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• Federal meal reimbursements of, uh, school meals.
• <00:47:45.280> meals<00:47:46.160> uh we created uh via the free meals uh we created
• uh via the free meals uh program<00:47:46.720> with<00:47:47.040> the<00:47:47.200>
• <00:56:37.680> There with universal free school meals.
• There with universal free school meals.

Bills: HF1048, HF1049, HF745, HF2210

Keywords: charter schools, education funding, revenue calculation, general education revenue, special education, school library aid, education finance, school districts, funding eligibility, compensatory revenue, task force, free meals, school funding, education equity, HF2210, school unemployment aid, Minnesota Department of Education, general fund appropriation, unemployment insurance, unemployment claims

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• meals to all kids in our state.
• access to nutritional meals, make sure that kids eat those nutritious meals.
• We can offer free meals to all of our students. Our federal reimbursement is approximately 40%.
• If passed, Montague, North Muskegon, and 24,000 other high-need schools would lose CEP and free meal
• All to confirm that Johnny is deserving of a free meal.

Bills: SB222

Keywords: whole milk, school lunch, school meals, National School Lunch Program, Richard B. Russell National School Lunch Act, Child Nutrition Act, USDA, nutrition standards, dairy, nonfat milk, low-fat milk, reduced-fat milk, lactose-free milk, nondairy beverages, plant-based milk, milk substitution, parental consent, legal guardian, food allergies, allergic reaction

Summary: This meeting of the committee focused primarily on the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act, S222, which aims to permit schools to offer a fuller range of milk options, including whole, reduced, and low-fat varieties, that have garnered bipartisan support. Chairman Bozeman opened the session by highlighting concerns over children's nutrition and the obesity epidemic, emphasizing the significance of nutritious school meals in addressing these issues. Experts from various organizations were invited to discuss the implications of this bill as well as the current challenges facing school meal programs, including budget constraints and food supply issues. The meeting included passionate testimonies about the direct impacts of current dietary guidelines and federal funding reductions affecting schools' abilities to provide healthy meal options.

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• And um, on the other hand, you can see, if you look at the meals appropriations, we’ve had several years
• So, on the one side, I’d say it looks like, for meals, for example, that there’s a better handle now
• <00:08:28.440> appropriations,<00:08:29.360> we've<00:08:29.600> had the meals
• appropriations, we've had the meals appropriations, we've had several<00:08:30.320> years<00:
• ><00:08:37.880> for<00:08:38.000> example,<00:08:38.680> that looks like, for meals

Bills: HF4213, HF4198, HF3930, HF3585, HF3451

Keywords: education finance, school funding, K-12, prekindergarten, pre-K, early childhood education, general education aid, special education, literacy aid, school meals, free school meals, school breakfast, school lunch, charter school lease aid, charter schools, nonpublic pupil aid, private school aid, transportation aid, desegregation aid, integration aid

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• I can walk on the same bricks that slaves walked on and that were later set free on.
• the nation, We changed, hearing the words read from General Order Number 3, stating all slaves are free
• but because of the event in Galveston, Texas on June 19, 1865, now known as Juneteenth, we can live free
• Any gluten-free. Come on, I know they're not any questions Johnson.

Bills: HCR6

Keywords: Meals on Wheels, senior services, nutrition, community support, volunteerism

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• school meals for children who meet eligibility requirements for free and reduced-price lunches.
• For some students, these meals are the only balanced meals that they have on a daily basis.
• and reduced-price school meals myself.
• meals.
• I think what school meals allows is for a very efficient way to get healthy meals to kids.

Bills: HB2352, HB2388, HB2418, HB2499, HB2500, HB2579, HB2584, HB2804

Keywords: funding, auditor general, county treasurer, procedural reviews, state appropriations, HB2388, Arizona Commerce Authority, ACA, small modular reactor, SMR, nuclear energy, advanced nuclear, data center, data centers, economic development, study, appropriation, general fund, jobs, wages

Summary: The committee first heard HB 2584, which would prohibit public funds from being used for genetic sequencing equipment made by companies owned or controlled by entities domiciled in a foreign adversary. The sponsor said the bill is intended to prevent sensitive genetic data from being sold or used against the United States. There was little public testimony, and the committee approved the bill on a 13-5 vote for a do pass recommendation. Members then considered HB 2804, a rural development and housing tax credit bill that would let the Department of Housing allocate up to $2 million per year in credits for qualifying rural affordable housing projects, with the program set to expire in 2037. Supporters, including the sponsor, the mayor of Flagstaff, and housing investors and developers, said the credit would leverage federal LIHTC dollars, attract private capital, and help finance affordable housing for seniors, veterans, and low-income residents in rural Arizona. Opponents from the Arizona Free Enterprise Club argued state LIHTC programs are inefficient, costly, and hard to oversee. The committee passed the bill 13-4. The committee also heard HB 2388, as amended, which appropriates $100,000 to the Arizona Commerce Authority to study the economic benefits of small modular reactors and data centers, with a report due by June 30, 2027. Supporters said the study could help Arizona plan for future energy and data-center growth, while opponents argued the agency already has other funding sources and should not receive additional money for the study. The amended bill passed 10-7. After a presentation from Auditor General Lindsay Perry on county treasurer procedural reviews and the Santa Cruz County embezzlement case, the committee approved HB 2352, which provides $2,385,900 in FY 2029 for the Auditor General to continue county treasurer reviews, on an 11-7 vote. The committee then unanimously approved HB 2418, as amended, which directs $600,000 to be evenly distributed among five major incident task force counties and codifies the longstanding distribution practice. Finally, the committee took up HB 2499, the first of two ESA administration bills, which would appropriate $2.6 million and 12 FTEs to the Department of Education for ESA administration and oversight beginning in FY 2027; the bill drew extended debate about ESA growth, accountability, testing, and spending oversight, but the transcript cuts off before the final vote.

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• Currently, there are minimal nutritional standards for meals provided.
• Recent studies show that medically tailored meals or therapeutic meals, meal options can improve health
• free lunch for our kids could be eliminated.
• only meal that our kids get a day.
• breakfast, free lunch.

Bills: SB 25, SB 314

Keywords: nutrition, health standards, food labeling, education, dietary guidelines, medical education, food safety, school meals, child nutrition, food additives, public health

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• You're free questions. Any questions? Do we pass in a second? No questions. Please open the row.
• You're free to explain the PCS. Thank you.
• This requires families to complete a form for the child nutrition program of free and reduced-price breakfast
• portion of this bill we had for a reason. to do PCS because CEPs, which are the schools that qualify for free

Bills: HB4359, HB4115, HB3467, HB2978, HB3026, HB3032

Keywords: statewide assessments, student testing, testing window, end-of-year testing, Oklahoma Academic Standards, Oklahoma School Testing Program, State Board of Education, grade 3-8, alternate assessment, students with disabilities, special education, cognitive disabilities, assessment calendar, school year calendar, education accountability, academic standards, math intervention, advanced mathematics, course placement, college and career readiness

Bills: HCR14, HB201, HB218, HB352, HB626, HB636, HB738, HB749

Keywords: Department of Education, federal overreach, education policy, Tenth Amendment, local control, fine arts, high school diploma, arts education, capstone project, academic achievement, student recognition, Louisiana education, food insecurity, hunger, student hunger, school meals, free lunch, community eligibility provision, McKinney-Vento, homeless students

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• They assume that the child's school will have a cafeteria serving fresh meals.
• Free and reduced lunch.
• which is regardless of whether it's free or not?
• Like I said, some Title I schools, all the lunches are free lunches. Oh, yes.
• for all children. of whether they pay a free rate, a reduced rate, or if they pay full price, the meals

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

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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• You know, any type of, you know, real. world immediate situation, districts are free and have protection

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

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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• That are forcing schools to stop their free lunch or free breakfast programs.
• In any way directed to cut free lunch or free breakfast from our schools? Absolutely not.
• If there is no compliance, there will be no meal for that child who is getting guaranteed that one meal
• most meals.
• we have the meal.

Bills: SB 25, SB25, SB314

Keywords: attorney ad litem, indigent parents, parent-child relationship, legal representation, Texas Family Code, court procedures, nutrition, health standards, food labeling, education, dietary guidelines, medical education, food safety, school meals, child nutrition, food additives, public health, 1185, senate, all

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• I am a provider of home-delivered meals for Medicaid beneficiaries across Texas.
• Recent studies show that medically tailored... ...meals or therapeutic meal options can improve health
• I'm just concerned that if we don't get into compliance by a certain time, the free breakfast and free
• For some of our communities, that's the only meal that our kids get in a day. It's true.
• breakfast and free lunch.

Bills: SB 25, SB25, SB314

Keywords: attorney ad litem, indigent parents, parent-child relationship, legal representation, Texas Family Code, court procedures, nutrition, health standards, food labeling, education, dietary guidelines, medical education, food safety, school meals, child nutrition, food additives, public health, 1185, senate, all

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• Than the US had their government provide Ivermectin and hydrochloroquine free to their citizens.

Bills: HB25

Keywords: ivermectin, pharmacist authority, prescription-free, healthcare regulation, patient access

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• Uh, the department also has concerns about the automatic sharing of free and reduced meal data for bus
• Uh, the department also has concerns about the automatic sharing of free and reduced meal data for bus
• free bus passes that could be misconstrued as including free municipal bus passes.
• We should give free lunch, we should give free buses, but there's a huge cost to this.
• about 58,000 kids for free lunch. about 58,000 kids for free lunch.

Bills: SB2024, SB896, SB2613, SB494, SB2391, SB2125, SB2614, SB2615, SB3262, SB3325, SB3118

Keywords: charter schools, public-private partnership, school facilities, education funding, community need, education, capital improvement, reporting, transparency, technical expertise, public school land transfer, Department of Education, DOE, land conveyance, fee simple title, tax map key, TMK, Act 307, Session Laws of Hawaii 2022, Act 139

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• mortality rates. ...than the U.S., had their government provide Ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine free

Bills: HB25

Keywords: ivermectin, pharmacist authority, prescription-free, healthcare regulation, patient access, 1185, senate, all

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• We are at a crossroads, in my view, on free speech.
• It was a distinctly anti-free speech gathering.
• Free speech is the bedrock of a free society.
• anti-free speech movements that are coalescing.
• And free speech isn't a free fall in Europe.

Keywords: censorship, First Amendment, social media, misinformation, free speech, government regulation, Big Tech, public discourse

Summary: The meeting primarily focused on the implications of government involvement in censorship, particularly regarding social media platforms and compliance with misinformation standards. senators and witnesses discussed growing concerns over the influence of large tech companies, like Facebook and Google, in shaping public discourse and suppressing dissenting views. A significant part of the meeting included testimonies from various experts emphasizing the dangers of the 'censorship industrial complex'—a term used to describe the collaborative efforts between government entities and private organizations to control information flow. This collaboration is viewed as a violation of First Amendment rights, with calls for urgent legislative action to restore free speech protections.

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• our our first amendment right to free our our first amendment right to free speech<00:37:25.520>
• <00:47:10.560> to in Wyoming schools should be free to in Wyoming schools should be free to
• You're free to gather and chat with friends."
• when the government violates free when the government violates free speech,<00:59:00.880> when
• <00:59:13.119> um free speech rights are very precious. um free speech rights are very precious

Bills: HB0159

Keywords: student rights, free expression, K-12 education, speech protection, religious views, political speech, 916, all

Bills: HB0159

Keywords: student rights, free expression, K-12 education, speech protection, religious views, political speech, 916, all

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• This is an opportunity for us to give young people free public transportation, but the Committee on Transportation
• With no further business, we are adjourned. free public transportation but the free public transportation

Bills: SB2699

Keywords: fare-free transit, youth transportation, environmental tax, transit equity, public transit, Hawaii, 912, senate, all

Summary: The committee reconvened and first addressed SB 2699 on public transit/free transportation for young people. Members noted that the Committee on Transportation had already deferred the measure, and this committee said it would defer it as well before adjourning that brief reconvened session. The hearing then moved to SB 2373, which would establish a state goal to strengthen nature-based carbon emissions reduction solutions and authorize the Hawaii State Energy Office to develop methods to quantify carbon reductions from marine ecosystem restoration. The Energy Office said marine carbon sequestration was outside its expertise and asked to be removed from that portion of the bill, while DLNR and OPSD offered comments and said the work fit better with their areas, with DLNR saying it could take it on if properly resourced. Testimony included support from environmental groups, and committee discussion focused on which agency should lead and whether existing methodologies could be used. Next was SB 21001 on organic waste reduction and diversion. The Department of Health supported the intent but raised implementation concerns. Hawaii Farmers Union strongly supported the bill, arguing it would help build compost supply, improve soil health, and give counties time to develop infrastructure; they cited Vermont as a model and said the bill could extend landfill life and reduce methane. Members asked about the Vermont approach and the need for infrastructure before household-level diversion. The committee also heard SB 2905, which would increase the environmental response, energy, and food security tax and direct more revenue to the electric vehicle charging system subaccount. The Energy Office, PUC, and Tax Department offered comments; youth and clean transportation advocates strongly supported the bill as a way to expand charging access and meet EV adoption goals. A member questioned whether the proposed increase would outpace the state’s ability to deploy chargers, and PUC staff said the current annual appropriation is about $750,000 and that they could provide more data on an appropriate funding level. Additional measures were briefly taken up: SB 3231 on condominium maps and county zoning certification in A districts drew support from the Department of Agriculture and Biosecurity and the Hawaii Farm Bureau; SB 2486 on climate change drew comments from the Energy Office, Climate Commission, and OPSD, who said it duplicated existing climate planning and should include adaptation language; and SB 2376 on the renewable fuels production tax credit drew support from industry and agricultural groups, while the Energy Office and Tax Department raised concerns about the rollover provision and the scale of the credit. No final votes were recorded in the excerpt beyond the earlier deferral of SB 2699.

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• I think that free lunches or breakfast sometimes is the only meal that kids in those low impoverished
• And so making sure that those are nutritional meals and that they are able to access it throughout the
• So it really depends and why we can't say it's healthy or not, titanium dioxide, that is your fat-free
• That's a fat-free cheese. It is used in a lot of fat-free mozzarella.
• So whether you want to call fat-free mozzarella unhealthy, you know, it, it's, it's a.

Bills: HB25, HB38

Keywords: ivermectin, pharmacist authority, prescription-free, healthcare regulation, patient access, interest rate, ad valorem taxes, homesteads, property tax, tax deferral