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MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Personal care assistance and community first services and supports 3/10/26

Minnesota House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • The main language for the PCA program starts in section three, and we define additional revenue for shared
  • The main language for the PCA program starts in section three, and we define additional revenue for shared
  • The main language for the PCA program starts in section three, and we define additional revenue for shared
  • <00:26:18.640> receiving diverse revenue stream that's receiving diverse revenue stream that's
  • That is true diverse revenue streams.
Keywords: 1183, house
HI

Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

EDT Public Hearing 03-20-2025

Economic Development and Tourism

Transcript Highlights:
  • And I think having a high standard in terms of the amount of revenue generated from the farm or number
  • And I think having a high standard in terms of the amount of revenue generated from the farm or number
  • <00:10:32.240> generated terms of the amount of revenue generated terms of the amount of revenue
  • Um, again, we view agritourism as a value-add mechanism to increase farm revenue or revenue to the farm
  • <00:21:52.640> or mechanism to increase uh farm revenue or mechanism to increase uh farm revenue
Keywords: 912, senate, all
Summary: The committee heard testimony on HB 449 relating to economic development, HB 1006 relating to the Agribusiness Development Corporation, and then began HB 1467 relating to housing resiliency. On HB 449, Director Wayne Enoy of the Hawaii Technology Development Corporation and several business groups, including the Chamber of Commerce and Hawaii Food Industry Association, testified in strong support. They said the measure would help local manufacturers and tech-focused businesses adapt to uncertainty around tariffs and federal funding pauses, diversify Hawaiʻi’s economy, and expand workforce training and apprenticeship efforts tied to innovation and manufacturing. The bulk of the discussion focused on HB 1006 and proposed agritourism authority for ADC. ADC, the Hawaii Farm Bureau, and other supporters said agritourism can be a value-added tool that helps farmers diversify income while keeping agriculture as the primary use of the land. One testifier opposed the bill’s direction without stronger guardrails, urging that a high percentage of revenue or land use remain tied to actual agricultural production. Committee members questioned ADC and Farm Bureau witnesses about how much land should remain in production, whether agritourism could expand on public lands, how enforcement would work, and whether responsibilities should be shifted from the Department of Agriculture’s marketing functions to ADC. Witnesses said ADC currently has no tenants engaged in agritourism, but would support standards, annual reporting, site visits, and the ability to reclaim land if production requirements are not met. No votes or final actions were taken in the portion provided. After concluding HB 1006 testimony and questions, the committee moved on to HB 1467 and called the first witness, Luke Meyers, before the transcript ended.
CA
Transcript Highlights:
  • I want to say good afternoon and welcome to the hearing on the Assembly Committee on Revenue and Taxation
  • In summary, bills with a revenue impact of more than $150,000 will not be eligible for a vote immediately
  • The scheme cost California about $20 million a year in lost revenue.
  • We are calling our colleagues: please come to Revenue and Taxation so we can finish the business.
  • I think all the business before the Revenue and Taxation Committee has been completed.
Summary: The Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee met as a subcommittee, then later established a quorum and heard several tax-related bills. Chair Gibson reviewed committee procedures, including the suspense file for bills with revenue impacts over $150,000. SB 881 by Sen. McNerney would extend the farmer-to-food-bank tax credit through 2032 and the emergency food for families voluntary tax contribution through 2033; supporters from food banks, agricultural groups, local governments, and climate organizations said it would reduce food waste and help address food insecurity, with no opposition on the record. The bill was moved to suspense. SB 1406 by Sen. McNerney would target the so-called Montana tax loophole used to avoid California vehicle taxes and fees; supporters said it would recover up to $20 million annually and improve enforcement, while an opposition group warned the shell-company language could affect legitimate small businesses and passive owners. That bill was also sent to suspense. SB 1349 by Sen. Gonzalez would direct the Legislative Analyst’s Office to review major state tax expenditures and evaluate whether they are meeting their intended goals. Supporters, including the California Teachers Association, tax reform advocates, school employees, and local governments, argued that California’s roughly $94 billion in annual tax expenditures need more accountability, especially given the state’s budget pressures. The committee approved SB 1349 on a due-pass-as-amended motion to the Assembly Appropriations Committee. The committee also approved two consent items, SB 1436 and SB 1437, on a due-pass motion. Later, SB 1249 by Sen. Richardson proposed a $3,000 tax deduction for seniors ages 86 to 90 through 2032, with supporters from LeadingAge California saying it would help older adults cope with rising costs; the bill was referred to suspense. SB 1151 by Sen. Cervantes would codify infant formula as a food product for sales tax exemption purposes; the author and supporters said it would protect families from uncertainty and preserve tax relief for an essential product. Members discussed the high cost of formula, and the bill passed on a due-pass-as-amended motion to Appropriations. The committee then completed its business and adjourned.
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

89th Legislative Session Mar 3rd, 2025

Texas House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • HB 563 by Gervin-Hawkins relating to the establishment of the Small Municipality Revenue Recovery Grant
  • amendment providing for the creation and use of the Grow Texas Fund and allocating certain general revenues
  • Landgraf proposing a constitutional amendment providing for the creation of the Texas Severance Tax Revenue
  • Landgraft proposing a constitution amendment providing for the creation of the Texas severance tax revenue
  • state significantly affected by oil and gas production, providing the transfer of certain general revenues
Summary: The House met for first reading and referral of a large number of bills and joint resolutions, with no substantive debate on the measures themselves. The filings covered a broad range of topics, including agency rulemaking and regulatory deference, occupational licensing reciprocity, business entities, eviction procedures, higher education, public education, health care, elections and voting procedures, criminal justice, property tax and appraisal issues, transportation, agriculture, energy, and local government authority. Several proposals also addressed constitutional amendments on matters such as Medicaid expansion, property tax limits, quorum and special-session rules, voting citizenship proof, parental rights, reproductive autonomy, and state funding allocations. Many of the measures focused on education, public health, and election administration. Examples included bills on financial literacy in schools, school nurses and librarians, student meal debt policies, suicide prevention notices, menstrual products, and community-based learning programs, as well as election-related bills on voter registration, disability access, ballot corrections, political advertising, and voting equipment or procedures. Other notable bills dealt with housing and property issues, including evictions, homestead tax exemptions, and land ownership, along with criminal justice measures involving sentencing, juror challenges, trafficking-related nondisclosure, and firearm reporting or transfer restrictions. The House also referred a set of resolutions to the Local and Consent Calendars Committee. At the end of the proceedings, Mr. Bell moved that the House adjourn until 2:00 p.m. Tuesday in memory of James Edward Cook of Eustace, Texas. There was no objection, and the House adjourned.
HI
Transcript Highlights:
  • Second, 7.3% of total revenue collected for economic development and tourism resiliency.
  • Second, 7.3% of total revenue collected for economic development and tourism resiliency.
  • Second, 7.3% of total revenue collected for economic development and tourism resiliency.
  • Second, 7.3% of total revenue collected for economic development and tourism resiliency.
  • Second, 7.3% of total revenue collected for economic development and tourism resiliency.
Keywords: 910, house, all
Summary: The joint hearing of the Committees on Economic Development and Technology and Tourism on February 12, 2025, focused on HB 77/HB 1077, a measure related to increasing the transient accommodations tax and directing revenue toward climate mitigation/resiliency and economic development/tourism resiliency. Most testifiers supported the bill, including the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency, Hawaii Green Infrastructure Authority, State Energy Office, Governor’s office, DLNR, the Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Commission, the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development, the Nature Conservancy, the Hawaii Climate Advisory Team, Care for Aina Now Coalition, the Hawaii Tourism Authority, and the Ocean Legislative Task Force. Supporters emphasized the need for reliable funding for disaster preparedness, environmental restoration, infrastructure resilience, and tourism-related resilience projects; some cited polling and a reported funding gap for natural resource protection and restoration. Opposition or concerns came from the Kohala Coast Resort Association, which argued the state should fully collect existing taxes from short-term vacation rentals and other accommodations before considering any tax increase. The Attorney General and Department of Taxation offered technical comments, noting the bill’s special fund language referred to fees that the chapter did not actually authorize and recommending either deleting that language or authorizing fee collection through rulemaking. The Hawaii Tourism Authority supported the measure but asked that the funding mechanism have a clear nexus to tourism resiliency. After a brief recess, the chair recommended amendments to redirect the proposed 1.75% TAT increase away from the two special funds and into the general fund, while earmarking 7.3% of total revenue for climate mitigation/resiliency and 7.3% for economic development and tourism resiliency, with technical and defect-effective-date amendments. Both committees then voted to pass the measure with amendments; the recommendations were adopted, and the meeting adjourned.
NH

New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session

House Commerce and Consumer Affairs (04/21/2026)

Commerce and Consumer Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • Revenue Administration. Revenue Administration.
  • We get no revenue from it. The state gets the revenue.
  • gets the revenue. gets the revenue.
  • >> the revenue from the licenses. >> the revenue from the licenses.
  • And well, I'm I'm just my revenue.
Keywords: 1189, house, all
VT

Vermont 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Session - 2026-05-22 - 3:45PM

Vermont House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • then affecting the revenue of the state. then affecting the revenue of the state.
  • utilization decreases, and revenue utilization decreases, and revenue falls,<00:10:52.320> it
  • When the Green Mountain Care Board does their hospital budget orders, they set a revenue commercial revenue
  • Your hospitals will have that same revenue cap.
  • . reduction in hospital revenue statewide.
Keywords: 926, house, all
Summary: The House took up S. 190, a health care cost-containment bill relating to the Green Mountain Care Board, reference-based pricing, and a study of a public employee health benefit authority. The House first suspended rules to take the bill from the notice calendar, then heard committee reports from Health Care, Ways and Means, and Appropriations. The Health Care committee chair described the bill as a strike-all amendment intended to carry out Act 68’s hospital reference-based pricing timeline, saying it would let the Green Mountain Care Board begin implementation for fiscal year 2027, expand reference-based pricing to qualified health plans and the Vermont Education Health Insurance program, and address hospital pricing transparency, outsourcing, and critical access hospital Medicare outpatient cost-sharing issues. Supporters argued the bill would lower insurance costs, help reduce property taxes, and improve hospital sustainability by reducing the need for hospitals to limit access as they approach revenue caps. The Ways and Means committee said the bill could reduce education spending by lowering health care costs for school employees and reported the bill favorably on a 7-4 vote. The Appropriations committee said it reviewed the bill and an amendment, and noted that much of the detailed language would be changed by the appropriations amendment; it also discussed a possible state innovation waiver under the Affordable Care Act. The Health Care committee reported its strike-all amendment favorably on a 10-0 vote. The bill’s provisions were described in detail, including requiring hospitals and insurers to express rates as a percentage of Medicare, setting a path toward national median hospital prices by 2030, limiting certain reimbursements for QHP and VHI plans, requiring a report on hospital outsourcing and provider tax impacts, and creating a public health system performance tool if funding is available. The speaker also noted that the bill would not affect critical access hospitals or Vermont’s Medicare-dependent hospital in the reimbursement cap provisions, and that critical access hospitals were already working with the Green Mountain Care Board on solutions to Medicare outpatient cost-sharing concerns.
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

State Affairs Apr 9th, 2026

State Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • So that was land that they did not have a revenue stream from, and now they have significant revenue
  • That revenue goes right back into schools and infrastructure and services.
  • And we know that's over $2 billion of revenue to local governments in 2024.
  • For every $1 in services that data centers use, they give $26 back in revenue.
  • But data centers haven't stopped at just the revenue piece.
Keywords: 1184, house, all
CO

Colorado 2026 Regular Session

Colorado Senate 2026 Legislative Day 021 Feb 4th, 2026

Colorado Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • The use of property tax revenue for high-density housing should not exist in perpetuity.
  • Through this amendment, this use of property tax revenue would be limited to 5 years.
  • <01:24:20.560> for The use of property tax revenue for The use of property tax revenue for
  • would be limited to property tax revenue would be limited to 5<01:24:30.800> years.
  • . revenue. revenue.
Keywords: 981, all
MO

Missouri 2026 Regular Session

2026 Legislative Session - Day Seventy One - Friday, May 15 - Afternoon Session

Missouri House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • 25 years, what does that do to revenue? What does that do to state income?
  • You're foregoing the general revenue. It never hits the treasury.
  • It's tax revenue that would otherwise be collected, but it's being foregone.
  • The government recommended a $26 million general revenue reduction.
  • What revenue would they lose out on?
Keywords: 959, house, all
FL

Florida 2026 5th Special Session

Appropriations Apr 2nd, 2025

Transcript Highlights:
  • Within the Department of Revenue, there is $76.4 million for payments to fiscally constrained counties
  • This provides $350,000 in non-recurring general revenue funds from the FSU Sunshine Genetics program,
  • Water management districts have a variety of non-revenue streams.
  • They have federal revenues, district revenues that include ad valorem taxes, agriculture taxes, permit
  • and license fees, land leasing, management, and mitigation revenue.
Summary: The Appropriations Committee met for Budget Day and heard presentations on the Senate’s proposed 2025-2026 budget, SPB 25-200, totaling $117.4 billion. Chair Hooper said the plan reduces overall spending from the prior year, keeps strong reserves, includes a 4% pay raise for state employees, maintains employee health care contributions, and makes major investments in water quality, transportation, and education infrastructure. Committee chairs then summarized their budget silos, including K-12 education, higher education, health and human services, criminal and civil justice, transportation/tourism/economic development, and agriculture/environment/general government. Members asked questions mainly about school funding, AP and dual enrollment support, voucher and scholarship impacts, and the My Safe Florida Home program. The committee adopted a large consent package of amendments and then approved three late-file amendments: funding virtual college tours for high school students, funding the FSU Sunshine Genetics program, and providing money for the Port of Fernandina customs facility. The committee then voted to report SPB 2500, the General Appropriations Bill, as a committee bill. It also favorably reported SPB 2502 (implementing bill), SPB 2504 (state employees placeholder), SB 7022 (Florida Retirement System contribution rates and DROP changes), CS/SB 1320 (recreating the Resilient Florida Trust Fund), SPB 2506 (gaming compact revenue distributions, including water projects and rural lands), SPB 2508 (29 new judgeships), SB 7014 (ending the court mediation and arbitration trust fund), SPB 2510 (K-12 conforming bill), SPB 2512 (higher education conforming bill), and SPB 2514 (health and human services conforming bill). The committee also took up several policy bills. It approved SB 7028 on cancer research, creating grant parameters, reporting requirements, a five-year pediatric cancer research incubator, and the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute VisionGen Initiative. It approved CS/CS/SB 170 on nursing home quality, adding resident satisfaction surveys, medical director standards, safety culture reviews, electronic health record requirements, financial reporting penalties, and a study of best practices. It approved CS/CS/SB 168, the Tristan Murphy Act, which expands mental health diversion options, adds Hillsborough County to a forensic hospital diversion pilot, expands grant uses, and creates a behavioral health data repository. It also approved SB 114 creating the Florida Center for Excellence in Insurance and Risk Management at FSU and moving the public hurricane loss model there. The committee then began considering SB 180 on emergency preparedness and response, including a late-file amendment, but the transcript cuts off before final action on that bill.
CA
Transcript Highlights:
  • So the work of the Innovation Office is supported by our general revenues from the department, which
  • The other components of the CCFPL that I mentioned that don't directly bring in revenue—the Innovation
  • The other components of the CCFPL that I mentioned that don't directly bring in revenue, the Innovation
  • CCFPL that I mentioned that don't directly bring in revenue, the innovation office, the complaint team
  • Then subtracting that out, as well as any revenue we may have incurred from billable... there were 6,
Keywords: 988, house, all
CA

California 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee May 5th, 2026

Budget and Fiscal Review

Transcript Highlights:
  • They collect information about assets, revenues, balance sheets.
  • So it isn't intended. ...revenues, balance sheets.
  • Revenues still come in.
  • If you have 54 days of cash on hand, a lot of revenue will come in in those 54 days.
  • Revenues still come in.
Keywords: 987, senate, all
AR

Arkansas 2026 1st Special Session

ALC-HOSPITAL, MEDICAID, & DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES STUDY SUBCOMMITTEE Mar 16th, 2026

ALC-HOSPITAL, MEDICAID, & DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES STUDY SUBCOMMITTEE

Transcript Highlights:
  • And supplemental payments to hospitals after federal match totaled $548 million, and no general revenue
  • Revenue was used, and that concludes, and the overall approach I was open for questions or additional
  • So if your hospital has a lower net patient revenue than another hospital, the percentage is the same
  • And so we have many people inside a hospital who work in revenue cycle, and their only job is to track
  • So remember I told you hospitals' net patient revenue margins on the whole—apples and oranges mixed in
Summary: The subcommittee met to review Department of Human Services hospital payments in Arkansas Medicaid, with DHS Secretary Janet Mann and Deputy Secretary Misty Eubanks presenting first, followed by Arkansas Hospital Association Executive Vice President Jody Ann Tritt and a brief comment from Arkansas Children’s. DHS outlined the main hospital payment streams: fee-for-service per diem payments, upper payment limit (UPL) supplemental payments, cost settlements, and smaller payments such as graduate medical education and disproportionate share hospital funds. Members asked for plain-language explanations of cost settlements, why per diem rates vary by hospital type, and why UPL applies to private hospitals. DHS said cost settlements and UPL are mechanisms to help offset Medicaid underpayment, with SFY 2025 hospital payments totaling hundreds of millions of dollars and no general revenue used for supplemental payments beyond the state share funded through hospital assessments and related financing structures. Committee members focused heavily on whether Arkansas hospitals are adequately reimbursed and why rural hospitals struggle. Tritt explained that critical access hospitals, rural emergency hospitals, PPS hospitals, and specialty hospitals operate under different federal and state rules, and said lower per diem rates for some facilities help with cash flow and later cost settlement adjustments. She said Arkansas hospitals are under financial strain, citing a negative patient services margin statewide and noting that Medicaid, Medicare, and commercial payers all contribute to the problem. She also said the association had just authorized a statewide survey of hospital finances and costs, which she expected would take about a year to complete. A major theme was commercial insurance reimbursement. Tritt argued Arkansas hospitals are paid far less than hospitals in neighboring states even though premiums are similar, and said administrative burdens, prior authorizations, and denials add to the problem. She said hospitals receive about 52 to 53 cents on the dollar for Medicaid costs without UPL and about 78 cents with UPL, still below cost. Members also discussed Medicare wage index issues, Medicare Advantage, and whether hospitals could use technology or alternative arrangements to improve finances. No votes were taken on the hospital presentation. At the end of the meeting, DHS provided a brief update on Living Choices and assisted living reimbursement. Officials said one assisted living facility, Pillars of the Community in Crossett, had announced closure, with nine waiver clients being transitioned to other settings. DHS said the current cost reporting period was underway and that a new rate study could be ready for review before the end of the fiscal year if reports were submitted on time. Members also asked about the broader waiver plan, and DHS said the next waiver iteration would likely be brought back to the committee in the summer.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Plastic bottle excise tax proposed 3/10/26

Minnesota House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • We need new dedicated revenue sources to fix water infrastructure, and House File 3322 is one way to
  • <00:03:47.959> sources<00:03:48.360> to We need new dedicated revenue sources to We
  • need new dedicated revenue sources to fix<00:03:48.920> water<00:03:49.200> infrastructure
  • And we need that revenue stream that could potentially do appropriation bonds as well to extend it to
  • And we need that revenue stream. This isn't a deposit bill.
Keywords: 1183, house
FL
Transcript Highlights:
  • General revenue represents $53.2 billion...
  • General revenue represents $53.2 billion, or 45.3% of the total budget.
  • This chart reflects each policy area of general revenue.
  • It shows there's $120 million in rebate revenues for last year. What happened to that money?
  • It shows there's $120 million in rebate revenues for last year. What happened to that money?
Summary: The Appropriations Committee on Health and Human Services heard a presentation on the governor’s proposed fiscal year 2026-27 budget for the health and human services silo, which totals $48.5 billion. Agency leaders outlined major requests for AHCA, APD, DCF, DOEA, DOH, and the Department of Veterans’ Affairs, including behavioral health redesign, Medicaid rate changes, developmental disability services, child welfare and opioid programs, senior services, cancer research, public health initiatives, and veterans’ facility and technology needs. The committee also received an overview of the overall state budget, which was described as $117.4 billion, up 1.1% from the current year. AHCA’s presentation focused on $71.6 million for a Medicaid behavioral health redesign, including funding for residential treatment, a serious mental illness waiver, and higher inpatient psychiatric rates for youth, plus $7.1 million to raise private duty nursing reimbursement in fee-for-service Medicaid, $2.5 million for the background screening clearinghouse, and $124.4 million for the Health Care Connection System (FX). APD requested funding to continue moving people off the pre-enrollment list and to support developmental disability centers, a new forensic facility, an electronic health record system, and higher operating costs. DCF highlighted $81.9 million for eligibility and system integrity, $187.5 million for opioid prevention and treatment, $35.5 million for community-based care lead agencies, and $72.7 million to expand behavioral health bed capacity, including 474 new beds at state hospitals. DOEA sought additional funding for Alzheimer’s services, home care, and community care for the elderly. DOH emphasized $278 million for cancer research and innovation, $5 million for food and product safety testing, $5 million for the Florida FIRST blood-on-ambulance initiative, and $5.7 million for a public lab feasibility study. Veterans Affairs requested funds for facility improvements, cybersecurity, and medication management equipment. Members asked detailed questions about several items, especially the proposed changes to the AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP), which would reduce eligibility and the number of people served. Senators and public witnesses criticized the lack of transparency and urged the department to pause the changes and work with stakeholders; the Surgeon General said the issue was driven by funding constraints and federal changes, not a legal barrier, and that the agency was exploring alternatives. Questions also addressed the Office of Minority Health and Health Equity, the Kids Care/CHIP expansion implementation, the cancer research funding structure, and the timeline and cost of the FX system. Public testimony focused heavily on ADAP, with speakers warning that thousands could lose medication access and calling for community involvement and a review of the program’s finances. The committee adjourned after the presentations and questions, with no votes taken on the budget items during this meeting.
FL

Florida 2025 Regular Session

October 15, 2025 - 11:30 AM

Transcript Highlights:
  • In case we were not able to generate the revenue to cover the loss.
  • As I said, we would issue posted net revenue bonds and the proceeds would be used to reverse insurance
  • The only time we've actually had to issue revenue bonds after Hurricanes was after for 5 seasons and
  • Then we would issue the post event, revenue bonds to have the feds need to make those reimbursements.
  • It Revenue Bond market in initiative emergency assessment to pay back those bonds.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Joint Committee on Employment Relations May 8th, 2026

Joint Committee on Employment Relations

Transcript Highlights:
  • Revenue collections are down. And we've got some caseload concerns.
  • Revenue collections are down. And we've got some caseload concerns.
  • The transportation revenue forecast will be June 22, and the general revenue forecast will be June 26
  • we wanted to note, importantly, that our core operating budget includes state funding and tuition revenue
  • progress has been made in recent budgets, recognizing that the fund split over-relies on tuition revenue
Summary: The Joint Committee on Employment Relations met on May 8, 2026, to review goals and objectives for the 2027–2029 master collective bargaining cycle and to hear updates on higher education and Washington Management Service bargaining. OFM’s Jenny Sheehan outlined the state workforce, noting that most employees are represented, the workforce remains heavily governed by civil service rules and CBAs, and the state is entering bargaining under a constrained hiring and budget environment. She described the bargaining timeline, the role of the June revenue forecasts in determining whether targeted compensation increases can be funded, and the state’s goals of affordability, maintaining labor relations, supporting equity, and addressing non-economic issues such as AI use, leave, immigration-related workplace concerns, and union access in a hybrid work environment. Sheehan also reviewed the 2025–2027 bargaining cycle, including the prior WPEA ratification issue and the requirement that tentative agreements be submitted by October 1 for financial feasibility review and possible legislative funding. She said the 2025–27 agreements cost about $1.2 billion in general funds and $1.7 billion total, excluding the later-funded WPEA agreements. In response to a question, she explained that paid family and medical leave is not bargained over directly because it is governed by statute and ESD rules. She then presented on Washington Management Service bargaining, explaining that only certain WMS employees are eligible to bargain, that representation remains small, and that current WMS contracts are handled through addenda to existing agreements. She also described interest arbitration for certain groups, including ferries and public safety-related employees, and said arbitration awards still must be financially feasible and submitted by October 1. The committee also heard from Western Washington University and the University of Washington on higher education bargaining. Western described its locally bargained contracts, the importance of local bargaining for workload, tenure, grievance, and safety issues, and the impact of the state fund split on budget planning. Western said it has no state funding for student compensation and has requested inclusion of student employees in the wage base. UW outlined its large workforce and the different bargaining frameworks under RCW 41.56 and 41.80, emphasizing that state funding and tuition make up only a portion of its budget and that the fund split and health care cost increases significantly affect compensation planning. UW also highlighted its request for state funding for academic student employee compensation, saying rising costs are reducing the number of positions and affecting class sizes and the academic pipeline. No votes were taken, and the meeting adjourned after members discussed the upcoming bargaining and arbitration timelines.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/12/2026 - House Rural Economic Development

Rural Economic Development

Transcript Highlights:
  • And it's the largest enabler of local sales tax revenues in the city of Nogales, Arizona.
  • The border for us in Nogales has always been the major factor of our revenue.
  • The border for us in Nogales has always been the major factor of our revenue. you know with the major
  • So it's a big revenue issue for the city of Nogales.
  • This is our only 24-hour port that really needs modernization to help our revenue in our city.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Ways and Means Committee 5/15/25

Ways and Means

Transcript Highlights:
  • It appropriates $100 million from the general fund to the special revenue fund account, the hourly worker
  • from the general fund uh to the million from the general fund uh to the special<00:02:48.959> revenue
  • > fund<00:02:50.800> uh<00:02:51.519> account,<00:02:52.480> the special revenue
  • account that it's transferred revenue account that it's transferred to.<00:03:36.080> um<00:03
  • Then line eight shows the special revenue fund.
Keywords: 1183, house