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NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Transportation Infrastructure Revenue Subcommitee Nov 3rd, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- Every district engineer has three assistants: one for engineering support, one for maintenance, and one
- Greg Clark, who is the Assistant District Engineer for Engineering Support for District 3.
- Every District Engineer has three Assistant District Engineers and a Business Manager.
- Our Assistant District Engineer for Engineering is Mr. Greg Clark, who is here with me.
- Brasher mentioned, I'm Greg Clark, the Assistant District 3 Engineer for Engineering Support.
LA
Louisiana 2026 Regular Session
Water Sector Commission May 31st, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- Mary is requesting an additional $330,058 to cover a shortage in construction and engineering fees for
- In addition, their request and engineering fees for all three phases of their grant.
- I'm here for LDH engineering services. Oh, okay. Well, that's right, Steven, that's right.
- It's my understanding from the engineers that have been looking at this and trying to advise the city
- And do we know how far out the engineers are from having it ready?
Summary:
The committee met with a quorum, approved the April 16 minutes, and then considered several water-system funding and deadline requests. For Magnolia Plantation Water System, members approved a deadline extension for plans and specifications to December 31, 2026, after hearing that the project still needed a test well, water-quality confirmation, and finalization of an LDH loan for matching funds. For St. Mary Parish Water and Sewer Commission No. 5, the committee approved an additional $619,850 to cover construction/engineering shortfalls and contingencies, bringing the grant total to $5,192,850 and requiring later JLCB approval.
Members also approved revised phase two guidance, which updated emergency subfund language to align with recently passed legislation and clarified eligibility and process for limited fiscal administrators and fiscal administration. The committee then took up an emergency subfund request for Tallulah’s water system: staff explained that a temporary filtration skid must remain in place while permanent filters are designed and bid, and that the lease is expiring soon. After discussion of the timing, the need for a new engineer, and the possibility of a lease-purchase arrangement, the committee approved $1.4 million in emergency funding contingent on appointment of a limited fiscal administrator.
Staff reported that the new payment process for the program is now moving funds more quickly and that updated expenditure projections will be provided at the next meeting. Members discussed the need to keep pushing projects toward closeout and acknowledged that some projects may need to be cut off if they cannot spend funds in time. The meeting ended with no further business and adjournment on a motion without objection.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- I also want to correct one item here: I have a testifier, Tim Murray, who was city engineer when I was
- served a seven-year term on the executive committee of the City Engineers Association of Minnesota.
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in to us reach out to any city engineer in to us reach out to any city engineer - They call their council, their mayor, their administrator, their engineer.
- They call their council, their mayor, their administrator, their engineer.
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.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- And really, engineering is already underway.
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- County Engineer for Dakota County. County Engineer for Dakota County.
- Just like a good County engineer.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Education Policy and Administration (02/10/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
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Summary:
The committee began by announcing that afternoon hearings, including House Bill 283, would be moved to Representatives Hall because of expected public interest. It then took up House Bill 671, which would establish a kindergarten literacy readiness program. The bill’s sponsor, Rep. Mark Pearson, described the measure as a way to close gaps in early reading readiness and said it was intended as a first step, with only a placeholder appropriation while details are developed. He framed it as a targeted effort to help children who are not entering first grade ready to read.
Testimony on HB 671 was largely supportive. Representatives asked about the bill’s structure, whether a specific program had been identified, how it would interact with play-based learning, and why the provider was limited to a registered nonprofit. Waterford.org representatives Teresa Rosenberger and Rob Riley testified in support, describing Waterford Upstart as a home-based, evidence-based early learning program already used in New Hampshire. They said the program provides adaptive instruction, family coaching, and technology support, including computers, tablets, internet access, and translation services in more than 100 languages. They also said the model has been successful in New Hampshire, including a Nashua pilot and later statewide efforts, and that similar legislation has existed in other states. Rep. Jonah Wheeler also spoke in support of the bill. The chair then closed the hearing on HB 671.
After a fiscal note for HB 671 was distributed, the committee moved to House Bill 781, which would require school districts to adopt policies for a cell phone-free education and includes an appropriation. The transcript cuts off as Rep. Litchfield was introduced to testify on that bill, so no testimony, debate, or vote on HB 781 is included in the excerpt.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Military and Veterans Affairs Jul 15th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- engineers, I should say, that are willing to help out as well.
- some of these engineers?
- It was one of I was not a nuclear engineer; I'm an aerospace engineer.
- whom the Air Force wants to be engineers struggle with those programs.
- So maybe you could give us some and an engine room that had main engines and turbine generators for electricity
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- I teach writing, speaking, and ethics to engineering undergraduates.
- I'm also a tenured professor of engineering and a former faculty Senate president.
- I got my PhD in chemical engineering at UT Austin.
- Currently, I am a senior electrical engineering major at UT Dallas.
- I moved to Texas in 2012 to join a graduate program at UT Austin for software engineering.
Bills:
SB 37
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- We are engines of social mobility and economic engines in rural, urban, and suburban settings and the
- I am a faculty member in electrical and computer engineering.
- I teach writing, speaking, and ethics to engineering undergraduates.
- That's actually not common for engineers because it's not taught enough.
- Currently, I am a senior electrical engineering major at UT Dallas.
Bills:
SB 37
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Energy, Utilities, Environment and Climate - 03/05/25
Energy, Utilities, Environment, and Climate
Transcript Highlights:
- We have many people working in this from policy to chemical engineering to mechanical engineering into
- We have many people working in this from policy to chemical engineering to mechanical engineering into
- We have many people working in this from policy to chemical engineering to mechanical engineering into
- We have many people working in this from policy to chemical engineering to mechanical engineering into
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which diesel ammonia dual fuel engine which diesel ammonia dual fuel engine
AL
Alabama 2025 Regular Session
Alabama House Mobile County Legislation Committee Feb 19th, 2025
Mobile County Legislation
Transcript Highlights:
- I'm the Mobile County engineer and I have a friend from across the bay.
- This is Frank Lundy; he is the Montgomery County engineer. We work together...
- Um, it's been said many times today, why are the Commissioners and engineers so upset about this bill
- There may be other ways to look at it, but that is why the engineers are so loud on this bill.
- My point here today from the engineers' association is about what we’ll do to the road.
Bills:
SB46
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Emergency Management Committee Jun 29th, 2026
Emergency Management
Transcript Highlights:
- And finally, here today, we have Chris Snyder from Operating Engineers Local 3, who will be our lone
- For this reason, Operating Engineers Local 3 respectfully requests an aye vote on SB 1263.
- For this reason, operating engineers Local 3 respect operating in these high-risk environments.
- For this reason, operating engineers Local 3 respectfully requests an I-vote on SB 1263.
- Matt Cremens, I'm actually in support, Operating Engineers. Thank you. No worries.
FL
Florida 2026 4th Special Session
February 12, 2026 - 09:15 AM
Transcript Highlights:
- Unlicensed engineering activity. Thank you. Thank you.
- Where in Florida are critical engineering shortages existing?
- This is about unlicensed engineering practices.
- No, no engineers? All right, do we have any other questions?
- So, I have an engineering degree.
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Revenue and Taxation REVISED Feb 9th, 2026 at 01:30 pm
Revenue and Taxation
Transcript Highlights:
- But specifically, 1392 has to deal with the aerospace engineer employee tax credit.
- So do we have any provisions in place to make sure that the engineers that we are hiring aren't remote
- engineers?
- Engineer, is that correct? This would be for aerospace engineers.
- So, consequently, you could have an H-1B visa aerospace engineer out of Bangalore, India.
Keywords:
excise tax, oil tax, natural gas tax, state revenue, Oklahoma Corporation Commission, income tax, tax credit, aerospace sector, employment, economic development, adaptive reuse, affordable housing, urban renewal, economic impact, program, housing, revitalization, urban development, income tax credit, manufacturing
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government Mar 18th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- A CRITICAL BILL PROHIBITING GEO-ENGINEERING AND WEATHER MODIFICATION ACTIVITIES WITHIN FLORIDA.
- THE PROHIBITION FOR GEO-ENGINEERING AND WEATHER MODIFICATION EXPLICITLY BANS, THE PROHIBITION FOR GEO-ENGINEERING
- IT ALLOWS RESIDENTS TO REPORT SUSPECTED GEO-ENGINEERING ACTIVITIES.
- FOR DECADES, A NEW CLIMATE SCIENCE HAS EMERGED KNOWN AS GEO ENGINEERING.
- BUT WHAT IS GEOMETRIC ENGINEERING EXACTLY?
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Radioactive and Hazardous Materials Dec 8th, 2025 at 09:45 am
Radioactive & Hazardous Materials Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- The second project is Environmental Engineering Analytics.
- So with UNM Los Alamos, we worked with them on an engineering degree program.
- . as well as the New Mexico Office of the State Engineer.
- Approved by the New Mexico Office of the State Engineer.
- These degrees are primarily in complex engineering fields: nuclear, chemical, and mechanical engineering
ND
North Dakota 2026 1st Special Session
Advanced Nuclear Energy Committee Apr 21st, 2026 at 08:25 am
Advanced Nuclear Energy Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- I'm a nuclear engineer. I've been around nuclear for a very long time.
- a million miles to see how well the engine runs.
- But some of the capabilities we look for are basically mechanical engineers, nuclear engineering, computer
- engineers, and electrical engineers.
- They are qualified by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers as ASME code.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- I am president and founder of Balague Engineering.
- Bollock Engineering was created 1,000.
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Summary:
The committee first approved the March 5 minutes, then heard a presentation from Balig Engineering on cost drivers for drinking water and wastewater infrastructure in small Minnesota communities. The testifier said most Minnesota communities are small, and that limited local staff, complex funding requirements, and the need to combine multiple funding sources make projects expensive and labor-intensive. He cited examples of aging infrastructure, including a Tracy street collapse and failing water mains, and said federal funding can help but often requires extensive reports that can cost tens of thousands of dollars and hundreds of staff hours. He also pointed to inflation, supply-chain disruptions, colder climate requirements, higher material and labor costs, limited competition among contractors and suppliers, and newer treatment requirements such as PFAS removal and cybersecurity controls as major cost drivers.
Members asked whether reduced bonding or less frequent state funding would lower prices, whether annual bonding bills provide market certainty, how regionalization could be encouraged, and whether tightening specifications adds costs. The testifier said stopping work would likely drive contractors out of the market and reduce competition, which could raise prices later, and that consistent funding helps keep contractors in Minnesota. He said regional water systems such as Red Rock Rural Water and Lincoln Pipestone Rural Water are already helping lower costs and that legislators could encourage more regionalization through incentives. He also said some specifications and federal requirements, especially around treatment plant controls and cybersecurity, increase costs, though some standards like deeper water-main burial are necessary. The committee then moved on to the Minnesota Department of Veterans Affairs, where John Kelly began presenting the governor’s 2026 capital budget recommendations and described the department’s mission, statewide network of veterans homes and cemeteries, and service to nearly 300,000 veterans and dependents.
ND
North Dakota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Advanced Nuclear Energy Committee Apr 21st, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- a million miles to see how well the engine runs.
- So, and I'm a nuclear engineer, I study this stuff. So I'm not as optimistic as many...
- Some of the capabilities we look for are basically mechanical engineers, nuclear engineering, computer
- engineers, and electrical engineers, but they are majors.
- They are qualified by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers as ASME code.
Summary:
The meeting was an extended briefing from Idaho National Laboratory officials on the lab’s mission, its role in nuclear energy research, and the federal push to accelerate advanced reactor deployment. Speakers described INL’s size and capabilities, including test reactors, fuel and materials facilities, cybersecurity and critical infrastructure work, and partnerships with DOE, the NRC, the Department of Defense, and private companies. They emphasized that the lab is supporting both commercial nuclear development and national security work, while also training a large intern workforce.
A major theme was the current federal effort to streamline nuclear regulation and speed up licensing and demonstration. The speakers said recent executive orders and DOE/NRC coordination are reducing redundant requirements, shortening environmental review timelines, and aiming for three new nuclear systems to reach criticality by July 4, 2026. They argued that regulatory uncertainty has been a major driver of nuclear cost and that the administration’s actions, along with DOE’s pilot and demonstration programs, are intended to rebuild the domestic supply chain and industrial base.
The discussion also focused on advanced reactor types, including small modular reactors, microreactors, molten salt concepts, and liquid-metal designs. Officials said these technologies are being developed for data centers, military bases, remote communities, industrial heat, hydrogen production, and other nontraditional uses. They highlighted several projects and companies, including Oklo, Aalo, Radiant, X-energy, TerraPower, Kairos, and DOE’s MARVEL and Project Pele efforts, and said some reactors are expected to reach criticality or operation in the next few years. Questions from attendees covered safety, public health impacts, materials and heat management, waste or used fuel handling, costs, and whether nuclear could remain competitive against other energy sources; the speakers responded that advanced reactors are designed with passive safety features, that used fuel should be viewed as a resource, and that cost remains highly design- and supply-chain-dependent.
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Senate Standing Committee on Licensing and Occupations. (3-17-26)
Licensing & Occupations
Transcript Highlights:
- . >> Elliot Button, executive director of the Board of Licensure for Engineers and Surveyors. >> Jake
- for engineers and surveyors. for engineers and surveyors.
- societies, and the surveying engineering societies, and the surveying society,<00:13:11.600>
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or have any idea where the engineers or have any idea where the engineers or
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Local Government Jul 9th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- We have code officials, structural engineers, mechanical engineers, the disabled community, residential
- We have code officials, structural engineers, mechanical engineers, the disabled community, residential
- So Roger Herring, I am the structural engineering representative, the history.
- I ran DCI Engineers, a structural engineering firm, for about 15 years.
- Roger, as a fellow structural engineer, your examples really resonate with me.
Summary:
The committee heard first from Ferndale city officials and a representative of FutureWise on annexation planning. Ferndale described its “annexation blueprint” or phased annexation plan as a way to tie urban growth area planning, capital facilities, and eventual annexation together earlier in the process. Speakers argued that counties often allow incremental development in urban growth areas without city-level standards, impact fees, or coordinated infrastructure planning, which can leave cities and taxpayers with higher future costs and make annexation less likely. Members raised questions about fire districts, county revenue loss, and whether annexation incentives or interlocal revenue-sharing agreements could help. FutureWise supported requiring annexation phasing in countywide planning policies, using pre-annexation agreements, and applying city standards in urban growth areas to make annexation more predictable and less contentious.
The committee then received a primer and update from the State Building Code Council (SBCC). Staff explained the council’s composition, standing committees, technical advisory groups, and rulemaking process, including normal, expedited, and emergency rulemaking. They described the ongoing 2024 code cycle and the separate work underway on Senate Bill 5491 and related legislation concerning single-stair residential buildings and multiplex housing. Members discussed how the legislature can better direct the SBCC, the difference between prescriptive and performance-based code approaches, and the importance of involving technical experts early. The SBCC also addressed concerns about the wildfire urban interface code, noting that problems arose when code language and maps were developed on different timelines and applied to urban areas in ways that were not anticipated.
Several members asked about regional differences, especially energy code impacts in eastern Washington and the role of natural gas. SBCC representatives said the council can use climate zones and appendices for some regional variation, but statewide statutory targets still constrain the energy code. They emphasized that the council is largely reactive to legislative direction and public proposals, and that clearer legislative intent would help avoid ambiguity in future code development. No votes were taken during this portion of the meeting.