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CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Hearing Budget Subcommittee No. 2 on Human Services and Budget Subcommittee No. 3 on Education Finance Apr 23rd, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- They have challenges with staffing because of low pay.
- The topic I want to talk about is delinking the subsidy rate from private pay, which all pay is already
- New Mexico increased providers' pay and based pay on the true cost of care, and as a result the percent
- And as Julia was saying, you know, we need fair pay.
- Finally, we want to prioritize paying our providers.
Summary:
The joint hearing focused on California’s child care, preschool, and transitional kindergarten oversight, with chairs emphasizing the state’s Master Plan for Early Learning and Care and the need to break down silos between programs. CDSS and CDE reported progress toward the plan’s goals, including universal access to TK for all four-year-olds next school year, expanded access for low-income three-year-olds, and more children with disabilities being served in state preschool. They also noted ongoing work on quality rating/review reform, funding structure changes, and the need to address rates, workforce shortages, and federal uncertainty around Head Start.
Testimony from advocacy groups and providers largely supported expanding access while simplifying the system. Children Now, Every Child California, and the California Budget and Policy Center argued that California still has uneven access, especially for infants, toddlers, and three-year-olds, and urged investments in mixed delivery, inclusion, full-day options, and a cost-of-care rate methodology. Every Child California recommended consolidating part-day and full-day contracts, streamlining eligibility priorities, making the two-year-old option permanent, and funding staffing incentives. Parent testimony highlighted how child care gaps and county-to-county transfer delays can disrupt work, safety, and children’s stability, and providers described low reimbursement rates, the need for health and retirement benefits, and support for delinking subsidy rates from private pay.
The second panel addressed universal transitional kindergarten. The Learning Policy Institute reported rapid TK expansion, with most districts now offering TK, but said access still depends on facilities, staffing, and whether programs are available at all school sites. The Department of Finance said the governor’s budget would fully implement TK by adding funding for all eligible four-year-olds and lowering the adult-to-child ratio from 12:1 to 10:1. The Legislative Analyst’s Office said the administration’s enrollment and cost assumptions were optimistic and estimated lower TK enrollment growth and lower costs for the ratio change. CDE supported the expansion and urged continued funding for UPK coordinators, teacher development, and mixed-delivery planning grants. Members questioned facilities shortages, staffing competition, and how to ensure TK expansion does not displace CSPP or Head Start classrooms. No formal votes or actions were taken in the hearing.
TX
Texas 89th 2nd C.S.
S/C on Telecommunications & Broadband Mar 31st, 2025
S/C on Telecommunications & Broadband
Transcript Highlights:
- Our members have to pay to fix it. It's not the pole attacher that pays to fix it.
- They're, they're paying higher, uh.
- It comes down to who pays and what do we pay.
- So GVEC Internet division pays the same cost that our broadband customers are being asked to pay for
- We have to pay our bills, we have to pay our utility, our employees.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
FULL INTERVIEW: Lowering Energy Costs Through Innovation | Senator Nick Frentz May 29th, 2026
Minnesota Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
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- that Xcel rate payers will help to pay that Xcel rate payers will help to pay for<00:08:01.320><
- We don't just want Minnesotans to pay less.
- We We don't just want Minnesotans to pay We We don't just want Minnesotans to pay less.<00:13:36.520
Summary:
The interview focused on Minnesota’s clean energy policy, energy affordability, and the state’s path toward its 100% clean electricity goal. The senator said Minnesota’s clean energy reputation comes from environmental concern, job creation, and lower long-term costs, noting that wind is now the lowest-cost generation source and that solar costs have fallen sharply. He said rising electricity demand has led to some increased coal use, but argued the state can still meet its 2040 clean energy target through continued renewable buildout, permitting reform, conservation, and demand response.
A major topic was data centers. The senator emphasized both concerns and benefits, saying hyperscale data centers can bring substantial construction jobs, property tax revenue, and, under the 2025 law, payments to low-income energy assistance. He cited the Pine Island Google data center as air-cooled, with no water concerns, and said it will pay $5 million annually while funding 1,600 MW of wind, solar, and battery resources at its own expense. He also said Xcel’s filing projected a $1.1 billion ratepayer savings over 10 years, while urging the public to weigh both pros and cons, especially around water use and local tax impacts.
The discussion also covered nuclear power and climate costs. The senator said the Senate has passed a nuclear study three years in a row and expects it to advance, while the moratorium on new nuclear plants remains tied to the Prairie Island Indian Community and unresolved nuclear waste storage. He argued Minnesota likely cannot reach its emissions goals without nuclear in the mix, though he acknowledged current nuclear is not cost-competitive and said future advanced or small modular nuclear could change that. On affordability, he pointed to climate-driven costs such as higher homeowners insurance and storm damage, and described Senate energy omnibus provisions including conservation, plug-in solar, and renewable development account projects such as a Como Zoo clean energy project. No votes were taken in the interview itself, but the senator referenced the recently announced budget deal and said he still needed to negotiate a renewable development account agreement between the House and Senate.
AR
Transcript Highlights:
- So it costs them nothing, yet they don't have to pay taxes on it. So it's a subsidy.
- What I do know is if we disaffiliate 25% of the way through the year, they were only paying 25% of it
- What I do know is if we disaffiliate 25% of the way through the year, they were only paying 25% of it
- I know is if we disaffiliate 25% of the way through the year, they were only paying 25% of the annual
- This just gives the money to pay the dues. Yes, sir. That's right.
Summary:
The committee resumed consideration of several amendments to fiscal bills. It adopted Senator Johnson’s amendment to Senate Bill 15, which shifts responsibility for Keep Arkansas Beautiful-related functions and roadside litter cleanup coordination toward ARDOT, with the current commissioners becoming an advisory council. The committee also adopted Representative Perry’s amendment to Senate Bill 7, lowering from 50 to 25 the employee threshold for employers to request claims data from insurers for group health coverage, aimed at helping smaller businesses and municipalities obtain more competitive insurance quotes.
Representative McKinsey’s amendment to Senate Bill 41, which would have blocked a University of Arkansas at Fayetteville athletic funding transfer and imposed a one-year rider, was rejected after questions about the university’s finances and whether such a transfer had ever occurred. Senator Hester’s amendment to House Bill 1051, intended to cap online sports betting free play at 5% of gross receipts, also failed after debate over whether the proposal was properly fiscal language and whether the free-play incentives constituted a subsidy.
Representative Walker’s amendment to a Save the Children appropriation, which would have converted the funding into a matching grant to encourage private donations, failed for lack of a motion. Representative Vaught’s amendment related to an agricultural tax exemption for certain tractor parts and diesel exhaust fluid systems likewise failed, with concerns raised about drafting, enforcement, and whether it belonged in revenue tax committees. The committee then added two late items: Representative Johnson’s technical correction to a physician licensure pathway bill, which was adopted to broaden qualifying underserved-area definitions, and Senator Tucker’s amendment to Senate Bill 77, which deleted a fund-transfer section and created a matching appropriation mechanism to help Arkansas TV/PBS retain affiliation and pay dues. Senate Bill 77 passed as amended, and the meeting adjourned.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Floor Session procedural debate on a safe schools revenue program bill 3/26/26
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Pays the cost for drug abuse prevention programs.
- Pays the cost for gang resistance education training and curriculum.
- Pays a cost for other crime preventions, drug abuse for students and staff.
- It pays for costs associated with school climate.
- for costs associated with school pays for costs associated with school climate.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Federal Funding Stabilization Subcommittee Nov 7th, 2025
Federal Funding Stabilization Subcommittee
Transcript Highlights:
- As your income went up, you just helped pay for a little bit more of the bill.
- The co-pays and the state subsidy went down to help you.
- Right, we will not have to pay that $30 million to the federal government.
- I'm not complaining, but when you get overpaid on food... stamps, you have to pay that money back.
- Everybody in the state has been paying attention to the work that you've been doing here.
NM
Transcript Highlights:
- We get more federal funding than we pay.
- So that means the reverse of that, paying for it. Is that agreeable to you?
- By golly, and we're going to have to come up with a way to pay for it.
- But it also has to make sense for who's paying for it and how it's being paid for.
- But the shortfalls for Medicaid and Medicare when you actually pay for a procedure.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Floor Session Jun 13th, 2025
California House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- They're gonna pay the price again.
- It's paying for the child care of 8,000 children.
- It's paying a year's worth of tuition for every single freshman at UCLA.
- Illegal immigrants to pay, so that way they can stay on Medi-Cal, to $30.
- That your constituents are paying.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Finance Division III (03/17/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- How do you think about having to pay for this? How do we pay for this?
- How do you think about having to pay for this? How do we pay for this? Mr. Barr, sure.
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of <01:07:13.240>Last should be the pay of Last should be the pay of - pay because they have the ability to pay pay because they have the ability to pay versus<01:17:46.000
- appeal would be required or that pay appeal would be required or that pay that's<01:49:28.639>
Summary:
Division 3 Finance held a work session to move through five bills before noon, noting one member’s early departure and adjusting the order of bills accordingly. The first item, HB 54, would allow some alternative treatment centers in the medical cannabis system to operate for profit. Members discussed a fiscal note showing a one-time $133,000 cost, which was described as a Division 1 budget item to be handled through HB 2 rather than directly in Division 3. After discussion about keeping Division 1 informed and the distinction between retaining a bill versus funding it, the committee voted unanimously to retain HB 54 for further finance work and conversion into HB 2.
The committee then took up HB 547, concerning reimbursement to counties for enhanced FMAP funds during the COVID period. The chair summarized the issue as federal enhanced Medicaid matching funds that were received by the state before authority existed to pass them through to counties, creating a disputed amount owed to counties. County representatives said the money should have gone to counties and clarified the relevant time period, while the department did not take a position. The chair proposed retaining the bill and moving it into HB 2, with discussion of a possible four-year repayment structure in equal annual installments. The committee agreed to retain the bill for continued work in the budget process.
During the HB 547 discussion, members also clarified the fiscal and accounting details, including that the fiscal note had not been widely available and that some figures in the note should be treated as county revenue rather than county expenditure. Testimony explained that the enhanced FMAP increased from 50 percent to 56.2 percent, and that the state’s and counties’ shares of claims were affected by the timing of the federal change and the later state authorization. The committee emphasized that the issue was complex and budget-dependent, and that retaining the bill would allow further negotiation and incorporation into HB 2 rather than immediate final action.
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
House Veterans and Military Affairs Division 3/19/25
Veterans and Military Affairs Division
Transcript Highlights:
- They shouldn't have to pay salaries.
- Anyone supporting a a pay-to-play Anyone supporting a a pay-to-play company<00:41:43.119>
is< - Uh again, uh we touch their back pay.
- If a pay us is completely voluntary.
- The thing was, he would not have to pay out of pocket.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- , or it's also called elective pay.
- , or it's also called elective pay.
- , or it's also called elective pay.
- So that is what the issuer is pledging to pay back, what sources the issuer is pledging to use to pay
- to use to pay back those bonds so to pay to use to pay back those bonds so General General General obligation
ND
North Dakota 2026 1st Special Session
Legislative Audit and Fiscal Review Committee Jun 17th, 2026 at 10:00 am
Legislative Audit and Fiscal Review Committee
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Legislative Commission on Pensions and Retirement - 02/24/26
Minnesota Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- that you actually don't start paying that you actually don't start paying that<00:15:44.480>
- they're not paying into Social Security. they're not paying into Social Security.
- It was closed in 1997, pay-as-you-go.
- So this is that part of that pay.
- be $12 million per year or 3.7% of pay. be $12 million per year or 3.7% of pay.
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House Municipal and County Government (01/16/2026)
Municipal and County Government
Transcript Highlights:
- Um do members pay dues or fees? Um do members pay dues or fees?
- We only have 45 to pay dues. members. We only have 45 to pay dues.
- I only want to pay for it if everybody pays for it.'
- tax that they pay other than when they go out to eat and pay meals and rooms.
- tax that they pay other than when they go out to eat and pay meals and rooms.
WY
Wyoming 2026 Regular Session
Select Committee on School Finance Recalibration, June 24, 2026 - PM
Select Committee on School Finance Recalibration
Transcript Highlights:
- So the more meals they provide, the more the local is on the hook to pay for the difference.
- Um, and risks rewarding inefficiencies if you're just paying for what's happening now.
- this $8. pay this $8.
- It says the state needs to step up and pay for lunch so the districts are not doing that.
- When you divide that into what you're paying for divide that into what you're paying for your labor costs
MS
Mississippi 2026 Regular Session
MS House Floor - 15 April, 2026; 1:00 PM
Mississippi House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Section 4M, providing $1 million to the city of Jackson to pay costs associated with renovations and
- Section 4BZ, providing $500,000 appropriation for the city of Greenville to pay costs associated with
- Section 4HV, providing $300,000 appropriation to the Department of Finance and Administration to pay
- Section 4HV, providing $300,000 appropriation to the Department of Finance and Administration to pay
- To pay costs associated with construction and development of a downtown green space.
Keywords:
commendation, sports, team achievement, high school, state championship, suffrage, restoration of voting rights, conviction, probation, law-abiding citizen, congressional term limits, constitutional amendments, Article V, state resolution, political reform, Jackson State University, Veterans Memorial Stadium, economic growth, property tax, multi-purpose facility
FL
Florida 2026 4th Special Session
February 5, 2026 - 04:00 PM
Transcript Highlights:
- They're doing a great job in paying our educators.
- Florida ranks near the bottom nationally in average teacher pay.
- Florida is roughly 49th in teacher pay.
- Legislators in the audience to pay attention, get involved.
- , I would like to say we do not pay our teachers enough.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- cities are now expected to put toay pay cities are now expected to put toay pay this<00:23:29.000
- something we'd also like to pay something we'd also like to pay attention<00:24:50.399>
as - this amount for it you're going to pay this amount for it you're going to pay<00:26:43.600>
Upfront - So we pay for all those roadways and all that mobility from the metro area while we’re paying for what
- So we pay for all those roadways and all that mobility from the metro area while we’re paying for what
- this amount for it you're going to pay this amount for it you're going to pay<00:26:43.600>
Summary:
The committee heard testimony on Senate File 285, a bill to shift MnDOT highway project cost participation away from local governments and onto MnDOT. The bill’s author and several city representatives said current cost-share policies force cities to spend local aid, property taxes, or debt on state highway projects they do not control, leaving less money for local streets and maintenance. Testifiers from Richfield, Elk River, Faribault, Minneapolis, and the Minnesota Association of Small Cities all supported the bill, describing the policy as one-size-fits-all, financially burdensome, and especially harmful to smaller cities and cities with major state highways running through them.
Witnesses gave examples of large and sometimes changing local cost-share obligations, including Richfield’s spending of most of its MSA funds on projects it does not own and a small-city project where the estimated local share rose from about $2.3 million to over $3 million. Several testifiers said cities often have little practical ability to refuse MnDOT projects because the projects are valuable and MnDOT can move on if a city declines. One witness also raised concerns about money being paid upfront and held in an account during construction, causing cities to lose interest earnings while funds sit unused.
Members asked whether cities truly have a say in these projects and whether there are limits on how much the local share can increase. Testifiers said MnDOT does engage cities, but the cost participation policy largely dictates the outcome, and they described the municipal consent statute as too narrow in practice. Senators expressed concern about fairness and the burden on local budgets, while one member noted the bill may not fully address the broader consent issue. No vote or final action was taken in the portion of the meeting provided.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Appropriations Committee May 21st, 2025
Appropriations
Transcript Highlights:
- Meanwhile, solar customers get to avoid paying 82% to 91% of their share of costs.
- As retail electricity rates go up, that NEM subsidy they also get to avoid paying that retail rate for
- So customers on the NEM tariff get to avoid And so when NEM customers avoid paying the retail rate for
- all of the energy they consume, they avoid paying for a large majority of it.
- , they pay bills.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Public Service Jun 21st, 2026 at 01:00 pm
Joint Committee on Public Service
Transcript Highlights:
- They're all paying nine plus two.
- They're all paying nine plus two.
- off-the-cuff, they'll probably pay in their whole pension over a lifetime.
- People couldn't pay their property tax. They couldn't pay their rent.
- Some of this pay was to relief some of the expenses incurred during COVID.
Summary:
The Joint Committee on Public Service heard testimony on a wide range of retirement, municipal workforce, and public employee labor bills. Early testimony focused on H. 2749, a Plymouth home rule petition to classify Plymouth harbormaster employees as Group 4 for retirement purposes. Supporters, including local officials and retirement board representatives, argued the employees perform law-enforcement and rescue duties comparable to police and fire personnel, that the change would be fair, and that it would have little or no fiscal impact on the town. A separate harbormaster-related bill, H. 2743, was also introduced later in the hearing.
The committee also heard testimony on provisions of the Municipal Empowerment Act (H. 56), including a temporary critical-shortage exemption allowing retired state or municipal employees to return to work in hard-to-fill positions, and a renewed OPEB commission to study retiree health care costs. Administration and municipal officials said the measures were needed to address staffing shortages and rising benefit liabilities, while emphasizing the shortage exemption would be time-limited and require proof of recruitment efforts. Related retirement bills drew support and caution: advocates for higher COLA bases and enhanced COLA benefits urged relief for retirees, but some asked the committee to wait for recommendations from the special COLA commission before acting.
A major portion of the hearing concerned labor rights at the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority and the Committee for Public Counsel Services. Union representatives and employees backed bills to extend just-cause protections, promotional rights, and collective bargaining rights to MWRA and CPCS workers, arguing they currently lack protections available to most other public employees. Testimony described unfair discipline, delayed promotions, and high turnover, and committee members indicated prior favorable action on similar MWRA bills and expressed support for addressing CPCS labor rights. The committee also heard from representatives of the Massachusetts Municipal Association and public higher education employees in support of H. 2820, which would require timely funding of ratified state employee contracts, with witnesses describing long delays in receiving negotiated raises and back pay. No votes were taken during the hearing, and the chair repeatedly invited written testimony and closed each panel after questions.