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MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband and Rural Development - 04/04/25
Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband, and Rural Development
Transcript Highlights:
- And we thank you for getting a small group together and appointing us to get this done.
- operators to have require those small operators to have three<00:36:25.839>
licenses. - Thank you, Senator Wester. small business opportunity that uh we as small business opportunity that uh
- opportunity uh for for incubating small opportunity uh for for incubating small business<00:51:52.559
- So, uh, the small milk and change that.
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- from this program so I can have a better grasp on how we're helping small businesses and small businesses
- <00:33:15.279>
a put this in perspective, how small a put this in perspective, how small a - grasp on how we're helping small grasp on how we're helping small businesses<00:33:21.279>
and - >
are businesses and small businesses that are businesses and small businesses that are trying - <00:33:33.360>
businesses BFA programs to help small businesses BFA programs to help small
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Floor Session - Part 3 - 05/17/26
Minnesota Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- INTEREST CANNOT OWN UP TO 33% OF UP TO FOUR SOCIAL EQUITY BUSINESSES That is a big change for those small
- Would help bolster and support the small businesses in this space, continuing to fulfill and expand the
- It would overwhelm the smaller aspects of the small businesses that are just getting started and just
- It's not small change anymore. It's a lot of money.
- President, members, this is the cash bill that I talked about previously that has small appropriations
HI
Transcript Highlights:
- , outcomes by passing this very small, outcomes by passing this very small, modest<00:16:39.720><
- So, a small pool of across the nation.
- 27.720>
the small edits would perfect the small edits would perfect the legislation<01:03:28.480 - [laughter] I'm just going to read just one small section of my testimony.
- I'm just going to read just one small I'm just going to read just one small section<01:26:52.920
Keywords:
youth penalties, juvenile justice, community service, fees and fines, Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, reform, court costs, cultural connection, pharmacy, pharmacist, pharmacy audit, audit reform, pharmacy benefit manager, PBM, recoupment, extrapolation, claims audit, pharmacy reimbursement, dispensing fee
Summary:
The committee heard testimony on SB 847, which would create a Kauai pilot program allowing qualified psychologists limited authority to prescribe psychotropic medications. The Board of Psychology supported the bill’s intent but asked for amendments to delay the effective date or extend the pilot so rules could be written first, and to clarify the education/training language. Supporters, including the Hawaii Psychological Association, Hawaii Mental Health Coalition, and several psychologists, argued that prescribing psychologists have long safety records in other jurisdictions and that the pilot could improve access to care on Kauai, especially amid ongoing mental health needs and storm-related stress. They cited studies and examples from New Mexico, Louisiana, the Department of Defense, and other places. Opponents, including the Hawaii Medical Association, American Academy of Pediatrics, Queen’s Medical Center, and a Department of Health representative, said the bill needed substantial work, raised concerns about training, liability, and workforce impacts, and urged a team-based model with psychiatrist oversight rather than independent prescribing. Some testimony also referenced a GAO report, with witnesses disagreeing over its meaning and cost-effectiveness. No vote was taken during the discussion, and members asked questions about how the bill would address the workforce shortage and whether a psychiatrist on Kauai could already meet the need.
The committee then moved to SB 2271 on hospital licensing and SB 2272 on home health care licensing. The Department of Health, the Healthcare Association of Hawaii, and the Hawaii State Council on Developmental Disabilities supported both measures, which were described as streamlining and clarifying licensing oversight by relying on accreditation or certification reports. A member asked whether the bill language on hospital accreditation reports was duplicative, and the response was that the second provision was intended to strengthen enforcement by requiring hospitals to provide the actual report to DOH. The committee did not take final action in the portion of the hearing provided, and the chair noted that all bills on the agenda would later be considered for decision-making.
AL
Transcript Highlights:
- they are so it sounds like the small they are so it sounds like the small they are so it sounds like
- Estates act repr relating to the small Estates act repr relating to the small Estates act repr fauler
- Estates act um there has been a small Estates act um there has been a small Estates act um there has
- estate acts is only dealing with small estate acts is only dealing with small estate acts and this is
- Estates for this to apply to the small Estates for this to apply to the small Estates act uh it would
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
Environment and natural resources committee hears HF8 - Pt. 1 2/13/25
Transcript Highlights:
- These are all small things, but they do add up.
- These are all small things, but they do add up.
- These are all small things, but they do add up.
- that's been proposed osed is the small that's been proposed osed is the small to<01:07:56.680>
- right and and you said that the small right and and you said that the small and<01:20:42.679>
- right and and you said that the small right and and you said that the small and<01:20:42.679>
NV
Transcript Highlights:
- Number one, it should help our small businesses generate some additional revenue.
- So it's that small.
- It's that small mom-and-pop, small family farm that raises one or two beef, and then they need somebody
- Drew Cross, for the record: "A small percentage, yes.
- We will no longer be required to produce that report, and so there'll be a small fiscal savings."
Bills:
AB102, AB108, AB117, AB213, AB220, AB221, AB251, AB259, AB331, AB336, AB375, AB379, AB409, AB475, AB476, AB550, AB575, AB594, SB466
Keywords:
emergency medical services, ambulance, licensing, health district, paramedic, training requirements, outdoor education, recreation, grant program, environment, funding, special license plates, vehicle registration, custom plates, state revenue, transportation, public works, prevailing wage, custom fabrication, nonstandard materials
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
Fiscal Policy Mar 27th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- Small businesses got their last 14 in it for the last 6 years.
- So what what this bill is doing, it's not only hurting small businesses and regulating this 100 that
- Let's say you care about small businesses and you care about government regulation and, you know, and
- That means Florida loses the tax revenue, lose local jobs and small businesses lose the chance to serve
- We are not going to decimate in a small business. We are not going to put a business out of these.
AL
Alabama 2025 Regular Session
Alabama House State Government Committee Feb 12th, 2025
State Government
Transcript Highlights:
- The fact is, the number of children in Alabama this bill will seriously affect is very small. ...will
- seriously affect is very small compared to the overall population.
- It is such a very small... passed, um, it's such a very small percentage.
- But it's like a very small percentage. Question number... oh, I'm sorry. Finished.
- Relate to this, and this is the way I see this: as small as it may be, it's a part of a way to continue
Keywords:
HB141, Alabama, state employees, salary deductions, payroll deduction, State Comptroller, membership dues, voluntary contributions, insurance premiums, financial instruments, employee associations, state payroll, Code of Alabama 1975, Section 36-1-4.3, public employees, union dues, benefits administration, payroll withholding, financial products, deferred compensation
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Floor Session 5/12/25 - Part 2
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- a small bonus. a small bonus. the<01:08:04.079>
reality. - And then the maximum here, the highest, is IM Care, that very small 44%.
- business idea of the burgeoning small business idea of the swimblazer<02:36:06.640>
industry. - near me, from pastors, from small near me, from pastors, from small business<03:06:20.560>
owners - This is a great bill for pharmacies, especially the small independently owned pharmacies.
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House Science, Technology and Energy (02/03/2026)
Science, Technology and Energy
Transcript Highlights:
- So small, in fact, that we do not get bids for it.
- So that small number of customers that are on default service, uh, it's actually too small to get bids
- So that small number of customers that are on default service, uh, it's actually too small to get bids
- <05:22:15.280>
customer um and you know in the small customer um and you know in the small - >> Small<05:31:33.040>
detail. >> Small detail. >> Small detail.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Finance Division I (02/24/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- Lenny Radio: Another small one, yes.
- So, yes, it's a small team with a lot of responsibility.
- This really has a very significant loss in a small office.
- This really has a very significant loss in a small office.
- you can see that we're a very small you can see that we're a very small agency<04:53:42.840>
Summary:
The committee first heard the Banking Department’s fiscal year 2026-2027 budget presentation from Commissioner Amelia Galeri. She described the department as a self-funded consumer protection regulator overseeing two main areas: the Banking Trust Division, which supervises state-chartered banks, credit unions, and trust companies, and the Consumer Credit Division, which oversees more than 7,000 licensees including mortgage and money transmitter businesses. She said the department’s budget is about 86% salaries and benefits, with 53 positions all filled, and explained that the agency funds itself through fees, fines, and end-of-year assessments on regulated entities.
Galeri said the department is facing workload growth from several directions: continued growth in the trust industry, increased fintech supervision, and a new requirement to regularly examine auto dealers that take finance applications, which adds about 300 exams over two fiscal years. She said the department was directed to flat-fund its budget based on 2025 levels but was allowed to increase travel and training. To stay within that limit, she said the department reduced office space, went paperless, converted administrative and licensing positions into examiner positions, and expects to defund an embedded DOJ database administrator position once a new SharePoint system is fully implemented.
Members asked about how the department’s revenue and assessments work, including whether fees were increasing and how much existing banks would pay. Galeri said fees are not being raised, most banks pay little or no fines, and assessments are based largely on asset size, with trust companies paying the bulk. She also explained that fines are set by statute, generally capped at $2,500 per violation for consumer credit entities, and said she would not recommend increasing that cap. The committee then voted to accept the Banking Department’s budget proposal as presented in HQ1, with a motion and second and no discussion.
The transcript then moved to the Department of Energy budget. Commissioner Jared Chakin and Chief of Operations Lenny Radio discussed federal program funding, including LIHEAP fuel assistance and weatherization. They said the apparent drop in fuel assistance funding from FY 2024 actuals to the budgeted amount is due to the loss of ARPA and CARES Act supplemental funds, while weatherization remains a federally constrained program with a waiting list and limited flexibility. Members also asked about a proposed transfer from the renewable energy fund; staff said the transfer would still allow the department to carry out its statutory duties for the year, though the committee deferred deeper discussion until House Bill 2.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband and Rural Development - 03/02/26
Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband, and Rural Development
Transcript Highlights:
- Even small news markets remain volatile.
farmer <00:48:58.000>business small and family farmer business small and family farmer- Many small and emerging farmers access.
- <01:10:08.480>
employers various bills exempting small employers various bills exempting small - three<01:38:11.840>
non-family A small business with three non-family A small business with
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Medicaid Oversight and Advisory Board (8-27-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- laborers, the self-employed, and small laborers, the self-employed, and small business<00:48:44.000
- So it is a small amount of money. It will not plug the hole.
- So it is a small amount of money. It will not plug the hole.
- So it is a small amount of money. It will not plug the hole.
- So it is a small amount of money. It will not plug the hole.
Keywords:
1. Call to Order and Roll Call – 00:00:00
2. Approval of Minutes – 00:02:10
3. Discussion of State-Based Marketplaces and the Federally-Facilitated Marketplace – 00:02:31
4. Discussion of the Role of Kynectors and Navigators – 00:27:29
5. Discussion of Presumptive Eligibility – 01:11:57
6. Discussion of Medicaid Eligibility, Enrollment, and Redeterminations – 01:20:09
7. Update on Rural Health Transformation Program Application Process – 01:47:35
8. Public Comment – 01:59:57
9. Adjournment – 02:06:10, 958, all
Summary:
The Medicaid Oversight Advisory Board met for its third meeting and approved the July 30 minutes. The chair outlined a full agenda covering the state-based marketplace versus the federally facilitated marketplace, connectors and navigators, presumptive eligibility, eligibility/enrollment/redetermination, and a rural health transformation update. Commissioner Lisa Lee and Assistant Director David Barry presented first on Kentucky’s state-based exchange, Connect, explaining that it is an integrated eligibility and enrollment system for Medicaid, CHIP, SNAP, TANF, child care, and qualified health plans. They reviewed Kentucky’s move from a state-based exchange to healthcare.gov in 2017 and back to a state-based marketplace in 2021, and said the system helps route applicants to the correct program and allows families to move more easily between Medicaid and exchange coverage as circumstances change.
The presenters said the exchange is funded by carrier assessments on qualified health plans rather than general fund dollars, with costs allocated across programs based on use. They said Kentucky’s exchange fees are lower than the federal platform’s and that the state-based system provides local assistance through DCBS offices, connectors, and licensed agents in every county. Members asked about startup and operating costs, fee-setting, and whether any general fund dollars are used; the department said it would follow up with the CFO on fee details and said it was not aware of general fund support for exchange operations. Members also raised concerns about Medicaid eligibility verification and improper enrollment, while the department emphasized that the state system uses different questions than healthcare.gov and is designed to identify the correct coverage based on monthly Medicaid income and annual tax-credit income.
The board also discussed enrollment trends, including a COVID-era spike during the public health emergency when disenrollments were largely paused, and current qualified health plan enrollment of more than 97,000 people on Connect. Commissioner Lee explained presumptive eligibility as temporary Medicaid coverage, noting it applies to pregnant women and hospital-based cases, with hospitals able to grant it and certain providers able to grant it to pregnant women. She said full eligibility is still determined within 30 days and that presumptive eligibility ends when full Medicaid eligibility is determined or at the end of the following month. The meeting then shifted to connectors, with representatives from Community Action Kentucky and the Kentucky Primary Care Association describing their statewide outreach network, local offices, and role helping residents apply for Medicaid, renew coverage, report changes, and navigate benefits; they said connectors do not determine eligibility but assist with applications, recertifications, and outreach events across the Commonwealth.
HI
Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
EEP-LAB Joint Public Hearing - Thu Mar 19, 2026 @ 9:30 AM HST
Energy & Environmental Protection
Transcript Highlights:
- We have a small office.
- We have a small office.
- we have a small office. we have a small office.
- families, nonprofits, and small families, nonprofits, and small business. business. business.
- of legislation that supports small of legislation that supports small businesses.<01:24:28.560><
Bills:
SB3326
Keywords:
renewable energy, energy storage, cost reduction, public utilities commission, Hawaii energy policies, 910, house, all
Summary:
The joint committees on Energy and Environmental Protection and Labor heard SB 3326, a bill concerning a study of separating transmission from generation in Hawaii’s electric system. Testimony was largely opposed. Life of the Land argued that true separation on an isolated island grid has not been shown to work anywhere and said the bill would waste taxpayer money. Hawaiian Electric and the Public Utilities Commission also opposed the measure, saying Hawaii already uses competitive bidding for new generation, that the bill would add cost, complexity, and reliability risks, and that a new study would duplicate prior work. In response to questions, the PUC explained its existing competitive bidding framework and said it had not seen an island system fully restructure in this way. The chair then amended the bill’s intent to require the PUC to open a proceeding for an independent, comprehensive analysis of the state’s energy pathways, including cost reduction, financial risk, state energy goals, and reliability, rather than narrowly focusing on separation. Both committees voted to pass SB 3326 SD2 with amendments, with the Energy committee adopting the recommendation unanimously and the Labor committee adopting it with one reservation and two no votes.
The Energy and Environmental Protection Committee then took up SB 2497 SD2, which would require electric utilities other than cooperatives to provide transparent, publicly accessible customer bill impact analyses and annual reports to the PUC. The Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs and the PUC offered comments, with the PUC supporting the intent. Life of the Land said the proposed disclosure requirements would be too complex for most ratepayers to use meaningfully, while Hawaiian Electric said the bill could raise costs and slow projects, though it acknowledged some of the language changes and said much of the information is already available through existing planning and regulatory processes. Hawaii Clean Power Alliance and one individual testified in support. No vote was taken on SB 2497 SD2 during the excerpt.
The committee also heard SB 3183 SD2, which would bar higher-income taxpayers from claiming the renewable energy technologies income tax credit for certain residential solar systems and would change refundability rules. The Department of Taxation, the Hawaii State Energy Office, and the Tax Foundation offered comments, while the Hawaii Solar Energy Association and numerous companies and individuals opposed the bill. Opponents raised concerns about impacts on financing models and the solar market. Members asked the Department of Taxation for data on how credits are claimed by homeowners versus third-party owners and on the refundability of the credit; the department said it did not have the information immediately available but would follow up. The chair indicated decision-making would likely be deferred to allow further review, and no vote was taken in the excerpt.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- Um 27% to small cities, metro counties.
- heard a lot of discussion by small heard a lot of discussion by small cities<00:15:46.639>
that - For our small cities and our cities that have, you know, sometimes, for a small city, when a MnDOT project
- <01:03:21.119>
Cities, from the Association of Small Cities, from the Association of Small - Minnesota Association of Small Cities. Minnesota Association of Small Cities.
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
House - Chamber Meeting Feb 9th, 2026 at 11:52 am
New Mexico House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Respectfully submitted, Nathan Small, Chair. Thank you.
- I have communities in my district that are small, and I have water systems in my district that are small
- , and I have other public entities in my district that are quite small.
- It's a real, you know, New Mexico is a small town.
- So, would I be safe in saying you are a small-government believer? Mr.
Bills:
HB111, HB61, HB43, HB156, HB70, SB3, HB103, HB109, HB128, HB247, HJM2, HJM3, HM7, HM17, HM4, HM22, HM23, HM24, HM26, HM2, HM16, HM32, HM11, HM14, HM21, HM34, HM50
Keywords:
water law, state engineer, civil penalty, compliance order, water rights, overdiversion, illegal diversion, groundwater storage and recovery, well license, permit violation, water enforcement, New Mexico water code, irrigation district, conservancy district, water diversion, unauthorized water sales, measuring device, district court appeal, water resources, water compliance
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Economic and Rural Development Sep 4th, 2025
Economic & Rural Development & Policy Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- We were thrilled with it, and only in a small town is something like that.
- We have small businesses.
- In many ways, we run like a small city.
- We're a small team that I think punches up in weight.
- There is a very small hog and pig industry in the state with about 1,700 head.
SC
South Carolina 2025-2026 Regular Session
House of Representatives Jun 25th, 2026
South Carolina House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- small pharmacies.
- But he is, and his wife are small, they own a small independent pharmacy.
- And he is, They are small; they own a small independent pharmacy, and he's very concerned because they
- This is an opportunity for us to expand our support of our small businesses.
- I mean, heck, our pharmacies, our small pharmacies, are going to shut down.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- Both Pine Island and a small Greater Minnesota and St.
- But it is, yeah, they don't do earmarks, I think, just because it's so small and it would be hard to
- Cook County is about 5,000 people, so it's a very small populated area.
- Cook County is about 5,000 people, so it's a very small populated area.
- Cook County is about 5,000 people, so it's a very small populated area.