Transcript Highlights:

• And when we talk about the tax provisions, we have an increase in the child tax credit.
• And when we talk about the tax provisions, we have an increase in the child tax credit.
• Of an increase in the taxes.
• And additionally, beginning with tax year 2026, there are three other provisions added that are after
• conformity, full tax relief, because... ...providing full tax conformity, full tax relief provided by

Transcript Highlights:

• So the UC would be able to use these tax credits and build housing.
• would be owned by the affordable housing developer and the tax credit investors.
• So they would be a third party... ...housing developer and the tax credit investors.
• And I know that we're talking about adding an H.
• And I know that we're talking about adding an H.

Committee: House Higher Education

Summary: The Assembly Higher Education Committee met for a policy hearing and first took up a consent calendar, approving several bills on consent before moving through a series of higher education measures. The committee heard AB 977, which would require the CSU to audit surplus land and work with California tribes to identify burial sites for Native American remains as part of repatriation efforts; the bill was supported by tribal representatives and others, with CSU expressing no formal position but saying it was working on repatriation. Members spoke strongly in favor of returning remains home, and the bill passed 5-0 to Appropriations. The committee then considered AB 1093, creating a California-Mexico higher education exchange program, but members raised concerns about border issues, sewage contamination, and funding; the author said the program would be funded through university dollars and was intended as a one-for-one exchange. AB 1035, which would extend the California College Promise to cover tuition for students pursuing community college bachelor’s degrees, drew support from community college leaders and faculty, but some members questioned the use of Prop. 98 funds and whether the bill would divert resources from other students; it passed 3-2 to Appropriations. AB 922, giving the UC statutory authority to maintain access to federal background-check systems for hiring, passed unanimously to Public Safety, and AB 1346, protecting in-state residency and tuition status for dependents of military service members, also passed unanimously to Military and Veterans Affairs. The committee also heard AB 1212, allowing UC campuses to use low-income housing tax credits to build affordable housing for faculty and staff on UC land. UC and labor supporters argued it would help recruitment and retention and increase affordable housing supply, while opponents objected to the preference for UC employees over the general public; the bill was supported by the chair in closing. Finally, the committee took up AB 500 and AB 684, both focused on UC admissions transparency: AB 500 would require consultation with students, K-12, and CSU before UC admissions changes, and AB 684 would subject UC BOARS meetings to the Bagley-Keene Open Meetings Act. Both measures were framed as transparency and accountability bills, with some UC opposition or neutrality, and both advanced on 5-0 votes to their respective committees. The committee also heard AB 1122 on universal dual enrollment access, with strong support from educators and community college partners and favorable comments from members about expanding college access.

Transcript Highlights:

• And that translates into severance taxes, gross receipts taxes, and personal income taxes in New Mexico
• And the personal income tax is actually a very stable form of tax for us.
• don't tax it, or where we give a preferential tax rate—things like that.
• tax aid from the rest of the general personal income tax; it would remain one.
• tax credit.

Committee: House House Appropriations & Finance

Transcript Highlights:

• No property tax revenue, no TRT revenue, nothing.
• And we're doing it responsibly, using existing ASECIA funds with no new taxes.
• Tax assessment map.
• Rather than paying taxes, they're not going to make some money on these líneas.
• A recent state park was added in 2019 in San Miguel County.

Committee: House House Rural Development, Land Grants And Cultural Affairs

Transcript Highlights:

• That's the film tax credit and the research and development tax credit.
• credit and the research and tax credit and the research and development<00:22:07.360><c> tax</c><00:
• I'm here for questions. for the remainder of the tax year thank for the remainder of the tax year thank
• </c><01:21:21.520><c> tax</c><01:21:21.880><c> ores</c><01:21:22.400><c> or</c><01:21:22.679><c> tax<
• </c> facilitate the application of this tax facilitate the application of this tax credit<01:23:10.000

Committee: House Agriculture & Food Systems

Transcript Highlights:

• tax statement.
• , my taxes.
• Our tax data is... Our tax data is extracted to a tax web, including tax statements.
• This is our tax web tax inquiry. And this is kind of a snapshot of the tax statement in a way.
• Corporate income tax, individual income tax.

Summary: The subcommittee of the Tax Reform and Relief Committee met with a quorum to begin its study of whether the content of North Dakota real estate tax statements should be revised to improve transparency. Legislative Council staff reviewed the background for the study, including House Bill 1176, current statutory requirements for tax statements, and recent changes such as separate line items for bonded debt, primary residence credit, and legacy fund-related amounts. The Tax Department then explained the current statement format and noted that the form is prescribed and approved by the tax commissioner, with changes typically driven by statute and implemented collaboratively with counties and vendors. County officials from the North Dakota Association of Counties described the full annual process for preparing budgets, setting levies, calculating taxable values, and issuing notices and tax statements. They said counties spend significant time coordinating with taxing districts, neighboring counties, and software vendors, and that the new budget hearing notices and valuation notices have not generated much public response. Members raised concerns about the usefulness and clarity of certain line items, especially the legislative tax relief calculation and the primary residence credit, and discussed whether the current statement creates confusion rather than transparency. Testimony also addressed the 3% cap, mill levy worksheets, assessment cycles, and the role of county auditors and tax directors in maintaining accurate values. The committee also heard from software vendors CPT and Tyler Technologies about how legislative changes are programmed into tax systems and how online taxpayer portals can provide more detailed breakdowns of tax bills. Vendors said changes required by law are generally absorbed in contracts rather than billed directly to counties, and they demonstrated web tools and pie-chart style breakdowns that show where tax dollars go. NDACO presented a survey of eight counties estimating tax statement preparation and mailing costs, concluding that outsourced printing tends to be cheaper on average and that total statewide tax statement costs may be roughly $600,000, though the estimate was based on limited data. No votes were taken; the meeting was informational and focused on gathering testimony and identifying issues for possible future recommendations or bill drafts.

Transcript Highlights:

• This is the annual tax conformity bill.
• So this makes the tax forms that taxpayers are already submitting conform with our tax code.
• are already submitting conform with our tax code.
• That school district property is not subject to county taxes or flood control district taxes or library
• district taxes or any other of these other property taxes.

Summary: The meeting covered a long series of House bills across health, commerce, education, elections, government, and veterans issues, with many measures described as consent-calendar items. In health and human services, members discussed updates to radiology technology standards, a tribal Medicaid waiver bill, an emergency medicine study committee, fetal death certificate and remains-transfer requirements, a physician assistant licensure compact, dementia care telemonitoring funding, and SNAP error-rate reduction and eligibility oversight. Sponsors generally framed these bills as technical updates, workforce or access improvements, cost savings, or support for families and vulnerable populations, while some bills drew brief questions about implementation or opposition. In commerce and finance, the committee heard bills on mobile food vendor licensing, earned wage access services, CPA certification, cash acceptance by retail businesses, unmanned aircraft regulation, timeshare salesperson licensing, social credit score restrictions for lending, and a ban on state assistance to the International Criminal Court. Sponsors emphasized reduced regulation, consumer protections, transparency, and state sovereignty. The committee also considered tax and retirement-related measures, including conformity with the Internal Revenue Code, ASRS technical changes, and a 529 plan update that also addressed Roth IRA rollovers. Education and school governance bills focused heavily on school district oversight and transparency. Members discussed patriotic youth group presentations in schools, school board term limits and mandatory training, bond-advisor requirements, restrictions on school districts buying operating charter or private schools to affect funding formulas, conflicts of interest on the School Facilities Oversight Board, public meeting and travel disclosure rules, limits on long-term school property leases, job-order contracting caps, and a computer science proficiency seal. Sponsors repeatedly argued these bills would improve accountability, prevent misuse of public funds, and increase public access to school board decisions. The meeting also included elections, veterans, government, and other administrative measures. These included changes to sample-ballot mailing deadlines, a requirement that courts ask about veteran status at first appearance, a veterans awareness study, broader military leave protections, SAVE database verification for voter registration and licensing, U.S.-sourced election equipment requirements, Electoral College affirmation, justice court due-process protections, library trustee reporting deadlines, adult protective services reporting cleanup, and procurement transparency. No final floor votes were taken in the excerpt, and most items were presented for questions or moved through consent with brief sponsor explanations and occasional opposition noted in committee testimony.

Transcript Highlights:

• credits in the low-income housing tax credit program.
• knows tax law better than I do.
• This bill isn't just about a tax exemption.
• At its core, AB 2205 is not just about tax policy.
• A tax liability on a reparations payment is not a technicality.

Committee: House Revenue and Taxation

Transcript Highlights:

• </c> on their taxes. on their taxes.
• </c> with sales tax, who are we taxing? with sales tax, who are we taxing?
• tax is a shell sales tax or an income tax is a shell game. game. game.
• </c> severance tax and the severance taxes severance tax and the severance taxes that<02:01:03.840><c
• </c> severance tax. severance tax.

Transcript Highlights:

• This legislation takes advantage of the tax code on low-income housing tax credit tax credits to incentivize
• on profitability, there's a tax on a tax, not a tax.
• on profitability, there's a tax on a tax, not a tax.
• </c><00:23:32.200><c> There</c><00:23:32.440><c> are</c> a tax on a tax, not a tax.
• There are a tax on a tax, not a tax.

Committee: Senate Housing and Homelessness Prevention

Transcript Highlights:

• , ways and means; HB 4030, rat rate taxes; HB 4031, special place infrastructure; HB 4032, alternative
• credit, tribal taxes; HB 2907, income tax credit, historic fix division; HB 28, municipal tax increment
• HB 4007, municipal tax increment financing; HCR 2013, Goldback Trust Bonds, urging authorization.
• I really think that adding a fitness program... We had less behavioral problems.
• Article 7, Constitution of Arizona, by adding Section 19 relating to election requirements.

Transcript Highlights:

• Consider grocers at Gross Receipts Tax exemptions.
• Any changes in tax policy...
• As we clean up our tax code, where are we finding loopholes where people are not having a tax liability
• You create these tax breaks.
• Possibly one of the largest tax increases in the state of New Mexico.

Committee: House House Commerce & Economic Development Committee

Transcript Highlights:

• This tax is...
• This tax is...
• This tax is...
• This tax is...
• This tax is... current tax exemption on air airport in current tax exemption on air airport in a<00:21

Committee: Senate Taxes

Transcript Highlights:

• A dead person paid the taxes? A dead person can't pay the taxes, Representative.
• tax is.
• And if you increase your tax levy ceiling, you're increasing the tax rate.
• It basically says who's doing the taxes, what property is being taxed, the tax rate increase, how long
• It'd be the ceiling of the tax rate or the tax levy.

Committee: House Government Efficiency

Summary: The Committee on Government Efficiency heard House Bill 2761, sponsored by Representative Banderman, which would shift solid waste grant administration from the 20 regional solid waste districts to the Department of Natural Resources (DNR), preserve the grant program, clarify tipping fee increases, and give DNR authority and funding to assess, test, remediate, and manage 29 abandoned landfills. Banderman said the bill is intended to address abandoned landfill contamination, prevent problems with repeated tax sales of landfill property, and reduce administrative overhead so more tipping-fee revenue can be used for solid waste purposes. He emphasized that the bill would not eliminate current grants or change grant priorities, only the administering entity. Committee members raised concerns about the late distribution of the committee substitute, the effect on local control, the tipping fee language, and whether the bill would actually provide enough money to clean up abandoned sites. Several members questioned whether the fee increase mechanism could function like a tax increase without voter approval and whether DNR or the districts were better suited to manage the program. Supporters, including affected landowners Jim Roberts and Joe Van Lear, described contamination from an abandoned Franklin County landfill, including leachate, lead, arsenic, and PFAS, and said state agencies had told them the site could not be addressed without legislation. Opponents, including local officials and district representatives, argued that the districts provide local oversight, respond quickly to community needs, and already administer grants, recycling, household hazardous waste, and other programs efficiently. Additional testimony came from district and advisory board representatives who said the districts have issued hundreds of grants, maintain annual reporting and audits, and use local boards to tailor programs to community needs. They argued the bill would eliminate local control and could disrupt existing services, though some said they were open to reform and collaboration with DNR on abandoned sites. DNR Director Kurt Schaefer testified that the department currently lacks sufficient authority and funding to address abandoned landfills, said the districts receive more tipping-fee revenue than DNR while spending up to 50% on overhead, and argued the bill would improve efficiency and allow the state to begin addressing the abandoned landfill problem. No vote was taken during the hearing.

Transcript Highlights:

• sales tax.
• We also explored a modified TBD sales tax, so an additional sales tax within a transportation benefit
• TBD sales tax authority.
• You chose the sales tax added for TBD. There is other choices that a jurisdiction could use.
• Declining fuel tax, gas tax revenues, and statewide gasoline consumption is projected to continue to

Committee: Joint Joint Transportation Committee

Summary: The committee began with member introductions, then heard a presentation on a draft final report studying alternative funding mechanisms for sidewalks and related pedestrian infrastructure. Consultants said current local funding sources are insufficient, with most jurisdictions unable to complete planned sidewalk networks within 50 years. They evaluated four options: a sidewalk utility fee, a modified transportation benefit district sales tax, a new real estate excise tax option, and expanded stormwater fee use for ADA sidewalk ramps. The consultants recommended authorizing the modified TBD sales tax and new REET option, considering a sidewalk utility despite legal uncertainty, broadening any authorization to all pedestrian improvements, and not pursuing the stormwater fee option. Members asked about legal authority, fairness, revenue adequacy, and whether jurisdictions had been consulted; the presenters said state enabling legislation would likely be needed for a sidewalk utility and that fairness could be defined either by direct benefit or by need. The committee then received an update on the 2025 assessment of city transportation funding needs. The consultants reported that city transportation revenues have grown in some local and federal categories since 2019, but state revenues have remained relatively flat and smaller cities are especially affected by declining fuel tax revenues and limited tax bases. They estimated annual city transportation needs at $4.25 billion, average annual spending at $1.89 billion, and a funding gap of $2.37 billion, larger than in the prior study because of updated data, inclusion of system improvements, and higher preservation costs. Draft recommendations focused on reducing costs and improving efficiency, preserving and increasing state support, and expanding local funding options, including preservation-first spending, a permanent federal fund exchange program, streamlined review processes, better coordination with WSDOT, possible property tax flexibility, and exploration of new local tools. Members raised questions about design standards, the role of density and transit, federal compliance, and whether the report would identify specific consolidation or process changes. The committee also heard a project update on evaluating zero-emission vehicle and electrification programs funded by the Climate Commitment Act. Consultants said they had reviewed roughly 23 programs and projects across seven agencies and were now evaluating options to improve delivery, including process improvements, reorganizing programs, or consolidating governance and administrative functions. Early findings highlighted staffing shortages, duplication and variation across agencies, differing levels of risk, and the challenge of coordinating climate priorities across agencies with other core missions. Members asked about program outcomes, administrative costs, whether some programs should have exit strategies, and how to strengthen the EV Coordinating Council. Finally, WSDOT provided an implementation update on its new public-private partnership authority under SB 5801, saying work is underway to prepare governance, legal, policy, and organizational structures ahead of the January 1, 2027 effective date.

Transcript Highlights:

• Our property taxes are already going up. Our gas tax has gone up.
• </c> is a property tax increase. is a property tax increase.
• Our gas tax taxes are already going up.
• Uh and these parents are paying taxes. They're paying property taxes.
• </c><01:47:06.240><c> I</c> taxes. They're paying um state taxes. I taxes.

Bills: HF3900

Committee: Senate Education Finance

Keywords: permanent school fund, school endowment fund, Minnesota constitutional amendment, school aid, public school funding, State Board of Investment, investment income, distributable amount, school districts, property taxes, income taxes, voter approval, ballot question, constitutional amendment 2026, education finance, fund perpetuity, purchasing power, trust lands, swamp lands, internal improvement land fund

Transcript Highlights:

• </c><00:02:47.160><c> property</c><00:02:47.600><c> tax</c> under that tax property tax under that tax
• </c> taxes payable in 2026. taxes payable in 2026.
• M1 as an income tax offset.
• M1 as an income tax offset.
• </c> onto the local property tax base. onto the local property tax base.

Committee: Senate Taxes

Transcript Highlights:

• This actually is funneling public tax dollars to a private institution.
• Thank you. ...public tax dollars to a private institution. Thank you.
• It's also adding that in this statute under criminal penalties.
• This does not touch the tax incentives currently offered to data centers. Thank you.
• This does not touch the tax incentives currently offered to data centers. Thank you.

Summary: The committee worked through a long Minority Caucus calendar covering a wide range of bills, with many items on consent and several pulled for discussion. Early items included resolutions on Judea and Samaria, bullion depository bills, a produce incentive appropriation, a biennial budget proposal, and a veterans services appropriation. Members also heard transportation-related bills on driver permits, citations, boat insurance, English proficiency for commercial drivers and motor carriers, photo enforcement, and a measure restricting incarceration for unpaid fines and fees. Several members raised concerns about constitutional issues, public safety, or whether bills were duplicative or targeted at specific groups. A large portion of the meeting focused on education and school governance bills. These included proposals on school district bond advisors, restrictions on school property leases and purchases, public meeting requirements, term limits and training for school board members, patriotic youth group access to students, computer science proficiency, and a bill requiring fingerprint clearance cards for traffic school instructors. Members repeatedly criticized what they described as inconsistent treatment of public schools versus ESA/private school programs, and several education bills were pulled from consent for further discussion. Other bills addressed child safety and family law, including DCS credit freezes, recorded child interviews, parents’ rights notices, mandatory reporting of threats by minors, sex offender residency and GPS monitoring, and a bill on guardianship rights during DCS investigations. The committee also considered a number of social services, health, and labor/consumer bills. These included SNAP work requirement and verification measures, a SNAP error-rate audit, dementia care telemonitoring funding, a Braille transcription appropriation, court fee limits, a physician assistant compact, pediatric licensure compact, and a kratom regulation bill. Members debated an earned wage access licensing bill at length, with opponents calling it predatory and akin to payday lending, while supporters argued it provided a regulated consumer option. Other measures covered cash acceptance by businesses, 529-to-Roth IRA rollovers, AI rules for state agencies, and a bill on public nuisance actions by the Attorney General. Several of these drew warnings about constitutional problems, preemption, or burdens on vulnerable populations. Energy, water, and tax policy also featured prominently. The committee heard bills on fuel formulations, gas tax relief, data centers and small modular nuclear reactors, utility reporting, and a Commerce Authority mandate to reduce fuel prices. Members criticized some proposals as favoring industry, preempting local control, or lacking a clear funding plan. The meeting ended after additional items on veterans, sample ballot mailing dates, and other miscellaneous measures, with multiple bills noted as pulled from consent or subject to later votes; no final roll-call results were detailed in the transcript excerpt.

Transcript Highlights:

• We support adding vaping and marijuana to the provisions of the Florida Indoor Clean Air Act.
• In Loudoun County, Virginia, more than half of the local tax revenue comes from data centers.
• In Grant County, Washington, property tax revenues have climbed 1,277% to $54 million.
• How is he to be assessed, tax-wise?
• Data centers can generate $26 in tax revenue for every dollar of public services they require.

Bills: S0408 , S0986 , S0678 , S0800 , S1050 , S0484 , S1118

Committee: Senate Regulated Industries

Transcript Highlights:

• Illinois has passed a SAF tax credit. The state of Washington has passed the SAF tax credit.
• Illinois has passed a SAF tax credit. The state of Washington has passed the SAF tax credit.
• Illinois has passed a SAF tax credit. The state of Washington has passed the SAF tax credit.
• Illinois has passed a SAF tax credit. The state of Washington has passed the SAF tax credit.
• Illinois has passed a SAF tax credit. The state of Washington has passed the SAF tax credit.

Committee: House Agriculture Finance and Policy