Bills: SSB1017 , SSB1029 , SSB1080 , SF117 , SF120 , SSB1052 , HF12 , HF14 , HF104 , HF124 , HF146 , HSB7 , HSB8

Committee: Joint Health and Human Services

Keywords: pharmacy benefits manager, reverse auction, public employees, health insurance, drug pricing, health care costs, price transparency, cash price, discounted cash price, average allowed amount, deductible credit, cost-sharing, health carrier, health benefit plan, out-of-network, network provider, prescription drugs, formulary, generic drug, pharmacy benefit

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Bills: HF3900

Committee: Senate Education Finance

Keywords: permanent school fund, school endowment fund, Minnesota constitutional amendment, school aid, public school funding, State Board of Investment, investment income, distributable amount, school districts, property taxes, income taxes, voter approval, ballot question, constitutional amendment 2026, education finance, fund perpetuity, purchasing power, trust lands, swamp lands, internal improvement land fund

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• The standard deduction amount is adjusted for inflation.
• Two, it does not allow for averaging over the period where income is generated.
• Per day on average.
• We are not being allowed the proper time to consider this.
• After subtracting certain allowable deductions and a set exclusion amount, the remaining taxable estate

Bills: SB6346 , SB6347 , SB6147 , SB6246 , SB5940 , SB5882 , SB6223 , SJR8206 , SB5762 , SB5828

Committee: Senate Ways & Means

Keywords: millionaires tax, wealth tax, income tax, state revenue, tax reform, Washington estate tax, estate tax, inheritance tax, death tax, probate, decedent, gross estate, taxable estate, exclusion amount, tax rate, estate planning, heirs, beneficiaries, RCW 83.100, Department of Revenue

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• which... ...offer students greater access to apprenticeships and work-based learning, while still allowing
• She was full virtual, but she was able to re-engage with our community in a way that allowed her not
• Thank you for allowing me the time to speak today.
• This bill would allow that to happen on a grand scale.
• And I don't know whether or not that would allow them to participate in this, or if we have a voucher

Bills: HB 117 , HB2196 , HB2689 , HCR64 , HB117

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

Keywords: early childhood education, task force, governance, Texas Education Agency, child care, education policy, virtual education, hybrid learning, school funding, average daily attendance, education technology, remote learning, education legislation, workforce development, adult education, high school diploma, industry certification, pilot program, gifted education, education support

Bills: SB1390

Committee: House A&B Transportation Subcommittee

Keywords: gross production tax, oil and gas, natural gas, casinghead gas, oil revenue, tax apportionment, revenue sharing, county highway fund, school funding, average daily attendance, general revenue fund, revenue stabilization fund, county bridge and road improvement, state transportation fund, preserving and advancing county transportation fund, education funding, higher education, student aid, tourism funding, conservation funding

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• I was surprised to learn that middle schools are allowed to have CTE programs and get a CTE bonus. for
• So 6th, 7th, and 8th grades are allowed to have this program, which will give the kids the ability to
• They used the same fiscal note as the last time that this bill came up, which is a ridiculous amount.
• And then what it allows you to do is, the way this bill is written, it also allows you to skip some of
• It looks like it's 1.28, the allotment, so that's the full amount of a basic allotment plus 0.28 of a

Bills: HB 1079 , HB3651 , HB4980

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

Keywords: Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps, Leadership Officer Training Corps, public school, career education, military readiness, public school accountability, funding allotments, healthcare, insurance, cost control, patient access, regulation, affordability, public health, JROTC, automobile maintenance, high school education, elective course, student skills, practical knowledge

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• relating to the development of a standard method of computing a student's high school grade point average
• They would not be allowed to say a black teacher can't go there, is that correct? That's correct.
• You have the word "allow," which is different than "provide."
• It says "allow to provide guidance," and all I'm saying is that... and we've seen this...
• Parents' rights are only allowed when they agree with a hateful view of morality.

Bills: SB12 , SB226 , SB413 , SB1049 , SB1191 , SB2398 , SB571 , SB2920 , SB 12

Committee: House Public Education

Keywords: parental rights, education, social transitioning, diversity, equity, inclusion, school policy, student clubs, residency, public schools, child safety placement, enrollment, education code, school boards, transparency, public meetings, attendance, recording, released time, religious instruction

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• Thank you for allowing me to do it.
• Thank you for allowing me to do it.
• year tied to the state's average unemployment rate.
• of what the average job pays in the state.
• of what the average job pays in the state.

Bills: HB 112 , HB199 , HB621 , HB1349 , HB2214 , HB3466 , HB3698 , HB3699 , HCR9 , HB112 , HB199 , HCR9

Committee: House Trade, Workforce & Economic Development

Keywords: science park district, economic development, technology innovation, higher education collaboration, infrastructure development, Texas Economic Development Office, workforce development, unemployment benefits, state average unemployment rate, benefit year, economic support, Texas Workforce Commission, property owners' association, free speech, assembly rights, government officials, political candidates, floodplain, landlord, tenant

Summary: The Committee on Trade, Workforce and Economic Development met with a quorum and moved quickly through a long agenda, hearing testimony and taking recorded votes on several bills. Early in the meeting, HB 2214 was laid out to exempt certain short-term residential leases and leaseback arrangements from flood-disclosure requirements; Texas Realtors supported the change, and the bill was left pending. The committee then voted out a series of pending measures, including HB 46, HB 186 (with a committee substitute), HB 431, HB 1147, HB 1154, HB 2468, HB 2488, HB 2788 (with a substitute), HB 2791 (with a substitute), HB 3260, and HCR 90, all reported favorably to the full House, with HB 1147 receiving two nays and the others passing unanimously or nearly so. A major portion of the hearing focused on HB 112, which would create a Texas Science Park district and commission to support advanced manufacturing and innovation sites. The bill’s author and supporters, including Samsung Austin Semiconductor, the Texas Association of Business, and the Governor’s economic development office, argued it would strengthen supply chains, attract investment, and support national security and workforce development. Testimony described interest from semiconductor and advanced manufacturing companies and referenced the model of foreign science parks such as Sinshu in Taiwan. HB 112 was left pending after testimony. The committee also heard HB 3698 and HB 3699, both related to unemployment insurance administration. HB 3698 would expand eligibility for the Reemployment Services and Eligibility Assessment program using federal funds, while HB 3699 would tighten the definition of “last work” to help the Texas Workforce Commission investigate UI fraud. Both bills were discussed with TWC resource witnesses and left pending after the committee withdrew the substitutes. HB 1349, which would extend HOA transparency and property-rights provisions to condominiums and refine HOA rules, and HB 621, which would require HOA meeting spaces to be available for residents to reserve for qualified political candidates or elected officials, were also heard and left pending. Finally, the committee heard HCR 9 to designate the first Saturday of each month as Small Business Saturday, HB 199 to index unemployment benefit duration to the state unemployment rate, and HB 3466 to exempt certain cancelable service contracts from Texas’s in-home sales cooling-off law; each drew supportive and opposing testimony and was left pending before adjournment.

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• Knowing whether or not a school has consistent access to a nurse, counselor, or library. and allows parents
• Committee sub HP 1188 is not a mandate for parents rather it allows parents to be informed and provide
• Hi, thank you for allowing me to today and for all the work you're doing this session.
• I would love to shop Whole Foods every day, but unfortunately my budget doesn't allow for it.
• The minimum amount that they have to attend? Right, before they're considered not in.

Bills: HB367 , HB497 , HB549 , HB983 , HB 1188 , HB 1290 , HB1368 , HB2243 , HB2310 , HB2849 , HB3099 , HB3546 , HB3629 , HB3627

Committee: House Public Education

Keywords: education, absences, severe illness, life-threatening, school policy, verification, healthcare, insurance, affordability, coverage, patient rights, school health, respiratory distress, airway clearance devices, medication training, public health, HB 983, Texas Education Agency, TEA, educator privacy

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• officer committee substitute and recognizes Representative Martinez to explain the bill. 546 just allowed
• Chairman Buckley and members of the committee, thank you for allowing me to lay out.
• Committee substitute house bill 3627 house bill 3627 would allow the chair of the state board of education
• , thank you Chairman by the way, it's already happening in practice. but y'all are not by statute allowed
• Chapter 32 of the Family Code. but I believe it's 32.004, allows a child to consent to counseling for

Bills: HB367 , HB497 , HB549 , HB983 , HB 1188 , HB 1290 , HB1368 , HB2243 , HB2310 , HB2849 , HB3099 , HB3546 , HB3629 , HB3627

Committee: House Public Education

Keywords: education, absences, severe illness, life-threatening, school policy, verification, healthcare, insurance, affordability, coverage, patient rights, school health, respiratory distress, airway clearance devices, medication training, public health, HB 983, Texas Education Agency, TEA, educator privacy

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• This would allow a parent to use an individual for tutoring.
• However, they cannot go beyond the maximum that they are allowed.
• So either way, there's no change in what families are allowed.
• We've allowed it to increase every year for three years.
• So, and again, an acreage amount is also coming out.

Bills: SB683 , SB1579 , SB1389 , SB1387 , SB1390 , SB1391 , SB2063 , SB1829 , SB2060 , SB1842 , SB1398 , SB1212 , SB2158 , SB102

Committee: Senate Revenue and Taxation

Keywords: education, tax credit, student support, private school, Oklahoma Parental Choice Tax Credit, financial assistance, homeschooling, qualified expenses, property tax, valuation increase, taxpayer rights, homestead, protest process, school choice, tuition assistance, income limits, parental choice, accreditation, sales tax, motor vehicles

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• Amendment number 23, offered by Senator Gildon, allows a taxpayer to claim a charitable deduction amount
• Another thing that the Internal Revenue Service allows us to do is income average in agriculture because
• This particular amendment just allows that carry forward of losses from the previous year to average
• This would allow us to average that out. I ask for the body's support.
• Senate Bill 6194 allows for any hospital located on an Indian reservation to be paid allowable costs

Bills: SB6147 , SB6082 , SB5862 , SB5882 , SB6323 , SB6346 , SB6162 , SB6256 , SB6220 , SB5650 , SB6343 , SB6113 , SB6211 , SB6114 , SB5898 , SB6347 , SB6244 , SB5868 , SB5762 , SB5988 , SB6194 , SB6246 , SB6223 , SB6052 , SB5828 , SB5954 , SB5963 , SB5909 , SGA9306

Committee: Senate Ways & Means

Keywords: grocery establishments, closure notice, consumer rights, local businesses, student financial aid, financial aid fraud, higher education, college enrollment fraud, fictitious students, ghost students, enrollment fraud, aid integrity, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, AI fraud, fraud prevention, Washington State, legislative audit, JLARC, full-time equivalent

Bills: HF331 , HF332 , HF334 , HF335 , HF336 , HF371 , HSB105 , HSB84 , HF220 , HSB106 , HSB108 , HF114 , HF122 , HF150 , HSB157 , HF204 , HF236 , HF274 , SSB1030 , SF111 , SF64 , SSB1065

Committee: Joint Education

Keywords: HF 331, Iowa High School Athletic Association, Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union, conference realignment, high school sports, interscholastic athletics, athletic conference, school athletics, school district, accredited nonpublic school, private school, activities association, girls sports, boys sports, student athletics, conference alignment, rivalries, travel distance, enrollment, state board of education

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• In addition to that, it will also restructure how we're handling credits to the system to allow it to
• So to allow for everyone to stay within the law, we're going to revert back to, or we're asking that
• One of the things here allows teachers that have retired at age 65 or higher to come back with a lot
• This gets us in the proper posture to allow those people who've taken advantage of it so far to stay,
• re-employment option for later retirees with the Department of Public Safety and Corrections by allowing

Bills: SB8 , SB10 , SB11 , SB12 , SB13 , SB14 , SB16 , SB17 , SB18 , SB20 , SB21 , SB22 , SB416 , SB455 , SB456 , SB477

Committee: House Retirement

Keywords: Municipal Employees' Retirement System, Louisiana, participation, employer, retirement, SB 10, Act 222, Louisiana State Police Retirement System, state police retirement, retirement system funding, employer contributions, actuarial gains, amortization, Permanent Benefit Increase, PBI account, benefit increase reserve, supplemental permanent benefit increase, public retirement systems, state pension, pension funding

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• Senate Bill 1806 allows eligible individuals currently receiving services through the Oklahoma Department
• Chairman, again, I thank you for allowing this bill to be run.
• They have approved their budgets, but before this body has determined what additional amount of money
• But a transitional program would allow that school to pull that child out for maybe 1 or 2 hours a day
• of the issue, not necessarily the exact dollar amount.

Bills: SB1290 , SB1332 , SB1369 , SB1379 , SB1381 , SB1386 , SB1390 , SB1428 , SB1584 , SB1696 , SB175 , SB1778 , SB1794 , SB1806 , SB1836 , SB201

Committee: Senate Appropriations

Keywords: 2-1-1 services, revolving fund, Department of Human Services, crisis pregnancy, abortion, legal funding, housing, infrastructure, water projects, Oklahoma Water Resources Board, economic development, zero-interest loans, clawback provision, local contractors, mental health, crisis services, 988 Lifeline, suicide prevention, behavioral health, human trafficking

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• If the amount is less than a dollar, the taxpayer can request a refund, and it must be processed within
• the sales tax exemption, and tie the franchise tax credit directly. on the federal return, which allows
• the comptroller to conduct audits, as well as allows taxpayers to leverage the work that they're doing
• Senate Bill 1030 removes a significant obstacle in the tax code to allow further expansion of Texas's
• It does this by automatically extending exemption and allocation deadlines, allowing the chief. ...be

Bills: SB263 , SB467 , SB850 , SB1030 , SB1352 , SB1453 , SB2064 , SB2206 , SB2779 , SJR84

Committee: House Ways & Means

Keywords: SB 263, Texas franchise tax, cost of goods sold, COGS, broadcasters, television broadcasting, radio broadcasting, media tax, broadcast license, FCC, 47 C.F.R. Part 73, 47 C.F.R. Part 74, film production, television production, tax deduction, margin tax, Texas Tax Code, depreciation, amortization, broadcast rights

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• While single-sex schools are allowed for traditional ISDs, current statute does not specify.
• allows ethnic studies to be accessible to all students.
• It allowed school districts to receive a 4% discount on their recapture payments to the state.
• Therefore, the state, on our rough averages, would receive $3 billion early.
• Okay, I mean the amount of dollars. Oh, $30 million, so. 1%... 1.2 million? 1.2, yes sir, 1.2.

Bills: HB178 , HB178 , HB1551 , HB1939 , HB2040 , HB2354 , HB2674 , HB3029 , HB3460 , HB3631 , HB3662 , HB5201 , HB5381

Committee: House Public Education

Keywords: efficiency audit, political subdivision, tax rate, fiscal management, government accountability, Texas education, public schools, curriculum, social studies, high school graduation requirements, State Board of Education, Education Code, ethnic studies, world history, world geography, U.S. history, government, economics, personal financial literacy, free enterprise

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• Members, this is the bill we heard previously that relates to allowing the board of trustees of certain
• Members, the committee substitute for House Bill 2911 allows TRS to impose a risk stabilization fee on
• Per employee is the per-employee amount that should be given to non-TRS Active Care districts.
• Am I allowed to direct my questions to Representative Bryant? Yes.
• Tomorrow or Thursday to, number one, allow... I haven't yet had a chance to review this.

Bills: HB178 , HB1551 , HB1939 , HB2040 , HB2354 , HB2674 , HB3029 , HB3460 , HB3631 , HB3662 , HB5201 , HB5381 , HB178

Committee: House Public Education

Keywords: Texas education, public schools, curriculum, social studies, high school graduation requirements, State Board of Education, Education Code, ethnic studies, world history, world geography, U.S. history, government, economics, personal financial literacy, free enterprise, religious literature, Hebrew Scriptures, Old Testament, New Testament, ninth grade

Bills: SB393 , SB414 , SB472 , SB578 , SB617 , SB710 , SB785 , SB973 , SB1059 , SB1062 , SB1352 , SB1450 , SB1502 , SB1547 , SB1566 , SB1567

Committee: Senate Local Government

Keywords: SB 393, Sparks, Middleton, local government, political subdivision, public securities, government debt, municipal bonds, general obligation bonds, certificates of obligation, anticipation notes, debt maturity, weighted average maturity, economic life, useful life, tangible personal property, real property improvements, public finance, Texas Government Code, Chapter 1253

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• President, Senate Bill 2110 allows the sale of ungraded eggs up to.
• That's what this bill is doing: allowing people To sell ungraded eggs up to 150 dozen.
• What this bill's doing is allow them to sell eggs that farmers' markets or other places.
• And so, Madam President, this would allow them to sell ungraded eggs off of their current premises but
• Also allows them to retain outside counsel. With that, I yield for questions and move advancement.

Bills: SB1465 , SB2110 , SB1771 , SB206 , SB1584 , SB1386 , SB1696 , SB1806 , SB1428 , SB1390 , SB1381 , SB201 , SB1778 , SB1332 , SB1836 , SB1369 , SB1794 , SB1290 , SB175 , SB1379

Keywords: professional engineers, surveyors, licensure board, sunset extension, state board, occupational licensing, engineering license, surveying license, professional regulation, regulatory board, sunset review, emergency clause, Oklahoma O.S. 59, board appointments, lay member, SB2110, eggs, ungraded eggs, graded eggs, egg sales