Transcript Highlights:

• We provide for responsible and transparent management of the state's fiscal resources, promoting financial
• 04:28.720> and state we provide for responsible and state we provide for responsible and transparent
• > manag<00:04:29.720> management<00:04:30.120> of<00:04:30.240> the transparent
• manag management of the transparent manag management of the state's<00:04:30.759> fiscal<00:04
• and that was blocked by the payments and that was blocked by the courts<00:19:46.840> and<00:

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• AB775 Phuong behested Payments Reporting due passed out on an A roll call. explanation requirement and
• AB 1039, Hart. payments do pass out on an A-roll call. AB 1108 Hart.
• AB 1329 Ortega, subsequent injury payments do pass out with Republicans not voting.
• AB 850, Pacheco Institutional Debt Transparency Act, hold in committee.
• AB 1180 Valencia, DFPI payments do pass out on an A roll call.

Keywords: 988, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• Transparency in medical prices.
• transparency in medical prices. transparency in medical prices.
• It says payments for expenditures.
• So I guess my question is if payments.
• So if they will receive larger payments.

Keywords: 981, all

Summary: The House opened with the national anthem, the Pledge of Allegiance, and a roll call establishing a quorum. Members then approved the journal of April 8, 2026, and heard several introductions and tributes, including recognition of Home Education Day in Colorado, a welcome to Sigma Lambda Gamma members, and a reminder about an education luncheon. The chamber then recessed briefly before moving into second reading and floor consideration of bills. The main substantive debate centered on House Bill 1357, which phases out the Teacher Recruitment Education and Preparation (TREP) program. Supporters said the program serves a relatively small number of students, costs more per student than community college alternatives, and should be wound down so limited state education dollars can go to core services and the school finance formula. Opponents argued the state had promised the program to students who planned their education around it, including some who turned down scholarships, and said the change would harm future teachers and should have been treated as a pause rather than an end. The House adopted an appropriations amendment (L003), withdrew a proposed substitute amendment (L005), and then passed HB 1357 as amended. The House also passed House Bill 1358, which reduces the appropriation for the Colorado Academic Accelerator Grant Program by $5.2 million in general fund. The sponsor described it as a grant program supporting community learning centers and math/STEM enrichment, but said funding will end after the following fiscal year and the program must step down so families can seek other services. The bill was adopted without further opposition. Finally, the House considered House Bill 1359, which redirects certain revenue from public school land natural resource removals to the state public school fund rather than the permanent fund, with projected transfers of $25 million in FY 2025-26 and $45 million in FY 2026-27. Supporters said the measure is needed to help balance the budget. An opponent raised concerns about impacts on a constituent ranch lease tied to a proposed green energy project, but the sponsor clarified the bill applies only to royalties and leases on state-owned public school lands. The House then adopted HB 1359.

Transcript Highlights:

• And that has at least a minimum level of transparency that I enjoy and that I would like to see going
• This amendment will clarify the law and add transparency for both voters and candidates.
• It should be out in the open, done with transparency and not burdened, buried across four overlapping
• Electronic voting eliminates any possibility of having safe and transparent elections.
• These methods provide transparency, reduce opportunities for tampering, and ensure public confidence

Bills: AB534, AB562, AB595, AB597, AB600, SB74, SB226, SB422, SB488

Keywords: election reform, voter accessibility, conditional ballots, voter registration, mechanical voting systems, election audits, voter access grants, provisional ballot, voting technology, AB562, Nevada, Secretary of State, elections, elections management system, HAVA, Help America Vote Act, automatic voter registration, AVR, election technology, state appropriations

Transcript Highlights:

• So, you know, in transparency, if that's your argument, let me see your contracts.
• I'd like that transparency, because it's the first time I'm hearing it today, right?
• So I would like to see those numbers for the sake of transparency.
• We need to do it with some transparency. To do it, we need to do it intentionally.
• The F stands per unit, M is maximum payments, M being the 144 months.

Keywords: 965, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• ,<01:03:50.000> credible, guidelines remain transparent, credible, guidelines remain transparent
• So, it's a little bit like revenue bonds, but not because revenue bonds have a payment in place for them
• bonds have a payment in place for them? bonds have a payment in place for them?
• This guideline provides transparency around all commitments that have been passed into law.
• . payments. payments.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• <00:14:58.759> stru to phase out this um payment stru to phase out this um payment stru structure
• structure as different from the county-derived payment.
• <00:35:47.960> structure structure to a direct payment structure structure to a direct payment
• <00:36:13.319> rather statute um and do direct payments rather statute um and do direct payments
• the um nursing home facility payment the um nursing home facility payment system<01:15:32.679>

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• So, who's going the insurance payment.
• So, the tails on draw down payments.
• and assistance and down payment and assistance and down payment assistance<00:48:21.119> uh
• And like that is like lack of payment.
• <01:35:58.159> of vial appropriations after payments of vial appropriations after payments

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

Bills: HR72, HR73, HR74, HR75, HR76, HR77, HR78, HR79, HR80, HR81, HR82, HR83, HCR36, HCR37, HCR38, HCR39, HCR40, HCR41, HB368, HB433, HB1017, HB1018, HB1019, HB1020, HB1021, HB1022, HB1023, HB1024, HB1025, HB1026, HB1027, HB1028, HB1029, HB1030, HB1031, HB1032, HB1033, HB1034, HB1035, HB1036, HB1037, HB1038, HB1039, HB1040, HB1041, HB1042, HB1043, HB1044, HB1045, HB1046, HB1047, HB1048, HB1049, HB1050, HB1051, HB1052, HB1053, HB1054, HB1055, HB1056, HB1057, HB1058, HB1059, HB1060, HB1061, HB1062, HB1063, HB1064, HB1065, HB1066, HB1067, HB1068, HB1069, HB1070, HB1071, HB1072, HB1073, HB1074, HB1075, HB1076, HB1077, HB1078, HB1079, HB1080, HB1081, HB1082, HB1083, HB1084, HR70, HR71, HCR35, HB31, HB326, HB1013, HB1014, HB1015, HB1016, SB192, SB196, SB198, SB203, SB204, SB214, SB216, SB257, SB291, SB383, HB13, HB23, HB25, HB32, HB41, HB42, HB90, HB120, HB121, HB122, HB127, HB138, HB139, HB141, HB179, HB187, HB213, HB247, HB286, HB332, HB344, HB357, HB367, HB370, HB462, HB505, HB527, HB537, HB605, HB680, HB681, HB725, HB780, HB782, HB847, HB892, HB911, HB916, HB1012, HR15, HR20, HCR14, HB53, HB57, HB64, HB102, HB106, HB111, HB137, HB152, HB155, HB177, HB238, HB256, HB258, HB337, HB359, HB363, HB386, HB434, HB546, HB557, HB584, HB661, HB697, HB726, HB727, HB747, HB756, HB758, HB759, HB765, HB767, HB825, HB858, HB930, HB941, HB957, HB964, HB58, HB69, HB93, HB166, HB199, HB201, HB202, HB218, HB223, HB224, HB231, HB235, HB246, HB338, HB349, HB352, HB379, HB405, HB429, HB535, HB547, HB577, HB588, HB626, HB636, HB652, HB653, HB669, HB688, HB691, HB721, HB738, HB806, HB851, HB857, HB861, HB889, HB904, HB907, HB908, HB929, HB1009, HB868, HB119, HB140, HB739, HB842, HB875, HB919, HB61, HB185, HB233, HB613, HB848, HB52, HB228, HB289, HB735, HB796, HB722, HB284, HB301, HB827, HB953, HB901, HB9, HB46, HB193, HB400, HB436, HB468, HB570, HB582, HB733, HB746, HB923, HB952

Keywords: HR72, House Resolution 72, Sophia Patout, Layla Porter, St. Amant High School, Future Farmers of America, FFA, Coastal Restoration Heroes, coastal restoration, Louisiana coast, coastal land loss, wetlands, saltmarsh, barrier island, West Grand Terre Island, Restore or Retreat Inc., smooth cordgrass, Spartina alterniflora, black mangrove, Avicennia germinans

Transcript Highlights:

• which is a community not-for-profit hospital down on the South Shore, to become eligible for relief payments
• Failing to include them as eligible for these relief payments, I believe, is a disservice to this hospital
• Tarr, distressed hospital payments. Question comes on adoption.
• It's collected transparently, it's held, it's spent transparently, it's spent only on the items that

Keywords: 995, all

Summary: The Senate considered a series of amendments to a supplemental appropriations bill and related measures, with several adopted and several rejected or withdrawn. Early amendments on equitable approaches to public safety and a Holyoke local account clarification failed, while amendments providing $2.5 million for Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers technical assistance and expanding access to gender-affirming medications and mifepristone were adopted. The chamber also adopted a technical amendment on alternative protein grants, a clarification to ETF modernization, and an energy storage systems amendment. Other proposals on homeowner protections, La Casa funding, emergency contract reform, an energy dashboard, EV charging ratepayer impacts, hate crimes, distressed hospital payments, and task force membership were rejected or withdrawn. A substantial portion of the debate focused on health care, food assistance, and public safety. Senators spoke in support of funding for community health centers, hospital relief, and EBT anti-skimming protections, including $15.5 million for chip-enabled EBT cards and related replacement-benefit support. One amendment to strengthen protections against impersonating federal officers was rejected, while another on professional protections was withdrawn after discussion of ballot address privacy and security concerns. The Senate also adopted amendments to continue prior appropriations for a North Shore food pantry and drought management efforts, and it later approved a sick leave bank for a Department of Mental Health employee. The chamber then took up the fiscal year 2025 fair share supplemental budget conference report, which Ways and Means described as $1.39 billion in spending split between transportation and education, including MBTA improvements, Chapter 90 aid, regional transit authorities, special education circuit breaker reimbursements, higher education deferred maintenance, and career technical education capital grants. After a roll call, the bill passed, with one recorded negative vote. The Senate also adopted a separate Ways and Means amendment and ordered the bill to third reading before final passage. The session ended with adjournment motions and a moment of silence honoring Melissa and Mark Hortman and other victims of political violence, along with a memorial adjournment for firefighter Jeffrey DeSanchez.

Transcript Highlights:

• So what happens in this bill is to establish and maintain the clear, transparent process for issuing
• Uh, the bill will maintain the current coverage, insurance coverage, and payment for vaccines for folks
• So what happens in this bill is to establish and maintain the clear, transparent process for issuing
• Uh, the bill will maintain the current coverage, insurance coverage, and payment for vaccines for folks
• <00:20:15.280> process<00:20:15.840> for<00:20:16.720> issuing transparent process

Keywords: 927, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• goons hacked into the treasury payment goons hacked into the treasury payment system<02:38:06.840
• potentially access data on the payment potentially access data on the payment systems<02:38:42.800
• He gives them access to the federal payment system.
• payment payment system<02:48:06.319> he<02:48:06.520> gives<02:48:06.880> them<
• Treasury Department's electronic payment Treasury Department's electronic payment systems<03:01:

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Thursday, February 13, 2025, 1012, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• Appropriations allocating a certain amount of our revenue toward the payment of these needs in these
• And so it's really about transparency in what is being said and how we are implementing. Thank you.
• So there's nothing here to try to get them off of being, you know, derelict in their payments of bonds
• Senators, this bill provides transparency to the public on the impacts of the governor's property tax
• This bill allows, if that principle applies, then let's welcome the same transparency.

Keywords: 999, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• There's systemic issues and transparency. I mean, it's of course there are.
• There's systemic issues and transparency. I mean, it's of course there are.
• to be transparent when you increase<01:14:41.440> rates.
• the updated patient-driven payment model for Medicare nursing facility stays.
• payment model for Medicare nursing payment model for Medicare nursing facility<02:39:37.000> stays

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• So, my concern is that goes beyond traditional transparency standards, potentially exposing sensitive
• And when the state has its eyes on it, members, it's about accountability, transparency, and oversight
• I have been fully transparent I have been fully transparent with<01:50:11.840> everyone.
• We went six months without a single payment for the work that was being done.
• So defend against that and keep transparency always here.

Keywords: 981, all

Transcript Highlights:

• It will also require an OBGYN add-on payment... ...to support hospitals providing labor and delivery
• payments, training, and telemedicine.
• The rural maternal add-on payment certainly moves the needle in the right direction.
• This lack of transparency and access can have far-reaching consequences.
• It's not the intent of this to reduce the payments. Well look, this is interesting.

Bills: HB18, HB37, HB116, HB388, HB879, HB913, HB1151, HB2216, HB2358, HB2809, SB577, SB1590, SB1782, SB1887, SB2744, HB18, HB37, HB116

Keywords: rural health, hospital funding, healthcare access, mental health services, financial stability, perinatal bereavement, healthcare, hospital training, bereavement support, maternal care, fetal demise, stillbirth, neonatal death, parent-child relationship, involuntary termination, family law, child welfare, child protection, HB 388, HB388

Transcript Highlights:

• I want to be really transparent.
• I will say just sort of like full transparency.
• On your charts, though, let's see, oh, I know, I wanted to ask you about the writers, the transparency
• Yes, clarified several writers to include. increased transparency of funding and ability to provide better
• to the ESA, I think the payments So there is some sort of continuous enrollment requirements, but it's

Keywords: 1184, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• We'd like to see greater transparency and sustainability in the funding and data aspects. clarification
• You capture on the front end, that's part of your payment.
• Thank you so much for continuing the rural add-on payment for labor and delivery in those rural areas
• But they know how important it is, and so that add-on payment really helps them.
• more transparent.

Bills: SB1, SB 1

Keywords: appropriations, budget, state funding, education, healthcare, infrastructure, campground safety, youth camp regulations, flood safety, emergency evacuation, health and safety standards, 1185, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• To improve the accuracy of cost of attendance budgets and ensure more transparent and student-friendly
• Our state, strengthen consumer protections, and increase transparency on institutional debt.
• The only solution offered to me was to repay $4,000 immediately before I could even enter a payment plan
• I'll emphasize the intent of the bill, which is to increase the transparency of the total compensation
• Today's standard of open adoption is rooted in transparency, empowerment, and connection.

Summary: The committee hearing covered several higher education bills, with extensive testimony on student aid, affordability, and institutional debt. AB 587 would add veteran representation to the California Student Aid Commission; the author said the change would bring lived experience from the veteran community to student aid policy, and members raised a concern about keeping the commission’s membership odd-numbered, which the author said would be addressed by amendment. AB 791 would standardize cost-of-attendance housing calculations using objective data and improve notice of the adjustment process; supporters said current budgets often underestimate students’ real living costs, while UC, CSU, and independent colleges opposed or had concerns about the bill’s prescribed methodology, fiscal impact, and a 14-day turnaround for adjustments. AB 850 would create a one-term grace period for students with institutional debt to re-enroll while arranging repayment, bar reporting that debt to credit agencies, and require more transparency; proponents described students being blocked from continuing school over debts, while CSU, UC, and private-college representatives said they already use holds and payment plans and worried about added liabilities and budget pressures. AB 537 would extend the California College Promise Program to part-time community college students; supporters said most community college students attend part-time and should not be excluded from fee waivers, while the committee noted fiscal concerns but ultimately advanced the bill. AB 7 would allow universities to consider whether an applicant is a descendant of American chattel slavery in admissions as a reparative measure; supporters framed it as lineage-based reparative justice, while opponents argued it would function as a racial proxy and conflict with Proposition 209 and equal-protection principles. The committee took roll-call votes on the measures, advancing AB 587, AB 791, AB 850, and AB 537 to Appropriations, with AB 850 and AB 537 receiving fewer votes and the roll left open for additional members.

Transcript Highlights:

• They were here today to give us an overview of their programming, their down payment programs, and their
• They were here today to give us an overview of their programming, their down payment programs and their
• This is simply about fairness, safety, and transparency.
• Children will be designated, not divided, ...and transparency.
• Again, transparency, safety, and fairness. Thank you. Thank you.

Keywords: 1182, all

Summary: The House convened with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, approval of the prior journal, and introductions of the Doctor of the Day and various guests in the gallery. Members also adopted a proclamation recognizing February 17, 2026, as Kosovo’s Independence Day in Arizona, with remarks highlighting the Kosovo American community’s contributions to the state. The chamber then moved into Committee of the Whole to consider measures on the calendar. In Committee of the Whole, HB 2307 received committee amendments and a due pass recommendation. HB 2758, relating to groundwater transportation and La Paz County, drew substantial debate and multiple amendments; supporters described it as a water policy measure with added protections, while opponents warned it would weaken basin protections and benefit private water investors. After a division and recorded vote, HB 2758 failed to receive a due pass recommendation. The committee also gave due pass recommendations to HCR 2003, HCR 2047, and HCR 2002 after debate on issues including transgender participation in sports and the historical/biblical naming of Judea and Samaria. On third reading, the House passed HB 251, HB 262, HB 272, HB 296, and HB 2459, with brief explanations of vote on several measures. HB 262 was described as honoring the Buffalo Soldiers, HB 272 as a public health-related measure tied to provider credentialing, HB 296 as a water infrastructure and finance bill, and HB 2459 as a bipartisan mobile home park tenant protection bill. The House then received the Committee of the Whole report, referred the passed measures to engrossing, and noted that HB 2758 failed to pass. The session concluded with announcements about committee meetings, a Game and Fish Department legislative day, and other personal remarks before adjournment until February 18, 2026.