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• have rights. for which we can impose new fees for which we can impose new fees and<01:00:19.359>
• This is maybe this is just another fee This is maybe this is just another fee fees<03:31:10.399>
• for<03:31:10.640> fields<03:31:11.120> program fees for fields program fees for
• A new fee How is this program funded?
• So, other fees and the like.

Keywords: 981, all

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• All fees associated, foreclosing lender.
• If fees to them directly or indirectly.
• Uh the platform fee also could required.
• The funds come from the sprinkler industry fees.
• This will move the fees and Industry.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• like to point out that the filing fee like to point out that the filing fee for<01:06:33.119>
• It's administered by the fees that are gathered from people using the system.
• It's administered by the fees that are gathered from people using the system.
• <01:20:12.000> They're the filing fee as the claimant.
• to district court where the filing fee to district court where the filing fee is<01:21:03.920>

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• not residents would pay this higher fee. not residents would pay this higher fee.
• It is not a taxes and it is a user fee.
• They are paying our turnpike fees.
• You can get back to me. going to cost the state a fee to do going to cost the state a fee to do this?
• Okay. >> And at a fee. >> Thank you. Any other questions?

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

Bills: HR39, HR40, HR41, HCR19, HCR20, HCR21, HB2, HB3, HB15, HB441, HB976, HB977, HB978, HB979, HB980, HB981, HB982, HR19, HR20, HR21, HR22, HR23, HR24, HR25, HR26, HR27, HR28, HR29, HR30, HR31, HR32, HR33, HR34, HR35, HR36, HR37, HR38, HCR15, HCR16, HCR17, HCR18, SCR10, HB115, HB208, HB465, HB964, HB965, HB966, HB967, HB968, HB969, HB970, HB971, HB972, HB973, HB974, HB975, HB474, HB487, HB503, HB606, HB633, HB707, HB720, HB728, HB733, HB846, HB852, HB856, HB868, HB875, HB78, HB112, HB148, HB149, HB190, HB221, HB346, HB354, HB355, HB356, HB358, HB384, HB427, HB657, HB675, HB716, HB207, HB300, HB331, HB428, HB464, HB587, HB618, HB629, HB801, HB853, HB891, HB901

Keywords: St. Joseph's Day, Saint Joseph's Day, St. Joseph's Altar, Italian American, Italian heritage, Italian immigrants, Louisiana culture, New Orleans, Sicilian heritage, Catholic, Feast of Saint Joseph, cultural resolution, heritage caucus, legislative caucus, ethnic heritage, jazz history, Italian Louisiana, immigrant contributions, cultural recognition, House Resolution 40

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• Section number two deals with taxes and fee reductions.
• Does that include the management fees? management fees that you pay as well?
• Those are always net of fees and expenses.
• of anybody they ever charge their fee to?
• per transaction, you pay them a fee.

Keywords: 1184, house, all

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• Administrative fee? Yes, the 10%? The administrative fee applies to all categories. Okay.
• So, 8% is the administrative fee. That's what we're running it.
• And again, it's across the states a 10% administrative fee to run a charity is the norm, right?
• And then if you make changes flat fee."
• administrative fees, it's 56 million. administrative fees, it's 56 million.

Keywords: 1189, house, all

Summary: The commission to study the cost of special education met, confirmed a quorum, introduced members and guests, and approved the minutes from the October 29 meeting. Members noted the commission’s mandate under Senate Bill 57 and emphasized the need to focus on recommendations and findings by July 1, 2026. The chair also distributed additional handouts, including materials related to the Education Freedom Account (EFA) program and administrative rules tied to differentiated aid and disability determinations. The main discussion centered on how students qualify for differentiated aid under the EFA program. Matt Sutherton of the Children’s Scholarship Fund explained that the organization, which contracts with the state to administer EFAs, accepts either school-district/IEP documentation or a medical certification of disability (MCD) from a licensed medical professional. Members questioned how this process relates to the state’s special education rules and whether the school-district examiner standards in ED 107/1107.04 apply to EFAs. Sutherton said the MCD form, created with the department, requires the medical professional to sign that they are qualified to make the determination and to identify the disability. Several members expressed concern that the EFA process is less rigorous than the school-district IEP process and may be inflating disability counts. One member argued that the administrative rules cited are primarily for school districts, not EFAs, and said the Department of Education may not know how many of the roughly 890 EFA students receiving differentiated aid came through school-district documentation versus the MCD pathway. Another member said the EFA system appears more generous than the school system and raised concerns about oversight, auditing, and whether the program’s data are accurate. Sutherton said the organization reviews signed documentation, credentials, and diagnosis information, and may request additional records to help adjudicate expenses. No votes or formal actions were taken beyond approving the prior minutes.

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• That's just transaction fees went up.
• >> And could you just put it in, like, the fees, and then through your platform you collect all the fees
• Is there any fees for issuing the tokens and transferring the tokens?
• collect all the fees that then would go to<01:42:16.719> revenue?
• go versus fees on some of these things? go versus fees on some of these things?

Keywords: 1189, house, all

Summary: The meeting began with roll call and approval of the prior meeting minutes, which passed unanimously. Members then introduced the day’s presentations, including one on the Canton network and another on tokenizing real-world assets, with a focus on how blockchain systems can support regulated financial institutions and asset tokenization. Julie, the director of policy and government affairs at Digital Asset, presented on the Canton network, describing it as a privacy-enabled public blockchain designed for regulated finance. She said tokenization should preserve the same legal and economic rights as the underlying asset, and argued that blockchain-based books and records can shorten settlement times, improve 24/7 trading, and reduce friction in capital markets. She identified three main barriers to institutional adoption of public blockchains: lack of privacy, limited throughput/scalability, and lack of control for compliance purposes such as freezing assets, pausing transactions, and meeting AML/sanctions obligations. She explained Canton’s structure as a public, permissionless network with application-level privacy controls, a global synchronizer, and super validators chosen by vote. She also highlighted current ecosystem participants and use cases, including Broadridge, Circle, and the DTCC’s planned tokenization of U.S. Treasuries on the network. Members and online participants asked about the relationship between tokenized assets and the Clarity Act, tokenized deposits, safeguards for faster settlement, and whether the platform could be used for municipal or property records. Julie said Digital Asset was not taking a position on rewards, but supported clearer statutory definitions because tokenized securities should carry the same rights as the underlying assets and investors need to know whether a token is a true tokenized security or a synthetic/reference token. She said the company is agnostic on whether the cash leg is stablecoins or tokenized deposits, though it expects both to develop. In response to concerns about rapid settlement, she pointed to institution-level permissions and SEC disclosure expectations as safeguards. She also said the technology could be used for other records, including potentially property-related records, if those assets can be tokenized.

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• Um, on the floor, they left our cultivator fee decrease.
• So, we cut cultivated outdoor cultivator fees in half.
• Um, they pushed out the effective date of local license fees.
• We do have some concerns that doing away with the contingency and the lowering of the small grower fees

Keywords: 927, senate, all

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• question: if and when this bill passes, I know that most boards are self-funded through licensing fees
• Madam Chair, yes, I believe that through the fee that would be charged for the establishment license.
• And do you have... a sense of what that fee might be, or is that kind of one of those things you'll figure
• Madam Chair, again, that is up to the board to decide what those fees are.

Keywords: 996, all

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• And for the banking department, it's been 20 years since they've had a fee increase.
• So to adjust for inflation, the fee goes from $3,000 to $4,000 for an original license, and then the
• The 10,000-foot view of the picture of what we're trying to solve is charging a fee for services already
• I think that was the intent of the original statute back in the 2013 pass that prohibited response fees

Bills: HB4284, HB1250, HB4190, HB3086

Keywords: animal abuse, offender registry, public safety, animal welfare, criminal justice, Oklahoma legislation, local law enforcement, Public Safety Technology Revolving Fund, grants, state funding, law enforcement technology, cyber crime, fraud prevention, Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, insurance fee, digital forensics, investigative support, revolving fund, prisons, corrections

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• OF CONSTRUCTION COMES FROM THINGS IN THE REGULAR PROCESS THAT RESULT IN DELAYS AND OVERPAYMENT OF FEES
• PERMIT APPLICATION TO UTILIZED THROUGHOUT THE STATE ON IT ESTABLISHES A MANDATORY BUILDING DEPARTMENT FEE
• THE LICENSE FEES AND ANY DISCIPLINARY FEES OR PENALTIES GO BACK TO THE BOARD AND HELP THAT WITH THE REGULATORY

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• engrossed version of HB 346 sought to relieve new businesses from the costly licensing and registration fees
• Registration fees in their first year of business.
• The committee substitute allows the Secretary of State to set appropriate fees for an expedited business
• The committee substitute allows the Secretary of State to set appropriate fees for an expedited business

Bills: HB346, HB1851, HB2974, HB5596, HCR118, HCR127, HCR141

Keywords: expedited service, business records, veteran-owned businesses, franchise tax, fee schedule, surplus vehicles, law enforcement equipment, school districts, Texas Facilities Commission, economically disadvantaged areas, HB 5596, voter-approval tax rate, property tax, ad valorem tax, Tax Code, Texas municipalities, coastal municipality, eligible coastal municipality, municipal hotel occupancy tax, hotel occupancy tax revenue

Summary: The Senate Economic Development Committee heard and laid out several measures focused on school safety, Texas-Taiwan relations, defense manufacturing, business formation, hotel tax policy, and NASA relocation. HB 1851 would allow surplus DPS vehicles and law enforcement equipment to be transferred to school districts in economically disadvantaged areas for use by school police and security personnel, with a two-year resale restriction. HCR 127 expressed support for the Texas-Taiwan relationship and trade ties, HCR 118 supported expanding warship manufacturing in Texas, HCR 141 urged Congress to move NASA headquarters to Houston, HB 346 (with a committee substitute) revised business filing and fee authority while making permanent a franchise tax exemption for new veteran-owned businesses, HB 2974 was an omnibus hotel occupancy tax and qualified hotel project bill, and HB 5596 addressed accountability for municipal hotel occupancy tax revenues in coastal communities. Witnesses generally supported the measures, including the Texas Hotel and Lodging Association on HB 2974 and resource witnesses from the Texas Veterans Commission and Secretary of State on HB 346; no opposition testimony was registered on the laid-out bills. After public testimony, the committee took up pending business and adopted committee substitutes where applicable. HB 1851, HB 346, HB 2974, and HB 5596 were each reported favorably to the full Senate, with HB 346 and HB 2974 also recommended for the local and uncontested calendar. HCR 127 and HCR 118 were reported favorably as well, and HCR 127 and HCR 141 were likewise recommended for the local and uncontested calendar. The committee also reported HB 4320 favorably, though the transcript repeats that motion several times. The meeting ended with the committee standing in recess until 7:00 a.m. subject to the call of the chair.

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• You did it in 2019 when it came to, to building permit fees.
• You can't charge building permit fees based upon valuation, come up with a different way that forced
• Infrastructure impacts can be addressed by removing the language that prevents cities from charging impact fees
• Did you put the impact fees issue? Was that listed?

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• Construction Management, which is a schedule of fees for architects, doesn't matter what architect you
• use; you get the same fee every time.
• So the state actually regulates what that fee is. I know and... Regulates what that fee is.

Bills: HB141, HB161, HB231, HB67

Keywords: HB141, Alabama, state employees, salary deductions, payroll deduction, State Comptroller, membership dues, voluntary contributions, insurance premiums, financial instruments, employee associations, state payroll, Code of Alabama 1975, Section 36-1-4.3, public employees, union dues, benefits administration, payroll withholding, financial products, deferred compensation

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• And that is done so that the funeral home owners won't have to pay such a high fee for their licenses
• So this has to deal with the license fees that the funeral homes are having to pay.
• So this has to deal with the license fees that the funeral homes are having to pay.
• such a high high fee for their licenses. licenses. licenses.
• Senator Bale to help bring this fee Senator Bale to help bring this fee down.<00:37:09.200> And

Keywords: 920, all

Summary: The Senate convened with prayer, the pledge, and a roll call establishing a quorum of 28 senators present. The body agreed to excuse absent senators, dispense with reading and adopt the previous journal, and allow bills and committee reports to be introduced throughout the day. The presiding officer also recognized several guests on the floor and in the gallery, including an intern from the Lieutenant Governor’s office and guests of Senator Chambliss. Committee reports focused on confirmations for Alabama State University’s Board of Trustees. Patricia Anne Jones (Confirmation 79), Angela Star (Confirmation 80), and Bobby Singleton (Confirmation 78) each received favorable committee reports and were confirmed by the full Senate, with roll-call votes showing unanimous or near-unanimous support. The chamber spent considerable time in lighthearted debate and personal remarks during Singleton’s confirmation before adopting the motion and confirming him. The Senate also adopted Senate Joint Resolution 81 commending the Coach Safely Foundation for youth sports injury mitigation, and several other resolutions honoring individuals and organizations, including Johnny Williams, Jim America, Senior Trooper Hunter Woodruff, and retired Army Colonel Shawn Thomas Prricett. A resolution encouraging Alabama public high schools to form a consortium was also adopted. On local bills, the Senate passed Senate Bill 243 regarding Jefferson County and House Bill 532 regarding Shelby County, both by using the previous roll and with no opposition. The Rules Committee then reported a special order calendar for the 22nd legislative day, which the Senate adopted 30-0. The special order calendar included bills on the Board of Funeral Services, the Public Service Commission, tax abatements, electric utilities, child support, dogs, school lands, Chambers County, and real property. The first special-order bill taken up was Senate Bill 107 by Senators Figures and Gudger, concerning the Alabama Board of Funeral Services. Senators discussed the bill’s purpose of funding the board’s increased duties, the effect on funeral home license fees, and an amendment offered by Senator Bell to reduce certain fees. The amendment was adopted, and the bill was explained as not affecting pre-need funeral arrangements. Debate continued as members asked questions about costs to families and funeral homes, but the chamber had not yet reached final disposition of the bill by the end of the excerpt.

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• We're going to do this, but there's going to be an annual fee.
• So, every going to be an annual fee.
• , when we do collect those fees for licenses, where does that money go?
• If we had these fees and we did this, this is what we brought in.
• If we had these fees brought in, right?

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• The fee um the fee is paid by one thing.
• The fee um the fee is paid by the<01:37:26.159> distributor.
• The the the the market sets fee goes on.
• fee. the the fee anything to do with the fee. the the fee could<01:38:00.000> go<01:38:00.159
• that extra we'll call them taxes fees that extra we'll call them taxes fees raised<01:38:18.080>

Bills: HF3298

Keywords: underground storage tanks, petroleum, reimbursement program, environmental regulation, pollution control, 1183, house

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• Utilities are utilizing these grid access fees.
• The grid taxes fees were already put in place to recoup cost.
• The grid taxes fees were already put in place to recoup cost.
• The grid taxes fees were already put in place to recoup cost.
• <01:10:03.760> be<01:10:04.040> kept fees be kept fees be kept alongside<01:10:06.000><

Bills: HF845

Keywords: net metering, distributed generation, solar energy, rooftop solar, renewable energy, utility rates, electric cooperatives, municipal utilities, public utilities, Public Utilities Commission, net billing, bill credits, cost of service study, standby charge, qualifying facility, energy policy, clean energy, customer generation, interconnection, Minnesota Statutes 216B.164

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• we do charge fees?
• So there's a state registration fee and weight tax, there's a city registration fee and weight tax.
• :36:49.440> tax a city registration fee and weight tax a city registration fee and weight tax
• The court costs $214 to file a fee.
• The court costs $214 to file a fee.

Keywords: 910, house, all

Summary: The committees heard testimony on several transportation and consumer-related bills. HB 496, relating to mamaki tea labeling, drew support from the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Weights and Measures, and the Hawaii Farm Bureau, which said the bill would help protect a culturally important crop and the Hawaii brand. Members questioned Agriculture about staffing and whether the bill was being used to reopen a package-labeling inspection branch; the department said it currently has no Oahu inspectors for that function but has a place for an additional inspector. No opposition was registered on the measure. HB 978, relating to electric utilities, and HB 1316, relating to DLNR/park reservations, were also heard. HB 1316 received support from State Parks, and members discussed where reservation fees would go and whether the statewide reservation system for three parks would cover its costs; the committee indicated a change would be made so fees go to the special fund. HB 914, relating to water carriers, drew support or comments from the PUC, Department of Agriculture, Department of Transportation, Young Brothers, and the Hawaii Harbor Users Group. The main discussion focused on the proposed automatic rate-adjustment mechanism tied to the GDP price index, with members asking for alternative index ideas and questioning whether the PUC already had authority to adopt such a mechanism. Young Brothers said the measure would provide clarity and help recover inflationary costs, while the chair raised concerns about repeated rate increases and asked for further testimony on possible alternative indices. HB 1161, relating to transportation and road usage charges, received support from the Insurance Division, DOT, and the State Energy Office, with comments from the Tax Foundation of Hawaii and the Hawaii Food Industry Association. Members asked whether counties need state authorization to adopt mileage-based charges and why the bill included funding for implementation; DOT said it is helping counties build the data collection and billing system and that Honolulu is handling much of the collection work. A question was also raised about whether plug-in hybrids would be covered, and DOT said vehicles under the federal electric-vehicle definition would be included. HB 1301, relating to transportation network companies, drew opposition from the Hawaii Association for Justice, Lyft, and Uber, all arguing that classifying TNCs as common carriers and changing liability rules would raise costs, reduce access, and disrupt the current statewide framework. No votes or final committee actions were taken in the portion of the meeting provided.