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MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
House Public Safety Finance and Policy Committee 3/19/25
Public Safety Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- I ran our violent crime enforcement team for 13 years, was out of it for 10 years.
- It has not increased in 10 years.
- actually decreased about 12 or 13 years actually decreased about 12 or 13 years ago<00:21:33.799
- we have this year with the uh the year we have this year with the uh the deficit<00:57:25.559>
and - Quick question: because for the last couple of years, and I think it was a year or a year and a half
AL
Transcript Highlights:
- to year so that when budgets from year to year so that when budgets from year to year so that when people
- years this one will go to 28 okay three years this one will go to 28 okay three years this one will
- that we are this year position next year that we are this year position next year that we are this year
- Pro pilot program and they've two-year Pro pilot program and they've two-year Pro pilot program and
- ago two years ago we saw saw two years ago two years ago we saw saw two years ago two years ago we saw
Keywords:
property tax, ad valorem tax, tangible personal property, income-producing property, business personal property, tax exemption, local government finance, appraisal district, chief appraiser, rendition statement, property tax relief, small business, commercial property, leased property, related business entity, unified business enterprise, tax situs, Texas Tax Code, local taxing unit, constitutional amendment
CA
Transcript Highlights:
- With me today in the audience is my husband Thomas, my 17-year-old daughter Miranda, my 14-year-old son
- Yes. 49 years after the union election, 12 years after the ALRB ruling on bad-faith bargaining, and they
- As a professional, I've been in the field for almost 40 years now. Actually, it's been 40 years.
- I spent six years on K-12 school boards and 14 years in higher ed, so I have some thoughts about some
- I have a five-year-old. I have thoughts.
Summary:
The Senate Rules Committee first approved several governor’s appointments not required to appear, including Arthur Krantz to the Public Employment Relations Board and Christopher Ferguson, Brian Haynes, Anna Marie de Mars, and Ronald Fiore to the Student Aid and Student Athletic commissions. The committee also approved references of bills to committees by a 5-0 vote. It then heard testimony from Julia Montgomery, nominated as General Counsel to the Agricultural Labor Relations Board, who described her long career serving agricultural workers and said the ALRB’s mission is to protect workers’ rights, support fair bargaining, and ensure access to information and resources.
Questions to Montgomery focused on card-check unionization procedures, signature authenticity, outreach to farmworkers, and enforcement of make-whole orders. Senator Grove raised concerns about workers being pressured or not knowing what they signed, while Montgomery said objections and unfair labor practice charges can be filed and investigated, though the office does not independently verify signatures unless there is an allegation. Senator Reyes pressed on delays in collecting make-whole awards, including the Tri-Fanucchi case; Montgomery said appeals, bankruptcies, and employer closures often delay relief, but the agency seeks settlements and enforcement when possible. The committee voted 3-2 to advance Montgomery’s appointment to the full Senate.
The committee then considered three State Board of Education nominees: Cynthia Glover Woods, Brenda Lewis, and Gabriela Orozco Gonzalez. In their testimony, all three emphasized long careers in education, support for students and teachers, and the importance of early learning, community schools, professional development, and aligning instructional materials with standards. Members questioned them about math achievement, the 2023 mathematics framework and Algebra I access, the state’s low national rankings, transitional kindergarten access, and a proposed change to education governance. The nominees said they support flexibility for students ready for Algebra I, believe recent instructional materials and professional learning will help improve outcomes, and had not been involved in governance-structure discussions. Public witnesses from school and child-serving organizations spoke in strong support. The committee then advanced Glover Woods and Gonzalez on 3-1 votes and Lewis on a 4-1 vote for full Senate confirmation.
AR
Arkansas 2026 1st Special Session
ALC-HOSPITAL, MEDICAID, & DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES STUDY SUBCOMMITTEE Feb 19th, 2026
ALC-HOSPITAL, MEDICAID, & DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES STUDY SUBCOMMITTEE
Transcript Highlights:
- There are programs through WIOA.
- more hours a month, that they're doing work program participation in a work program or training program
- training programs and programs just like what we've been talking about, but people aren't any better
- And it's not just moving programs around, which was something we've done for years and years.
- People inside of state government all run programs, and everybody loves their program.
Summary:
The subcommittee received a brief DHS update on the Living Choices Assisted Living Waiver reimbursement rate process, with Secretary Janet Mann reporting that the new cost reporting period began in January and that DHS has begun provider and contractor conference calls as the process moves forward.
The bulk of the meeting focused on DHS’s overview of TANF and, especially, SNAP changes under the federal One Big Beautiful Bill. Mary Franklin explained new SNAP work requirements for adults ages 18 to 64 who are not otherwise exempt, including the three-month time limit in a 36-month period unless they meet an 80-hour monthly work, volunteer, education, or training requirement. She also reviewed exemptions, noted that some prior exemptions were removed while new tribal-related exemptions were added, and described SNAP Employment and Training providers, budgets, service areas, participant characteristics, and outcomes. Members asked about how mandatory referrals will work, whether funding and vendors are sufficient, how cross-program participation is tracked, how verification and recertification will be handled, and how error rates and sanctions will be managed. DHS said mandatory participants will be referred directly to providers, verification will occur at application and recertification, interviews can be by phone, and the department will return with more information on error-rate mitigation and other requested data.
DHS then outlined upcoming Medicaid community engagement requirements for the ARHOME population under the same federal law, which must be implemented by January 1, 2027. The department said it is preparing policy, system changes, data matching, communications, and an outbound customer-service verification process, with a soft launch planned for July to help identify who would meet the requirement or need to provide more information. Members raised concerns about notice, local versus centralized decision-making, and how clients will document work, school, caregiving, or medical exemptions. The meeting concluded with broader discussion of the Alliance for Opportunity audit and a shared emphasis on using SNAP, Medicaid, TANF, and workforce programs together to improve outcomes, expand training options, and better connect Arkansans to education and employment opportunities. The committee also discussed extending the audit contract at a future meeting and adjourned without taking any formal vote in the transcript provided.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Jobs and Economic Development - 03/24/25
Jobs and Economic Development
Transcript Highlights:
- And I'm here year went to this program.
- And there are also, over the past two years, as this program has been in operation, there’s been work
- And currently in the jobs budget, the Minnesota Youth Program receives $4 million each year from the
- As a part of the program, I've learned a lot.
- career within to learn about my future career within the<01:03:35.520>
program <01:03:36.160><
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 1 on Health Apr 7th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- Re-evaluation services were originally funded as a four-year program, and authorizing the program on
- Yeah, well, the referrals had been increasing year over year.
- In one case, not on this program, but also a similar program, like I said, the CCE program, the letters
- It's a year-to-year investment, not an annual, year-to-year investment.
- Between now and July 1st of this year, these include the Access Reform and Outcomes Incentive Program
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- A quick recap of those programs: the Fridley Front Door grant program, the home improvement loan program
- A quick recap of those programs: the Fridley Front Door grant program, the home improvement loan program
- We have presented it multiple years in a row, and we are hoping that this year can be the year that we
- During previous hearings to create the program in the past few years, the intention was that the tourism
- The program in the past few years, the intention was that the tourism improvement district was meant
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- after year.
- And we've just launched a Digital Media Friendly Texas Certified Community Program this year.
- Yeah, for the life of the program, 70%. But one year of 55. Okay, so that was factored in. Mm-hmm.
- Last year, they had 200, and they're going to push 200 again this year.
- , years.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Health and Human Services Jun 25th, 2025
Legislative Health & Human Services Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- Um, they run the waiver programs. I'm gonna go through the waiver programs in detail.
- Programs.
- It's also Um, the one, the program that has the most oversight, but it's also the most rigid program.
- Programs is going to be the key.
- It takes years and years, uh, to get that, so we, we, we've solved the DD waiver waiting list, but we
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Student career pathways framework established 2/26/26
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- This is a completely opt-in program for This is a completely opt-in program for our<00:04:05.120>
- And um Public Schools for six years.
- :17:39.919>
real connecting academic learning with real connecting academic learning with real - your ninth grade year in high school. your ninth grade year in high school.
- might not need the four-year college. might not need the four-year college.
NM
Transcript Highlights:
- papers, taking classes, and learning my best kid jokes.
- I spent the next year as an educational assistant in a special education classroom learning how to implement
- Over the past four years, the residency programs have prepared more than 1,000 residents and strengthened
- , and currently the manager of policy and programs for Teach Plus New Mexico.
- to educate these students in an unapproved program?
Keywords:
ecological monitoring, sustainability, tribal engagement, education, research funding, graduate scholarship, higher education funding, New Mexico, appropriation, financial aid, out-of-school programming, education funding, youth programs, affordability, nonprofit organizations, defibrillators, public schools, health and safety, emergency response, school elections
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Budget Committee Jun 25th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- a year.
- a year.
- years.
- I think any program that's reaching a five-year milestone and still has hundreds of millions of dollars
- housing program, and the Wildfire County Coordinator program.
Summary:
The Assembly Budget Committee held an informational hearing on the final three-party budget agreement and related trailer bills, with the Department of Finance outlining the major budget bill and omnibus measures. Finance described a package built around balancing the state budget amid economic uncertainty, preserving core health and safety-net programs, and making significant ongoing reductions in some state programs. The budget bill included major items such as shifting $1 billion from the General Fund to the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund for Cal Fire, funding universal transitional kindergarten, deferring some UC and CSU funding, supporting foster care and homelessness programs, providing Proposition 36 implementation funding, and achieving Medi-Cal savings through changes to benefits and eligibility. The committee also heard that votes on the budget bills were expected later in the week and the following Monday.
Finance then walked through the trailer bills, including health, human services, early learning, education, resources, energy, transportation, labor, housing, tax, public safety, courts, general government, cannabis, and energy-related measures. Notable provisions included a Medi-Cal enrollment freeze for certain adults, new premiums and benefit changes for some immigrants, child care COLA changes, education funding for literacy, teacher support, universal meals, and community college student support, as well as resource and climate measures affecting Cal Fire staffing and energy permitting. The housing trailer bill drew the most discussion, with provisions on CEQA streamlining, a vehicle miles traveled mitigation banking program, a renters’ credit trigger, and a six-year moratorium on new residential building standards. Members also discussed a film tax credit expansion, cannabis enforcement funding, a tribal police pilot program, and changes to tax policy, including military retirement income exclusions and wildfire settlement payment exclusions.
Committee members largely praised the staff and the budget process, but several raised concerns and asked detailed questions, especially about the housing trailer bill’s new wage standards, tribal consultation provisions, and possible effects on prevailing wage protections. Finance explained that the housing language was intended to set wage floors for market-rate projects receiving CEQA streamlining, with different county-based tiers and a notwithstanding clause preserving existing prevailing wage laws. Members also questioned the size and timing of funding for the Children and Youth Behavioral Health Initiative, Clean Cars for All, Proposition 36, and the film tax credit expansion. Other members highlighted support for public safety, veterans’ tax relief, child care providers, housing production, and higher education, while some expressed concern that the budget’s policy changes were being negotiated too quickly or without enough stakeholder input.
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- What I have learned within the past five years here at the Senate is we have a perception, and that perception
- If we are spending taxpayers' dollars on a program, we need proof that children are learning.
- have to put those signs up year after year.
- Senator Mesnard, also served by your side for years and years and years.
- It seems like my first 14 years, every year someone got expelled until I became this last four years.
Summary:
The Senate met, opened with prayer and the pledge, and then handled a series of messages and floor actions. The chamber transmitted a large group of Senate bills to the governor and Senate Concurrent Memorial 1004 to the Secretary of State. It also received House requests to return Senate Bills 1175 and 1198 for reconsideration, which were granted without objection. The Senate then moved into Committee of the Whole to consider several House concurrent resolutions.
On H.C.R. 2001, a constitutional referral on election requirements, senators debated a Judiciary Committee amendment and a Hoffman floor amendment that would require voter ID, allow election-day tabulation of early ballots at polling places, and require legislative funding for implementation. Supporters said the measure would improve election security, voter confidence, and speed up results; opponents argued it was vague, could undermine mail voting, and lacked clear implementation details. The amendment was adopted, and after further debate the Committee of the Whole gave H.C.R. 2001 a do-pass recommendation by a 15-12 vote. Later, on third reading, the full Senate passed H.C.R. 2001 by a 16-12 vote and transmitted it to the House.
The chamber also considered H.C.R. 2003, a referral on student athletics and biological sex. Senator Ortiz offered a floor amendment to replace the blanket ban approach with rules based on athletic ability and inclusion; supporters said it would preserve fairness while avoiding discrimination, while opponents said it would gut the measure and weaken protections for girls’ sports. The Ortiz amendment failed 11-16, and H.C.R. 2003 then received a do-pass recommendation in Committee of the Whole and later passed third reading. H.C.R. 2044, a referral on prohibiting preferential treatment and discrimination, also received a do-pass recommendation without recorded controversy. The Senate then adjourned after completing the remaining procedural motions and votes.
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
Minnesota House passes agriculture finance bill, HF2446 4/24/25
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- To my CLA, Connie Edwards, Connie, I think you learned a lot about egg and farming this year.
- Uh on on our side of the this year.
- And also, egg and farming this year.
- That is an incredible program.
- Last year we got 110. I mean and acre. Last year we got 110.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- It could be all year. They could stay in that in-school suspension arena all year.
- So it's a multiple learning.
- However, in-year... Therefore, for years, in-school suspension had no time limits.
- They learn new techniques to address social-emotional learning.
- And even in the first year of the program, we've already seen a noticeable decrease in student anxiety
Bills:
SB27, SB226, SB326, SB570, SB605, SB870, SB991, SB1871, SB1872, SB1873, SB1874, SB1924, SB1925
Keywords:
residency, public schools, child safety placement, enrollment, education code, antisemitism, student conduct, education, disciplinary actions, Texas Education Code, truancy, attendance policy, chronic absenteeism, school attendance, student absence notifications, parent notification, home visit, attendance officer, truancy court, school district
Summary:
The committee heard a series of school safety and discipline bills, beginning with SB 870, which would codify an attorney general opinion allowing local school boards to decide whether school marshals may openly carry, conceal carry, or store a firearm in a secure safe on campus. The bill was laid out with no public testimony and left pending. The chair then moved to a combined discussion of SB 1871, 1872, 1873, 1874, and 1924, all focused on school discipline, teacher authority, and student safety. Senators Perry and Creighton described the package as a response to rising classroom disruptions, assaults on teachers, and concerns that districts lack effective tools to maintain order.
SB 1871 would expand teacher removal authority, require return-to-class plans before a student removed for certain conduct can return, make some serious offenses mandatory for placement in juvenile justice settings, and provide telehealth mental health services through a consortium. SB 1872 would require expulsion to a JJAEP for assaults on teachers or school volunteers and extend certain expulsion-eligible conduct to off-campus offenses. SB 1873 would restore the prior understanding that in-school suspension is not subject to a three-day limit. SB 1874 would grant teachers immunity from disciplinary action for reporting discipline violations or acting in compliance with Chapter 37. SB 1924 would restore authority for local police and school district police to issue Class C citations for school offenses and require criminal referrals for students posing an imminent threat or assaulting a teacher, with a substitute clarifying referral rules when a citation has already been issued. The committee adopted the substitutes for the bills and moved them forward.
Invited witnesses from teacher and administrator groups largely supported the overall goal of stronger discipline and safer classrooms, while asking for refinements. The Texas Classroom Teachers Association testified that teachers need more autonomy to remove disruptive or violent students and that classroom removals should not mean removal from learning. Superintendents from San Angelo, Grandview, and Wiley ISDs supported the bills’ emphasis on safety, expanded ISS flexibility, mandatory placement for serious offenses, and telehealth mental health services, but asked for more local control, flexibility for Districts of Innovation, more than one campus behavior coordinator in large districts, clearer timelines for return-to-class plans, and more precise definitions for disruptive conduct. Several witnesses stressed that teacher retention and student learning are being harmed by current discipline problems, while some members raised concerns about vague standards and the risk of overuse or public humiliation through citations and removals.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 5 on State Administration Apr 21st, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- The last year, I believe, in the budget, the California Civic Media Program had authorized $10 million
- So our hope is to stand this up as a bit of a pilot program and to take our learnings and hopefully apply
- last fiscal year of the program.
- Over the last five years, fiscal years, it’s 9.4%.
- We’re requesting a $50 million budget request over three years to renew a program under the CPCFA at
Summary:
The hearing focused primarily on the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (Go-Biz) budget proposals and related implementation issues. Director D.D. Myers described the California Jobs First economic blueprint, regional planning efforts across 13 regions, and the state’s strategy to focus on sectors such as ag tech, space, life sciences, semiconductors, and emerging technologies. She also discussed the California brand campaign, foreign direct investment, export promotion, the film and television tax credit, and the California Civic Media Fund. Members raised concerns about journalism support, arts funding, AI’s impact on jobs, tariffs, manufacturing, and whether state incentives could be tied to job losses or automation. Myers emphasized that Go-Biz incentives are tied to job creation and accountability, and that the administration is working across agencies on AI workforce training and economic development alignment.
The committee then heard trailer bill language for Jobs First. Go-Biz requested a reappropriation and extension of encumbrance deadlines for remaining administrative funds, along with statutory codification of the Office of Regional Economic Development Initiatives. Testimony highlighted the need to continue supporting regional partners, technical assistance, capital stacks, and permit streamlining. Public testimony from the Small Business Development Centers supported the proposal and noted the program’s role in helping small businesses access capital, create businesses, and support jobs.
Members also reviewed Go-Biz’s request for additional staffing for the California Film Commission and for innovation and emerging technologies. The Film Commission request would fund three permanent positions to handle the expanded tax credit program; staff reported a sharp increase in applications and production activity, including more filming outside the Los Angeles 30-mile zone. The emerging technologies request would fund an assistant deputy director and a graduate student position to support sectors like quantum and fusion, with testimony explaining the state’s separate quantum and fusion investments, workforce needs, and efforts to build state capacity around these technologies. No votes were taken in the portion of the hearing provided, and the committee moved on to public comment and then to other agenda items.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Education Funding (01/28/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- This school year, there are a total of 43 states participating in the program nationwide.
- <01:01:12.720>
are <01:01:12.920>a program this school year there are a program this - And finally, parents can apply for the program throughout the year.
- And finally, parents can apply for the program throughout the year.
it's <03:13:07.239>not the program throughout the year it's not the program throughout
Summary:
The committee took up HB 651, a school-funding bill that would raise the base cost of an adequate education and increase differentiated aid for students in poverty, English language learners, and special education. The chair opened with housekeeping notices about parking and eating in committee spaces, and noted a revised fiscal note would be distributed. Representative David Luneau presented the bill as part of a broader package of public school funding measures, explaining that HB 651 builds on HB 550 and is intended to respond to court rulings and the ongoing school-funding litigation by adjusting both the base adequacy amount and equity-based funding factors.
Luneau said the bill would raise the state’s adequacy grant from about $4,100 to $7,351 per student and increase differentiated aid, while also updating statutory language so future recalculations include the court-identified resource elements. He argued the measure is about fairness and shifting more of the burden from local property taxpayers to the state, not about increasing overall education spending. He reviewed fiscal-note figures indicating the bill would add roughly $576 million to the state share of school funding, bringing the total state share to about $1.65 billion, and said the note also mentions possible effects on charter schools and vouchers.
Committee members asked about the evidence supporting higher costs for low-income and English learner students, how long ESL funding should continue, why free-and-reduced-lunch aid remains higher than special education aid, whether the formula is based on enrollment or average daily membership, and whether the bill is truly equitable across districts of different sizes and needs. Luneau and later witness Zach Shen of the New Hampshire School Funding Fairness Project said the bill is supported by research and court findings, that the current formula relies heavily on local property taxes, and that shifting more funding to the state would reduce property-tax pressure and help address disparities among districts. Shen also cited broad public support for the related HB 550 testimony and said HB 651 is intended as a step toward a more equitable funding system. No vote or final action was taken in the portion provided.
WY
Transcript Highlights:
- They were going to destroy the swim club program. at was $55,000 per year. $55,000.
- A program called Letters training, uh, for a number of years, potentially that could be the board could
- A program called Letters training, uh, for a number of years, potentially that could be the board could
- A program called Letters training, uh, for a number of years, potentially that could be the board could
- We have 50 years of evidence here on how the brain learns reading.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- 10 years.
- I will say that after having been in the hearing aid business for many, many years, we learned that the
- My mother was. years old and lived with it for 20 years.
- Ten years, not ten years, twenty years, three years, we're not going to We're not going to make any progress
- I have been teaching for 35 years neurobiology of learning and memory.
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Appropriations and Budget Human Services Subcommittee Feb 16th, 2026 at 10:30 am
A&B Human Services Subcommittee
Transcript Highlights:
- If you have an infant, an under one-year-old, a two-year-old, a six-year-old, and an eight-year-old,
- We've been doing it for probably 30 years.
- The hunger is there, and this program would help.
- The schools have had some summer programs.
- This would be a stable program.