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KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • that time of those rates.
  • And rates were repaid in that.
  • The rates were those have been paid.
  • Those rates were repaid years ago.
  • how the capitation rates are developed? how the capitation rates are developed?
Keywords: 958, all
Summary: The Medicaid Oversight and Advisory Board received a presentation from Dr. Stack and Commissioner Langfeld on Kentucky’s application for a federal Medicaid-related funding opportunity tied to House Resolution 1. They described a compressed six-week stakeholder process that produced more than 50 responses and letters of support, and said the application was organized around five broad priorities: maternal health, behavioral health and substance use disorder, oral health, EMS/trauma response, and chronic disease. They emphasized that the proposal was designed to align with CMS goals, use allowable funding categories, and focus on sustainability rather than a short-term grant. Commissioner Langfeld outlined five core initiatives: rural community hubs for chronic care innovation, beginning with obesity and diabetes; a maternal and infant health effort called POWER; a behavioral health and substance use model called IMPATH; an oral health initiative called Rooted in Health; and an integrated crisis-to-care EMS and trauma response effort. He said the chronic disease work would include prevention, food-as-medicine concepts, and technology tools, while the maternal health effort would expand team-based care around mothers and infants using community health workers and doulas. The behavioral health proposal would build on existing crisis intervention models, oral health would address workforce and access gaps through training, mobile vans, and telehealth, and the EMS proposal would better connect emergency response with home-based and community care. Several senators questioned whether the proposal would meaningfully address rural hospital closures or the broader rural health care crisis. Senator Meredith said the plan was not transformational and would not save rural hospitals, while Senator Berg asked how success would be measured. In response, the presenters said they would use both lagging and leading indicators, with an emphasis on rapid-cycle feedback and data use that is more actionable in real time. They also said the work could help existing models that already show promise, such as behavioral health units and dental workforce expansion, even if it would not solve the larger funding gap created by HR1. Senator Douglas asked how the proposals would motivate patients to participate in their own health care. The presenters responded that the chronic disease prevention work would focus on obesity, diabetes prevention, nutrition, and consumer-facing technology tools to help people engage in their own care, and that EMS-community health worker partnerships could identify unmet needs in the home and reduce preventable problems. The board then moved on to its next agenda item, Medicaid managed care delivery models, with Tom Stevens, Katherine North, and Dr. Patel scheduled to present.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session: 2025 First Special Session - part 1 Jun 9th, 2025

Minnesota House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • It's paid out at the Medicaid rate, which is the lowest rate, but they'll take it because it's better
  • For the substance use disorder, we are comparing the state rates to Medicare rates.
  • the active supervision rate.
  • That we were able to get, and so we adopted the rates with the rate cap for that moving forward.
  • We also made a couple of other changes to the rates with the property with the APS inflationary rate.
AR

Arkansas 2026 Regular Session

ALC-HOSPITAL, MEDICAID, & DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES STUDY SUBCOMMITTEE Jun 15th, 2026

ALC-HOSPITAL, MEDICAID, & DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES STUDY SUBCOMMITTEE

Transcript Highlights:
  • rate has gone from 10% to 30%.
  • and unemployment rates, a number of different factors.
  • , fourth quarter employment rates, median earnings.
  • It's a payment error rate.
  • It's a payment error rate, not a case error rate. All right, thank you.
Summary: The meeting focused on Arkansas’s proposed workforce system overhaul, including a combined WIOA/Perkins state plan and a package of federal waiver requests intended to consolidate workforce governance, reduce administrative costs, and redirect more funding to training and supportive services. Commerce officials said the plan would replace the current structure of 10 local workforce boards and more than 200 board members with a single statewide board and one administrative entity, while keeping local offices open and using regional business councils to preserve employer and local input. They said the state has already reduced Commerce headcount and operating costs, and that the changes would improve coordination with higher education, adult education, vocational rehabilitation, DHS, and Arkansas Industry Connect. Much of the discussion centered on the waiver package, especially the proposal to make the state board function as the local board, allow more flexible movement of funds across regions, eliminate the WIOA “last dollar” requirement for training and supportive services, create affiliate sites instead of requiring every area to maintain a comprehensive center, and relax the 14 youth program element requirement. Officials said the State Board of Workforce Development approved the waiver package 11-3 before it was submitted to the U.S. Department of Labor, and that implementation would begin only after federal approval and a closeout process, likely taking up to a year. They also described plans to streamline referrals and data sharing, expand mobile and virtual services, and use a more centralized model to improve customer service and employer engagement. Members raised repeated concerns about rural representation, local control, board composition, and whether jobs and relationships would be lost if local boards were eliminated. Commerce officials responded that local offices would remain open, some current staff could be rehired by the state, and regional business councils would help ensure local employer voice. Several members also questioned how the funding was being used, citing audit findings that only about $1.8 million to $1.9 million of roughly $14 million to $15 million in federal workforce funds had gone to training and supportive services. Officials said the reorganization could increase annual training spending to roughly $6 million to $7 million by reducing overhead, one-stop operator contracts, and board administration. The committee also discussed how the changes might support workforce training facilities, apprenticeships, child care and transportation assistance, and employer-driven training in fields such as manufacturing, health care, technology, and welding. The Division of Higher Education also briefed members on Workforce Pell. Officials explained that the new federal program would extend Pell eligibility to short-term programs, but only within narrow limits, such as 150 to 599 clock hours and 8 to 15 weeks of instruction, with additional completion and employment benchmarks. They said Arkansas is working with colleges and universities to identify programs that fit the criteria and that the governor has designated the Division of Higher Education to lead implementation. No votes were taken by the committee during this portion of the meeting.
NM

New Mexico 2025 Regular Session

IC - Water and Natural Resources Aug 19th, 2025

Water & Natural Resources Committee

Transcript Highlights:
  • We currently have an overall vacancy rate of 27% across the system and a 38% vacancy rate across our
  • So Our recruitment and retention rates are rough now.
  • Those are getting a good utilization rate.
  • , and those rates are applied based on the commercial rates of that utility versus the residential rates
  • They will not see a rate increase.
CA

California 2025-2026 Regular Session

Assembly Judiciary Committee Jun 24th, 2025

Transcript Highlights:
  • , why is it so hard to predict the rate up to 12 months?
  • During that same period, apartment rents, 56% rate increase.
  • Projecting rates one year out is well beyond the predictable horizon for storage rates, and so operators
  • It's called the existing customer rate increase.
  • Sugarman, so I'd like to hear from you as to whether the fluctuating rates...
Summary: The committee heard several bills from Senator Umberg and Senator Allen, with testimony from supporters and opponents before roll-call votes were taken once quorum was established. SB 253, the annual State Bar fee bill, would keep fees unchanged while requiring two-year notice for substantial changes to the bar exam, including vendor changes, and returning to an older delivery method for the upcoming exam; it was presented as a response to recent State Bar problems and the February bar exam failure. SB 25, the Pre-Merger Notification Act, would require certain merger parties to provide California’s attorney general the same Hart-Scott-Rodino materials filed federally, so state antitrust review can occur in parallel with federal review; supporters said this would reduce delay and uncertainty, while members questioned whether it would add another layer of review. SB 36 would strengthen price-gouging enforcement after the January 2025 Southern California firestorms by requiring rental-listing platforms to report suspected gouging, expanding consumer and prosecutor remedies, and allowing warrants in housing-related cases; supporters said it would close loopholes, while opponents from business groups raised concerns. All three bills were later approved on roll call, with SB 36 and SB 413 placed on call before final passage and SB 253 and SB 25 moving forward on committee votes. The committee also heard SB 413, which would streamline access to juvenile case files in certain civil cases brought by or on behalf of the youth who is the subject of the file, allowing attorneys to use heavily redacted records without first petitioning the juvenile court. Supporters, including Los Angeles County counsel and county associations, said the current petition process is costly, slow, and routinely granted, creating delays in civil litigation and court congestion. Opponents, including the Youth Law Center, argued the bill would weaken longstanding juvenile confidentiality protections by bypassing judicial review and could expose sensitive information unnecessarily. After discussion about redactions, sealing, and the scope of access, the bill was passed on a do-pass-as-amended vote. Finally, Senator Wahab presented SB 436, which would extend the notice period for nonpayment of rent from three days to 14 days. Supporters, including tenant advocates, legal aid groups, and several local governments, argued the change would reduce unnecessary evictions, give renters more time to obtain assistance or a paycheck, and help prevent homelessness. Opponents, including apartment associations, property owners, and the California Association of Realtors, said the bill would burden landlords, especially small owners, and could unintentionally affect commercial leases; members also raised concerns about repeated late payment and the lack of stronger guardrails. The author said she would work on clarifying commercial coverage and safeguards, and the bill remained under discussion as the hearing continued.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Education K-16 (Part II) May 22nd, 2025

Education K-16

Transcript Highlights:
  • The commissioner shall assign A through F ratings each year.
  • In that assignment, not rated on a statewide basis is prohibited.
  • Ratings provide essential transparency for parents, communities, and policymakers.
  • There's a strong relationship between economically disadvantaged rate and the overall rating score.
  • .ISD, which was rated an F, which is the lead plaintiff in both these suits, Forney ISD was rated a B
Bills: HB4, HB20
Summary: The committee first took up House Bill 2853, which would allow the UT System Board of Regents to adjust the University of Texas at El Paso student union fee above the current statutory cap, subject to student approval, to help fund a new student union building. Senator Blanco explained the bill and the committee substitute, there were no questions or witnesses, public testimony was closed, and the committee adopted the substitute and left the bill pending subject to the call of the chair. The committee then heard House Bill 610, which would limit severance payments for terminated independent school district superintendents to six months’ salary and benefits. Senator Paxton described large severance payouts and said the bill had passed the House overwhelmingly. There were no witnesses, public testimony was closed, and the bill was left pending. A lengthy hearing followed on House Bill 4623, which would waive school district immunity in certain cases involving negligent hiring, supervision, or employment of professional school employees who commit abuse or related misconduct against students. Senator Paxton and several witnesses, including survivors and parents, argued the bill was needed to address cover-ups, delayed reporting, and repeated failures to remove dangerous employees; some members raised concerns about liability caps, litigation, and how the bill would interact with the Tort Claims Act. The committee also heard from TEA staff and employee-group witnesses who discussed possible injunctions and stronger no-hire protections. Public testimony was then closed and the bill was left pending. Finally, the committee heard House Bill 4, an accountability and assessment bill that would restore A-F ratings, change the state testing system, and replace STAAR with shorter, more instructionally useful assessments. Senator Bettencourt explained the committee substitute, including annual ratings, limits on taxpayer-funded lawsuits, and a phased-in testing redesign with beginning, middle, and end-of-year assessments. Testimony was generally supportive from education and business groups, though some witnesses favored norm-referenced testing while others emphasized criterion-referenced, TEKS-aligned assessments; one witness noted social studies assessments were restored in the bill. The hearing concluded with additional invited testimony and no final vote reported in the transcript.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Taxes Committee 2/25/25

Taxes

Transcript Highlights:
  • Representative Johnson, do you know what our bond rating is for the state?
  • Chair, yes, it is triple-A for all three of our rating agencies, and we enjoyed that AAA rating at the
  • Johnson do you know what our bond rating Johnson do you know what our bond rating is<00:32:19.200
  • and we enjoyed our ra agency ratings and we enjoyed that<00:32:52.440> AAA<00:32:52.880> rating
  • ; it has helped our credit rating.
Bills: HF4, HF173
NH

New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session

House Public Works and Highways (02/24/2025)

Transcript Highlights:
  • Affordability is primarily because borrowing costs are driven by the credit rating that rating agencies
  • that rating agencies assign to the state.
  • similar to us, so double-A-plus rated states.
  • that median is um for um for stasa rated that median is um for um for stasa rated similar<00:37:
  • similar to us so double A Plus rated similar to us so double A Plus rated States<00:37:26.960>
Keywords: 1189, house, all
Summary: The Public Works and Highways committee held a capital budget orientation led by Legislative Budget Assistant Office staff, who walked members through the budget materials, the capital budget process, and the committee’s compare sheet. The presentation explained that agencies begin developing capital requests nearly a year in advance, submit them by May 1, and that the governor’s recommended capital budget is a reduced version of the much larger agency wish list. Members were told the agencies initially requested about $1.1 billion in projects, the catalog was trimmed to just over $400 million in general fund projects, and the governor’s recommendation in the pink book totals about $143 million in general fund capital appropriations. The committee also reviewed the prior capital budget and related statutes and committee procedures. Several specific projects drew discussion. The Department of Education’s CTE projects were explained as having been shifted into the operating budget in the prior cycle and now returning to the capital budget recommendation; members asked whether there was a backup CTE project and whether local approval had been secured for the named project. The Cannon Mountain tramway request was highlighted as a $20 million recommendation, with the presenter explaining that an earlier $18 million appropriation would be lapsed back to the general fund to help balance the budget. The Department of Corrections’ new prison project was also discussed; members were told the state has already appropriated $50 million for planning and site evaluation, but the governor’s current capital budget does not include a new prison construction appropriation because the project is not yet ready for that phase and may need to be funded differently, possibly through a separate, staggered appropriation. State Treasurer Monica Mezzapelli then presented on debt affordability and the state’s borrowing capacity. She said the state’s credit position has improved, with the debt-to-revenue ratio falling from 8.2% in 2015 to 3.8% in 2024, and explained that RSA 6-C limits debt authorization to 10% of unrestricted prior-year revenue. She noted that the Treasury’s planning assumes $60 million in annual bond issuance, with the prison-related $40 million now expected to be issued in 2026 rather than 2025 because the project is not ready to spend the funds. She said the state can still borrow more, but additional debt service must be paid from operating funds, and recommended keeping capital bonding in the $120 million to $130 million range to preserve affordability and the state’s credit rating. Members asked for clarification on the CTE funding shift, the prison schedule, and the meaning of the large agency request totals. The chair and treasurer discussed the governor’s $143 million recommendation versus the committee’s usual target range, and the treasurer said $130 million would be more comfortable than $140 million, with $135 million described as a possible compromise. No formal votes or committee actions were taken in the portion provided; the meeting was informational and ended with the presenters offering to answer follow-up questions as agencies come before the committee.
VT

Vermont 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Session - 2026-05-26 - 10:00AM

Vermont House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • And the military suicide rate is exponentially higher than the civilian rate, and I think we would all
  • We have much higher rate of that. Um, sexual trauma from childhood.
  • <00:09:35.360> is And the military suicide rate is And the military suicide rate is exponentially
  • We have much higher rate of experiences. We have much higher rate of that. that. that.
  • who go in the service have higher rates who go in the service have higher rates of<00:10:11.600>
Keywords: 926, house, all
Summary: The House opened with a moment of silence and the Pledge of Allegiance, then read HCR 307 honoring Representative Kevin “Coach” Christie of Hartford for his civic leadership, long career in education and public service, work on equity and human rights, and his vocal performances. Several members offered remarks praising Christie’s service and announcing that he would not seek another term, while expressing appreciation for his contributions and wishing him well amid recent health challenges. During announcements, members recognized a visiting guest, shared caucus notices, and one member spoke about the connection between military appreciation month and mental health awareness month, citing high suicide rates among service members and urging attention to veterans’ mental health. The House then moved to the day’s orders and took up two bills related to mental health. On H. 817, concerning mental health literacy and peer-to-peer supports in schools, the House suspended rules to consider the Senate’s proposal of amendment. A member from Winooski explained that the Senate strike-all amendment directed the Department of Mental Health and the Agency of Education to inventory related work, recommend integration of peer-to-peer youth mental health programming and school/after-school literacy efforts, and consider grant support beginning in July 2028, with funding recommendations to be included in the FY28 budget. The House concurred in the Senate amendment. The House then suspended rules to take up H. 816, relating to regulating the use of artificial intelligence in the provision of mental health services, and adopted the Committee of Conference report. Supporters said the conference changes addressed concerns from mental health clinicians about digital therapeutics, clarified where clinical guidance is needed, aligned definitions, allowed research and development to continue through universities such as Dartmouth, and added the Board of Medical Providers and the Office of Professional Regulation to the AI Advisory Council. The House adopted the report and then recessed until 1:00 p.m.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Health and Human Services Feb 7th, 2026 at 09:05 am

House Health & Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • Instead, we want to add value by creating a code with unlimited classes at a lower flat rate.
  • The laboratories that will be seeking the specialty reimbursement rate must perform billing, coding,
  • It's actually a lower rate that we're seeking.
  • 22 drug classes plus, at a rate of 268 versus what would be considered a $370 rate in the current Medicaid
  • My proposal is to offer a full spectrum of testing with no limitations at a lower rate of $268.
Keywords: 996, all
NM

New Mexico 2025 Regular Session

IC - Investments and Pensions Oversight Sep 12th, 2025

Investments & Pensions Oversight Committee

Transcript Highlights:
  • This is to show rating agencies that we're on solid footing.
  • So, they're really following the overnight repo rate of the federal funds rate, essentially.
  • very close to the federal funds rate.
  • Are they getting a higher rate than they're selling it to? I don't know.
  • Market rate and below market rate or differential rate investments.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session May 5th, 2026 at 09:30 am

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Title 36 is now exempt, and title 36 had to do with insurance code and regulations for premium rates,
  • This will allow the newspapers to either deliver them or, if they want to pay the high postage rates,
  • We were getting reported as a zero graduation rate because if it doesn't count, they don't count any
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

House Chamber - Fri Mar 6, 2026, 12:00PM HST - Day 24

Hawaii House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • , the jurisdictions that have used this, um, in their schools, they see jumps in their proficiency rates
  • , the jurisdictions that have used this, um, in their schools, they see jumps in their proficiency rates
  • schools, they see jumps in their their schools, they see jumps in their proficiency<00:27:52.960> rates
  • ,<00:27:54.559> 7%,<00:27:55.679> 12%<00:27:56.559> increases proficiency rates
  • , 5%, 7%, 12% increases proficiency rates, 5%, 7%, 12% increases in<00:27:57.200> their<00:27:
NH

New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session

House Science, Technology and Energy (02/09/2026)

Science, Technology and Energy

Transcript Highlights:
  • would raise rateayer rates. would raise rateayer rates.
  • So, they're would raise rates.
  • they rate the states um and they rate they rate the states um and they rate them<04:38:55.279>
  • tariff, and that rate would appropriate tariff, and that rate would be<05:40:13.200> built<05
  • When they go in for a rate case to set distribution rates, they do a cost of service study where they
Keywords: 1189, house, all
NH

New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session

House Science, Technology and Energy (01/27/2025)

Science, Technology and Energy

Transcript Highlights:
  • FN relative to rebates to rate payers FN relative to rebates to rate payers from<01:31:41.360> the
  • renewable energy fund back to rate renewable energy fund back to rate payers<01:33:09.199> we
  • <01:33:45.400> payer fund and provide important rate payer fund and provide important rate
  • bill ought to pass and give our rate bill ought to pass and give our rate payers<01:34:11.320>
  • Thank you. electric rates would you agree with well electric rates would you agree with well I<02:07:
Keywords: 1189, house, all
KY

Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Interim Joint Committee on Transportation. (6-2-26)

Transportation

Transcript Highlights:
  • It freezes the motor fuels tax rate at current levels for FY 27 and it reduces the motor fuels tax rate
  • and it reduces the motor fuels tax rate and it reduces the motor fuels tax rate 10<00:07:37.199>
  • If the the reduction in the rate.
  • receptive of submitting the rate sheets. receptive of submitting the rate sheets.
  • rates? rates?
Keywords: 958, all