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• How about bonding?
• Is it possible those tech upgrades would be included in a bonding bill?
• Uh, right now, I don't think they would fit in a bonding bill.
• Is it possible those tech upgrades would be included in a bonding bill?
• Uh, right now, I don't think they would fit in a bonding bill.

Keywords: 918, senate, all

Summary: A Senate DFL leader discussed the upcoming supplemental budget and said nearly half of it is being shaped by the federal budget bill passed last July, which he argued is driving hospital distress, higher county costs, and pressure on family budgets. He said the budget will focus on affordability, health care, and responding to federal actions, including an uncompensated care fund for hospitals in distress and possible one-time county technology upgrades to handle new Medicaid-related requirements. He estimated Senator Wiklund’s health and human services proposal includes about $50 million for those upgrades and said that item would likely be handled in an appropriation bill rather than a bonding bill. The leader also said bonding is a top priority this year and that public asset maintenance remains important, including projects tied to sports and civic facilities. On HCMC and broader hospital funding, he said he is confident the Legislature will act, but wants to address the hospital within the context of the statewide hospital delivery system. He also said the Senate has not yet taken a position on a proposed tax related to fraud restitution, but emphasized support for fraud prevention, an independent inspector general, and more resources for the Attorney General. School safety was another major topic. He said Senate Democrats plan to bring a comprehensive package to the floor that includes school safety funding, mental health care, and measures addressing weapons of war, and he expressed hope that some Republicans will support it. He said the Senate education finance bill already includes more school safety funding than the House GOP version, less funding for private school safety, and no weapons-of-war language, but that a broader package will come through the Finance Committee soon. He also said the Senate expects to take up a stand-alone building security package to cover ongoing screening and staffing costs, and he supported creating a special security response unit for threats against lawmakers. Other issues mentioned included support for banning NDAs for local governments, continued attention to public safety and accountability in response to federal immigration enforcement actions, and interest in a bill affecting Minneapolis sports-related taxes and PGA funding, though he said those proposals are still being worked on and may not pass this year.

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• capacity available for Samaritan's Texas bonds to be authorized.
• Chair, currently the Division allocates 9% of the estimated bonding capacity each year for water projects
• 160 million which the Legislature will authorize the State Board of Finance to issue severance tax bonds
• Chair, in that same process, House Bill 21 has the Division allocating 1.1% of the bonding capacity for
• the Land Grant Infrastructure Fund, approximately 20 million, and 1.1% of the bonding capacity for the

Keywords: 996, all

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• So in the November forecast, we assumed a bonding bill of $790 million.
• I think that's why the bond firms all gave us AAA ratings.
• budget money in the bank all the bond budget money in the bank all the bond houses<01:03:04.160>
• responsible I think that's why the bond responsible I think that's why the bond firms<01:05:05.680
• You know, you look at the numbers for bonding, and a lot of our small communities really need some bonding

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• An act to amend the Local Finance Law in relation to bonds and notes of the city of Yonkers.
• Chairman, I know this is the 20th year of giving this special bonding authority to the city of Yonkers
• This is the 20th year of giving this special bonding authority to the city.
• I've even had cities that I represent run into a need to access special bonding authority because of
• An act to amend the Local Finance Law in relation to facilitating the marking of any issue of zero bonds

Keywords: 993, senate, all

Summary: The Senate Committee on Cities 2 met for its first and last meeting of the 2026 session, with Chair Senator Ryan presiding and members Walczyk, Fahey, and Baskin present. The committee took up three bills. The first, S.8283-A, would require additional notice before a city discontinues drinking water fluoridation; it was moved, seconded, and approved unanimously. The second, S.8859, would extend by one year special bonding authority for the city of Yonkers. Senator Walczyk voiced concern about the repeated annual extensions and said he would vote no, arguing municipalities should address their finances without continued state assistance. The bill was then approved, with Walczyk recorded in opposition. The third bill, S.9839, would extend by one year provisions related to the city of Buffalo’s issuance of certain bonds or notes. It was moved and seconded, and approved, with Senator Walczyk again noting his earlier concerns. After the three bills were reported, the committee adjourned.

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• If you present value that for 6% over 30 years, like a bond, it is $20,000.
• If you present value that for 6% over 30 years, like a bond, it is $20,000. Okay, well, the D.R.
• their share of that bond for 30 years.
• development, we're going to issue a bond development, we're going to issue a bond for<00:26:36.000
• The next sale, the bond would have to be satisfied, right? >> And ad valorem has preference.

Keywords: 1136, house, all

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• Some are called GO bonds, or general obligation bonds.
• By contrast, a really useful type of bond, especially for smaller projects, is called a revenue bond.
• > bonds.
• <02:08:59.480> That's or general obligation bonds. That's or general obligation bonds.
• <02:09:47.760> bonds obligation bonds, these revenue bonds obligation bonds, these revenue

Keywords: 926, house, all

Summary: The House resumed consideration of H.606 on firearm procedures and first took up Section 3 and its effective dates. A member from Northfield spoke at length in support, arguing the provision is narrowly tailored, based on actual dangerousness rather than mental illness alone, and is more limited than federal law because it applies only to specific court findings and is temporary, with rights restorable upon recovery. The House then approved Section 3 and its effective dates, approved the remainder of the Judiciary Committee report, and ordered third reading. The chamber then moved through third readings and passed H.385 on remedies and protections for victims of coerced debt, H.556 on exceptions to the state minimum wage, H.559 on the parole board, H.723 on posting of land, and H.757 on manufactured homes and limited equity cooperatives. On H.814, relating to neurological rights and AI in health and human services, the House adopted an amendment offered by the member from Burlington that required the advisory council to include proposed definitions for neurotechnology, artificial intelligence, and related terms in its report; the House Health Care Committee reported the amendment favorable 11-0-0, and the bill then passed. H.816, regulating the use of artificial intelligence in the provision of mental health services, also passed, as did H.927, technical corrections for the 2026 session. The House then took up H.930 on chronic absenteeism. The committee member from Manchester described the bill as an AOE proposal responding to high post-pandemic absenteeism rates and their impact on learning, and outlined provisions adding definitions, updating compulsory attendance language, requiring a state model policy, strengthening notification and truancy procedures, and preserving existing penalties. The member said the Education Committee heard from a wide range of education and child welfare witnesses and passed the bill 11-0. After a brief clarification on the absences section, the House proceeded toward third reading of H.930.

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• million and we are seeking state bonding million and we are seeking state bonding assistance<00:
• Current needs, as estimated by MnDOT's Office of Transit, is $10 million in general obligation bonds
• Many of those are not bond eligible, but demonstrate the scale of need.
• Two bond-eligible projects are Hubbard County and Watonwan, totaling about $5.6 million.
• for greater Minnesota provide bonding for greater Minnesota Transit.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• Coverage for local bonding, and the debt service on that local bonding, is covered by supplemental funds
• nutshell, that is really the major things that it does and also extends the date for which school bond
• But if they've done this and other schools have bonded for millions, two, three, four, five million to
• And they're paying through it through their budget, paying back their bond.
• The way it's currently constructed is any bonds that have been taken out by voters prior to July 1st,

Keywords: 926, house, all

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• And then you got the grants and bond payments.
• And then a senior bond accountant that's in this, too, that adds into the FTEs.
• specialist because they have one bond specialist.
• That's why the Senate actually put the bond specialist in, but we decided that that made sense.
• And so that makes up the $117 million for bond payments.

Keywords: 908, all

Summary: The committee heard House Bill 2014, the budget for the Industrial Commission, with Representative Kempenich walking through the agency’s major components: the administrative office, Bank of North Dakota, housing finance, Department of Mineral Resources, and the State Mill and Elevator. He described mostly special-fund operations, including bond payments, economic development programs, the rail loan program, the Rebuilder’s Loan Program, housing incentive funding, abandoned well reclamation work, lignite research, litigation reserves, and a capacity purchase arrangement for a future natural gas pipeline. He also explained several one-time funding items, such as grid resiliency grants, housing-related transfers from the Strategic Investment Fund, and enhanced oil recovery funding repurposed from a prior salt cavern study. Members asked about the reduction in housing incentive funding from the Senate version, the use of one-time Strategic Investment Fund dollars for ongoing housing programs, and whether a trigger should be added to increase housing funding later. Kempenich said no trigger was discussed and emphasized that housing needs vary widely across the state. Another exchange focused on the enhanced oil recovery grant program, which he said would be driven largely by the Energy and Environmental Research Center and would use repurposed funds. A longer discussion covered the natural gas pipeline capacity purchase, including its purpose, possible routes, and the idea that the state would be buying capacity rather than immediately building a pipeline. The committee adopted Amendment 25.0181.0207 on a 21-1 vote, with one member absent and not voting. The committee then passed HB 2014 as amended on a 21-1 vote, with one member absent and not voting. Representative Kempenich was designated to carry the bill. The chair then noted this was the final budget hearing for the committee, with one bill remaining to be heard later.

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• Senate Bill 25 is very simple: it changes a section of KRS that's labeled revenue bonds for city and
• Senate Bill 25 is very simple: it changes a section of KRS that's labeled revenue bonds for city and
• Senate Bill 25 is very simple: it changes a section of KRS that's labeled revenue bonds for city and
• Senate Bill 25 is very simple: it changes a section of KRS that's labeled revenue bonds for city and
• Senate Bill 25 changes a section of KRS that's labeled revenue bonds for city and county projects, and

Keywords: Meeting Start 00:05 Roll Call 00:13 HB 7 Passover discussion 02:45 HB 490 Passover 03:22 HB 744 Discussion 04:08 HB 744 Vote 08:25 SB 10 Discussion 10:25 SB 10 Vote 12:03 SB 25 Discussion 14:30 SB 25 Vote 16:54 Adjournment 19:47, 958, all

Summary: The House Standing Committee on Local Government met with a quorum present and began with roll call and a brief introduction of a page, William Huffman, a fifth grader from Lexington. The chair announced that House Bill 7 and House Bill 490 would not be considered that day, with HB 7 described by its sponsor as a housing-related proof-of-concept measure that needed more interim study before returning next session. The committee then heard House Bill 744, sponsored by Representative Richard White, with testimony from Brown County officials. The bill would allow counties to pay routine vendors electronically under a standing order, while still requiring appropriate signatures, to address delayed mail delivery, lost checks, and check-washing concerns. The committee substitute and title amendment were both adopted, and the bill received favorable expression to pass the House floor by roll call vote. Senate Bill 10 was presented by Senator Robbie Mills with support from representatives of the sheriff, firefighters, police chiefs, and cities organizations. The bill would enhance retiree health benefits for CERS career retirees by better aligning the subsidy with under-65 health costs. Members voiced support, including one member explaining a yes vote based on the bill’s benefit to retirees, and the committee voted favorably with a title amendment adopted. Senate Bill 25 was then heard from Senator Mills as part of broader housing legislation; it would expand the use of industrial revenue bonds for large multifamily housing projects of at least 48 units to help address Kentucky’s housing shortage. The committee approved the bill with favorable expression, and at the end members who had arrived late recorded attendance and votes before the meeting adjourned.

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• The Budget Act of 2024 included trailer bill language to establish a new lease-revenue bond program to
• maintain funding for 13 affordable student housing projects. lease revenue bond program to maintain
• If resources become available under the statewide lease-revenue bond process that has been approved,
• I believe they have a multi-billion-dollar bond that was recently approved.
• Santa Rosa Junior College, in particular, had originally started through a revenue bond at CSFA.

Summary: The Assembly Budget Subcommittee on Education Finance held a hearing focused on California Community College budget proposals. Chair Alvarez opened by emphasizing the system’s role in access, transfer, workforce training, and serving more than 2 million students, while also noting persistent challenges in enrollment, persistence, transfer, and graduation. Public commenters and system representatives broadly supported COLA, enrollment growth funding, deferred maintenance, student support block grants, and additional flexibility for districts facing uncertainty. The first major panel covered the student-centered funding formula, COLA, and enrollment growth. The Department of Finance said the Governor proposes a 2.43% COLA ($230.4 million) and 0.5% enrollment growth funding ($30.4 million). The LAO said the COLA was reasonable and recommended funding at least the proposed growth amount, citing uneven enrollment recovery and regional differences. The Chancellor’s Office supported both proposals and asked for additional changes, including using the greater of current-year or three-year average for apportionments and lifting the 10% local enrollment cap, arguing these would better fund growing districts. Members questioned how the formula works, whether SCFF is improving outcomes, and how much additional funding would be needed under different growth scenarios. The committee then reviewed categorical program COLAs, Rising Scholars, career education proposals, IT proposals, and student housing. The Governor proposed a 2.43% COLA for selected categorical programs ($31.9 million). For Rising Scholars, the Governor proposed $30 million ongoing and removal of the cap on participating colleges; the LAO urged waiting for outcome data before doubling funding, while the Chancellor’s Office said the program is serving more students and supports equity for justice-impacted students. On career education, the Governor proposed $50 million for credit for prior learning and $50 million for a career passport; the LAO supported more reporting on credit for prior learning but recommended rejecting the career passport as too undefined, while the Chancellor’s Office supported both. On technology, the Governor proposed $162.5 million for a common cloud data platform and $168 million for a common ERP system; the LAO said both were premature or lacked sufficient planning and recommended rejection, while the Chancellor’s Office argued they would improve real-time data, security, and systemwide efficiency. The committee also heard an update on student housing: the administration said the 2024 shift to a lease-revenue bond model remains in progress for 13 approved projects, with 11 still active, and members asked about withdrawn projects and possible use of any returned funds. No votes were taken, and several items were held open for further discussion and May Revision updates.

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• allow local units of government to bond allow local units of government to bond for<00:01:20.000
• <00:02:01.840> and will unlock access to bonding and will unlock access to bonding and empower
• :54.160> be<00:02:54.239> a General obligation bonding would be a General obligation bonding
• bond for these<00:15:20.320> projects.
• protections that they are able to bond protections that they are able to bond for<00:18:40.960><

Bills: HF4348, HF4186, HF4202, HF4455, HF3884, HF3883, HF3882, HF3881, HF2688, HF3295, HF3862, HF3362, HF4242, HF3798

Keywords: HF4186, Minnesota local government finance, housing and redevelopment authority, HRA, public investment authority, qualifying government, State Board of Investment, SBI, index mutual fund, multifamily housing development, long-term equity investment, investment-grade fixed income, federally insured securities, government-sponsored entities, municipal investing, local government investments, housing finance, public funds, investment policy, risk of loss

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• structured as serial bonds structured as serial bonds with<00:05:14.320> principal<00:05:
• , bonds, bonds, which<00:05:23.880> in<00:05:23.960> many<00:05:24.240> cases<00
• /c> for a bonding hearing for a bonding hearing for<00:41:39.600> my<00:41:39.760> re-election
• I think everybody's in bonding I think.
• Does Igoe second bonding? Does Igoe second bonding?

Bills: HF495, HF4321, HF3902, HF4161, HF3755

Keywords: day care, tax subtraction, child care costs, licensed child care, dependent care assistance, HF4321, dependent care assistance programs, gross income exclusion, federal conformity, Internal Revenue Code, individual income tax, Minnesota tax law, tax conformity, child care assistance, employer-provided dependent care, taxable income, state income tax, retroactive tax change, family care benefits, housing tax credit

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• That's kind of back in the day when we used to bond ECO.
• So we had the capacity from the Division of Bond Finance and the...
• So we had the capacity from the Division of Bond Finance and the blessing of the state to bond PICO dollars
• That's kind of back in the day when we used to bond eco.
• of bond finance and the blessing of the state to bond PICO dollars.

Summary: The Higher Education Budget Subcommittee met to hear an overview of State University System finances from the Board of Governors and detailed budget presentations from Florida State University, the University of Central Florida, and the University of North Florida. The witnesses explained how university budgets are organized into fund categories such as education and general, contracts and grants, auxiliaries, local/designated funds, capital projects, and component units such as direct support organizations. They also described carry forward funds, the statutory reserve and spending-plan requirements, the PICO/HECO capital outlay process, and how universities use investment accounts, audits, and board oversight to manage restricted and unspent funds. The universities emphasized that most operating dollars are restricted to specific uses and that state support helps keep tuition low. Members asked about differences in funding levels among institutions, especially why FSU receives more funding than UCF despite lower enrollment. Officials said preeminence funding, performance funding, and special legislative appropriations explain much of the difference, and the Board of Governors noted that Florida now has four preeminent universities, with UCF nearing that status. Questions also focused on what happens to unspent carry forward money, how it is invested, and whether the Board of Governors or Legislature can require funds to be returned; officials said the money is invested conservatively, subject to board and audit oversight, and can roll forward under a detailed spending plan, though the Legislature can change funding levels. The committee also discussed capital projects, with members asking about delays, inflation, and whether more projects should be phased or funded faster; witnesses said PICO funds remain with the state until needed and are reimbursed as construction proceeds. A substantial portion of the discussion covered athletics, research, student fees, and endowments. The universities said athletics is generally expected to be self-supporting, though limited use of auxiliary or carry forward funds may be allowed for projects benefiting the broader student body. They also described the financial pressures from name, image, and likeness changes and new NCAA-related costs, and said institutions are planning for those changes now. On research, the universities explained sponsored research funding, indirect cost recovery, compliance obligations, and tech transfer, but did not provide specific commercialization revenue figures and said they would follow up. Members also asked about student fee increases, student input, counseling and wellness funding, and how housing costs affect affordability; the universities said student committees and boards review fees, and aid packaging is intended to keep student debt low. Endowments were described as being held in separate foundations/DSOs with independent investment committees and used mainly for scholarships, faculty support, and research.

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• So, we're just doing the surety bond. Will there be questions on the amendment?
• So, right now, all the gas companies have to pay surety bonds to the Corporation Commission.
• paying surety bonds to the Department of Wildlife.
• Yes, that's the wildlife rules that they put in, charging oil and gas surety bonds. Allow up.
• That pertains to these bonds that you're talking about.

Bills: HB1937, HB2153, HB3674, HB2978, HB3885, HB3671, HB3261, HB3021, HB3029, HB4274, HB3701, HB3076, HB2299, HB3852, HB3244, HB3345, HB3114, HB3764, HB4144, HB3304, HB2939, HB4227, HB3262, HB2941, HB3498, HB4343, HB4425, HB3386, HB3087, HB3062, HB3431, HB4141, HB3581, HB4237, HB2960, HB3645, HB3648, HB3974, HB3045, SCR18, HCR1024, SJR39, SJR49, HB4486, SB1130, SB1131, SB1132, SB1133, SB1134, SB1142, HB1823, HB4476, HB3378, HB3880, HB3031, HB3369, HB3429, HB3657, HB4215, HB3624, HB1170

Keywords: HB1937, Oklahoma schools, student communications, electronic communication, digital communication, parent notification, legal guardian, school personnel, teachers, coaches, administrators, charter schools, public schools, administrative leave, corroborated report, investigation, employee file, discipline, termination, school board

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• somebody doesn't pay their debt service and we are on the hook and potentially damage the state's bond
• I guess what the state's bond rating.
• One of the things that BFA does is we are the state's issuer of what is known as our conduit bonds.
• So, um when the state our conduit bonds.
• They're known as tax-free bonds. They pay a lower interest rate, but you don't pay taxes on them.

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

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• for bond tax issues. One publication. for bond tax issues. One publication.
• bond election. bond election.
• guidance for any of that bond or tax guidance for any of that bond or tax question. question. question
• <02:24:59.840> election using the bond election using the bond election act.
• the election dates relative to bond the election dates relative to bond statutes,<02:26:55.680><

Bills: HB0068, HB0062, HB0127, HB0109

Keywords: veterans, property tax exemption, disabled, service-connected disability, Wyoming, governmental claims, liability limits, inflation adjustment, public safety, local government insurance, HB0127, recreation mill levy, recreational facilities, public recreation, mill levy, property tax, local tax, county commissioners, school district levy, voter approval

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• On Bond, and that's when I really got to know you even better.
• Just a couple of examples of your reach on bond: the Bush School.
• Just a couple of examples of your reach on bond. The Bush School.
• So on bond, that has been, I think, the best job here at Leg Hall, but being chair of bond.
• Copies of the bond bill. We do have a gift on your desk. It's the FY27 bond bill.

Keywords: 1064, all

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• In this particular case, this also includes several of the... severance tax bond projects that you all
• These had become priorities under that bonding authority, including when we expected those projects to
• And so we do use a portion of federal funds to pay back the debt on existing bonds now.
• On that, on 380, I know one of our contractors had an issue with bonding.
• The bonding authority—why don't you just get those to written response?

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• Does the mother get to stay there with the baby so that there is still that bond?
• Madam Chair, Representative Ferrari, there is no limitation on the mother's bonding with that child;
• bonding.
• CYFD does not prohibit bonding; we do bonding even when kids are in custody with CYFD.
• I share the concerns with bonding.