Transcript Highlights:

• Biennium gross sales for this biennium are projected to be $71.7 million, and transfers are projected
• The administrative code is clear: when a horse changes hands, proof of the ownership transfer must be
• You said it was either a week later or two weeks later, of the transfer of ownership.
• So what happened in this case is this individual was transferred to a halfway house.
• So what happened in this case is this individual was transferred to halfway house.

Summary: The committee opened with a moment of silence honoring a deceased member, then approved the April minutes. The first major presentation was from Chelsea Florey of Child and Family Services on the Diversion Task Force and related grant programs created with one-time funding from HB 1012. She reported that five of six proposals were funded, with youth diversion services operating in Bismarck, Fargo, Grand Forks, Minot, and a Red River Children’s Advocacy Center program focused on problematic sexualized behavior. Members discussed barriers such as staffing shortages, voluntary family engagement, service fatigue, and the need for better coordination, broader outreach, and possible changes to diversion eligibility rules so low-level cases can remain in diversion longer. Several legislators pressed for more practical system changes and clearer service navigation, while Florey said the task force is trying to build a service array or hub and is leaning on the Children’s Cabinet for broader recommendations. The committee then heard from North Dakota Lottery Director Thomas Lawler, who gave an operational overview and biennium report. He described the lottery’s history, games, retailer commissions, Pick and Click subscriptions, Players Club membership, and revenue distribution. For the 2023-25 biennium, about $67 million in tickets were purchased, with roughly $16.2 million transferred overall, including money for the general fund, drug task force grants, and compulsive gambling prevention and treatment. Members asked about the compulsive gambling allocation and whether the amount is set by statute. A lengthy presentation followed from the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation on criminal justice data connectivity and reentry. Adam Anderson explained that North Dakota’s jail, court, HHS, and correctional systems use multiple separate databases that do not communicate in real time, requiring manual cross-checks and staff communication. He said the department is exploring a centralized hub or other integration approach, but noted challenges with identifiers, vendor contracts, confidentiality, and cost. Robin Schmolenberger then updated the committee on a Medicaid data-sharing project with HHS, saying monthly application assistance is now occurring in correctional facilities and that automated bi-directional data exchange is expected in late 2026 to help suspend and reactivate Medicaid coverage and identify former foster care youth. Members also discussed parole, probation, transitional housing, and the need for better real-time notifications and clearer data definitions. The committee also received an update from county representatives on the 24/7 sobriety program, including a recent attorney general opinion that if a court waives 24/7 fees, sheriffs may use the cheaper twice-daily breath test or urine testing instead of SCRAM bracelets or drug patches. Finally, Bruce Johnson of the Racing Commission presented on an audit report, acknowledging serious findings involving overspending from the promotion fund, grant documentation failures, a breeders fund eligibility reversal, and repeated procurement violations. He said the commission has already changed its procedures by tracking fund limits monthly, requiring grant applications and itemized reports, enforcing breeders fund rules as written, and routing purchases through procurement with written contracts. The committee asked follow-up questions throughout but took no formal votes on these presentations.

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• , but were super, super clear transfers, but were super, super clear that<00:32:11.040> uh<00:
• than transfers across the SAU.
• <00:38:30.120> is inter-district transfers is inter-district transfers is significantly<00
• than transfers significantly different than transfers across<00:38:33.400> the<00:38:33.560><
• > the<00:38:37.960> parent inter-district transfer where the parent inter-district transfer

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

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• Level IV trauma centers are intended to assess the patient, stabilize them, transfer them out, doing
• These hospitals are responsible for the initial stabilization, and we offer safe transfer.
• to our site, which, by the way, University of Kentucky is the number one transfer receiving hospital
• to our site, which, by the way, University of Kentucky is the number one transfer receiving hospital
• Kentucky is the number one transfer Kentucky is the number one transfer receiving<00:59:04.400><

Keywords: 958, all

Summary: The committee first handled several referred administrative regulations, including a package from the Board of Respiratory Care described as a substantive housekeeping update to its regulations and incorporated materials. There were no questions from members, and the committee also heard from the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure, which was present in case questions arose but did not require action. Members then took up an amendment to the state health plan for facilities and services, specifically 900 KAR 5:02. Wesley Duke explained that a previously proposed criteria related to mega-voltage requirements, originally suggested by the Kentucky Hospital Association, was now being removed because the association no longer considered it necessary. The committee moved to accept the agency amendment, with a motion and second, and approved it without opposition. The committee next considered Senate Joint Resolution 23, a “food is medicine” resolution sponsored by Senator Shelley Funke Frommeyer. Supporters from the Kentucky Department of Agriculture and the Kentucky Hospital Association described the initiative as a voluntary, statewide effort already adopted by 52 hospitals, aimed at improving patient health while supporting Kentucky farmers and local food systems. Members discussed access to healthy food, grocery-store availability, school nutrition, and the need to reduce barriers to local procurement; the resolution was adopted unanimously after a roll call vote, with one senator briefly explaining a late vote due to weather. Finally, the committee began hearing Senate Bill 12, which would allow mid-level practitioners to serve as the leader of a Level IV trauma center under physician direction. The sponsor and witnesses from Appalachian Regional Healthcare argued the change would help address rural trauma-care shortages, align with national standards, and improve access without changing scope of practice or other trauma-center requirements. Several members raised questions and comments about rural access, liability, costs, and the broader health impacts, but no vote on the bill was taken in the portion of the meeting provided.

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• We work to help improve transfer of students from two-year to four-year and four-year to four-year if
• We look at transfer, as Travis talked about, even beyond policy, to really look at the experience of
• We look at transfer, as resources.
• transfer and continue their education. transfer and continue their education.
• Almost all of them were transferable. We're fixing any of the things that aren't.

Keywords: 958, all

Summary: The Budget Review Subcommittee on Education met for an overview of the Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE). After approving the prior meeting minutes, staff from CPE explained that the council was reconstituted in 1997 and serves as Kentucky’s statewide coordinating body for higher education, with responsibilities including advising the General Assembly and governor, coordinating the postsecondary system, supporting budget and performance funding work, and using data to track outcomes. They described Kentucky’s governance structure, including the KCTCS governing board, independent boards at public universities, and CPE’s role in licensing private institutions and overseeing transfer, closed-school records, and tuition approval. CPE staff emphasized statewide strategic planning and the “60 by 30” goal of having 60% of working-age Kentuckians hold a meaningful credential by 2030. They said the agency uses dashboards, KPIs, and peer comparisons to set targets for institutions and monitor enrollment, retention, and graduation. They also highlighted the Kentucky Graduate Profile, a voluntary effort to embed 10 essential workforce skills into general education and major programs, and noted ongoing work on academic program approval, performance funding, and a biennial budget request. The presentation also focused on student support and workforce alignment initiatives. Staff described the Kentucky Advising Academy, the Commonwealth Education Continuum, and the Kentucky Student Success Collaborative, which work with K-12 partners and campuses to improve advising, transfer, wraparound supports, and career planning. They also discussed GEAR UP, the Futurity career-planning platform, and efforts to connect education pathways to workforce needs, including healthcare, veterans, and other adult learners. CPE reported that student debt at graduation has fallen to $10,168 at public institutions and that six in ten Kentucky undergraduates graduate debt free.

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• , own, possess, receive, sell, transfer, own, possess, receive, sell, transfer, or<00:13:11.839><
• instructions that may be uh, or transfer instructions that may be used<00:13:49.360> to<00:13
• <00:15:01.440> to<00:15:01.600> them disposal of firearms transferred to them disposal
• of firearms transferred to them via<00:15:02.160> an<00:15:02.320> orbo.
• allow subjects of an OO to transfer allow subjects of an OO to transfer their<00:15:17.760> firearms

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• transfers, we commissioned a weighted workload study for clerk work.
• And in 2023, we did have a bill to finalize that transfer.
• But what happens is, by statute, when they did the clerk of court transfer, for any county...
• When they did the clerk of court transfer, any county that had five or more employees in the clerk's
• And then finally, the statute says if you're under one full-time FTE, you can't transfer.

Keywords: 908, all

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• Delays in transferring licenses have huge consequences for military families.
• <00:47:00.800> of<00:47:00.960> licenses it by making the transfer of licenses it by
• making the transfer of licenses from<00:47:01.760> one<00:47:02.000> state<00:47:02.240
• Delays<00:47:17.520> in<00:47:17.760> transferring<00:47:18.319> licenses<00:47:
• 19.680> have Delays in transferring licenses have Delays in transferring licenses have huge<00

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

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• has special education needs or has learning difficulties would need additional resources as they transfer
• Parents do that every day whether it be a public school transfer, whether it be moving from one public
• Just like it is today if a child decides not to come to school or they transfer to another school.
• It says the Governor and the Legislative Budget Board may not transfer or...
• My own kids transferred into other public schools within the school district.

Bills: HB 3

Keywords: emergency communication, public safety, interoperability, Texas Interoperability Council, grant program, emergency communications, public safety radio, first responders, radio system, dispatch, 911, emergency management, Texas Division of Emergency Management, public safety infrastructure, Project 25, P25, broadband emergency alerting, outdoor warning sirens, homeland security, disaster response

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• And it's a good time to talk about that one because there is a required transfer to the general fund
• So there'll be a transfer that will take place in the month of June based on the financial statement
• And that's what will be transferred to the general fund.
• It would be a transfer of $500,000 from the state special fund contingency appropriation to DPI, and
• Well, Senator Magrum, this is just a transfer of funds from one line to another to pay the bill.

Summary: The Budget Section approved the March 18 minutes and received an OMB update showing the general fund is still ahead of the budgeted starting point, but revenues through May are now about $76 million below the legislative forecast, driven mainly by individual income tax and sales tax shortfalls. OMB also reported the budget stabilization fund is above its cap, meaning a transfer to the general fund is expected, and reviewed oil price/production assumptions, noting continued volatility. Members asked about the income tax netting process, the sales tax decline, oil price discounts/premiums, natural gas taxation, and when the executive branch would present its revenue forecast. The committee then acted on several Emergency Commission requests. It approved, as a group, requests for federal mine reclamation funds for the Public Service Commission, an additional criminal investigator FTE and funding for the Attorney General’s office, and a DPI transfer for bridge software costs. It separately approved DPI request 2164 for $500,000 to support the food vendor program after debate over whether the program’s savings were known and whether the money was simply a pass-through. OMB also reported on federal grants, fiscal irregularities, tobacco settlement proceeds, budget guidelines for agencies, FTE pool usage, vacancy savings, and the DAPL settlement, noting the settlement funds had been deposited and that a deficiency appropriation may be needed later to cover remaining accrued interest. Tax Commissioner Brian Kroshus presented on the primary residence credit program, saying participation has grown sharply and that the current biennium will likely need about $431 million, roughly $22 million above the appropriation. He explained how the credit interacts with homestead and disabled veteran benefits, how the 3% property tax cap works, and why county valuations and mill rates vary. The committee also received a Legacy Fund/Budget Stabilization Fund report showing strong returns, and DOT Director Ron Henke received approval for two Flex Fund highway projects on ND 49 and ND 31. Henke also explained remaining Highway 85 funding and said the department is exploring uses for leftover state dollars. Finally, the Department of Mineral Resources reported on abandoned well plugging and site restoration, noting North Dakota remains in relatively strong shape compared with other states, and DPI began a presentation on gap funding tied to the 3% levy cap, reporting 24 districts received $1.8 million in the first year and projecting higher future needs.

Transcript Highlights:

• I was lucky that it was midweek, with little traffic, and I was transferred to B.I.
• You're supposed to transfer these patients in who are supposed to go up. Nothing's moving.
• And I hope somebody's going to do a study on the transfer issue because I think these guys being held
• You're supposed to transfer these patients in who are supposed to go up. Nothing.
• You're supposed to transfer these patients in who are supposed to go up. Nothing's moving.

Keywords: 995, all

Summary: The committee first heard testimony on H. 3599, a bill concerning access to historic Indian lands and easements for landlocked tribal parcels in Massachusetts. Witnesses, including members of the Mashpee Wampanoag and Herring Pond communities, said the bill would restore access to family lands that have long been treated as landlocked and had been denied easements by necessity in prior court rulings. They described heavy tax burdens, prior litigation, and support from the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, with conditional support from the Aquinnah Wampanoag Tribe pending language changes. Committee members asked about the tax assessments and the status of tribal support, and the chair said the committee would follow up on possible amendments. The committee then took up S. 2922, which would authorize an underground easement at Magazine Beach in Cambridge for the Greater Cambridge Energy Project. Eversource representatives said the easement is needed for a transmission line connecting the Brighton and Kendall Square substations, supporting grid reliability and the Commonwealth’s clean energy transition. They said DCR would receive fair market value and replacement land in Wendell to satisfy Article 97 requirements. No objections were raised, and the panel’s testimony concluded without a vote recorded in the transcript. Most of the hearing focused on H. 5047, which would authorize the Commonwealth to take the Norwood Hospital site by eminent domain so the hospital can be restored. Sponsors, local officials, hospital task force members, EMS and fire representatives, a chamber of commerce leader, and a former hospital administrator all argued that the 2020 flood and Steward’s bankruptcy left the region without adequate care, causing longer ambulance transports, emergency room boarding, staffing strain, and economic losses. They said the site remains a partially completed shell, that the state should be able to acquire it and bring in a nonprofit operator, and that the taking would not require state funding because an operator would pay the acquisition costs. Committee members from both chambers expressed support and asked about costs, timing, infrastructure, and whether a nonprofit operator is being pursued. The chair took the bill under advisement after extensive testimony; no vote was taken in the transcript.

Transcript Highlights:

• House Bill 4625 relates to the excise tax on property transfers and seeks to update the law in this area
• valuation requirement is intended to prevent filers from fraudulently reporting a value below the transfer
• The bill adds some new exemptions from the transfer tax when the transfers are without consideration,
• such as transfers between family members or transferring mineral interests. ...consideration, such as
• transfers between family members or transferring mineral interests.

Keywords: 994, senate, all

Summary: The Senate met on March 11, 2026, with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, journal approval, and numerous guest and page introductions, including school groups, prayer caucus visitors, and advocates for Home Family Education Day and Women in Blue Day. The chamber then took up committee reports and a large number of House bills, most of them on third reading, along with several resolutions and referrals. Senate Resolution 62, designating March 12, 2026, as West Virginia Athletic Trainers Day, was adopted after remarks emphasizing the value of athletic trainers in preventing injuries and tragedies in school sports. Several other resolutions and concurrent resolutions were referred to the Committee on Rules or laid over under the rules. The Senate passed a wide range of bills addressing economic development, public safety, health, licensing, and state administration. Measures approved included bills on the West Virginia Collaboratory at Marshall University, the Business Ready Sites program, volunteer fire company spending authority, the Load Forecast Accountability Act, funeral service licensure, work zone fines, biennial business reporting, correctional officer retirement law, the Right to Try Act, quick claim deed tax exemptions, an ibogaine drug-development grant program, aggravated vehicular homicide sentencing, 529 savings plan definitions, opportunity zones, barber apprenticeship, municipal and county hotel occupancy fund uses, criminal-record licensing standards, intimate image disclosure remedies, executor training materials, contempt penalties, PEIA treatment flexibility, PANS/PANDAS information, the Respiratory Care Interstate Compact, capitation rate review expansions, convention and visitors bureau board membership, peer support services, cosmetology licensure compacts, natural resource police retirement, DNR fee indexing, ALS care services, the Neighborhood Investment Program, oil and gas well plugging and carbon capture-related provisions, DUI technical changes, abuse intervention program terminology, and a youth summer employment and career readiness program. Most bills passed overwhelmingly, with a few closer votes, including the Load Forecast Accountability Act and the DNR fee-indexing bill. Several bills were amended on the floor, including title amendments and strike-and-insert changes. The Senate also debated the work zone penalty bill, with supporters citing worker safety and fatalities and opponents arguing the bill increased fines too much without requiring removal of outdated work-zone signs. On the energy-related load forecast bill, senators discussed the inclusion of provisions from Senate Bill 420 and concerns about coal plant utilization and utility impacts. After debate, the Senate adopted amendments and passed the bill. In most cases, after passage the Senate ordered the bills communicated to the House, and for a few measures it also adopted title amendments or made bills effective from passage or on a specified date.

Transcript Highlights:

• And then on the top of page two, line one, we transfer it to the Department of Transportation.
• city of Lander was trying to find a place to do additional housing and asked if we could likewise transfer
• Then the question is what's the quickest and most streamlined way to transfer this over to the Department
• Then the question is what's the quickest and most streamlined way to transfer this over to the Department
• used by the Honor Farm, and also I would like to know how does that organization feel about this transfer

Bills: SF0069, SF0084, SF0050, SF0109, HB0069, HB0098

Keywords: wastewater, stormwater, infrastructure, environmental quality, public data, data collection, funding, study, water conservation, Colorado River, drought, irrigation, water rights, voluntary program, interstate agreements, groundwater, water resource management, state engineer, aquifer study, corrective controls

Transcript Highlights:

• The board, um, there's a $1,000 fee that is for the transfer of pre-need authority, and we only have
• And that's just simply because of the work that it goes into a transfer or a sale of a business cannot
• <00:15:43.519> of<00:15:43.760> prenate fee that is for the transfer of prenate fee
• that is for the transfer of prenate of<00:15:45.360> authority<00:15:46.240> and<00:15
• or a sale of a goes into a transfer or a sale of a business<00:15:56.320> cannot<00:15:56.800

Bills: SB7, SB22, SB39, SB40, SB45, SB46, SB86, SB95, SB107, SB7, SB22, SB39, SB40, SB45, SB46, SB86, SB95, SB107

Keywords: voting rights, absentee ballot, protected classes, Alabama Voting Rights Act, felony conviction, election integrity, preclearance, Alabama Jobs Act, incentives, job creation, economic development, recapture provisions, capital investment, employment, board governance, occupational licensing, Sunset Law, public accountability, training requirements, SB40

Transcript Highlights:

• This is general fund revenue that's built into the cybersecurity office that gets transferred over to
• Both recommendations support the same revenue from other transfers.
• Line two, other transfers $9,157,000,000 versus the Executive $9,256,000,000, which is a $99,000,000
• Under program support, LFC reduced other transfers by $99,200 due to the removal of the proposed OCS
• So as far as transferring appropriations, where would we get the money if we don't have it now?

Keywords: 996, all

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• Acquisition, by whatever means—if it's a transfer, if it's a purchase, whatever—of those BLM lands, so
• I added this slide because I know that there have been questions about the sale of land and the transfer
• For land transfer.
• No monetary involvement, just a straight transfer.
• They came to own it through a transfer process that involved thievery, and BLM naturally claimed ownership

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• As the law is now, there is an annual transfer of $3 million into the fund from the state road fund.
• The bill would allow the commissioner of highways to transfer an additional $3 million in any fiscal
• On or before July 1 of this year, the authority is to transfer $75 million... Annually.
• On or before July 1 of this year, the authority is to transfer $75 million from the Economic Development
• appropriation that appropriates $4,000,000 from the general revenue surplus balance to a new Armory Board transfer

Keywords: 994, senate, all

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• Program benefits; reverting certain balances from certain General Fund appropriations; providing for transfers
• Operating Reserve to the Appropriation Contingency Fund and the Medicaid. trust fund; providing a transfer
• authority if revenue and transfers to the General Fund at the end of the fiscal year 2025 are not sufficient
• There is some transferability in the contingency fund.
• operating reserve, PIT and CIT did not come in to what we projected, and we are giving them authority to transfer

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• There's a piece that still hasn't been transferred into the trust fund yet.
• This has to do with funds from the General Revenue Fund that are being transferred to the Emergency Preparedness
• So we used a three-year average of what the transfers have typically run, and then carried that throughout
• So usually we focus on one-time trust fund transfers and making a revenue adjustment for that piece.
• The amendment seeks approval to transfer the qualified expenditure category appropriation of $949,565

Summary: The Legislative Budget Commission met with a quorum present to hear the constitutionally required Long-Range Financial Outlook and consider a series of budget amendments. Amy Baker of the Office of Economic and Demographic Research presented the outlook, describing Florida’s continued population growth, strong wage growth, an aging population, housing-market softening, and low consumer sentiment. She said the general revenue forecast was largely unchanged from March, but the state’s funds available had improved because of legislative actions in 2025 that increased the balance forward. She also noted strong reserves, a projected current-year Medicaid deficit of about $125 million, and a three-year outlook that remains positive in the first year but turns negative in years two and three. She highlighted the risk of co-occurring catastrophic events, using a normalized Great Miami Hurricane scenario to illustrate potential state losses. The outlook was adopted after brief comments from House and Senate members emphasizing fiscal restraint and efficiency. The commission then approved multiple budget amendments, mostly without objection. The Agency for Health Care Administration received amendments to realign funding for Florida KidCare based on estimating conference results, to provide $85 million in budget authority for disproportionate share hospital payments, and to adjust Medicaid and long-term care appropriations, including placing surplus funds into reserve. The Department of Health received $6.3 million in additional authority for newborn screening. The Department of Corrections and the Department of Management Services each received $2.2 million in Private Inmate Welfare Trust Fund authority for repair invoices and pending projects. The Department of State was authorized to release $2.5 million in nonrecurring general revenue for cultural and museum grants and America 250 commemorative grants. The Department of Transportation received approval for a project roll-forward and for work program changes, including advancing I-95 widening in Duval County and the I-4 corridor in Polk and Osceola counties. The meeting ended with a motion to adjourn.

Transcript Highlights:

• now be paying for this with the general fund funds out of the special revenue account that it's transferred
• :03:34.080> account<00:03:34.239> that<00:03:34.480> it's<00:03:34.640> transferred
• revenue account that it's transferred revenue account that it's transferred to.<00:03:36.080>
• So, 135 million was appropriated from the general fund and transferred to the special account in fiscal

Keywords: 1183, house

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• Members, this is the bill we heard previously by Representative Wharton, relating to the transfer of
• restitution is delayed due to incomplete or missing victim contact information when the funds are transferred
• include key information, such as the victim's last known address and a detailed payment history when transferring
• Office of the Attorney General, ensuring those dollars still support victims rather than being transferred
• This bill would amend the government code to allow correctional officers to voluntarily transfer up to

Bills: HB153, HB1828, HB2306, HB2498, HB3464, HB3488, HB3636, HB3673, HB3834, HB3860, HB4120, HB4937, HB1515, HB153

Keywords: education, funding, student resources, technology access, equal opportunity, veterans treatment court, mental health, criminal justice, rehabilitation, eligibility criteria, veterans, treatment court, military service, legislation, legislative leave, correctional officers, Texas Department of Criminal Justice, accumulated leave, compensatory time, parole eligibility