Video & Transcript Research : 'Joint Legislative Budget Committee'

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HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Room 016 Conference PM - 04-30-2026

Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • The Committee on Public Safety is reconvening.
  • We note that the budget seems as us.
  • We're convening our Public Safety Conference Committee meeting.
  • <00:10:44.200> Thank your committee as well. All right. Thank your committee as well.
  • Welcome to our House and Senate reconvened conference committee meeting.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Room 224 Conference PM - 04-30-2026

Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • . >> I'd like to call to order the joint House and Senate conference committee hearing for Thursday,
  • different approaches to try to tackle the same problem of vast overspending by political action committees
  • different approaches to try to tackle the same problem of vast overspending by political action committees
  • different approaches to try to tackle the same problem of vast overspending by political action committees
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Room 016 Conference AM - 04-30-2026

Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • I'm reconvening this joint conference committee. It is Thursday, April 30th, 2026, at 9:00 a.m.
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  • Uh, this concludes the conference committee hearing. All right.
  • Welcome to the conference committee, uh, 10:15 a.m.
  • Welcome conference committee.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Senate Floor Session 04-30-2026 12:00pm

Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Uh, if the committee could convene on time, and then we will reconvene when the committee gets back.
  • Uh, if the committee could convene on time, and then we will reconvene when the committee gets back.
  • Smaller than even our small committee Smaller than even our small committee hearings.
  • Um your committee of Health President.
  • 2026, transmitting a legislative 2026, transmitting a legislative communication<00:43:39.640>
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Room 224 Conference AM - 04-30-2026

Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Good morning and welcome to the 10:00 a.m. agenda for the committees on housing in the House and the
  • We reconvening our conference<00:04:49.520> committee<00:04:49.880> on<00:04:50.000>
  • this<00:04:50.200> Thursday, conference committee on this Thursday, conference committee
  • waiting for the money committee waiting for the money committee approval.<00:05:52.480> So
  • I'd like to call to order the joint House and Senate conference committee hearing for Thursday, April
AL

Alabama 2026 Regular Session

Alabama House County and Municipal Government Committee Mar 18th, 2026

County and Municipal Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • questions from the committee. questions from the committee.
  • <00:01:09.400> at As a reminder in this committee at As a reminder in this committee at Chairman
  • Thank you, committee members.
  • and uh any questions from the committee. and uh any questions from the committee.
  • So, some of the community, our legislative committees have been working with the city of Birmingham in
Bills: SB32, HB404, SB105, SB32, HB404, SB105
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Appropriations Mar 2nd, 2026

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • As you may recall from last year, the first portion of the bill establishes the Joint Legislative Committee
  • As you may recall from last year, the first portion of the bill establishes the Joint Legislative Committee
  • Right direction to have an oversight committee that is joint between the House and the Senate, and that
  • Thank you, members of the committee.
  • Senator Branis and I got kicked off of the committee when it came around a budget time because we were
Summary: The Appropriations Committee met and considered a large agenda of bills, reporting several measures favorably. Early action included SB 6, a settled claim bill involving the Department of Children and Families and the estate of Leila Estrada and Sapphire Williams, which was approved for $3.8 million. The committee also passed a cybersecurity internships bill creating a Department of Commerce program with Cyber Florida, and SB 532, which lets clerks of court retain the full amount of certain excess revenue and clarifies foreclosure-sale procedures. Veterans housing measures, CS for CS for SB 1602 and SB 1604, were approved to create a pilot program and a related trust fund for vacancy relief and risk mitigation for veteran housing. The committee also favorably reported SB 1110 on Medicaid and insurance coverage for orthotics and prosthetics, with emotional testimony from a student and family describing the high cost and importance of activity-specific prosthetics. Members also approved CS for CS for SB 1012 after adopting an amendment that removed inmate emergency and specialty medical service compensation provisions while retaining changes to the contractor-operated institutions inmate welfare trust fund. Another bill, CS for CS for SB 1614, was narrowed by a delete-all amendment to focus on limiting the use of excess fees for new building construction by local governments. All of these measures were reported favorably after brief debate, with some support testimony submitted in writing or waived. The most extensive discussion centered on CS for CS for SB 17, a major Medicaid and public assistance overhaul. The bill would create a Joint Legislative Committee on Medicaid Oversight, allow the Legislature to retain its own actuary, tighten Medicaid program oversight, update encounter-data reporting, set performance standards for managed care plans, revise pharmacy benefit manager rules, and require DCF to implement SNAP fraud-reduction and payment-accuracy reforms, including photo IDs on EBT cards and updated work requirements. It also would direct agencies to seek federal waivers for Medicaid work requirements for able-bodied adults and expanded behavioral health services. After lengthy questioning and testimony, the committee adopted amendments adding a transitional medical benefits glide path for people who gain employment and later lose Medicaid eligibility, and exempting hospice patients with six months or less to live. Supporters argued the bill would improve accountability, reduce fraud, and save money, while opponents warned it would create administrative burdens, increase paperwork, and cause eligible people to lose coverage or food assistance. The committee ultimately reported the bill favorably as amended.
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government Feb 25th, 2026

Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • Chair, and members of the committee.
  • Chair, members of the committee. My name is John Zachom.
  • Chairman, members of the committee.
  • They're paying a vendor for enhanced online budgeting tools.
  • Chair, members of the committee.
Summary: The committee first took up appointments, recommending confirmation of James Patrick Grambling and Brian J. Aungst on a single favorable vote. It then heard and approved several committee bills, including CS/CS/SB 1260 on building code inspections, which directs the Department of Management Services to contract with private providers for plan review and inspections; CS/SB 1668 on NICA, which updates benefits, oversight, funding, and immunity language; SB 1300 on a workforce/CDL training program for selected nonviolent inmates; CS/CS/SB 598 on funeral and cemetery services; CS/SB 1580 on illegal gaming enforcement; CS/SB 934 on Florida Keys affordable housing tax exemptions; and CS/CS/SB 1452, an agency bill updating DFS programs and licensing rules. Each of those bills was reported favorably after committee debate and, in several cases, amendments were adopted. The committee spent substantial time on CS/CS/SB 1510, the DEP package, which reorganizes environmental rulemaking and land acquisition authority, expands septic-to-sewer and nutrient-reduction requirements in sensitive areas, updates stormwater and resilience provisions, and revises related permitting and grant programs. Two amendments were adopted, including one adding solar-energy and stormwater-related provisions and another removing septic disclosure reporting language. Testimony included support from DEP and concerns from environmental advocates about septic timelines and implementation. The bill was ultimately reported favorably. The committee also considered CS/CS/SB 1566 on local government budget transparency, requiring counties and municipalities to post budgets and related materials online for extended periods in a standardized format. The League of Cities opposed the bill as an unfunded mandate, while the sponsor argued it would improve taxpayer access and accountability; the bill was reported favorably. Finally, the committee heard SB 7034, a rule ratification for minimum flows and levels for the lower Santa Fe and Ichetucknee rivers and priority springs, with testimony focused on the proposed Water First restoration strategy, conservation measures, and concerns about water quality, funding, and local opposition. The transcript ends during closing remarks on that ratification bill, before a final vote is shown.
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government Feb 25th, 2026

Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • We now have our own members of our committee.
  • Members, we are now back on bills from our committee members.
  • Thank you committee.
  • So all counties should have their budget on the website.
  • Register: Thank you Senator, Chair, members of the committee.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Intergovernmental Affairs May 13th, 2025

Intergovernmental Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • Even for our city's bond markets, their budgets.
  • Good morning, Chairperson Bell and committee members.
  • So you're familiar with the city budget. Yes, sir. What percentage of your city budget is?
  • Disaster response in your public safety budget, what percentage of the overall city budget is that?
  • The committee stands at recess at 9:57 a.m.
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Agriculture Finance and Policy Committee 3/24/25

Agriculture Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
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AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Ways and Means General Fund Committee Feb 19th, 2025

Ways and Means General Fund

Transcript Highlights:
  • We're going to go ahead and get started with a committee meeting this afternoon. Can you hear me?
  • Good afternoon, committee. I'm Robin Heiden, the executive director of Alabama Arise.
  • Would you make a commitment to this committee that you would work with her?
  • I meant the entire legislative process is a collaborative process.
  • Chairman and committee. House Bill 82 has three important parts, and I'll go over those real quick.