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WA
Transcript Highlights:
- In the Senate budget on this—excuse me, do you have a follow-up for Representative Orcutt?
- Okay, so the funding source for this in the Senate budget is from what fund?
- to determine if these projects would be eligible for the capital budget?
- For a reference point, what is your biennial budget? Oh, man, staff just for staff?
- For your staff requirements, our operating budget is approximately $1.4 million.
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Transportation Feb 27th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- In the Senate budget on this—excuse me, do you have a follow-up? Representative Orcutt, okay.
- So the funding source for this in the Senate budget is from what fund?
- determine if these projects would be eligible for the capital budget?
- For a reference point, what is your biennial budget?
- For staff requirements, our operating budget is approximately $1.4 million.
Summary:
The committee held public hearings on two transportation-related bills. For Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill 5374, staff explained that the bill would require tribal governments to be included in Growth Management Act transportation coordination and in preparation of county six-year transportation programs, and would create a tribal traffic safety coordinator grant program through the Traffic Safety Commission. Fiscal impacts were described as indeterminate and scalable, with estimates for staffing, grants, and local government coordination costs. The Association of Counties testified in support, saying the bill would better align existing tribal consultation processes with transportation planning and would not force counties to restart plans already near adoption.
For Engrossed Senate Bill 5649, staff said the bill would create a Washington State Supply Chain Competitiveness Infrastructure Program to provide grants and loans for public and tribal ports with public operations, with DOT setting priorities and criteria in collaboration with supply chain stakeholders. Fiscal notes estimated significant staffing and program costs, but the amount would depend on appropriations; no funds were included in the current Senate Transportation budget. The Washington Public Ports Association and representatives from the Port of Everett and Port of Port Angeles supported the bill, arguing it would help ports address congestion, improve freight efficiency, and leverage federal matching funds for major infrastructure projects. The Freight Mobility Strategic Investment Board director said many proposed projects would not qualify for FMSIB funding because they are not on strategic freight corridors, which is why a separate program may be needed.
Members asked about timing, whether the tribal planning bill would require counties to start over on plans already near completion, and how the port bill would interact with existing funding sources and FMSIB eligibility. Staff and witnesses said the tribal bill was intended to work with existing coordination processes and not force counties to restart, while the port bill was meant to fill gaps where current programs do not apply. The chair then reviewed amendment deadlines for budget and committee bills, and the meeting adjourned for caucuses.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Vets Committee Meeting - 2025-04-09
Veterans and Military Affairs Division
Transcript Highlights:
- Roberts, would you please walk us through the budget spreadsheet? Mr.
- I'm sympathetic to the committee's low budget target and the constraints presented in the current budget
- This budget takes out our kneecaps.
- Pulling funding from these initiatives is not just cutting the budget line.
- Lastly, kind of tagging onto that, this is a budget bill.
LA
Louisiana 2026 Regular Session
State Bond Commission May 21st, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- Since then, the project budget has increased approximately $1.25 million.
- “A more transparent and accountable budgeting process.
- as well as requiring that once we pass a budget, that is, in fact, the budget.
- What we found in last year’s budget crisis was that historically the budget was a giant suggestion and
- that mayors, after a budget, could move money around the budget, which led ultimately to the giant fiscal
Summary:
The State Bond Commission met on May 21 with a quorum present and approved the April 16 minutes. The commission then reviewed and approved a large slate of local government and public authority financing requests, including election propositions for the November ballot, water and sewer infrastructure projects, fire protection and recreation district bonds, school board financing, and several refunding transactions. Most items were found to meet technical requirements and were approved on motions by Speaker DeVillier and seconded by Senator Talbot.
Among the more notable items were the East Baton Rouge City-Parish refunding bonds for the Greater Baton Rouge Airport District, the City of Kenner’s retroactive approval request tied to a convention center agreement with GMB Basketball LLC, a Louisiana Housing Corporation financing increase for the Federal City Building 10 affordable housing project, and preliminary approval for the Northwest Louisiana Finance Authority’s Petro Tower redevelopment in Shreveport. The commission also approved financing for Southern University’s Scott’s Bluff student housing project and the Crescent City Schools/Harriet Tubman Charter School project. The Crescent City Schools item prompted questions about how MFP funds are used; staff explained that lease payments would support the bonds and that MFP funds are generally split between educational expenses and facilities-related costs.
The commission received six monthly cost-of-issuance reports, which required no action, and a status update on the state debt schedule. It also approved Resolution No. 2 authorizing up to $425 million in general obligation refunding bonds to refund the Series 2016 bonds and tender other outstanding bonds for savings, with pricing tentatively set for June 16 and closing for June 30. During other business, New Orleans City Council President J.P. Morel thanked the commission for its role in helping address the city’s fiscal crisis and for approving a charter amendment election item aimed at strengthening budget oversight. The meeting adjourned after no further business.
FL
Florida 2026 Regular Session
Appropriations Committee on Higher Education Mar 5th, 2025
Appropriations Committee on Higher Education
Transcript Highlights:
- The total operating budget for the system is about $20 billion. It includes five budget entities.
- And we have an auxiliary budget entity at almost $3 billion.
- That's a broad overview of the entire system operating budget.
- And we have an auxiliary budget entity at almost $3 billion.
- That's a broad overview of the entire system operating budget.
Summary:
The Appropriations Committee on Higher Education received a presentation from Tim Jones, Senior Vice Chancellor and CFO for the State University System of Florida, on the system’s funding methodology, budget structure, tuition, and performance-based funding. He outlined the system’s scale, including 12 universities, more than 430,000 students taking classes, about 78,000 employees, and a roughly $20 billion operating budget. He also reviewed tuition levels, noting Florida’s low resident undergraduate tuition, the lack of tuition increases since 2013, and the distinction between state-set resident tuition and Board of Governors authority over other tuition categories.
Jones described several funding components, including performance funding, preeminence funding, faculty recruitment and retention programs, universities of distinction, nursing pipeline and matching programs, and operational enhancements. He explained that performance funding is based on a 100-point model tied to retention, graduation, employment, and other metrics, with student success plans required if scores decline or fall below 70 points. He said the current performance funding allocation is $350 million and the legislative budget request seeks $400 million. He also said the new SUS 30 strategic plan will lead to updates in the performance metrics and benchmarks, with some changes possibly phased in over time.
Senators asked questions about how the new strategic plan will affect future scoring, how long universities have to improve after declining scores, and how out-of-state enrollment and tuition are handled. Jones said universities will be evaluated on the current metrics for the upcoming budget cycle, while the new plan’s changes will be developed later and may include glide paths. He also said there is no statutory cap on nonresident students, though the Board of Governors has a 10% systemwide guideline under discussion, and that graduate out-of-state tuition varies by program and requires institutional and Board of Governors approval. No votes were taken, no public testimony was offered, and the committee adjourned.
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- I very, very confidently vote no because you're scared about voting on budget bills outside of the budget
- I think that these certainly should be held pending the budget discussion.
- I think that these certainly should be held pending the budget discussion.
- The school districts have a $1.1 billion budget balance carryforward now. This isn't dead cash.
- This is the budget balance carryforward, the budget that they're allowed to spend that they're choosing
Keywords:
cardiac arrest, defibrillators, school safety, emergency response, CPR training, Arizona education funding, Alzheimer's, dementia, memory care, cognitive decline, brain health, caregiver support, long-term care, in-home care, public health, health services, state plan, dementia services program, Arizona Department of Health Services, aging
MD
Transcript Highlights:
- They are ordered to the capital budget subcommittee calendar five for bond initiatives.
- Number two, Senator Jackson, Holland Hills Park, Budget and Taxation.
- budget subcommittee capital budget subcommittee calendar<00:02:19.920><c> five</c><00:02:20.239><c>
- </c><00:02:26.080><c> and</c> Valley Elementary Playground budget and Valley Elementary Playground budget
- </c> capital budget subcommittee. All right. capital budget subcommittee. All right.
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice Mar 26th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- MEMBERS, UNDER TAB NUMBER ONE IS OUR CRIMINAL AND CIVIL JUSTICE PROPOSED BUDGET.
- IN ADDITION THE COURT BUDGET INCLUDES 13 MILLION TO FUND 29 NEW JUDGES.
- WE NEED A BUDGET THAT IS ABLE TO IMPROVE SAFETY IN THE PRISONS.
- WE NEED A BUDGET THAT IS ABLE TO IMPROVE SAFETY IN THE PRISONS.
- PAMELA WHITLEY ALSO SPEAKING FOR THE BUDGET INCREASE.
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- So not separate from the budget.
- </c> by an article separate from the budget by an article separate from the budget etc.<03:37:31.920>
- </c> a certain amount of money is budgeted a certain amount of money is budgeted and<03:39:28.479><c>
- budget committee permission from your budget committee and<03:43:22.239><c> you</c><03:43:22.479><c>
- We worked out an the total budget.
FL
Transcript Highlights:
- The House Budget and Senate Appropriations Conference Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic
- I move to nominate Representative Schof to chair the House Budget and Senate Appropriations Conference
- Additionally, the House has an offer for the Senate on the budget.
- Members, gray rows on the budget spreadsheet represent where we already agree on funding issues.
- Additionally, the House has an offer for the Senate on the budget.
FL
Transcript Highlights:
- The House Budget and Senate Appropriations Conference Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic
- I move to nominate Representative Schof to chair the House Budget and Senate Appropriations Conference
- Additionally, the House has an offer for the Senate on the budget.
- Members, gray rows on the budget spreadsheet represent where we already agree on funding issues.
- Additionally, the House has an offer for the Senate on the budget.
Summary:
The House Budget and Senate Appropriations Conference Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development met to organize the conference and begin budget negotiations. Members unanimously adopted motions naming Representative Schof as chair and Senator DeSigley as vice chair. Staff then presented the initial side-by-side comparison of the TED conference budget materials, including spreadsheets, projects, proviso, back of the bill, implementing bill, and conforming bill, along with a House offer to the Senate. The House noted that gray rows reflected items already agreed to and black-highlighted rows showed changes in the House offer, which was described as a good-faith effort to move toward Senate positions.
Senator Hooper said the Senate would review the offer and respond after working through the first proposal, noting that initial offers typically take time to evaluate. No public comment was offered. The committee announced it was on one-hour notice for the next meeting and adjourned without objection.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- Um I agency to this budget for that.
- </c> since something like 90% of our budget since something like 90% of our budget is<00:02:55.560><c
- </c><00:03:45.280><c> numbers</c> focusing only on the the budget numbers focusing only on the the budget
- I want to budget uh before you today.
- ><c> created</c><00:05:22.320><c> uh</c> understand the budget target created uh understand the budget
WY
Transcript Highlights:
- budget.
- There's no change to the budget. The budget just transfers with it.
- budget.
- The budget just no change to the budget.
- inside the governor's budget. We will inside the governor's budget.
Keywords:
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CO
Colorado 2026 Regular Session
Colorado Senate 2026 Legislative Day 022 Feb 5th, 2026
Colorado Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- <00:56:19.599><c> crisis</c> budget crisis budget crisis in<00:56:21.440><c> our</c><00:56:21.680><c>
- </c> in a structural deficit with our budget in a structural deficit with our budget and<01:02:16.960
- We're in charge of how that budget.
- We have no way to manage the budget.
- and our budgeting process.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- I'm sorry, yeah, this is the budget. This is a page out of the budget that was just released.
- That budget does not come to me, does not go to commissioner's court unless that budget exceeds the 5%
- The budgets are adopted as part of our annual budget process, and then each one of those projects comes
- The City of Plano has had 30 days for the last 10 years on each budget to comment on the budgets.
- These budgets are not fat.
Bills:
HB2065, HB2462, HB2621, HB3187, HB3539, HB3563, HB3726, HB4164, HB4207, HB4368, HB4706, HB4916, HB4950, HB4967, HB5177, HB4429, HB5597
Keywords:
commercial vehicles, parking regulations, residential areas, local governance, land use, traffic safety, high occupancy vehicle lane, pregnant operators, transportation, parental rights, motor vehicle regulations, live video feed, state agency, transparency, public safety, regional transportation, mobility program, sales tax, public infrastructure, local government
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
WAM, WAM-JDC Informational Briefings 01-14-2025
Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- The budget balance, as you see, includes tax relief already.
- The budget balance, as you see, includes tax relief already.
- The budget balance, as you see, includes tax relief already.
- The budget balance, as you see, includes tax relief already.
- CH: Was there any area of your budget where we depend heavily on federal funding?
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Finance Dec 9th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- That's not even ECECD's budget or the pre-K budget.
- Their budget, $9 million.
- Chair, no, Senator Padilla, we have funding in the budget for 2026.
- Chair, no, Senator Padilla, we have funding in the budget for 26.
- And then consistency between the project application budget and the cost estimates and the ICIP budget
Summary:
The committee heard first from LFC staff on a brief about New Mexico’s universal child care expansion. Staff said child care assistance has clear benefits for parents and families, but LFC has not found evidence in New Mexico that it improves children’s educational outcomes; they argued pre-K is the better tool for that goal. The brief highlighted four concerns with universal access: an estimated annual cost of about $849.7 million, a sharp decline in registered homes, possible crowding out of lower-income families, and reduced access for children under age two. Staff also suggested possible mitigations such as prioritizing slots for low-income and at-risk families, reinstating sliding-scale co-pays, and tying quality improvements to workforce wages.
Members raised questions about the cost estimate, funding sources, provider quality, and whether the data showed actual crowding out. Several lawmakers expressed support for child care generally but concern about the fiscal impact and whether universal access would divert resources from the families most in need. Others emphasized the importance of child care for workforce participation, rural communities, and family stability, and questioned how registered homes are counted and regulated. LFC staff clarified that the cost estimate was for child care assistance only, not the entire ECECD budget, and that the data showed declines in the share of lowest-income children and infants/toddlers served, though not causation.
The ECECD secretary then presented the department’s response, saying universal child care is intended to complete a cradle-to-career system and that the department has already seen strong uptake, increased capacity, and rising workforce participation. She said 6,206 families were found eligible in the first month, the share of infants and toddlers served rose, and new provider applications and licensed slots increased after the November rollout. The department also emphasized wage increases, quality improvements, and a new wage scale/career lattice, while projecting a lower near-term cost than LFC’s estimate and requesting additional funding for child care, early pre-K, home visiting, workforce systems, and capacity-building. No votes or formal actions were taken in the portion provided; the discussion was informational and focused on questions and testimony.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 1 on Health May 4th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- What we may need to do at a budget level.
- The cost is, what we have in the budget from the 2025 Budget Act, is $69.3 million.
- constraints due to H.R. 1 to balance their budgets.
- With respect to the department's budget, the proposed budget for fiscal year 2026-27 totals $3.2 billion
- I will be presenting our infrastructure budget change proposals, as well as two budget bill items we
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Hearing Assembly Health Committee and Senate Health Committee Mar 10th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- And I obviously chair the Health Budget Subcommittee, And I obviously chair the health budget subcommittee
- The Congressional Budget Office estimates 10 million...
- The second piece is to put the system on a budget. Every Californian is on a budget.
- That is a budget for the entirety of the system.
- Neither California's budget nor household budgets can afford to let health care costs continue to grow
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
House Budget Review Sub. on Primary & Secondary Education & Workforce Development (2-17-26)
Transcript Highlights:
- I've worked on budgets in Frankfurt for a number of years as a former deputy state budget director under
- , receive dollars year after year, budget after budget, and have largely avoided scrutiny.
- </c><00:07:28.479><c> is</c> The line item language in the budget is The line item language in the budget
- </c> of the Department of Education's budget. of the Department of Education's budget.
- </c> and instructed the office state budget and instructed the office state budget director<00:20:02.480
Summary:
The subcommittee met without a quorum and did not approve minutes, but heard testimony on budget line items for Data Seam and Teach for America. Andrew McNeel of Kentucky Free and representatives from the Commonwealth Policy Center argued that both programs rely heavily on recurring taxpayer support and should be re-evaluated. McNeel cited a 2020 Office of Policy and Audit examination of Data Seam, saying the program had received more than $30 million in state support since 2006, including $3.5 million in the current budget, and that the audit raised concerns about administrative overhead, alleged threats to districts, and the use of line-item language to justify sole-source contracting. He recommended suspending Data Seam funding this biennium, directing a new special audit, and requiring reimbursement of audit costs.
The witnesses also urged the committee to withhold funding for Teach for America, saying the organization’s materials and history showed a commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion that they opposed. They pointed to past statements, leadership titles, and program language as evidence that DEI concepts remained embedded in the organization, and suggested any funding should be redirected directly to school districts instead. Mike Harmon and Richard Nelson echoed those concerns, while also saying long-running programs should be periodically reviewed for efficiency.
Teach for America Appalachia representatives then testified in support of the program. Executive director C.D. Morton described the organization as a teacher-preparation and leadership-development program serving rural eastern Kentucky, saying it had recruited and supported more than 325 teachers since 2011, with about 30 current core members in several counties and roughly 2,800 students impacted daily. He said the program helps fill hard-to-staff vacancies, that about 80% of teachers stay for a third year, and that many alumni remain in education. In response to questions from Representative Bojanowski about retention and cost, Morton said more than 60% of alumni are still in education, but he could not give a precise classroom-teacher retention number beyond the program’s broader alumni data.