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MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Transportation Finance and Policy Committee 3/3/25

Transportation Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • </c> not eligible uh to relocate utilities not eligible uh to relocate utilities and<00:59:59.280><c>
  • Lee, so at least in the Metro there's the new sales tax.
  • the 75% sales tax?
  • Paul in the form of new taxes.
  • </c> uh we're trying to be responsible tax uh we're trying to be responsible tax dollars<01:41:25.719
Bills: HF192, HF268, HF1214, HF494
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Regulated Industries Feb 3rd, 2026

Regulated Industries

Transcript Highlights:
  • But this bill deals with utilities and municipal services, specifically.
  • It places caps on the use of gross utility revenues for general government at 10%.
  • Further, it removes municipal natural gas utilities from the bill's provisions.
  • Utility revenues that may be used for general government purposes.
  • , the property is 2,000 meters of a municipal utility facility, and the utility has sufficient capacity
Bills: S0936, S1724, S1014, S1498
Summary: The Committee on Regulated Industries heard and advanced four bills. First, members took up SB 1724 on utility services, adopting a late-filed delete-everything amendment by Senator Martin. The amended bill would require annual customer meetings for certain municipal utility customers outside city limits, cap use of gross utility revenues for general government purposes, require excess funds to be reinvested or returned, reduce the outside-city surcharge and rate differential caps, and phase out certain surcharges tied to existing bond covenants. The Florida League of Cities raised implementation concerns about the July 1, 2026 effective date and the need for time to complete rate studies and budget adjustments. The committee then reported the bill favorably. Members also heard SB 936 on temporary door locking devices, which would define and authorize such devices, direct the Florida Building Commission to add standards to the building code, and require their use to be incorporated into safety plans, drills, and training. With no opposition or debate, the bill was reported favorably. The committee next considered SB 1014, which would prohibit municipalities from refusing water and wastewater service solely because a property owner will not annex, if the property is near a municipal main line, not already served by another utility, and the utility has capacity. An amendment narrowed the distance trigger to one-half mile and clarified the main-line requirement. The Florida League of Cities opposed the bill as amended, citing concerns about impacts on annexation policy, potential duplication of services, and possible subsidy of outside customers, but the committee still reported the bill favorably. Finally, the committee heard SB 1498 on community associations. A strike-all amendment made technical changes to turnover inspection and electronic voting provisions and added two major policy changes: requiring associations to provide records to law enforcement and prosecutors, with a misdemeanor penalty for willful noncompliance, and prohibiting certain developer-controlled mandatory club fee arrangements that generate perpetual profit beyond proportional expenses. Testimony in support came from homeowners describing alleged governance abuses and mandatory fee schemes in their communities, while the Community Associations Institute supported the amendment. The committee reported CS for SB 1498 favorably. At the end of the meeting, Senators Bracey Davis and Calatayud asked to be recorded as voting in the affirmative on selected bills.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Taxes Committee 4/16/26

Taxes

Transcript Highlights:
  • This is tax<00:30:52.640><c> money.</c> tax money. tax money.
  • </c> these as tax increases, but they're tax these as tax increases, but they're tax increases.<00:30
  • </c> our tax base. our tax base.
  • </c> each sales tax is viewed as a tax each sales tax is viewed as a tax increase. increase. increase
  • . taxes. taxes.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Revenue and Taxation Apr 13th, 2026 at 02:00 pm

Revenue and Taxation

Transcript Highlights:
  • Does that mean that the Oklahoma Tax Commission will have access to the Texas Tax Commission's data for
  • exempt in Texas, and that's they would wind up on our database with our tax code too or our tax cards
  • sales tax.
  • It's not the loss of tax revenue. I don't look at it as a loss of sales tax revenue...
  • They Receive quite a bit of tax dollars to do this.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Revenue and Taxation Apr 13th, 2026

Revenue and Taxation

Transcript Highlights:
  • So does that mean that the Oklahoma Tax Commission will have access to the Texas Tax Commission's data
  • exempt in Texas, and they would wind up on our database with our tax code, too, or our tax cards also
  • And it's not the loss of tax revenue.
  • They receive quite a bit of tax dollars to do this.
  • How are we going to expect the Tax Commission to assess this?
Summary: The Revenue and Taxation Committee met and first laid over House Bill 15.9 to the next meeting. The committee then unanimously advanced an executive nomination, James Burleson to the Oklahoma Tax Commission, after brief testimony from Sen. Pugh and Burleson’s comments about his private-sector, nonprofit, and community experience and desire to serve the state. Members then considered several tax-related bills. House Bill 3986, expanding eligibility for the 24-month gross production tax exemption for wells completed using recycled water, passed 10-1 after questions about whether the change was retroactive. House Bill 3548, which would exempt small child-run businesses from certain taxes and permits up to a $1,000 gross-revenue threshold, passed 11-0 after questions focused on enforcement and adult involvement. House Bill 3661, removing the sunset on the forestry equipment sales tax exemption, passed 8-3 despite concerns about the lack of hard data supporting the incentive’s continuation. The committee also passed House Bill 4346, creating reciprocity for agricultural sales tax exemptions for neighboring states, after discussion about verification methods, fraud prevention, and whether the Oklahoma Tax Commission could track out-of-state buyers; the bill passed 8-3. House Bill 3075, the “Oklahoma Common Sense Act” dealing with a post-penny environment and giving agencies and political subdivisions more time to update point-of-sale systems, was amended to set an effective date of November 1, 2026, and then passed 11-0. Finally, House Bill 4273, clarifying that certain R1 university aerospace research employees qualify for an aerospace tax credit, passed 6-5 after debate over whether the credit could create a broader domino effect for other professors and fields. The chair announced the committee would likely meet again the following Monday for its last meeting of the year, and then adjourned.
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

Insurance Mar 26th, 2025

Insurance

Transcript Highlights:
  • Texas consistently leads the nation as the best state for business and has one of the lowest tax burdens
  • Less than $40,000 so the state of Texas paid $82,000 of our tax money.
  • We show you as Carl Isett with the Tax Association of Benefit Administrators and yourself, we show you
  • I mean, each examination of the utilization, OK. And, um, does TDI do this already?
  • This is not me sitting down with my wife for an evening and doing my taxes. This is.
Bills: HB139
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

Local GovernmentAudio only. Aug 26th, 2025

Local Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • HB 17 requires taxing entities to mail notice to every property owner in a tax rate hearing while still
  • They do that in the spring, yes, and if they can contact all these taxing entities or have those taxing
  • Well, we don't know what the tax rate's going to be because the tax rate should be going down as the
  • This information just on the tax in urban counties - about half the tax rolls where you sleep, about
  • tax" formula.
Bills: HB17, HB23
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Mar 5th, 2025

Alabama Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Senate Bill Number 137 by Senator Waggoner regarding public utilities on page 18.
  • Senate Bill Number 137 regarding public utilities on page 18.
  • calendar on page 16 of the calendar: Senate Bill number 137 by Senator Waggoner regarding Public Utilities
  • Chair of the House Republican Steering Committee, the House Transportation Committee, and the House Utilities
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Senate Session Mar 5th, 2025

Texas Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Joe Lopez, General Manager of the Green Electric Utility Systems, or JUICE, Alicia Hooks, and President
  • We have world-class medical centers and researchers, our business-friendly tax and regulatory environment
FL

Florida 2025 Regular Session

House in Session Apr 25th, 2025

Florida House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • CORRESPONDING REDUCTIONS IN OTHER TAXES SUCH AS THE BUSINESS RENT TAX, IS NOW PART OF THE TAX PACKAGE
  • it's a Tourist Development Tax but utilizing the funds for another purpose such as property tax rebates
  • taxes.
  • tax reduction today.
  • They can't touch sales tax, but they can touch property tax.
Bills: HB 118, HB 388, HB 114, HB 205, HB 2789, HB 2791, HB 499, HB 2960, HB 3163, HB 3135, HB 2427, HB 1618, HB 1672, HB 1722, HB 1338, HB 787, HB 2618, HB 879, HB 1126, HB 4134, HB 3513, HB 718, HB 1536, HB 1445, HB 1640, HB 1893, HB 1734, HB 3229, HB 3306, HB 1276, HB 3272, HB 3276, HB 3516, HB 4145, HB 1585, HB 4810, HB 2989, HB 2558, HB 3014, HB 2742, HB 1695, HB 29, HB 125, HB 145, HB 171, HB 255, HB 50, HB 363, HB 116, HB 491, HB 1495, HB 368, HB 1285, HB 1905, HB 2002, HB 917, HB 2723, HB 2067, HB 1238, HB 745, HB 1188, HB 1606, HB 2003, HB 2147, HB 2355, HB 2546, HB 2495, HB 2818, HB 2249, HB 3228, HB 3240, HB 1507, HB 658, HB 1748, HB 1851, HB 1922, HB 2798, HB 107, HB 1587, HB 3684, HB 118, HB 388, HB 114, HB 205, HB 2789, HB 2791, HB 499, HB 2960, HB 3163, HB 3135, HB 2427, HB 1618, HB 1672, HB 1722, HB 1338, HB 787, HB 2618, HB 879, HB 1126, HB 4134, HB 3513, HB 718, HB 1536, HB 1445, HB 1640, HB 1893, HB 1734, HB 3229, HB 3306, HB 1276, HB 3272, HB 3276, HB 3516, HB 4145, HB 1585, HB 4810, HB 2989, HB 2558, HB 3014, HB 2742, HB 1695, HB 609, HB 630, HB 420, HB 767, HB 1708, HB 1404, HB 2457, HB 140, HB 227, HB 913, HB 2198, HB 2763, HB 1261, HB 1135, HB 1318, HB 2358, HB 2765, HB 2735, HB 3307, HB 1242, HB 2842, HB 333, HB 201, HB 694, HB 2415, HB 155, HB 272, HB 405, HB 519, HB 1136, HB 1275, HB 1437, HB 1532, HB 1675, HB 1868, HB 1888, HB 1990, HB 2286, HB 2523, HB 3129, HB 3251, HB 3354, HB 3479, HB 3803, HB 3804, HB 3805, HB 3806, HB 3887, HB 4163, HB 4238, HB 1240, HB 1842, HB 2029, HB 2622, HB 3255, HB 654, HB 4643, HB 4945, HB 3611, HB 3724, HB 3623, HB 3810, HB 4127, HCR 78, HCR 12, SB 767
TX

Texas 89th Regular

89th Legislative Session Apr 25th, 2025

Texas House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Eliminate property tax. tax, go back to a sales tax, and I would hear him talk with some of my family
  • If we all pay the same price for milk, it's the biggest risk. regressive tax on your people.
  • HB 29 by Gerdes relating to water losses reported by certain municipality-owned utilities to the Texas
  • Members HB 29 and enhances accountability and efficiency among large municipally owned water utilities
  • Speaker members HB 363 improves the transparency Coordination process of creating a municipal utility
AL

Alabama 2026 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Judiciary Committee Feb 18th, 2026

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • It allows the land banks to acquire delinquent properties that are tax lien, which right now they are
  • And again, it enables the land banks to acquire tax liens at auctions, which, as I said, they're not
  • </c> properties from taxes properties from taxes for<01:11:08.440><c> a</c><01:11:08.520><c> period</
  • </c> to put properties back on the tax roll. to put properties back on the tax roll.
  • </c><01:12:12.800><c> roll,</c> Remember, if it's not on the tax roll, Remember, if it's not on the tax
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Commerce and Small Business Committee Apr 29th, 2025

Commerce and Small Business

Transcript Highlights:
  • Consequences related to water and gas systems could have negative consequences for regional utility systems
Bills: SB330
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Taxes Committee 3/3/26

Taxes

Transcript Highlights:
  • tax through tax year pass-through entity tax through tax year 2027. 2027. 2027.
  • </c><00:05:21.040><c> credit</c> the PTE tax, they get a a tax credit the PTE tax, they get a a tax credit
  • Absent action, the small businesses that utilize this option will potentially face increased tax liability
  • </c> entities have utilized the PTE tax. entities have utilized the PTE tax.
  • tax our lowest tax rate in rate, our our tax our lowest tax rate in this<01:07:15.400><c> state</c><
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Economic Development May 21st, 2025

Economic Development

Transcript Highlights:
  • The second addition to this committee substitute makes permanent the exemption from franchise tax for
  • The second addition to this committee substitute makes permanent the exemption from franchise tax for
  • This is an omnibus bill consisting of city hotel occupancy tax bills, county occupancy tax bills, and
  • bills, and municipal hotel tax bills.
  • outside of Chapter 351 of the Tax Code and for unauthorized purposes.
Summary: The Senate Economic Development Committee heard and laid out several measures focused on school safety, Texas-Taiwan relations, defense manufacturing, business formation, hotel tax policy, and NASA relocation. HB 1851 would allow surplus DPS vehicles and law enforcement equipment to be transferred to school districts in economically disadvantaged areas for use by school police and security personnel, with a two-year resale restriction. HCR 127 expressed support for the Texas-Taiwan relationship and trade ties, HCR 118 supported expanding warship manufacturing in Texas, HCR 141 urged Congress to move NASA headquarters to Houston, HB 346 (with a committee substitute) revised business filing and fee authority while making permanent a franchise tax exemption for new veteran-owned businesses, HB 2974 was an omnibus hotel occupancy tax and qualified hotel project bill, and HB 5596 addressed accountability for municipal hotel occupancy tax revenues in coastal communities. Witnesses generally supported the measures, including the Texas Hotel and Lodging Association on HB 2974 and resource witnesses from the Texas Veterans Commission and Secretary of State on HB 346; no opposition testimony was registered on the laid-out bills. After public testimony, the committee took up pending business and adopted committee substitutes where applicable. HB 1851, HB 346, HB 2974, and HB 5596 were each reported favorably to the full Senate, with HB 346 and HB 2974 also recommended for the local and uncontested calendar. HCR 127 and HCR 118 were reported favorably as well, and HCR 127 and HCR 141 were likewise recommended for the local and uncontested calendar. The committee also reported HB 4320 favorably, though the transcript repeats that motion several times. The meeting ended with the committee standing in recess until 7:00 a.m. subject to the call of the chair.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • The committee substitute makes permanent the exemption from franchise tax for a new... ...veteran-owned
  • This is an omnibus bill consisting of city hotel occupancy tax bills and county. ...occupancy tax bills
  • they're not technically bracketed bills if you will, for particular communities regarding county hotel tax
  • . ...bills and municipal hotel tax bills.
  • of Chapter 351 of the tax code. ...and for unauthorized purposes.
FL

Florida 2025 Regular Session

House in Session Apr 24th, 2025

Florida House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • This bill describes transparency for utilities. Do we have any amendments?
  • Tallahassee from our property taxes. We cannot charge this very building any property taxes.
  • Our tax cuts are nonrecurring, and that's only the visible budget.
  • UTILITIES AUTHORITY.
  • THE GAINSEVILLE REGIONAL UTILITIES...
Summary: The Florida House of Representatives conducted legislative business including prayer, pledge, and voting on multiple bills. Key legislation included HB 1105 expanding Florida Bright Futures Scholarship eligibility, HB 443 on charter school regulations (passed 83-23), and HB 1539 on materials harmful to minors (passed 81-29) after extensive debate about book challenges in schools. Other bills addressed education funding, law enforcement benefits, parole guidelines, and various local issues. The Speaker announced budget negotiations with the Senate have stalled, with disagreements over spending levels and tax cuts. The House will not meet this weekend as originally planned. Session adjourned until tomorrow at 10 AM.