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• I know in your Finance briefing you were urged to work with budget and finance because your CIP is within
• <02:19:05.080> committee we would move on to finance committee we would move on to finance
• it forward for consideration by Finance it forward for consideration by Finance questions<02:21:
• I recommend we defect the date to July 1, 3000, and move it forward to Finance.
• to July 1st 3000 and move it to finance to July 1st 3000 and move it to finance for<02:21:58.600

Keywords: 910, house, all

Summary: The House Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs heard House Bill 4000, the Judiciary’s biennium budget bill for FY 2026-2027. Judiciary Director of Policy and Planning Brandon Kimura testified in strong support, outlining operating requests of about $6.17 million in FY 26 and $6.25 million in FY 27, 17 permanent positions and one temporary position, plus $9.9 million in capital improvements. He described funding needs for specialty courts, preparations for the Wahiawa District Court, an additional district court judge and staff for Kona, cybersecurity upgrades, the Criminal Justice Research Institute, statewide priority items, and restoration of several essential staff positions. He also said the Judiciary was seeking an additional $2 million for the Children’s Justice Center relocation lump sum because updated estimates had risen to about $8 million. The committee also discussed potential impacts from uncertain federal funding and asked for written follow-up on those risks and on the capital request, including coordination with Budget and Finance. Several organizations and individuals testified in support of the Judiciary budget, including the Hawaiʻi State Bar Association, Legal Aid Society of Hawaiʻi, and legal service providers. Mioko Eto asked for an additional $1 million for civil legal service providers, explaining that the current funding is spread across multiple providers and that the need remains high. David Copper of Legal Aid supported the request, citing statewide demand, 105 staff, 7,100 cases closed in the past year, and 15,000 calls received, while noting that many people seeking help cannot be served because of capacity limits. He also said recent federal funding disruptions and proposed cuts could affect legal services and related programs. Committee members asked about the Criminal Justice Research Institute’s mission; Kimura said its primary statutory role is to build a database focused on pre-trial reporting and data analysis, though it is also working on probation and mental health-related projects. No vote or final action on HB 4000 was taken in the hearing excerpt provided.

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• I'm here with the Department of Finance.
• Jennifer Louis with the Department of Finance.
• Nate Williams, Department of Finance.
• Teresa Calvert, Department of Finance.
• Shalina Norali with the Department of Finance.

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• And then two more proposals in the healthcare financing space.
• Anything from the Department of Finance? Good evening, Chairman.
• So, Department of Finance, if you could be brief on this answer, and then Dr.
• Nick Mills, Department of Finance: Supporting increases in managed care payment rates aligns with.
• Karina Hendren, LAO, similar to finance, revenue generation is handled by our economists.

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• interest that arises when politicians are able to appropriate money to the same organizations who finance
• I am the executive director with the Campaign Finance Board.
• Finance Finance board<00:12:11.040> um<00:12:11.240> I<00:12:11.320> believe<00
• <00:14:46.120> um nonprofits in our campaign Finance um nonprofits in our campaign Finance
• Representative Greenman: On campaign finance laws, you need to make sure that you're trying to avoid

Keywords: 1183, house

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• Expansion states and changes to expansion-state financing account for more than half of the potential
• The next group will talk about state financing and payment changes.
• What impact will that have on your broader state financing in the Medicaid program?
• <00:42:49.839> And financing in the Medicaid program?
• And financing in the Medicaid program?

Keywords: 00:00:22 - Call to Order and Roll Call 00:03:00 – Approval of June 25, 2025 Minutes 00:03:22 - Update on Federal Changes to the Medicaid Program 01:03:44 - State Directed Payments, Provider Taxes, and the Rural Health Transformation Fund: How Medicaid Changes Could Impact Kentucky Hospitals 01:29:42 – Public Comments 01:45:25 – Announcements 01:46:19 - Adjournment, 958, all

Summary: The Medicaid Oversight and Advisory Board met on July 30, 2025, approved the June 25 minutes, and received a presentation from Katherine Castanza of the National Conference of State Legislatures on Medicaid provisions in H.R. 1. The presentation outlined more than 20 Medicaid-related provisions, emphasizing that the largest federal savings come from work/community engagement requirements, changes to provider taxes, limits on state-directed payments, more frequent eligibility redeterminations for expansion populations, and related eligibility/enrollment changes. She said the fiscal effects are backloaded, with most reductions occurring in the later years of the 10-year window, and noted potential significant impacts on hospital payments and state financing. She also described new funding opportunities, including a $50 billion rural health transformation fund and a new home and community-based services waiver with associated grants. A substantial portion of the discussion focused on Kentucky’s pending community engagement 1115 waiver and how it would interact with the new federal requirements. Board members asked whether the waiver had been approved, what the cabinet’s contingency plan would be if CMS does not approve it, and what the timeline is for compliance. Cabinet representatives said the waiver has not yet been approved by CMS, remains under public comment, and that the state will wait for CMS guidance before moving forward; if needed, the state would amend the waiver or submit a new one. They said the work requirement must be in place by January 1, 2027, with a possible extension to 2028. Castanza also explained that expansion adults with incomes between 100% and 138% of the federal poverty level would face new cost-sharing requirements beginning October 1, 2028, and that eligibility redeterminations would move from annual to every six months starting January 1, 2027. She then walked through provider tax changes, including a moratorium on new provider taxes beginning October 1, 2026, and a phased reduction in the hold-harmless threshold for existing taxes beginning January 1, 2028, with exemptions for nursing facilities and ICF/IID providers. Board members questioned the timing and likely impact on Kentucky, and Castanza responded that the effect would depend on each tax’s current rate and would phase in over time.

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• include include the ability to finance include include the ability to finance Healthcare<00:37:01.520
• <00:39:39.119> process during and after the financing process during and after the financing
• , it's not really our financing.
• , it's not really our financing.
• it's not really though um it's financing it's not really our<00:51:45.960> financing<00:51:46.480

Keywords: 1183, house

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• The Chair called the Education Finance Committee meeting to order for Thursday, February 13th.
• Chair, I'm going to turn over to our agency finance director to talk a little bit.
• Chair, I'm going to turn over to our agency finance director to talk a little bit.
• Chair, I'm going to turn over to our agency finance director to talk a little bit.
• Our agency finance director to talk a little bit.

Keywords: 1183, house

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• The Chair calls the Education Finance Committee meeting to order for Tuesday, January 21, 2025.
• I'm currently working as a middle school principal when I'm not here, so education finance and policy
• education finance and policy is<00:04:28.199> near<00:04:28.360> and<00:04:28.520>
• I have the Government Operations and Elections Finance Committee. Thank you very much.
• <00:40:46.920> booklets have in in the school Finance booklets have in in the school Finance

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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• Do we have the Department of Finance here? Okay, no comments.
• Department of Finance, any comments?
• Do we have any comments from the Department of Finance? Jesse Romine, Department of Finance.
• Courtney Massingale, Department of Finance, no comments.
• Questions or comments from the Department of Finance?

Keywords: 987, senate, all

Summary: The subcommittee heard informational updates and budget requests from the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (Go-Biz), the California Office of the Small Business Advocate (CalOSBA), and the California Film Commission. Go-Biz Director D.D. Myers described the California Jobs First strategy, including regional economic planning, sector working groups, and investments in priority industries such as ag-tech, space and defense, life sciences, semiconductors, and microelectronics. She also outlined budget proposals for a five-year extension of the CalCompetes tax credit, support for export promotion, additional staffing for the film tax credit program, innovation and emerging technologies work, and the new California brand campaign. Senators questioned the campaign’s purpose, its relationship to tourism promotion, and whether it could obscure regulatory and business-climate concerns; Myers said it was intended to counter misinformation, promote California’s economic strengths, and support business attraction and retention, not to shut down debate about policy challenges. CalOSBA Deputy Director Claire Whitmer and program partners reported on the California RISE program, the Performing Arts Equitable Payroll Fund, and technical assistance/capital infusion programs. CalOSBA said RISE’s first cohort awarded $16.9 million to 61 employment social enterprises, which collectively expanded operations and employment for people facing barriers to work; a second round is being launched with updated services and a new grant administrator. The Performing Arts Equitable Payroll Fund fully distributed $11.6 million to 100 recipients, but witnesses said demand far exceeded available funding and that the sector remains fragile after the pandemic and AB 5-related cost increases. The technical assistance and capital programs were described as serving more than 112,000 businesses in the last year, helping start 3,780 new businesses and leverage significant loan and equity capital, with emphasis on outreach to women-, minority-, veteran-, rural-, and low-wealth-owned firms. Committee members focused on whether these programs produce durable outcomes and reach underserved communities. One senator asked for longitudinal data on employment social enterprises and whether jobs created through incentives persist over time; CalOSBA said it would provide prior studies and future tracking. Another senator pressed for more outreach and support for small businesses at different stages of development, especially those in disadvantaged communities that may struggle to access capital. The California Film Commission then presented a request for three permanent positions and ongoing funding to administer the expanded film and television tax credit program. Commissioners said the program is tracking demographic and career-pathway data, with about 90% of productions opting into new diversity provisions and reporting due to the Legislature in 2027. The LAO supported the film commission staffing request given the larger program size and expanded applicant pool. No votes were taken; the items were informational or budget requests under review.

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• the um overall healthc care financing the um overall healthc care financing with<00:11:58.000>
• The bill was finances of the state.
• referred to the committee on finance referred to the committee on finance which<00:13:22.959>
• will let folks from finance comment on. will let folks from finance comment on.
• Um first I I failed to mention the vote in um Senate Finance.

Keywords: 927, senate, all

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• Mary Ellen Shea, California Association of Local Housing Finance Agencies, in support.
• Mary Ellen Shea, California Association of Local Housing Finance Agencies, in support.
• The whole financing structure depends on funding sources three through seven.
• They may be able to receive financing for their projects or financing for their factories, but there's
• They may be able to receive financing for their projects or financing for their factories, but there's

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• Will the Senate Committee on Finance come to order? Will the clerk please call the roll? Huffman.
• These numbers are calculated by the Texas Public Finance Authority.
• I think we have a presentation on that at some point, the finance group maybe.
• We've 27 significant bond issues and other financing transactions.
• The campaign finance laws do apply to political committees.

Bills: SB 1

Keywords: campground safety, youth camp regulations, flood safety, emergency evacuation, health and safety standards

Summary: The committee began with Article I budget items for the Secretary of State. LBB staff outlined recommendations that would reduce the agency’s appropriation by about $40.3 million, including changes to HAVA funding, removal of one-time business system replacement money, and a rider directing the agency to use Fund 5095 first. Secretary Jane Nelson and staff then defended several exceptional items, especially additional staffing for elections and business filings, a new website, digitization of records, cybersecurity tools, and renovation of the James Earl Rudder Building. Members focused heavily on election administration, cross-checking voter rolls, Harris County complaints, call-center response times, and whether online voter registration should be expanded. No votes were taken; the discussion was informational and budget-focused. The committee then heard the Office of the Governor and trustee programs. LBB presented a recommended $2.4 million decrease for the governor’s office proper and a much larger decrease in trustee programs driven by one-time funding and unexpended balances, while still preserving major border security funding and victim assistance funding. Governor’s staff emphasized Texas’ economic growth, the importance of border security, and efforts to seek federal reimbursement for the roughly $11 billion Texas has spent on border operations. Members discussed whether shifting National Guard deployment to federal control could reduce state costs, and they also reviewed the music incubator program, the Governor’s University Research Initiative, and the semiconductor innovation consortium. Staff highlighted a $5 million late-added request for grants to protect nonprofits from violence and terrorism. Again, the exchange was largely explanatory, with no formal action. Finally, the committee took up the Texas Facilities Commission and lease payments for revenue bonds. LBB recommended major reductions overall, including removal of border wall construction funding and capital complex bond funding, but added money for higher utility costs, renovation of the Rudder Building, and additional facilities staff. George Purcell also noted stable maintenance-and-renewal funding and new riders related to the Texas State Library and Archives Commission building, tenant communications, and space utilization. For lease payments, LBB recommended a smaller appropriation tied to revenue-bond costs allocated across agencies. The discussion was informational, with members asking about the Rudder Building renovation, border wall progress, and capital complex construction timelines; no votes were recorded.

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• But it's over $800 million in investments across the Commonwealth and agriculture, and then our Finance
• And I think it's important to remember that those dollars from a finance, those are revolving dollars
• And I think it's important to remember that those dollars from a finance, those are revolving dollars
• And I think it's important to remember that those dollars from a finance, those are revolving dollars
• And I think it's important to remember that those dollars from a finance, those are revolving dollars

Keywords: 00:00 Meeting Start 00:45 Attendance Roll Call 01:50 Introduction of New Members 07:10 Discussion of HB 24 09:36 Roll Call Vote 12:20 Discussion of HB 216 19:25 Roll Call Vote, 958, all

Summary: The Agriculture Committee met for its first meeting of the 2025 session, with the new chair opening the meeting, confirming a quorum, announcing the House’s 24-hour rule for committee substitutes and amendments, and welcoming several guests and new committee members. The chair also emphasized agriculture’s importance to Kentucky’s economy, citing crop revenue and the broader economic impact of the sector. The committee first considered House Bill 24, which would raise the audit threshold for conservation districts from $750,000 to $1 million. Supporters said the bill updates an outdated threshold and helps reduce the burden of costly audits amid inflation. The bill received a motion and second, no opposition was raised, and it passed by roll call vote. The committee then took up House Bill 216, presented by the vice chair and Brandon Reed of the Kentucky Office of Policy. The bill would allow certain Department of Agriculture employees to apply for grants or loans while preserving the existing prohibition for employees who oversee those programs. Testimony explained that the office’s funding comes from tobacco master settlement dollars, with a formula that directs money to agriculture and other purposes, and members discussed the importance of keeping those funds in Kentucky. The bill passed with favorable expression by roll call vote. Before adjournment, members made additional welcoming remarks for local officials and guests, and the chair noted the National Farm Machinery Show and tractor pull as a major event for Kentucky agriculture. The committee then adjourned.

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• The Committee on Ways and Means, to whom was referred House Bill 5279, an act financing long-term improvements
• Second reading of the bill: An act financing long-term improvements to municipal roads and bridges, House
• The clerk will read the third reading of the bill: An Act Financing Long-Term Improvements to Municipal
• members, I rise in support of the Transportation Funding Bill before you today, House 5375, An Act Financing
• We use our tools wisely, we align our financing structures with long-term stability, and we make choices

Keywords: 995, all

Summary: The House received a Governor’s message on fiscal year 2026 supplemental appropriations, which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. The Committee on Rules reported several resolutions, including honors for Abby Goodman, a resolution reaffirming Massachusetts-Taiwan friendship, recognition of the Cambodian-American community’s Khmer New Year celebration, and Elks National Youth Week; the House suspended the rules and approved them. The House also concurred with Senate petitions on assisted living residences and medication administration in rest homes, sending them to the Committee on Aging and Independence. The main legislative business was House Bill 5279/5375, the transportation bond bill financing long-term improvements to municipal roads and bridges. Ways and Means recommended a substitute bill, House 5375, with a $2.737 billion general obligation bond authorization, and the House adopted the amendment and ordered the bill to a third reading. Later, the House took up House 5375 directly, heard support from members emphasizing Chapter 90 road funding, municipal flexibility, rural road mileage distribution, and broader transportation investments, and then passed the bill to be engrossed by roll call vote, 155-0. The House also passed House Bill 5371, authorizing grants of easements or takings of certain parcels of land to the city of Boston, to be engrossed. In addition, the chamber received and filed the Secretary of the Commonwealth’s report on the March 31, 2026 special election for the 5th Essex District, adopted an order to escort the Governor and Executive Council into the chamber, and administered the oaths of office to Representative-elect Andrew Tarr. The session ended with an order to adjourn until the next day at 11 a.m. in informal session.

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• Vice President of Finance and treasury Vice President of Finance and treasury for<01:21:23.560> Centra
• > Finance academic affiliation Finance academic affiliation Finance subcommittee<01:26:53.239>
• <01:27:47.719> committee the the rural Health finance committee the the rural Health finance
• is all ran through this Finance is all ran through this Finance subcommittee<01:28:40.239> uh
• can't then we take it to the finance can't then we take it to the finance subcommittee<01:29:33.440

Keywords: 1183, house

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• So through OHCS's manufactured dwelling park preservation program, OHCS provides financing to eligible
• So through OHCS's manufactured dwelling park preservation program, OHCS provides financing to eligible
• adults is how to come through the financing.
• And so debt financing is a piece of that.
• And so that is, you know, elderly and disabled — it is debt financing.

Keywords: 907, all

Summary: The committee met for a series of information sessions focused on housing stabilization, rental assistance, senior housing, and heat resilience. In the first panel, OHCS and NOAA described the state’s affordable housing preservation work, including the $35 million in 2025 stabilization funding used to reduce debt and keep distressed affordable rental projects operating, plus manufactured home park preservation efforts. OHCS said the portfolio remains under strain, with about a third of projects at debt coverage ratios of 1.0 or less and rising insurance and operating costs. NOAA urged faster closings on the stabilization awards, more funding in 2027, and broader rent assistance and process reforms. Committee members asked about the gap between current appropriations and need, and OHCS explained that the new Article 11-Q bond preservation program is structured differently and requires full refinancing rather than simple cash infusions. The committee then heard a detailed discussion of the state’s eviction prevention and rental assistance program, ORDAP. OHCS said the program is administered through community action agencies, prioritizes households at imminent risk of eviction, and is now funded at a much lower level than in the prior biennium, reducing expected service to about 8,200 households this biennium. The Oregon Law Center, a county community action agency, and Multifamily Northwest all agreed the program prevents homelessness and is effective, but they differed on whether assistance should be tied so closely to eviction court. Legal aid and community action witnesses said the current system is underfunded and that eviction filings are the clearest indicator of need, while Multifamily Northwest argued the process can push people into court unnecessarily and should be moved earlier when possible. Legislators raised questions about whether a pre-eviction model could be developed and about the costs of court involvement; one member shared a personal story about how rental assistance helped keep their family housed. Next, the governor’s office, OHCS, and OHA presented on the new senior housing initiative and healthy homes work. The governor’s housing director said Oregon is making progress on homelessness and housing production, with reductions in homelessness outside Multnomah County and an estimated 50,000 future units added to the pipeline through recent state actions. OHCS outlined the senior housing programs launched in May: a debt-financing program using elderly and disabled bond authority, an older adult housing development program funded through the senior property tax deferral revolving account, and a rehousing program for older adults that will use bridge funding and services to move at least 400 unsheltered older Oregonians into housing. OHA also described its Healthy Homes Grant Program, including $24.6 million already awarded, a new $5 million grant round for seniors and people with disabilities, and examples of home repairs and weatherization that help people remain safely housed. The final information session focused on home cooling and heat resilience. OHA presented data showing rising extreme heat days, more heat-related emergency visits, and likely undercounted heat deaths, especially among older adults, people with disabilities, low-income communities, and people without access to healthy homes. ODOE reviewed implementation of Senate Bill 1536, including a cooling needs study that found 58% of surveyed households in the studied housing types needed permanent cooling, with estimated statewide costs of $582 million to $1 billion. ODOE said its rental home heat pump and community heat pump programs have supported 4,638 installations so far, with a temporary reopening planned using remaining funds. The session ended with a remote presentation from a Community Action Partnership of Oregon representative, continuing the discussion of how community action agencies help deliver energy and anti-poverty services.

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• The New Mexico Finance Authority has a long track record of prudent bond issuance and oversight.
• Bonding is an excellent finance mechanism to get these projects done.
• Finance. Finance. So any of the concerns that will be...
• Committee based on the questions and conversations, that this bill will go to Finance next.
• So we certainly have conversations as well to have in Finance. So, but this is a hold bill.

Bills: SB190, SB152, SB77, SB150, SB151, SB156, SB172, SB182, SB185, SB212, SB170, SB133, SB174, SB163

Keywords: cancer treatment, revenue bonds, Gila Regional Medical Center, Nor-Lea General Hospital, healthcare funding, telecommunications, low-income assistance, lifeline, broadband, rural broadband, universal service fund, public regulation commission, PRC, 911 surcharge, telecommunications relay service, VoIP, mobile service, internet affordability, digital equity, digital inclusion

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• Agency, making policy, finance, and technical changes to housing provisions, is here with return to
• <00:12:40.079> Agency, the Minnesota Housing Finance Agency, the Minnesota Housing Finance
• Agency, making<00:12:40.880> policy,<00:12:41.360> finance,<00:12:41.680> and<00
• :12:41.920> technical making policy, finance, and technical making policy, finance, and technical
• Senator Abler moved that Senate File 3529 be withdrawn from the Committee on Finance, given a second

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• Um, this isn't the finance committee, so I won't bring up all my finance bills that address mental health
• Senator May Quaid, on education finance.
• finance? finance? >> So<00:15:03.120> move.
• <00:29:52.000> All Committee on Education Finance. All Committee on Education Finance.
• They spoke at the hearing that we had in Education Finance.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• And then, do we have any example of design-build-finance-maintain here in the state?
• And then, do we have any example of design-build-finance-maintain here in the state?
• And then, do we have any example of design-build-finance-maintain here in the state?
• couple of uh design build Finance couple of uh design build Finance maintain<01:09:13.319> projects
• <01:12:40.400> operate Finance operate Finance operate maintain<01:12:42.760> okay<01:12

Keywords: 910, house, all