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• We have to vote on the amendment, so the A2 author's amendment is Senator Boldon moves that all in favor
• We have to vote on the amendment, so the A2 author's amendment is Senator Boldon moves that all in favor
• <00:08:54.200> Amendment<00:08:55.200> uh the A2 am author's Amendment uh the A2 am
• The A2 amendment...
• different and especially in the budget different and especially in the budget size<00:37:31.200>

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• Now Vice Chair Joy moves the H2-0062 amendment. Is that your amendment?
• Okay, do you want to move the amendment or do you not want it? I'll move the amendment.
• Whose amendment is it? Okay, Vice Chair Joy moves the H2-0068-2 amendment. Any further discussion?
• The bill before us is now amended.
• HF2360A1, the amendment. A discussion on the amendment. Chair Swedzinski, is that yours?

Bills: HF2048, HF2360, HF2006, HF950, HF912, HF3140, HF2931

Keywords: individual income tax, retirement contributions, tax corrections, annuity contracts, tax year attribution, tax credit, economic development, community investment, data disclosure, Minnesota regulations, tax increment financing, municipal authority, job creation, transferred increment, public hearing, nonresident employees, income tax exemption, Minnesota taxation, employment duties, tax withholding

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• >> Uh, have they been amended? Has the date been amended, Chair?
• So we will amend that for the record.
• amendment. Any questions for members? amendment. Any questions for members?
• having on our school district budgets. having on our school district budgets.
• Katina Taylor: Yes. school district budgets need to school district budgets need to understand<00:35:

Bills: HF238, HF3381, HF3754, HF1049

Keywords: microenterprise home kitchen operation, cottage food, home-based food business, home kitchen license, homemade food, prepared food, food entrepreneur, small food business, cottage food law, food safety training, ServSafe, food handler license, agriculture department, Minnesota food law, residential kitchen, local zoning, consumer labeling, allergen labeling, unpasteurized juice, time/temperature control for safety food

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• Representative Allen, uh, we do have a technical amendment.
• Burus, if you'd like, or you explain the amendment. I will move for you.
• Or did we adopt the amendment? Representative Tab Key, thank you. Thank you, Mr.
• Yes. oral Amendment to the bill oral Amendment to the bill representative<00:10:37.720> Allen<
• we don't need to adopt the amendment we don't need to adopt the amendment okay<00:10:46.720>

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• Because it's not affecting our budget, right?
• Because it's not affecting our budget, right?
• Because it's not affecting our budget, right?
• Because it's not affecting our budget, right?
• amendment to repeal it it's an amendment amendment to repeal it it's an amendment to<01:06:11.400

Keywords: 928, house, all

Summary: The committee first discussed a proposed increase to the annual elevator certificate fee in the Department of Labor. The commissioner said the fee had been $50 for years and generated just under $300,000 annually, while the Inspection Division’s broader revenue far exceeded its expenses. Members noted the fee only covered the certificate, not the inspection itself, which is billed separately at $100 per hour. After comparing the fee to neighboring states and discussing the department’s revenue and staffing, the committee agreed to rewrite the language to set the fee at $75 and to vote on an amendment later. The committee then took up Section 139, which would expand the list of labor-law violations that can be penalized without first issuing a warning. The Department explained the change was meant to align House Bill 157 with other chapters, including youth employment and workers’ compensation provisions, where immediate civil penalties are already allowed. The section was accepted unanimously. A longer discussion followed on the Second Injury Fund. The commissioner explained that the fund reimburses insurers for certain workers’ compensation costs tied to claims involving pre-existing conditions, is financed by assessments on insurers, and requires notice within 100 weeks of injury plus a $10,000 deductible before reimbursement. He said the fund currently holds roughly $16 million to $22 million, one full-time employee administers it, and total staff involvement is about five to six people. Members questioned whether the fund should be sunset, but the department said the current House Bill 2 language does not propose a sunset; instead, it addresses increased hearing and litigation burdens after a recent Supreme Court decision. Sections 140 and 141, dealing with hearings, were then accepted unanimously. The committee also briefly discussed fines for late insurance coverage reporting, with the department noting the current rubric allows up to $50 per day but uses $112 per day, and members suggesting a lower amount.

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• The amendments adopted. All right, Mr. The amendments adopted. All right, Mr.
• <00:05:22.639> one Um, I I realize uh that amendment one Um, I I realize uh that amendment
• being very supportive of amendment one. being very supportive of amendment one.
• And Uh we've had county's budget.
• But um the you budgets and finance.

Bills: HF3540, HF3522, HF3544

Keywords: veterans rights, employment discrimination, human rights, Minnesota laws, protected classes, veterans, Minnesota Department of Veterans Affairs, veterans affairs, Secret War in Laos, SGU veteran, Hmong veterans, Laotian veterans, honor guard, military funeral honors, state veterans cemetery, burial eligibility, veterans home, temporary closure, state active service, National Guard

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• Amendment, Mr. Chairman. >> All right. Amendment, Mr. Chairman.
• move your amendment? move your amendment?
• you have an amendment. you have an amendment.
• know, a subsequent amendment. know, a subsequent amendment.
• So, all in favor of amendment<00:39:48.000> 3066s, amendment 3066s, amendment 3066s, please<00

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• And at that deliberative session, two amendments were made to raise the budget, and they were both successful
• out of their budget. out of their budget.
• The school budget is a line item in our municipal budget.
• Uh the school budget is a line budget.
• Vote is OTPA to pass as amended on House Bill 1624, amended by amendment number 2026-04 82H.

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• Democrats also offered an amendment Democrats also offered an amendment after<02:27:58.880> amending
• the record the text of this amendment. the record the text of this amendment.
• Somebody had an amendment.
• the 19th Amendment.
• That amendment was rejected. That amendment was rejected.

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Thursday, May 21, 2026, 1012, house, all

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• . amendment. amendment.
• amendment? amendment?
• . amendment. amendment.
• . amendment. amendment.
• amended pass final reading. amended pass final reading.

Keywords: 910, house, all

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• Chair and Co-Chair Igo, would you like to also move the DE to amend? Chair, we did not amend it.
• I wanted to talk about two amendments.
• I want to move the A1 amendment, which is a technical amendment that the nonpartisan staff suggested
• Next, I will move the A4 amendment.
• The amendment is adopted. All right, I think that is the full list for amendments to the DE 2.

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• all the good work in our budget all the good work in our budget budgeting<00:38:10.480> process
• for passage of Senate Bill 9 as amended for passage of Senate Bill 9 as amended by<00:41:25.840>
• No other bills, resolutions, or floor amendments to report?
• No other bills, resolutions, or floor amendments to report?
• floor amendments to report? floor amendments to report?

Keywords: 958, all

Summary: The Senate convened with prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance, established a quorum, approved the prior journal, and received committee and House messages. The Families and Children’s Committee reported Senate Bill 191 favorably, and the House transmitted several passed bills requesting concurrence. New filings included Senate Bill 203 on community health workers and several resolutions honoring individuals and observances, including Marie Childers, Military Kids Day, and Reverend Jesse Jackson Sr. The chamber then considered and passed Senate Bill 141 on legal advertisements. The sponsor said the bill updates longstanding legal notice requirements to better balance public transparency with lower costs for cities and counties, reflecting an agreement among the Kentucky Press Association, Kentucky League of Cities, and Kentucky Association of Counties. The bill passed 36-1. The Senate also passed Senate Bill 69, creating an autism spectrum disorder trust fund to support services, research, and grants through the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, with an emergency clause; it passed 37-0. Senate Bill 9, as amended by Senate Committee Substitute 1, was also passed 35-2. The bill creates two local housing tools: a residential infrastructure development district to finance infrastructure for larger developments, and a housing development district to encourage new housing through negotiated incentive payments and expedited review. The sponsor said the measure is intended to address Kentucky’s housing shortage. The Senate also adopted Senate Resolution 102 honoring Marie Childers for decades of service on the Pike County Board of Elections, with remarks praising her bipartisan election work and influence in Pike County politics. Later, the Rules Committee recommitted Senate Bill 125 to Appropriations and Revenue, and the Committee on Committees referred several bills and resolutions to standing committees or to the floor. Announcements were made about upcoming committee meetings, and the Senate took up Senate Resolution 104 honoring Reverend Jesse Jackson Sr., with remarks describing his national and international civil rights legacy.

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• The motion is do pass as amended. The motion is do pass as amended.
• Small LEAs are exempt from the budget reserve cap.
• AB 642 due pass is amended to Appropriations. AB 927 due pass is amended to Appropriations.
• right I would work with amendments if that was I would work with the committee on any additional amendments
• Yeah, thank you to our budget subcommittee chair.

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• copy of that budget, but also post it online.
• Best practice is that the governmental body is discussing the budget all year.
• The board might change that proposed budget just like with LBB staff.
• Y'all don't ever just take the budget that's proposed by LBB staff, right?
• But I'd be happy to come talk further or bring you amendments if you're open to them.

Bills: HB431, HB1522, HB1922, HB2467, HB2468, HB3228, HB3229, HB3306, HB3803, HB3804, HB3805, HB3806, HB4219, HB4238, HB4344, HB4386, HB4739

Keywords: HB 431, Texas Property Code, Property Code Chapter 202, solar roof tiles, solar shingles, solar energy device, homeowners association, HOA, property owners' association, POA, renewable energy, residential solar, distributed solar, roof-mounted solar, homeowner rights, architectural control, open meetings, public notice, transparency, government efficiency

Summary: The committee first took up pending business and favorably reported several House bills without opposition, including HB 11, HB 132, HB 1041, HB 1606, HB 2286, and HB 5061. Each was moved out of committee with a recommendation that it do pass and be printed, and several were also recommended for the local and uncontested calendar. The committee then heard HB 3306, which would extend existing construction-contract indemnity exceptions to electric infrastructure construction, maintenance, and vegetation management work for electric utilities and transmission and distribution utilities. The sponsor said the bill would reduce litigation and insurance costs for ratepayers, while construction industry witnesses argued it would shift liability onto subcontractors and create broad-form indemnity in a way Texas law has generally prohibited since 2011. HB 3306 was left pending. The committee also heard HB 4739, a Comptroller-requested cleanup bill to repeal an outdated Finance Code provision requiring remittance of a portion of certain delinquency charges to the state, and HB 3803, HB 3804, and HB 3806, all Department of Banking-requested cleanup bills dealing with confidentiality and supervision rules for perpetual care funds, state banks, and trust companies. Those bills were briefly explained and left pending without testimony. HB 4219, aimed at improving Public Information Act compliance by requiring timely notice when records do not exist or are being withheld, allowing complaints to the Attorney General, and imposing training and fee consequences for noncompliance, drew support from a journalist and a policy analyst and was also left pending. The committee then heard HB 4238 on coerced debt and identity theft. The sponsor explained that the committee substitute narrows the bill to court-ordered findings of identity theft/coerced debt, gives collectors seven business days to stop collection activity, and removes a section to avoid litigation over court orders. A law professor and a family violence advocate testified in strong support, describing coerced debt as a barrier for domestic violence and elder abuse survivors trying to rebuild credit and access housing, jobs, and utilities. The bill was left pending. HB 1522, which would require local governments to post meeting notices three business days in advance and make budget materials more accessible online and in physical form, also drew support, though a school business officials representative raised concerns about the timing language, proposed-budget wording, and taxpayer impact statements for school districts; the bill was left pending after discussion. Later, the committee heard additional pending bills, including a PUC background-check bill that would expand the commission’s authority to check current employees and contractors and obtain FBI criminal history information, HB 3805 updating money services business regulation, HB 431 extending HOA solar-panel protections to solar tiles, and HB 3228 and HB 3229 on wind and solar recycling financial assurance and recycler solvency. HB 3228 received support from a Sierra Club witness who said recycling and disposal plans are needed for end-of-life renewable energy equipment, and HB 3229 was described as requiring recyclers to show financial resources at 125 percent through a letter of credit or bond. These bills were heard and left pending.

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• Madam Chair, members, House Bill 2554, Biennial Budget, adjusts the budget to be created every two fiscal
• As amended in committee, the bill also now requires ADOA to submit a report.
• As amended in committee, the bill also now requires ADOA to submit a report that identifies each budget
• So just—is that kind of like a biennial budget too? Just a thought.
• HB 2415, Kratom products, narcotic drugs, as amended.

Keywords: 1182, all

Summary: The committee worked through a very long minority caucus calendar covering a wide range of bills, with many items being described and then either left on consent, pulled from consent, or noted for votes. Topics included bullion and state depository proposals, a produce incentive appropriation, a biennial budget change, veterans services funding, driver licensing and traffic enforcement measures, procurement and public records changes, school board and school facilities rules, SNAP work requirements and verification, child welfare and juvenile justice provisions, housing and homelessness measures, energy and fuel policy, election administration, and several tax, commerce, and licensing bills. Members repeatedly raised concerns about constitutionality, federal preemption, duplication of existing law, and whether some measures were policy priorities that had been vetoed in prior sessions and were returning unchanged. Several bills drew extended debate. Members objected to English-proficiency requirements for commercial drivers and motor carriers, arguing federal law and the supremacy clause would bar them. Earned wage access regulation prompted strong opposition over consumer harm, overdraft cycles, and high effective APRs. School-related bills were criticized for overregulating public schools while not imposing similar requirements on ESA/private-school programs, especially on fingerprint clearance and reporting. SNAP-related bills were also opposed as setting unrealistic mandates and repeating vetoed proposals. Other contested measures included a drag-show criminalization bill, a bill restricting photo enforcement, a bill limiting local regulation of unmanned aircraft, and a bill conforming Arizona tax law to federal changes, which members said would benefit wealthy taxpayers and corporations without a clear funding source. The committee also heard a number of supportive or less controversial measures, including bills on veterans awareness, dementia care telemonitoring, Braille transcription funding, CPA licensure pathways, cash acceptance by retailers, and some child safety and court administration changes. Several bills were pulled from consent for further discussion, while others were noted as having unanimous or near-unanimous votes. The meeting ended with caucus announcements, including an affordability award presentation, an upcoming Latino Caucus discussion on community land trusts, and an invitation to African American Legislative Day activities, followed by adjournment.

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• I would say that the majority of their budget comes from the system benefit charge.
• We estimate that there would be no impact on the state financial plan as NYSERDA is spent on the budget
• No, I understand that it's off budget, but I don't think that means we should have a lack of concern
• being kind of, quote, off-book, saying that the resources for NYSERDA don't come from our yearly budget
• I know we've done a pilot, essentially a $2 million item through the previous year's executive budget

Keywords: 993, senate, all

Summary: The Senate Energy and Telecommunications Committee, chaired by Senator Kevin Parker, met to consider a series of energy, utility, housing, and labor-related bills. The committee discussed Senator Parker’s clean hydrogen bill authorizing NYSERDA to administer programs to fund clean hydrogen projects, with members debating how it would be financed through NYSERDA’s system benefit charge and RGGI funds and whether there should be a fiscal estimate. Despite concerns from some members about cost transparency and the use of ratepayer-supported funds, the bill advanced to the Finance Committee with three without-recommendation votes. The committee also advanced Senator Parker’s bill directing NYSERDA to study hydrogen feasibility, Senator Gonzalez’s Green Affordable Pre-Electrification Program bill, Senator Hinchey’s natural carbon sequestration research program bill, Senator Gineris’s bill increasing penalties for utility annual report failures, Senator Comrie’s EV charging fee transparency bill, and Senator Parker’s battery energy storage workforce and labor standards bill. Senator Comrie’s outage hotline bill moved to third reading, while Senator Parker’s renewable hydrogen center program bill advanced despite a technical objection that a deadline in the bill had already passed, and the battery storage bill was referred to the Labor Committee. Several bills drew specific concerns. On the outage hotline bill, members questioned whether small municipal electric and water systems should be exempted rather than required to petition for an exemption, and one member said they would not support the bill without a carve-out. On the annual report penalty bill, members asked about the lack of documentation for the penalty increase and whether municipal utilities would be affected; the sponsor explained the penalty was updated from a 1900-era statute to reflect inflation and that municipal utilities file with the PSC. On the EV charging transparency bill, a member suggested the bill should also require credit card payment options, not just prohibit mobile-device-only payment. On the battery storage labor bill, members asked whether remote operations would count as on-site work and whether out-of-state remote monitoring would be covered; the sponsor said that was the intent and would follow up with labor counsel on residency questions. The committee concluded by adjourning after moving the listed bills forward.

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• > in the tax expenditure budget because in the tax expenditure budget because there's<00:16:15.920>
• expenditure budget expenditure budget but<00:27:29.360> the<00:27:29.720> but<00:27
• a new biennial budget.
• a new biennial budget.
• I'm a lead budget analyst with the Legislative Budget Office.

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• to pass as amended. to pass as amended.
• questions on the amendment? questions on the amendment?
• amended by amendment 0360H. amended by amendment 0360H.
• the amendment. the amendment.
• amendment? amendment? >> Thank<03:30:52.080> you.

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• amendment.
• to the amendment? to the amendment?
• I'd like to offer the A22 amendment. Senator Dornink introduced the A22 amendment.
• The amendment is adopted. The amendment is adopted. Discussion.
• Senator McEwen motions the A3 amendment, which is an author's amendment.

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• So with that, Madam Chair, I'll move the A1 amendment as author's amendment.
• The A1 amendment is adopted.
• Madam chair I'll move the A1 Amendment Madam chair I'll move the A1 Amendment as<00:02:26.720>
• an author's Amendment Amendment as an author's Amendment members<00:02:32.879> all<00:02:33.120
• That's a different discussion: is that in our budget, or is that an education budget?

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