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TX
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  • And the chair lays out Senate Bill 209 and recognizes the author.
  • Senate Bill 1592 recognizes the author, Senator Blanco, to explain his bill.
  • Right, it would be somebody in the course of commerce paying for that.
  • That lays out Senate Bill 1265 and recognizes the author, Senator Alvarado.
  • This makes the Midland legislation and the Midland Authority much more viable.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Appropriations and Finance Feb 9th, 2026 at 06:36 pm

House Appropriations & Finance

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  • My name is Allison Riley with the New Mexico Chamber of Commerce, in strong support of House Bill 200
  • It expands Health Care Authority oversight.
  • It authorizes the New Mexico Finance Authority to make loans or grants from the Water Project Fund for
  • And at this point, it requires us to authorize it in the legislature.
  • I'm the CEO of the New Mexico Finance Authority.
Bills: HB63, HB64, HB184, HB200, HB47, HB48, HB2, HB9
AL
OK
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  • House Bill 2123 removes the existing authorization from the Oklahoma Turnpike Authority to build a bridge
  • What landed at Commerce is the local updated census addresses.
  • And so in the original version, DEQ was not listed as an approving authority.
  • I know that my Senate author has mentioned as much.
  • That is why I picked the tax attorney as a Senate author.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Finance and Taxation General Fund Committee Feb 12th, 2025

Finance and Taxation General Fund

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  • Now, the proposal that's before you is to give the body that's in charge of this, the borrowing authority
  • So, while we may have a certain amount of... may have a certain amount of authorization here, but we
  • already have would just be a continuation; however, this would be new money—new bonds that we will be authorizing
Bills: SB60, SB103, SB60, SB103
KY
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  • institutions to offer health insurance to these retired rehired officers if the governing body authorizes
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  • <01:00:06.960> So if the governing body authorizes it.
  • So if the governing body authorizes it.
Summary: The meeting began with quorum, approval of the prior minutes, and an announcement that the June meeting had been canceled and replaced by this combined May/June meeting; the next official PPOB meeting was announced for July 21 at 2:30. Staff then gave an overview of the Public Pension Oversight Board’s required actuarial audit process, explaining that House Bill 238 requires a review every five years of the retirement systems’ actuarial assumptions and methods, funded by the systems themselves. The presentation distinguished this audit from a financial or forensic audit, described the three possible audit levels (full replication, limited/spot review, or basic review), and noted that the last audit in 2021 was a level one performed by Milleman Consulting at a cost of about $190,000. Members discussed timing for the next audit cycle, with a request to LRC likely needed in July or August to target the June 30, 2026 valuation, and several members expressed interest in another level one review. Questions also addressed whether prior audits found major issues; staff said the 2021 review was generally clean but recommended more consistency in reporting and assumptions across systems. The committee then welcomed new staff and interns, including Odet Guanzi of KPPPA and Team Kentucky intern Amamira Bowman. Bo Barnes of the Teachers Retirement System presented an overview of the statutory framework for reemployment after retirement under KRS 161.605. He explained that the law is intended to let retirees return to help with staffing needs, do so in an actuarially sound way through required contributions, and keep TRS compliant with federal tax rules for a qualified plan under section 401(a). Barnes described the required breaks in service and earnings limits for retirees returning part-time or full-time, including the three-month or 12-month break depending on the employer, the 6,900-day limit, and the daily wage threshold based on years of service. He also noted a lightly used critical shortage program that allows school districts to hire retirees without a wage cap, while still observing the break-in-service rules. Members asked questions about who decides the scope and level of the actuarial audit, how the audit would treat leave balances and other benefit-related items, and whether the prior level one audit identified substantial problems. Staff said the committee would request the audit, but LRC would handle contracting, and that the audit scope could include items like sick leave and annual leave costs if requested. On the reemployment topic, Barnes emphasized that the rules are designed to avoid pre-arranged retire-and-return arrangements that could jeopardize TRS’s tax-qualified status. No formal votes were taken beyond approving the minutes, and the meeting concluded with the presentations and discussion of these pension oversight issues.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Taxes Committee 2/25/26

Taxes

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  • "The city itself, uh, we have an economic development authority.
  • Any other questions for the author, uh, the mayor or the finance director?
  • Any other questions for the author, uh, the mayor or the finance director?
Bills: HR1, HF387
WY

Wyoming 2026 Regular Session

House Agriculture, State and Public Lands & Water Resources Committee, February 24, 2026

Agriculture, State and Public Lands & Water Resources

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  • Uh, and neighbor authority at work.
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  • neighbor authority legislation. neighbor authority legislation.
WY

Wyoming 2026 Regular Session

Senate Agriculture, State and Public Lands & Water Resources Committee, February 24, 2026

Agriculture, State and Public Lands & Water Resources

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  • I know you guys have reviewed the good neighbor authority. We're ramping this up.
  • I know you guys have reviewed the good neighbor authority. We're ramping this up.
  • 03.920> neighbor guys have reviewed the good neighbor guys have reviewed the good neighbor authority
  • <00:03:06.640> I authority. We're ramping this up. I authority. We're ramping this up.
  • <00:04:41.919> to dollars and good neighbor authority to dollars and good neighbor authority
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

01/21/2026 - House Appropriations

Appropriations

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  • requires a lot of hydrologic and legal knowledge that we have in-house, and that's why the legislature authorized
  • House Bill 2148 grants the legislature the authority to appropriate non-custodial federal monies.
  • Finally, the bill allows the legislature to make a lump-sum appropriation to obtain expenditure authority
Bills: HB2053, HB2116, HB2148
KY
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  • If there is a relatively easy IT path to get there, then they could be granted authority to do other
  • So, your authentication authorization system that you have out for clerks and maybe third parties in
  • Yeah, I remember back in my days, we tried to do a statewide authentication authorization system, and
  • The authentication and authorization is a new system that is going to—so, will you be fully integrated
  • Our solution also offers authorization with our application, so I think it goes a little bit further
Summary: The meeting began with approval of the prior minutes and then focused first on the Commonwealth Office of Technology’s legacy systems and two specific projects. COT officials said many agencies have made progress moving off legacy applications, with remaining mainframe systems slated to be retired through RFPs or other work orders. They also described a legacy funding pool of $10 million per biennium used to help agencies transition. The two projects discussed were the Kentucky aerial photography and elevation data program, which provides statewide aerial imagery and lidar data for GIS, E911, environmental, transportation, and other uses, and a citizen identity and access management system intended to give residents a single login for state services. Officials said the GIS program costs about $1.2 million annually to host and maintain, with data acquisition costing several million more per year, and that the citizen identity system would cost about $2.5 million per year after an initial three-year COT investment. Members asked about duplication of funding, licensing, local government use, and whether multi-factor authentication would be required; COT said the GIS data is being acquired as statewide unlicensed data and that MFA would be available but not yet mandated statewide. Committee members pressed COT on costs, overlap with cabinet-level IT spending, and the practical benefits of the GIS and identity projects. COT explained that GIS hosting is generally covered through enterprise assessments billed quarterly to agencies, while the new aerial data is intended to benefit the whole state and local partners. On the identity project, officials said it would centralize authentication for citizens who use state systems, improve compliance with zero-trust and NIST-related security expectations, and reduce help desk and maintenance burdens through self-service account tools. Members also discussed whether the system would extend to local governments; COT said it would be a Kentucky.gov-style state login for users inside the state identity infrastructure, not a local-government system. The Department of Education then testified that it does not operate mainframes or major legacy systems, having moved long ago to cloud-based, off-the-shelf products and vendor-supported services. KDE officials described a strong emphasis on staff cybersecurity awareness, standardized statewide systems, vendor risk-sharing, and reducing sensitive data exposure, including efforts to move away from student Social Security numbers. They also highlighted a transition from Microsoft Active Directory to Identity Automation, which they said will improve identity management and make multi-factor authentication universal across K-12. In response to questions about Kentucky Wired and internet service, KDE said all 171 school districts and KDE agencies have been moved to a new next-generation internet service through ENA by Zayo, with strong satisfaction, e-rate savings, and better reliability. Officials warned that any internet disruption would immediately affect attendance, grades, student records, payroll, security systems, and communications across the K-12 system.