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• AB 2704 Addis, CHBHI fee schedule, do pass out on an A roll call. AB 274?
• AB 2704 Addis, CHBHI fee schedule, do pass out on an A roll call.
• AB 2768, Arreguín, deferment of fees, do pass on an A roll call.
• AB 1765, Alanis, vehicle fees, held in committee.
• fee.

Summary: The Assembly Appropriations Committee held a suspense-file hearing on May 14, 2026, reviewing hundreds of Assembly bills and a few committee bills. The chair opened by explaining the committee’s budget constraints and the factors used in suspense decisions, including fiscal impact, return on investment, effects on constituents, and protection of the state’s social safety net. The agenda was organized alphabetically by author, and the committee noted that results would be posted later that day online. The committee then acted on a very large number of measures, sending many bills to the Assembly floor on do pass or do pass as amended motions, while holding many others in committee. Topics covered a broad range of policy areas, including housing, health care, education, labor, public safety, wildfire mitigation, water, energy, transportation, cannabis, immigration, and state governance. Many bills were amended to narrow scope, make implementation contingent on appropriations or existing resources, remove provisions, or clarify agency responsibilities; several bills were held without further action. Among the notable actions, the committee advanced bills on items such as Medi-Cal services, child care, wildfire-related programs, housing financing, school and college issues, public safety and criminal justice, environmental and energy policy, and various consumer and business regulations. Some measures were sent out on A or B roll calls, with Republicans often not voting on amended bills. The hearing concluded after the committee reported that a large number of bills had been moved to the Assembly floor, either as do pass or do pass with amendments, and the committee adjourned.

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• And as the slide notes, we pay a number of taxes along with local franchise fees and then assessments
• Let's identify those and be able to make sure that they're appropriately allocated so that if you're
• so that if you're bringing a allocated so that if you're bringing a cost<01:01:51.839> to<01:
• You know, but if you can't afford a quarter of a million dollar application fee, but you're proposing
• It goes up a $75,000 application fee. It goes up from<01:36:43.520> there."

Keywords: Meeting Start 00:00:00 Attendance Roll Call 00:00:10 Approval of Minutes 00:01:19 Helping Power Kentucky's Growth (LG&E/KU) 00:01:39 Update from Kentucky's Electric Cooperatives 00:47:35, 958, all

Summary: The committee met with a quorum, approved the minutes from the previous meeting, and then heard a presentation from LG&E and KU representatives Caroline Clark and John Bevington on economic development, energy demand, and the utility’s role in supporting Kentucky’s growth. Bevington described the company’s service territory, generation fleet, and recent economic development activity, including 76 projects supported in 2024, more than $2.8 billion in private investment, and over 3,000 new jobs. He emphasized that data centers are now the dominant driver in the pipeline, with 22 data center projects representing about 8.7 of the 9.7 gigawatts of potential demand, alongside other manufacturing and commercial projects. A major focus was how data centers choose sites and how utilities respond. Bevington explained that hyperscale data centers typically approach utilities first because they need transmission-level access, and that utilities then conduct internal analyses, estimate infrastructure needs, and require financial security before proceeding. He said the company is working through formal transmission studies and long-lead infrastructure planning, and noted that Kentucky’s sales tax exemption for data centers helped attract interest. He also outlined the economic benefits of data centers, citing an announced Louisville project of 525 megawatts and about $11 billion in investment, with an estimated $500 million in new tax revenue over 10 years, plus broader job and GDP impacts. Members asked about whether data centers could generate their own power, the reliability of the pipeline numbers given confidentiality and nondisclosure agreements, and cybersecurity concerns. Bevington said the company does not assume all pipeline projects will materialize in Kentucky and instead assigns probabilities to avoid overbuilding. He also said he was not the right person to address cybersecurity in detail but offered to return to a committee focused on IT or security. In response to questions about future supply, he said LG&E and KU are adding generation through a 120-megawatt solar facility in Mercer County, a 120-megawatt solar purchase in Marion County, and a 645-megawatt natural gas combined-cycle plant in Louisville, with PSC approval recently granted for additional generation and related system upgrades.

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• Part of what we do an education both in K 12 and higher ed courses, tuition and fees and then probably
• It's I think that's roughly 70% comes from the state and the balance comes from student fees. Ft.
• But generally it's going to be around 50 to 60% comes from the state and the balancing tuition and fees
• These are your love, some allocations to your 3 or 4 different sort of.
• We're at 29.5 million and allocated for 24. 25 it is was is 10 million, 10.6 million dollars.

Keywords: 999, senate, all

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• <01:02:19.119> to counties could not charge that fee to counties could not charge that fee
• Uh and but I most of the recording fee.
• This exemption court fee requirements.
• <01:58:40.400> more um allows the office to allocate more um allows the office to allocate
• Indian families from court fee requirements.

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• <00:23:53.679> that a GSA account has to do with fees that a GSA account has to do with fees
• So, are those fees that they collect.
• ability to increase those filing fees ability to increase those filing fees themselves<00:24:23.840
• <00:24:45.760> So an aversion to raising fees, period.
• So an aversion to raising fees, period.

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• and you're assigned to Washington, DC, this gives us the ability to now just charge them a nominal fee
• federal annualized allocation. federal annualized allocation.
• The other question is, did not the fee at the Hampton tolls just increase, uh, double?
• It figures out what the right numbers are for taxes and for fees.
• And this is no different than than fees. And this is no different than than that. that. that.

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• It removes the ability of the COA and HOA to charge the disclosure packet fee to a purchaser.
• Three removes the ability of the COA and HOA to charge the disclosure packet fee to a purchaser.
• Four requires a statement that a property is going. the disclosure packet fee to a purchaser.
• Number two allows, until July 1, 2027, monies allocated from the out-of-school time grant program to
• And it is wonderful that we were able to allocate additional funding to these priorities.

Summary: The meeting began with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, attendance, and a guest introduction for Deputy Frank Sloop. The Senate then moved through multiple Committee of the Whole calendars, with most measures receiving do-pass recommendations after brief explanations and, in several cases, floor amendments. Topics included public records, capital outlay review, local government, taxation, state budget implementation, higher education appropriations, utility regulation, towing regulation, homeowners association disclosures, nursing board regulation, veteran services, criminal justice, human services, K-12 education, state property management, and the continuation of the Arizona State Board of Nursing. Several bills were amended on the floor before receiving favorable recommendations. House Bill 2114 on motorcycle-related provisions was amended to require that at least one registered owner be legally licensed to operate a motorcycle in Arizona. House Bill 2397 on HOA/condominium disclosures was amended to change disclosure timing and fee rules and make other conforming changes. House Bill 2408 on nursing board regulatory action was amended to remove a clear-and-convincing-evidence burden in disciplinary matters and clarify complaint-sharing procedures. House Bill 2957 on driver’s license/handheld provisions, House Bill 2305 on towing regulation, and House Bill 2321 on DCS-related reporting also received amendments before do-pass recommendations. The largest item was Senate Bill 1847, the 2026-2027 General Appropriations Act. Senators offered extensive floor amendments affecting agriculture, corrections, criminal justice, school safety, law enforcement equipment, vehicle theft task force funding, liquor licensing, and other budget items. During third reading and debate on the budget, Democratic senators praised negotiated gains such as funding for aging services, food assistance, civil legal aid, school meals, heat relief, and a three-year moratorium on new data center tax incentives, while criticizing border-related funding, ESA/voucher policy, and cuts to higher education and adult education. One member’s remarks were ruled dilatory after repeated off-topic comments, and the ruling of the chair was sustained by a 16-12 vote. The transcript ends with additional budget-related explanation of votes continuing after the budget’s third reading.

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• is a little bit of a relief valve that will allow the site evaluation committee to seek additional fees
• but I've capped it so that they can't seek any further than double of what the original application fee
• 00:24:35.440> from<00:24:35.679> the<00:24:35.919> applicant, seek additional fees
• <00:24:43.679> This<00:24:44.000> will original application fee was.
• This will original application fee was.

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• North Star Promise Base is a last dollar scholarship program that covers up to 100% of tuition and fees
• Plus funds can be used to cover additional components of the cost of attendance beyond tuition and fees
• And it can also be used to cover additional components of the cost of attendance beyond tuition and fees
• We can't change the North Star Promise program to cover anything other than resident tuition and fees
• Also, as noted, we do not play a role in estimating tuition and fee and enrollment changes.

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• We have one division director for the Division of Public Health Services, and we've tried to allocate
• <00:11:58.160> those we've tried to allocate those we've tried to allocate those appropriately
• pages long that allows us to allocate pages long that allows us to allocate Federal<00:13:19.040
• <00:41:10.119> are doing so if the resources allocated are doing so if the resources allocated
• emergency repairs resource allocation emergency repairs resource allocation special<04:47:33.520

Keywords: 1189, house, all

Summary: House Finance Division III convened a work session on the DHHS budget, with the chair noting there would be no votes and that the committee would spend the day hearing from the commissioner’s office. Nathan White, DHHS Chief Financial Officer, opened with the Division of Finance/Office of Business Operations, explaining that the unit supports the department through daily financial management, AP/AR, audit work, expense projections, transfers, and procurement functions such as contracts, amendments, RFPs/RFAs, and grants management. He also described the division’s revenue and reporting work, including federal draws, CMS-64 reporting, and the public assistance cost allocation plan, and said the department had centralized rate-setting work and a small team handling Medicaid rate analysis and nursing facility rebase work. Members asked about vacancies, turnover, and budget changes. White said the division had 18 positions unfunded in the governor’s budget, reducing personal services from about $10.8 million to $9.9 million, and estimated the division’s vacancy rate at about 11 percent, below the department average. He said turnover was relatively low, with one retirement at the manager level and higher turnover mainly at lower AP-level positions. He also explained that some budget lines reflected reallocations rather than new spending, including fringe benefits centralized elsewhere and an EBT card contract moved into this unit because the staff member overseeing it works in Finance. When asked about a rent/lease increase, he said it was due to higher copier leasing costs under a statewide DAS contract. White highlighted several management and technology improvements. He said a business intelligence tool procured in 2022, using Salesforce and Excel-based data, helped DHHS better track federal revenue and maintenance-of-effort spending, reducing FY24 General Fund lapse by about 70 percent and federal/other revenue lapse by 88 percent compared with FY23; he warned that the tool is not funded in the current budget. He also described Lean Six Sigma efforts in the contracts team, training for vendors and nonprofits on procurement and indirect cost rules, and a Finance Academy to standardize policies and procedures. On the contracts side, he said the department uses Smartsheet for project management and DocuSign for electronic signatures, which cut contract execution time dramatically, but noted DocuSign is also not funded in the governor’s budget. The session ended as the committee prepared to move on to the Employee Assistance Program presentation.

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• That's Senator Safarini's bill on excess contributions and fees allocated to statutory probate courts

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• Regarding mutual taxes and fees, the bill reduces the tax of 8 percent to 5 percent and reduces the tax
• on slot machine revenues from 35 to 34 percent and eliminates a licensing fee for slot machine licensing
• As well as resource allocation and job growth and job creation.

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• the local education agency billing option program and the statewide school-linked behavioral health fee
• It simply increases the loan cap within the existing allocation.
• This change would result in minor reductions in fee revenue that would likely be offset by an associated

Summary: The Assembly Appropriations Committee met on April 9, 2025, with a large regular-order agenda and a consent calendar. The committee first approved a set of unanimous consent bills, then heard and acted on several measures, generally with authors describing them as having minor or absorbable fiscal effects. Bills discussed included AB 439 on Coastal Act streamlining, AB 322 on school-based health and mental health reimbursement participation, AB 679 on state park land acquisition exemptions, AB 482 updating the California Table Grape Commission law, AB 681 increasing the Dream Loan Program cap, AB 40 clarifying emergency services include reproductive health care, AB 454 making the California Migratory Bird Protection Act permanent, AB 572 creating protections for families of people killed or seriously injured by peace officers, and AB 639 narrowing the definition of dams to avoid extra regulation for certain water operators. Testimony was largely in support of the bills. Supporters included representatives from the University of California, the California Table Grape Commission, Audubon California, Sempervirens Fund, emergency physicians, health equity groups, water districts, and several impacted family members and advocacy organizations on AB 572. AB 572 drew especially emotional testimony from family members describing police-involved deaths and the need for transparency and protection from coercive questioning. No organized opposition was raised on most of the bills heard in committee, though AB 439 drew no-votes from some Republicans, and AB 572 and other measures were framed as low-cost or cost-neutral. The committee reported the bills out on roll calls after motions and seconds, with several measures passing on B-roll calls and AB 482 passing on an A-roll call. After the hearing on presented bills, the committee also approved the suspense calendar and accepted brief public comment on bills not heard that day, including opposition to AB 339 and support for AB 335. The meeting then adjourned.

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• Senate Bill 1944 by Eckhardt and Hughes relating to the allocation of housing tax credits developments
• Senate Bill 1969 by Middleton relating to the waiver of license renewal fees for certain instructors
• Senate Bill 2026 by Campbell relating to the charging of swipe fees on certain electronic payment transactions

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• services paying a fee of $1.5 million. services paying a fee of $1.5 million.
• Is it simple fee-for-service and percentage of administrative fees? My guess is probably not.
• Is it simple fee for service look like?
• and percentage of administrative fees? and percentage of administrative fees?
• Those were allocated to the EFA program. Those were allocated to the EFA<03:35:16.560> program.

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• Amendment 1, the title amendment, Senator Howell, an act relating to deferred deposit transaction fees
• large reductions in their allocations from<01:15:38.920> the<01:15:39.000> State<01:15
• And it's regarding a clerk storage fee, and this was brought to me again by my local county, and KACo
• currently charged to the other fees currently charged to landowners<01:34:47.360> before<01:34
• before an access fee is landowners before an access fee is permit<01:34:49.840> is<01:34:50.000

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• The other bill that was passed eliminates filing fees by clerks of court for writs and appeals.
• The money is not that much, but the trouble of having to pay filing fees for public defenders, for people
• kind of troubling, gives an avenue for private lawyers to try to get this system to pay for expert fees
• Again, the three major sources of funding we receive, the conviction user fees, the eight statutes that
• The conviction user fees, the eight statutes that the legislature primarily funds our system by are about

Summary: The Louisiana Public Defender Oversight Board met on June 18, 2026, established a quorum, and adopted the agenda. Public comment took up most of the meeting, with numerous district defenders and chief defenders speaking in support of State Public Defender Remy Starns. Speakers from several districts said the system is more unified, communication with the state office has improved, and local offices feel better supported than in the past. Several also credited Starns with visiting districts, helping with local issues, and improving coordination on capital and non-capital work. One speaker, Richard Thompson, emphasized Starns’ background and training under Sam Dalton, and another noted that a recent staffing decision in St. John the Baptist Parish ultimately proved beneficial for mentorship and resource sharing. Starns then gave his state public defender report. He said the system has improved over the last seven years and argued that public defense still needs a stable, renewable funding source comparable to other parts of the criminal justice system. He discussed legislative changes affecting public defense, including a cleanup bill, a law eliminating filing fees for writs and appeals, and a new procedure related to expert-fee claims after a recent Louisiana Supreme Court decision. He also described ongoing efforts to integrate capital and post-conviction work into district offices, expand the laws/writs program, and use local and state resources more efficiently. He thanked the board, the Public Defenders Association, and the late Mike Ginnart, whom he praised for his leadership and service. The board then considered and adopted proposed bylaws. Members discussed the need for a vice chair and a secretary, the role of special committees, and whether committee meetings should be public and limited to less than a quorum. The bylaws were adopted with the understanding that a committee would review and refine them later; volunteers were named for that committee. The board then elected a vice chair and designated the Office of the Public Defender, with staff assistance, as secretary for recordkeeping. Finally, the board heard a presentation on the strategic plan, which was described as largely unchanged from FY25 except for updates to reflect current law, accessibility requirements, training, compliance, and communication goals. The strategic plan was adopted by resolution, and the meeting adjourned.

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• APD SINCE THE AGES FEES FOR PRETZELS DISABILITY TO THE ENROLLMENT PROCESS.
• MEMBERS, GOING TO ALLOCATE ABOUT 10 MINUTES FOR QUESTIONS. AND SO WE HAVE BOTH OUR PRESENTERS HERE.
• HAS THERE BEEN A SIMILAR ABILITY OR TO TEST OUT DIFFERENT VALUE-BASED AGREEMENT VERSUS FEE-FOR-SERVICE
• OR IS THE MAJORITY OF THE STILL FEE-FOR-SERVICE. VERSUS FEE-FOR-SERVICE IN THIS PILOT AS WELL?
• OR IS THE MAJORITY OF THE STILL FEE-FOR-SERVICE. >> CAROL, DO YOU WANT TO TAKE THAT ONE?

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• For the Subcommittee on County and Regional Government, HB 3733 relates to the fees charged by county
• It authorizes fees, administrative and civil penalties, and creates criminal offenses for violations,
• HB 3848 by Hernandez relates to the electronic submission of inspection reports and filing fees for the
• 164 by Low proposes a constitutional amendment prohibiting the imposition of a vehicle mileage tax or fee
• and the hemp-derived cannabinoids contained in those products, requiring registration and imposing fees

Keywords: 1184, house, all

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• The fee-for-service program is, yes, that's what we would be paying providers under fee for service.
• Then other than the fee for right.
• uh rates just for fee for service? uh rates just for fee for service?
• approve the the individual fee approve the the individual fee schedules.<01:22:44.480> We
• increase in your fee? increase in your fee?

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Summary: The committee met with a quorum and first approved the minutes from its May 13 meeting. Members then reviewed a deferred contract with the Kentucky Board of Pharmacy for the Kentucky Pharmacist Recovery Network (KYPRN), a program that provides monitoring and support for pharmacists and pharmacy interns with substance abuse or mental health issues. Board representatives explained that the contract is a long-running arrangement, renewed periodically, with an option for two additional two-year renewals. Senators asked about the program’s structure, participation trends, follow-up, and consequences for noncompliance. The board said enrollment has remained fairly consistent at about 52 participants, with roughly 500 participants over the life of the program, weekly and monthly check-ins during the five-year typical enrollment period, and possible additional sanctions if participants fail to meet obligations. The committee then approved the contract. The committee next considered a group of economic development contracts, including items from the Cabinet for Economic Development. Secretary Jeff Null and general counsel Matt Wingate testified about contracts tied to regional innovation and entrepreneurship hubs. Members focused on the large differences in funding between regions and pressed for more support for rural and eastern Kentucky. Null said the cabinet is working on a more tailored, non-one-size-fits-all approach, including possible changes to capital support, build-to-suit options, and additional resources for rural areas. He said the hubs have helped 193 startups over the last two years and helped attract nearly $350 million in private capital, and he agreed to provide a written report by hub district on startup viability. The committee approved the economic development contracts. The Kentucky Lottery Corporation then presented its contracts with vendor IGT for retail and internet sales systems. Lottery officials said the contracts are mission-critical, cover both the traditional retail system and iLottery, and are structured as a percentage of sales so no payment is made until revenue is earned. They described planned equipment upgrades, including refreshed terminals, new ticket checkers, cashless vending and bill acceptors, and connected-play features that would link retail and online wallets. Officials said keeping the same vendor reduces the risk of business disruption and that the arrangement has already produced cost savings. They also said the lottery continues to see year-over-year growth and expects to meet its annual contribution target of $360 million for scholarships and grants. The committee approved the lottery contract after discussion.