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NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Finance Feb 13th, 2026 at 09:37 am

Senate Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • The GRT deduction for affordable housing is going to save millions of dollars for much needed affordable
  • That's affordable housing.
  • So while we call this affordable housing, affordable... ...expand.
  • So while we call this affordable housing, affordable housing is workforce housing also.
  • He says you can't cap GRT in affordable housing. So how, I mean... GRT and affordable housing.
Bills: SB151 , HB8 , SB177
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Community Affairs Feb 3rd, 2026

Community Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • Senate Bill 1342 is about addressing housing affordability in Florida by building on the progress we
  • This bill recognizes that housing affordability, traffic congestion, and land use policy are all deeply
  • First, I appreciate the legislative intent of this bill to locate affordable developments near transportation
  • We will move to tab 10, SB 1548, on affordable housing by Senator Cladde Ude.
  • As we continue to strengthen the policy that's helping increase workforce and affordable housing across
Bills: S0484 , S0698 , S0706 , S0968 , S1118 , S1122 , S1134 , S1320 , S1342 , S1548 , S1614
Summary: The committee heard several housing, local government, utility, and transparency bills. SB 1342 on transportation infrastructure and land development regulations, by Sen. Rouson, was presented as a housing-affordability measure modeled on the Live Local Act for transit corridors. After adopting an amendment that removed the bill’s compelling-governmental-interest language in enforcement provisions, the committee heard testimony from local-government and housing interests both supporting and opposing the bill’s zoning preemption approach. The bill was reported favorably. The committee also reported favorably CS/SB 1614, by Sen. Leek, which was amended to remove stormwater and code-enforcement spending provisions and to tighten restrictions on local governments seeking state appropriations after audits or without required affirmations. SB 1548, the next Live Local Act iteration by Sen. Claddie Ude, was also reported favorably; it expands where Live Local projects may be located and adds fair-housing protections. SB 968 on home backup power systems, by Sen. McLean, was reported favorably after testimony from builders and energy-related stakeholders, with the sponsor noting he was still working on amendments to refine permit provisions. The committee then approved CS/SB 698, by Sen. Martin, which allows building permits for single-family homes to be issued before septic permits are finalized if application has been made, while still requiring septic approval before occupancy. Builders testified that septic permit delays were causing lengthy project delays and contract cancellations. The committee also reported favorably SB 1320, by Sen. Martin, requiring county tax-increase referenda to include a Department of Financial Services spending analysis if available; the sponsor said the goal was to give voters more standardized fiscal information, while opponents argued existing law already provides similar transparency. SB 484, by Sen. Avila, on data centers, was reported favorably after an amendment adding a knowledge requirement to the foreign-country-of-concern service prohibition; the bill addresses local planning authority, nondisclosure agreements, utility tariff requirements, and water-use limits for large data centers. The committee also reported favorably SB 1118, by Sen. Avila, creating a one-year public-records exemption for data-center location and proprietary information, with testimony split between economic-development supporters and transparency concerns. Finally, the committee took up SB 706, by Sen. Mayfield, preempting naming of major commercial service airports to the state and designating Palm Beach International Airport as Donald J. Trump International Airport subject to federal and trademark conditions; it was reported favorably after questions about local input and airport naming. The committee then heard extensive public testimony on SB 1134, by Sen. Yarbrough, which would prohibit counties and municipalities from funding, promoting, or taking official actions related to DEI and would create penalties and a private right of action for residents. The sponsor argued the bill was aimed at preventing taxpayer-funded DEI programs and cited examples from Jacksonville and other jurisdictions; opponents said the bill was vague, overbroad, and would chill local programs, public education, and civil-rights-related activities. The transcript ends during continued public testimony on SB 1134, with no final committee action shown in the excerpt.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Taxes Committee 4/1/25

Taxes

Transcript Highlights:
  • </c> plet City Center support affordable plet City Center support affordable housing<00:07:57.120><c>
  • </c> will also help so support affordable will also help so support affordable housing<00:09:52.839><
  • </c> to be transferred to a city's affordable to be transferred to a city's affordable housing<00:31:
  • </c> to obligate new funds to affordable to obligate new funds to affordable housing<00:36:38.839><c>
  • </c> units diversifying their affordable units diversifying their affordable housing<00:40:54.000><c>
Committee: House Taxes
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Capital Investment Committee 3/25/25

Capital Investment

Transcript Highlights:
  • </c><00:14:16.320><c> housing</c> continue to have a uh affordable housing continue to have a uh affordable
  • Residents in our communities not only need deeply affordable housing, but at all levels of the affordability
  • Residents in our communities not only need deeply affordable housing, but at all levels of the affordability
  • Residents in our communities not only need deeply affordable housing, but at all levels of the affordability
  • Affordable with modest state investments, we could unlock a powerful tool in supply and affordability
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Capital Investment Committee 3/13/25

Capital Investment

Transcript Highlights:
  • We just don't have the funds to be able to provide safe and affordable water.
  • We just don't have the funds to be able to provide safe and affordable water.
  • We just don't have the funds to be able to provide safe and affordable water.
  • </c> Able to provide safe and affordable drinking water to our residents.
  • This is not a challenge we can afford to ignore.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Local Government May 19th, 2025

Local Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • It saves thousands of dollars in electricity costs per year and boosts home affordability.
  • If you have any questions, I'm happy to answer them. ...and boosts home affordability.
  • includes ARB training, includes the transparency of information on the internet, and provides a taxpayer leasing
  • looking at the full spectrum of problems present in the development world that contribute to our affordability
  • looking at the full spectrum of problems present in the development world that contribute to our affordability
Summary: The committee heard and left pending several local government, property tax, development, and public safety measures before later voting some of them out. Senator Birdwell explained SB 2784 for the Somerville County Hospital District, which would move the board to staggered four-year terms after a transition and was requested to be held pending until the House companion could be acted on; no public testimony was offered. HB 5084 would allow local approval for fireworks sales tied to Lunar New Year celebrations, with testimony from Hutchinson County Judge Cindy Irwin emphasizing local fire risk and the need for county discretion. HB 5534 would let county commissioners post agendas electronically instead of on a physical bulletin board. HB 4370 would expand permissible projects for certain special districts to include geothermal water conveyance systems, and HB 312 would require residential child detention facilities to enter local MOUs, report health and safety information, and conduct background checks for state-funded facilities; both drew supportive testimony and were left pending. HB 5057 would give displaced solid waste providers time to wind down after a city grants an exclusive franchise, and HB 2421 would extend the life of the Save Historic Muni District to continue work on preserving Lions Municipal Golf Course; both were left pending after supportive testimony. HB 2011 would let former owners repurchase property taken by eminent domain if the acquiring entity fails to pay property taxes for two years, and the committee substitute to SB 3065 was also laid out and left pending after a technical correction to eminent-domain language. The committee then took up additional bills on development, appraisal, and local regulation, including HB 3575, HB 4809, HB 2273, HB 247/HJR 34, HB 2464, HB 3424, HB 2013, HB 5668, HB 3788, HB 1533, and HB 23, with testimony ranging from support to opposition on issues such as appraisal procedures, historic property valuation, Galveston emergency governance, border-security tax treatment, home-based businesses, chicken covenants in HOAs, municipal utility district authority, hospital authorities’ use of assets, and third-party building review. HB 23 drew the most extensive testimony, with builders, engineers, counties, and cities split over third-party plan review and inspection authority, liability, licensing, and local code enforcement; many witnesses said the House amendments created problems and the bill was left pending. In the end, the committee voted SB 2784, SB 3065, HB 5686, HB 247, HJR 34, and HB 2011 out of committee, with the first several receiving local and uncontested calendar recommendations where applicable.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Taxes Committee Meeting - 2025-05-06

Taxes

Transcript Highlights:
  • hunting and recreational rights, or you can sell off the land. sustainably harvest timber, you can lease
  • Supportive housing, as many of you know, consists of deeply affordable homes paired with on-site services
  • the implementation of our registration duties, or even just let's do this because all other states afford
  • This issue would have made affordable housing unaffordable for its tenants, potentially leading some
  • I'm going to turn it over to... for cities to transfer access to affordable housing trust funds.
Bills: HF2730 , HF2257 , HF2768 , HF1932 , HF2437
Committee: House Taxes
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Taxes Committee 5/6/25

Taxes

Transcript Highlights:
  • housing and on property that affordable housing and on property that is<00:16:12.240><c> held</c><00
  • You can sustainably harvest timber, you can lease out the hunting and recreational rights, or you can
  • </c> which is affordable, which is amazing. which is affordable, which is amazing.
  • </c> affordability. Thank you very much. affordability. Thank you very much.
  • </c><01:36:03.440><c> homes</c> you know, is deeply affordable homes you know, is deeply affordable homes
Bills: HF2730 , HF2257 , HF2768 , HF1932 , HF2437
Committee: House Taxes
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Intergovernmental Affairs Apr 8th, 2025

Intergovernmental Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • Helping them afford a home in the same communities that they serve.
  • The housing affordability side of things, there's a growing housing affordability issue, like I'm sure
  • A survey showed that 70% of Americans reported being unable to afford a home.
  • I mean, let's face it, there could be damage with anyone you lease to.
  • Attracting tenants while also helping landlords lease units.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Intergovernmental Affairs Apr 8th, 2025

Intergovernmental Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • Air pollution is no longer a major problem in Texas, but affordability is.
  • far away from where they work. or go to school, or to live in housing that they're struggling to afford
  • Infrastructure development needs directly contribute to more affordable housing.
  • Old path towards a more resilient and affordable future.
  • About a third of those no longer operate the hospital, but lease the hospital.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

PSM-HWN Informational Briefing 04-13-2026

Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • To raze the facility, have developers come in and do mixed use, and then use the lease money from those
  • money from those lands to the lease money from those lands to offset<00:45:10.600><c> the</c><00:45:
  • </c> particularly if you can put affordable particularly if you can put affordable housing<00:45:25.080
  • Holding up the project is not going to make it more affordable.
  • The need still make it more affordable.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Health Finance and Policy Committee 3/25/26

Health Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • </c> is, I mean, how much can we afford is, I mean, how much can we afford &gt;&gt; [snorts] &gt;&gt;
  • </c> afford how much can our system afford? afford how much can our system afford?
  • It protects access to affordable care with transparent flat monthly pricing.
  • </c><01:18:53.640><c> care</c> It protects access to affordable care It protects access to affordable
  • It is affordable. It is an incredible option.
HI
Transcript Highlights:
  • And as you know, seniors say, “Well, the affordable rents aren’t affordable to us.”
  • And you know, from an affordability.
  • affordability period. So, I think this affordability period.
  • ><c> projects,</c> these affordable housing projects, these affordable housing projects, people<00:19
  • </c> the inventory for affordable housing. the inventory for affordable housing.
Committee: House Housing
Summary: The House Housing Committee opened its Friday morning hearing by noting potentially catastrophic flooding on the island and acknowledging that some members were absent helping their communities, so quorum for voting was uncertain. The committee then heard testimony on several housing-related measures, with most bills drawing support from housing agencies and community organizations and little or no opposition in the room. On SB 2069 SD2, SB 2177 SD2, and SB 2342 SD2, witnesses largely supported the measures. HHFDC supported SB 2069 and SB 2177, and HPHA supported SB 2342. For SB 2342, HHFDC raised concerns that the bill would alter the Qualified Allocation Plan outside the normal open, public process required by federal law and could exclude stakeholders; Kathy Charities echoed those concerns and also objected to changing point allocations in ways that could raise rents and weaken long-term affordability. Members questioned HHFDC about how the QAP is normally updated, the meaning of the point system, and whether a legislative working group could mandate changes; HHFDC said recommendations would still need public hearing and board approval. The committee also heard SB 2060 SD2, which would create a mixed-income subaccount in the rental housing revolving fund. HHFDC said the subaccount would likely use tier-two funds, estimated at about $100 million total, to support mixed-income projects above 60% AMI, citing Front Street Apartments as a possible example. Members asked about project selection and funding needs. On SB 2544 SD2, OHA opposed the bill’s Chapter 6E-related exemptions and mandatory review timelines, arguing that burial review protections should not be weakened and that the SPEED Task Force process was a better venue for streamlining. The sponsor later clarified that the bill was not meant to eliminate the 60-day review process but to make the deadline clearer. For SB 3011 SD1, which concerns public housing and pet ownership, HPHA and several humane organizations supported the measure, saying it would help low-income residents and seniors keep pets and benefit from animal companionship. HPHA explained its existing pet policy, including deposits, monthly fees, and restrictions, and said the requested funding would support ADA-accessible pet areas and related administration. Finally, on SB 2061 SD2, HCDA supported the bill while OHA opposed it unless protections for Hawaiian Crown and Government lands were strengthened. Committee members questioned the project’s 60/40 split between income-restricted and market-rate units, the 10-year owner-occupancy restriction, and the procurement exemption; the sponsor said the exemption was tied to a real estate transaction and that the project would still use 103D-like solicitation procedures. No votes were taken during the hearing, and several items were left for later action because quorum was uncertain.
HI
Transcript Highlights:
  • affordability? affordability?
  • </c> affordability committee. affordability committee.
  • </c> affordability period. affordability period.
  • </c> they're affordability. they're affordability.
  • . affordability. affordability.
Committee: House Housing
Summary: The committee first took up HB 2611, which would prohibit algorithmic price-setting in Hawaii’s rental market, require public education by the Attorney General, and establish fines and penalties. The Department of the Attorney General opposed the bill, saying its language was too unclear and could expose landlords and agents to criminal and civil liability for ordinary rent-setting practices based on public information or assistance from property professionals. Members asked about antitrust standards, tacit agreement, and whether using county-published affordable-rent schedules would be unlawful; the AG said that would not be unlawful if based on public information and without collusion. Testimony was mixed, with the chair noting support from the Hawaii Civil Rights Commission, Hawaii Realtors with comments, 50501 Hawaii and General Strike Hawaii, Haloha Project, 13 individuals, and one opponent. The committee then heard HB 2102, which clarifies that residential projects involving ground disturbance in high-risk areas remain subject to state historic preservation review and removes an exemption for lands presumed nominally sensitive. The Office of Planning and Sustainable Development and the Department of Planning and Permitting supported the measure, saying it would improve clarity and ensure review focuses on projects most likely to affect historic properties or iwi kupuna, while also urging language refinements to better define sensitive sandy-soil areas and balance preservation with housing timelines. NAP Hawaii opposed the bill, arguing it would undo progress made last session and that the current process already includes protections for inadvertent discoveries and efficiency for lower-risk areas. The Office of Hawaiian Affairs strongly supported HB 2102, explaining it was responding to beneficiary complaints about late-added language in last year’s law and saying the nominally sensitive-area language should be removed because it was adopted without sufficient stakeholder input and could be harmful to iwi kupuna protections. Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation and several individuals also supported the bill. Committee discussion focused on how “nominally sensitive” areas are determined, whether project proponents could self-certify areas as exempt, and how high-density residential projects should be treated; SHPD said it uses survey and monitoring data to map sensitivity, that highly sensitive areas like Kīauea are not nominally sensitive, and that some high-density projects should remain exempt if they do not involve new ground disturbance. The hearing included no final vote in the portion provided, but the chair noted 48 individuals in support and continued questioning on the bill’s definitions and implementation.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Housing Feb 4th, 2026 at 10:30 am

Housing

Transcript Highlights:
  • Affordability is super important.
  • I have 21 years of experience in the affordable housing space.
  • I'm currently the treasurer of the Pacific Northwest Women's Affordable Housing Network.
  • I have 21 years of experience in the affordable housing space.
  • I'm currently the treasurer of the Pacific Northwest Women's Affordable Housing Network.
Committee: Senate Housing
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Housing Jan 16th, 2026 at 10:30 am

Housing

Transcript Highlights:
  • We are grateful for finding will be Affordable.
  • In addition to services, it is also permanently affordable.
  • Our public benefit is that a portion of those homes are affordable.
  • And with a 99-year affordability requirement, each affordable home created will remain accessible to
  • unit, or we get two affordable units out of 20, or we get one affordable unit out of eight, if you think
Bills: SB6018 , SB6026 , SB6027 , SB6028 , SB5937 , SB5938
Committee: Senate Housing
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Local Government (Part II) May 26th, 2025

Local Government

Summary: The Senate Local Government Committee briefly convened and then immediately moved to recess. Senator Paxton made a motion to recess subject to the call of the chair, which was accepted. No bills, testimony, or substantive policy issues were discussed during the meeting. With no other business before the committee, it stood in recess subject to the call of the chair.