Video & Transcript Research : 'user fees'
Page 139 of 500
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- the biennium, a revision to rider 13, which uncaps the agency's estimated appropriation of liquidity fees
- reduce our reliance on expensive and outdated technology, decrease system inefficiencies, and improve user
- there is a reference to [Senate Bill 1340](link from function call) which relates to the professional fees
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 1 on Health May 19th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- are these going to be solely for administrative costs, or are they going towards ensuring that the fee
- Support the implementation of the fee schedule. There was a general fund that was used initially.
- That the managed care plan or, under the fee-for-service system, we would pay the provider associated
- But is it more capitated, or does it be fee-for-service?
- So when they, if on the fee for... Service delivery system. It's pretty simple.
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
House Budget Review Subcommittee on Personnel, Public Retirement, and Finance (1-14-26) - Reupload
Transcript Highlights:
- Um, we've had a user group of states with SAP that we've been a part.
- Um, we've had a user group of states with SAP that we've been a part.
- Um, we've had a user group of states with SAP that we've been a part.
- Um, we've had a user group of states with SAP that we've been a part.
- Um, we've had a user group of states with SAP that we've been a part.
Keywords:
00:14 Call to Order and Roll Call
01:10 Information Items and Introduction of Personnel Cabinet
02:44 Discussion of KHRIS HR system and need for replacement
05:52 Discussion of Challenges in managing HR for employees and records
09:16 Discussion of Employee Health Plan Record Management
12:56 Software and Hardware Discussion
16:15 Security Concerns
17:00 Costs, Staffing, and Implementation
24:09 Discussion of Data Integration and Hosting
32:20 Payment Methodology
35:20 Adjournment, 958, all
Summary:
The House Budget Review Subcommittee on Personnel, Public Retirement, and Finance held its first meeting and heard a presentation from personnel cabinet officials on a major request to replace the Kentucky Human Resources Information System, known as CHRIS, which currently handles HR, payroll, tax compliance, and health plan administration for state government and several local offices. Officials said the system supports payroll for about 48,000 employees, covers all three branches of government and 24 sheriff and county clerk offices, and stores records for nearly 475,000 current and former users. They explained that SAP has said the system will reach end of life and lose support by 2030, creating risks around security, maintenance, and tax compliance if it is not replaced.
Commissioners and staff emphasized that the replacement is needed not just as an upgrade but as a full system replacement, especially because the current platform no longer receives meaningful HR enhancements and will eventually lose security updates and tax tables. They also described the Kentucky Employees Health Plan as a major driver of the project, noting it serves nearly 300,000 covered lives, many school boards, pre-65 retirees, and more than 700 entities, with significant complexity in billing, premium collection, and regulatory compliance. Officials said the new system would help address current manual workarounds, support changing insurance rules, and better protect personally identifiable and health information.
Members asked detailed questions about the $151 million request, including why the estimate had risen by more than $50 million, what would happen if the project missed the 2030 deadline, how progress would be tracked, how vendor costs were estimated, and what the largest cost components would cover. Officials said the increase was mainly due to inflation and changing requirements, and that there was no real backup plan if the replacement was not completed before support ends. They said the project would be managed through an RFP process expected in July 2026, with kickoff in January 2027 and go-live by July 2030, and that oversight would include an enterprise steering committee, monthly updates, and existing quarterly COT reporting to LRC. They also explained that the largest share of the request is for implementation and integrator services, with additional amounts for software licensing and hosting, independent verification and validation, dependent verification, FSA administration, and limited contract support, and that payments would be tied to deliverables and acceptance testing.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Executive Departments and Administration (01/22/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- New Hampshire should both prepare for it and tell Congress to do it with a good policy like carbon fee
- and dividend to protect like carbon fee and dividend to protect New<04:42:09.840>
Hampshire <04 - The costs are just going to get passed on to the users of these buildings, whether they're in rent or
- The costs are just going to get passed on to the users of these buildings, whether they're in rent or
- The costs are just going to get passed on to the users of these buildings, whether they're in rent or
Summary:
The committee first took up House Bill 216, which Representative Carol Maguire described as a fix to a workers’ compensation/retirement “glitch.” The bill would remove the current limit that only one year of workers’ compensation time can be credited as retirement service time. Maguire argued the limit is arbitrary and affects only a very small number of grievously injured workers, while committee members asked about the fiscal impact, available data, and whether the change could affect workers’ compensation rates or incentives. Mark Kavar of the New Hampshire Retirement System said Labor could not provide data on how many people exceed a year on weekly indemnity benefits, so the fiscal note used a conservative estimate that could be scaled down; he also explained that workers’ comp is not earnable compensation, which is why service credit stops after a year, and noted that many long-term cases move into disability retirement or lump-sum settlements. The committee closed the hearing, entered executive session, and voted ought to pass on HB 216 by a 13-0 roll call, sending it to consent and noting it would also go to Finance.
The committee then acted on House Bill 85, adopting Amendment 0037 and then voting ought to pass as amended by another 13-0 roll call. The bill was described as allowing second-year respiratory therapy students to work under supervision using the skills they have already learned, with support from the Hospital Association and no opposition noted.
Finally, the committee took up House Bill 267, the animal chiropractors bill. Members said the bill had been approved previously but was vetoed because of a defect; the problem has now been corrected, and the bill is intended to reduce delays caused by requiring veterinary referrals before chiropractors can treat animals. The committee voted ought to pass 13-0 and placed the bill on consent.
AZ
Arizona 2026 Regular Session
02/12/2026 - House Artificial Intelligence & Innovation
Artificial Intelligence & Innovation
Transcript Highlights:
- 2311 directs the operator of an artificial intelligence conversational system to notify the minor user
- that the minor user is interacting with AI during the beginning of each session, at least once every
- Bill 2311 instructs the operator to adopt a protocol. ...for the AI service to respond with if the user
- Tools must be offered for parents of users under 13 to manage privacy and settings, with appropriate
- , and we want to make sure... ...benefits of generative AI, there also come risks for minor users, and
Keywords:
artificial intelligence, disclosure requirements, data privacy, minor protection, online safety, HB2371, Arizona divorce, family law, dissolution of marriage, AI arbitration, AI-assisted arbitration, automated dispute resolution, online arbitration, binding determination, recommendation, superior court appeal, de novo review, marital dissolution, spousal consent, minor children
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House Environment and Agriculture (03/31/2026)
Environment and Agriculture
Transcript Highlights:
- So if we wanted to make licensing fee.
- Yes, to get a license, there is a a fee?
- Can you give me a was the fee amount.
- license fee license fee for<01:52:17.600>
that <01:52:18.440>um <01:52:18.800>would - be required to pay that additional fee be required to pay that additional fee uh<01:52:58.080>
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Defining “gross annual retail energy sales.” 3/5/26
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- So if you have a single large user, a large industrial user, whatever that might be, will that help maintain
- <00:13:01.360>
industrial <00:13:01.760>user, <00:13:02.079>whe large user, - a large industrial user, whe large user, a large industrial user, whe whatever<00:13:02.720>
that< - <00:16:18.480>
um <00:16:18.639>in <00:16:18.880>part large industrial users - um in part large industrial users um in part because<00:16:19.839>
of <00:16:20.240>the
Summary:
House File 3296, as amended, was heard in committee and laid over. The bill would extend an existing exemption in Minnesota’s energy conservation/efficiency program calculations so that certain data centers, like crypto-based data mining operations, would not be counted in a utility’s gross annual retail sales if the new load increases the utility’s base load by 40% or more. Representative Gilman and testifier David Meyer of Glenco Light and Power argued the change is needed because large data loads can make the 1.5% annual savings target effectively unattainable for smaller municipal utilities, and they said the added revenue from the facility has helped lower rates for other customers.
Ken Sulum of the Minnesota Municipal Utilities Association supported the bill, describing it as narrowly drafted to address mid-sized data centers that do not fit other relief provisions but still create local utility problems. Sarah Wolf of Minnesota Interfaith Power and Light opposed the exemption, arguing that energy efficiency remains important amid rising demand and grid stress from data centers, and that large users should continue contributing to efficiency efforts rather than being exempted.
Members raised questions about whether the facility had a long-term contract, whether the customer was helping lower rates, and how much savings were being passed on to ratepayers. Meyer said the customer had a three-year agreement extended another three years, the infrastructure costs were borne by the customer, and the facility’s revenue has allowed Glenco to reduce rates by about half a cent per kilowatt hour through a $40,000 monthly buy-down of its power cost adjustment. Some members expressed concern that data centers should continue to improve efficiency over time, while others noted the bill’s focus on smaller utilities facing disproportionate impacts.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Health and Human Services Nov 5th, 2025
Legislative Health & Human Services Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- An element, Madam Chair, is the stigma of substance users going into a private practitioner's office
- So, for fee-for-service, of course, fee-for-service is our smaller program, largely served by Native
- Is it going to encompass both kind of the fee-for-service Medicaid and managed care Medicaid?
- Medicaid programs to both fee-for-service and managed care.
- I thought it requires PBMs to pay a $15 per enrolling fee to fund its administration and fund grants,
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 4 on Climate Crisis, Resources, Energy, and Transportation Apr 30th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- Brad Miller with the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration.
- The SRA fee has been suspended since July 2017 per public resources code.
- This fee is a relatively, well, it's not.
- And so I wouldn't think of this fee as a fee that is the folks in SRA paying for their own fire protection
- But we passed some of those costs on when we instituted this fee.
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
December 2, 2025 - 01:00 PM
Transcript Highlights:
- USERS TO BRING THEM INTO OUR TEST ENVIRONMENT TO START PUTTING HANDS ON KEYBOARDS IN THE SYSTEM AND
- FUNDING PUT INTO THE PALM BUDGET FOR THIS YEAR TO BRING ON A NEW MEMBER TO HELP STATE AGENCIES WITH USER
- APPLIED THAT TECHNICAL UPGRADE AND WE WILL HAVE MIGRATED THAT, WE DID IT AGAIN WITH THE ACRONYMS, USER
- OUR LIMITED GROUP OF TESTERS RIGHT NOW SO WE WILL KEEP THOSE ROLLING THROUGH THE THIRD QUARTER OF USER
- OCTOBER WE BROUGHT IN 16 AGENCIES, IN FEBRUARY WHERE BRINGING IN THE REST OF THE AGENCIES INTO OUR USER
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee Apr 21st, 2026
Privacy and Consumer Protection
Transcript Highlights:
- A user might move data from a secure platform like Facebook to a legacy service with lesser, uh, A user
- And let's also remember that we are not technically the end user.
- So the user would have to consent precisely for that.
- The user is a person who—who's the user in that sense?
- So the user is who in this, in your example?
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- The fees we have are incredible fees that are increasing.
- The fees, we have<00:38:03.680>
fees, <00:38:04.320>incredible <00:38:04.880>fees - ><00:38:05.280>
that <00:38:05.599>are have fees, incredible fees that are have fees, incredible- fee.
- The facility fee charged a facility fee.
- ><00:38:05.280>
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Floor Session May 27th, 2026
California House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- California already applies industry-specific taxes and fees where sectors create significant public costs
- These changes focus on behavior to reduce speeds and improve awareness, not to restrict user access.
- District 77 is home to many e-bike users, including myself and my family.
- AB 1921 provides needed consumer protection for video game users, requiring a publisher to proactively
- ultimately our food supply, and making PFOS pesticides restricted materials will provide pesticide users
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.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- MOU, there was a charge per search; for any record that we ran through SAVE, we would have to pay a fee
- And it's done by the user themselves. The voters are doing it themselves.
- So if we want the most accurate data, the individual user using the online DPS system, Accurate data,
- the individual user using the online DPS system is one of the ways that we can get the most accurate
- A fee of $14,544 is not a fee. It's a closed door with a price tag on it.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on State and Local Government - 04/14/26
State and Local Government
Transcript Highlights:
- it's in cash, but if you do your credit card, you're going to have your whatever percent processing fee
- 10.560>
processing have your whatever percent processing have your whatever percent processing fee - 45:12.480>
card <00:45:12.840>tapped <00:45:13.240>on <00:45:13.520>and fee - for the credit card tapped on and fee for the credit card tapped on and all<00:45:13.840>
of < - centralized consolidated<01:09:24.240>
environment <01:09:24.719>and <01:09:24.880>user
MD
Transcript Highlights:
- to establish a process to enable<00:10:53.880>
a <00:10:53.960>state <00:10:54.360>user - enable a state user enable a state user to<00:10:55.640>
make <00:10:55.840>the <00 - This is just another fee on our business community and our those people that are driving our economy
- I really do, but this is just another<01:21:18.120>
fee <01:21:18.560>on <01:21:18.840>< - another fee on our business community and<01:21:20.320>
our <01:21:20.760>those <01:21:
Summary:
The Senate convened with a quorum present, opened with an invocation, and welcomed guests including the doctor of the day, a Johns Hopkins student, and visiting scouts. The chamber then moved through first-reading introductions of several House bills, including measures on bullying and harassment reporting, the Family and Law Enforcement Protection Act, Baltimore County nuisance actions, parole hearing commission procedures, a blockchain technology task force, and a task force on deed fraud, all of which were referred to standing committees.
The main floor action centered on layover bills. Senate Bill 932, concerning social media platforms displaying a user’s usual location, was amended to broaden the protected location reference and to protect participants in the Secretary of State’s address confidentiality program; after discussion about whether minors and child-abuse victims were covered, the amended bill was ordered printed for third reading. Senate Bill 623, creating a premium cigar lounge alcoholic beverage license, drew multiple county-specific amendments. Howard County and Baltimore County amendments sought to give priority to existing local tobacco businesses for the new licenses. Supporters said the changes would protect established local shops from out-of-state entities, while opponents argued the bill should remain statewide and not be amended county by county. A motion to special order the bill failed, and the amendments were adopted before the bill was ordered printed for third reading.
Senate Bill 84, on collective bargaining for graduate assistants, also advanced after a committee amendment was adopted. A District 2 amendment was offered to clarify that graduate assistants are employed as teaching, administrative, or research assistants, but the floor leader opposed it, saying the bill’s definition was already clear and the change would create confusion. The minority leader questioned the definition and the relationship between graduate assistants and employees, prompting discussion of collective bargaining as bargaining by employees through representatives. The transcript cuts off before final disposition of that amendment.
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House Science, Technology and Energy (02/17/2026)
Science, Technology and Energy
Transcript Highlights:
- that it is incredibly naive to think that there is no threat to consumers with these large energy users
if <00:47:29.680>if <00:47:30.160>we're <00:47:31.200>in large energy users- Um if if we're in large energy users.
- These requirements will increase compliance costs, legal fees, and administrative overhead costs that
- ,<01:28:57.199>
and compliance costs, legal fees, and compliance costs, legal fees, and administrative
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
Committee on Housing and Homelessness Prevention - 02/18/25
Housing and Homelessness Prevention
Transcript Highlights:
- thousands of evictions and help tenants save $1.8 million in return deposits, rent abatement, and other fees
- Senator Draheim said he was talking about dispersed to the end user.
- to<01:04:02.960>
the <01:04:03.119>end dispersed to the end dispersed to the end user - 06.400>
uh <01:04:06.480>chair <01:04:06.680>and <01:04:06.880>Senator user - commissioner uh chair and Senator user commissioner uh chair and Senator uh<01:04:08.000>
as <
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Higher Education Jun 21st, 2026 at 01:00 pm
Joint Committee on Higher Education
Transcript Highlights:
- They were not IV drug users, because fentanyl can be found in cocaine, and it never dawned on them that
- It was not, they were not, they were not IV drug users because fentanyl can be found in so, and it never
- But the cost of attending college goes far beyond tuition, fees, and books.
Summary:
The Joint Committee on Higher Education held its fourth public hearing, opening with remarks about the importance of protecting and expanding access to higher education amid federal disinvestment. The chairs also announced future informational hearings on the impact of federal cuts and on ASAP models. The hearing then focused on several bills, beginning with S. 951/H. 1462, An Act to Support College Students in Recovery, which would require recovery-focused housing on public campuses and expand naloxone access and overdose training. Senator Rausch, medical professionals, students, and advocates testified in support, emphasizing the prevalence of overdose risk among college students, the value of recovery housing, and the need for campus naloxone; committee members asked about implementation details and the existing state pilot program. Deb Schmill and Rep. Tarski gave especially personal testimony in favor of the bill, and the committee discussed broadening the naloxone language to opioid reversal agents.
The committee also heard testimony on H. 1461, which would expand MassReconnect scholarships to practical nursing students at vocational and technical schools to help address the long-term care workforce shortage. Rep. Stanley argued that vocational schools graduate more practical nursing students than community colleges and serve many low-income students in areas without nearby community college programs. The committee then took up H. 1433, which would require public higher education institutions to accept IEPs and 504 plans as sufficient documentation for disability accommodations. Advocates from the National Center for Learning Disabilities described the high cost and burden of repeat testing, the lifelong nature of disabilities, and the need for more uniform access across campuses; committee members raised questions about documentation freshness, campus autonomy, and how to preserve the integrity of accommodations.
Later, the committee heard S. 919/H. 1454 on modernizing the Community College Endowment Match Program so community colleges could receive state matching funds for current-use donations as well as endowments and capital gifts. Community college foundation leaders said the change would help fund immediate student needs such as food pantries, child care, emergency aid, and equipment. The hearing then moved to faculty-related bills: S. 933 on UMass faculty rights and tenure transparency, S. 930/H. 3948 on contingent faculty rights and career advancement, and S. 940/H. 1429 on an Adjunct Bill of Rights. Testimony from faculty and union representatives focused on low pay, lack of benefits, job insecurity, and the need for clearer pathways to full-time positions and fairer treatment for adjuncts who teach large shares of courses. No votes were taken during the hearing; the committee primarily received testimony and asked clarifying questions.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Floor Session May 14th, 2026
California House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- preferred privacy settings on their phones and digital technologies by prohibiting any changes to a user
- preferred privacy settings on their phones and digital technologies by prohibiting any changes to a user
- This bill will also give flexibility to courts in awarding attorney's fees without sending both parties