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NM
Transcript Highlights:
- You know, it's very easy as a legislator to spend someone else's money.
- And our predecessors, before us, didn't spend every dollar in the treasury.
- President, one factor is defense spending. Defensive medicine.
- And I think when we're looking at things, we can only spend a dollar once, Mr. President.
- If we spend it on me, then we can't spend it on somebody that makes less than me.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Floor Session Jun 13th, 2025
California House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- That we are in this place because we've had reckless spending over many years.
- I spend my time mostly in this budget cycle.
- We couldn't do deficit spending. You look at the revenues.
- And if the revenues are not coming in, you pull back and you limit your spending.
- We must be responsible with spending their money.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Elect Committee Meeting - 2025-04-02
Elections Finance and Government Operations
Transcript Highlights:
- What this bill tried to do is say you couldn't use a corporation... ...as a conduit to do that spending
- For foreign influence corporations to be able to spend unlimited dollars and for us to pay for their
- If you are being investigated for something you did as the director of Public Works, spending extra money
- really improve the process for election officials as well as cut down on allowing county attorneys to spend
- , and a set of other legal decisions have made it virtually impossible to stop outside political spending
AR
Arkansas 2026 Regular Session
ALC-STATE INSURANCE PROGRAMS OVERSIGHT SUBCOMMITTEE Jun 17th, 2026
ALC-STATE INSURANCE PROGRAMS OVERSIGHT SUBCOMMITTEE
Transcript Highlights:
- Could they take that 1.8 and then spend another whatever 700,000 or whatever that number is on those
- And just because we approve an amendment for $2.596 million doesn’t mean you can spend the full $2.596
- “I think there are great opportunities that we can contain the growth in that particular spend.”
- “Contract, how can we either rein them in or put some caps and contain the growth in the spend in those
- increase... ...three years, we were able to hold for a 1.4% increase over what we are currently spending
Summary:
The State Insurance Programs Oversight Subcommittee met on June 17 and reviewed a series of Employee Benefits Division and Office of Property Risk items. Grant Wallace presented March and April formulary changes, explaining that the updates favored lower-cost generics, re-tiered some drugs, left several new-to-market drugs uncovered pending more evidence, and added quantity limits in some cases. The committee approved those formulary recommendations. The subcommittee also approved a cell and gene therapy policy that would exclude automatic coverage of those therapies and route them through prior authorization and review, with members noting the process should not delay urgent cases and that appeals remain available.
Members then discussed a UAMS professional consultant services contract amendment for pharmacy benefit consulting. The discussion focused on confusion over the dollar amount and scope, with Wallace clarifying that the committee was being asked to approve up to $2.596 million, including optional services related to coupon and rebate management that could be used later without returning for another approval. Several members raised concerns about matching the written contract to the approval amount and about the relationship to the current pharmacy benefit manager, but the committee ultimately approved the item with the understanding that any use of the optional services would return to the committee. The committee also reviewed, without objection, a Blue Cross/Blue Advantage third-party administrator contract, a CompSack employee assistance program contract, and approved proposed 2027 employee and public school health plan rates of 9.8% and 4.9% increases, respectively. Wallace also said the UnitedHealthcare rebid was in final negotiation and would return in August.
On the property risk side, the committee reviewed permanent rules for the property insurance program, a contingency-fee subrogation contract with Denenberg-Tuffly, and extensions for Sedgwick Claims Management, Actuarial Advantage, and Stevens Capital Management. Members asked about claim-adjustment delays after a major winter storm, and Wallace said performance guarantees and communication requirements had been added, with claims still expected to vary by case. The committee also approved 2026-27 captive insurance program rates, which included no change to minimum deductibles, lower rates for K-12 and higher education, a higher rate for state agencies, and an overall 10% reduction. Wallace said the reductions reflected improved actuarial foundations, better claims management, and the program’s first-year performance. The meeting adjourned after approving the rate item.
NM
Transcript Highlights:
- We're not only the appropriators; we're also the people to oversee the spending.
- actually holds the purse strings for the state of New Mexico, to be held accountable on how we're spending
- that money or not spending that money.
- That the taxpayers of New Mexico send to us and then we put in the budget to spend.
- They have already started spending their money.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Minnesota House passes the human services finance bill, HF2434 5/5/25
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- the need for above average spending. the need for above average spending.
- <00:12:07.920>
the asurances around how they can spend the asurances around how they can spend - We prioritize the spending that goes on in here.
- We prioritize the spending that things.
- <02:36:26.560>
our with changing the way that we spend our with changing the way that we spend
WI
Wisconsin 2026 1st Special Session
Wisconsin State Senate Floor Session May 13th, 2026
Wisconsin Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- I don't believe that spending down the fund balance as we may well be entering a recession is in the
- I certainly don't believe that spending nearly a billion dollars of one-time money to back up ongoing
- tax—you know, tax— I certainly don't believe that spending nearly a billion dollars of one-time money
- One-time money, so we're not going to spend it.
- This evening, as we've done in the past, I've opposed unbridled spending.
AR
Transcript Highlights:
- Um, do we have a total for the amount of spend with Evident Change, all contracts combined?”
- We have access to this money because we didn't spend all of our allocation in the last federal year.
- So we are not having to spend money on the evaluation, but we will be spending this money that otherwise
- So we are not having to spend money on the evaluation, but we will be spending this money that otherwise
Summary:
The committee reviewed three DHS out-of-state service contracts: a $690,000-plus sole-source contract for DCFS with Evident Change for maintenance and operation of the Child Welfare Structured Decision-Making practice hub; a $1.2 million sole-source contract for County Operations with Sifter Solutions to support a SNAP waiver compliance solution; and a $156,000 contract for Developmental Disabilities with Samaritan Integrative Services for psychiatric services at the Southeast Arkansas Human Development Center. The chair and staff explained the contracts and noted that the Evident Change and Sifter contracts were sole-source due to the proprietary nature of the systems or services involved.
Most of the discussion focused on the Evident Change contract. Members questioned DCFS about long-term dependence on the vendor, the lack of a competitive bid, the absence of a clear off-ramp, and whether the state was paying more overall as the work was split into multiple contracts. DCFS said the contract before the committee was only for maintenance and operations of a web-based platform used daily for safety assessments and case planning, while a separate Evident Change contract covers case reviews, CQI work, and data management. The vendor said it was continuing to reduce its role and had begun off-ramp discussions, but members remained concerned that the state was too reliant on the vendor. Staff said the contract had to be approved by May 31 or the system could be turned off.
The committee also discussed the Sifter Solutions contract, which supports Arkansas’s SNAP waiver pilot by providing a dynamic list of excluded products and a consumer app that scans barcodes and provides nutrition information. DHS said the waiver is intended to improve the nutritional value of SNAP benefits, that the contract is funded with remaining federal SNAP Nutrition Education dollars that would otherwise be returned, and that the University of Pennsylvania will conduct the evaluation at no cost. Members asked about the benefit to Arkansas, whether the app would include nutrition and budgeting information, and whether the state would own the application or need future renewals. DHS said the two-year term was intentionally aligned with the waiver period and that future procurement options could change. After discussion, the committee noted the items as reviewed and adjourned without objections or votes recorded in the transcript.
AZ
Arizona 2026 Regular Session
03/03/2026 - House Republican Caucus Calendar #8 and #9
Transcript Highlights:
- Subject to voter approval, it requires each school district with a student count of at least 500 to spend
- at least 60% of its operational spending on direct instructional expenses and at least 50% of its operational
- spending on teacher pay.
- Subject to voter approval, it requires each school district with a student count of at least 500 to spend
- spending on teacher pay.
Summary:
The meeting was a caucus-style review of two packets of bills, with staff reading summaries and members briefly explaining several measures. Topics included appropriations for pregnancy resource centers, home- and community-based services for the elderly and people with disabilities, veteran specialty courts, child care grants and infrastructure, language acquisition services for deaf or hard-of-hearing infants and toddlers, ambulance service regulation, short-term rental rules, tourism improvement areas, manufactured home installer licensure, CPR/AED training in schools, veterans’ park fee exemptions, and multiple child welfare and family-court bills. Several Senate bills were also reviewed, including optometry standards, behavior analyst licensure transfer, virtual mental health hearings, and assisted-living residency rules.
Members speaking for bills emphasized themes such as supporting aging in place, improving rural ambulance access and reporting, protecting children in DCS cases, preventing poverty alone from being treated as neglect, and expanding access to health screenings and services. Other sponsors described measures to help veterans, strengthen school safety, and create local funding or improvement mechanisms for tourism and child care. Some bills were described as technical or administrative changes, such as post-nuptial agreement rules, tax lien procedures, and local government contract posting requirements.
No formal votes were taken in the transcript excerpt, but many bills were noted as being on the consent calendar or third-read consent calendar, while a few had been removed from consent or were not yet on a calendar. The meeting concluded after the final bill on the second packet, HB 4025, was summarized as creating a study committee on gasoline and petroleum refinery feasibility.
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
Joint Legislative Auditing Committee Feb 3rd, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- ON FISCAL TRANSPARENCY THIS IS RESPONSIBLE SPENDING AND IMPROVE ACCOUNTABILITY AND IT IS IMPORTANT FOR
- WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT, TYPICALLY THIS IS LONG EXPENDITURES, THEY ALLOWED ON NON-K-12 ACTIVITIES, THEY SPEND
- THEY ARE REQUIRED TO REPORT IT TO THE BOARD OF GOVERNORS AND FROM THERE THEY DEVELOPED A SPENDING PLAN
- IT SEEMS INORDINATE. >> ARE YOU REFERRING TO HOW MUCH MONEY THE COLLEGES SPEND ON CONTRACTS?
- Wright: YOU HAVE TO SPEND IT BEFORE YOU GET IT. >> THEIR RESPONSE IN THE PAST THEY HAVE TALKED ABOUT
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- Um we have right can't afford to spend.
- We the dollars we spend on this content.
- <01:31:30.320>
250 office alone, we probably spend 250 office alone, we probably spend 250 - Um spend and supporting good leadership.
- Why are we spending the different forms?
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Special Session - Senate Floor Session - Part 1 - 06/09/25
Minnesota Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- issues within those bills uh and spend issues within those bills uh and spend the<00:32:53.200><
- , if we keep spending what we're spending,<00:52:39.200>
all <00:52:39.440>we're <00:52: - How much money does this bill actually spend?
- How much money does this bill actually spend?
- We've added a what they had to spend.
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- We've also seen high revenues that made it easy to engage in surplus spending in new areas.
- of the off-budget spending that occurred as well.
- <00:17:57.200>
in <00:17:57.360>new <00:17:57.640>areas spending in new areas spending - <00:18:12.320>
that anything of the off-budget spending that anything of the off-budget spending - [Applause] [Music] of spending for special education nearly of spending for special education nearly
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 6 on Public Safety Apr 28th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- When the youth is committed to an SYTF, but can spend part of that baseline commitment time in a less
- And notably counties are expected to spend those funds on evidence based practices.
- affecting kind of the performance component and it doesn't adjust for the average time that people spend
- It's not connected to how much county spends on this rather it's connected to realignment which is sales
- To spend on this program from the administration, we heard about 103, and the proposed is 103, the legislature
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Local Government Committee Jul 1st, 2026
Local Government
Transcript Highlights:
- Members, most of you spend a portion of your week living here in Senate District 8 with us.
- Instead, it rejected the grand jury's recommendations regarding discretionary spending.
- But if you spend... ...memories and hard work completely disappeared.
- But if you spend time in Altadena today, you'll hear something remarkable.
- And that's also time they can't spend on other actual approving plans.
WY
Wyoming 2026 Regular Session
Senate Floor Session-Day 5, February 13, 2026-PM
Wyoming Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- figuring out how better to spun to spend figuring out how better to spun to spend those<00:31:25.279
- <01:15:29.679>
I'd spending. So it was a policy choice. I'd spending. - spending authority where Remove spending authority where statutory<01:37:34.719>
authority <01 - I think it's the spending differently.
- land fund spending policy senator group. land fund spending policy senator group.
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
House Floor Session 5/5/25 - Part 2
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- All fund spending for the biennium in the bill is $284 million.
- We agency spending in increase requests.
- <00:49:22.640>
the asurances around how they can spend the asurances around how they can spend - We prioritize the spending that goes on in here.
- <03:13:41.279>
our with changing the way that we spend our with changing the way that we spend
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Health and Human Services - 02/24/26
Health and Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- Um, I think you should spend more time visiting them.
- Um I think you should spend days a week?
- But I want to spend a few for HR1.
- So we are only spending state funds from January through June.
- <01:35:26.719>
in reduce the amount of time we spend in reduce the amount of time we spend
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Thursday, February 27, 2025)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- <00:29:24.320>
more to force Working Families to spend more to force Working Families to spend - <02:08:38.159>
your American promise that if you spend your American promise that if you spend - They had it sometime in February and raised some money for the state government to spend.
- Between the two, we deal with all of government spending.
- goals is got to be to reduce spending goals is got to be to reduce spending given<04:07:53.760><
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- , What we can do is reduce spending, What we can do is reduce spending, reduce<01:36:28.480>
costs - We spend another 144 kids to school.
- plan. they would be the one who spends plan. they would be the one who spends the<03:39:44.720><
- If you don't spend more money on the If you don't spend more money on the people<04:28:01.359>
who - don't need to spend more money." don't need to spend more money."