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MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Education Policy Committee 3/17/26

Education Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • School boards, intermediate school district boards, or an education district; a charitable organization
  • got school boards, Minnesota?
  • > boards,<00:04:07.920> or intermediate school district boards, or intermediate school
  • <00:20:56.320> of then the charter schools uh board of then the charter schools uh board of
  • The charter board of the hearing date.
Bills: HF3487, HF3421
KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • They have board removal authority.
  • education professional standards board. education professional standards board.
  • We have questions about board cases.
  • board members eligibility. board members eligibility.
  • Education Professional Standards Board. Education Professional Standards Board.
Summary: The subcommittee opened its first meeting with roll call and procedural business, including elections of co-chairs. The House elected Representative Truett as House co-chair, and the Senate elected Senator Denine as Senate co-chair. After the organizational votes, the committee heard the Office of Educational Accountability’s annual report, beginning with Brian Jones and Deborah Nelson describing OEA’s investigations and research divisions and recent staffing turnover. On the investigations side, OEA said it handled complaints only when submitted in writing and generally opened cases only when it had enough facts to evaluate. Jones reported complaint volume declined from 805 in 2023 to 738 in 2024, with 325 in the first half of the current year. He outlined the kinds of matters OEA investigates, including school-based council issues, open meetings, board eligibility, nepotism, conflicts of interest, certification, activity funds, and surplus property, while noting that routine personnel matters, bullying, child interviews, and cases tied to litigation are generally handled locally or referred elsewhere. He also said OEA refers special education, assessment/testing, discrimination, and serious misconduct matters to the appropriate agencies, and that he did not see a need for statutory changes to improve OEA’s work, though he said cases should move more quickly. The research division presentation focused on OEA’s district data profiles and annual research agenda. Nelson explained that OEA reviews KDE-reported data and underlying datasets to verify accuracy, analyze trends, and produce reports for the General Assembly. She highlighted 2024 publications on district governance models and student achievement, and said this year’s agenda includes district data profiles, student discipline analysis, and a review of early childhood regional training centers. She also noted OEA received an NCSL notable document award for its 2023 staffing shortages report, its 10th such award. Sabrina Smith then walked through the district data profiles, which compile demographic, staffing, finance, and performance data for all 171 districts, plus statewide and comparative data. She noted changes in the report format, the continued availability of an online interactive version, and several trends: adjusted average daily attendance declined statewide from 2015 to 2024; the counselor-to-student ratio has improved but has not yet reached the statutory goal of one counselor per 250 students; the share of teachers moving from rank three to rank two has declined; special education identification has risen from 13% to 16%; and starting teacher salaries vary widely by district, with Kentucky’s average starting salary around $40,000 ranking near the bottom compared with surrounding states and the nation. Members asked about the history of the research division and whether the paper copies of the district profiles would continue, and staff said the printed versions would continue unless legislators asked otherwise.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Higher Education Apr 22nd, 2025

Higher Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • Higher Education Coordination Board, as he may require. OK, very good.
  • Members, we have a resource witness. from Texas Higher Education Coordination Board.
  • Deputy Commissioner of Texas Higher Education Coordination Board.
  • No one has reached out to us at the Courting Board.
  • Members, this bill relates. certain duties of the Texas Board of Nursing. Stand by.
ND

North Dakota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Appropriations - Education and Environment Division Apr 10th, 2025 at 02:30 pm

Appropriations - Education and Environment Division

Transcript Highlights:
  • We get the consultant on board, the contracts in place.
Bills: HB1329
Summary: The division first discussed Senate Bill 1540 and related amendments involving implementation mechanics, procurement exemptions, and an emergency clause. Bank of North Dakota representatives explained that, based on a timeline review with DPI, the project would be very difficult to implement for the 2026-27 school year without exemptions from state purchasing and IT oversight rules and without an emergency clause; they said the normal procurement process could take about 240 days and that a 15-month implementation window would likely push the start to 2027-28 if those changes were not adopted. Members also raised a separate policy question about a criminal penalty placeholder in the bill, and the committee agreed that the sentence was unnecessary and should be removed. The committee deferred means-testing questions and fiscal-note issues to the next morning, with the understanding that the bill would be drafted in a way that made it workable if it advanced. The committee then turned to the water budget bill and reviewed the latest amended version, which included changes to the Water Topics process, Southwest Pipeline line of credit provisions, Red River supply funding, Mouse River project amounts, general water funding, studies on Missouri River intakes and water governance/finance, and a carryover/transfer adjustment. Chris Cattermas of the Department of Water Resources said most of the carryover funds were already obligated, with the largest unobligated amount in flood control. After review, Senator Thomas moved a do-pass recommendation on the bill as amended, the motion was seconded, and the committee approved it unanimously. The chair noted that other bills would be taken up the next morning, including 1013, 1014, and 1540.
ND

North Dakota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Appropriations - Education and Environment Division Apr 10th, 2025 at 09:30 am

Appropriations - Education and Environment Division

Transcript Highlights:
  • You can go through the school board minutes and find out what every bill is for. It's hard to read.
Bills: HB1329
Summary: The Education Division met with all members present and first took up House Bill 1329, which would create a transparency database and website for school spending information. Senator Schaible offered Amendment 0204 to turn the bill into a study, citing concerns that the proposal would impose major data-collection burdens on 168 school districts, require new data standards and privacy protections, and likely cost far more than the $500,000 in the bill. Several members supported transparency but agreed the implementation costs and technical feasibility were unclear. The committee adopted the amendment 4-1, then passed HB 1329 as amended on a 5-0 vote, with Senator Shively to carry the bill. The committee then discussed House Bill 1540, the education savings account/voucher bill. Representatives from the Bank of North Dakota and the Department of Public Instruction explained that they had not been consulted on the original drafting and outlined needed administrative changes, including clarifying the Bank as administrator, using a third-party program manager, involving DPI in rulemaking, adding audit and appeal procedures, and adjusting language on eligible purchases and school disqualification. They also said the current timeline was likely too aggressive to launch by the 2026-27 school year and estimated the program would require about 15 months to implement, with a fiscal note now around $5.1 million. Members also discussed policy-related amendments on means testing and application timing. Senator Shively proposed a 300% of poverty-level means test and a sign-up period to reduce costs and limit open-ended enrollment, while Senator Axman proposed a tiered approach that would keep all students technically eligible but phase in funding levels by income, preserving access for students who qualify for other federal supports. DPI said it could not currently disaggregate some data by family income and that the appeal process and procurement timeline still needed work. The committee did not move HB 1540 out that morning and instead recessed to continue discussion later after members had time to review the administrative and fiscal issues separately from the means-testing proposals.
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

Trade, Workforce & Economic Development Apr 2nd, 2025

Trade, Workforce & Economic Development

Transcript Highlights:
  • By a municipality or county to local workforce development boards. Sorry, I need the new glasses.
  • relating to the establishment of a skilled labor task force by certain local workforce development boards
  • partners and economic development organizations throughout the state of Texas that can really come on board
  • fencing in front of the frontmost building line of a dwelling, and allows a homeowners association board
  • member, their spouse, or someone living in their house to also serve on an architectural review board
Bills: HB112, HB199, HCR9
Summary: The Committee on Trade, Workforce and Economic Development met with a quorum and moved quickly through a long agenda, hearing testimony and taking recorded votes on several bills. Early in the meeting, HB 2214 was laid out to exempt certain short-term residential leases and leaseback arrangements from flood-disclosure requirements; Texas Realtors supported the change, and the bill was left pending. The committee then voted out a series of pending measures, including HB 46, HB 186 (with a committee substitute), HB 431, HB 1147, HB 1154, HB 2468, HB 2488, HB 2788 (with a substitute), HB 2791 (with a substitute), HB 3260, and HCR 90, all reported favorably to the full House, with HB 1147 receiving two nays and the others passing unanimously or nearly so. A major portion of the hearing focused on HB 112, which would create a Texas Science Park district and commission to support advanced manufacturing and innovation sites. The bill’s author and supporters, including Samsung Austin Semiconductor, the Texas Association of Business, and the Governor’s economic development office, argued it would strengthen supply chains, attract investment, and support national security and workforce development. Testimony described interest from semiconductor and advanced manufacturing companies and referenced the model of foreign science parks such as Sinshu in Taiwan. HB 112 was left pending after testimony. The committee also heard HB 3698 and HB 3699, both related to unemployment insurance administration. HB 3698 would expand eligibility for the Reemployment Services and Eligibility Assessment program using federal funds, while HB 3699 would tighten the definition of “last work” to help the Texas Workforce Commission investigate UI fraud. Both bills were discussed with TWC resource witnesses and left pending after the committee withdrew the substitutes. HB 1349, which would extend HOA transparency and property-rights provisions to condominiums and refine HOA rules, and HB 621, which would require HOA meeting spaces to be available for residents to reserve for qualified political candidates or elected officials, were also heard and left pending. Finally, the committee heard HCR 9 to designate the first Saturday of each month as Small Business Saturday, HB 199 to index unemployment benefit duration to the state unemployment rate, and HB 3466 to exempt certain cancelable service contracts from Texas’s in-home sales cooling-off law; each drew supportive and opposing testimony and was left pending before adjournment.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Commerce and Economic Development Feb 11th, 2026 at 05:14 pm

House Commerce & Economic Development Committee

Transcript Highlights:
  • So, Board of Finance. Ashley Leach, the Director of the Board of Finance. Right. Always confused.
  • It better positions the department to find and recruit board membership.
  • People interested in serving on the board went out earlier this fall.
  • I just had one question, which is I saw that the membership of the board, of the advisory board, is being
  • By voting yes on this bill, you are equally violating our rights.
Bills: SB48, HB250, SB17
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • We want to make sure we're coordinating with the Water Development Board.
  • There's somebody from the Water Development Board behind me, so that as they do their funding and this
  • And then also, as part of the flood plan, and the Water Development Board did ask for some technical
  • Gave half the money of the request from the Water Development Board for surface water data collection
  • I think it's more of a statutory change, making sure that the Water Development Board within the FIF
Bills: SB3, SB 3
TX

Texas 89th Regular

State Affairs Apr 7th, 2025

State Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • Candace Stinnett, Texas Hemp Coalition board member and owner of Emerald Organics.
  • The best answer would be to have standard regulation that's reasonable across the board.
  • I'm a nurse, a mom, and I serve on the executive board of the Texas Hemp Coalition.
  • I'm a hemp farmer, a health and wellness store owner, and an executive board member.
  • I'm a member of the Texas Hemp Coalition and a board member of the East Texas Alliance of Hope.
Bills: HB28, SB3, SB 3
TX

Texas 89th Regular

State Affairs Apr 7th, 2025

State Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • We've been all over the board on this one. That's fine. All right. We have Kyle Gawger. Yes, sir.
  • Also, HB 28... ...drastically increase the price of legitimate products across the board.
  • Andrea Salas Daniels said she is on the board of the Texas Hemp Business Council.
  • My brand has a retired teacher, a current teacher, and a retired nurse all on our board.
  • I'm a board member, and it's one of the science advisors.
Bills: SB 3, HB28, SB3
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Pensions, Investments & Financial Services May 5th, 2025

Pensions, Investments & Financial Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • It has a range, but overall it has to equal whatever that threshold is.
  • Now it just says, on average, an amount equal to 30% of 60%. I mean, it's the same thing.
  • At the time when I was on the board, only three members were affected by this.
  • The bill allows all 15 board members, if they choose to, who are otherwise not eligible.
  • I was elected in 2020 to the State Board of Education and served 12 years there.