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• fund pilot program.
• This bill also puts hundreds... of millions of dollars in federal coastal zone funding at risk.
• If we pass this bill, we will likely lose all future federal coastal zone management funding.
• That matters because we are not just funding a program. We are laying a foundation.
• We restored funding for SNAP, the Hawaii Food Bank, and Aloha United Way 211 during the federal shutdown

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• It ensures counties have the ability to respond when federal funding restrictions and reductions threaten
• It implemented deep federal funding cuts, structural changes to public benefits, and tax revisions.
• The law cuts federal Medicaid funding, putting benefits at risk.
• States are forced to navigate reduced federal matching funds, and limits were put on states in terms
• You need to remember, we expanded our medical program in California to populations beyond what the federal

Keywords: 987, senate, all

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• And then over to the federal funds. Rate on the right-hand side of slide 12.
• Health Fund.
• These are all federal programs: Child Care Development Block Grant, Head Start, Early Head Start, TANF
• So we're not going to utilize that military program. Tax credits for federal work study programs.
• There are supported campus programs, there's American Opportunity Tax Credits, there's the federal TRIO

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• The funds were used for various programs, one of which was a respite care program that provided direct
• We do have recruitment programs. Funding is very limited, and I'll have to say.
• themselves and a small amount of money. the Federal Office of Rural Health Policy, which funds an organization
• the HHS federal program, which allowed our state for the first time to get more than the 30 slots that
• We also have an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) basic program that was started with some funding from

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• laws regarding those funds going back to the federal government.
• from the state, as well as those additional funds, or do the funds from the state end, or?
• I propose any changes to eligibility requirements for federal or state aid programs.
• grant-funded programs, and as value-added services. that MCOs provide.
• So that's our Texas Health Steps program.

Bills: HB26, HB140, HB141, HB142, HB215, HB26, HB140, HB141, HB142, HB215

Keywords: Medicaid, nutrition support, maternal health, chronic conditions, pilot program, DFPS, Department of Family and Protective Services, child protective services, child abuse investigations, child neglect, child exploitation, advisory committee, Family and Protective Services Council, council abolition, foster care, due process, investigative procedures, child welfare, parental rights, family preservation services

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• We can maintain about 10% of the OHV funds for administrative purposes, so that's running the grant program
• Federal agencies that, let’s say, for example, if the federal agency can’t or won’t put in for a grant
• So what we were funding two decades ago is not what we’re funding as much for as we are right now.
• Looking down the road, what do you think—how much money do you think it would take to fund this program
• on that foundation... ...funding resources.

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• These are tied to federal funds, which is why they are pending.
• Federal funding would have helped with that.
• But what we see is federal funds such as 45Q, which is the tax credit for sequestering CO2.
• So, 45Q federal funding is still behind that.
• But that's certainly without federal funding.

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• California is a different conversation, but Nevada also received $3 billion of federal funding.
• So we think that we can partner with the federal government to receive the federal funding and the grants
• First, state funding for transit would create matching funds to draw down more federal transit dollars
• They have just used this language to get federal funds. And so that is my strong opposition.
• If they passed the bill, they would jeopardize their federal funding.

Bills: HJR58, HJR63, HB263, HB542, HB905, HB 1288, HB1402, HB2003, HB2262, HB2323, HB2429, HB2876, HB3019, HB263

Keywords: healthcare, insurance, elderly, retirement, benefits, transit-oriented projects, constitutional amendment, state highway fund, funding allocation, voter approval, highway fund, funding, public transportation, transit projects, transportation, local transit, fund allocation, voting rights, election integrity, ballot access

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• HB 1845 by OR relating to the use of funds in rural prosecutor's Office salary Assistance grant program
• and the use of money from the Texas Enterprise Fund for the program for the Committee on Trade, Workforce
• increase in the assessment of certain insurers that fund the program for the Committee on Appropriations
• under the Major events of reimbursement Program, the creation of a film event trust fund, and a film
• HB 2395 by Dutton relating to the grant program to provide a public-school pre-kindergarten programs

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• As the newly ineligible individuals for federally funded Medicaid include those granted asylum or withholding
• <00:32:24.240> funded<00:32:24.640> Medicaid<00:32:25.279> include federally funded
• Medicaid include federally funded Medicaid include those<00:32:27.200> granted<00:32:27.679><
• requirement is and cuts off federal requirement is and cuts off retroactive<00:54:23.280> funding
• guidance or the federal law. federal guidance or the federal law.

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Summary: The committee took up House File 4466, the sub health supplemental budget bill, and moved it to the Ways and Means Committee after a walkthrough of the fiscal spreadsheet and the DE1 amendment. Nonpartisan staff explained that the bill produces general fund savings of about $2.4 million in FY27 for the 2026-27 biennium and about $97.7 million in the next biennium, with most savings tied to HR1-related Medical Assistance changes affecting adults without children. The Department of Health provisions were described as largely cost-neutral, with some increases for implementation, data, and IT work. Staff then reviewed the DE1, which combines several bills into four articles. The bill includes health licensing board changes, Department of Health provisions such as all-payer claims database fees, newborn screening fee exceptions, loan forgiveness and scholarship program extensions, workforce shortage grant changes, and reciprocal licensure and mortuary science provisions. The federal conformity article makes changes related to MA work and community engagement requirements, six-month renewals, retroactive eligibility limits, contact information updates, cost sharing for MA expansion enrollees, and related provider tax and disability-notice provisions. Article 4 and Article 5 were described as forecast adjustments for DHS and the Department of Children, Youth, and Families. Public testimony focused largely on the federal conformity and eligibility provisions. Legal aid testified that the work requirements and retroactive eligibility changes would be confusing, could expand requirements beyond intended groups, and would increase uncompensated care. The Minnesota Hospital Association said shortening retroactive eligibility would increase uncompensated care and strain hospital finances, and Unidos Minnesota criticized the immigrant eligibility changes as harmful to lawfully present immigrants and Native communities. Blood Cancer United supported the all-payer claims database provisions and urged attention to fertility coverage. Representative Elkins offered an amendment to add $55,000 for the Department of Health to include denied-claims data in the all-payer claims database; Department of Health staff said the idea was useful and provided a one-time setup cost, but the amendment was not acted on in the portion of the transcript provided.

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• And those programs, that funding usually flows to PED, and PED awards that funding to districts and charter
• funding, getting fundings for after-school programs during the year or for the next year, Mr.
• the Public Education Reform Fund are funded over three years to build some sustainability and programming
• exists to fund those programs.
• because the department does have some federal special education funding. ...federally funded employees

Summary: The committee first heard a detailed staff presentation on the LESC FY27 public school support recommendation. Staff reviewed the budget structure and explained that, despite a downward revision in state revenue estimates, the recommendation still relied on recurring and non-recurring revenue to support educator compensation, insurance, transportation, literacy, math, special education, and other school programs. Major recurring items included a 3% compensation increase, funding for an 80-20 health insurance cost share, insurance premium growth, and transportation adequacy funding. Staff also flagged a possible supplemental need of up to $35 million for virtual education tied to rapid enrollment growth in Chama and Santa Rosa, and members raised concerns about the quality, accountability, and funding model for virtual programs. Members asked questions about transportation for rural districts, the Martinez-Yazzie lawsuit fees, the treatment of enrollment declines in the school funding formula, and whether the word “average” in salary language should remain in the budget. Staff explained that the SEG should remain whole, that the insurance and transportation recommendations applied to all public school employees but not contractors, and that the budget included multiple math-related investments spread across several lines rather than one single appropriation. There was also discussion of out-of-school learning grants, school meals, literacy center operations, special education training, and the Public Education Reform Fund, including the use of multi-year, evaluation-based appropriations for high-impact tutoring and community schools. After discussion, the committee adopted the LESC budget recommendation. The committee then moved to endorsed legislation proposals. It endorsed a bill allowing the secretary to suspend an individual school board member, with notice and appeal procedures clarified, and a bill creating an 80-20 health insurance cost-share requirement for public school employees, along with a study of the sustainability of public school insurance programs. It also endorsed a bill on attendance provisions for students with severe medical conditions, which would keep those students from being classified as excessively absent. Finally, the committee discussed a teacher residency bill that would raise stipend levels, allow residents to complete service anywhere in New Mexico, and remove the requirement that sponsoring schools must hire them, though the bill did not include an appropriation. Members also raised questions about bilingual, Hispanic, and Black education funding, cultural and linguistic supports in teacher preparation, and where various programs should be placed in the budget or PERF framework.

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• And like I previously stated, that 287G program is a federal program, and right now it only applies to
• G program is a federal program. And right now, it only applies to these detention facilities.
• Again, the 287(g) program is a federal program, and it's literally only jails and detention centers.
• in contracting with the federal government regarding those 287G programs.
• So what happens if the federal government brings back the deputizing program?

Summary: The Senate opened with a prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and the reading of an amended joint proclamation expanding the Legislature’s immigration agenda. The proclamation added items calling for financial penalties for government officials, enhanced criminal penalties for offenses committed by illegal aliens, and programs and appropriations to support law enforcement in enforcing federal immigration law. The chamber then took up the special order calendar, beginning with Committee Substitute for Senate Bill 2B, the immigration bill. Most of the meeting was devoted to debate and questions on the strike-all amendment to SB 2B. Sponsor Senator Gruters described the bill as a broad immigration enforcement package aligned with President Trump’s agenda. He said it would require greater cooperation with federal immigration authorities, strengthen participation in the 287(g) program, create a chief immigration officer and council, authorize financial penalties for noncompliance, provide bonuses for officers assisting ICE, and direct information-sharing with federal agencies. He also said the bill would bar DHSMV from issuing licenses or ID cards to unauthorized aliens and would end in-state tuition waivers for undocumented students. Senators Polsky, Pizzo, Smith, Jones, Berman, Osgood, and others questioned the scope of the bill, whether it would affect schools, churches, cities, nonprofits, and green-card holders, and how the 287(g) provisions would work in practice. Gruters repeatedly said the operational focus was on jails and detention facilities, not street-level enforcement. A major point of controversy was the bill’s proposed mandatory death penalty for unauthorized aliens convicted of certain capital offenses. Senator Fine said the covered crimes were the most serious capital felonies, including murder, child sexual battery, destructive-device offenses causing death, and certain trafficking offenses, and argued the provision was intended to withstand constitutional challenge. Senator Pizzo raised Eighth Amendment concerns and questioned whether the bill could mandate death sentences. The tuition waiver provisions also drew extended debate: Fine said the state would save about $41 million by ending discounted tuition for undocumented students, while Democrats argued the savings would not return to general revenue and that the policy would harm students who are already enrolled. Fine and Gruters said green-card holders would not be affected and that the bill targeted only students in the country illegally. The discussion also covered appropriations and implementation. Senator Smith asked about the bill’s large funding levels, and Fine broke down the spending as including $375 million for the chief immigration officer, $100 million in grants to local law enforcement, $29 million for the new Office of State Immigration Enforcement, and $10 million for an unauthorized-alien transport program. Gruters said the funds would reimburse local governments and help address staffing shortages, while critics questioned the lack of benchmarks and the fiscal impact. No final vote or disposition on the bill appears in the transcript excerpt.

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• we anticipate the federal funding may be available from our federal formula fund sources or competitive
• budget included a $5 million federally budget included a $5 million federally funded<00:24:26.880
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• $9.5 billion in state and federal $9.5 billion in state and federal funding<00:26:19.039> to<
• Kentucky and formula federal aid funds.

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Summary: The Transportation Committee met to review the Transportation Cabinet’s budget request and the recommended highway plan; no votes were taken. Secretary Jim Gray opened with praise for KYTC snow and ice crews, describing their response to recent winter storms and noting the scale of the effort, including about 2,300 workers, 1,438 pieces of equipment, and more than 948,000 miles driven in the first week. He then outlined the cabinet’s overall highway plan, saying it includes more than 1,300 projects and about $9.5 billion in anticipated state and federal funding over six years, with roughly 40% directed to existing pavements, bridges, and guardrails. He highlighted major priority projects such as the Mountain Parkway four-laning, the Brent Spence Companion Bridge, and the I-69 Ohio River crossing. Budget director Sean McCarron explained that the cabinet adjusted its request after the Consensus Forecast Group lowered road fund revenue estimates, and said the cabinet only included additional requests it viewed as essential. He described requests to support driver licensing regional offices, including funding to maintain temporary and contract staff used to reduce wait times, expand offices from 35 to 41 locations, and support improved customer service; he warned that without the current-year increase, wait times would rise again. He also discussed maintenance funding, saying the proposed increases would help cover rising costs for salt, snow and ice drivers, and mowing, while allowing continued litter pickup, vegetation management, pothole repair, and more in-house snow and ice work. Deputy Secretary Mike Hancock addressed specific capital questions, especially the Brent Spence Bridge and Cairo Bridge. For Brent Spence, he said the requested $125 million in general funds is needed because construction costs have risen sharply, citing a 61% increase in highway construction costs from 2020 to 2025, and said Kentucky and Ohio are both contributing to keep the project moving. He added that if the legislature does not provide the $125 million, KYTC would have to shift $100 million in federal highway funds and $25 million in state match from other projects. Hancock also reviewed several project reauthorizations for maintenance facilities and aviation projects, and noted a $5 million federally funded truck parking project aimed at addressing statewide truck parking shortages, especially along interstates and in areas such as Louisville, northern Kentucky, Frankfort, Somerset, and western Kentucky.

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• loan repayment program.
• loan repayment program.
• loan repayment program.
• 109% federal poverty guidelines. 109% federal poverty guidelines.
• what's the deal with this program? what's the deal with this program?

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• New Mexico's GRT and Medicare Medicaid program.
• Basically, if you think about when you do your state and federal tax returns each year, you do your federal
• There is a new federal deduction.
• Through other funding mechanisms or something.
• We are figuring out how to supplant federal funds in our Medicaid program, insurance coverage, rural

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• <00:04:35.360> from<00:04:35.480> the is funded by a federal grant from the is funded
• With those federal requirements and funding comes certain prohibitions, too.
• matching funds is pause on federal matching funds is because<01:01:54.600> payments<01:01:55.120
• the federal matching funds from the federal government.<01:15:13.920> The<01:15:14.000> regulations
• <01:19:19.480> and program funds between July 2020 and program funds between July 2020 and

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• Currently, the program allows funding to be used for physical security improvements at a nonprofit facility
• , and establishing the Second Chance Sports Fund to facilitate the expansion of programming.
• , and establishing the Second Chance Sports Fund to facilitate the expansion of programming.
• Of course, that has to get funded, and you guys keep not funding it under Prop. 36.
• Of course, that has to get funded, and you guys keep not funding it under Prop. 36.

Summary: The Assembly met in session, established a quorum, approved dispensing with the previous day’s journal, and then took up a long third-reading file. Early procedural actions included moving AB 1589 to the inactive file and continuing reconsideration items. The chamber then considered a series of bills largely focused on immigration enforcement, detention, worker protections, child care, voting access, and related public services. Several immigration-related measures passed, including AB 2393 on damages for false imprisonment/arrest, AB 1994 on an immigrant victims’ rights and resources card, AB 1929 on health plan investment disclosures, AB 1633 imposing a tax on for-profit detention facilities, AB 1650 requiring decals on rental vehicles used for enforcement, AB 1655 protecting CalWORKs benefits when a child is detained, and AB 1896 disqualifying people who participated in immigration enforcement from certain public employment. AB 2230, which would bar immigration enforcement near polling places and child care facilities, also passed after extensive debate. Supporters framed these bills as accountability and protection for vulnerable communities; opponents argued they targeted federal law enforcement, were unnecessary, or raised constitutional concerns. AB 1851 on statewide school mental-health guidance also passed unanimously. After the midday recess, the Assembly returned and continued with more bills tied to immigration impacts and child welfare. AB 2379 passed with urgency, requiring child care providers to be informed of constitutional rights and trained on protections when confronted by immigration enforcement. AB 2460 passed to update school behavioral-health referral protocols for students affected by immigration enforcement trauma. AB 2495 passed to expand prohibitions on employer immigration-related threats, and AB 2662 was presented as a way for California to monitor and document federal enforcement actions and report on their community impacts. Throughout the day, the floor featured repeated exchanges over whether the bills addressed real problems or were political messaging, but the measures that came to a vote generally advanced with majority support.

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• There are two different funds that fund projects. The primary fund is the Water Project Fund.
• And so our project is supported federally, it's supported at the state level and we're funded as we go
• sources, and one of those funding sources is local funding.
• They operate the only subsidized wastewater funding in the state through their federal dollars.
• programs.

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• public funding.
• public funding, including public assistance funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency for
• public funding, including public assistance funding from the Federal Emergency Management Agency for
• Renaming the Enhanced 9-1-1 Fund as the 9-1-1 Emergency Service Fund.
• for federal officials.

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• We're here for House Bill 113 and our Animal Welfare Program and Trust Fund, and I will have...
• Welfare Trust Fund and Animal Welfare Program Fund, making an appropriation, providing for a transfer
• To evaluate which would be the most effective projects and programs funded by House Bill 113, and in
• I see climate change all over the bill, and is the reason for that to qualify for the federal programs
• I don't believe that we have an expectation that federal funding will come in, but we Hope so, of course