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NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Finance Division III (02/19/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- We have one division director for the Division of Public Health Services, and we've tried to allocate
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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
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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.
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- 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.
WY
Wyoming 2026 Regular Session
House Floor Session-Day 5, February 13, 2026-PM
Wyoming House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
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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
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So an aversion to raising fees, period. - So an aversion to raising fees, period.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
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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.
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more um allows the office to allocate more um allows the office to allocate - Indian families from court fee requirements.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Appropriations Committee May 14th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- 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.
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- 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.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Subcommittee No. 5 on Corrections, Public Safety, Judiciary, Labor and Transportation Apr 23rd, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- In the scenarios where the project cost, schedule, or timeline goes beyond 10% of the initial allocation
- Is a $30 million grant being administered by the board, but SB 150 originally allocated $50 million in
- The funding that we were allocated is being... Our grant programs are coming to a close.
- The funding that we were allocated is being spent by the grantees and is coming to a close.
- We're responding to the closing out of grant programs, and those staff no longer are being allocated
Summary:
The subcommittee heard a series of labor and public employment budget items. The first issue focused on EDD Next modernization, where EDD described progress on online claims, call center upgrades, fraud prevention, language access, and the phased Integrated Claims Management System. The LAO urged closer legislative oversight as the project enters a more difficult phase, and members questioned the schedule, cost, change orders, fraud reduction, stress testing, and the reasons for re-phasing unemployment insurance behind disability and paid family leave. EDD said the overall project cost remains about $1.2 billion, that it has no major cost overruns, and that it has saved more than $20 million by moving some shared customer portal work into ICMS. The committee also received updates on SB 1090 implementation timing, SB 1058 demographic data confidentiality, and SB 590 outreach concerns.
The committee then reviewed the California Workforce Development Board’s request to reduce staffing over five years as one-time grant workloads wind down, along with trailer bill language to streamline reporting requirements. Members questioned the large staffing reduction in light of the board’s grant administration role and asked about the High Road Construction Careers Program, AI-related workforce needs, and the impact on reentry programs. The administration and Finance said the positions were added for surge grant work and are being phased down as those grants close, while the LAO had no objection to the reporting streamlining proposal.
A major portion of the hearing addressed the Department of Industrial Relations, especially the Subsequent Injury Benefits Trust Fund trailer bill. DIR and the LAO said SIBTF applications, backlog, and liabilities have grown rapidly, with liabilities projected around $30 billion by 2030 if no changes are made. The administration’s reforms would tighten eligibility, apply the new standards to open cases, and use QME reports and contemporaneous evidence to document preexisting disabilities; DIR said this would reduce employer costs and help return the program to its original intent. Members raised concerns about fairness to pending claimants, the effect on workers with undocumented conditions, and the interaction with another bill moving through policy committees. The committee also discussed eliminating vacant DIR positions, adding Cal/OSHA Bureau of Investigation staff to handle fatality and serious injury cases, and making permanent the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board change that starts the 60-day reconsideration clock when a case is transmitted rather than when the petition is filed. Finally, DIR requested a larger apprenticeship training grant augmentation to raise annual grants from $3 million to $20 million, citing available fund balances and construction workforce needs.
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House Education Policy and Administration (02/18/2026)
Education Policy and Administration
Transcript Highlights:
- 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.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- to funding that would be allocated to funding that would benefit<00:54:34.280>
uh <00:54:34.440 - for our students, drastically reducing our high potential programming, and doubling our high school fees
- for our students, drastically reducing our high potential programming, and doubling our high school fees
- for our students, drastically reducing our high potential programming, and doubling our high school fees
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resources <01:30:49.840>where <01:30:50.000>they're to allocate
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
House Legislative Session Day 50 (3-19-26)
Kentucky House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- 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
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- Also, we're only allocating $25,000 for birth certificate vouchers from the Secretary of State.
- Will we allocate a few more dollars if needed, or do we just cut that off at $25,000?
- Also, we're only allocating $25,000 for birth certificate vouchers from the Secretary of State.
- Will we allocate a few more dollars if needed, or do we just cut that off at $25,000?
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to contribution by an LLC be allocated to contribution by an LLC be allocated
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- property through the they have allocated property through the current<04:00:05.159>
proper <04 - yet nor have any new people allocated yet nor have any new people asked<04:00:14.000>
asking < - fees in costs<04:44:11.440>
this <04:44:11.600>bill <04:44:11.840>encourages <04 - The Department of Labor has noted there is uncertainty as to who would ultimately pay these fees and
- The Department of Labor has noted there is uncertainty as to who would ultimately pay these fees and
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
Senate Energy and Natural Resources (10/23/2025)
Energy and Natural Resources
Transcript Highlights:
- 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
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This <00:24:44.000>will original application fee was. - This will original application fee was.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Hied Committee Meeting - 2025-03-27
Higher Education Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- 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.
FL
Florida 2026 Regular Session
FL House Floor Session - 2026-03-03 (10:00AM Session)
Florida House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Number one, it provides limitations on development fees such that costs for development application fees
- Development fees cannot be a percentage based off of a construction project's value.
- Number one, it provides limitations on development fees such that costs for development application fees
- Development fees cannot be a percentage based off of a construction project's value.
- fees trying to push back against all of this.
Summary:
The House opened with prayer, a moment of silence for former member Chester Clem, the Pledge of Allegiance, and quorum confirmation. Members then adopted the special order report for the day and approved a Rules and Ethics Committee report amending House Rule 15.3 to allow fundraising under certain circumstances during extended or special sessions.
The chamber then took up several bills. HB 1405 on a statewide project for missing persons with special needs passed unanimously. CS/CS/CS/SB 290, the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services bill, passed 94-10 after debate focused on conservation land surplus procedures and agricultural use of state lands. CS/CS/CS/HB 905, the “Fire Act” on foreign influence, foreign gifts, critical infrastructure, sister city agreements, and related restrictions, passed 80-20 after the House adopted an amendment adding a prohibition on certain surrogacy contracts involving citizens or residents of foreign countries of concern. CS/CS/HB 1197, dealing with information technology procurement and contracting, passed 109-0. HB 1103 on local administration of vessel restrictions passed unanimously.
The House also debated CS/CS/CS/HB 399 on land use and development regulations. Supporters said it would limit development fees, standardize compatibility rules, allow manufactured homes in RV parks, and lower voting thresholds for comprehensive plan changes to address housing affordability; opponents argued it would preempt local control, weaken voter-approved urban boundary protections, and risk conservation lands. An amendment to preserve Orange County’s boundary rules failed, while a technical amendment on manufactured homes passed. The bill then passed 71-38. The House also passed several local bills, including measures for the Pace Fire Rescue District, Avalon Beach/Mulat Fire Protection District, East Point Water and Sewer District, Fellsmere Water Control District, and Headwaters Water Control District, with votes ranging from 83-27 to unanimous approval. The transcript also included farewell remarks from Representative Angie Nixon before the House returned to remaining business.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Government Contract Review Committee (6-10-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- 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?
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.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- by Patterson relating to the removal of certain restrictions imposed on driver's life. authorizing a fee
- So it's typically fee-for-service reimbursement. So similar to the Medicaid program.
- Medicaid managed care organization that is receiving three enrollment fees for the same person.
- their medicare cannot cover all of their uh, they're uh, they can't they cover their nursing home fees
- Allocate $2.5 million in general revenue for the fiscal year 2026 and $10 million for fiscal year 2027
Keywords:
appropriations, budget, state funding, education, healthcare, infrastructure, state budget, mental health funding, education funding, infrastructure improvements, public safety, groundwater, water conservation, financial assistance, Texas Water Development Board, innovation fund, local conservation districts, transportation protection agreement, funeral services, insurance exemption
FL
Florida 2026 4th Special Session
February 26, 2026 - 01:00 PM
Transcript Highlights:
- 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.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Appropriations Committee Apr 9th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- 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.
TX
Texas 89th 2nd C.S.
Senate SessionReading and Referral of Bills Mar 17th, 2025
Texas Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- 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