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MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Minnesota Management and Budget Press Conference 12/4/25
Transcript Highlights:
- You'll recall when I stood before you nine months ago, we were forecasting a $6 billion negative balance
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the history of taking action to keep the history of taking action to keep the - keep Minnesota's fiscal house in order. keep Minnesota's fiscal house in order.
Summary:
Minnesota Management and Budget Commissioner Aaron Campbell, State Economist Dr. Tony Becker, and State Budget Director Anna Mingi presented the November 2025 budget and economic forecast. Campbell said the state now projects a nearly $2.5 billion surplus at the end of the 2026-27 biennium, about $575 million better than the end-of-session estimate, but also a projected negative balance of about $2.9 billion in FY 2028-29, reflecting a worsening structural imbalance. He said the budget reserve stands at $3.4 billion, with cash flow and budget reserves totaling $3.8 billion after a $244 million addition, and emphasized that Minnesota’s AAA bond rating and reserve policy remain strengths even as future sessions will need to address the long-term gap.
Becker said the national economic outlook has changed only modestly since February, but growth remains below trend through the forecast horizon. He cited slower consumer spending, weak private investment, continued tariff uncertainty, lower projected immigration, and modest inflation that stays near 3% through 2026 before easing. Revenue forecasts for the next biennium were revised up to $66.3 billion, driven mainly by higher individual income tax receipts and other revenue, partly offset by lower sales and corporate tax forecasts. He also noted risks from federal policy changes, the recent shutdown’s effect on data availability, and possible equity market volatility.
Mingi said general fund spending is projected to rise sharply, with current biennium spending up $3.4 billion from end-of-session estimates and planning-year spending up $1.9 billion. She attributed much of the increase to carryforward from prior one-time appropriations, discretionary inflation, and especially Medical Assistance. MA costs are projected to be about $2.5 billion higher over 2025-29, largely because managed care rates rose more than expected due to higher utilization and higher-cost services, including pharmacy costs, while long-term care and disability waiver costs also increased. In response to questions, officials said the federal reconciliation bill had only a relatively small effect on the health care changes, and that the carryforward amounts reflect unspent prior appropriations that now show up in later years rather than new spending.
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
Working Group on Omnibus Health and Human Services Bill - 06/08/25
Minnesota Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
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TX
Texas 89th Regular
Senate Committee on Health and Human Services (Part II) May 21st, 2025
Health & Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- Texas is one of only nine states limiting patients to less than 30 days.
- These are families forced to keep their children out of school for...
- I really think that we need to keep the process... ... as it is.
- It's not my bill; we'll find out, so keep going.
- I'm going to keep calling a few names. Ms.
Bills:
HB1106, HB3284, HB541, HB713, HB1403, HB1586, HB1942, HB2070, HB2844, HB2851, HB3151, HB3749, HB3940, HB3963, HB4454, HB4466, HB4795, HB5154, HB5394, SB1357, HB1052, HB4099, HB4638, HB5147
Keywords:
child abuse, neglect, gender identity, sexual orientation, child welfare, marriage, family, Texas Commission, family welfare, marriage support, stability, premarital education, child development, strong families, direct patient care, healthcare, physicians, medical services, insurance regulation, maternal health
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- We ask you to keep the in-state tuition. Legislation. Thank you.
- Through my work advising hundreds of high school and college students over the last. nine years, I've
- They make up nine percent of our our workforce and contributed $2 billion in taxes last year.
- My father came to Texas at the age of nine.
- It's essential to protect higher education and keep it a place. of freedom for everyone.
Bills:
HB232
Keywords:
disaster recovery, natural disaster, weather disaster, emergency relief, flood relief, hurricane relief, storm damage, wildfire, tornado, hail, windstorm, extreme heat, ice storm, snowstorm, property damage, personal injury, temporary housing, relocation assistance, lost wages, state emergency management
NM
Transcript Highlights:
- Madam Chair, you have nine votes in favor, zero votes against. Yes.
- Madam Chair, you have nine votes in favor, zero votes against.
- We don't hardly ever have nine-month abortions and things of that nature." Thank you.
- And are we going to be, do we need to keep illegally?
- To keep your remarks to about 90 seconds, and we're going to limit it to five people.
Keywords:
medical malpractice, judgments, independent providers, insurance, personal assets, settlements, healthcare, healthcare privacy, electronic medical records, reproductive health, gender-affirming care, data protection, location tracking, confidentiality, SB30, induced abortion, abortion reporting, vital statistics, public health reporting, medical records
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
Senate - Conservation Feb 10th, 2026 at 09:05 am
Senate Conservation
Transcript Highlights:
- They keep their eyes on this very well.
- They keep their eyes on this very well.
- What's to keep us then from progressing to fossil fuel gas with carbon capture?
- We have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, and eleven.
- And then they want to do nine gigawatts of nuclear.
Keywords:
nuclear energy, renewable energy, sustainability, carbon emissions, energy regulation, microgrid, zero carbon resources, Public Regulation Commission, energy generation, electric utilities, motor vehicle manufacturers, licensing, dealers, franchise agreements, consumer protection, water supply, sewage improvements, environment, funding, Mora County
MO
Missouri 2026 Regular Session
Elementary and Secondary Education Jan 15th, 2026
Elementary and Secondary Education
Transcript Highlights:
- I won't keep any longer. Appreciate it. Thank you very much.
- So if you look on page nine—well, kind of on page eight and nine, for instance, when you, at the bottom
- We are getting a little bit pressed for time in that I wanted to keep this at...
- I will keep my testimony compact.
- I'll keep things brief, so I won't read a speech or anything.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- There being nine ayes, zero nays, and zero present not voting, the motion prevails.
- There being nine ayes, zero nays, and zero present not voting, the motion prevails.
- Another thing to keep in mind is that this is not a confusing thing.
- To keep your minds open and allow parties to have that tool.
- They completely ignored it and did not supply ballots to keep people from voting.
Keywords:
HB 817, Texas Election Code, majority vote, majority threshold, ranked-choice voting, preferential voting, instant runoff voting, vote reassignment, ballot ranking, election administration, public office election, Election Code Section 2.0215, runoff elections, plurality vs majority, voting systems, education reform, budget allocation, teacher retention, student performance, accountability measures
MO
Transcript Highlights:
- So I don't want to keep anything from anybody; I want everybody to know exactly what my intentions are
- We do have nine present. We have a quorum, so we're going to go ahead and get back to our business.
- We do have nine present. We have a quorum, so we're going to go ahead and get back to our business.
Summary:
The House Legislative Rules Committee met in executive session and first took up four measures. It voted do pass on Senate Substitute for Senate Bill 1553, concerning incentives for production of certain critical materials, by 10-0; Senate Substitute for Senate Bill 1002, relating to elections submitted to voters by a school board, by 8-2; Senate Substitute for Senate Bill 1135, dealing with child maintenance orders for certain persons, by 10-0; and House Committee Substitute for Senate Bill 1572, addressing public employee retirement system fixes, by 10-0. The chair also explained that the committee was working through procedural questions about when it may hold public hearings on bills referred directly to the committee, especially Senate bills referred to the House Rules Committee.
After recess, the committee reconvened and focused on Senate Bill 999, described as the “born-alive” bill. The chair said this would be the only item acted on that evening and that the previously posted morning hearing would be canceled. He announced a public hearing would be held the next evening on Senate Bill 999 and a committee substitute that had been distributed in advance, with the intent to vote on the House Committee Substitute after the hearing. He also noted an amendment would be offered to House Bill 2243, sponsored by Representative Wolfen, to address an unintended effect on the telecommunications sector, and said the amendment would be distributed the next morning.
The committee then returned to executive session and voted do pass on Senate Bill 999 by 8-2. The meeting adjourned after that vote, with the chair indicating the committee would meet again the following evening.
FL
Florida 2026 5th Special Session
Children, Families, and Elder Affairs Feb 3rd, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- my lived experience additionally i would like to thank senator rodriguez for sponsoring senate bill nine
- nine six i am the legislative chair on the statewide board for florida ushine and the president of the
- The amendment does not expand SNAP eligibility beyond this population and keeps all existing program
Summary:
The Committee on Children, Families, and Other Affairs considered four bills. SB 1690 on early childhood education was amended with a delete-all amendment that would require DCF and local licensing agencies to publicly post inspection reports and annual data on child deaths, injuries, and substantiated abuse in child care facilities, revise notice requirements for certain child care homes, add website disclosure requirements for exempt facilities, address insurance coverage for family and large family child care homes, and create the Florida Endowment for Early Learning. The committee adopted the amendment and reported the bill favorably, with support noted from United Way of Florida.
The committee then heard SB 1022 on children’s initiatives, which would create two new children’s initiatives in Bay County and Pompano in Broward County. The sponsor said the bill would expand local service networks for children in disadvantaged communities with no state fiscal impact. The bill was reported favorably after support was noted from representatives of Florida Children’s Initiative and others.
SB 996 on dependent children drew extensive testimony from Florida Youth SHINE members and other foster youth advocates, who supported the bill’s focus on lived experience, regular consultation with youth-serving organizations, public reporting on implementation, and normalcy in foster care, including allowance to help youth learn budgeting. The bill sponsor said it would help make the system more responsive to youth needs. The committee also adopted an amendment to SB 1642 on temporary cash assistance eligibility, narrowing a SNAP-related eligibility carve-out to people who were victims of human trafficking at the time of a drug conviction. The sponsor said the change would remove barriers for trafficking survivors while keeping existing program requirements in place. Both SB 996 and the amended SB 1642 were reported favorably, and the meeting adjourned without further business.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- In Hawley, the Supreme Court enumerates nine key factors that courts. may consider when making a best
- incident in 2011 where I got a niece and she was nine years old and she had had special needs.
- And so, your standpoint is this just making everything line up so we can keep our eyes dotted and t-scrolled
- Very well. thanks to the excellent committee staff to keep us moving.
- preservation board that got that squeaking. door taken care of during the hearing and all the folks who keep
Keywords:
judicial bond, guardianship, probate law, county judge, statutory county court, attorney general, criminal prosecution, public order, law enforcement, jurisdiction, attorney ad litem, parent-child relationship, compensation, legal representation, government entity, probate, court proceedings, record delivery, wills, legal documentation
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Let's try to keep the testimony concise.
- If we can, let's keep the testimony within that time limit.
- Members of the Public Health Committee, nine of you are from urban areas with a total of 202 hospitals
- Nine of our counties have no hospital at all.
- hospitals... are struggling is because all the regulations get slammed down on them, and they just can't keep
Bills:
HB18, HB742, HB754, HB1644, HB2187, HB1887, HB 1275, HB37, HB1503, HB1699, HB1700, HB2735, HB1741, HB1731, HB1675, HB18, HB37
Keywords:
rural health, hospital funding, healthcare access, mental health services, financial stability, human trafficking, first responders, health care, training, reporting, protection, trafficking prevention, medical assistant training, health care facilities, hospital compliance, clinic compliance, anti-retaliation, whistleblower protection, employee reporting, good faith report
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
Human Services panel approves bill expanding MN AG's Medicaid fraud unit, HF2354 3/20/25
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- So what we're asking you for today is the tools and resources to continue keeping up that good work.
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keeping - up that good work continue keeping up that good work Minnesota's<00:05:19.880>
Medicaid <00:05 - Our recommended number right now is 41, and that's what we're asking for: nine additional people—one
- Our recommended number right now is 41, and that's what we're asking for: nine additional people—one
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Republic of Texas was establishing the General Land Office to manage its public lands by collecting and keeping
- The Veterans Land Board offers land, home, and home improvement loans to veterans, operating nine regional
- The operator of those nine nursing homes that we have currently includes locations in Amarillo, Big Spring
- doing right are working with their school districts trying to... to make sure that the growth can keep
- the way, he says this is his number one issue; Comptroller Hager does right now, that this is what keeps
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- I just pray that we keep your will, your way.
- That we could pay for almost nine new teachers in every public school in the state of Texas.
- Nine teachers? Let me bring it a little local to Harris County.
- , and I hope that my colleagues here in this chamber and across the rotunda who vote for this will keep
- I'm not keeping up with the time. That's probably a little rude, but who are we here for?
Keywords:
Maverick County, recognition, economic development, Texas Senate, community celebration, 1185, senate, all
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- We want to keep facilities open.
- We want to keep by constituencies. We want to keep facilities<02:01:13.760>
open. - I just don't understand this argument that having more people to keep our residents safe, to keep health
- keep them in business. Thank you. keep them in business. Thank you.
- There have been 57 eyes's and nine nazs. There have been 57 eyes's and nine nazs.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Make America Healthy Again Kentucky Task Force (7-10-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- I think we need to keep things simple for the general population.
- I think we need to keep things simple for the general population.
- And the main SNAP provides nine.
- Especially when it relates to alcohol. to retailers to keep track of, that gets to retailers to keep
- And please keep in mind that we are now really short on time. So, please keep your testimony short.
Summary:
The meeting opened with roll call and housekeeping, including moving standing attendees to an overflow room and asking the audience to avoid interruptions. The task force then heard testimony from Allison Adams of the Foundation for a Healthy Kentucky, who presented statewide health trend data showing Kentucky ranked 41st overall and 44th in health outcomes, with especially poor performance on premature death, chronic disease, diabetes, and vaccination rates. She emphasized that Kentucky has the highest rates of residents with multiple chronic conditions, that diabetes remains above the national average, and that childhood immunization rates have worsened. She also highlighted major provider shortages in rural areas, noting that 43 of 120 counties meet shortage criteria and that more than half of primary care providers are concentrated in Fayette and Jefferson counties. Adams urged the task force to focus on prevention, early intervention, access to care, physical activity, and healthier school and community environments, and said the foundation is prepared to share results from its demonstration projects. Task force members asked follow-up questions about the age range for chronic-condition data and whether the diabetes figure reflected type 1 or type 2 diabetes; Adams said the chronic-condition measure spans all ages and that the diabetes figure likely reflects type 2, though she offered to provide the full report. The task force then approved the minutes from the prior meeting.
The committee next turned to SNAP benefits and heard from Lisa Dennis, commissioner of the Department for Community Based Services, and Roger McCann, director of the Division of Family Support. They explained that SNAP is not only a food assistance program but also a public health and family stability tool, arguing that poor diet contributes to chronic disease and that food insecurity is linked to family stress, child welfare involvement, and neglect-related CPS referrals. They cited research showing that more generous SNAP policies are associated with fewer CPS reports, fewer substantiated reports, and fewer foster care placements, and said SNAP helps reduce risk and promote stability across vulnerable populations including children, older adults, people with disabilities, and pregnant women. They also described SNAP-Ed as the nutrition education component that teaches healthy eating, cooking on a budget, and how to use fresh produce, but warned that recent federal legislation eliminates federal funding for SNAP-Ed beginning in federal fiscal year 2026. McCann outlined the remaining SNAP outreach and employment-and-training components, noting that outreach is typically run by nonprofits with a 50% match and that employment and training funds job-skills programs to help recipients move toward better jobs and self-sufficiency. The discussion emphasized that access to nutritious food, education, and job supports are all part of improving health outcomes and reducing food insecurity.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
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other in their community and keeping other in their community and keeping other
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development Jun 21st, 2026 at 11:00 am
Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development
Transcript Highlights:
- In 2019, my nine-year-old son William died suddenly in a ski accident.
- In 2019, my nine-year-old son William died suddenly in a ski accident.
- and many times the insurance company just settles because the terms and conditions are weighted to keep
- We represent nine trade associations working with 15 union trades and contractors who negotiate with
- Seeing none, thank you, Joseph, for your patience and the legislative process as well, and for keeping—thank
Summary:
The Joint Committee on Labor and Workforce Development held a hybrid hearing on a large group of bills carried over from the previous session, with Chair Jake Oliveira and House Co-Chair Paul McMurtry outlining the process and limiting testimony to three minutes. The committee heard testimony on several labor and workplace proposals, including bills to harmonize employee definitions to address misclassification (SB 1338/HB 2141), expand bereavement leave (including H. 2189/S. 1354 and related bills), protect collective bargaining rights for certain administrative employees (HB 268/SB 1306), expand commuter transit benefits (HB 2153/SB 1345), regulate employer use of credit reports (S. 1286), and require apprenticeship participation or OSHA-related workplace safety measures on public projects. At the end of the hearing, the chairs read into the record additional bills that did not receive testimony that day.
Supporters of the misclassification bill, including Greater Boston Legal Services and the AFL-CIO, said aligning the employee-status tests across wage, unemployment, and PFML laws would reduce confusion, improve enforcement, and help workers wrongly treated as independent contractors or managers recover benefits and bargaining rights. NAGE and its representative argued that public-sector employees have been improperly reclassified into management titles to weaken unions, and that the bill would force the Division of Labor Relations to review those titles. On bereavement leave, advocates including the Louis E. Brown Peace Institute, a state representative, the Massachusetts Office for Victim Assistance, and individual survivors described the impact of sudden loss and homicide on families, saying guaranteed leave would help workers grieve, make arrangements, and avoid losing jobs or custody-related stability. The committee also heard support for commuter benefits as a low-cost way to reduce emissions and increase transit use, and for restricting employer credit checks because of inaccuracies and discriminatory effects.
There was opposition to some construction-related bills. The Associated Builders and Contractors and the Building Trades Employers Association supported apprenticeship training in principle but said current apprentice-to-journeyworker ratios are outdated or misunderstood, and that the bills should be amended or clarified before advancing. The Massachusetts landscape and snow-removal industry strongly supported a snow-liability limitation bill, arguing that hold-harmless clauses and broad indemnification requirements force contractors to assume liability for conditions they cannot control, drive up insurance costs, and threaten business viability. The committee did not take any votes during the hearing, and the session ended with the chairs thanking members, staff, and the public before adjourning.
CO
Colorado 2026 Regular Session
Colorado Senate 2026 Legislative Day 118 Part 2 May 12th, 2026
Colorado Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- We appropriated the cash funds that continue to keep the PUC open.
- In all, around 20 rounds were fired over In all, around 20 rounds were fired over the course of nine
- Amendment L13, on the bill, page nine, strike lines 26. Thank you, Mr. Chair.
- And so I urge you, please keep these protections in.
- We keep to our agreements. And I would disagree with this. Thank you.