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• </c> through their employer. through their employer.
• with their employer.
• </c> their employer.
• Um, again, no employer their employer.
• </c> These are done by employer.

Bills: HB0083, HB0102, HB0178

Keywords: subpoena, legislative authority, penalty, compliance, law enforcement, artificial intelligence, synthetic sexual material, child protection, self-harm, criminal liability, public employment, labor organization, dues withdrawal, collective bargaining, public funding, 916, all

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• Stokes, I'm a workers' compensation attorney. ...carrier, self-insured, and employers in the workers'
• Just regular people of all types in employment issues.
• Director for Education to Employment Partners.
• Many thousands of Texas employers...
• This bill is a common-sense fix to help employers and...

Bills: HB875, HB1667, HB2369, HB3844, HB4415, HB4479, HB4483, HB4676, HB5118, HB5400, HB5545

Keywords: workers' compensation, municipal construction, bidding requirements, small municipalities, contracting policies, first responders, PTSD, mental health, emergency services, medical expenses, injury claims, insurance carriers, opportunity youth, workforce development, employment, education, federal funds, employment discrimination, immunity waiver, public employees

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• income from a trade or business that is not subject to the federal Medicare or Social Security taxes on self-employment
• </c><00:32:16.440><c> to</c> sends a loud and clear message to sends a loud and clear message to employers
• ><c> and</c><00:32:17.480><c> investors</c><00:32:18.200><c> inside</c><00:32:18.800><c> and</c> employers
• and investors inside and employers and investors inside and outside<00:32:19.280><c> of</c><00:32:19.360
• This policy sends a negative signal to investors and employers deciding where to locate their capital

Bills: HF4621, HF4123, HF4616, HF1183

Keywords: child tax credit, financial assistance, low-income families, state revenue, tax policy, net investment income, taxation, business income, self-employment, tax increase, wealth tax, fairness, public services, high-income earners, economic equity, Internal Revenue Code, employee classification, federal law, Minnesota statutes, 1183

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• </c> experience on how to retain employment experience on how to retain employment in<00:05:17.440><c
• that goes to employers um we do have two that goes to employers um we do have two staff<00:31:35.559>
• uh ages 16 to 24 with local employment uh ages 16 to 24 with local employers<00:41:22.839><c> public
• </c><00:42:06.440><c> uh</c> round collaboration with employers uh round collaboration with employers
• The private sector employers and the other public employers that participate in our program do pay the

Bills: HF1936, HF849, HF989, HF1130, HF1223, HF1907, HF1847, HF1957

Keywords: workforce development, youth employment, career guidance, education, job skills, Duluth Promise, education funding, career training, employment support, youth apprenticeship, economic development, minority support, internship program, Bloomington, funding, youth mentorship, job training, disadvantaged youth, Big Brothers Big Sisters, Youthprise

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• And employers recognize the benefits of hiring veterans as well. Veterans want to work.
• And employers recognize the benefits of hiring veterans as well. Veterans want to work.
• They wanted to give people employment and housing opportunities.
• They wanted to give people employment and housing opportunities.
• </c> they wanted to give people employment they wanted to give people employment and<00:42:05.160><c>

Bills: HF1439, HF1004, HF498, HF1326

Keywords: HF1439, Minnesota Grocers Association Foundation, Carts to Careers, workforce development fund, DEED, Department of Employment and Economic Development, grocery industry, food industry, food retail, retail workforce, job training, career pathways, scholarships, certifications, workforce pipeline, one-time appropriation, industry training, labor shortage, youth employment, apprenticeship

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• across the state, and this presumably would require people to look more for jobs and available employment
• Employment rather than just taking three a week. So what are you doing for 40 hours a week?

Bills: HB191, HB35, HB29, HB123, HB35, HB29, HB191, HB123

Keywords: sales tax, use tax, sales and use tax, local tax exemption, county tax, municipal tax, county commission, municipality, Alabama Department of Revenue, tax exemption, ordinance, resolution, fiscal year, September 1 effective date, notice requirement, local government, tax administration, revenue law, state and local taxation, volunteer firefighters

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• We're asking them to at least go and search for five different places to get employment.
• The combination of work search requirements with the prohibition on reapplying to the same employer is
• I saw in there the word "suitable employment." What's the... suitable employment.
• What’s the definition of suitable employment?
• So, suitable work is employment that is comparable to a job seeker's previous work in terms of wages,

Bills: HB93, HB160, HB29, HB29, HB93, HB160

Keywords: HB93, Alabama State Port Authority, State Auditor, property inventory, inventory control, audit exemption, state property, personal property inventory, public authority, port authority, Section 36-16-11, Code of Alabama 1975, administrative oversight, state audit, conforming changes, government property, Alabama Municipal Electric Authority, AMEA, municipal electric authority, board of directors

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• And then on page five it adds it will intentionally attempt to cause self-inflicted death.
• The word where you change the definition under N and O to say harm to others or harm to self all.
• And then 17, serious harm to self. Okay. And then when we go to page 11, it's the same thing.
• To self. Is that because we have a definition of harm to self elsewhere? What is the distinction?
• So, what is basic harm to self? Is that defined in statute elsewhere?

Bills: SB3, HB70, HB49, HB60, HB151, HB164, SB17, SB35, SB164

Keywords: mental health, commitment, involuntary commitment, civil commitment, assisted outpatient treatment, AOT, court-ordered treatment, behavioral health, psychiatric hold, danger to self, danger to others, suicide prevention, self-harm, homicide risk, capacity, decisional capacity, guardianship, treatment guardian, crisis stabilization, crisis triage center

Bills: HB418, SB138, SB215, HB418, SB138, SB215

Keywords: financial services, banking, insurance, debanking, social credit score, ESG, environmental, social, and governance, diversity, equity, and inclusion, DEI, religious freedom, free speech, viewpoint discrimination, political discrimination, firearms, gun industry, ammunition, fossil fuels, oil and gas, mining, timber

Bills: HB0130, HB0095, HB0096, HB0097, SF0101, SF0106, SF0067, SF0123

Keywords: Second Amendment, firearms, state rights, federal regulation, law enforcement, civil penalties, government liability, concealed carry, public colleges, university facilities, weapons legislation, self-defense, campus safety, weapons, age requirement, permits, HB0097, Wyoming firearms privacy, merchant category code, MCC

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• not join a federal task force for the purpose of circumventing SAPA and then resume the regular employment
• <00:02:57.360><c> regular</c> SAPA and then resume the regular SAPA and then resume the regular employment
• </c> employment soon thereafter. employment soon thereafter.
• We have to be careful their employment.
• The big highlight here is prohibition on self-attestation, like, hey, I swear I'm here legally.

Bills: HB0130, HB0095, HB0096, HB0097, SF0101, SF0106, SF0067, SF0123

Keywords: Second Amendment, firearms, state rights, federal regulation, law enforcement, civil penalties, government liability, concealed carry, public colleges, university facilities, weapons legislation, self-defense, campus safety, weapons, age requirement, permits, HB0097, Wyoming firearms privacy, merchant category code, MCC

Bills: HB245, HB138, HB151, HB152, HB245, HB138, HB151, HB152

Keywords: inhalants, controlled substances, butyl nitrite, nitrous oxide, amyl nitrite, health, public safety, pregnancy, pregnant defendant, incarceration, jail intake, pregnancy test, bail, pre-incarceration probation, supervised probation, electronic monitoring, electronic supervision, perinatal care, prenatal care, maternal health

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• ><00:42:26.720><c> use</c> currently stealth self-funded and use currently stealth self-funded and use
• And our answer to that is always that it's an employer plan, and the state is the employer—state agencies
• Our answer to that is always that it's an employer plan, and the state is the employer—state agencies
• 43.040><c> and</c><01:09:43.359><c> employee</c> definition of employer and employee definition of employer
• >> It's pretty self-explanatory.

Bills: HF3422, HF3461, HF2904

Keywords: state grants, grant oversight, grants management, executive agencies, Minnesota Department of Administration, commissioner of administration, fraud prevention, waste prevention, grant monitoring, financial reconciliation, grant compliance, state government, public funds, grant recipients, competitive grants, grant administration, administrative oversight, monitoring visits, grant policy, legislative leave

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• </c><00:09:33.959><c> in</c> considerable uncertainty Employers in considerable uncertainty Employers
• </c> good employes good employes raises<00:21:24.520><c> um</c><00:21:24.880><c> so</c><00:21:25.080>
• </c> need time off of work and the employers need time off of work and the employers who<00:57:08.640
• pro-employment.
• Yeah, the employer part of this that I increased on the employer was to get to the point that the DFL

Bills: HF1976

Keywords: paid leave, family leave, employment law, Minnesota statute, benefit eligibility, seasonal employment, workforce, labor rights, 1183, house

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• Senate Bill 1326 modernizes and improves the operations of self-storage facilities and allows them to
• Representative, forgive me, it's been a compact A few days, but on page three, line one, no employer
• shall be eligible to receive an economic development incentive for a project if the employer, and then
• organize using a secret ballot, that's ok, if, but as an employee, if I don't give permission to The employer
• We shouldn't then require the employer to release that information, so if they, if they Comply with these

Bills: SB1824, SB1813, SB1326, SB1277, SB1937, SB1217, SB1826, SB1641

Keywords: corporation, corporate governance, business entities, Oklahoma General Corporation Act, limited liability company, LLC, shareholder rights, beneficial owner, controlling shareholder, control group, interested director, fiduciary duty, books and records inspection, corporate records, ratification, defective corporate acts, putative stock, stock issuance, treasury shares, rights and options

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• Senate Bill 1326 modernizes and improves the operations of self-storage facilities and allows them to
• It protects employee privacy, and it protects employer rights during union organizing efforts in Oklahoma
• Representative, forgive me, it's been a compact few days, but on page three, line one, no employer shall
• incentive for a project if the employer, and then it goes through the things that if they do, they're
• But as An employee, if I don't give permission to the employer to provide my personal information to

Bills: SB1824, SB1813, SB1326, SB1277, SB1937, SB1217, SB1826, SB1641

Keywords: corporation, corporate governance, business entities, Oklahoma General Corporation Act, limited liability company, LLC, shareholder rights, beneficial owner, controlling shareholder, control group, interested director, fiduciary duty, books and records inspection, corporate records, ratification, defective corporate acts, putative stock, stock issuance, treasury shares, rights and options

Summary: The committee met with a quorum present and heard several bills, mostly business, licensing, and economic development measures. HB 1277, presented by Rep. Hill, updated OESC job-search requirements and added flexibility for rural residents; it passed 8-0. SB 1217, an OREC request bill presented by Rep. Osborne, would allow a person to tour a house without first signing a contract with a real estate agent; after questions about federal real estate settlement issues and buyer-agent compensation, it passed 7-1. SB 1826 would eliminate the sunset on the Oklahoma Enterprise Zone Incentive Leverage Act and passed 8-0. SB 1824 updated the Oklahoma General Corporation Act as a mirror to a House bill and passed 8-0. SB 1813 would allow the governor to enter athletic trainer licensure compacts with other jurisdictions and passed 7-1. SB 1326 modernized self-storage facility operations and passed 7-0. The committee then took up SB 1937, the Taxpayer Dollars Protect Workers Act, which would condition economic development incentives on labor-practice requirements intended to preserve secret-ballot organizing, employee privacy, and employer rights. Rep. Blancett raised concerns that the bill could harm the film, entertainment, and Olympic-related industries and undermine economic diversification, while Rep. Lepak argued it was aimed at preventing coercive organizing tactics and said similar measures had passed in other states. After a brief debate, the bill passed 5-1-2. Finally, SB 1641, requiring an email address in LLC articles of organization filed with the Secretary of State, passed unanimously. The committee then adjourned.

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• House Bill 1216, expenses for prescription drugs and relating to self-insurance health care plans.

Bills: SB2271, HB1216

Keywords: adult residential facilities, care services, Medicaid, payment rates, elderly care, health services, North Dakota, prescription drugs, drug affordability, copay assistance, copayment accumulator, deductible accumulator, out-of-pocket maximum, health insurance, health benefit plan, self-insured health plan, self-funded plan, third-party payment, manufacturer assistance, patient assistance program

Summary: The Appropriations Committee met with a quorum and took up three bills. House Bill 1216, dealing with prescription drug expense co-pay accumulators in health plans, was presented by Rep. Karen Carl’s, who explained it would prevent insurers from refusing to count third-party assistance toward deductibles for patients using high-cost, non-generic drugs. An amendment was offered to clarify effective dates, including a delayed January 1, 2026 start for PERS coverage. PERS testified that the amendment would align with its calendar-year benefit structure and likely reduce the fiscal note. The amendment was adopted 16-0, and the bill was set aside for further discussion later. House Bill 1199, creating a criminal justice data-sharing system and missing persons/missing Indigenous people task force, was introduced with a committee amendment changing the Attorney General reference to the Attorney General or designee. The committee noted the bill includes a $250,000 general fund appropriation for ongoing costs. The amendment passed 16-0, and the amended bill received a do pass recommendation by a 15-1 vote, with one no vote from Senator Magrum. House Bill 1531, appropriating $75,000 for an irrigation expansion study by the Agriculture Commissioner, was supported as a way to update older economic-impact studies on irrigation and assess opportunities for expansion. Members discussed its relationship to broader study pauses and the history of irrigation development in the state, including Garrison Diversion and remaining authorized acres. The bill passed 16-0. The committee then discussed scheduling for the coming week, noting a heavy bill load and plans for daily morning meetings before adjourning.

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• </c> that own 25% or more of the employer that own 25% or more of the employer corporation<00:02:13.720
• </c><00:29:55.200><c> reach</c> because I've had many employers reach because I've had many employers
• ,</c><01:14:03.200><c> educators,</c> brings together employers, educators, brings together employers
• Seeing none, I'll close public testimony. employment providers and have room to employment providers
• ,</c><01:30:28.640><c> the</c> is a change in their employment, the is a change in their employment,

Bills: HF3843, HF3597, HF4003, HF3167, HF4193

Keywords: workforce development, appropriations, nonprofit organizations, employment services, state funding, paid leave, S corporations, employment law, exemptions, Minnesota Statutes, cancer, healthcare, appropriation, Rural Cancer Institute, Minnesota clinicians, pilot program, nursing, education, University of Minnesota, equity

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• </c> employer allows them to waive a break. employer allows them to waive a break.
• </c> with 15 employers or employees or less. with 15 employers or employees or less.
• </c> employer at that time. employer at that time.
• . employers. employers.
• </c><01:13:46.600><c> opt</c> an employer If an employer doesn't opt an employer If an employer doesn't

Bills: HF4110, HF2113, HF4569, HF4414

Keywords: workplace regulations, employee rights, meal breaks, rest breaks, exemptions, paid leave, small employers, employment law, Minnesota Statutes, workforce development, HF4569, Minnesota Paid Leave Law, protected leave, seasonal employee, seasonal worker, hospitality, hospitality industry, DEED, Department of Employment and Economic Development, employer certification

Bills: HB2, HB27, HB54, HB49, HB58, HB40, HB38, HB43, HB2, HB27, HB40, HB38, HB43, HB54, HB49, HB58

Keywords: vaccination, parental consent, minors, medical consent, guardian approval, sex offender, employment, first responder, childcare, public safety, juvenile protection, emergency orders, child custody, court authority, abuse and neglect, firearm possession, law enforcement, criminal penalty, concealed carry, Alabama law