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• I'm a Capital Electric member, so Basin Electric rates to Capital Electric is really important to me.
• there is there'll be measures to strengthen the electricity grid, development of domestic critical minimum
• So about a $60 million capital cost.
• Kind of digging deeper into the capital investments that we've made.
• And when you do that, you run them at the minimum run just to keep them operating.

Summary: The committee met at the Coteau Freedom Mine in Mercer County, approved the June 2 minutes, and heard an overview of the mine from Coteau Properties president Andrew Hawbaker. He described the Freedom Mine as the largest lignite mine in the United States, supplying coal to Dakota Gasification, Antelope Valley Station, and Leland Olds Station. He emphasized the mine’s scale, safety record, reclamation work, workforce needs, community involvement, and economic impact, including payroll, taxes, royalties, scholarships, and local hiring. Members asked about how long land stays in production, how quickly it returns to agriculture after reclamation, labor shortages, and how mining affects groundwater and water wells. Hawbaker said most tracts are mined for about three to five years, reclamation is coordinated with landowners, and the company continues to struggle to find electricians, welders, mechanics, operators, and engineers. The committee then heard from Public Service Commission Chairman Randy Christman on coal mining reclamation and permitting. He reviewed North Dakota’s coal mining history, the state’s reclamation laws, federal Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act primacy, bonding, permit renewals and revisions, prohibited mining areas, inspection and enforcement, and contemporaneous reclamation requirements. Christman stressed that North Dakota’s program is professional and thorough, with frequent inspections, financial assurance, and a 10-year revegetation monitoring period before bond release. He also discussed federal coal ownership issues that can delay mine plans, the treatment of prime farmland, and how reclamation differs for wind and pipelines. In response to questions, he said one challenge is sometimes releasing land too soon before long-term compaction issues are fully understood, and he noted that data centers do not currently have a comparable reclamation model because they typically own the land. In the afternoon, the committee received an update from Lignite Energy Council president Jonathan Fortner on the lignite industry. He said North Dakota’s lignite sector supports five commercial power plants, four mines, about 12,000 direct and indirect jobs, and more than $5.5 billion in economic activity, while helping keep the state’s electricity rates among the lowest in the nation. Fortner reviewed coal severance and conversion tax revenues, the lignite research fund, federal regulatory rollbacks, carbon capture policy, and the industry’s legal costs fighting federal rules. He also highlighted a study on large-load development, saying new data centers and critical mineral processing facilities could create major local tax revenue and help justify new baseload generation. Members asked whether new gas pipelines would crowd out coal plant development and whether the economic study included jobs and broader local impacts; Fortner said the industry sees room for both and that the study did include construction, operations, jobs, and tax effects.

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• Some of the bigger stores could, right, because they had more capital, whatever.
• I can't imagine a car mechanic or an auto shop deciding that it was a good use of its capital to sue
• Well, so if you look at the City of Austin's minimum lot size requirements, which are effectively the
• Well, so if you look at the city of Austin's minimum lot size requirements, which are effectively the
• city of Austin's minimum lot size requirements, which are effectively the city telling a prospective

Keywords: 1184, house, all

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• So, the turn lanes, that seems like a minimum.
• We've also attended Capital Experience.
• We've also attended Capital Experience.
• We've also attended Capital Experience.
• If we ever get the capital back, there'll be a lot of kids in this vicinity from urban and rural Kentucky

Keywords: Meeting Start: 00:00:00 Attendance Roll Call: 00:00:24 Approval of September 18, 2025 Minutes: 00:02:03 Discussion on the Condemnation of Agricultural Land: 00:03:12 Discussion on the Kentucky Urban Youth Agriculture Initiative: 00:50:00 Adjournment: 01:19:10, 958, all

Summary: The Joint Agriculture Committee met in October with a quorum present and approved the September minutes. The main presentation focused on condemnation of agricultural land and eminent domain, featuring testimony from Stephanie Barnett of a family-run livestock and farming business in Todd County, with support from Kentucky Farm Bureau. Barnett described a state road project that would take about 29 feet of frontage and affect entrances, fencing, a sign, drainage, a water well, and parking, saying the process involved poor communication, correspondence sent to the wrong address, and limited opportunity to negotiate changes such as a turning lane or relocated entrances. She said the business was not opposed to progress, but wanted the property restored and fairly compensated for the full impact on the operation, not just the land value. Committee members broadly agreed that eminent domain is sometimes necessary but should be handled with more transparency, communication, and fairness. Several members said the issue affects both rural and urban property owners and raised concerns about fair market value, compensation for agricultural infrastructure improvements, long-term impacts on farm operations, and the cost and delay of litigation. One member asked about the firm involved and suggested hearing from the people responsible for the correspondence problems; Barnett said she would share names after negotiations conclude. Another member noted that the maps had already been drawn before the landowner was brought in and said local meetings and clearer public input could reduce conflict. Chairman Dossett said he was interested in pursuing legislation for the upcoming session focused on property owner protection, fair treatment, and fair compensation, not just for agricultural land but for all Kentucky property owners. Members discussed possible ideas such as requiring better notice, more public transparency, and accounting for related costs like wells, fencing, drainage, and access changes. No votes or formal actions were taken beyond the approval of minutes and the discussion of potential future legislation.

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• Alfredo, many, many years ago, we talked about capital punishment.
• Madam Chair: HB 4140, capital outlay, 2726 appropriations.
• Madam Chair, HB 4140, capital outlaw, 2726 appropriations. Thank you.
• This budget, I believe, does the bare minimum that's necessary to constrain those things.
• And so this is the bare minimum. I will support it, and I vote aye.

Summary: The House convened, approved the journal, and spent much of the opening portion recognizing guests and interns from both parties, along with former lawmakers and a newly seated member, Representative Sylvia Allen. The chamber then took up House Concurrent Resolution 2065 honoring the late Alfredo Gutierrez. Members from both parties gave extended remarks about his life as a civil rights advocate, student activist, legislator, and mentor, and the resolution was unanimously adopted and transmitted to the Senate. Family members of Gutierrez were recognized in the gallery during the memorial tribute. The House then moved into Committee of the Whole on the first budget-related measures. On House Bill 4138, the “feed bill”/budget operations measure, Democrats argued the budget favored corporations and data centers over seniors, health care, housing, universities, and vulnerable families, while Republicans defended it as a continuation of prior policy and said it preserved tax conformity and modest agency cuts. After debate and questions, the committee recommended the bill do pass and the House adopted that report, sending HB 4138 to engrossing. The chamber next considered House Bill 4139, the amusement/gaming-related budget bill. Members debated whether it was essentially unchanged from last year’s budget language, with Republicans saying it was a continuation bill and that gaming-related provisions would support rural economies and tourism, while Democrats questioned the broader budget context and its effects on working families. The committee recommended HB 4139 do pass, and the House adopted that recommendation. The House then began debate on House Bill 4140, the state budget implementation bill, focusing on the budget stabilization fund and a proposed government efficiency initiative; discussion was still underway at the end of the transcript.

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• You know, you try to get a third grader to capitalize the beginning word of every sentence, and they've
• schools cannot use ESA funds to meet, supplant, or satisfy the standards of accreditation or the minimum
• But states do sometimes provide minimum amounts of funding or look at averages over a different period
• And our last supplemental category is the LEARNS minimum teacher salary and raises fund, or, I guess,
• And so these funds are... ...directed to the minimum teacher salary and raises fund and are provided

Keywords: 1204, all

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• Phase into the minimum viable product phase, and those include projects at the California Department
• to DPH and informed our recommendation for the administration to publish a report detailing at a minimum
• iterative, value-driven approach to generative AI project planning, leveraging proofs of concepts and minimum
• Proof of concept phase into the minimum viable product phase and hence now you have your proposal.
• The capital annex project has almost tripled from the original amount from one to the original amount

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• I live in Houston, which is a capital of the world, as we like to talk about, and still the chilling
• This is the bare minimum. Please pass it for all those still alive and still being denied help.
• Like you pointed out, those limits are higher than the state minimums anyway.
• This would set the minimum, and then it would let you adjust accordingly.
• There is no standard other than just the minimum 30, 60, 25 that we talked about before.

Bills: HB778, HB 1266, HB1576, HB2213, HB2517, HB2518, HB2841, HB3306, HB3320, HB3388, HB3508, HB3520, HB3689

Keywords: credentialing, healthcare, physician assistants, advanced practice nurses, managed care, hurricane, windstorm, loss mitigation, grants, insurance discounts, property retrofitting, insurance, Texas Windstorm Insurance Association, board composition, coastal counties, property insurance, taxation, Texas FAIR Plan Association, premium taxes, maintenance taxes

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• , the county's not meeting the minimums, of putting something in there that says they have...
• The county's not meeting the minimums of putting something in there that says they have to, with a little
• The committee does bring it down 14 days, and that's not a minimum of 14 days; that's a maximum of 14
• The committee does bring it down to 14 days, and that's not a minimum of 14 days; that's a maximum of
• This includes enforcing minimum setbacks, design standards, nuisances, noise ordinances, and so on.

Bills: HB2118, HB2181, HB2308, HB2309, HB2402, HB2476, HB2682, HB2698, HB2875, HB2877, HB2903, HB2910

Keywords: mobile food vendors, licensure, food safety, statewide regulations, health standards, zoning, temporary vendors, HB2181, death certificate, death certificates, vital records, funeral establishment, funeral home, human remains, medical certification of death, death registration, state registrar, local registrar, county medical examiner, alternate medical examiner

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• At a minimum, please honor her leadership and the Minnesotans she represents.
• At a minimum, please while ill herself.
• At a minimum, please honor<00:46:57.119> her<00:46:57.359> leadership<00:46:58.160>
• <01:20:28.239> So<01:20:28.480> if capital to close our schools down.
• So if capital to close our schools down.

Bills: HF2435

Keywords: healthcare, dementia services, public health funding, opioid prevention, women's health, community health boards, mental health, 1183, house

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• uh with a minimum increase of 2%<00:33:55.880> and<00:33:56.039> a<00:33:56.200> maximum
• Another quite large levy is the operating capital levy.
• <01:31:45.840> Levy<01:31:46.840> this Levy is the operating Capital Levy this Levy
• is the operating Capital Levy this one<01:31:48.239> uh<01:31:48.960> in<01:31:49.960>
• uh Capital Revenue um depending<01:38:15.000> on<01:38:15.199> if<01:38:15.360> it<

Keywords: 1183, house

Summary: The Education Finance Committee met on January 21, 2025, for its first hearing of the session and began with organizational business. Members and staff introduced themselves, described their districts and backgrounds, and the chair reviewed committee procedures, including how to request bill hearings, amendment deadlines, and handout deadlines. The committee also heard introductions from nonpartisan and partisan staff, including House Research and House Fiscal Analysis personnel who will support the committee’s work this session. The main substantive item was an overview presentation on the state budget and education finance process. Staff explained how Minnesota’s general fund is forecast twice a year, how the committee should read the budget documents and aid/levy tracking sheets, and how the current biennium compares with the upcoming budget window. They described the November forecast, noted that the committee will later receive the February forecast, and outlined the committee’s role in reviewing K-12 state aid spending, school district revenue, and property tax impacts. Staff walked through the aid appropriation summary spreadsheet and explained its columns, including end-of-session spending, fiscal year 2024-25 actuals and estimates, and the 2026-27 and 2028-29 planning horizons. They emphasized that many education programs are forecast-driven and can change with enrollment and other data. The presentation also summarized the state’s overall revenue mix and spending priorities, noting that K-12 education is the largest general fund category and that state aid makes up the majority of school revenue. No bills were heard and no votes or formal actions were taken.

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• Of all western states capital cities, only New Mexico's Albuquerque is older than Salt Lake.
• Of all western states capital cities, only New Mexico's Albuquerque is older than Salt Lake.
• In order to allow these folks to work, some of them have to be paid less than minimum wage.
• <01:02:50.240> And<01:02:50.559> secondly, people under minimum wage.
• And secondly, people under minimum wage.

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Tuesday, July 22, 2025, 1012, house, all

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• going forward in the next session is that, based on oil being around $80 to $100 a barrel, that at minimum
• But at minimum, I would hope we at least get one-time funding again to continue the work along those
• At a minimum, a screening related to visual function was conducted for these children after referral
• At a minimum, a screening related to visual function was conducted for these children after referral
• In 2025, limits on capital construction were removed to allow greater flexibility for tribal building

Summary: The committee first heard an update on North Dakota’s Interagency Council on Homelessness and Continuum of Care funding. Jennifer Henderson of the North Dakota Housing Finance Agency reported that homelessness remains driven by tight housing markets, low incomes, rising rents, and barriers to rental assistance, public benefits, and disability determinations. She said the state’s one-time North Dakota Homeless Grant is serving all regions but reaches far fewer households than the former Rent Help program, and that aging homelessness, shelter staffing shortages, and limited affordable units are growing concerns. Members discussed the need for more housing supply, better coordination with Health and Human Services, landlord engagement, reentry housing, and possible continued one-time funding for the $10 million Homeless Grant and $25 million Housing Incentive Fund. Henderson also warned that federal Continuum of Care funding is uncertain, with HUD expected to issue a new notice June 1 and possible shifts away from permanent supportive housing toward transitional housing and other models. The committee then took testimony on accessibility of government services for people who are blind, visually impaired, deaf, or hard of hearing. Paul Olson of North Dakota Vision Services School for the Blind described the school’s services for infants, children, and adults, including screenings, mobility training, assistive technology, and outreach across the state. He said the agency works closely with Vocational Rehabilitation and is also involved in improving website and document accessibility, especially for PDF materials. Public testimony highlighted barriers such as inaccessible CAPTCHA systems, online forms, driver’s license requirements on job applications, and limited transportation in rural areas. A deaf resident urged broader use of video remote interpreting and video relay services, along with training so people know how to use them effectively. Finally, Kay Larson presented the final report on the child care provider licensing study. The report recommended streamlining North Dakota’s child care licensing structure into three provider types plus a preschool designation, while preserving health and safety standards and maintaining eligibility for child care assistance. The committee discussed simplifying training and qualification rules, revising ratio and group-size requirements, and adjusting age bands for infants and toddlers. The report also noted that some changes would require statutory amendments and later administrative rule changes, with a transition period likely extending through 2029. No formal votes were taken in the transcript, but the committee accepted the updates and scheduled follow-up presentations for a later meeting.

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• So, as indicated in the title, if a capital budget bill with Miller building funding is enacted.
• title<00:17:13.839> is<00:17:14.079> if<00:17:14.400> a<00:17:14.720> capital
• indicated in the title is if a capital indicated in the title is if a capital budget<00:17:15.439
• However, there's a contingency in the bill that if the Miller building funding in the capital budget
• Raymond mentioned that appropriates $10 million to the Department of Administration for capital costs

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

Summary: Members met to review a budget bill agreement using a nonpartisan spreadsheet and summary materials. Chairs and members thanked fiscal, research, revisers, and agency staff for the collaborative process, noting the bill had been difficult and that the final product reflected compromise. The chair also said only minor technical changes were expected before final enactment, and the spreadsheet walkthrough was then turned over to fiscal staff. Fiscal staff explained that the agreement met the overall budget target and walked through major human services provisions. Key items included nursing facility payment changes, including a phased PDPM change, APS inflation, modified single-bed incentives, and a CPI-U capped payment cap; a nursing facility surcharge; workforce standards board rule costs; continuation of certain nursing facility property tax rates; regulation of for-profit acquisitions of nursing homes and assisted living facilities; repurposing assisted living special project funds; funding the SEIU self-directed worker agreement; CFSS reimbursement in acute care hospital settings; and multiple disability waiver rate and authorization changes, including CPI-U inflation caps, waiver authorization reforms, and a waiver reimagined advisory task force. The agreement also included family residential service rate increases, a temporary extension of customized living disproportionate share payments, tribal eligibility for targeted case management, positive supports training changes, out-of-home respite modifications, swimming lessons as an allowable service for certain children with disabilities, a provisional EID provider license, and program integrity services funded by licensing fee increases. Additional provisions covered MinnChoices studies and assumed savings, behavioral health fund changes, substance use disorder treatment billing and rate changes, supportive recovery housing, housing support supplemental rates for specific providers, disability determinations, enteral nutrition payment timing, temporary funding for Boundary Waters Care Center, several one-time human services grants, senior nutrition funding, and grant reductions and extensions. No formal vote was described in the transcript; the discussion focused on explaining the agreement and its fiscal effects.

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• It sets a minimum age of 16 for covered social media platforms.
• It sets a minimum age of 16 for covered social media platforms, requires meaningful age verification,
• We are known across the world for innovation and technology and dubbed the tech capital of the world.
• We are known across the world for innovation and technology and dubbed the tech capital of the world.
• That is why my emergency management team and my capital team have spent months working with colleagues

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• I think the primary one being ensuring that the FERC revenue requirement must reflect the actual capital
• in understanding in our conversations, that the FERC revenue requirement must reflect the actual capital
• We're trying to do this to avoid the cost of ratepayers paying 10% forever on a capital improvement.
• analysis of all the supply stabilization measures that are before us and are being considered, like minimum
• The CEC was resourced for that work, but they were not resourced for ABX 2-1, which established the minimum

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• based capital based capital projects<01:43:54.840> is<01:43:55.239> being<01:43:55.599
• When we have a budget, we have the capital side and we have a cash side.
• Rochester so we have the capital side uh Rochester so we have the capital side uh the<02:23:50.479>
• 2019 and so we didn't have uh a capital 2019 and so we didn't have uh a capital improve<02:24:45.200
• I don't look to go to my customers and seek capital funding for their projects.

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• Data centers are amongst the most capital-intensive investments in the modern economy today.
• With the influx of capital they have, the roads are being paved now.
• Finally, the greatest existential threat to this industry isn't power or capital—it's skilled labor.
• Texas is the energy capital of the U.S.
• It required planning, execution, and significant capital commitment.

Keywords: 1184, house, all

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• They do have to have a certain capital investment.
• This is the largest funding change, and that's related to the end of the 24-25 capital budget project
• And we'll move to page 6, where you'll see rider highlights, where the capital budget rider has been.
• The minimum contribution rate is $30,000.
• On-duty disability as well is if a member is injured on duty, they get four. $400 a month minimum.

Keywords: 1184, house, all

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• But there's a minimum floor of how you can treat an undrafted free agent like me and Lamar Jackson.
• The contract entitled the company to a minimum 2.5 times that amount before I could even get out of the
• They have to show that they have a certain minimum coverage, liability coverage, available to them. .
• ..certain minimum coverage, liability coverage available to them.
• Because you're deploying this level of capital for rosters and for talent, and like the athletic director

Summary: The committee held an informational hearing on name, image, and likeness (NIL) and financial literacy for student athletes, with members framing California as a national leader on NIL but emphasizing the need for stronger protections and more consistent education. The chair and witnesses discussed how NIL opportunities now include both third-party endorsement deals and school revenue-sharing arrangements, and how the current landscape varies widely by institution, leaving athletes with a patchwork of rules and support. Several witnesses argued that student athletes, especially younger ones and those from low-income or first-generation backgrounds, are vulnerable to predatory contracts, tax problems, and pressure from family, agents, or lenders. The first panel featured Tyree Dillingham and Brandon Copeland, who called for standardized financial literacy, better guardrails against predatory NIL advances, and a player-led association or similar collective voice for athletes. They described examples of athletes not understanding paychecks, taxes, or contract terms, and warned that some schools and collectives blur the line between education and marketing. Copeland also argued that college athletics now functions like a professional business and that athletes need representation and a standard contract structure to protect them. The second panel focused on lived experience, including testimony from attorney Anthony Coronae and student athlete Mikey Williams. Coronae described reviewing a contract that he said functioned like a predatory loan disguised as marketing support, with the company taking exclusive rights to Williams’ NIL and requiring repayment far beyond the advance. Williams testified that he signed without a lawyer, later lost endorsements, scholarship, and housing stability, and only later learned the contract’s consequences. He said a required financial literacy course at Sacramento State helped him begin to understand budgeting, taxes, and contracts, and he urged the legislature to require legal review or stronger safeguards for athletes. The third panel, from San Diego State University, highlighted a more structured institutional model. Athletic director Brendan Hill described a mandatory four-year life-skills program that includes financial literacy, resume workshops, internships, and branding education, while student athlete Sloan Benchoff said the program helped her manage money and prepare for post-college life. Witnesses agreed that support is uneven across schools, that some agents and lenders are exploiting athletes, and that California should consider standardized financial education and agent regulation while also being careful not to create rules that unintentionally restrict athlete rights. No formal vote or bill action was taken at the hearing.

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• SB 23 also reinforces responsible planning by requiring districts to demonstrate prudent capital use,
• So the two hours of DUI in statute is the minimum.
• Let's say, 30 credit hours of classroom instruction, if the course includes a minimum of seven hours
• Classroom instruction, if the course includes a minimum of seven hours behind-the-wheel training.
• things that need to be incorporated in this instead of 30 credit hours of classroom instruction, minimum

Bills: SB23, SB73, SB210, SB234, SB243, SB244, SM16

Keywords: student use, wireless devices, public schools, policy implementation, education technology funding, driver education, driver's ed, driving school, motorcycle safety, traffic safety, vulnerable road users, pedestrian safety, bicycle safety, cyclist, bike lane, micromobility, scooter, moped, motorcycle training, DWI prevention