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NM
Transcript Highlights:
- And then for the... ...for adults over 400% of the federal poverty level.
- Again, you know, 128,000, I believe, is the income level for a family of four at 400% of poverty.
- If you're paying $30,000 at 400% of poverty.
- level, and that would cover the full year for escalation. 100% of the federal poverty level.
- New Mexico was kind of like just at the threshold.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
Senate - Health and Public Affairs Oct 2nd, 2025
Senate Health & Public Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- This is for consumers at or above the 400% of the federal poverty line.
- That's 46% of New Mexicans that are below the poverty line. Poverty line.
- People under 45 earning 400% of the federal poverty rate.
- I understand what 400 percent of the poverty line is. What's 250 percent?
- So, 200% of the federal poverty line for a single person is about $31,000.
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Interim Joint Committee on Natural Resources & Energy.(7-2-26)
Natural Resources & Energy
Transcript Highlights:
- And if there is, is there a threshold?
- And if there is, is there a threshold?
- So, I guess a couple threshold?
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Currently, <00:40:35.600>um, raising the threshold. - Currently, um, raising the threshold.
Bills:
SB8
Keywords:
utilities, public service commission, energy regulation, appointment, emergency declaration, tax increases, consumer protection, Meeting Start 00:00:00
Attendance Roll Call 00:00:51
Approval of Minutes 00:02:07
Legislator Comments 00:02:18
LIHEAP Public Hearing 00:04:19
PSC Update on RS 26 SB 8 00:32:18
WaterStep Presentation 01:04:08, 958, all
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Ways and Means (01/14/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- Now, some of those households were probably in poverty, but just to give you a sense of the poverty thresholds
- And that's, by the way, a national standard, so that poverty threshold is true for all the contiguous
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Summary:
The meeting was a Ways and Means briefing opened by the vice chair, who introduced Jason Wong of the Federal Home Loan Bank of Boston to discuss the national and regional economy. Wong focused on inflation, asking why it had fallen from about 9% in 2022 to the 2%–3% range, and what that meant for monetary policy and the risk of an economic downturn. He said the Fed’s target is 2%, noted that recent PCE inflation was about 2.4% and core PCE about 2.7%, and described the ongoing debate over whether interest rates should stay tight or be lowered further to protect the labor market.
Wong explained that the improvement in inflation has been driven largely by goods prices, especially durable goods such as cars, appliances, and furniture, as well as non-durable goods like food. He said supply-chain disruptions during the pandemic caused major price spikes in 2022, but those pressures have eased and many goods prices are now at or below the Fed’s target. He also referenced the New York Fed’s Global Supply Chain Pressure Index, saying it showed extreme pandemic-era disruptions that have since receded.
The main remaining inflation problem, he said, is in services, especially housing. Wong broke services into rent of shelter and all other services, explaining that shelter is a large share of household budgets and that housing inflation has a lag because rent measures often reflect older lease terms rather than current market rents. He said monthly Zillow data suggest market rents have cooled and may eventually feed through to official inflation measures. Members asked several questions about the chart’s time scale, the treatment of real estate, property taxes, and utilities, and Wong clarified that housing costs are counted in services and that the slides would be shared digitally. No votes or formal actions were taken.
ND
North Dakota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Legislative Management Jun 11th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- They don't have to meet that 25% threshold, but they have to use a base year to collect applications.
- They don't have to meet that 25% threshold, but they have to use a base year to collect applications,
- We've identified about an additional 14% of our schools that meet the 25% threshold.
- And the reason is because if your direct certification percentage is 25%, that's the threshold.
- You only get to claim, you get to, you get to, you get That's the threshold.
Summary:
The Legislative Management Committee met to address the fiscal impact of Initiated Constitutional Measure No. 3, which would require public schools, public school districts, and public charter schools to provide breakfast and lunch at no cost to students and allow reimbursement from the state, with implementation beginning in the 2027-28 school year. The committee first filled a vacancy created by Representative Jared Hagert’s resignation by appointing Representative Berg to the committee. Legislative Council and DPI staff explained the measure’s requirements, including federal reimbursement participation, possible use of the legacy earnings fund if other funding is unavailable, and the authority of the Legislature and superintendent of public instruction to clarify implementation details.
Linnell Johnson of DPI testified that the estimated fiscal impact for the 2027-2029 biennium is between $124 million and $134 million, based on participation assumptions, federal reimbursement rates, and the extent to which schools continue to collect applications or use community eligibility/provision 2 options. She also noted a likely additional administrative cost of about $300,000 for DPI to operate the program. Members asked about school participation, Title I implications, special diets, staffing, and whether the measure could reduce federal reimbursements if families stop applying. Johnson said the estimate is uncertain and could be higher if applications decline, but that schools would still have incentives to participate in federal programs because of reimbursement and other funding ties.
After discussion, the committee adopted a motion to report a fiscal impact range of $124,300,000 to $134,300,000 per biennium to the Secretary of State. The committee then received an informational update from Legislative Council attorney Dustin Richard on the ongoing redistricting litigation. He explained that the U.S. Supreme Court vacated the Eighth Circuit’s ruling and sent the case back for reconsideration in light of Louisiana v. Callais, while the district court-imposed map remains in effect for now. No action was taken on that update, and the meeting adjourned after members noted minutes from the prior meeting were not yet available for approval.
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Interim Joint Committee on Natural Resources & Energy (7-2-26) - Reupload
Natural Resources & Energy
Transcript Highlights:
- are at the 150% of the federal poverty are at the 150% of the federal poverty guideline.<00:07:55.240
- <00:23:09.800>
and because of their percent of poverty and because of their percent of poverty - You may have a different poverty level there. So, it is a formula that takes into account that.
- You may have a different poverty level there. So, it is a formula that takes into account that.
- up and if there is is there a threshold? up and if there is is there a threshold?
Bills:
SB8
Keywords:
utilities, public service commission, energy regulation, appointment, emergency declaration, tax increases, consumer protection, The first couple minutes of the livestream was cut off. This recording restored the beginning of the meeting
Meeting Start 00:00:00
Attendance Roll Call 00:00:51
Approval of Minutes 00:02:07
Legislator Comments 00:02:18
LIHEAP Public Hearing 00:04:19
PSC Update on RS 26 SB 8 00:32:18
WaterStep Presentation 01:04:08, 958, all
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Health and Human Services Nov 7th, 2025
Legislative Health & Human Services Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- The threshold needed to compel a blood draw via a search warrant in a DWI case has also changed.
- Medicaid under 400% of the federal poverty level, and then $90.9 million in non-recurring funding for
- Is there a certain threshold? I can look for the exact threshold.
- Poverty level.
- Percent of the federal poverty level. So what kind of... how is that?
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Labor and Employment Committee Apr 22nd, 2026
Labor and Employment
Transcript Highlights:
- Weakening these thresholds is unacceptable and a threat to the health and safety of all the workers.
- These thresholds are unacceptable and a threat to the health and safety of all the workers in correctional
- And we do it on the backs of our farm workers, many of whom, most of whom actually are living in poverty
- So this bill is... ...farm workers, many of whom, most of whom actually are living in poverty.
- Our program outreach is into low-income, marginalized communities facing generational poverty as we move
Summary:
The Assembly Labor and Employment Committee heard and advanced a series of bills, mostly on worker safety, wages, workforce training, and retirement savings. AB 2137 (Chen) would strengthen workplace safety in the artificial stone fabrication industry by creating a certification program, requiring supplier verification, and adding enforcement tools; it passed to Appropriations. AB 1534 (Irwin) would create a state process to approve short-term workforce training programs eligible for new federal Pell Grant funding; it also passed. AB 2499 (Gibson), “Adrienne’s Act,” would direct Cal/OSHA to develop heat illness protections for incarcerated workers and correctional-facility workers; it passed after emotional testimony from the family of a woman who died from heat exhaustion in prison. AB 2300 (Arambula) would streamline workforce funding disbursement and create a unified sub-grant structure; it was held on call amid concerns about reduced oversight. AB 2650 (Pellerin) would expand CalSavers with emergency savings accounts, benefits assistance, and domestic worker inclusion; it passed with no opposition. AB 2634 (Sabir) would tighten High Road Training Partnership funding to prioritize labor-management programs; it passed. AB 1888, a companion to the Safe Home Grant Program, would require skilled-and-trained workforce and prevailing wage standards for wildfire home-hardening work; it passed unanimously. The committee also approved AB 1904, AB 1980, AB 2550, AB 2078, and AB 2682 on consent, all to Appropriations.
Several bills drew significant support and opposition. AB 2646 (Krell) would set a $19.75 minimum wage with COLA for agricultural employees; farmworker advocates described poverty-level wages and wage theft, while agricultural business groups warned of major cost increases and impacts on family farms. The bill passed to Appropriations. AB 2227 (Connolly) would increase farm labor contractor bond amounts, strengthen license renewal, and create default judgment procedures to speed wage recovery; supporters cited long delays and unpaid wages, while opponents argued the bill added burdens and that the real problem was the Labor Commissioner process. It also passed to Appropriations. AB 1869 (Haney) would create a reporting process for hotel workers to flag real estate investment trusts that allegedly overstep their passive-investor role; labor groups supported it, but hotel and property industry groups warned it would disrupt federal REIT conformity and investment stability. The committee approved it, and later add-on votes confirmed it passed out of committee.
Throughout the hearing, members emphasized worker protections and the need for timely enforcement, while some expressed concern about administrative burdens or reduced oversight. Most measures were approved on party-line or near-unanimous votes and re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations, with the committee adjourning after completing the add-on roll calls and consent calendar.
US
Transcript Highlights:
- made in 2017 strengthened investment, boosted economic growth, increased take-home pay, and reduced poverty
- Act, and what this addresses is that in 2021, with the passage of the American Rescue Plan, the threshold
- I'm proud of the fact that when we did it in 2021, we cut taxes, well, we cut poverty almost 50%.
- We lifted 165,000 Georgia children out of poverty.
- And we are taxing families that are just at the threshold, we're taxing them into poverty while giving
Keywords:
Commerce, International Trade, Tax Policy, Nominees, Inflation, Middle-class, Trade Practices, Economic Concerns
Summary:
The committee convened to discuss various bills and nominees, including the critical nominations of William Kimmett for Undersecretary of Commerce for International Trade and Ken Keyes for Assistant Secretary for Tax Policy at the Treasury Department. Discussions highlighted the nominees' roles in managing critical trade and tax policies amidst rising economic concerns, particularly focusing on inflation and its impact on American families. Members expressed both support and skepticism, emphasizing the significance of fostering fair trade practices and ensuring tax policies that benefit the middle-class amidst claims of an agenda favoring affluent individuals and corporations.
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Wednesday, May 21, 2025 - Part 1)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- That's not only good for threshold.
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with <02:25:02.880>more threshold, their area sources with more threshold - But the Clean Air Act's thresholds.
- It is about reducing source threshold.
- Think about that for a threshold.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- sorry I want to go back about it not being saving kids from public schools this bill has an income threshold
- of 500% of the federal poverty level that's about $160,000 a year ask ourselves how many kids are earning
- If you look at Florida's income threshold to qualify for an education savings account, it's $180,000.
- controversial to suppose that the demographics of the average family with a 500 percent FPL, Federal Poverty
- Rate Income Level, is different than the demographics of a family at 185 percent of the Federal Poverty
Keywords:
Maverick County, recognition, economic development, Texas Senate, community celebration, 1185, senate, all
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- level. are those students from families of 200% of the poverty level.
- Correct, if you're 200% or less of poverty guidelines. And you said the current amount.
- A family up to 500% of the federal poverty level can get it.
- Using $160,000 as the threshold to understand what a family of four is, it's 500% of the federal poverty
- I want everyone in here to think about what 500% of the federal poverty level is.
Bills:
SB2, HB2, HB2000, HB2196, HB213, HB222, HB645, HB1458, HB 1022, HB141, HB502, HB643, HB3093, HB1700, HB 117, SB503, SB2, HB 120, HB20, HB150, HB6, HB 100, HB210, HB215, HB1393, HB 1151, HB 1268, HB142, HB451, HB 124, HB2, HB2000, HB2196, HB213, HB222, HB645, HB1458, HB 1022, HB141, HB502, HB643, HB3093, HB1700, HB 117
Keywords:
public education, teacher compensation, certification, funding, school finance, educator rights, education funding, charter schools, staff compensation, state aid, retention allotment, child grooming, sex offender registration, criminal justice, reportable conviction, law enforcement, virtual education, hybrid learning, school funding, average daily attendance
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services (05/13/2026)
Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services
Transcript Highlights:
- However, a raise to $12 would affect everyone below the new threshold, around 14,000 workers in total
- About 31% of workers earning under $12 live in households that are below the poverty line.
- <00:29:18.320>
This <00:29:18.520>challenges <00:29:19.000>the poverty line. - This challenges the poverty line.
- They found that within that $12 threshold, the annual salary an individual would make would not price
CA
Transcript Highlights:
- I believe it's 300% of the federal poverty level who is eligible for that program, and San Diego.
- It's set as a percent of the federal poverty level, which is probably about 138% of the federal poverty
- And these are people who generally are. or at or near the federal poverty level, sometimes meeting other
- I'm sorry, I don't have the federal poverty level in front of me.
- Linda Way with Western Center on Law and Poverty, pleased to support AB 100, particularly around the
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
House Standing Committee on Postsecondary Education (3-11-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- So, uh, so once those thresholds<00:08:33.440>
are <00:08:33.599>met, <00:08:33.839> - that<00:08:34.000>
would <00:08:34.320>make <00:08:34.479>the thresholds are - It can come at any time assuming those thresholds are met by the institution.
- It can come at any time assuming those thresholds are met by the institution.
- It can come at any time assuming those thresholds are met by the institution.
Summary:
The committee first took up Senate Bill 77, which would allow comprehensive universities to pursue doctoral programs under a new approval process and, in the original bill, would also change who may serve on the EPSB board for small colleges and universities. The sponsor and Council on Postsecondary Education representative explained that the committee substitute removed the current statutory prohibition on comprehensive universities offering certain doctoral degrees, but added eligibility guardrails: a 77% first-to-second-year retention rate, a 56% six-year graduation rate, and three months of unrestricted cash reserves. They said the thresholds were based on national data placing institutions in roughly the top quartile, and that CPE would still review proposals for mission fit, workforce need, fiscal impact, and, where applicable, programmatic accreditation and legislative appropriations. EKU President David McFaden supported creating a pathway for comprehensive universities, said Kentucky is unusual in having an explicit statutory prohibition, and urged the committee to keep the standards attainable and durable. The committee approved the bill and adopted a title amendment, with the motion passing unanimously.
The committee then heard Senate Joint Resolution 55, which addresses antisemitism on postsecondary campuses. Senator Tichenor said the resolution responds to a rise in antisemitic incidents after October 7, 2023, and would require campuses to notify students each semester of Title VI rights, complaint procedures, existing harassment policies, and available Jewish student resources. It would also direct campuses to disband student organizations found to provide material support to known terrorist organizations, report such matters to law enforcement, and collect and report antisemitism data to CPE for posting on its website. A guest speaker from the Kentucky Jewish Council described a sharp increase in reported incidents, including harassment, threats, vandalism, and hostile campus activity, and argued that schools have often done too little to respond. He said the resolution was amended to protect free speech while ensuring Jewish students receive the same protections as other protected groups. The transcript ends while testimony on the resolution was still underway, before any committee vote on SJR 55.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 1 on Health Mar 17th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- We need to be looking at poverty.
- Whitney Francis with the Western Center on Law and Poverty.
- Whitney Francis with the Western Center on Law and Poverty.
- Linda Way with Western Center on Law and Poverty.
- plans to meet those thresholds.
Summary:
The committee heard a budget oversight hearing on the Department of Health Care Services, focusing first on the overall Medi-Cal budget and a March General Fund loan to cover a current-year shortfall. DHCS said the 2025-26 budget proposal totals $193.4 billion, with Medi-Cal projected at $188.1 billion total funds and $42.1 billion General Fund, driven by higher enrollment, pharmacy costs, managed care growth, and costs tied to eligibility expansions and the COVID-era redetermination unwinding. The department said the $3.44 billion loan was needed to manage cash flow and ensure timely payments to providers and plans, while the LAO noted Medi-Cal’s cash-basis budgeting creates volatility and that more detailed estimates would come with the May Revision. Members discussed federal Medicaid threats, the need for transparency on cost drivers, and the impact of pharmacy spending, long-term care, and immigration-related coverage expansions.
The second major topic was family health programs, including California Children’s Services, the continuous coverage unwinding, and opioid settlement fund spending. DHCS described CCS funding methodology changes, ongoing county stakeholder work, and a delayed rollout of CCS monitoring and oversight until July 1, 2025, while county representatives and advocates argued the program is underfunded and asked for more technical assistance and a delay in implementation. On the unwinding, the department explained that federal redetermination flexibilities helped maintain coverage after the pandemic, but the Governor’s budget proposes ending them at the end of June 2025; advocates urged making the flexibilities permanent to avoid coverage losses. For opioid settlement funds, DHCS and Finance said the budget increases funding for naloxone distribution while reducing other harm-reduction spending based on updated settlement revenues, prompting criticism from members and public commenters who argued the change would weaken effective harm-reduction programs.
The hearing also included an update on Proposition 35 implementation. DHCS said the voter-approved measure continuously appropriates MCO tax revenues beginning in 2025, with up to $4.6 billion annually available for specified Medi-Cal and provider investments in 2025 and 2026, but implementation depends on consultation with the required stakeholder advisory committee. The department and LAO noted uncertainty about future federal rules affecting the MCO tax after 2026. Public testimony largely supported maintaining Medi-Cal expansions, protecting immigrant coverage, preserving harm-reduction funding, and increasing support for community health workers, pediatric dental care, and CCS county administration. No votes were taken during the portion of the hearing provided.
ND
Transcript Highlights:
- So the way that we determine poverty levels in school systems is based on the number of qualified participants
- They don't have to meet that 25% threshold, but they have to use a base year to collect applications.
- currently on CEP, and we've identified about an additional 14% of our schools that meet the 25% threshold
- Some states have an alternate income form, or they have other things that rely heavily on a poverty level
- You only get to claim, you get to, you get to, you get That's the threshold.
Summary:
The Legislative Management Committee met to fill a vacancy created by Representative Jared Hagert’s resignation, and the House majority recommended Representative Berg to replace him on the committee. The motion to appoint Berg was approved unanimously. The committee then took up its assigned task of estimating the fiscal impact of Initiated Constitutional Measure No. 3, the school meals measure, which would require public schools, and optionally nonpublic and tribal schools, to provide breakfast and lunch at no cost to students and reimburse schools through state funds after federal reimbursements are maximized.
Legislative Council’s Liz Fordall summarized the measure’s requirements and answered questions about implementation, including the 2027-28 start date, the measure’s interaction with the Legacy Earnings Fund, and the fact that the Legislature would still control the funding source. DPI’s Linnell Johnson then testified at length on current school meal programs, direct certification, CEP and Provision 2 participation, and likely behavioral changes if the measure passed. She estimated the biennial fiscal impact at $124 million to $134 million, with an additional roughly $300,000 in administrative costs, and explained that the estimate assumed higher participation and some schools shifting to CEP/Provision 2 to preserve federal reimbursements. She also noted that if no new applications were filed in non-CEP schools, the cost could be substantially higher.
After discussion, Senator Sorvaag moved to report a fiscal impact range of $124,300,000 to $134,300,000 per biennium to the Secretary of State, and the motion carried. The committee also received an informational update from Legislative Council attorney Dustin Richard on the ongoing redistricting litigation, explaining that the U.S. Supreme Court vacated the Eighth Circuit’s prior ruling and remanded the case for further consideration in light of Louisiana v. Callais, leaving the court-imposed map in effect for now. No action was required on that item, and the meeting adjourned after a brief note that the prior minutes would be brought back at a later meeting.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- The lowest opportunity, highest poverty areas of town have properties that often have mold, pests, or
- That means that people get trapped into poverty, and kids get concentrated into poverty.
- It's like a really low-poverty area, you know, so I'm really for the big money.
- Other voucher holders are disproportionately pushed into high poverty, high crime neighborhoods, far
- Only seeks to lower that threshold for a municipal management district dissolution from two-thirds of
Bills:
HB164, HB164, HB411, HB627, HB 1226, HB1677, HB1865, HB1997, HB2985, HB3462, HB4188, HB4685, HB4840, HB5370, HB5424, HB5466, HB5509, HB5660, HB5673
Keywords:
HB 164, HB164, Texas Flood Recovery, Reimbursement, and Reconstruction Program, Texas Division of Emergency Management, TDEM, Hill Country floods, July 2025 floods, flood recovery, disaster relief, flood reimbursement, reconstruction grants, resiliency standards, floodplain, base flood elevation, FEMA, Federal Emergency Management Agency, insurance denial, property damage, tenant assistance, rental property
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services (02/04/2025)
Labor, Industrial and Rehabilitative Services
Transcript Highlights:
- but since it hasn't met that Threshold but since it hasn't met that Threshold at<00:07:21.919>
- <02:04:32.639>
in keyed off of uh balance thresholds in keyed off of uh balance thresholds- <04:10:30.080>
for raging that raising the threshold for raging that raising the threshold- And even for at $10 an hour, the poverty level for a couple is $2,150, so again that's still a poverty
- And even for at $10 an hour, the poverty level for a couple is $2,150, so again that's still a poverty
- <02:04:32.639>
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Health and Human Services Sep 12th, 2025
Legislative Health & Human Services Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- As you can see in chart two, since fiscal year 2023, families of up to 400% of the federal poverty level
- child care assistance slots being used by families with low incomes at or below 100% of the federal poverty
- While broadening the eligibility pool to 400% of the federal poverty level means that more Families have
- Especially to me, if there are minimum thresholds—minimum salaries that they have to pay to be eligible
- This dual approach is what breaks cycles of poverty and creates stronger families.