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MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Human Services Finance and Policy Committee 3/25/26

Human Services Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • That's what we agreed to in the last budget.
  • children and families bills do not rider the grant-based appropriations, where most parts of the budget
  • Senate made an attempt last year to implement this and couldn't do it during the midst of a main budget
  • do actually show uh parts of the budget do actually show the<01:07:42.079> grant<01:07:42.480
  • during the midst of a a main budget during the midst of a a main budget year.<01:07:53.760> Um
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Ways and Means General Fund Committee Apr 1st, 2025

Ways and Means General Fund

Transcript Highlights:
  • conditional funding in the back of the budget.
  • We anticipate picking that back up in the 2027 budget.
  • The 3 million from seeds will remain as a conditional in the budget.
  • A party that's a part of the budget has a part of the discussion.
  • the budget.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

03/10/2026 - Senate Appropriations, Transportation and Technology

Appropriations, Transportation and Technology

Transcript Highlights:
  • Obviously, we don't have the budget for it, so the longer hours and more education somebody has, the
  • We know that we pay $1.7 billion already on top of our budget, as was already said.
  • Just last week, I guess Wyoming allocated $5 million in their budget for litigation.
Summary: The committee heard House Bill 2003, which would lower the instruction-permit age for Class D, G, and M licenses from 15 and a half to 15, while increasing supervised practice requirements for minors: 50 hours for Class G with 20 at night, 50 hours for Class M, and a nine-month permit holding period before licensure. The sponsor argued the bill builds on Arizona’s graduated driver licensing system and is intended to improve teen safety, citing other states with longer permit periods and lower teen fatality rates. Questions focused on who certifies the supervised hours, with staff explaining that a parent, legal guardian, or custodial parent signs off, though driver education remains an alternative. The bill received a do-pass recommendation by a 9-1 vote. House Bill 2063, which appropriates $1.5 million from the General Fund in FY 2027 to the Corrections Oversight Fund, drew emotional testimony in support from a mother whose son died after a prison suicide, and from advocates who said the oversight office is needed given prison health care problems and federal receivership. The sponsor said the funding would support prison oversight and transparency. The committee then approved the bill unanimously, 10-0. The committee also passed House Bill 2116, appropriating $1 million to the Colorado River litigation fund, after the sponsor said the money would help Arizona prepare for possible litigation over Colorado River cuts and that the issue affects nearly every district in the state. Members discussed whether the funding should come from the WIFA fund instead of the General Fund, but the bill received an 8-0 do-pass recommendation with two not voting. The committee also considered House Bill 2210, which would prohibit the state, local governments, and private entities from using ADS-B aircraft surveillance data to calculate, generate, or collect aircraft fees. Supporters, including pilots and the Arizona Pilots Association, argued the technology was intended for safety and should not be used for billing, warning that fee collection could discourage pilots from keeping the system on. Opponents, including the Arizona Airports Association and the City of Phoenix, said airports should retain local control over fee collection methods and that the bill was a solution in search of a problem. After extensive debate about federal requirements, safety, and billing practices, the bill received a tied 4-4 do-pass recommendation. Finally, HCM 2007, a memorial urging renaming sections of State Route 69 to honor veterans of several wars, passed 5-4. The committee also briefly noted that some bills were being held at members’ request.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

03/09/2026 - House Public Safety & Law Enforcement

Public Safety & Law Enforcement

Transcript Highlights:
  • The budget for the Oversight Office would represent a tiny fraction of this cost and would be a smart
  • The budget for the oversight office would represent a tiny fraction of this cost and would be a smart
  • Number one, when we're talking about budgeting and we're talking about allocating appropriations, we
  • Number one, when we're talking about budgeting and we're talking about allocating appropriations, we
  • to see it in the budget this year.
Bills: SB1032, SB1055, SB1107
Summary: The Committee on Public Safety and Law Enforcement first heard SB 1032, which appropriates $1.5 million from the State General Fund to the Corrections Oversight Fund in fiscal year 2027 to help administer the Independent Correctional Oversight Office. Supporters, including Justice Action Network and a family member who described the death of her son after severe mental health and jail-care failures, argued the office is needed to provide accountability, transparency, and a check on systemic problems in the Department of Corrections. Representative Blackman strongly backed the measure, saying the oversight office would help address lawsuits, staffing shortages, mental health issues, and the state’s federal receivership. The committee approved SB 1032 on a 14-0 vote with one absent, giving it a due pass recommendation. The committee then considered SB 1107, which creates an alternative certification pathway for honorably discharged U.S. veterans who served as military police to become Arizona peace officers through an abbreviated training process that credits military training and experience. There was no sponsor present and no opposition testimony. Members discussed whether the bill would include equivalent military law enforcement roles from all branches, and staff indicated the bill is intended to track Department of Defense training standards. The bill received broad support as a way to help fill public safety staffing shortages, though one member voted no over concerns about applicants with prior misconduct elsewhere. SB 1107 passed 11-1, with two present and one absent, and received a due pass recommendation. Finally, the committee heard SB 1055, which requires law enforcement to immediately notify ICE or CBP when an arrested person is unlawfully present in the United States. Supporters said the bill would strengthen cooperation with federal immigration enforcement and help ensure people are not released before federal authorities can act. Opponents, including the ACLU of Arizona and several community speakers, argued it would undermine trust in law enforcement, chill crime reporting, create due process and constitutional concerns, and impose unfunded compliance burdens on local agencies; one speaker also raised concerns about impacts on Indigenous people and families dealing with mental illness crises. A strike-everything amendment offered by Representative Cruz would have replaced the bill with a restriction on DOC inmate telephone contracts so the department could not profit beyond operating costs, but the committee rejected that amendment 6-8. The committee then approved the underlying SB 1055 on an 8-6 vote with one absent, giving it a do pass recommendation.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

03/03/2026 - Senate Appropriations, Transportation and Technology

Appropriations, Transportation and Technology

Transcript Highlights:
  • If you look at your handout, you will see that what we deal with in the budget is $17,654,000.
  • other side... $17,654,000, but if you'll turn it over and look at the other side, the actual annual budget
  • In spite of the fact that if the governor were to sign this, we would never complete the budget.
  • In spite of the fact that if the governor were to sign this, we would never complete the budget.
  • We really want to see that be discussed in the budget, but the independent counsel is an entirely different
Bills: HB2148, HB2993
Summary: The Committee on Appropriations, Transportation and Technology heard a presentation on advanced air mobility, featuring video and remarks about new aircraft technologies, including drones and electric vertical takeoff and landing craft. The presentation emphasized potential uses such as medical delivery, rescue operations, passenger and cargo transport, quieter flight profiles, and the need for coordination among industry, government, NASA, the FAA, and other partners. Members also noted an upcoming display of a Pivotal aircraft on the Senate lawn. The committee then considered House Bill 2148, which would grant the legislature authority to appropriate non-constitutional federal monies and require the legislature to specify the purposes for which those funds are spent, with a delayed effective date of January 1, 2027. Supporters described it as a transparency and separation-of-powers measure, while opponents argued it would interfere with existing federal funding structures and state programs. The bill received a do-pass recommendation on a 6-4 vote. House Bill 2993 was also heard. It would appropriate $6.4 million from the Consumer Protection/Consumer Fraud Revolving Fund to the Department of Public Safety for FY 2026 and exempt DPS from the statutory restriction on employing legal counsel without approval. Testimony from the Arizona State Troopers Association supported the funding as an emergency need to avoid cuts to recruit classes, overtime, and patrol car purchases, but several members objected to combining the appropriation with the outside-counsel policy change. The committee approved the bill on a 6-4 do-pass vote. The meeting concluded with announcements about upcoming committee events and adjournment.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • Currently, department heads wield, frankly, a lot of power over budgets.
  • , establishing another one, another agency, and spending, I think, it was about $2 million in the budget
  • or something like that. a million dollars in the budget for it, and the question is, is... ...re-duplicating
  • Up concepts related to zero based budgeting and accounting pay raises for administration. and the idea
  • chancellor and the The rest of us at the system leadership team and our presidents, they set the budgets
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Trade, Workforce & Economic Development Mar 19th, 2025

Trade, Workforce & Economic Development

Transcript Highlights:
  • It kind of conflicts with the bill analysis, but the bill seems to say under 18. Yes, ma'am.
  • and we're gonna see a lot more of this right yes it's moving this way and it's a lot of predictive analysis
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Revenue and Fiscal May 19th, 2026

Revenue & Fiscal Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • Now, I want to be clear, the bill begins as the executive budget, but the executive budget is built on
  • So if a project happens to be under budget and one is over budget, they don't have to wait another year
  • for the one that's over budget.
  • Those are projects that bid under budget.
  • We identified some of those projects and dealt with them in joint budget.
Bills: HB2, HB3, HB799, HB1039
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

01/26/2026 - House Public Safety & Law Enforcement

Public Safety & Law Enforcement

Transcript Highlights:
  • And it happened in the last budget where I had to fight in the budget to get my sheriffs to try to get
  • Do you know why it's always a tough budget year?
  • Do you know why it's always a tough budget year?
  • when we finally vote on the final budget.
  • So support training... ...fighting to keep this in the budget when we finally vote on the final budget
Summary: The committee first heard HB 2641, which would ban firefighting foam containing intentionally added PFAS chemicals. The sponsor said the bill was intended to protect firefighters and the public from carcinogenic and persistent chemicals that can contaminate groundwater, and noted Arizona had already banned the foam for training. A University of Arizona public health researcher testified that firefighters have higher PFAS levels than the general public and that AFFF use is associated with elevated exposure, while a firefighters’ association representative said alternatives exist and that the bill would remove uncertainty for departments. The committee passed HB 2641 unanimously, 15-0. The committee then heard HB 2602, a $24,000 appropriation for a 10% pay increase for Department of Public Safety employees in fiscal year 2027. The sponsor and supporters from the Arizona Troopers Association argued the raise was needed for recruitment and retention, citing vacancies, departures, and the cost of training new troopers. Several members supported the idea but raised concerns about the budget impact and the broader issue of pay disparities across agencies and state employees. The bill received a do pass recommendation on a 10-0-3 vote, with two members voting no and three voting present. Finally, the committee considered HB 2225, which would appropriate $10 million for capital costs at the Northern Arizona Regional Training Academy in Yavapai County and keep the funds from lapsing until 2029. The sponsor and Yavapai County law enforcement witnesses said the academy is overcrowded, serves multiple agencies across northern Arizona, reduces travel and lodging costs, and provides both basic and in-service training. Some members questioned whether the state should fund a county-based facility and raised concerns about the size and structure of the appropriation, while others supported the training mission but wanted the issue handled in the budget process. The committee voted to give HB 2225 a do pass recommendation, with several members voting no or present.
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama Senate Finance and Taxation General Fund Committee Mar 10th, 2026

Finance and Taxation General Fund

Transcript Highlights:
  • Today is our committee budget day.
  • and we're not in the governor's budget.
  • And we're not in the governor's budget.
  • I think that it was in the governor's budget. We did not change that. It's not.
  • I think that it was in the governor's budget. We did not change that. Okay.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Public Health Apr 14th, 2025

Public Health

Transcript Highlights:
  • Yet, we had to include that cost into our operating budget, which was then passed on to patients, insurers
  • peer-reviewed article, it was entitled "Opioid Prescribing by Primary Care Providers: A Sectional Analysis
  • They looked at a retrospective cross-sectional analysis of Medicare Part D enrollee prescription data
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Public Health Apr 14th, 2025

Public Health

Transcript Highlights:
  • The results of this difference-in-difference analysis suggest that there was no relative increase in
  • We also saw, in a data analysis from 2013 to 2017, a decline in opioid prescribing by physicians in that
  • According to an analysis conducted by the agency...
  • We did another analysis to look at the communities where these clinics are located. ...are from our members
OK
Transcript Highlights:
  • But for the purview of the legislative budget, that's outside of the scope of purview.
  • This legislative budget is outside of the scope of purview.
  • We ended up not doing any cuts this year; we kept a relatively flat budget.
  • Chairman, just a couple of items I got off the budget portal.
  • So those are the two increases in the budget.