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TX
Transcript Highlights:
- It was $6.8 billion was the total for ten, and $4.4 billion for the last four years.
- No way to, again, tens because that's a nine-to-one payout.
- Quickly on your presentations relaying the success of ten billion dollars plus I see in my printouts,
Bills:
SB 1
Keywords:
campground safety, youth camp regulations, flood safety, emergency evacuation, health and safety standards, Attorney General, budget recommendations, funding swaps, salary increases, Landowner's Compensation Program, public testimony, law enforcement
Summary:
The meeting focused on the budget recommendations for the Office of the Attorney General (OAG), where key issues included the proposed decrease of $163.9 million for the 2024-25 biennium and various methodology swaps for funding. Attorney General Paxton discussed ongoing litigation expenditures and emphasized the need for continued investments in agency staffing to address rising demands within law enforcement. Notably, he requested a 6% salary increase for 2026 and 2027 to retain talented personnel amidst competitive job markets. Public testimony highlighted community awareness challenges regarding the Landowner's Compensation Program, indicating a need for enhanced outreach efforts.
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
Appropriations Jan 27th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- IS IMMORAL TO CHARGE PEOPLE WHO SHOULDN'T EVEN BE IN THE COUNTRY A VASTLY DISCOUNTED PRICE COSTING TENS
- YOUR SON PRESUMABLY IS NOT GETTING THE WAIVER SO THERE'S 6500 PEOPLE GETTING THE WAIVER OUT OF THE TENS
- ALONE SEEMS LIKE A LOT TO SENATOR FINE'S POINT, I DON'T DISAGREE BUT THE AMOUNT OF BLOAT AND WASTE OF TENS
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Floor Session - part 2 Apr 24th, 2025
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Back in 2015, ten years ago this week, actually, my farm was one of the many that year that was the greatest
- A lot has happened in those last ten years since I went through this myself.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Budget Review Subcommittee on Economic Development, Tourism, and Environmental Protection (11-5-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- So, tens of just under 4,000 in 2022.
- So, tens of thousands<01:04:41.839>
of <01:04:42.000>direct <01:04:42.319>job <01 - How do you get those tens of thousands of people back into the workforce? But this is it.
- How do you get those tens<01:10:47.360>
of <01:10:47.520>thousands <01:10:47.840>of< - of people back into tens of thousands of people back into the<01:10:48.880>
workforce?
Summary:
The subcommittee met with leaders of the First Frontier Appalachian Trail System for an update on trail development, economic impact, and funding needs. Speakers said the system has expanded from 18 to 21 counties over the past year, with interest from additional counties, about 450 miles of trails currently open, and a goal of surpassing 1,000 miles within two years. They described the project as primarily an economic development effort that is already drawing public and private investment, supporting lodging and campground businesses, and creating new enterprises such as guide services, repairs, and recovery services for ATVs.
The presentation highlighted permit sales, which began on a soft-launch basis earlier in the year and are now available both physically and online. Permits cost $25 per year for in-state residents and allow riding on First Frontier trails. Officials also discussed landowner agreements, saying the standard license agreement is modeled on Hatfield-McCoy, is favorable to landowners, and can be ended with 60 days’ notice. They said the agreements, along with patrols and cleanup efforts, help address trespassing and illegal dumping while encouraging property owners to participate.
Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Captain Jason Sloan reported 638 hours of patrols under the memorandum of agreement since January 1 and said the partnership has focused on safety, enforcement of existing laws, emergency planning, and cleanup support. The group also cited partnerships with the National Forest, Onyx Off-Road, ARC, and Yamaha, and said a Jeep Jamboree in Lee County drew 237 registered participants, mostly from out of state. They said a GNCC race in Knox County is being pursued for spring. The authority requested $3.5 million for the next two-year budget cycle and said it needs additional staffing, including two full-time trail development coordinators and part-time office help, to keep up with growth. Members praised the project’s progress and its potential to boost tourism and regional economic development.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- The cost of running renewals to the district often runs into the tens of thousands of dollars, and those
- to uh the district often runs<00:06:24.160>
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MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
Environment and natural resources committee hears HF8 - Pt. 1 2/13/25
Transcript Highlights:
- Section ten: This one I very specifically wanted drafted and in the bill because it started, you know
- Section ten: This one I very specifically wanted drafted and in the bill because it started, you know
- Section ten: This one I very specifically wanted drafted and in the bill because it started, you know
- Section ten: This one I very specifically wanted drafted and in the bill because it started, you know
- Section ten: This one I very specifically wanted drafted and in the bill because it started, you know
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Financial Services Jun 21st, 2026 at 10:30 am
Joint Committee on Financial Services
Transcript Highlights:
- Since 2001, this line item has grown ten times over.
- Flood damage can easily cost tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage, depending on the severity
- These bills would ensure that tens of thousands of graduate student workers across the Commonwealth can
- It tells them the property has flooded three times in the past 10 years, and that claims add up to tens
Summary:
The Joint Committee on Financial Services held a public hearing with about 43 witnesses and a 1:00 p.m. hard stop, and the chair repeatedly asked speakers to keep testimony to three minutes. Much of the hearing focused on S. 747/H. 1336, which would extend paid family and medical leave and unemployment insurance to graduate student workers. Supporters included legislators, union leaders, graduate workers from MIT, Harvard, BU, WPI, UMass Lowell, and others, and legal advocates. They argued graduate workers perform full-time teaching and research work, pay taxes, and should not be excluded from basic safety-net benefits; several witnesses described personal hardships involving childbirth, serious illness, mental health crises, funding cuts, or fear of losing income. Testifiers also said the change would be revenue-neutral or revenue-generating and would not create major administrative burdens for universities, which already provide similar benefits to other employees.
The committee also heard testimony on insurance-related bills. Christopher Stock of the Massachusetts Insurance Federation supported H. 1113 on public adjusters and H. 1345/S. 753 on flood-zone notifications for homebuyers, but opposed H. 4112, which would add a $2 surcharge on home insurance policies to fund fire cistern programs. The Metropolitan Area Planning Council strongly supported H. 1345, saying flood disclosure is needed because Massachusetts lacks statewide flood-notification requirements and flooding risks are increasing. Karen Alvarado supported H. 4352 on travel insurance, and John Fielding supported H. 1186 on pet insurance; both said the bills would create uniform regulatory frameworks and consumer protections. Rep. LeBoeuf testified for H. 4061 on workers’ compensation premium fraud, describing the bill as a transparency measure to combat fraud in construction by creating a public certificate-of-insurance database and QR-code verification system. Joe Bright of the carpenters’ union also supported H. 4061, citing fraud, misclassification, and the harm to injured workers.
The hearing also included testimony on H. 4112, a bill to create a statewide fire suppression water resource fund and cistern program. Rep. Hogan and a Stowe fire chief described drought, brush fires, and the need for dedicated cisterns in communities without municipal water systems, saying the tanks provide reliable water for firefighting and are relatively low-tech once installed. Committee members asked questions about tank capacity, siting, maintenance, and funding. No votes or formal actions were taken during the hearing.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on State and Local Government - 04/23/26
State and Local Government
Transcript Highlights:
- they meet the qualifications and eligibility requirements before having to thumb through, you know, tens
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MN
Transcript Highlights:
- Two organizations that are working to serve tens of thousands of students annually.
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serve organizations that are working to serve organizations that are working to serve tens - tens of thousands of students annually. tens of thousands of students annually.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Science, Technology and Telecommunications Sep 22nd, 2025
Science, Technology & Telecommunications Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- On this slide, I've copied over our top ten projects.
- I know that representatives are. probably all of these top ten projects, and we're going to see them
- are any changes or anything, if you ever have any questions or you'd like us to go through those top ten
- .not in the guts to beat up on the agencies because some of these projects have been in the red for ten
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Health and Human Services Jul 21st, 2025
Legislative Health & Human Services Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- Over the course of the last year, two years, ten years? This is from 2024 only. Correct.
- Ten, Madam Chair, is our capacity.
- and then let the, you know, stabilize it a little bit and then get up to eight, Madam Chair, or to ten
- That's mostly towards a hundred and ten million appropriation, non-recurring, to support affordable housing
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
The Session Adjourns / Rallying for Disability Rights / Fighting Fraud / Countering Climate Change May 25th, 2025
Minnesota Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- grain buyers who don't do a lot of money, they have to go and get full CPA audits, sometimes costing tens
- and get full CPA audits, sometimes go and get full CPA audits, sometimes costing<00:25:32.159>
tens - of<00:25:32.799>
thousands <00:25:33.279>of <00:25:33.520>dollars costing tens - of thousands of dollars costing tens of thousands of dollars when<00:25:34.559>
they <00:25:34.720
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- And Senator Ten Parker, who is not here, was 16 years old. As you all know, today is his birthday.
- in my experience of school cover-ups, so imagine my surprise when, after my first testimony, I had tens
- That was worth your taxpayer dollars, and so were the following football stadiums, which cost tens of
- would be somebody who has theoretically moved one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- We had to get members to drive in from their different districts and communities, spend tens of thousands
- districts and their different districts and communities,<00:41:02.480>
spend <00:41:02.800>tens - <00:41:03.119>
of <00:41:03.200>thousand communities, spend tens of thousand communities - , spend tens of thousand dollars<00:41:04.000>
on <00:41:04.400>salaries <00:41:04.880><
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Bill to expand MN renter's credit heard in House tax committee 3/26/25
Transcript Highlights:
- program at all, but by switching it to a refundable income tax credit, we're just making it so that tens
- And so, you know, there are tens of thousands of Minnesotans across all parts of our state who make enough
- And so, you know, there are tens of thousands of Minnesotans across the state in all parts of our state
- Representative Lee: And, you know, there are tens of thousands of Minnesotans across the state in all
Summary:
The committee heard House File 2499, authored by Representative Lee, which would expand Minnesota’s renters’ credit to more closely match the homestead credit for homeowners. Lee explained that the bill would raise the income cutoff from about $75,389 to $143,140 and increase the maximum credit to $3,500, with the goal of addressing what she described as an inequity between renters and homeowners who both pay property taxes. She cited revenue estimates showing the change could make about 80,000 additional renters eligible, while acknowledging the bill would be costly to enact this year.
Nan Madden of the Minnesota Budget Project testified in support, describing how the renters’ credit works, including the assumption that 17% of rent goes toward property taxes. She highlighted 2022 data showing most recipients had low incomes, many were seniors or people with disabilities, and participation was higher in greater Minnesota in some respects. Michael Dah of Homeline also supported the bill, saying renters face rising housing costs and use the credit for basic needs such as groceries, school supplies, medical care, and car repairs.
Members discussed whether expanding the credit would simply benefit landlords or encourage rent increases. Representative Anderson opposed the bill on the grounds that policy should incentivize homeownership, while Representative Huitt argued the credit could help renters build savings and move toward homeownership if they choose. Representative Lee responded that the housing market is broken and that the credit is one tool to help renters in a broader housing continuum. The discussion also covered outreach and administration of the credit, including the recent move to file it with income taxes, electronic certificates of rent paid, and funding for tax-preparation assistance and outreach through VITA sites and community organizations. The bill was laid over for possible inclusion in the omnibus tax bill.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband and Rural Development - 03/10/25
Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband, and Rural Development
Transcript Highlights:
- Our 70-plus member companies employ tens of thousands statewide and are dedicated to decarbonizing Minnesota
- Minnesota our 70 plus member companies Minnesota our 70 plus member companies employ<00:05:22.720>
tens - <00:05:23.160>
thousands <00:05:23.680>Statewide <00:05:24.319>and employ tens - of thousands Statewide and employ tens of thousands Statewide and are<00:05:24.639>
dedicated
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Senate Standing Committee on Health Services (2-26-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- Tens of thousands of dollars, sir. And, uh, to speak to Senator Douglas's...
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of nightmare I call it a nightmare tens of nightmare I call it a nightmare - tens of thousands<00:27:03.279>
of <00:27:03.480>dollars sir<00:27:07.159>and <00
Summary:
The committee first took up Senate Bill 27, as amended by committee substitute, which would create a Kentucky Parkinson’s disease research registry. The sponsor said the substitute was developed with UK, U of L, the Michael J. Fox Foundation, and Parkinson’s in Motion to better define a movement disorder center, add Parkinson’s experts from both universities to the advisory committee, require automated reporting, and delay implementation until 2027. Testimony emphasized the need to track diagnoses and testing while protecting confidentiality and allowing people to opt out. The committee adopted the substitute and then voted unanimously to pass SB 27 with a favorable expression.
The committee then heard Senate Bill 93, dealing with hearing aid coverage for children. A parent described the high cost of hearing aids for her son and the financial burden created by insurance limits, while a pediatric audiologist explained that early identification and treatment improve language outcomes and that families can spend about $30,000 on hearing aids from birth to age 18. The committee substitute removed adults from the bill and added an in-network requirement for pediatric audiologists, along with a replacement interval consistent with Medicaid guidelines and repair/loss coverage provisions. After questions about costs, replacement timing, and insurer practices, the committee voted unanimously to pass SB 93 with a favorable expression.
Finally, the committee considered Senate Bill 153, a transparency and due-process bill concerning Medicaid prepayment review. The sponsor and witnesses from Addiction Recovery Care and Frontier Behavioral Health said prepayment reviews can be imposed with little notice or explanation, disrupt cash flow, and burden rural and smaller providers; they argued the bill would require clearer notice, reasons, and timelines without stopping legitimate reviews. Members asked about managed care organizations, contract issues, and whether the bill would conflict with existing agreements, and the sponsor said it would not. After discussion and an explanation of vote from Senator Douglas, the committee voted to pass SB 153 with a favorable expression.
WY
Transcript Highlights:
- Follow up. 40, 50 million dollars in cheatgrass mitigation, lost revenues associated, tens of millions
- Long term, this program is going to save the state tens, if not hundreds, of millions of dollars in just
- need to quit following the federal model of prescribing a one-acre solution... ...and we need to do tens
- agree with the good Senator Hicks and his comment about the investment and how this is going to save tens
- Ten million, maybe that's the answer. I...
FL
Florida 2026 Regular Session
FL House Floor Session - 2026-05-29 (10:00AM Session)
Florida House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- participants enable the state to take in millions in drug rebate revenue, while we are also denying tens
- participants enable the state to take in millions in drug rebates revenue, while we are also denying tens
- premium assistance portion of ADAP, we know that insured participants enable the state to take in tens
- of millions and... ...participants and able the state to take in tens of millions and drug rebate revenues
- Millions of dollars, tens of millions of dollars, had to be repaid and reimbursed to our public school
FL
Florida 2026 5th Special Session
FL House Floor Session - 2026-05-29 (10:00AM Session)
Florida House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- participants enable the state to take in millions in drug rebates revenue, while we are also denying tens
- premium assistance portion of ADAP, we know that insured participants enable the state to take in tens
- of millions of dollars in drug rebate revenues. ...participants enable the state to take in tens of
- Millions of dollars, tens of millions of dollars, had to be repaid and reimbursed to our public school
- Millions of dollars, tens of millions of dollars, had to be repaid and reimbursed to our public school
Summary:
The House convened with prayer, a moment of silence for former Senator Donnell C. Childers, the Pledge of Allegiance, and recognition of Officer Antonio Richardson as law enforcement officer of the day. A quorum was announced, the journal was approved, and the Speaker said the chamber would take up 11 budget conference reports, with debate and final votes on each report. The first report considered was HB 7031E, the tax package, followed by HB 501E, the state budget appropriations bill.
On HB 7031E, Chair Duggan explained that the conference report included a range of tax reductions and tax-related changes, including sales tax holidays, property tax and homestead-related provisions, reductions in certain taxes and fees, and new exemptions or administrative clarifications. He said the package also added items such as sales tax relief for certain university construction projects, a tennis admissions exemption, and changes to agricultural property tax treatment, and that the amendment reduced state and local tax revenues by $272.2 million. Members questioned the bill about the child care tax credit reduction from three years to one, the homestead exemption provision for certain diplomats and foreign service personnel, the absence of gas tax relief and combined reporting, and the inclusion of firearm accessories and tennis tickets in sales tax holidays. After structured debate, the House adopted the conference report and passed HB 7031E by a vote of 88-11.
The House then began the conference report on HB 501E, the $114.5 billion budget for fiscal year 2026-2027, which was described as below the prior year’s spending level and leaving more than $14 billion in reserves. Subcommittee chairs outlined major allocations across education, higher education, IT, health care, transportation and economic development, justice, state administration, and agriculture/natural resources. Highlights included increased FEFP funding and veteran teacher raises, full funding for Bright Futures, major IT modernization projects, Medicaid and behavioral health funding, transportation and local infrastructure spending, correctional and law enforcement investments, fire station and emergency response funding, and large environmental and water-quality appropriations. Members asked detailed questions about school voucher fraud oversight, scholarship funding, teacher raises, preeminence funding, ADAP changes, SNAP data tools and error rates, Medicaid rate changes, prison wastewater monitoring, and other budget items, but the transcript ends during the budget questions before final action on HB 501E is shown.