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FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

FL House Floor Session - 2025-05-02 (11:00AM Session)

Florida House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • It deletes the hazard mitigation grant program.
  • It deletes the hazard mitigation grant program.
  • What was important to me was that the permit allocations must be distributed over a period of 10 years
  • Where in the budget is the transportation allocation for charter schools?
  • It authorizes two grant institutions that are under the DOE administrative agency that are eligible for
Summary: The House convened with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, quorum established, and several recognitions, including a legislative intern, a guest in the gallery, and Representative Bruce Antone’s upcoming induction into the Tuskegee Athletic Hall of Fame. The Speaker also gave brief remarks about the end of session and the freshman class. The chamber then took up a series of Senate-returned messages and concurred or insisted on several amendments while moving bills toward final passage. The House unanimously approved CS/CS/HB 1299 on Department of Health matters, CS/HB 1549 on financial institutions after adopting a House amendment to remove the IOTA-related provision, and CS/CS/SB 768 on foreign ties and business interests after a House concurrence motion. It also insisted on its amendment to CS/CS/CS/SB 184 on housing. CS/CS/HB 875 on educator preparation was amended to restore House provisions on teacher-prep courses, the Florida Center for Teaching Excellence at Miami-Dade College, and related testing and mentor-qualification changes; it passed 91-22 after debate over teacher certification, testing, and “identity politics” language. HB 1101 on out-of-network providers was amended to keep the House’s original notice and referral framework with a good-cause exemption; it passed 87-27 despite objections that it placed too much responsibility on doctors. After recess, the House took up CS/CS/SB 180 on emergency preparedness and response. Members described changes including removal of some homestead-assessment and debris-removal provisions, a study requirement for a post-hurricane county restriction concept, and a Florida Keys evacuation-time change paired with a 10-year cap of 900 permit allocations; the bill passed 116-0. The House also refused to concur in a Senate amendment to HB 1609 on waste incineration and requested the Senate recede. Later, the House returned to HB 1101 and insisted on its amendment after the Senate refused to concur. The longest debate came on CS/CS/HB 1115 on education, where the House amendment replaced the Senate version with the substance of HB 1267, including Schools of Hope, higher education governance, and course transparency. Members questioned provisions expanding Schools of Hope co-location and sponsorship authority beyond traditional opportunity zones, the role of the Department of Education versus school districts, transportation and facility-cost issues, and performance-based agreements. Supporters said the changes would expand options for students and use vacant or underutilized facilities; opponents argued the language was added late, lacked transportation funding, and could allow charter operators to enter high-performing schools. The bill remained under debate at the end of the transcript, with no final vote shown.
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

Committee on Human Services - 02/19/25

Health and Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • It's interesting that in the proposed budget there is $11 million that is going to be allocated to AI
  • The programs include PCA Choice, CFSS budget model, CDCS, and the Consumer Support Grant.
  • program and the consumer support Grant program and the consumer support Grant the<00:18:08.000><
  • The governor's proposed allocation of $6 million in funding will ensure that providers and communities
  • <01:06:25.599> counties Prairie which is popen Grant counties Prairie which is popen Grant
Keywords: 1187, senate, all
NM

New Mexico 2025 Regular Session

IC - Legislative Finance Nov 18th, 2025

Transcript Highlights:
  • The program was established by a grant in 2019.
  • State: Grant, Luna, and Hidalgo counties.
  • So there was zero allocation to water projects in New Mexico.
  • Now that you all have allocated resources, we're seeing more applications come in.
  • I certainly didn't include grants, permits, fees, licensing, etc.
CA
Transcript Highlights:
  • to support implementation of the CYBHI fee schedule program, and county offices then gave grants to
  • Counties are facing relatively flat realignment funding, changes in how the BHSA funds are allocated
  • Most counties do not spend the allocation they received that year.
  • As mentioned in the background materials, we've got two distinct grant categories, one for small and
  • one for large grants.
Summary: The hearing focused first on behavioral health, especially serious mental illness and anosognosia, a condition described by witnesses as a neurological symptom that prevents people from recognizing they are ill. The chair framed the issue around families cycling through emergency rooms, jails, conservatorships, and short-term stabilization without lasting treatment, and warned that federal changes under H.R. 1 could reduce Medi-Cal funding and worsen access. Dawn Marie Anderson gave a personal account of her son’s long history of psychosis, homelessness, arrests, repeated jail and state hospital stays, and eventual stability when he received sustained medication and coordinated support. She argued that the system often treats the problem as criminal rather than medical and that voluntary programs and short-term services are not enough for people who lack insight into their illness. Other panelists, including representatives from the California Behavioral Health Association, Santa Barbara County Behavioral Health, and the County Behavioral Health Directors Association, agreed that anosognosia is not denial or noncompliance and said the system needs long-term, coordinated care, including assertive community treatment, mobile crisis, supportive housing, medication support, and stronger handoffs between county and managed care systems. They said CalAIM and other reforms have improved some coordination, but significant gaps remain, especially for people with serious mental illness, for those in jail or locked settings, and for people with private insurance, which witnesses said often offers little meaningful coverage for early psychosis or intensive behavioral health services. Several witnesses urged the Legislature to protect Medi-Cal, shore up county safety-net services, and invest in training and family engagement. The committee then turned to the Children and Youth Behavioral Health Initiative, with a focus on the virtual services platforms BrightLife Kids and Soluna and the CYBHI fee schedule. DHCS reported strong growth in app registrations, coaching sessions, referrals, and positive user outcomes, saying the platforms provide free, culturally responsive, early-intervention support statewide and help connect users to higher levels of care when needed. On the fee schedule, DHCS said more than 500 LEAs, colleges, universities, and school-linked providers are participating, 181 LEAs have submitted claims, and $9.6 million has been reimbursed to date, with 41,556 students represented in claims. The chair and several members criticized the pace of implementation and the amount of money spent relative to reimbursement levels, saying the Legislature had requested data earlier and that the return on investment still appeared low. DHCS responded that many claims are still being submitted, that 70% of denials are correctable, that $400 million in capacity grants has been distributed locally, and that reimbursement is increasing rapidly as more districts come online. Public comment included a rural county behavioral health director who said private insurance denials leave counties with significant uncompensated work, especially for unlicensed staff providing case management and mobile crisis services.
HI

Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

WAM-HRE Informational Briefing 01-17-2025

Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Number 19 says to accommodate CTE annual grant expenditures, so what are annual grant expenditures and
  • What happens is we get an allocation from the Carl Perkins Grant, and then our State Office of Career
  • Perkins Grant and then Perkins Grant and then our<02:15:03.320> um<02:15:03.440> State<
  • 20.1 or 21 million of that was allocated 20.1 or 21 million of that was allocated for<02:33:39.640
  • money in the budget that is allocated money in the budget that is allocated it's<02:49:19.760>
Keywords: 912, senate, all
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Retirement Apr 29th, 2026

Retirement

Transcript Highlights:
  • Senate Bill 10 repeals the current priority access return allocation and retiree raise rules for the
  • line up those COLAs, hopefully, with the other state systems so that the legislature will be able to grant
  • The employers, with the change, the priority allocation provisions, which would put place in the account
  • The employers, with the change, the priority allocation provisions, which would put place in the account
  • basically the same as the other one, with the administration simplified to prior to excess return allocation
Keywords: 965, house, all
Summary: The Retirement Committee met with a quorum and heard a series of retirement-system bills, mostly described by sponsors and system directors as cleanup measures, technical corrections, or changes to funding and re-employment rules. Early bills included SB 22, which made the constable position for the Second City Court of New Orleans eligible for membership in the Municipal Employees Retirement System, and SB 17, which created a funding deposit account for cost-of-living adjustments for registrars of voters’ employees. The committee also advanced SB 455 and SB 456, addressing employer participation in the Parochial Employees Retirement System and compensation for assigned retired judges, respectively. The committee then took up a group of State Police and teacher-retirement measures. SB 8 added the Louisiana Access Management Pool as a participating employer in MERS. SB 10, SB 11, and SB 12 adjusted State Police retirement funding and actuarial treatment, including changes to COLA funding, benefit increase funding, and administrative definitions. SB 16 reduced annual trustee education requirements for retirement boards from 16 hours to 12. SB 13 made similar actuarial-funding changes for the Teacher’s Retirement System, and SB 14, developed from a study group, consolidated and simplified TRSL return-to-work rules while expanding some re-employment options for retirees. Later bills focused on re-employment and system funding. SB 18 repealed a special exception allowing certain MERS retirees to return to part-time work while collecting full benefits, while protecting current participants. SB 20 and SB 21 updated actuarial gain and loss handling for the School Employees’ Retirement System and LASERS, respectively, to align with newer COLA funding structures. SB 416 expanded re-employment options for retired Department of Public Safety and Corrections employees in critical shortage positions, prompting discussion about staffing needs and cross-gender strip-search issues in prisons. SB 477 clarified the retirement status of the Chairman of the Louisiana Gaming Control Board as a full-time state employee. All bills discussed were reported favorably, and the chair announced the committee’s next meeting would be moved from Monday to Tuesday.
NH

New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session

House Education Funding (02/04/2025)

Transcript Highlights:
  • <01:21:55.639> of current allocation of current allocation of $4,100<01:21:57.800> per<
  • and supplemental grants.
  • <04:36:11.240> and<04:36:11.760> supplementals<04:36:12.520> Grant needs Grant
  • and supplementals Grant needs Grant and supplementals Grant supplemental<04:36:13.520> grants
  • state comes in with the adequacy Grant state comes in with the adequacy Grant and<04:45:24.958><
Keywords: 928, house, all
Summary: The Education Funding Committee met in executive session and first took up HB 193, which clarifies that dual and concurrent enrollment courses may not exceed four credits. Members said the bill came from the community college system and was intended to preserve the program’s high school-to-college pathway. An amendment changing the effective date to passage was adopted 18-0, and the committee then voted 18-0 to recommend OTPA on the bill as amended, with the bill placed on the consent calendar. The committee then retained HB 295 and HB 366, both related to school building aid, after members said the issues were complex and needed more work. Both motions to retain passed 18-0, leaving the bills in committee without reports. The chair also said HB 354 would not be taken up that day because of possible changes from the Department of Education and others. HB 494, funding the math learning communities program, was then amended to flat-fund the program rather than increase it, with members citing budget uncertainty. The amendment passed unanimously, and the committee then voted 18-0 for OTPA on the bill as amended, placing it on consent. Finally, HB 515, which would repeal charter public school eligibility for state school building aid, drew debate over whether charter schools should be treated differently from traditional public schools. The committee voted 10-8 for inexpedient to legislate, sending the bill to the regular calendar; Representative Damon was assigned the minority report and Representative Popovic the majority report. The committee then began HB 716, an appropriation for the dual and concurrent enrollment program, where members discussed flat-funding the program at $2.5 million per year and the potential impact on course availability, but the transcript cuts off before a final vote is shown.
FL
Transcript Highlights:
  • So we've come in and we've had grant funding and we've had other sources of funding to be able to provide
  • It's still from that 2011 equity allocation model. This really looked at population metrics, right?
  • Almost. 46 million dollar difference than what the CDC schedule funds showed from an allocation last
  • It's not the reason ability we have written approve cost allocation plans for the department.
  • We certainly contribute through fundraising through other grant opportunities to offset funds scale.
Keywords: 999, senate, all
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Conference Committee on HF2431 5/9/25

Transcript Highlights:
  • The Senate and House both have changed the way funds from the existing emergency grant program are allocated
  • hunger-free campus grants. hunger-free campus grants.
  • grant change the employer match. Okay. grant change the employer match. Okay.
  • Grant or Mr. Bone, like to come up and speak to this? Welcome, Mr. Grant.
  • I'm Mark Grant.
Keywords: 919, house, all
Summary: The committee first took up a series of “same and similar” provisions between the House and Senate higher education bills and adopted them one by one, with brief explanations from members and staff. The items included a cybersecurity addition for a doctoral degree program, Northstar Promise definitions and eligibility limits, self-loan provisions on institution eligibility and data disclosure, and dual training language requiring certificates, diplomas, or degrees to come from accredited postsecondary institutions. The committee also adopted an amendment to the private career school provisions that clarified exempt institutions remain within the act, and removed certain limited-license and renewal fees for institutions participating in dual training grants or the eligible training provider list. Each of these motions prevailed by voice vote. The committee then moved into policy differences between the House and Senate bills, beginning with emergency grants and hunger-free campus grants. Members discussed shifting funding from OHE-administered competitive grants to direct appropriations for the University of Minnesota and Minnesota State, while the Senate retained competitive grant access for private and tribal colleges and added reporting requirements. OHE Commissioner Dennis Olson said the added reporting would be an extra administrative task but raised no significant concerns. Testifiers from the University of Minnesota, Minnesota State, and the private college sector supported faster, more direct funding and described the grants as important for emergency housing, transportation, food insecurity, and other student basic needs. A LeadMN representative also supported the changes, saying campus staff and students wanted funds delivered more quickly. The committee also discussed direct admissions on R31. The Senate proposal would require public and charter high schools to participate in the direct admissions program by the 2029-2030 school year. Assistant Commissioner Wendy Robinson said OHE supports statewide expansion and that the program has improved FAFSA completion, college enrollment, and student retention in Minnesota. Members noted the bill had bipartisan support and heard from advocates such as Ed Allies and Students United. No votes were taken on the policy-difference items during this portion of the meeting, and the chair said further discussion of state grant and sexual misconduct policy differences would be held at a later hearing with additional OHE staff present.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session: 2025 First Special Session - part 2 Jun 9th, 2025

Minnesota House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • The only change from that updated language that was posted on June 6th was a change to the allocation
  • management, the commissioner must disperse the grant.
  • To exempt the city from a grant management process when there's a competitive grant process makes perfect
  • And electronic library grants and grants for cardiac emergency response plans in our schools.
  • A decrease in the student support personnel workforce grant.
CA
Transcript Highlights:
  • This bill will grant Colusa County 10 on-sale liquor licenses to support local economic development and
  • program and also initiative that is so ingrained in us that we often take the programs truly for granted
  • These must be embedded into how we make decisions, allocate resources, and serve students.
  • These must be embedded into how we make decisions, allocate resources, and serve students.
Summary: The Governmental Organization Committee met as a subcommittee because it initially lacked a quorum, then later established quorum and heard several bills. AB 445 by Majority Leader Aguiar-Curry would grant Colusa County 10 on-sale liquor licenses to address a long-standing shortage and support local economic development; the author said she would accept committee amendments. The bill was later approved on a due-pass-as-amended motion to Appropriations, with the roll held open for absent members before additional aye votes were added. AB 766 by Assemblymember Sharp-Collins would require state agencies and departments to conduct an equity analysis before implementing budgets or regulations, with the review performed by a DEIA coordinator or qualified equivalent. Supporters, including a college administrator and a nursing instructor, argued the bill would protect diversity, equity, inclusion, and access efforts and help address systemic barriers in education and health care. The committee voted 13-? on the measure after a due-pass motion to Appropriations, with the roll held open and later additional aye votes recorded. AB 971 by Assemblymember Alvarez would facilitate transfer of about 3.83 acres of city-owned land in San Diego to the San Pasqual Band of Mission Indians, contingent on affirmative action by the City of San Diego. The author and tribal witnesses described the bill as a step toward correcting historical injustices and reopening a currently closed park as a tribal-operated historical park and museum. The measure passed on a due-pass motion to Appropriations, again with the roll held open for absent members before additional votes were added.
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Floor Session 5/1/25 - Part 2

Minnesota House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • with money that's already been allocated with money that's already been allocated for<01:47:06.080
  • This is an easy has money allocated for. This is an easy yes<01:48:14.320> vote.
  • This is no cut to his budget.” allocated, that doesn't make any allocated, that doesn't make any sense
  • Now, we talk a lot about grants in this body, which is important, but grants are only a fraction of our
  • grants<02:29:25.920> are<02:29:26.160> only<02:29:26.319> a important, but grants
Keywords: 1183, house
NM

New Mexico 2025 Regular Session

IC - Land Grant Oct 7th, 2025

House Rural Development, Land Grants And Cultural Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • Las Vegas land grant.
  • of the Las Vegas land grant. land grant, Mr.
  • structured land grant to an heir-based land grant.
  • That's a Madre land grant, right? That land grant was part of the Las Vegas land grant.
  • Land Grants plan.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Senate May 25th, 2026

Louisiana Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • House Bill 511, known as the Sergeant Grant Candies Officer Safety Act, is named after Sergeant Grant
  • Sergeant Grant J.
  • This bill would establish a grant program based on his name for equipment funding, safety prioritization
  • Representative McFarlane, which is an act to provide with respect to the revenue sharing fund and allocation
  • Representative McFarlane, which is an act to provide with respect to the revenue sharing fund and allocation
Bills: SR145, SR146, SR147, SR148, SCR78, SCR12, HB302, HB221, HCR58, HB59, HB89, HB153, HB243, HB335, HB342, HB350, HB407, HB451, HB513, HB595, HB682, HB688, HB690, HB730, HB762, HB802, HB816, HB940, HB944, HB1003, HB1011, HB1029, HB1053, HB1058, HB1062, HB1064, HB1079, HB1084, HB1098, HB1161, HB1189, HB1203, HB1215, HB1247, HB1248, HB1251, HB1253, HB1257, HB1258, SCR3, SB393, SB401, SB415, SB426, SB435, SB487, SB488, SB523, SB56, SB163, SB341, SB504, SB322, SR125, SCR54, SCR59, SCR9, SCR58, SB35, SB65, SB215, SB246, SB249, SB269, SB282, SB296, SB323, SB363, SB369, SB474, SB490, SB492, SB500, SB514, HCR27, HCR28, HCR66, HCR67, HCR72, HCR5, HCR32, HCR49, HCR50, HCR53, HCR60, HCR62, HCR64, HCR68, HCR78, HCR81, HCR86, HCR97, HCR102, HCR31, HCR47, HCR3, HB1095, HB1096, HB1103, HB1129, HB1154, HB1166, HB1195, HB1230, HB316, HB511, HB799, HB1039, HB12, HB66, HB145, HB167, HB196, HB213, HB218, HB222, HB256, HB291, HB326, HB352, HB401, HB430, HB433, HB434, HB448, HB456, HB476, HB481, HB487, HB492, HB549, HB579, HB608, HB621, HB624, HB626, HB632, HB637, HB656, HB722, HB745, HB804, HB818, HB821, HB833, HB864, HB867, HB874, HB893, HB909, HB951, HB968, HB969, HB978, HB979, HB988, HB989, HB1001, HB1005, HB1007, HB1024, HB1032, HB1038, HB1050, HB1051, HB1056, HB1059, HB1077, HB1080, HB1081, HB1086, HB1108, HB1112, HB1153, HB1172, HB1173, HB1175, HB1192, HB1193, HB1204, HB1218, HB1242, HB1244, HB1249, HB1252, HB1254, HB1, HB2, HB3, HB42, HB45, HB71, HB79, HB158, HB160, HB169, HB227, HB251, HB289, HB312, HB313, HB314, HB330, HB383, HB394, HB410, HB429, HB769, HB971, HB983, HB1017, HB1126, HB1234, HB1235, HB17, HB27, HB36, HB41, HB47, HB73, HB126, HB133, HB140, HB159, HB166, HB205, HB211, HB226, HB259, HB271, HB308, HB310, HB324, HB337, HB351, HB399, HB403, HB571, HB712, HB723, HB726, HB740, HB750, HB759, HB812, HB844, HB966, HB1006, HB1009, HB1018, HB1036, HB1107, SB29, SB42, SB43, SB78, SB208, SB217, SB274, SB300, SB379, SB382, SB387, SB441, SB449, HB74, HB134, HB258, HB359, HB468, HB956, HB1117, SB149
ND

North Dakota 2026 1st Special Session

Higher Education Institutions Committee Apr 8th, 2026 at 01:00 pm

Higher Education Institutions Committee

Transcript Highlights:
  • And then just wanted to put the number up about Challenge Grant Scholarships for 2025-26.
  • Corey, just on the topic of Challenge Grants, was DCB able to take full use of the state match?
  • And then just wanted to put the number up about Challenge Grant Scholarships for 25, 26.
  • We're wanting resources allocated more toward housing. It affects our retention rates.
  • And so we would be in support of allocating more resources.
Keywords: 908, all
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Senate in Session Mar 12th, 2026

Florida Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Where there is frustration, grant charity. Where there is division, reveal common ground.
  • Grant them continued vision for the good that is possible and the wisdom and skill to accomplish it.
  • It also grants local governments broad discretion to rezone these surplus parcels in a manner that is
  • It is not necessary for Senators to return to Tallahassee until joint allocations are reached.
  • The House Amendment allows a local government, regardless of the status of as a grant participant.
Summary: The Senate convened with a quorum, opening with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and a series of recognitions for interns, staff, and guests. Members also honored a retiring Senate staffer and a wounded veteran, then moved into returning House messages and special order bills. Several measures were taken up and either concurred in or sent back to the House, with multiple unanimous or near-unanimous votes on noncontroversial bills. Among the bills addressed were SB 118 on recreational vehicle park assessments, SB 572 on ethics for public officers and employees, and HB 991 on election integrity. SB 118 and SB 572 were amended to reflect House changes and passed 38-0. HB 991 drew extensive debate over voter registration and identification requirements, with opponents arguing it would burden students, seniors, disabled voters, and others, while supporters said it would strengthen election security and streamline verification; it passed 27-12. The chamber also approved bills on historic cemeteries, chickee regulation, habitual traffic offender designation, military affairs, and a Department of Health package. The Department of Health bill (SB 902/HB 733) was the subject of detailed amendment work, including changes to medical marijuana rules, NICU educational materials, Early Steps, dental loan repayment, and pediatric trauma center designation. The Senate adopted an amendment to the amendment and then passed the bill 37-0. Other measures included a funeral services bill, which the Senate refused to concur in because the House strike-all would redefine cremation to include composting, and a veterans-related bill that was temporarily postponed. The Senate also recessed briefly, then returned to continue the calendar and additional recognitions.
MA

Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Committee on Climate Change and Global Warming Jun 21st, 2026 at 10:00 am

Senate Committee on Climate Change and Global Warming

Transcript Highlights:
  • And while we always want to be thoughtful about fine-tuning cost allocations, I'm not sure that's an
  • And while we always want to be thoughtful about fine-tuning cost allocations, I'm not sure that's an
  • This fee would allocate the cost of certain grid upgrades across small solar customers.
  • We've benefited from state grant programs that have helped us expand.
  • And as of two weeks ago, we were awarded a California Energy Commission grant to expand into automated
Keywords: 995, all
Summary: The hearing focused on ways Massachusetts can accelerate solar deployment, lower costs, and preserve reliability as electricity demand rises and federal support for solar and other renewables changes. Chair Creem opened by emphasizing solar’s role in meeting climate mandates and peak demand, citing June heat-wave data showing behind-the-meter solar reduced wholesale prices and saved ratepayers money. Commissioner Elizabeth Mahoney of DOER said Massachusetts has grown from 3 MW of solar in 2008 to 3.5 GW today, highlighted SMART 3.0 as a flexible, evergreen incentive program, and said DOER is working on updated rates, interconnection reforms, flexible interconnection, net crediting, and a petition to the DPU to speed implementation. She also said Massachusetts joined the lawsuit over canceled federal Solar for All funding. Committee members and witnesses discussed several policy changes to speed projects before federal tax credits expire, including automated permitting, remote inspections, faster interconnection, and changes to caps on municipal and regional solar development. Senator Barrett pressed Mahoney on whether the 10 MW municipal cap and regional caps should be lifted, and on whether the state should increase its solar tax credit to offset the loss of the federal residential credit. Mahoney said the municipal cap should be revisited and that interconnection cost allocation and other market issues need to be worked out before lifting broader caps. She also said DOER is open to automated permitting and is already developing a permitting portal under the 2024 climate law. Industry and advocacy witnesses largely supported streamlining measures. Sunrun’s Bronte Payne urged removal of a proposed requirement that all net-metered facilities enroll in SMART, and recommended automated permitting, remote inspections, flexible interconnection, better hosting-capacity information, consumer protections, and continued support for Connected Solutions and virtual power plants. Permit Power’s Hannah Bernbaum and Solar App’s Matthew McAllister argued that smart permitting and remote inspections can significantly reduce soft costs and delays, with McAllister saying Solar App now operates in over 320 jurisdictions and saves about three weeks on average. They said remote inspections are already common and can be done safely with photos, video, and qualified third parties. Community solar and clean energy advocates, including CCSA’s Kate Daniel and Vote Solar’s Lindsay Griffin, supported a 10 GW solar target by 2035, a higher refundable state tax credit for low-income households, interconnection reforms, flexible interconnection, and preserving the option to build outside SMART so projects can retain renewable energy certificates. No votes were taken; the hearing was informational, and members requested follow-up materials and draft language from witnesses.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Committee on Higher Education - 03/13/25

Higher Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • So in 2019 the legislature established a grant program to provide individual student loan debt repayment
  • 2019 the legislature established a grant 2019 the legislature established a grant program<00:01:
  • <00:02:12.160> program process since then this grant program process since then this grant
  • In the first year of this round of funding, we were at 32% above grant targets for numbers served.
  • <00:04:13.239> we've we began the work on this grant we've we began the work on this grant
Keywords: 1187, senate, all
WY

Wyoming 2026 Regular Session

Joint Appropriations Committee, April 30, 2026 - AM

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • I do um community consensus grants.
  • I see it's a grant program.
  • innovation research um, granting. innovation research um, granting.
  • I see it's a grant<03:12:48.960> program. grant program. grant program.
  • The grants that we deliver.
Keywords: 916, all
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

Committee on Housing and Homelessness Prevention - 03/27/25

Housing and Homelessness Prevention

Transcript Highlights:
  • Senate File 2950 allocates $11.5 million of one-time funding to the Rondo Community Land Trust to support
  • Senate File 2950 allocates $11.5 million of one-time funding to the Rondo Community Land Trust to support
  • This program allows us to leverage the home buyer's mortgage by giving them an additional grant to have
  • to have more them an additional grant to have more buying<00:26:20.559> power<00:26:20.880>
  • :26:26.240> to<00:26:26.480> address rehab grant post-purchase to address rehab grant post-purchase
Keywords: 1187, senate, all