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US

US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session

US House Floor Proceedings (Monday, September 15, 2025)

US Federal House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • The clerk will report the bill.
  • <05:45:49.280> supply of an accessible and efficient supply of an accessible and efficient
  • veterans successfully and efficiently veterans successfully and efficiently moving<05:59:21.120>
  • The clerk will report the title.
  • The clerk will report the title.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Committee on Health and Human Services - 04/07/26

Health and Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • And we also have reporting.
  • So, just to go through the, reporting.
  • Um, it's just making sure that, report.
  • And also, the report would the statute.
  • ,<01:37:11.680> and transparent, efficient, and transparent, efficient, and human-centered
Keywords: 1187, senate, all
FL

Florida 2025 Regular Session

December 2, 2025 - 03:30 PM

Transcript Highlights:
  • knowingly and willfully failed to report.
  • Now, again, though, under the mandatory reporting statute, there is a safe harbor for reporting.
  • In favor of if you report, you won't get in trouble.
  • Other teachers didn't report. The principal didn't report. The district didn't report.
  • , because you have a safe harbor for reporting.
Summary: The Criminal Justice Subcommittee considered four bills and reported all of them favorably. HB 373, by Rep. Duggins, tolls the statute of limitations for the offense of knowingly and willfully failing to report suspected child abuse until law enforcement or another outside agency learns of the violation. Members raised concerns about fairness if the underlying abuse is time-barred while the reporter still faces prosecution, and the sponsor said he would discuss possible changes with his state attorney, but the bill was not amended and passed 13-0. HB 359, by Rep. Anderson, extends the deadline for forensic examination of seized computers and electronic devices from 45 days to 365 days. Supporters from the Florida Prosecutors Association and state attorneys said modern devices are difficult and time-consuming to unlock and analyze, creating repeated requests to extend search deadlines and slowing investigations in cases involving child exploitation, homicide, and other crimes. The bill passed 13-0. HB 703, by Rep. Gentry, preserves a public records exemption for information generated by a state attorney’s conviction integrity unit during reinvestigation of a claim of innocence, with supporters saying disclosure could reveal sensitive information such as alternate suspects, witnesses, or evidence and compromise the review. It passed 12-0. HB 4001, by Rep. Tant, caps inmate health care compensation in Jefferson County at 110% of the Medicare reimbursement rate to encourage preexisting provider contracts and prevent overbilling; it also passed 13-0. The committee then adjourned.
CA
Transcript Highlights:
  • Anyone wishing to speak in support of Senate Bill 288, would you please report to the microphone with
  • We froze positions, reduced spending, and we pursued operational efficiency.
  • We froze positions, reduced spending, and we pursued operational efficiency.
  • After finding ways to find efficiencies, freeze vacant positions, cut from their budgets, but yet they're
  • Currently, the Franchise Tax Board is required to annually report specified data on penalty payments
Summary: The Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee heard several bills, mostly related to Proposition 19, voluntary tax checkoffs, and local tax authority. SB 288 would clarify that the one-year residency and exemption deadline for inherited homes held in probate begins when legal ownership is established; it received support from the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association and others, no opposition, and was referred to suspense. SB 974 would explicitly include special needs trusts in Prop. 19-related inheritance rules; it had support from the Riverside County Board of Supervisors and Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association and passed 5-0 to Appropriations as amended. The committee also heard SB 575, which would restore the Sea Otter Voluntary Contribution Fund for voluntary tax return donations to sea otter conservation. Supporters cited sea otter recovery, research, and habitat protection needs; there was no opposition, and the bill passed 5-0 to Appropriations. SB 999 would delay the Franchise Tax Board’s annual report on the health care individual mandate from March 1 to June 1 to allow more complete data; Health Access California supported it, and it passed 5-1 to Appropriations. SB 762 would authorize certain cities and counties, including Hercules, Santa Cruz, and Santa Barbara, to seek voter approval for local transaction and use taxes to address budget pressures, public safety, infrastructure, and safety-net service cuts. Local officials, labor groups, and health advocates supported it, while the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association opposed it; the committee adopted the urgency clause and then passed the bill to Local Government with urgency, with some no votes. SB 1073 would create a voluntary tax contribution fund to support the Historic South Los Angeles Black Cultural District; arts advocates and community supporters backed it, and the bill passed unanimously to the Arts, Entertainment, Sports, and Tourism Committee as amended.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Ports, Waterways & Intermodal Transit Committee Feb 19th, 2025

Ports, Waterways & Intermodal Transit

Transcript Highlights:
  • Your bill gets a favorable report. Thank you, Representative. Thank you, Mr.
  • Well, there's 694 that currently have licenses, and that's actually under-reported.
  • Now we're on to the favorable report. Do I have a motion? So moved. We have a motion and a second.
  • Chairman, your bill passes with a favorable report. Thank you, members.
  • and capacity of our operations. but we've made a lot of progress and a lot of efficiency improvements
Bills: HB1, HB247, HB1
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

Committee on Finance - 01/29/25

Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • Internal controls help an entity run its operations efficiently and effectively, report reliable information
  • Internal controls help an entity run its operations efficiently and effectively, report reliable information
  • Internal controls help an entity run its operations efficiently and effectively, report reliable information
  • Internal controls help an entity run its operations efficiently and effectively, report reliable information
  • Internal controls help an entity run its operations efficiently and effectively, report reliable information
Keywords: 1187, senate, all
Summary: The Senate Finance Committee met on January 9, 2025, to focus on internal controls, fraud prevention, and legislative oversight of state agencies. Legislative Auditor Judy Randall explained Minnesota’s internal control framework, based on the GAO Green Book, and described five core controls: assigning responsibility, separating duties, restricting access, maintaining policies and procedures, and keeping records. She tied each control to examples from recent audits, including DHS’s Medicaid provider debt recovery, the Minnesota State Academies’ travel reimbursement issue, privileged access at the Minnesota State Lottery, missing mileage-verification procedures at the Board of Firefighter Training and Education, and weak documentation in the Board on Aging’s senior nutrition program. Deputy Legislative Auditor Jod Mson Rodriguez then presented a new follow-up report on implementation of prior recommendations from 2022 through 2024, including special reviews. She said the office gathers agency documentation, evaluates progress, and categorizes recommendations from implemented to not applicable, while noting that some items require more work to verify and that this reflects OLA capacity rather than agency performance. Examples included the Department of Commerce, where some policy changes were verified but further work would be needed to confirm consistent investigator compliance, and the Metropolitan Council, where more data analysis would be needed to determine whether bonus payments were properly earned. She also noted that a legislature-directed recommendation to require grant manager training had not been implemented. Overall, OLA reported that state agencies had implemented or partially implemented close to 70% of its recommendations, while the legislature had implemented or partially implemented about 40% of recommendations from the last three years. Members generally praised the office’s work and discussed how agencies respond after reports are issued. Senator Westrom raised concerns about a recent media report on alleged fraud in CCAP, and Randall said OLA was aware of the issue but could not discuss details. Senator Draheim asked about post-report agency engagement, and Randall and Rodriguez said follow-up varies, with some agencies seeking private meetings and others engaging less, but that the follow-up process often prompts further discussion and improvement.
CA

California 2025-2026 Regular Session

Assembly Floor Session (Part 2 of September 12, 2025 Legislative day)

California House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Members, please report to the floor. Members, please report to the floor and vote.
  • Please report to the floor and vote. All members vote who desire to vote.
  • This bill declares the Kern County second supplemental environmental impact report compliant with CEQA
  • To our press corps, the hardworking reporters who keep Californians informed.
  • To our press corps, the hardworking reporters who keep Californians informed.
Summary: The chamber reconvened after a late-night session and first adopted the consent calendar, including ACR 107 on the Diablo Range, by a 48-0 vote. Members then took up several Senate bills and Assembly measures, with repeated remarks about the long hours and the need to respect staff and keep proceedings moving. A vote change was also announced for Assembly Member Patel on SB 414, changing from aye to not voting. The main policy debate centered on energy, climate, and affordability. SB 237, dealing with oil and gas policy, refinery closures, pipeline safety, Kern County permitting, gasoline blend flexibility, and regional fuel coordination, drew strong support from members who framed it as a managed transition to stabilize fuel supply and protect jobs, and strong opposition from members who called it a giveaway to oil interests and a setback for climate goals. The bill passed 59-0. SB 254, an energy affordability and wildfire package, included wildfire mitigation financing, a successor wildfire fund, transmission cost reductions, clean energy permitting changes, and energization timelines; members raised some concerns about local control, but the bill passed 58-0. SB 840 and AB 1207 advanced the cap-and-invest reauthorization package, with supporters emphasizing emissions reductions, housing, transit, wildfire prevention, and community air programs, while opponents argued it would raise costs and function as a tax-and-spend scheme. SB 840 passed 54-15 and AB 1207 passed 55-10, both with urgency and immediate transmittal. Members also approved SB 352, which makes the Bureau of Environmental Justice permanent and requires air quality monitoring and reporting on AB 617 implementation, by 43-19. AB 825, authorizing California to help establish a Westwide electricity market, was presented as a way to lower bills, improve reliability, and reduce emissions; it passed 67-2 and was sent to the Governor. Additional actions included concurrence in Senate amendments to AB 8 on cannabinoids and AB 383 on firearms cleanup, and the chamber began consideration of AB 764 on wildlife as the transcript ended.
US

US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session

US House Floor Proceedings (Thursday, April 23, 2026)

US Federal House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • . >> The clerk will report the title of the bill. >> The clerk will report the title of the bill.
  • after report after report after report after report after report and Wall Street Journal articles that
  • this works, but instead we have report this works, but instead we have report after<03:32:40.960
  • > report<03:32:41.359> after<03:32:41.680> report<03:32:42.000> after<03:
  • 32:42.399> report after report after report after report after report after report after report
CA
Transcript Highlights:
  • 2023-24 savings of $114 million reported in the Governor's Budget.
  • And is that the report we're going to be sending to CMS, or is it that we haven't completed the report
  • operational improvement and efficiencies.
  • And a lot of the efficiencies that are proposed here... ...this new model of care, and a lot of the efficiencies
  • This is the patient safety reporting systems reappropriation.
Keywords: 987, senate, all
Summary: The subcommittee first heard May Revision items for child support, child care, and related human services. The Department of Child Support Services described two technical adjustments, which the LAO said raised no concerns. The Department of Social Services then walked through child care proposals, including a shift in how federal and Proposition 64 funding reductions would be absorbed, a 2.01% COLA, disaster-related child care infrastructure grants, an increase in in-contract administrative support costs for alternative payment agencies, reversion of prospective-pay implementation funding after a federal rule change, a one-time allocation to cover the first quarter of Cost of Care Plus payments in the next fiscal year, reappropriation for existing infrastructure grant closeout work, and estimates of unspent child care funds. The department also outlined trailer bill language on a single rate structure, site safety and emergency procedures, CalWORKs child care data sharing, and child care oversight. The LAO recommended that the Legislature seek more justification for shifting reductions from General Child Care to the Alternative Payment Program, noting that CAP reductions affect more slots and that General Child Care has had significant unspent funds. It supported removing prospective-pay funding, but recommended rejecting the administrative cost shift to a percentage-based rate because it could create future General Fund pressure. It also suggested the Legislature review alignment between the disaster grants and the child care infrastructure program. Senators and members pressed the administration on why the budget would reduce child care slots and COLA percentages while the state still has waitlists and unspent funds, and questioned the need for early funding of Cost of Care Plus payments and the move from a flat administrative amount to a percentage. Public commenters, including providers, advocates, county offices, and infrastructure partners, urged full COLA funding, preservation of child care slots, support for prospective pay, and continued investment in child care access and facilities. After a short recess, the committee moved to Part B on health and heard the Department of State Hospitals. DSH presented a May Revision budget of $3.2 billion and described proposals for a central utility plant replacement at Metropolitan State Hospital, an electronic health record implementation, reduced county bed billing authority due to phased-in LPS bed capacity, limited contract exemption authority for online clinical subscriptions, reversion of prior-year unspent operating funds, and a workforce development proposal shifting some costs to Behavioral Health Services Act funds, including support for an additional psychiatric training cohort at Napa. The department also outlined IST-related savings and a trailer bill to remove the sunset on the independent placement panel program.
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

Committee on Transportation - 03/26/25

Transportation

Transcript Highlights:
  • Then there's reports that are required from the commissioner to report just details concerning the road
  • that but these cars are all reporting that but these cars are all reporting that<00:14:07.519>
  • Last year, MnDOT released a report on state highway funding, noting that the increasing efficiency of
  • Last year, MnDOT released a report on state highway funding, noting that the increasing efficiency of
  • So I've heard the more efficient.
Keywords: 1187, senate, all
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

Intergovernmental Affairs Mar 18th, 2025

Intergovernmental Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • On page 3, of this report.
  • But now they can apply that to an efficiency.
  • So simply the efficiencies help them to qualify for the exemption of their taxes.
  • The state housing agency's own staff does underwriting reports.
  • Recipients of the $2,400 in aid reported... The two together...
Bills: HB21, HB211, HB223
AR

Arkansas 2026 1st Special Session

JBC-PEER REVIEW Apr 15th, 2026

JBC-PEER REVIEW

Transcript Highlights:
  • This is for analysis and reporting. Number five..."
  • This is for analysis and reporting. Number five. The form is green.
  • This is for analysis and reporting. Number four, Education, Care Solace, Inc.
  • Are all the monthly reports?
  • The report you have is a snapshot as of the end of March, I guess.
Summary: The PEER Review Subcommittee met to consider a large agenda of budget, appropriation, transfer, and contract items. Members approved temporary appropriation requests for several agencies, including the Auditor of State, Department of Education, and Labor and Licensing; ARPA return requests from Workforce Services; Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act requests for State Police and Agriculture; restricted reserve transfers for teacher scholarships, school facilities, and economic stimulus; a Commerce reallocation of positions and spending authority; cash fund, budget classification, overtime, and pay plan requests; and 17 methods of finance items for universities and other agencies. Most items were approved without objection after brief explanations from staff and agencies. Several items drew questions and were held or discussed further. A Department of Human Services discretionary grant package for the RSVP program was held over after Senator Irvin raised concerns about whether the grants were an effective use of state general revenue and asked for more information on administration costs and program operations. In the contracts section, Representative Richardson questioned a DHS sole-source contract with EMS Link for document management software and a DHS contract with Presidio; the EMS Link item was held for additional answers, while the Presidio item was clarified as not sole-source and was allowed to proceed. Members also asked for more information on a Department of Education mental health referral contract with Care Solace, which officials said is a statewide concierge/referral service connecting students to Arkansas providers and telehealth options. The committee also reviewed monthly reports, including the Medicaid Trust Fund. DHS and DFA officials said the fund was currently sufficient to finish the fiscal year, though it was being drawn down and would likely require a $100 million transfer from restricted reserves in FY27, with another $100 million set aside in the governor’s budget as a backstop. Members discussed the need to define a minimum reserve level and to better account for ongoing Medicaid costs in the budget. The meeting ended with no further business and adjournment.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Higher Education Apr 22nd, 2025

Higher Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • Here. here rep Shaheen tender hold rep Lambert reply Lonnie rep Perez report Johnson rep Davis And rep
  • similar institutions to continue supplying the workforce needs of the region. at high levels of efficiency
  • Representative Tenderholt moves that House Bill 184, as substituted, be reported favorably to the full
  • Representative Vandevere moves that House Bill 4701 be reported.
  • By the way, drift is an issue and drift impacts are reported to the Texas Department of Agriculture.
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

Appropriations Feb 19th, 2025

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • The, the, the accounting data that districts report to us on expenditures would show that it's about
  • And so there is a, there's a, in our fiscal transparency reports, we provide this information and, and
  • The amount of uncertified teachers and is that an accurate statement or it's been reported that HISD
  • Um, um, I'm happy to share that teacher vacancy task force report with you in detail.
  • I was just reporting, yeah, I was purporting to you what is in House Bill 1. Yes, ma'am.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Committee on Capital Investment - 04/16/26

Capital Investment

Transcript Highlights:
  • :20:47.440> investment<00:20:47.920> is to report that this investment is to report that
  • Uh it's a classic example of efficient.
  • There's a viewers report that needs to be done.
  • There's a viewers report that needs to be done.
  • There's a viewers report that needs to be done.
Keywords: 1187, senate, all
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Senate and Governmental May 20th, 2026

Transcript Highlights:
  • More and more court reporters are retiring, and we have fewer younger people pursuing court reporting
  • The committee would be reported.
  • So with that, I move that we report House Bill 459 with amendments.
  • Seeing none, HB 459 will be reported with amendments. Thank you.
  • The board voted to recommend that the AG release the report.
Summary: The Senate and Governmental Affairs Committee met on May 20, 2026, with a quorum present and no minutes available for approval. The committee first heard HB 181, which would let the legislative auditor review income tax data to verify eligibility for Medicaid and, at LDH’s request, SNAP. The auditor said the work would be limited to internal data testing under sharing agreements and not disclosed to third parties. After questions about privacy and duplication, the bill was reported favorably to the floor without objection. The committee then took up HB 906 on presidential preference primaries and party nominating petitions. The Secretary of State and bill author said the measure would let major parties decide whether unaffiliated voters may participate in their primaries, with 180 days’ notice to the state, and would keep party rules consistent within presidential years so elections can be programmed properly. Several senators raised concerns that the bill would disenfranchise no-party voters and give parties too much control, but supporters said both major parties had approved the approach. The committee voted 4-3 to report the bill favorably. Members also advanced HB 398, which would require the judiciary to use the federal GSA meal per diem rate instead of the current higher state judicial rate; HB 1052, which strengthens confidentiality protections for child abuse investigations handled by child advocacy centers and multidisciplinary teams; HB 1245, which protects witness criminal history records from unintended public release in clerk of court records; HB 202, which requires state civil service or hiring agencies to notify applicants when a vacancy is filled or they are rejected; HB 540, which requires disclosure of paid digital election advertising; HB 9, designating stuffed shrimp as a Louisiana specialty; HB 1057, extending the validity of absentee-by-mail applications for military voters from one year to two; HB 225, proposing a constitutional amendment to limit governors to two lifetime terms; HB 177, allowing retired court reporters to contract with former public employers; and HB 459, requiring disclosure when campaign materials use AI, with amendments adopted after discussion of First Amendment and campaign finance concerns. The committee also rejected an amendment to HB 1057 that would have expanded Sunday early voting in certain parishes. After the bills, the committee held confirmation hearings for James Kelly and Charles Wilkinson to the Board of Supervisors of the Louisiana Community and Technical College System, both of whom described education and workforce development backgrounds and were favorably received.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Criminal Jurisprudence Apr 29th, 2025

Criminal Jurisprudence

Transcript Highlights:
  • This bill will help the Travis County Board to have a more efficient meeting schedule.
  • I appreciate the committee's time in hearing this bill and hope for your support for a more efficient
  • This bill will allow for the efficient administration of the Travis County bail bond board. Board.
  • Section 4 deals with part-time public defenders and removes requirements for public defenders to report
  • Attorneys who fail to comply with continuing education reporting requirements will be removed from the
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Banking and Insurance Committee Mar 5th, 2025

Banking and Insurance

Transcript Highlights:
  • I'm just... ...efficient or whatever reason. I'm just...
  • If no objection, seeing none, HB262 receives a favorable report.
  • Smitherman to give HB261 a favorable report using the previous role.
  • If no objection, seeing none, HB261 receives a favorable report.
  • If no objection, seeing none, SB212 receives a favorable report.
Keywords: 923, senate, all
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

FL House Floor Session - 2026-02-20 (9:00AM Session)

Florida House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Are there reports of committees? None on the desk, Mr. President.
  • So now our DOGE reported that the cost of producing a degree at New College is, I'll round up, $495,000
  • ...sourcing our inmate health care service and food service to provide efficiencies, and proviso lines
  • state attorneys an additional $300,000 in trust fund authority to increase public awareness and reporting
  • of hate crimes. 300,000 and trust fund authority to increase a public awareness and reporting of hate
Summary: The Senate took up the 2026-2027 budget and related implementing bills. Appropriations Chair Hooper presented a $115 billion General Appropriations Bill, saying it reduces overall spending from the prior year, preserves reserves, and includes a 3% raise for state employees and 5% raises for state law enforcement, firefighters, correctional officers, and park rangers. Committee chairs then outlined major budget areas, including K-12 education, higher education, health and human services, criminal and civil justice, transportation/tourism/economic development, and environmental/agricultural agencies. Highlights included increased funding for school safety, teacher and scholarship funding, workforce education, Medicaid and kid care, corrections operations, judgeships, affordable housing, hurricane recovery, Everglades and water quality projects, and arts and cultural grants. Members asked detailed questions about several items. Senators discussed the Emergency Management Trust Fund, cultural arts grant allocations, Florida Forever land acquisition versus conservation easements, teacher salary support, charter school capital outlay funding, Bright Futures and EASE funding, New College funding, DOC deficits and inmate health care/food service costs, the ADAP HIV drug program, Medicaid reductions for non-critical access hospitals, and the use of opioid settlement and COVID relief funds. Chairs explained that some apparent reductions reflected shifts below the line or reclassification, that the ADAP appropriation would only cover about six months, and that some vacant positions were being removed as part of a right-sizing effort. Questions also covered lottery staffing, concealed weapons permit processing, elections security funding, and arts grant selection and proviso language. The Senate then substituted House bills for the Senate budget and implementing measures, amended them into the Senate posture, and passed them. HB 5001 (the appropriations bill), HB 503 (implementing bill), HB 5201 (collective bargaining), and HB 5205 (retirement) all passed 36-0 and were sent to conference. Other budget-related bills also passed, including SB 2506 on fuel taxes, SB 2508 on the state agency law enforcement radio system surcharge, SB 2510 on court trust funds, SB 2512 creating 13 circuit and 12 county judgeships, SB 2514 on K-12 education, SB 2516 on higher education, and SB 2518 on health. Most of these passed unanimously, with the Senate requesting the House either pass the Senate versions or include them in budget conference.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Housing Dec 4th, 2025

Transcript Highlights:
  • some of those, if it's a co-op building, I'm not sure who they actually necessarily would have to report
  • They certainly don't report to us. Building.
  • I'm not sure who they actually necessarily would have to report to.
  • They certainly don't report to us.
  • and at the beginning, needing more tools to be able to do this work more efficiently in order to bring
Summary: The committee met for work sessions on land banking/shared homeownership and on maximizing existing housing stock. Members first heard an overview from Commerce on alternative homeownership models, including community land trusts, limited equity cooperatives, condominiums, accessory dwelling units, middle housing, church land for housing, and public land transfers. The discussion focused on how these models can help households build equity while keeping housing permanently affordable. Committee members asked about statewide counts of co-ops and land trusts, and Commerce said it does not track all of those entities directly. Pierce County staff then described the Pierce County Community Development Corporation’s rapid acquisition fund and its role in acquiring, holding, and transferring public land for affordable housing. They said the county used general fund and affordable housing sales tax dollars to buy properties, preserve a manufactured home park through resident ownership, and create a pipeline of sites for future development. Members asked about the advantages of a public development authority, funding sources, the use of surplus and underutilized public property, and how the model works with housing authorities. Spokane land bank staff followed with testimony that land banks can reduce blight, preserve affordability, and help nonprofits acquire land quickly, but that holding costs and taxes can make the work harder without state support. They also described brownfield assessments, donated properties, and work on Black homeownership and public surplus properties. The committee then heard from the Northwest Cooperative Development Center on limited equity cooperatives, especially in manufactured housing communities. The witness said Washington now has about 43 limited equity co-ops and that recent subsidy funding and legislation have accelerated resident purchases of manufactured home communities. Members asked how residents benefit from capped equity, how values are affected, and whether the model improves access to lending; the witness said the model stabilizes costs, allows modest equity gains, and that a recent law allowing manufactured homes in co-ops to be titled as real property should improve access to traditional financing. The committee also discussed House Bill 1974 from the prior session and possible updates to land banking legislation. In the second work session on maximizing existing housing stock, Commerce reviewed recent housing laws and implementation timelines, including ADUs, middle housing, condo liability reform, SEPA changes, tiny homes, and co-living. Members raised concerns about the long implementation horizon, vacancy data, corporate ownership of homes, and the need for better support for small landlords and first-time ADU owners. Sightline then testified on mobile dwelling units, arguing that RVs, tiny houses on wheels, and similar units are a low-cost, quick-to-install housing option that is often blocked by zoning; the witness said many Washington residents already live in these units, often informally. Finally, AARP discussed housing options for older adults, including ADUs, missing middle, manufactured home communities, co-living, universal design, and village-style support models, emphasizing aging in place and the need for more accessible, affordable housing choices.