HB2183 , HB2195

Committees: House Health & Human Services , House House Health & Human Services Committee of Reference

Keywords: radiation therapy, particle accelerator, critical access hospitals, patient care, rural healthcare, radiologic technologist, radiologist assistant, radiology, imaging, x-ray, diagnostic x-ray, fluoroscopy, mammography, computed tomography, CT technologist, nuclear medicine technologist, bone densitometry, radiation safety, radiation licensing, scope of practice

Bills: SSB1035 , SSB1034 , SSB1033 , SSB1031

Committee: Joint State Government

Keywords: Iowa lottery, lottery, lotto, on-line lotto, self-service kiosk, instant tickets, pull-tab tickets, gaming regulation, Department of Revenue, lottery commission, lottery security, public records exemption, open records, Chapter 99G, general fund, lottery fund, revenue transfer, state revenue, gaming integrity, vendor restrictions

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• And does that, when you have more appeals, does that cost your agency extra?
• Park Carpenter, so do you feel that the agency has enough?
• There was a lot of work done on this bill, a lot of coming together of agencies, and I think...
• At that time, there was no agency leading the way. There was no funding for implementation.
• But stopping these procedures is only half the battle.

Bills: SB1095 , SB1114 , SB1116 , SB1162 , SB1164 , SB1178 , SB1179 , SB1249 , SB1253 , SB1346 , SB1347 , SB1446 , SB1561 , SB1813

Committees: House Health & Human Services , House House Health & Human Services Committee of Reference

Keywords: gender transition, minors, irreversible surgery, health professionals, puberty-blocking drugs, medical procedures, prohibition, Arizona Revised Statutes, behavioral health, patient brokering, appropriation, state funds, Maricopa County, claims review, medical necessity, American Indian health program, healthcare regulations, healthcare compliance, behavioral health technicians, licensing

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• It requires each state agency to provide temporary office space within the agency headquarters for use
• , During a state of emergency to help federal or state agencies, what agencies did you have in mind?
• There's a lot of crossover between various agencies.
• We just need to be able to keep people so they don't go on to the other agencies.
• We could tell you that because every agency out there likes to snag them up.

Bills: S0330 , S0526 , S0862 , S1072 , S1078 , S1192 , S1250 , S1296 , S1298 , S1642 , S1698 , S7022

Committee: Senate Governmental Oversight and Accountability

Keywords: firefighter disability, law enforcement disability, correctional officer disability, correctional probation officer, presumptive disability, workers' compensation, line of duty presumption, heart disease presumption, hypertension presumption, tuberculosis presumption, public safety employees, first responders, physical examination, preemployment exam, medical specialist, Medicare reimbursement, employing agency, Florida Statutes 112.18, Florida Statutes 943.13, occupational disease

Summary: The committee took up several bills and one set of confirmations. SB 330, relating to disability provisions for firefighters, law enforcement, and correctional officers, was explained as clarifying the heart disease presumption and allowing transferred law enforcement officers to rely on a prior physical if the new agency fails to provide one; it was reported favorably. SB 526, a broad commercial construction bill, was amended with a title amendment and a delete-all amendment before being reported favorably. SB 1192 created a pilot program for callback queues at certain executive agencies to reduce hold times, and it was also reported favorably. SB 1078 established gubernatorial transition procedures, including liaisons, briefing materials, office space, and access to records; an amendment narrowed and reassigned some duties and increased penalties for improper disclosure, and the bill passed favorably. SB 7022 extended and updated a public records exemption for classroom examinations and assessment instruments through 2031, and it was reported favorably. SB 1250 removed the Florida Commission on Human Relations’ requirement to use registered mail for certain notices, allowing less expensive notice methods, and it passed favorably. SB 1698 allowed certain employer notices and posters to be posted electronically instead of physically, and it was reported favorably. The committee also recommended confirmation of 10 appointees to the Florida Commission on Human Relations and the State Retirement Commission. SB 1072 created an anti-Semitism task force within the Attorney General’s Office of Civil Rights to review anti-Semitism in Florida, improve community relations, advise on law enforcement training, assess digital media literacy efforts, review hate crime statutes, and issue annual reports. The bill drew extensive public testimony, with many speakers opposing it on First Amendment, academic freedom, and equal-protection grounds and arguing it could chill criticism of Israel or be used selectively; supporters said it was needed to address rising anti-Semitism and that the state’s definition of anti-Semitism had already been adopted in statute. After debate, the bill was reported favorably. SB 862, as amended, set a $60,000 salary goal by 2030 for state correctional officers, probation officers, and institutional security specialists, with annual raises subject to appropriations; members questioned a separate provision allowing deployment of correctional officers during emergencies, including whether that could intersect with immigration enforcement, but the sponsor said he would follow up and that the bill was aimed at recruitment, retention, and workforce stability. The bill received support from law enforcement and corrections groups and was reported favorably. SB 1642, the Freedom in the Workplace Act, generated the most contentious discussion: it would bar certain pronoun-related requirements, prohibit mandatory training or activities related to sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression as a condition of employment, require sex on employment forms to reflect biological sex, and extend similar protections to public employees and contractors. Supporters framed it as protecting free speech, conscience, and against compelled speech; opponents argued it would authorize discrimination against transgender and nonbinary people, invite litigation, and harm workplace safety and inclusion. An amendment moved the bill into the chapter governing public employers and employees, and the bill was then reported favorably.