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ND
North Dakota 2026 1st Special Session
Special Education Funding Committee May 6th, 2026
Special Education Funding Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- We combine those data sets when we do this kind of reporting.
- just from our state reports, have increased $10 million.
- And so if we could work more efficiently, we're already spending the money.
- And so if we could work more efficiently, we're already spending the money.
- It's on a report. They do reports all the time. And then this is what you get. That's your cost.
Summary:
The committee met with a quorum, approved the March 4, 2026 minutes, and received a lengthy Department of Public Instruction presentation from Stanley Schauer Jr. on North Dakota student performance data in math and ELA, with comparisons between students with disabilities and students without disabilities. Schauer explained the assessment systems used, the 1% alternate assessment cap for students with the most significant cognitive disabilities, the absence of 2019-20 data due to the pandemic, and how state standards are set by North Dakota educators. Members asked about cohort trends, the role of alternate assessments, grade-level patterns, and whether the state should focus more on reducing the novice category than on moving students from approaching to proficient. Schauer also discussed the new NDA Plus assessment, the state’s planned growth model, and the possibility of future breakdowns by disability category or by schools using science-of-math approaches. Special education educators testified that students with disabilities continued to receive services during COVID because of FAPE obligations, which likely helped limit learning loss, and emphasized that IEP teams focus on individual growth rather than only proficiency buckets.
Committee members then shifted to special education funding and possible funding models. Brandon Bombach of Grand Forks Public Schools presented on the state aid formula, focusing on the special education weighting factor and arguing that the current formula does not adequately respond to growing student needs because it counts enrollment but does not adjust when the number of students with IEPs rises. He used examples to show that a district can have the same enrollment and receive the same weighting even if the number of students needing services increases. Members discussed whether the formula should be tied more closely to actual need and accountability, and the chair indicated that the committee would continue gathering data and ideas for a later meeting.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 7 on Accountability and Oversight Mar 11th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- They need to be in good standing on all reporting requirements, including their HMIS reporting for prior
- grantee-reported data.
- grantee-reported data.
- And so we have extremely good reporting into what I'll call our fiscal reporting system.
- And so we have extremely good reporting into what I'll call our fiscal reporting system.
Summary:
The Assembly Budget Subcommittee on Accountability and Oversight held a hearing on California’s homelessness funding, focusing on the Homeless Housing Assistance and Prevention (HAP) Grant and the Encampment Resolution Grant Program. HCD described new accountability requirements, including regional action plans, stronger reporting and expenditure conditions, housing-element compliance, encampment response plans, and public dashboards that track fiscal spending, service outcomes, and encampment resolution status. Officials said the goal is to use the data to identify underperforming grantees, provide technical assistance, and, if needed, withhold or reallocate funds.
Local officials from San Diego, Fresno, and Santa Cruz said the programs have helped expand shelter, outreach, and permanent housing, and that state dollars have leveraged local and federal resources. Mayor Todd Gloria said San Diego has used HAP to expand shelter and safe sleeping options, reduce downtown encampments, and increase housing production, but argued the state’s new accountability website is too high-level and does not fully reflect countywide conditions, behavioral health outcomes, or the role of continuum-of-care partners. Fresno officials said HAP and other state funds helped the city add shelter beds and reduce homelessness, while Santa Cruz emphasized that state funding helped build local coordination and draw in federal vouchers.
Members pressed the panel on whether HAP is actually reducing homelessness, what the best success metrics should be, and whether the state is getting full, usable data from grantees and subcontractors. Several members asked for more granular jurisdiction-level reporting, better tracking of nonprofit spending, and clearer measures beyond point-in-time counts and “people served.” HCD said it is still improving HMIS participation and data quality, but can already show outcomes such as exits to permanent housing and returns to homelessness. The hearing ended with broad agreement that transparency is important, but disagreement remained over the best measures of success and how much emphasis should be placed on housing, prevention, shelter, and treatment.
HI
Transcript Highlights:
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because, I I think that's more efficient because, I I think that's more efficient - efficiencies and monies. efficiencies and monies.
- And so to really reporting limit is.
- <02:33:53.360>
for I will put in the committee report for I will put in the committee report
Bills:
SB2613, SB2543, SB2398, SB2046, SB2800, SB2818, SB2973, SB2367, SB2907, SB3067, SB3053, SB2944, SB2074, SB2596
Keywords:
public school land transfer, Department of Education, DOE, land conveyance, fee simple title, tax map key, TMK, Act 307, Session Laws of Hawaii 2022, Act 139, Board of Land and Natural Resources, BLNR, Department of Land and Natural Resources, DLNR, Kauai, Maui, Honolulu, Kaimuki Middle School, Wilcox Elementary School, school property
Summary:
The committee heard testimony on SB 2613, SD1, HD1, relating to public school land transfer. The Attorney General’s office and the Department of Education supported the bill’s technical cleanup of Act 307, but strongly opposed a new provision that would convey school parcels containing public and school library facilities to the Hawaii State Public Library System. They argued the added transfer language conflicted with Act 307’s purpose of consolidating school land for more efficient school operations, and said existing law already allows co-located library use through rights of entry, licenses, or other agreements. The library system supported the bill and said it was trying to resolve longstanding operational conflicts on shared school-campus libraries, especially where public access, construction, and campus safety issues arise.
Members questioned whether the Board of Education should simply mediate the dispute, whether the bill was the right solution, and whether a formal memorandum of agreement might be a better approach than a land transfer. The library system described years of difficulty coordinating with DOE on projects and said it needed a clearer process to complete work and spend CIP funds. Discussion also touched on a Kauai parcel in the bill, identified as a tennis court, and whether resurfacing could be completed before any transfer. The Attorney General indicated that if the goal is to preserve library uses while keeping title with the state, DLNR or another documented arrangement may be more appropriate than transferring fee title to the library system.
The committee then heard SB 2543 SD2 HD1, relating to state construction projects. DAGS supported the measure, and the Hawaii Ironworkers Stabilization Fund and Hawaii Building Construction Trade Council strongly supported it, saying the bill would help spot-check high-cost projects and reduce waste from overruns and delays. One testifier opposed the bill, arguing the proposed construction manager role was too limited and that DAGS needed more training, decentralized authority, and better internal decision-making rather than a new layer of oversight. Supporters said the bill was intended as a pilot program to address repeated cost overruns and improve accountability on state construction projects.
AL
Alabama 2026 1st Special Session
Alabama Senate Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development Committee Mar 31st, 2026
Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development
Transcript Highlights:
- average, the base retail rate that we pay relative to the regional average, customer satisfaction reports
- , customer satisfaction reports, customer satisfaction reports, reliability<00:19:54.160>
of favorable report. favorable report. All<00:42:54.720>- And I would move for favorable report. All right.
- And I would uh move for uh favorable<00:42:53.120>
report. right. All right. All right.
Bills:
HB475
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- the easiest way to accomplish that, to not cause any more trees to be cut down and make it more efficient
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the <00:07:55.840>uh <00:07:56.000>for making it more efficient - for the uh for making it more efficient for the uh for staff.<00:07:56.720>
So, <00:07:56.960> - And uh it they have to be um reported.
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
Community Affairs Mar 17th, 2025
UT
Utah 2025 Regular Session
Education Interim Committee - November 19, 2025
Education Interim Committee
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Senate Committee on Health and Human Services Apr 1st, 2025
Health & Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- I have had over 30 different board reports.
- But even then, we continued to have this report.
- With all the patients that we took care of, there was no report.
- But when the Texas Medical Board reported what they had received, it was a smart move.
- It merely creates efficiencies.
Bills:
SB331, SB883, SB926, SB1137, SB1138, SB1144, SB1151, SB1236, SB1270, SB1522, SB1869, SB2207, SB2422
Keywords:
healthcare, cost disclosure, transparency, administrative penalties, health facility compliance, COVID-19, off-label use, prescription drugs, patient access, medical standards, insurance, physician ranking, incentives, fiduciary duty, health plan issuers, SB 1137, group home, assisted living, residential care, board and care
WY
Transcript Highlights:
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for significantly more efficient for significantly more efficient for everybody.<00 - It's more efficient in rate recovery.
- through the chapter 17 report in April. through the chapter 17 report in April.
- an IT contract is create efficiencies an IT contract is create efficiencies and<02:51:32.960>
- operating as efficiently as possible. operating as efficiently as possible.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Formal House Session 33 Jun 21st, 2026 at 11:00 am
Massachusetts House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- I think the biggest thing that came out of this conference report is the equity piece.
- We addressed so many of those things in this conference committee report.
- Question comes on acceptance of the conference report. Roll call having been ordered.
- In this matter, 155 in the affirmative, zero in the negative, the report is accepted.
- The report is accepted. The House will be in a brief recess. Mr.
Summary:
The House first recognized several student athletes and teams, including East Bridgewater cheerleaders, Medway athletes and teams, and the Housatonic Valley basketball team, and adopted a resolution congratulating the William Diamond Jr. Fife and Drum Corps on its 25th anniversary. Members also suspended Joint Rule 12 to advance a petition concerning an extension of a lease authorization for conservation land.
The chamber then took up Senate 2581, as amended, a major education and youth technology bill. The bill was rewritten to promote safe technology use and distraction-free education, including restrictions on personal electronic devices in public schools and limits on social media access for children. Members debated whether the policy should be bell-to-bell or allow more local flexibility, and several amendments were offered. An amendment from Attleboro to preserve district-specific policies was rejected, while a consolidated amendment tightening social media restrictions and related protections was adopted.
The House also considered and passed several other bills, including measures amending the Sandwich charter, authorizing Springfield to help certain residents with local tax obligations, authorizing charity alcohol auctions, and directing the Boston Police Department to waive the maximum age requirement for a specific police applicant. In addition, the House rejected concurrence on a Senate version of a higher education infrastructure bill and instead appointed a committee of conference. Later, the House accepted a conference report on modernizing cannabis laws after debate focused on regulatory streamlining, equity, ownership caps, and hemp regulation. The report was adopted by roll call, and the House then passed the amended education bill to be engrossed before adjourning to the next day.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Formal House Session 19 Jun 21st, 2026 at 11:00 am
Massachusetts House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- The Committee on Rules reports recommending that the resolutions filed by Mr.
- The Committee on Rules and the Committee on Rules of the Two Branches Act concurrently report recommending
- The Committee on Steering Policy and Scheduling reports recommending that the matter be scheduled for
- The Committee on Steering Policy and Scheduling reports recommending that the matter be scheduled for
- Instead, this bill provides more reports, more divisions, and more socialized costs.
Summary:
The House opened with the Pledge of Allegiance and then took up several procedural matters, including adopting a resolution recognizing the work of Ukraine Forward and suspending Joint Rule 12 for a number of petitions. The chamber also scheduled several bills for later consideration, including measures on unemployment insurance for fluctuating work schedules, the Medical Society mission statement, a youth training wage, bridge and intersection namings, handicapped parking fines, public-way safety, excavation restoration, motor vehicle safety, and a Newton police age requirement. Two engrossed local bills were passed to be enacted: one authorizing retired police officers as special police in Plainville and another allowing Orange to increase its Board of Selectmen membership.
The main policy debate centered on House No. 5151, An Act relative to energy affordability, clean power, and economic competitiveness. Supporters described it as a broad affordability and clean-energy package that would cut costs for ratepayers, reform Mass Save, speed clean-energy procurement and interconnection, return a portion of alternative compliance payments to customers, and address biomass and other energy issues. Opponents argued the bill relied too heavily on long-term programs and new administrative structures while offering little immediate relief, and raised concerns about costs being shifted to consumers, impacts on natural gas, and the pace of implementation. Several amendments were debated and rejected, including proposals to shift public benefit charges away from peak hours, pause public benefit charges for a year, require greater utility disclosure before rate increases, and add a forest-clearing penalty for solar development.
One amendment to the energy bill was adopted: a consolidated amendment that included budget-billing consumer protections for gas customers, requiring notice and conservation recommendations when usage rises significantly. The House also adopted an amendment to a separate conservation-restriction bill for Hanson, changing a figure in the underlying law, and passed that bill to be engrossed as amended. The energy bill’s consolidated amendment passed by roll call, while several other amendments failed by roll call votes. The House observed multiple moments of silence honoring Jaden Booker, Thomas Skip Karam, former Freetown Police Chief Carlton Abbott, and former Representative and Senator William Q. “Biff” McLean, Jr.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Minnesota House committee hears 'Take It Back Act' 4/30/26
Transcript Highlights:
- c> taking those dollars spending them and taking those dollars spending them and and I do want to report
- I do want to report the um the this bill passed the Senate tax committee and then it went to judiciary
- I do<00:03:14.160>
want <00:03:14.400>to <00:03:14.480>report <00:03:15.040>the - And so I think efficient way.
- has to report to the Department<00:10:36.880>
of <00:10:36.960>Revenue.
Summary:
The committee heard House File 5040, the “Take It Back Act,” presented by Representative Anderson. The bill, as amended by the DE1 amendment, would impose a 100% tax on amounts a person is convicted of stealing through fraud against Minnesota public programs, with the stated goal of recovering taxpayer dollars. Anderson said the measure is bipartisan, has many co-authors, and was developed with the Department of Revenue to ensure it could be administered without undue burden.
Joanna Bears of the Department of Revenue testified in support of the bill’s administration and thanked the authors for working with the department. She explained that the bill has two parts: a conviction-based tax that would be assessed after a fraud conviction, and a penalty piece tied to fraud identified through the department’s existing review and tip processes. In response to member questions, Bears said the department already receives tips and information from other agencies, reviews them carefully, and would use the bill as another tool to address public fund fraud. Members also asked about timing, restitution, and whether the bill could be misused by bad-faith tips; Anderson and Bears said the conviction-based portion is not tip-driven and that the bill is intended to be administered legally and efficiently.
Representative Smith asked about the relationship to the Fraud Restitution Fund and whether the bill would apply to private-sector tax fraud. Bears said restitution would likely be collected first depending on statutory priority, and clarified that the new 100% penalty would apply only to public fund fraud, not general tax fraud, and only to the fraudulent public-fund amount. Representative Witty and others expressed support for the bill as a tool to combat fraud. At the end of the hearing, Representative Anderson renewed her motion to lay over House File 5040, as amended, for possible inclusion in the omnibus tax bill, and the chair indicated that was the plan.
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
Conference Committee on H.F. 2438 - Transportation Omnibus - 05/09/25
Transcript Highlights:
- of Public Safety accident report.
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That <00:14:22.399>report report that I mentioned. - That report report that I mentioned.
- , the King report and the Barry Dunn report, as well as an Office of Legislative Auditor report in between
- King report and the Barry Dunn report, as well as an Office of Legislative Auditor report in between
FL
Florida 2026 4th Special Session
January 14, 2026 - 10:30 AM
Transcript Highlights:
- WE WANT TO SIMPLY TAKE A GREAT PROGRAM AND MAKE IT MORE EFFICIENT. THAT IS THE BILL MR.
- THAT IS THE WAY THEY ARE OFFSETTING THE FUNDING TO LET IT SPREAD OUT FOR THERE TO BE MORE EFFICIENT IN
- Tuck: -- >> Chair Andrade: SHOW THE BILL REPORTED FAVORABLY. CONGRATULATIONS.
- Tuck: -- >> Chair Andrade: SHOW THE BILL REPORTED FAVORABLY. CONGRATULATIONS.
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
Press Conference: Republican Leaders Present Bills to Curb Government Waste - 03/17/25
Transcript Highlights:
- A recent MnDOT report confirmed that Northstar is a financial black hole.
- A recent MnDOT report confirmed that Northstar is a financial black hole.
- A recent MnDOT report confirmed that Northstar is a financial black hole.
- A recent MnDOT report confirmed that Northstar is a financial black hole.
- and prioritizing that spending efficient and prioritizing that spending as<00:19:58.360>
a <00
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- You didn't have a report.
- You didn't have a report. That was a report that I observed.
- This is a reporting requirement only. Is that correct? Only reporting.
- And so, yes, it was a very thoughtful report.
- But most of these students, instead of reporting at their high school, they would report at a TSTC campus
Summary:
The House convened with prayer, pledges, and several ceremonial recognitions, including Wilson County Day, San Antonio Mission Indian Descendants Day, and Blue Ribbon Lobby Day, along with acknowledgments of visiting groups and a birthday greeting. The chamber also announced committee meetings and then moved into floor business, including conference committee action on Senate Bill 1, the state budget.
A series of motions to instruct House conferees on SB 1 were debated and voted on. One motion sought to restore salary for Attorney General Ken Paxton after his impeachment-related suspension; it passed 88-56. Another, from Rep. Olcott, directed conferees to support amendments requiring data collection on the costs of undocumented immigrants in hospitals and prisons; after extended debate and a failed amendment from Rep. Martinez Fischer to also study immigrants’ economic contributions, the motion passed 86-61. The House also adopted instructions to eliminate Texas Lottery Commission funding, to support amendments restricting public education institutions from affirming gender identities inconsistent with biological sex, and to seek an additional $4 billion in property tax relief, with each motion passing on recorded votes.
The House then took up a supplemental calendar and passed several bills, including HB 39 on veteran death data, HB 102 on priority registration for certain students entering military service, HB 126 on student-athlete compensation and representation, HB 290 on tuition and fee assistance for members of the Texas military forces, HB 300 on Texas Armed Services Scholarship Program updates, and HB 2143 naming a highway in honor of Army Specialist Joey Lins. The chamber also postponed consideration of HJR 2 and HJR 6.
Later, the House considered HB 120 on career and technology education pathways and HB 20 on applied science pathway programs for high school students. HB 120 received a perfecting amendment and was advanced after discussion about workforce preparation. HB 20 prompted extensive questioning about transportation, costs, and how students would access partner campuses such as community colleges and TSTC sites; debate continued as the transcript ended, with members examining how the program would operate and whether approval authority would rest with TEA.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Human Services Finance and Policy Committee 3/26/25
Human Services Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
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to <00:02:34.319>the report has been delivered to the report has been delivered - Our efficient and cost-effective ways.
- The case for efficiency is compelling.
- That's an 833-fold efficiency gain.
- <00:36:47.040>
to bill states there would be a report to bill states there would be a report
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Human Services Finance and Policy Committee 4/1/25
Human Services Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- to use our Workforce more efficiently to use our Workforce more efficiently make<00:04:39.280>
- the Direct Care recommendations report the Direct Care recommendations report provide<00:35:45.920
- <01:25:06.280>
through move resources more efficiently through move resources more efficiently- <01:38:22.400>
requirements navigate the cost reporting requirements navigate the cost reporting- <01:41:39.920>
process <01:41:40.320>and that the reporting process and that the reporting
Keywords:
HF2367, Community First Services and Supports, CFSS, personal care assistance, PCA, consumer-directed community supports, CDCS, home and community-based services, HCBS, direct support professionals, direct care workers, caregivers, support workers, SEIU Healthcare Minnesota & Iowa, collective bargaining agreement, retention stipend, health care cost stipend, training stipend, orientation program, retirement trust
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- I'd like the change to the 48-hour deadline for reporting.
- if I already had to file a report with Ethics.
- I'm pleased to report that since that time, as Mr.
- SB 134 will be reported favorably to the full Senate.
- Is there a way to report that vote without?
Bills:
SB16, SB76, SB310, SB311, SB396, SB505, SB827, SB964, SB1209, SB1210, SB1386, SB1470, SB2035, SJR37, SB 16
Keywords:
voter registration, proof of citizenship, Election Code, criminal offenses, limited federal ballot, transportation, infrastructure, funding, public safety, state regulation, election, polling places, voter access, state oversight, electronic voting, voting, polling place, elections, countywide program, election integrity
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Radioactive and Hazardous Materials Dec 8th, 2025 at 09:45 am
Radioactive & Hazardous Materials Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- So thank you for reporting on this.
- This fee accompanies that report. Mr.
- As I reported back then, and I can report now, the department took action to proceed with the startup
- Manage your reports or change them in any way that you're still freely getting to express your reporting
- Report. So the resident inspector reports go through DOE. The board is aware of those reports.