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TX
Texas 89th Regular
Appropriations - S/C on Articles I, IV, & V Mar 5th, 2025
Appropriations - S/C on Articles I, IV, & V
Transcript Highlights:
- This would provide explicit appropriation authority for and capital budget authority for funds that are
- Budget Board. board authority for expanded capital budget authority.
- Item five is the request to show unexpended balance authority at the The bond debt service payment, end
- Item five, there's a new rider that gives that authority.
- So this is just. showing that same authority at the end of article.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- This is also supported by the National Safety Standards and experts—leading safety authorities urging
- Thank you, Representative Green, for giving me the opportunity to sign on to the bill as a co-author,
- Members, when the state issues the debt for the full amount of a bonding project, with the exception
- Yeah, it was described, I think, to your last question as one of the authors of the report, you know,
- The DOC does not have the authority to do that without explicit legislative approval.
Bills:
HF3220
Keywords:
school safety, school security, emergency access, law enforcement access, master key box, secure key box, entry device, school grants, education finance, Department of Education, charter schools, school districts, cooperative units, appropriation cancellation, one-time appropriation, school safety plan, emergency preparedness, public safety, school building security
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
Military and Veterans Affairs, Space, and Domestic Security Feb 4th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- Get that debt. If you sat through staff. No easy. Perfect. Yes, ma'am. Thank you. Yes, ma'am.
- We're at 1982 authorized right now. I would not request more state troopers at this time.
- So the as I understand the budget authority that is given to the department that is acts of what we can
- They've been working with the federal legislature to try to give us authority to mitigate drowns while
- We need authority to mitigate these threats. The other piece of that is how do we do that?
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Emergency Management Committee Apr 28th, 2025
Emergency Management
Transcript Highlights:
- Compliment the author. Good bill. Thank you.
- Yeah, so I want to thank the author for accepting the committee amendment.
- I also just wanted to thank the author.
- Thank you very much to Assemblymembers Zuber for authoring AB 478.
- Speak for the author, but we believe that OES already has this capacity.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- This is basically a cleanup bill for Municipal Hospital Authority.
- We show you representing yourself, Decatur Hospital Authority, and Tomball Hospital Authority, and testifying
- I'm here today representing both Decatur and Tomball Hospital Authorities.
- We actually have about 12 hospital authorities left in Texas.
- depend on this support. of our hospital authorities that are left are rural.
Bills:
HB158, HB714, HB 1198, HB1630, HB1998, HB3509, HB3788, HB3875, HB3948, HB3977, HB4097, HB4313, HB4314, HB4317, HB158
Keywords:
housing, veterans, surplus government property, affordable housing, funding sources, housing assistance, homeless prevention, landlord incentives, rural housing, domestic violence, community development, tenant readiness, program participants, financial assistance, homelessness, rental support, Texas Tenant Readiness Program, tenant assistance, housing stability, Texas Department of Housing
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Cmte on Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband and Rural Development - Subcommittee on Veterans - 03/09/26
Transcript Highlights:
- The 148th Fighter Wing's explosive ordnance disposal team provides support to civil authorities throughout
- The 148th Fighter Wing's explosive ordnance disposal team provides support to civil authorities throughout
- The 148th Fighter Wing's explosive ordnance disposal team provides support to civil authorities throughout
- State Tuition Reimbursement Program has saved me thousands of dollars of my projected student loan debt
- Chair Putnam and members, I will remind you all that the authorization for this subcommittee traveled
Summary:
The Minnesota Senate Subcommittee on Veterans heard a Department of Military Affairs presentation on bonding, tuition benefits, and cyber response. The department requested $3.5 million in design funding for a new hangar at the 148th Fighter Wing in Duluth, citing safety problems with the aging 1950s-era hangars and the need to improve the wing’s competitiveness for future federal military construction funding. It also sought $2.5 million for asset preservation at Army facilities statewide, emphasizing that state dollars are often matched by federal funds. A National Guard lieutenant also testified about the State Tuition Reimbursement Program, describing how it helped pay for her undergraduate and doctoral education and reduce student debt.
The committee also received an update on Minnesota National Guard cyber operations, including the response to the July 2025 ransomware attack on the City of Saint Paul. Testimony described the cyber coordination cell’s role in planning, interagency coordination, and support during the incident, including helping re-image about 500 computers and assisting with network recovery. Members heard that the Guard’s cyber teams conduct extensive partner engagement and are prepared to support state and local entities when civil resources are exhausted and the incident exceeds local capacity.
Three bills were then heard and advanced. Senate File 4075, as amended, would implement recommendations from the task force on Special Guerrilla Unit and regular forces veterans from the Secret War in Laos, including eligibility and benefit changes; the committee adopted an amendment and passed the bill to the full committee. Senate File 3956, as amended, would clarify that the Department of Veterans Affairs may partner with veteran-serving organizations using nonmonetary resources to address food insecurity, homelessness, and suicide prevention; it was also referred onward. Senate File 4056, as amended, would add veteran or military status as a protected class under the Minnesota Human Rights Act; testimony supported the change, including concerns about service members losing educational opportunities while on state active duty, and the bill was passed to the full committee.
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Appr-Sub-General Government and Transportation 2ND REVISED Afternoon Session Jan 12th, 2026 at 01:30 pm
Transcript Highlights:
- Our highway bill comes in the form of a five-year authorizing piece of legislation that Congress funds
- So the authorization is for five years.
- Can we sustain a program like that with general revenue deposits in the face of some of the debt that
- The legislature has vested authority, general supervisory authority over the county election boards,
- Our board appoints and has the authority to remove county election board secretaries and board members
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- To ask a question of the author. Do you yield? I yield. Senator Perry? First off...
- To ask the author of some questions? No. Okay, well, the answer's no. Do you yield, Senator?
- I've got constitutional authority and all..." ...ten billion dollars, and I've got 15,000 employees.
- We had 29 co-authors in the Senate before I filed, but I wouldn't file until we had it in the Senate
- We went until we got 111 co-authors. On the face of the bill: game, set, match.
Bills:
SB 8, SB 1, SB 2, SB 5, SB 10, HB27, HB7, HB17, HB1, SB 9, SB 7, SB 17, SB 4, HB20, HB18, HB7, HB17, HB1, HB20, HB18, SB9, SB7, SB17, SB4, SB1, SR85, SR87, SB8, SB5, SB2, SB10, HB27
Keywords:
sex designation, restroom access, civil penalties, private civil right of action, women's privacy, campground safety, youth camp regulations, flood safety, emergency evacuation, health and safety standards, disaster relief, flood preparedness, emergency funding, local government support, meteorological forecasting, abortion, healthcare, jurisdiction, civil action, qui tam
MO
Missouri 2026 Regular Session
2026 Legislative Session - Day Sixty Four - Wednesday, May 6
Missouri House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- They work in that substance abuse area, and we really owe them a debt of gratitude for doing that work
- Area, and we really owe them a debt of gratitude for doing that work.
- sometimes there are difficult decisions to be made, but I'm glad we make them instead of going in debt
- , no matter what the program might be. ...but I'm glad we make them instead of going in debt, no matter
- Yeah, the local public health authority—those public health departments in your counties.
Summary:
The House convened with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, approval of the previous day’s journal, and a series of special guest introductions recognizing family members, interns, students, public servants, and community advocates. Committee reports and Senate messages followed, including Senate refusals to concur on a large number of amendments to Senate Bill 1421 and the appointment of a conference committee on House Bill 2818.
The main floor action centered on the state budget, especially House Bill 2 (public education). The budget chair explained the conference report’s funding mix for K-12 schools, including $8.4 billion for public education, changes to the foundation formula, use of blind pension funds, and possible ARPA dollars later in the process. Members debated whether the report underfunded schools by $45 million or more, with opponents arguing the state was not fully funding the formula and supporters saying total school funding remained at record levels and that the issue was the source of funds rather than the total amount. A substitute motion to send HB 2 back to conference failed 62-89, and the conference report was then adopted 83-68; the bill was third read and passed 83-68.
The House then took up House Bill 2003 on higher education, where the conference report largely restored the governor’s recommendation and directed the department to develop a new funding formula by the end of the year. Members discussed performance-based funding, scholarships, apprenticeships, and the need for a slower transition to any new model. The conference report passed 119-28, and the bill was third read and passed 109-32. House Bill 2004, covering Revenue and Transportation, included about $20 million for rural roads and other transportation funding; members discussed constitutional concerns, MoDOT projects, and a small local safety fix. The conference report passed 128-21, and the bill was third read and passed 127-27.
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Licensing & Administrative Procedures Apr 15th, 2025
Licensing & Administrative Procedures
Transcript Highlights:
- Any questions for the author? Seeing none, we have a resource witness.
- The authorization to advertise is particularly interesting.
- I'm in favor of this bill as the author has laid out.
- They do have authority as the brewpub to sell to other retailers, so that...
- Currently, yes, the Alcoholic Beverage Code just does not provide that authorization.
Bills:
HB 1301, HB2278, HB2776, HB2820, HB3848, HB3920, HB4172, HB4215, HB4284, HB4285, HB4463, HB4517, HB4690, HB4765, HB4766, HB4767, HB4768, HB4769, HB4773, HB4830, HB5506
Keywords:
alcohol, beverages, winery permit, restaurant, malt beverages, Texas Alcoholic Beverage Code, alcohol production, home brewing, family use, craft beverages, massage therapy, licensing, criminal offenses, sexually oriented businesses, public safety, bingo, charitable gaming, operating capital, regulation, funding
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 5 on State Administration Feb 18th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- Spending authority increase, and this is to increase the FTB's spending authority for the asset forfeiture
- that authority to $2.5 million for the upcoming 2025-2026 fiscal year.
- This request gives CDTFA sufficient authority to administer both requirements.
- We are no now going to issue number 12 position authority augmentation Thank you for the Welcome.
- So the chief program was authorized by budget authorities in 2014, and so these were rate payer funds
WY
Transcript Highlights:
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US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Monday, June 29, 2026)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
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- She's an accomplished author, publishing more than 500 articles and a book on essays.
- I will yield four minutes to my good friend from Florida, the author of this Florida, the author of this
- Uh, could the author explain to me... Explain to me which forces would be removed.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- If that's accurate, you know, does, does the medical board have authority to do that?
- Does the nurses have, do the nurses have authority to go after chiropractors?
- Prescriptive authority for psychologists is safe and effective.
- Psychologists don't have prescribing authority. Is that an accurate statement?
- Thank you to Representative Gonzalez for authoring this much-needed legislation.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- I have debt from a career. I didn't go, you know, complete, or I have a family or a second job.
- Representative Bber, you're a co-author on the bill. You have a couple comments?
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what <01:10:00.239>you question so for the author for what you question so for the author - Thank you to my co-authors. I know I think Bakeberg is on here.
- Thank you to my co-authors. I know I think Bakeberg is on here.
Keywords:
education, special education, apprenticeship, funding, grants, intermediate school districts, teacher apprenticeship, registered apprenticeship, teacher licensure, teacher shortage, workforce development, education finance, K-12 education, higher education, Professional Educator Licensing and Standards Board, PELSB, Tier 3 license, teacher preparation, mentor teacher, school district
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- Supermajority requirements already exist for constitutional amendments, for bond authorizations, for
- taxing authority responds appropriately and<00:41:48.800>
quickly. - So if the revenues exceed the cap, this bill says only up to 10% may be used for debt or be refunded.
- So if the revenues exceed the cap, this bill says only up to 10% may be used for debt or be refunded.
- part of the of the authorization. part of the of the authorization.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- Chair, and thank you to the authors of the bill for your good work.
- Again, there Minnesota Housing Finance Authority through their QAP process, which is how they lay out
- Minnesota Housing Finance Authority Minnesota Housing Finance Authority through<00:36:58.160>
- impact if all um as the bill author impact if all um as the bill author stated,<01:12:41.520>
- As you were Chair, and to the author.
Keywords:
HF2432, judiciary finance bill, public safety finance bill, corrections policy, crime victims, victim services, Minnesota victims of crime account, court fees, marriage license fee, financial crimes, fraud investigations, insurance fraud, Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, BCA, Commerce Fraud Bureau, wage theft, automobile theft prevention, nonprofit security grants, 911 funding, POST Board
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- I also see that you have a DE1 amendment to get the bill in the shape that the author wishes.
- So, I'll suggest that we adopt the DE1 to get the bill in the shape that the author intends.
- There's $70 million in debt service in the state office building.
- There's $70 million in debt there.
- And that is why I pulled the bill at that time as chief author.
Bills:
HF4893
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
House Children and Families Finance and Policy Committee 3/25/25
Children and Families Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- Members, any discussion to the A1 to get the bill in the shape the author would like?
- Um, I would also like to thank Representative Nadeau for being a co-author.
- Question to the author or the testifier. Uh, you're um, probably the testifier.
- I am a proud co-author of this because this is the programs that led me to run for office and be in this
- , and authorities to ensure that<01:39:10.760>
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Keywords:
children, youth programming, needs assessment, community engagement, state funding, education, funding, school districts, state budget, rural schools, food support, Greater Minneapolis Council of Churches, food shelves, grant funding, Minnesota FoodShare, early childhood, Head Start, education funding, developmental programs, literacy
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee Apr 21st, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- Jackson, has been pulled by the author. The second is file item 12, AB 480.
- I thank the author for bringing this bill.
- We have an author, Mr. Wallace. Just please come forward.
- And we would ask the author to please come.
- So it's been informed by the author of Assembly Bill 761, Addis.
Summary:
The Assembly Committee on Revenue and Taxation met under suspense-file procedures, with the chair explaining limits on testimony, position letters, and that bills with fiscal impacts of $150,000 or more would generally be sent to suspense rather than voted on immediately. Several bills were pulled from hearing, and a consent calendar of committee bills later passed 4-0. AB 761 by Addis, the only item initially slated for a vote, was ultimately held over to the next hearing.
The committee heard testimony on a series of tax-related proposals. AB 232 would create catastrophe savings accounts for homeowners to save pre-tax money for wildfire, flood, or earthquake-related expenses; it drew support from the Department of Insurance and the California Bankers Association, but was sent to suspense. AB 1443 would exempt tips from state income tax for five years and was supported by the California Restaurant Association and a restaurant owner, but also went to suspense. AB 1435 would provide relief to businesses and property owners facing cleanup and security costs from unauthorized encampments and illegal dumping; it received broad support from business, real estate, trucking, retail, and local government representatives, and was referred to suspense.
The committee also heard AB 1428, which would create a California Affordable Child Care Fund financed by a 0.5% tax on income above $10 million; child care workers and SEIU-backed witnesses supported it, while taxpayer and business groups opposed it as harmful to competitiveness and affordability. AB 691 proposed a tax credit for adopting shelter pets and covering veterinary costs, AB 1219 proposed a middle- and low-income personal income tax cut, AB 1354 proposed a credit for increased homeowners insurance premiums, AB 19 proposed an education savings account/voucher-style program, and AB 567 proposed insurance rate stabilization and related tax/fund changes; each drew testimony for and against where present, but all were referred to suspense. The meeting ended with the committee adjourning after the held-over AB 761 item was postponed.