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HI
Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
FIN Info Briefing - Thu Jan 8, 2026 @ 9:00 AM HST
Hawaii House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- So 53% of the budget 47% of our budget.
- </c> general fund budget to CIP budget. general fund budget to CIP budget.
- </c> budget. So K. budget. So K.
- , CIP budget, as well as our repair and maintenance budget.
- , CIP budget, as well as our repair and maintenance budget.
AL
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:39:11.119><c> Okay,</c> >> budgets on. Okay, >> budgets on.
- </c> the budgeting process. the budgeting process.
- to the budgeting it's beneficial to the budgeting process.<01:05:43.760><c> Right.
- </c> highlights uh quickly on on the budget. highlights uh quickly on on the budget.
- This budget also the 2028 budget cycle.
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
October 8, 2025 - 01:00 PM
Transcript Highlights:
- >> Chair Andrade: BUDGET SUBCOMMITTEE WILL COME TO ORDER. SARAH, WOULD YOU CALL THE ROLL?
- WELCOME REPRESENTATIVE REVEALED TO THE BUDGET SUBCOMMITTEE AND OUR NEW ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT.
- WE ARE AUTHORIZED TO SUBMIT A BUDGET REQUEST WHICH WE DID.
- THE NUMBER OF INVITATIONS FOR THE I-BUDGET AND THE SECOND IS OUR RESPONSES.
- YOU CREATED THE I-BUDGET WAIVER TO EMPOWER PARENTS TO MAKE DECISIONS ON CHOICE.
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice Oct 8th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- This is our budget presentation for this year.
- Unlike the state attorney's office, the public defender's office budgets are 20 individual budgets managed
- The statewide totals for budgeting are on the screen.
- Remember, 98% of our budget goes to salaries and benefits.
- I'm happy to see that that's back in the budget this year.
AL
Alabama 2025 Regular Session
Alabama Senate Finance and Taxation Education Committee Apr 9th, 2025
Finance and Taxation Education
Transcript Highlights:
- For sure, we'll have to work on that budget to renovate. There you... on that budget to renovate.
- supplemental comes now, but budget...
- But supplemental comes now, but budget could be for a long time.
- Budgets. I'm just over here on page 12, but I know where to find me.
- It has nothing to do with the budget. I wanted to present it to you today.
Keywords:
education funding, RAISE Act, student outcomes, public schools, local education agencies, accountability, weighted allocations, special education, English language learners, gifted students, Tuskegee University, Alabama Education Trust Fund, appropriation, agricultural research, Southern Preparatory Academy, fiscal responsibility, financial reporting, Education Savings Accounts, RAISE Fund, CHOOSE Act Fund
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
FL House Floor Session - 2025-05-13 (1:00PM Session)
Florida House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- THAT THESIS HAS BEEN PROVEN BY THE WORK OF OUR BUDGET SUBCOMMITTEES.
- WE WILL EMBRACE ANY AND ALL IDEAS THAT CURB THE STATE BUDGET.
- WE HAVE OFFERED TO PASS A LEAN CRITICAL NEEDS BUDGET WITH MINIMAL SPENDING AND NO TAX CUTS.
- THIS BUDGET WOULD BANK ALL THE EXTRA MONEY INTO RESERVES.
- WHEN WE FINALLY PUT A BUDGET ON THE DESK FOR THE 72 HOUR WAITING PERIOD, LET IT BE A BUDGET THAT WAS
LA
Transcript Highlights:
- They're looking for funding in this budget.
- Christy Gilmore: The budget, it doesn't, the budget keeps the system standing.
- The money's in the budget right now.
- Half a million in the budget. Half a million in the budget? Yes, sir. Is it in the budget already?
- It's in the budget. $1.5 million is in the budget.
Summary:
The committee met for public testimony on the Finance budget, with the main discussion focused first on funding for disability services and then on the LA GATOR scholarship program. Several individuals testified in support of fully funding Families Helping Families and Louisiana Rehabilitation Services (LRS), describing how advocacy, transition services, and direct support workers help people with disabilities access education, employment, and independent living. Witnesses urged the committee to preserve or increase state general funds to draw down federal matching dollars, and provider groups said current reimbursement rates and staffing shortages are leaving agencies in deficit, creating waitlists, overtime costs, and difficulty retaining workers. Committee members thanked the speakers and noted that the testimony would be used to compare the governor’s, House, and remaining budget requests.
The committee then heard extensive testimony in support of increasing funding for the LA GATOR scholarship program. Supporters included policy groups, school leaders, parents, and students who argued that the program expands educational choice, helps low-income and special-needs students find schools that fit their needs, and should be fully funded at the level of demonstrated demand. Speakers from Catholic and Christian schools said GATOR funding had helped students thrive academically and spiritually, but that shortfalls left many eligible students without awards, hurt kindergarten enrollment, and forced schools to raise private donations to cover gaps. Several witnesses emphasized that the program is not a zero-sum attack on public schools, but a way to let education dollars follow students.
A few committee questions focused on the fiscal impact and on whether choice programs improve outcomes without harming public schools. Testimony cited enrollment growth, parent demand, and data from other states to argue that school choice can improve student and parent outcomes and may also strengthen traditional public schools through competition. No votes or formal actions were taken during the public testimony portion of the meeting.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 4 on Climate Crisis, Resources, Energy, and Transportation Mar 18th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- So we have a couple of budget change proposals before you.
- I'll just note that the Governor's budget is not proposing this or any change.
- I really appreciate the consideration of this budget change proposal.
- weigh these against other priorities across the budget.
- and working with DPR to make the budget more transparent and more efficient.
Summary:
The Assembly Budget Subcommittee on Climate Crisis, Resources, Energy, and Transportation heard an informational hearing with Secretary Garcia and CalEPA-related departments on the administration’s budget proposals and related environmental programs. Secretary Garcia highlighted CalEPA’s work on methane reduction, community air protection, water infrastructure, Exide cleanup, safer pesticide alternatives, Prop 4 implementation, and Bay-Delta water quality, while emphasizing the impact of federal rollbacks and the need for flexible state response. Members raised broader policy concerns about the polluter-pays principle, special fund vacancies, and whether the state is maintaining sufficient staffing and enforcement capacity, especially after recent fee increases.
A major portion of the hearing focused on landfill support, response, and enforcement, particularly subsurface elevated temperature events at Chiquita Canyon and El Sobrante. CalEPA requested $5.1 million and 12 positions to improve monitoring, technical response, coordination, and enforcement across CalRecycle, CARB, DTSC, the Water Board, and OEHHA. Assembly Member Schiavo described severe community impacts from Chiquita Canyon and pressed for stronger state action, more transparency, and accountability from landfill operators; Assembly Member Rogers emphasized that accountability must mean forcing operators to take preventive measures and bear the costs. Agency staff said the proposal would help augment current response efforts, support local enforcement agencies, and improve early detection, while acknowledging that the causes of set events are not fully understood and may involve factors such as lithium-ion batteries, oxygen intrusion, and gas extraction practices.
The committee then heard an update on the Safe and Affordable Drinking Water program and the effects of the new cap-and-invest structure. State Water Board Chair Joaquin Esquivel reported that the program has reduced the number of Californians without safe drinking water from 1.6 million to about 600,000 since 2019, while also bringing 320 systems back into compliance and distributing $1.8 billion in drinking water grants. The Legislative Analyst’s Office explained that under SB 840, SAFER is now in a lower funding tier, which could reduce annual proceeds from the prior $130 million level to a projected $92 million in 2026-27 and delay funding until later in the year. Members expressed concern that this deprioritizes rural drinking water needs, while the board said it would continue using SAFER’s flexible funds for emergency water, technical assistance, and construction, and would keep pushing consolidations and other long-term solutions for the remaining failing systems.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 2 on Human Services Mar 11th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- And we know just even from an economic and a budget perspective, it is treating, economic and a budget
- total funds compared to the 2025 enacted budget.
- The second increase in the requested budget is...
- in the Governor's budget.
- The budget methodology serves to work that out.
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
House Budget Review Subcommittee on Primary & Secondary Education & Workforce Development (2-3-26)
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> The current House Bill um 500 budget The current House Bill um 500 budget language<00:09:33.360>
- So we still stand firm budget language.
- </c><00:12:50.160><c> request</c> addition add additional budget request addition add additional budget
- Uh, and since single budget since 1990.
- This uh budget preschool access.
Summary:
The subcommittee met without a quorum and first heard from Kentucky Department of Education officials on career and technical education funding. KDE explained that House Bill 499 created a CTE funding formula using 60% weighted full-time equivalent enrollment and 40% incentives, but House Bill 6’s budget language excluded area technology centers (ATCs) from that supplemental funding. KDE requested approval of an additional budget request of $14,789,352 in each fiscal year 2027 and 2028 to include ATCs in the formula and hold local districts harmless. Officials said ATCs serve students from 117 of Kentucky’s 171 districts and argued the change would reduce funding disparities and better reflect the return on investment from CTE programs, citing growth in dual credit and work-based learning participation.
Members asked whether the issue would need to be revisited each budget cycle. KDE responded that the problem could be fixed by removing the notwithstanding language from the budget bill, which they said would allow ATCs to be included under the existing statute. Representative Klein supported the request, saying the current clause could lead to stagnation and that the committee should help the program continue to grow. No vote was taken on the CTE item during the portion of the meeting provided.
The committee then heard a presentation from PreK for All on expanding preschool access in Kentucky. Advocates said the state’s preschool program has been funded since 1990 and currently serves about 14,200 children at roughly $84 million per year, but that many working families still fall into a coverage gap. They proposed expanding eligibility to 250% of the federal poverty line, which they said would add about 9,600 children at a cost of $40 million in year two, after a planning year. The proposal also included regulatory flexibility for classrooms and partnerships with private child care providers and nonprofits, with speakers emphasizing child care deserts in some counties and citing research that early learning improves kindergarten readiness and later outcomes. No action or vote was taken on the preschool proposal in the transcript provided.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Budget Review Subcommittee on General Government, Finance, Personnel and Public Retirement (8-20-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> request for the next budget bianium? request for the next budget bianium?
- Uh, the budget that we submit is going to look very similar to the last budget that we submitted.
- Uh, the budget that we submit is going to look very similar to the last budget that we submitted.
- Uh this is budget outlier credit.
- </c> continuing into the next budget cycle. continuing into the next budget cycle.
Keywords:
Meeting Start 00:00:00
Attendance Roll Call 00:00:30
Personnel Cabinet 00:03:25
Department of Veterans Affairs 00:12:40
Auditor of Public Accounts 00:22:39
State Treasurer 00:42:24, 958, all
Summary:
The committee first heard from Personnel Cabinet officials on House Bill 6, which required the Kentucky Employees Health Plan to offer a qualified high-deductible health plan by the 2026 plan year. Officials said the plan was already added for 2025, described it as the lowest-premium option with higher deductibles, and explained that federal rules prevent first-dollar coverage except for limited preventive services. They said 264 members had selected the plan out of about 142,000, and noted it also allows health savings accounts. Members asked about the plan’s benefits, what “catastrophic” meant, the deductible amounts, and whether employees were aware of the option; the cabinet said it would continue to highlight the plan in communications and that the deductible is above $8,000 for individuals and above $16,000 for families.
The committee then received an update from the Kentucky Department of Veterans Affairs on the Bowling Green veterans center. Officials said the current target is to move into the building on October 28, with first admissions about two months later, pending final fixes and certification steps for Medicare, Medicaid, and the VA. They explained that about $7 million in FY25 appropriations lapsed because of construction delays, staffing ramp-up was postponed to avoid unnecessary spending, and the unspent funds should be considered in the next budget request. Members praised the project and asked about annual operating costs; officials said the current operating budget is about $15 million, though they do not expect to spend all of it this year. The commissioner also announced the fifth annual state commanders conference in Lexington, focused on veterans issues and featuring state, federal, and advocacy leaders.
State Auditor Allison Ball then outlined her office’s budget priorities. She said the office is primarily a billing agency that charges audited entities for its work, and warned that some agencies are now signaling they may refuse to pay for audits related to kinship care and the medical cannabis application process. She said the office plans to continue requesting outlier credits for unusually burdensome county audit fees, funding for the ombudsman office’s transition and expanded in-office operations, and revenue replacement for local government audits and possibly state audits and special examinations. Ball also said the office conducts about 500 audits, reviews, and examinations a year and wants to restore performance audits with seed funding, as well as add investigators to the ombudsman office to focus more on child abuse and neglect cases. Members discussed the value of performance audits, the possibility of raising certain board thresholds to account for inflation, and the need for additional capacity to handle more audits.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Press Conference: DFL Media Availability on Federal Impacts - 09/09/25
Transcript Highlights:
- Uh and the in the budget that Minnesota.
- So do cities and counties and budgets.
- Uh they the state's budget in a boat.
- We the state's budget and our economy.
- </c> that committee and have a small budget that committee and have a small budget which<00:12:42.240
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Gov. Tim Walz delivers his State of the State address before Minnesota Legislature 4/23/25
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
ND
North Dakota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Appropriations - Human Resources Division Apr 10th, 2025 at 02:30 pm
Appropriations - Human Resources Division
Transcript Highlights:
- That was what was budgeted last time.
- That was what was budgeted last time.
- Okay, so as I look at this, from the base budget, the Senate had increased the base budget about $300,000
- This next budget cycle for the county.
- It's unfortunate, but that's no way to budget.
Summary:
The committee reconvened to work through the amended version of Senate Bill 2025, beginning with a clarification from the Department of Veterans Affairs on the source of funds used to cover the commissioner’s salary equity increase. Commissioner Lonnie Wong explained that the money came from federal highly rural transportation grant administrative/salary funds, within the allowable 10% administrative cap, and that the department had not exceeded that limit. The committee then reviewed the major House changes to the veterans budget, including funding for a veterans benefits specialist FTE, salary equity increases for veterans service officers, additional operating funds, one-time funding for homeless veteran services and the Veterans Post-War Trust Fund, carryover authority for Fisher House and veterans transportation projects, accrued leave, and a document scanning project. Members also discussed a section changing governance authority for veterans affairs and the veterans home, with questions about the ACOVA board and the governor’s appointment authority.
The committee debated the appropriateness of using federal grant administrative funds for salary adjustments and the broader shift in authority over veterans affairs, with some members emphasizing legislative control over salaries and budget decisions and others supporting the reorganization as a way to improve administration. After discussion, Amendment 25.092.0203 was moved, seconded, and adopted on an 8-0 roll call. The committee then moved SB 2025 as amended, and that motion also passed 8-0.
The meeting then shifted to Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation budget issues, where members reviewed FTE reductions, salary equity funding for correctional officers and parole/probation officers, and the status of federal ARPA dollars that had previously been used to backfill salaries and bonuses. DOCR officials described pay levels for correctional officers and compared them with county jail wages, arguing that the proposed equity funding was needed for retention and competitiveness. Members also discussed transitional facility costs, women’s treatment unit funding, and county jail overflow housing, including new or planned bed capacity in Grand Forks, Burleigh-Morton, Rugby, and other facilities. The committee agreed to continue refining the budget through a new long sheet and planned to request amendments for consideration in the following days before adjourning.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Energy, Utilities, Environment and Climate - 02/17/25
Energy, Utilities, Environment, and Climate
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> only state funding and our budget only state funding and our budget request<00:04:25.280><c> but
- </c> proposed in the governor's 2627 budget proposed in the governor's 2627 budget for<01:24:17.320><
- </c> adjustment proposed to offset budget adjustment proposed to offset budget pressure<01:24:36.239>
- </c> stress on these systems this budget stress on these systems this budget initiative<01:26:31.560>
- </c> maybe the especially with the budget maybe the especially with the budget deficits<01:39:57.560>
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- That's my budget. That is my budget.
- , because that's essentially what a budget is.
- As somebody who has been a part of the budget process, it's a nuanced thing.
- We do the budget first, and then we come back... ...and look at legislation.
- And those are for the auspices of the budget.
Summary:
The committee first heard HB 2825, which would replace criminal enforcement for unpaid court fines, fees, restitution, and incarceration costs with a civil collection framework and end arrest warrants and contempt proceedings for nonpayment. Representative Chris Lopez said the bill would let people keep working and repay debts through wage garnishment and other civil tools, while a Justice Action Network representative testified in support. The committee adopted the Blackman amendment limiting challenges to a second default judgment entered within one year of a prior one, then passed HB 2825 with a 7-0 due pass recommendation.
The committee then took up HB 2070, an emergency appropriation of $25 million for Gila County flood relief. Gila County supervisors, mayors from Globe and Miami, the county emergency manager, and public works staff described severe flooding, deaths, major debris and sediment removal, damaged roads and utilities, and the county’s inability to meet matching-fund requirements for federal or state grants. Members discussed FEMA denials, federal review, and the need to act before monsoon season. HB 2070 passed unanimously with a due pass recommendation.
Next, HB 2129, which moves the deadline for municipal library trustees’ annual report from the first Monday in July to the second Monday, was supported by the Arizona Library Association as a simple timing fix for smaller and rural libraries. It passed 6-1. HB 2439, exempting public and semi-public cold plunges from ADEQ water pollution rules, was presented as a way to reduce regulatory confusion and costs for small businesses; it also passed 6-0 with one member absent. The committee then approved HB 2773, barring Arizona and its entities from assisting the International Criminal Court, after debate over sovereignty and constitutional authority, by a 4-3 vote.
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
Senate Rules and Enrolled Bills (01/15/2026)
Rules and Enrolled Bills
Transcript Highlights:
- But I know budget for counties.
- You approve the budget and then six months later you're starting the budget again on an annual budget
- As we all know budget for counties.
- you approve the doing another budget you approve the budget<00:19:18.640><c> and</c><00:19:18.799><c
- , then they'll use a bianial budget, then they'll use a bianial budget. budget. budget.
WY
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> Senator Landon during this budget Senator Landon during this budget season.<00:05:18.160><c> Uh,
- </c><01:10:51.199><c> is</c> reflection of how the budget is reflection of how the budget is um<01:10
- It says historically, and it's comparison Wyoming's governor's budget to that state's budget and its
- It says historically, and it's comparison Wyoming's governor's budget to that state's budget and its
- It says historically, and it's comparison Wyoming's governor's budget to that state's budget and its
Keywords:
First Amendment, free speech, lawsuits, immunity, public participation, strategic lawsuits, foreign censorship, digital innovation, constitutional rights, Wyoming GRANITE Act, extraterritorial laws, civil actions, speech protection, legal jurisdiction, joint liability, artificial intelligence, social scoring, biometric data, privacy rights, government regulation
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Health and Human Services - 04/09/25
Health and Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- Lines 25 to 32 track the activity both for the governor's budget and for the Senate's budget in the health
- and for uh the governor's budget and for uh the senate's<00:02:59.840><c> budget</c><00:03:00.800><c
- </c><00:10:20.000><c> since</c> Services budget since Services budget since um<00:10:22.720><c> um</c
- ><c> poses</c> know the budget forecast poses know the budget forecast poses challenges<00:52:55.520>
- </c> throughout the budget horizon. throughout the budget horizon.
TX