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• Those investigations are funded largely out of teacher certification fees, and we have far fewer teachers
• It's what's allocated in the foundation school program, but they.
• federal funds, and they then use their judgment to to discern how to most efficiently and effectively allocate
• you wanted counseling services and you know library support services those are costs that you then allocate
• You talked about the discipline you wanted to increase your your financial allocation for that department

Keywords: 1184, house, all

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• Uh, those investigations are funded largely out of teacher certification fees, and we have far fewer
• It's what's, um, allocated in the Foundation school program, but they also receive IEA funds from the
• funds, and they then use their judgment to discern how to most efficiently and effectively, um, allocate
• And if you had 650 kids, they're probably the same actual costs, but then they're allocated across 650
• Uh, you wanted to increase your, uh, allocation, your financial allocation for that department for TEA

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• We have some additional lab fees. We're asking to increase that spending authority by...
• It's, I know, a C-U-A-S allocation. That's the name of the federal grant. Yeah.
• Kansas is also getting a federal allocation to the same on their side. Okay, thank you. Yes, ma'am.
• When that money arrives, we have 45 days under the federal rules to get that money allocated and spent
• I see you've cost allocated this in the budget a little bit as well as I guess got a better number, but

Keywords: 959, house, all

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• We eliminated program fees for all child support customers in 2020.
• And we began covering debit and credit card fees for our child support payments, recognizing that the
• So, when they change the SNAP admin share, it actually affects the entire cost allocation of our agency
• My salary is paid partially by the SNAP admin cost allocation, and so that is changing how we fund program
• Administrative cost allocation, $2 million to support our MISR operation and maintenance.

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• <00:17:55.480> will different funding um allocations will different funding um allocations
• gets accepted into the program, Pendleton County school district supplies them with an iPad and the fee
• and<00:28:44.560> and<00:28:44.800> and<00:28:45.320> the<00:28:45.480> fee
• <00:28:45.880> expenses<00:28:46.560> and iPad and and and the fee expenses and iPad
• and and and the fee expenses and everything<00:28:47.120> they<00:28:47.240> need<00:28

Keywords: Meeting Start 00:00:00 Votruba Young Scholars Academy 00:01:55 Taxation of Financial Deposit Institutions 00:36:50, 958, all

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• the DNR's allocation.
• the DNR's allocation.
• AIS account to align with the fee AIS account to align with the fee increase<00:02:47.280> and
• a $5 fee and for fishing it's a $5 fee a $5 fee and for fishing it's a $5 fee and<01:53:23.199><
• The fee went from $30 to $45. Um, and these fees were on a three-year license.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• It would have allocated $5 billion a year to pay the debt down in four years.
• It makes it unlawful for an attorney representing a person under a contingency fee agreement to refer
• It prohibits attorneys from charging an additional contingency fee, administrative fee, management fee
• , or similar fee based on reducing or resolving a client's medical lien.
• For some of them, they're just trying to meet their regional housing needs allocation obligations.

Keywords: 987, senate, all

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• During the last biennium fiscal year 22-23, $6.08 million was generated from these permit fees.
• Allocating money for the proper improvements so we don't have to go that far. This is how it works.
• And does your bill address these fees, because this goes on in Harris County too?
• There's a $1.25 toll, and then there's a $50 fee. Right, it does not address the...
• It's their fault anyway, but if I had my way, I would strip their fee-making authority.

Bills: HB1589, HB2208, HB2297, HB2560, HB2725, HB3080, HB4417, HB4473, HB4520, HB4662, HB4888, HB4905, HB4906

Keywords: HB 1589, toll road, toll project, toll project entity, voter approval, local control, county election, commissioners court, Transportation Code, Chapter 372, road construction, highway funding, infrastructure, public referendum, ballot measure, transportation policy, Texas toll roads, regional mobility, toll collection, vehicle registration

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• I'm allocating about five minutes. Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you for being here.
• The HR1, the reconciliation bill, created several new fees targeting low-income, vulnerable immigrants
• Previously, these folks were able to apply for a fee waiver, like you can in many civil and criminal
• agreement that we provide, again, we would give $2 million for state claims, including attorney's fees
• Unless there's an agreement pursuant to which we will continue to detain for a reimbursable fee aliens

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• This bill requires state universities to establish a market-rate out-of-state fee for non-resident online
• It shifts allocations of financial aid fees and support programs to assist underrepresented students.
• The legislation provides tuition and fee waivers for active... Without restriction.
• The legislation provides tuition and fee waivers for active Florida State Guard members for up to six
• We adjust the grandparent resident tuition waiver, specifically for a grandparent fee waiver to apply

Summary: The committee first heard CS for CS for SB 344, which would modernize the Telecommunications Access System Act of 1991 based on Public Service Commission recommendations. The bill drew no opposition and was reported favorably. Members then took up several Senator Burton measures: CS for SB 714 on non-opioid advanced directives, which was amended to create a Department of Health website access point for a voluntary form allowing patients to notify providers they do not want opioid medications; CS for SB 738 on child care and early learning providers, which streamlines and updates child care regulation and was supported by industry and business groups; CS for SB 756 on health insurance coverage for individuals with developmental disabilities, which removes the age-8 diagnosis limit and age cap for mandated autism-related coverage; and CS for CS for SB 1356, creating a Florida Institute for Pediatric Rare Diseases at FSU and a newborn genetic testing pilot, later amended to add FIU and Nicklaus Children’s Hospital to the board and remove specific appropriations. All of these bills were reported favorably. The committee also approved CS for CS for SB 1624 on higher education, a broad bill affecting tuition policies, workforce programs, institutional governance, and naming changes. The bill generated extended discussion over replacing references to “minority” with “underrepresented,” with the sponsor explaining the intent was to focus on low-income access and student support, while members raised concerns about impacts on majority-minority institutions and preeminence pathways. An amendment added guardrails for private religious postsecondary institutions by requiring public review of affidavits of compliance and giving the Commission for Independent Education enforcement authority. After debate, the bill was reported favorably. The committee then passed CS for SB 1626 on child welfare, which addresses military-family investigations, emergency shelter certification, children’s services council appointments, criminal-background exemptions, group-home rates, licensing extensions, small residential group homes, missing-children procedures, and psychotropic medication refills; it was amended to adjust council board composition and then reported favorably. Additional bills approved included SB 178, directing Florida A&M University to conduct an agronomic study on emerging crops for land taken out of production; SB 1162, expanding boating improvement funding for trailer parking and offering lease incentives for clean marine manufacturers; CS for CS for SB 958, creating a type 1 diabetes early detection information program for parents and schools; CS for CS for CS for SB 1070, requiring ECGs for student athletes with phased implementation and exemptions, after extensive testimony from parents and advocates about sudden cardiac arrest; CS for SB 774, requiring electronic transmission of certain court orders to sheriffs within six hours; SB 1516, creating an International Aerospace Innovation Fund administered by Space Florida; SB 994, revising driver education requirements and prompting a commitment to add distracted-driving instruction; and CS for CS for SB 1402, expanding eligibility for dropout retrieval programs. The committee also took up SB 810 on stormwater management systems, amending it to focus annual inspections on vulnerable MS4 infrastructure. That bill drew significant opposition from the Florida League of Cities, counties, and stormwater groups, who argued the mandate would duplicate existing permit requirements and impose major costs, but supporters said it was a basic flood-prevention measure. The transcript ends during debate on SB 810, before a final vote is shown.

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• Other states leverage a combination of taxes, fees, and assessments, or other sources of income, to pay
• This includes things like interest income, exchange user fees, and personal responsibility fines.
• on insurance companies which fee on insurance companies which includes<00:09:52.880> large<00
• Then the only question I have is how often can you raise the fee?
• Then the only question I have is how often can you raise the fee?

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

Summary: The committee heard a reinsurance overview from Deputy Commissioner Julia Dryer of the Minnesota Department of Commerce on the Minnesota Premium Security Plan. She explained that reinsurance helps stabilize premiums in the individual market by reimbursing insurers for high-cost claims, and said Minnesota’s program has lowered premiums, preserved carrier participation, and helped maintain consumer choice. She warned that without continued funding, the program would be depleted and individual-market premiums could rise by about 25%, with potential losses in coverage and access to care. She also described the program’s structure under a federal 1332 waiver, the role of MCHA in administering the program, and the state’s receipt of more than $650 million in federal pass-through funds to date. Dryer said the current program is funded through the end of 2025, though the federal waiver authority runs through 2027. The governor’s proposal would create a new assessment on insurers, estimated at roughly 2% to 3%, to fund the state share of the program and avoid another full waiver submission. She noted that the proposal assumes MinnesotaCare funding would be held harmless and that the program would be reduced if federal basic health plan funding were negatively affected. She also said projected costs changed because individual-market enrollment has grown and enhanced federal subsidies were removed from the estimate. Members raised concerns about the proposal’s impact on premiums and the history of the fund. Senator Rasmusson argued the new assessment amounts to a large tax increase on health insurance and questioned who would be assessed and whether the surcharge would be capped. Dryer responded that the assessment would be based on annual claims experience and market conditions, with final amounts determined at the end of each year, not monthly. Senator Duckworth and Senator Frentz supported reinsurance as a way to keep premiums lower, while also questioning how the program should be financed. Senator Green asked about the mechanics of the assessment and the role of the department in setting it, and Senator H questioned why the fiscal note assumed 12% annual growth for program costs when general premium growth was lower. No vote or formal action was taken in the meeting.

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• A fee, at its core, is to cover a cost.
• So when does a fee become a tax is ultimately the question here?
• But the fee is not covering any cost.
• But the fee is not covering any cost.
• There is a smaller fee for it, and Rob might be able to answer that.

Keywords: 908, all

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• and you pay professional fees.
• We adopted impact fees in 2015.
• As it stands right now, a portion of that is taken up by impact fees or offset by impact fees.
• These fees are causing builders to leave our high-impact fee city for a non-impact fee city area like
• fees seven times.

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• The allocations were provided on an FTE basis, based on the number of FTEs allocated through the model
• The model now allocates 132 The model now allocates 132 elementary counselors, or approximately 132 elementary
• That's one area that we can see how districts are allocating those resources, how they allocated, but
• done allocations in a budget.
• Those, while may be considered an allocation that we may use, we're not so... allocation that we may

Keywords: 916, all

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• <00:35:54.840> Fees<00:35:55.080> are anyone under $250,000 project.
• Fees are anyone under $250,000 project.
• In student-based models, funds are allocated for CTE students, not resources or positions.
• So, the state kind of have up to 15% of their allocation.
• A little bit of money their allocation.

Keywords: Meeting Start 00:00:00 Budget Process 00:02:28 Allotment Process 00:10:30 School Facilities Construction Commission 00:29:10 Role of KDE in School Facilities Funding 00:47:00 Kentucky School Boards Association 01:13:25 Elementary and Secondary School Construction 01:20:40 Perkins V Funding 01:35:32, 958, all

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• Government, HB 538 by Reynolds, relating to student access, certain academic records, authorizing a fee
• Permitting of Texas authorizing a fee, referred to the Committee of State Affairs, HB 554, by Leo Wilson
• a constitution amendment, providing the creation and use of the use of the Grow Texas Fund, and allocating

Keywords: 1184, house, all

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• Excess a $5 fee on primary official game ticket purchases for the 2026 FIFA World Cup game in order to
• For a nominal fee, anyone can challenge the validity of a SQL analysis for years and years and years
• Speaker, AB 987 protects Californians against the growing issue of unreasonable toll fees.
• storage fees for days when the facility is not open.
• This bill does not increase any existing surcharges or consumer fees and is revenue neutral.

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• Our commission reauthorized the funding that had been unexpended from those previous allocations last
• Our commission reauthorized the funding that had been unexpended from those previous allocations last
• And what is the directive administrative fee? Who's getting that?
• It's a fee that is provided per month per, I believe, per client. And that's the recommendation.
• So if it says same, then you're recommending that we allocate the balance to the agency, right?

Keywords: 996, all

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• So in Austin, they may have a convenience fee, they may have a service fee, they may have a health care
• fee.
• I'm sure they're going to come with a tariff fee.
• , you pay a 3% convenience fee, a 3% healthcare fee, and knows what on a tariff fee.
• All those fees add up, and fees are just taxes. It's just a nice way of saying tax.

Bills: HB1958, HB2031, HB2879, HB3285, HB3995, HB4487, HB4558, HB4560, HB4876, HB4899, HB5212, HB5317, HB5543, HB5567, SB1333

Keywords: firearm possession, tenant rights, landlord regulations, civil penalties, property code, justified use of force, deadly force, property rights, home defense, smart devices, data privacy, personal data collection, user consent, mobile application, data transparency, HOA, property owners association, property owners' association, Texas Property Code, Chapter 202

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• have the number in front of me—278, if that's right off the top of my head—which increases the ATV fees
• have the number in front of me—278, if that's right off the top of my head—which increases the ATV fees
• The state continues to issue permits for expanding trail systems and allocates grant and aid funding
• 00:09:07.839> trail<00:09:08.160> systems<00:09:08.720> and<00:09:09.040> allocates
• expanding trail systems and allocates expanding trail systems and allocates grant<00:09:10.160><

Keywords: 919, house, all

Summary: The committee heard House File 1012, as amended by the A1 amendment, and the author moved the bill to be laid over for possible inclusion in a future bill. The amendment, adopted on a voice vote, changed the timing for public input in trail planning, removed language on decommissioning trails, and combined the measure with another ATV-fee bill. The author said the bill would unify ATV trail signage policy statewide, align statute with DNR best practices, and not affect the forest trail inventory, existing ATV-accessible miles, or hunting exemptions. Testimony was sharply divided. Supporters, including representatives of the Minnesota Public Lands Coalition, tribal officials from the Max Band and Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, a retired DNR conservation officer, a retired wildlife manager, and the Minnesota Environmental Quality Board, argued the bill would better protect wetlands, wildlife habitat, and culturally significant areas, improve transparency and tribal consultation, and make trail planning and enforcement more workable. The EQB said the amended bill’s rulemaking timeline was more workable, and the DNR described its existing multi-step trail review and consultation process. Opponents, including ATV Minnesota, county commissioners from northern counties, and a representative of the Minnesota Trappers Association, argued the bill would burden or restrict existing trail systems, increase costs, and threaten tourism and local economies. They said current trail development already involves DNR and local review, and that the bill could reduce access for riders, trappers, and other users. In member questions, the author and a Minnesota Association of Townships representative said the bill was intended to codify DNR best practices and bring local governments into the process earlier, while confirming that hunting exemptions were not removed.