001Well, good morning, everyone. Today is Thursday, April the 23rd, 2026. This is the first of two scheduled public hearings regarding proposed rule changes around 19 TAC Chapter 89, specifically sections 1050, 1055, and 1096. Uh my name is Derek Hollingsworth. I'm your host today. Um appreciate everybody willing to come in and and and participate today. At this moment, no one has signed up to provide public testimony. Um there are several folks that I haven't heard from yet. Um so, um if I call your name, it's because I haven't heard you respond to the question of whether you're going to provide public testimony. If no one uh if no one is interested in providing public testimony today, what we're we're going to do is we're going to hold the meeting open for approximately 15 minutes to see
002if anybody else does come in that wants to provide public testimony. At the conclusion of 15 minutes, if no one um is is interested in providing public testimony, then we'll go ahead and close today's public hearing. Um so, firstly, uh Ms. Rogers, are you interested in providing public testimony today? All right. Uh Ms. Pope, are you interested in providing public testimony today? No, thank you. Okay, thank you, ma'am. And Mr. Clark, are you interested in providing public testimony today? Uh no, not not today. Okay, very well. That's perfectly fine. Okay, I've heard from everyone who's present. There's no one who's interested in providing public testimony. Accordingly, we'll hold the meeting open for 15 minutes uh to see if anyone else decides to um provide public testimony. D. Carney, are you interested in providing public testimony
003today? >> Mhm. >> Hey. >> Mhm. >> Mr. Saffold, are you interested in providing public testimony today? >> Ms. Colangelo, are you interested in providing public testimony today? No, I was just listening and I'm late and I'm sorry. That's okay. Mr. Safford, are you interested in providing public testimony today? I had submitted on the form a few comments, but I was really just here to listen as well. Thank you. Okay, thank you very much, sir. Ladies and gentlemen, it's been over 15 minutes and no one has arrived to provide any public testimony. Accordingly, we're going to go ahead and conclude today's public hearing. As always, please feel free to submit any written comments to spend wool at tea.texas.gov. There is a second public hearing tomorrow Friday the 24th. Um Just as today we'll have sign-ins
004will be open starting at 9:00 a.m. to provide public comments and then the meeting will begin at 9:30. Thank you very much for attending today. This concludes today's public hearing.