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FL
Florida 2026 4th Special Session
February 5, 2026 - 12:30 PM
Transcript Highlights:
- This bill's been filed for a month and a half.
- And good afternoon to the committee. 1139 is an impact fee bill.
- A local government would be capped at 100% increase in the fee to be collected in equal installments
- This amendment adds areas of critical state concern and the Florida wildlife corridor as exemptions.
- Staff: We did have one more amendment filed. Chair Salzman: I was just kidding.
AL
Alabama 2025 Regular Session
Alabama House Boards, Agencies and Commissions Committee Feb 5th, 2025
Boards, Agencies and Commissions
Transcript Highlights:
- They don't have a hard time collecting fees from everybody across the state.
- And if they don't have a hard time collecting those fees, they shouldn't have a hard time finding people
- Right, yeah, now we need to file a motion to adopt the bill as substituted for final passage.
- They're paying their fees, and the only issue was that emergency contract.
- But cities and counties that have exempted hearing aids—all that's because of your work.
Bills:
HB25, HB108, HB109, HB111, HB112, HB113, HB117, HB118, HB119, HB120, HB121, HB122, HB124, HB126, HB127, HB128, HB129, HB130, HB131, HB25
Keywords:
emergency services, 911, local districts, joint operations, contracting, HB108, Alabama Sunset Law, sunset reauthorization, board continuation, speech-language pathology, audiology, licensing board, professional regulation, healthcare regulation, occupational licensing, speech therapist, speech pathologist, audiologist, Sunset Committee, Code of Alabama 1975
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- I just want to find out, do camp operators have an evacuation plan on file?
- I also strongly urge you to repeal the waiver part in that exemption.
- Our part comes from the fees that we charge for the license.
- So my question was, why is the legal exemption necessary?
- And then when we talk about the legal exemption, if the exemption is there and then you have someone
Keywords:
youth camp, safety regulations, advisory committee, child welfare, health standards, summer camp, camp safety, child abuse reporting, child neglect, mandatory reporting, background check, criminal history check, sex offender registry, CPR training, first aid, public health, child protection, camp operator, camp counselor, Health and Safety Code
VA
Transcript Highlights:
- That is a primary purpose. ...administrative fees have been paid. This bill does that.
- Speaker, the Senate substitute unfortunately retains the H-2 exemption, but this bill takes a critical
- Speaker, the Senate substitute unfortunately retains the H-2 exemption, but this bill takes a critical
- House Bill 303 relates to divorce, adultery, filing, parties, and living separate and apart.
- This bill deals with rent collection fees for basic maintenance and receipts for tenants.
ND
North Dakota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Appropriations - Education and Environment Division Apr 3rd, 2025 at 02:30 pm
Appropriations - Education and Environment Division
Transcript Highlights:
- House Bill 1417 really deals with those indigent defense fees and probation supervision fees, and also
- has a study to look at all fees.
- supervision fees.
- supervision fees.
- DOCR has said it spends nearly $1 million administering the fees and trying to collect the fees.
Summary:
The committee met to review fiscal aspects of House Bills 1417 and 1425, both part of a broader criminal justice reentry package. HB 1417 would eliminate the $35 public defender application fee and end court-ordered reimbursement of indigent defense costs, while also removing the $55 monthly community supervision fee. Testimony from the Commission on Legal Counsel for Indigents and the Department of Corrections said the bill would replace lost revenue with general fund appropriations of about $310,000 for indigent defense and $1.5 million for supervision fees, and that the fees are rarely collected and can hinder reentry. Representative Clemene said the bill is intended to reduce barriers to successful community reintegration and improve data and supervision practices.
HB 1425 would create and fund front-end diversion, deflection, and pretrial services programs. Supporters described it as allowing prosecutors and local jurisdictions to divert appropriate low-level offenders from prosecution, establish deflection programs for people with behavioral health needs, and expand pretrial services. The bill includes a pilot program in three counties, a $1 million appropriation to DOCR for one FTE and contracts with local providers, $750,000 to DHS for treatment services, and $55,000 for a study of pretrial services cost savings. Committee members asked several questions about how the pilot counties would be chosen, how the consultant study would be procured, and what services the DHS funds would cover.
The committee also heard House Bill 1603, which would provide a $500,000 matching grant for Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act compliance, with $100,000 available to each of North Dakota’s five tribes if matched. Sponsor testimony said the funds would support a Historical Society NAGPRA compliance committee and help catalog and repatriate human remains and cultural items in coordination with tribes. After questions about the federal mandate and the difficulty of identifying artifacts, the committee voted 4-0 to give HB 1603 a do-pass recommendation, with Senator Meyer assigned to carry it forward.
AL
Transcript Highlights:
- If you're elderly or disabled and you file bankruptcy, it raises the exemption so you can keep your house
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lower help stabilize or reduce fees, lower help stabilize or reduce fees, - And when it comes to family transfers of subdivision property, that's exemptions, family exemptions.
- And when it comes to family transfers of subdivision property, that's exemptions, family exemptions.
- property tax exemption at Valor. property tax exemption at Valor.
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
House Standing Committee on Local Government. (2-17-26)
Local Government
Transcript Highlights:
- I allowed for a $5 fee for those swabs.
- So, what it did say the fee uh would be.
- Simplicity of doing it online and fees.
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Keywords:
Meeting Start 00:00:02
Roll Call 00:00:23
HB 414 Discussion 00:01:58
HB 414 Vote 00:22:34
HB 43 Discussion 00:24:56
HB 43 Vote 00:26:37
HB 518 Discussion 00:27:37
HB 518 Vote 00:45:20
Adjournment 00:46:35, 958, all
Summary:
The committee met with a quorum and took up three bills. House Bill 414, sponsored by the chair, would require collection of DNA at booking for felony arrests. Supporters, including Sen. Julie Rocky Adams, Michelle Kyper, and Ashley Spence, argued that felony-arrest DNA collection is already used in many states and in the federal system, helps solve cold cases, and can exonerate innocent people. Kyper and Spence gave detailed personal testimony about sexual assaults and how delayed DNA collection allowed serial offenders to remain unidentified for years. Members asked about the removal of a $5 fee in the committee substitute and about what happens to DNA if a case is dismissed; the sponsor said the fee was removed to treat DNA collection like other booking procedures, and that dismissed-case language was taken out because of concerns about duplicate samples. The committee adopted the substitute and passed the bill favorably on a roll call vote.
House Bill 43, sponsored by Rep. Diana Gordon, would create a grace period for deputy coroners to complete required annual training when extenuating circumstances prevent timely completion. Gordon said the bill was a repeat of last session’s HB 403 and was intended to let deputies remain employed rather than lose their license and reapply. After a brief question about how often extensions would be used, she said the grace period would be discretionary and limited to unusual circumstances. The committee then passed the bill favorably by roll call.
House Bill 518, also with a committee substitute, addressed local tax collection and payment procedures. The sponsor described it as a compromise between business groups and local governments, aimed at simplifying payment of local occupational license fees and net profits taxes by requiring cities and counties to offer electronic payment options. Testimony from the Kentucky League of Cities, the National Federation of Independent Business, and the County Judge/Executive Association focused on reducing paperwork for businesses while preserving local control and avoiding forced centralization. The committee adopted the substitute and passed the bill favorably on a roll call vote.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Commerce Finance and Policy Committee 3/4/26
Commerce Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- I noted on the slide here, there are exemptions, both what we call entity-level exemptions, where the
- So, up next is House File 3408.
- fees to squeeze out smaller competitors. fees to squeeze out smaller competitors.
- The bill does include exemptions for loyalty programs and group discounts, and those exemptions that
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3794 House File 3794 House File 3794 as<01:30:35.280>drafted.
Keywords:
surveillance, price discrimination, wage discrimination, automated decision systems, consumer protections, data privacy, biometrics, consumer protection, price setting, biometric data, retail, privacy, 1183, house
Summary:
The committee first approved the minutes from March 3, 2026, and then received a presentation from the Minnesota Office of the Attorney General on the Minnesota Consumer Data Privacy Act. Assistant Attorney General Caitlin Miko and Deputy Attorney General Jessica Whitney reviewed the law’s scope, consumer rights, business obligations, and enforcement history. They said the law took effect July 31, 2025, gives Minnesotans rights to access, delete, and opt out of sale, profiling, and targeted advertising, and is enforced by the Attorney General with penalties up to $7,500 per violation. They reported more than 200 complaints in the first six months, many warning letters, and a shift from education to active enforcement now that the initial warning-letter period has expired.
Committee members asked about how the universal opt-out works, what happens when companies deny deletion or editing requests, how the office determines willful noncompliance, and whether the law could burden small businesses. The AG’s office said the opt-out can be set through privacy-protective browsers or extensions, companies must respond to consumer requests within 45 days, small businesses are exempt as defined by the SBA, and investigations look for patterns and evidence of willful conduct rather than minor technical violations. The office also said it needs additional funding to fully staff enforcement efforts and noted that it has already issued subpoenas and civil investigative demands.
The committee then took up House File 3408, the Stop Grocery Surveillance Price Gouging Act. The author explained that the bill would prohibit retail grocers, physical and online, from setting individualized prices based on consumer information, would limit certain uses of facial recognition and electronic shelf labels, and would preserve narrow exceptions for discounts and loyalty programs. Public testimony followed from the Minnesota Farmers Union in support, arguing that grocery consolidation and surveillance pricing could worsen already high food costs and harm fair competition. The Minnesota Grocers Association opposed the premise that grocery stores use surveillance pricing, said shelf prices are generally uniform and set from a single storewide database, and argued electronic shelf labels are efficient and not nefarious. A technology company representative similarly said ESLs do not use personal data or facial recognition, prices are uniform, and a 2025 study found no meaningful price increases after ESL adoption. The bill was laid over for possible further discussion after the testimony.
FL
Transcript Highlights:
- And I want to mention senators that we've got a couple of late filed amendments.
- local government's ability to enact art fees.
- You did file a strike-all on Friday.
- that they add in, in addition to our 25% surcharge fee.
- Who asked you to file this bill? In debate. You are recognized to close. Thank you.
Summary:
The committee heard and acted on a long agenda of local, housing, education, construction, and claims bills. It first took up SB 1730 on affordable housing/Live Local changes, adopting an amendment that narrowed and clarified several provisions, including density, height, parking, attorney fees, and exclusions for certain protected areas, then reported the bill favorably. It also approved SB 1674, which clarifies that local investment restrictions cannot block Israel bonds, after a clarifying amendment. SB 140 on charter schools was reported favorably after significant debate over school conversion, teacher contracts, local control, and the use of surplus school property for housing or other public purposes; several speakers opposed it as harmful to public schools, while the sponsor said it preserved district authority and added options for municipalities and job creation. The committee also passed SB 96 and SB 4, two local claims bills, and SB 1714, which allows SHIP funds to help mobile home owners with lot rent and requires local housing plans to address mobile home park closures.
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Citizen Commission for Performance Measurement of Tax Preferences May 7th, 2025
Citizen Commission for Performance Measurement of Tax Preferences
Transcript Highlights:
- To the extent that an exemption does apply, the agency must then redact exempted information and provide
- In 90% of exemptions as they are evaluated, it...
- In 90% of exemptions, as they are evaluated, it does not lead to a categorical exemption where the entire
- newspapers and digital content to file an annual tax performance report.
- Finally, real estate exemption: a real estate excise tax exemption for property transferred by a legal
Summary:
The Citizen Commission for Performance Measurement of Tax Preferences met on May 7, 2025, with quorum present. The commission approved the October 22, 2024 meeting minutes and then received its annual open government refresher from the Attorney General’s office, which reviewed key requirements under the Public Records Act and Open Public Meetings Act, including record retention, response deadlines, exemptions, and meeting notice rules.
Staff then provided a 2025 legislative session update, noting that the legislature passed 23 tax-preference-related bills, with several signed by the governor and others pending. Highlights included bills that extended or repealed certain preferences, added reporting requirements for newspaper and digital content exemptions, authorized JLARC to adjust its work plan when data is unavailable, and created a new exemption for zero-emission buses. The commission approved updates to the 2026 tax preference review schedule, which includes eight preferences in seven reviews, and approved unchanged testimony questions for 2025.
The commission also received the 2025 expedited preference review report covering 52 tax preferences, presented as an interactive table drawing on prior JLARC reviews and Department of Revenue studies. Staff then outlined the process for developing the next 10-year review schedule for 2027-2036, including surveying the legislature, incorporating new and repealed preferences, and considering a possible rolling 10-year schedule. No public comment was registered. The meeting ended with acknowledgments of Ron Buing’s long service on the commission and an announcement that the next meeting would be held August 6, 2025.
WY
Wyoming 2026 Regular Session
House Floor Session-Day 6, February 16, 2026-AM
Wyoming House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- All right, that's all of our Senate files. That's actually all I have in my files.
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for raised the estate tax exemption for raised the estate tax exemption for - association fees. association fees.
- And remember, we've got about 35 file or bills on general file.
- Speaker. remember, we've got about 35 file or bills on general file.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Housing Finance and Policy Committee 3/18/26
Housing Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- House File 3639. House File 3639.
- A motion filing fee is $70, and the judge can then waive that filing fee when the proceedings begin.
- A motion filing fee is $70, and the judge can then waive that filing fee when the proceedings begin.
- A motion filing fee is $70, and the judge can then waive that filing fee when the proceedings begin.
- A motion filing fee is $70, and the judge can then waive that filing fee when the proceedings begin.
Keywords:
housing aid, local housing trust, funding projects, income provisions, technical changes, landlord regulations, tenant rights, minor children, lease agreements, eviction, privacy protection, housing, lease termination, medical care, death, infirmity, landlord obligations, St. Paul, public housing, Minnesota Housing Finance Agency
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- Exempts the appropriation from lapsing. Happy to answer any questions.
- and allows the court to impose civil penalties and award attorney's fees if it finds that there was
- You have to file a motion for any records. So you right now need a court order from a judge.
- You have to file a motion for any records.
- I think that is covered under one of the exemptions above as a psychological or counseling record that
Bills:
SB1046, SB1317, SB1376, SB1416, SB1448, SB1471, SB1493, SB1498, SB1502, SB1504, SB1538, SB1544, SB1550, SB1579, SB1581, SB1584, SB1624, SB1673
Keywords:
telecommunications, broadband, internet infrastructure, critical infrastructure, cybersecurity, national security, foreign adversary, China, Chinese equipment, supply chain security, network equipment, microchips, Arizona Corporation Commission, telecommunications provider, communications infrastructure, Huawei, ZTE, state-owned enterprise, sanctions, infrastructure security
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Hied Committee Meeting - 2025-04-03
Higher Education Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- House File 2561.
- will move that House File 2151 be laid over.
- Please support House File 2767. House File 2767.
- So I am going to bring House File 2908 before the committee, and I will move that House File 2908 be
- Discussion on House File 2908.
TX
Texas 89th 2nd C.S.
Disaster Preparedness & Flooding, Select Aug 22nd, 2025
Disaster Preparedness & Flooding, Select
Transcript Highlights:
- The bill was filed in direct response to the tragic Hill Country flooding on July 4th.
- , investigative costs, witness fees, and deposition costs.
- I want to thank Representative Zweiner for filing this bill. It's important legislation.
- SB 18 would enable a qualified district to use a permit exemption in order to save up to 300 days for
- SB 18 would enable a qualified district to use a permit exemption in order to save up to 300 days for
Keywords:
HB 48, Texas alert notification systems, emergency alerts, public warning systems, alert fatigue, notification fatigue, Texas Division of Emergency Management, Department of Public Safety, DPS alerts, emergency management, State of Texas Emergency Assistance Registry, STEAR, disaster notifications, weather alerts, Amber Alert, Silver Alert, Blue Alert, missing persons alerts, accessible alerts, hearing impaired
Summary:
The committee met in special session to hear a series of flood, preparedness, and youth-camp safety bills, with members repeatedly noting that many of the measures were intended as planning, warning, or authority-clarifying bills rather than direct spending bills. House Bill 254 would expand eligibility for the Rural Infrastructure Disaster Recovery Program to include Kerr County and 18 other flood-affected counties by raising the GDP cap and lowering the poverty threshold; it drew no opposition and was left pending. House Bill 68 would direct a study of flood mitigation in flatland areas, especially in the Rio Grande Valley, to develop cost-effective drainage and infrastructure recommendations; local officials and advocates supported it, and it was also left pending.
The committee then heard several youth camp bills tied to the recent Hill Country flooding. House Bill 75 would impose flood-aware building and site standards for youth camps near floodplains, and House Bill 71 would require camps and youth activity entities to submit emergency preparedness plans to TDEM, coordinate with local responders, and maintain readiness protocols; both bills were supported by safety advocates and camp representatives, and both were left pending. House Bill 171 would require campgrounds near flood-prone waters to give written flood-risk notice to campers and obtain signed acknowledgment; it was presented as informed consent and left pending. Testimony on these bills emphasized Camp Mystic and other recent flood tragedies, with some witnesses urging broader building-code and floodplain reforms.
The committee also heard House Bill 117, which would let counties regulate impervious cover for flood mitigation in unincorporated areas. Supporters, including county officials, environmental groups, and residents, argued that rapid development in the Hill Country and other growing areas is worsening runoff and downstream flooding; opponents from the builders’ association said counties already have substantial authority and warned about overreach into rural property use. After extensive testimony, the bill was left pending. Senate Bill 18 would streamline permitting for certain flood control districts to repair dams and reservoirs and build small holding areas, and it was left pending after supportive testimony from Plum Creek Conservation District. Senate Bill 3 would create a state-backed outdoor flood warning siren program for identified flood-prone areas, funded through a grant program; witnesses generally supported it, though some cautioned that sirens are not sufficient by themselves and may not be heard indoors or in overnight storms. It too was left pending. The committee also began hearing House Bill 149 on public-safety radio interoperability, but the transcript cuts off before the bill’s full testimony or action is shown.
VT
Transcript Highlights:
- Um, on the floor, they left our cultivator fee decrease.
- So, we cut cultivated outdoor cultivator fees in half.
- We had exempted most cultivators from being subject to public nuisance ordinances.
- Um, they pushed out the effective date of local license fees.
- They added a new section on the floor that the CCB can enforce an administrative penalty by filing a
WY
Wyoming 2026 Regular Session
House Floor Session-Day 20, March 5, 2026-PM
Wyoming House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Next, Senate File for our consideration... Senate File 110. Senate File 110. Reading clerk.
- file 113 has passed the house. Next. file 113 has passed the house. Next.
- Senate file for our consideration. Senate file for our consideration.
- Senate file 123. Recur. Senate file 123. Recur.
- file number 61.
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- HB 4056, legislators' records fees exemption — Government.
- HB 2267, public nuisance renewable energy exemptions.
- HB 2367, neighborhood electric vehicles VLT exemption.
- HB 2827, groundwater withdrawal fee penalty.
- HB 2933, groundwater transportation fees county fund.
NM
Transcript Highlights:
- Requiring lobbyists, when registering, to file a statement under oath stating whether the lobbyist served
- next bill, Senate Bill 101, introduced by Senators Woods and Muñoz, an act relating to increasing fees
- higher education institution, but leased by a non-exempt entity to the higher education institution,
- are exempt from property tax.
- Senate Bill 127, introduced by Senator Trujillo, an act relating to occupations, providing an exemption
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- We can't just file paperwork and say we opt out of having certified teachers.
- to authorize anything that would give them a waiver or exemption.
- They have, in fact, filed a bunch of these in briefs.
- If indeed, in this session, we continue to increase property tax exemption.
- And then in this budget as filed.