Senate Standing Committee on Ways and Means

Okay. Calling the 12:30, meeting to order. This meeting, including the audio and video of remote participants, is being streamed live on YouTube. You will find links to viewing options for all Senate meetings on the live and on demand video page of the legislature's website. In the unlikely event that we have to abruptly end this hearing due to major technical difficulties, the committee will reconvene to discuss any outstanding business on Tuesday, April 28, 12:30 in this room.

A public notice will be posted on our website. We would appreciate testifiers to stand on their written testimony as the committee has reviewed and received your written comments. For those participating remotely, all testifier audio will be muted and video disabled until shortly before it's your turn to testify. In an effort to accommodate as many testifies as possible, we will be enforcing a one minute on verbal testimony. A timer will be visible for all testifiers.

If there are temporary glitches during your turn to testify, we may have to move on due to time constraints. We appreciate your understanding, and we have your written testimony. If you're interested in reviewing written testimony, please go to our website. You will find the link on the status page for each measure. Okay.

Mark. GM five twenty. Mark Fukunaga. Must've been on Zoom?

Yes. I don't know if you can hear me. The video. I'm trying to start the video. I'm, my apologies. I'm in Beijing right now.

So I think the. I hope you can hear me, but the video doesn't seem to be coming through.