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KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Government Contract Review Committee (9-9-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- Uh, it is a USDA program administered nationally. Kentucky administers it.
- It is funded by the USDA.
- it is a USDA Uh it is a USDA uh<01:19:57.040>
program <01:19:58.080>administered <01:19 - It is funded by the<01:20:02.280>
USDA. - It is SNAP, and I refer to it the USDA.
Summary:
The committee first approved the August 12 minutes and then handled a large agenda of 355 contracts totaling about $278.7 million. It agreed to defer three Office of Energy Policy items to the October 2025 meeting and reviewed a deferred Kentucky Educational Television contract without objection. The main substantive discussion centered on two University of Louisville legal services PSC amendments and a Seven Counties Services MOA item.
For the University of Louisville items, members questioned a large increase in hourly rates and the scope of the legal services, especially complex litigation work and a Colorado estate matter. University officials said the contracts followed an RFP, involved specialized litigation, included local counsel where required, and were expected to be offset by savings in other PSCs and by a potential financial recovery in the Colorado matter. The committee also discussed whether the $125 hourly rate was a statutory requirement or committee policy; the chair later said staff would verify whether it was an executive-branch regulation or statutory rate. Both University of Louisville items were ultimately approved, though Senator Meredith voted no on one and Senator Douglas explained his support while urging future adjustments and more information sharing.
The Seven Counties Services contract drew questions about how the $18.7 million would be used and whether federal changes could affect future funding. Cabinet officials described 988 crisis response, outpatient mental health and substance use treatment, prevention, recovery, and harm-reduction services, and said they were monitoring federal developments daily. Representative Petrie and Senator Thomas pressed the cabinet on the long-running Seven Counties bankruptcy and the need to push for resolution; officials said the matter was pending on a motion for reconsideration and that they would try to help move it along. The contract was approved.
At the end of the meeting, the committee approved the remaining agenda items as reviewed without objection, but Senator Meredith voted no on the blanket approval motion because of numerous retroactive contract requests and what she said were insufficient explanations such as administrative error or staff being on conference. She said retroactive approvals should be rare and supported stronger internal controls.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
Health and Human Services Oversight Committee (10/24/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- And so we received a letter from Food and Nutrition Services, which is part of USDA, the United States
- um services which is um part of USDA um United<00:07:16.400>
States <00:07:16.720>Department - So, from uh, it is they are both one of the ways they are the same is they are both funded by the USDA
- is they are both funded by the um USDA is they are both funded by the um USDA the<00:13:15.360><
- We anticipate, we have heard similarly from USDA.
Summary:
The committee first approved the draft minutes from September 26. Senator Gray then raised the idea of creating a continuing subcommittee or recurring agenda item on palliative care and hospice, noting that the issues are evolving and suggesting the committee revisit the idea in coming months.
The bulk of the meeting focused on Department of Health and Human Services updates. Officials described contingency planning for SNAP amid the federal shutdown, including a USDA notice that November benefits may not be fully funded, letters to participants warning of possible delays, and coordination with the New Hampshire Food Bank and local pantries. They said New Hampshire serves about 42,000 SNAP households, with average benefits around $300 a month, and that the department is also preparing to transfer funds for a special fiscal committee meeting. WIC was discussed separately: officials said WIC benefits had been extended through November 7 using additional USDA funds, but that some community agency-based WIC services may need to pause while money is redirected to food benefits.
Officials also outlined New Hampshire’s rural health transformation grant application under the federal One Big Beautiful Bill, describing a potential five-year, up-to-$1 billion opportunity focused on critical access hospitals, small rural hospitals, federally qualified health centers, community mental health centers, and EMS. Members asked about transportation, workforce, and nursing retention; officials said transportation is included in the proposal, housing is not, and workforce supports may include lower tuition or awards but not loan repayment or traditional scholarships. They also said the final application would be submitted in early November and that priorities would be adjusted depending on the eventual federal award.
Finally, Medicaid director Henry Lipman gave a quarterly postpartum coverage update. He said postpartum coverage is now nearly universal nationwide, and in New Hampshire 2,351 women had used the benefit through May 2025. He reported that mental health services were the most frequently used postpartum service, followed by preventive care, substance use disorder treatment, and cardiovascular-related care, and noted that Medicaid women have experienced a disproportionate share of maternal deaths. Committee members asked about rural distribution and the share of women receiving mental health services, and Lipman said the department would follow up with additional data. The meeting then moved into the annual update on New Hampshire’s 10-year mental health plan, with staff describing progress toward a more integrated continuum of care and improved data infrastructure.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband and Rural Development - 02/19/25
Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband, and Rural Development
Transcript Highlights:
- a second-time opportunity, to receive some CCC, some Commodity Credit Corporation funding from the USDA
- In other words, USDA is, you know, entering into a cooperative agreement with the state for over some
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the cor cor Corporation funding from the cor cor Corporation funding from the USDA - it in other words USDA is you know<01:47:17.400>
it's <01:47:17.639>it's <01:47:17.880> - so Mr chair so what's from the USDA so Mr chair so what's what's<01:47:49.080>
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NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Water and Natural Resources Aug 18th, 2025
Water & Natural Resources Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- The last thing I wanted to discuss is that USDA recently came out with a reorganization plan, which included
- The proposal is to move about 4,600 USDA employees who work in the D.C. area, with the idea of relocating
- USDA has a large service center there that manages many of their grants and agreements, serving not just
- tremendous amount of uncertainty as to what it will actually look like within the different agencies of USDA
- Presenters, my first question is for USDA regarding the farm safety and disaster and the crop insurance
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Federal Funding Stabilization Subcommittee May 28th, 2025
Federal Funding Stabilization Subcommittee
Transcript Highlights:
- Very few grants get that 50%, um, you know, when you get like a USDA or an education one, those amounts
- Is there any way to look at that adjustment rate, or is that done federally through the, whoever, USDA
- or I don't know who USDA runs a SNAP program, right?
- Um, yeah, USDA, it's run by USDA, um. And it falls under the farm bill, that's all snapped.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- lot with Northland Potato Growers Association, which is a potato promotion council, as well as the USDA
- lot with Northland Potato Growers Association, which is a potato promotion council, as well as the USDA
- lot with Northland Potato Growers Association, which is a potato promotion council, as well as the USDA
- ARS facility uh to the med USDA ARS facility uh to the med immediate<00:41:12.640>
east. - under USDA authorization. under USDA authorization.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband and Rural Development - 01/29/25
Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband, and Rural Development
Transcript Highlights:
- Some of the Minnesota deer farmers have already done that, and they’re above and beyond what the USDA
- > they're they're above and beyond what they're they're above and beyond what the<01:04:34.720>
USDA - asks them to do they're the USDA asks them to do they're regulating<01:04:37.960>
themselves < - But one very important note is all of our farms are USDA-certified in a CWD monitoring program.
- We have clean, healthy farms, and the USDA will tell you that. Let's depend on that science.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Environment and Agriculture (01/14/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- We have some more on an individual level, so we have a lot of USDA data and statistics.
- There are some individual-level measures, including USDA data and statistics, grant-specific metrics,
- But yes, we do regularly work with USDA and Fish and Game, USDA Wildlife Services, another wildlife component
- with uh USDA and uh fishing<03:25:22.960>
game <03:25:23.640>um <03:25:23.760>USDA< - Extension USDA apys which is the animal Extension USDA apys which is the animal plant<03:52:28.720>
Summary:
The Environment and Agriculture Committee held an introductory orientation for members, many of whom were new or newly assigned to the committee. Leadership emphasized that the committee is intended to operate in a nonpartisan, collaborative way, and members introduced themselves and described their backgrounds in farming, gardening, food service, environmental work, water and waste issues, veterinary work, and related fields. Several members noted personal ties to homesteading, livestock, orcharding, food security, landfill concerns, and animal welfare, while others said they were eager to learn the committee’s work.
The chair then reviewed committee procedures and expectations. Members were told the committee would generally meet on Tuesdays, with hearings starting around 10 a.m. and often running until about 4:30 p.m., and that absences, substitutes for executive sessions, and email communications would be handled through House rules and the committee’s email system. The chair also covered decorum rules for live-streamed meetings, including professional dress, limiting food and drink at the table, and giving full attention to witnesses. Members were reminded that legislative emails are subject to public records laws and that the committee may soon transition to a new email domain.
The chair also explained logistics such as bill folders, committee room storage, and emergency procedures for evacuation or shelter-in-place. No bills were debated or voted on in this meeting, but the chair noted that the committee already had roughly two dozen bills pending, including animal welfare, landfill, policy, and cat-and-dog related measures. Members were told to expect a broad mix of topics beyond agriculture, including solid waste and animal-related legislation.
FL
Florida 2026 Regular Session
FL House Floor Session - 2026-01-14 (4:00PM Session)
Florida House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- the bill raises the minimum SHIP allocation to a million dollars and dedicates funding to preserve USDA-subsidized
- Last year, when you and I sat down with Secretary Rollins, the USDA Secretary Rollins, and talked about
- ... ...Secretary Rollins, the USDA Secretary Rollins, and talked about the impact that a bill like this
Summary:
The Senate convened with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and several introductions, including recognition of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority’s Founders’ Day and a visiting debate student. The chamber then received and adopted, by a 39-0 vote, a committee report confirming 52 gubernatorial executive appointments to various state, regional, and local boards and commissions.
The first major bill was SB 250 on rural communities, described as a broad “Rural Renaissance” package. Sponsor Senator Simon outlined provisions creating an Office of Rural Prosperity, a Renaissance Grant Program for counties facing population loss, housing and transportation investments, additional funding for rural education, and rural health care support. Two amendments were adopted to remove overlapping grant language tied to new federal rural health funding and to update hospital funding estimates. Senators from both parties generally supported the bill, though some raised questions about eligibility for certain rural areas and how funds would be accessed. The bill passed 39-0.
The Senate then took up CS/SB 318 on educational scholarship programs. Senator Gates said the bill responds to Auditor General findings by separating scholarship funding from public school funding, requiring student identification and enrollment verification, reducing administrative fees for scholarship funding organizations, requiring annual audits, and directing the Department of Education to develop a competitive selection and performance-based business plan for those organizations. Three amendments were adopted, including changes to the stabilization fund and documentation requirements. Senators from both parties debated transparency, accountability, and implementation concerns, with some also urging future attention to declining-enrollment school districts and the quality of scholarship providers. The bill passed 38-0.
At the end of the session, the Senate waived rules to immediately certify SB 250 and CS/SB 318 to the House, welcomed Palm Beach County visitors in the gallery, and adjourned until the next scheduled meeting.
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Water, Agriculture, and Rural Affairs Mar 10th, 2025
Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- roles in helping secure $280 million in disaster assistance for Rio Grande Valley farmers through the USDA
- Row crop farmers like myself have filed for prevented planting through the USDA RMA's crop insurance
- Row crop farmers like myself have filed for prevented planting through the USDA RMA's crop insurance
Keywords:
water rights, treaty compliance, Rio Grande, agriculture, drought, international water, Texas water supply, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, TPWD, harvest reports, wildlife harvest data, public information act, open records, confidentiality, hunter privacy, angler data, game animals, game birds, fur-bearing animals, nongame animals
Summary:
The Senate Committee on Water, Agriculture, and Rural Affairs met without a quorum at first, then later established quorum and proceeded with testimony and votes. Senate Bill 1248, by Chair Perry, was explained as a narrow Open Records Act exception to protect harvest report location data collected through Texas Parks and Wildlife’s digital tagging system. Support testimony came from Matt Wagner of the Texas Chapter of The Wildlife Society, who said the bill would protect private land and sensitive biological information while preserving useful wildlife data. No one testified against the bill, and it was left pending until later in the meeting.
The committee then heard Senate Concurrent Resolution 13, which urges the State Department and the International Boundary and Water Commission to press Mexico to comply with the 1944 Water Treaty and deliver its share of Rio Grande water. Senator Hinojosa, farmers, municipal officials, and other witnesses described severe water shortages in South Texas, low reservoir levels, crop losses, the closure of the Valley sugar industry, and the need for alternative supplies such as desalination, reuse, and drainage-runoff projects. Members also discussed treaty enforcement, regional drought, and the role of cartels and Mexican water storage, while emphasizing that Texas must also invest in its own water infrastructure.
The committee also considered Senate Bill 740, which the committee substitute amended to require the Public Utility Commission to adopt a standardized application form for system improvement charges and complete related rulemaking by September 1, 2026, applying only to applications filed on or after that date. Members discussed concerns about water wholesalers using the process to delay cases and drive up costs, and the need for more transparency and PUC resources. The committee voted to adopt the substitute and report SB 740 favorably. After returning to the earlier items, the committee voted SB 1248 out favorably and recommended it for the local and uncontested calendar, and voted SCR 13 out favorably as well. The committee then recessed subject to the call of the chair.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband and Rural Development - 04/13/26
Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband, and Rural Development
Transcript Highlights:
- <00:10:40.200>
has <00:10:40.400>shown The USDA Census of Agriculture has shown The - USDA Census of Agriculture has shown that<00:10:40.880>
Minnesota's <00:10:41.440>farmland - USDA defines land converted to solar as a non-agricultural use.
- USDA defines land converted to solar as a non-agricultural use.
- It aligns the statute with the state hemp plan that we have filed and approved with the USDA.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Conference Committee on HF2446 5/9/25
Transcript Highlights:
- One other piece, and I'd say the USDA has been really focused on, is biosecurity.
- our uh issues we've had with the USDA our uh issues we've had with the USDA cuts<00:58:37.119>
- whatever we can do to assist that, and I've said in our committees, we don't have a checkbook like USDA
- <01:13:04.080>
We <01:13:04.320>can't checkbook like USDA does.- We can't checkbook like USDA does.
Summary:
The Agriculture Conference Committee met for an initial organizational and comparison session on House File 2446, the agriculture broadband and rural development bill. Members introduced themselves, noted that no conference target had yet been set, and agreed to begin with a side-by-side review of House and Senate positions. No oral testimony was taken; instead, the chair listed written testimony submitted by a wide range of agricultural, environmental, local government, food bank, and industry groups.
Nonpartisan fiscal staff walked through the major funding differences. Both bills included some shared items such as operating adjustments, wolf and elk damage compensation, and certain technical changes, but they differed on several major appropriations. The House generally proposed larger increases for meat inspection, local food purchasing, and the Board of Animal Health, and added items such as county inspector grants, biofertilizer innovation, a biosolids/PFAS-related study, a soil health study, broadband installation study funding, an Agri Works program, an Agri Support program, a milk grant program, and several House-only transfers and grants. The Senate included items such as a climate coordinator position, biofuel-related reductions and policy changes, livestock processing funding, farm-to-school and urban agriculture changes, MARL funding, cottage foods licensing updates, and several Senate-only pass-through grants and transfers. Staff also noted differences in the agriculture emergency account transfer approach and in how the two bodies handled the Second Harvest Heartland and related food distribution provisions.
House Research then reviewed the policy language differences in the bill. The House language included provisions allowing more flexible use of grant administration funds, unpaid prior-year claims, county inspector grants, and updates tied to its own policy article, while the Senate language included the climate coordinator, PFAS-related commercialization language, cooperative development grant permissive language, and other Senate policy changes. The committee did not take any votes or final actions at this meeting; the session was informational and focused on identifying differences for later negotiation.
NV
Nevada 2025 Regular Session
Assembly Committee on Health and Human Services May 31st, 2025 at 12:00 pm
MO
Missouri 2026 Regular Session
2026 Legislative Session - Day Sixty Eight - Tuesday, May 12
Missouri House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Recently, over the last basically five years, a lot of conservation programs at USDA have gone through
- If you're familiar with the EQIP catch-all giant program within USDA.
- Well, as that happened over time, there were... within USDA.
- Well, as that happened over time, there were... ...within USDA.
- So when Congress authorizes and reauthorizes spending around USDA land conservation and conservation
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Lopez, you're very aware, and several of you are, that USDA just sent $280 million for our producers
- If you look at the USDA reports on how we can control screw worms...
- So USDA model. And this has been around for the last 25 years.
- Both the FDA and the USDA require an in-person exam to develop a VCPR to be able to diagnose, treat,
- It is regulated by the USDA and the Texas Department of Agriculture.
Keywords:
agriculture, finance, young farmers, financial assistance, pest control, veterinarian, veterinary medicine, veterinary telemedicine, telehealth, telemedicine, veterinarian-client-patient relationship, VCPR, animal health, livestock, pets, remote care, electronic means, telephone consultation, controlled substances, prescription drugs
Summary:
The second bill, House Bill 3469, was introduced to address pest control regulations concerning nuisance birds. Representative Campos explained how the bill proposes non-lethal methods to deter these birds, such as the use of laser lights and sounds, which avoids conflict with both state and federal regulations. The committee heard impassioned testimonies from members of the public who shared firsthand experiences regarding the adverse effects of these birds on property and public health. The meeting concluded with both bills being left pending, reflecting a desire for further deliberation among the committee members.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Finance Jun 24th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- Eagle Nest, uh, so our relationship is, is, is solidifying that aspect through, through the, the USDA
- So, uh, in my mind, and the documentation we have with the USDA, uh, the, the project is a, is a funded
- So from the USDA standpoint, uh, they've already checked the boxes and now we're in the process of.
- I mean, we, we, it was, we had a team of USDA assigned to our hydrogen project just to make sure for
- So I just want to assure you, Senator, every everything's where it should be in the USDA RUS program,
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Finance May 15th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- It's really thanks to the capacity funds we get through USDA and our state appropriations.
- testing in Colorado and we, OK, um, and then the last one is just, can you just give us an update on the USDA
- , uh, the funds that we're going to provide to support USDA processing plants and what are they telling
- Even though it's a state inspection program, it still has to meet the requirements of USDA federal inspections
- that we have been working on recently, which, you know, a lot of NSF, a lot of, I mean, we we know USDA
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
Hearings to examine the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., of California, to be Secretary of Health and Human Services. Jan 29th, 2025 at 09:00 am
Finance Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- leave those basic cultural practice regulations to the proper agencies, and for the most part, that's USDA
- farmers and ranchers talk about the future, will you commit to working collaboratively with partners at USDA
- He wants me to work with Brooke Rollins at USDA to make sure that we preserve American farmers and that
- If I'm privileged to be confirmed, I'm not regulating farms; that's under USDA.
- With USDA and the farm community, we need to make sure that we don't lose more farmers in this country
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
House - Agriculture, Acequias And Water Resources Jan 27th, 2026 at 09:05 am
House Agriculture, Acequias And Water Resources
Transcript Highlights:
- This program used to be from '23 to '25 supported by USDA, and that program has ended, and that's why
- This is under the USDA program that we're going to try and continue.
- This is under the USDA program that we're going to try and continue.
- That number includes farmers, ranchers, food hubs, food aggregating businesses, USDA-regulated meat processing
TX
Texas 89th 2nd C.S.
S/C on Disease Prevention & Women's & Children's Health Mar 20th, 2025
S/C on Disease Prevention & Women's & Children's Health
Transcript Highlights:
- done a great job with it, and I think that seems to be a little bit your testimony of, hey, well, the USDA
- is doing, you know, not USDA, sorry, the FDA is doing a great job, and so we need to depend on them.
- Do you think the scientific rigor out of the USDA is better than the other countries?
- And I equally, it makes me nervous when people say they don't trust the USDA or the FDA, so who are we