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NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
Senate Chamber Jan 23rd, 2026 at 10:43 am
New Mexico Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- So on a $350 million bond package, the payment on a 20-year bond is $53 million a year.
- We gave them bonding authority one year, and they went to bond, and they said, okay, we want to refinance
- the bonds that we already have, and the bond market was at 2%.
- So you can buy 10- or 20-year bonds, five-year bonds.
- You can buy 10- or 20-year bonds, five-year bonds, and you can sell that in the market.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- They can do a split bond too, do a personal bond and a cash bond.
- If we say, like, this is a true first-time offender— But versus, like, PR bond, PR bond, PR bond, PR
- Co-author, a joint author if you'll have me, but I'll certainly sign on as a co-author.
- out on a 500k bond, don't get out on a thousand dollar bond. bond because we will forever have this
- Think about that. multiple felony bonds, or PR bonds.
Keywords:
family violence, global positioning monitoring system, victim resources, electronic monitoring, protective orders, magistrate, criminal procedure, probable cause, written findings, law enforcement, bail bonds, bail fund, charitable bail fund, nonprofit bail organization, public funds, local government spending, political subdivision, county, city, taxpayer lawsuit
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- Am I correct that some of these funding, especially for trunk highway bonds, they were authorized for
- Am I correct that some of this funding, especially for trunk highway bonds, was authorized for future
- Funding, especially for trunk highway bonds, they were authorized for future years.
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in Highway bonds that were authorized in Highway bonds that were authorized in Prior<00:37:49.960 - >
19 <00:38:00.319>million Bond authorizations from 2024 19 million Bond authorizations
DE
Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Capital Improvement Committee Meeting Jun 24th, 2026
Capital Improvement
Transcript Highlights:
- revenues, $363,875,000 in bonding authority.
- Bond and special fund reprogramming, $75,000 in bonding authority.
- This is just the epilogue that lines out where the bonding authority funding is going to and the projects
- So moving through page 3, that is Section 2 for bonding authority.
- This just authorizes the use of funding that was allocated in prior year bond bills for the Lums Pond
Summary:
The committee met to finalize the FY27 bond bill, beginning with a roll call and a detailed review of updated appropriation amounts. The Comptroller General walked through major changes across agencies, including additions for OMB, the Department of State, DNREC, Agriculture, Education, and Transportation, and explained the funding sources that would cover the total $1.256 billion package. Members then debated several large items, especially the $110 million appropriation for the Diamond State Port Corporation, the $35 million Legislative Hall addition, the $20 million Community Reinvestment Fund, and the $30 million land and building acquisition line. Questions focused on the port project’s costs, expected jobs, return on investment, and whether the state would face future commitments; Secretary of State Charney Patitofunded Chances and other officials testified that the port expansion would create construction and permanent jobs and support long-term economic growth, while some members remained skeptical and objected to the process and spending priorities.
The committee also discussed school construction funding, with officials explaining that additional money would forward-fund projects already in the pipeline and help districts that had been turned down for certificates of necessity. Other items reviewed included funding for park improvements, marina acquisition, the Plummer Center demolition and transfer, the Pyle Center sewer project, the Site Readiness Fund, affordable housing, the Arts Endowment Fund, an unclaimed property task force, and various transportation and community transportation projects. Several members raised concerns about county distribution, minority-party involvement in negotiations, and the scale of certain appropriations, but the majority defended the package as statewide investment and economic development.
The committee then voted on the Section 1 addendum and a series of new and replacement epilogue sections, including provisions for the port project, Legislative Hall minor capital improvements, land acquisition, affordable housing, the Community Reinvestment Fund, downtown development districts, the Rite Aid demolition, the Site Readiness Fund, school construction formula review, and enhanced school capital funding. Most motions carried, with a few recorded no votes or abstentions on the main addendum. The meeting concluded with a motion authorizing technical corrections by the Comptroller General’s office, followed by closing remarks thanking staff and members for their work and noting that this was likely the final bond committee meeting for some participants before adjournment.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Lord, we lift up these leaders whom you have placed in positions of authority.
- On those criminal cases where we do not allow a personal bond, they still can set up a bond to get out
- They can set a dollar bond I suppose or they may choose to set a $50,000 dollar bond because they're
- And he was let out of bond, low bond, so he got out of the low bond and guess what?
- I ask the bill author a question. Do you yield? Yes.
Bills:
SJR1, SB9, SB40, SJR36, SJR1, SJR5, SB9, SB40, SJR1, SB9, SB40, SR62, SR92, SR95, SR108, SR110, SR111, SR113, SR114, SR117, SR120, SB314, SB314
Keywords:
bail denial, illegal aliens, felony offenses, constitutional amendment, law enforcement, bail reform, defendants, pretrial detention, public safety, criminal justice, charitable bail organizations, bail bonds, public funds, political subdivision, injunctive relief, taxpayer rights, bail, criminal justice reform, El Paso, economic development
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- Subdivision three is the bonding authority authorizing the city to issue bonds to finance the projects
- Subdivision three is the bonding authority authorizing the city to issue bonds to finance the projects
- Subdivision three is the bonding authority authorizing the city to issue bonds to finance the projects
- Subdivision three is the bonding authority authorizing the city to issue bonds to finance the projects
- Subdivision three is the bonding authority authorizing the city to issue bonds to finance the projects
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Rather than a criminal law hearing officer be the proper authority for setting the initial bond for a
- bond.
- For the most part, 84% of the bonds being set are cash or surety bonds, 12% are personal bonds, and 4%
- He's back at him, Bond. He's on Bond as we speak right now.
- He was given a cash bond four hours after he was given a bond.
Keywords:
bail reform, defendants, pretrial detention, public safety, criminal justice, charitable bail organizations, criminal procedure, public safety report, victim notification, family violence, bail bonds, public funds, political subdivision, injunction, taxpayer rights, violent crimes, sexual offenses, community safety, constitutional amendment, trafficking
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Senate of the 89th Legislature Feb 19th, 2025 at 11:00 am
Texas Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Author Senator Hughes.
- They can have a magistrate or a JP said bond.
- On those criminal cases where we do not allow a personal bond, that still can set up a bond to get out
- They can set a dollar bond I suppose or they may choose to set a $50,000 dollar bond because they're
- And he was let out of bond, low bond, so he got out of the low bond and guess what?
Keywords:
bail denial, illegal aliens, felony offenses, constitutional amendment, law enforcement, bail reform, defendants, pretrial detention, public safety, criminal justice, charitable bail organizations, bail bonds, public funds, political subdivision, injunctive relief, taxpayer rights, bail, criminal justice reform
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Housing Finance and Policy Committee 3/25/25
Housing Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- You know, and I think that's authored by a Republican or as bipartisan author, so like we face budget
- You know, and I think that's authored by a Republican or as bipartisan author, so like we face budget
- If these public housing authorities are organized like a public housing authority, then they probably
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to public housing authorities agencies to public housing authorities agencies to bring<00:36 - while still in the housing authorities while still in the housing authorities control<00:36:48.200
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 4 on Climate Crisis, Resources, Energy, and Transportation May 15th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- Also, as it relates to language around bond authorization, it's my understanding that the DWR was sued
- without the Legislature's approval at all involved, authority to a department agency to issue bonds
- On the bonding authority, so the bonding authority is not a general obligation bond.
- So the bonding authority is not a general obligation bond.
- The trailer bills before you related to the bonding authority—yes, it's a revenue bond, but typically
Summary:
The Assembly Budget Subcommittee hearing focused on the governor’s May Revision, especially the proposed extension of the cap-and-trade program to 2045 as “cap-and-invest,” the related greenhouse gas reduction fund (GGRF) spending framework, and several trailer bill proposals. Department of Finance staff outlined budget solutions including a $1.5 billion annual General Fund-to-GGRF shift for Cal Fire that would grow to $1.9 billion by 2029-30, continued support for high-speed rail, climate bond implementation, and various environmental and water-related statutory changes. The administration also described proposals affecting the Delta Conveyance Project, water quality planning, groundwater bulletin timing, Exide cleanup funding, and other agency-specific items, though the chair repeatedly asked staff to keep the presentation high-level and save details for the next hearing.
Members from both parties raised strong concerns about the cap-and-invest proposal, arguing that it could reduce or displace funding for transit, affordable housing, active transportation, wildfire prevention, zero-emission vehicles, and other previously committed programs. Several members questioned whether the administration was effectively shifting essential ongoing services like Cal Fire onto a temporary carbon market fund, how the General Fund backstop would work if auction revenues fall short, and whether the proposal would leave enough money for continuous appropriations and future awards. Members also criticized the inclusion of cap-and-invest reauthorization in the budget process and asked for clearer information on the impact to high-speed rail, transit, and other GGRF priorities.
The Delta Conveyance Project and related trailer bill language drew significant opposition from members and public commenters, who argued the proposal would fast-track the project, weaken CEQA-related review, and authorize revenue bond financing without sufficient legislative oversight. Public testimony also included support for maintaining or expanding funding for transit, affordable housing, AB 617 community air protection, offshore wind infrastructure, and ignition interlock programs, while environmental and community groups opposed cuts to wildfire prevention, housing, and school climate-related programs. No votes were taken; the hearing was informational, and the chair said the committee would continue the discussion and receive more detailed responses at the follow-up hearing on Tuesday.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- , then the school district with that approved bond authority goes to the bond house and essentially says
- , then the school district with that approved bond authority goes to the bond house and essentially says
- , then the school district with that approved bond authority goes to the bond house and essentially says
- That's because for those school districts that issued the bonds in that one-year window, those bonds
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bonding ...they've put the bond bonding amounts in a special fund, and then
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- So, last session the legislature authorized $50 million in housing infrastructure bonds.
- All of the housing infrastructure bond authorizations from 2024 and 2025 have been allocated and matched
- All of the housing infrastructure bond authorizations from 2024 and 2025 have been allocated and matched
- All of the housing infrastructure bond authorizations from 2024 and 2025 have been allocated and matched
- highway bonding that is still, um, that's been authorized years past and is still pending sale.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Transportation Finance and Policy Working Group 1/15/25
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- In some years there's not legislation enacted authorizing additional bonds, and from year to year there's
- some variation in trunk highway bonding being authorized in the transportation finance bill or in a
- from authorizing additional bonds and from authorizing additional bonds and from year<00:24:11.039
- <00:24:13.760>
being <00:24:14.039>authorized trunk Highway bonding being authorized - trunk Highway bonding being authorized in<00:24:15.440>
the <00:24:15.679>transportation
Summary:
The Transportation Working Group met on January 15, 2025, with Chair John Kosnik opening by saying the committee expected to pass a transportation bill this year and emphasizing efficient use of transportation revenues, maintenance of roads and transit, and safety. Members and staff introduced themselves, and several representatives noted their interest in roads, bridges, and regional transportation needs. Kosnik also said he had spoken with Representative Kel about leadership arrangements and stressed that bipartisan support would be needed for a transportation bill.
House Fiscal Staff’s Andrew Lee and House Research’s Matt Burus then gave an overview of transportation finance, focusing mainly on highways and transit. Burus explained Minnesota’s highway funding structure, including the constitutional Highway User Tax Distribution Fund and the related Trunk Highway Fund, County State-Aid Highway Fund, and Municipal State-Aid Street Fund. He reviewed the main revenue sources: the motor fuels tax, motor vehicle registration tax, motor vehicle sales tax, portions of the general sales tax tied to auto parts, vehicle rentals and leases, and the retail delivery fee. He noted several changes from 2023 legislation, including indexing of the gas tax, creation of the Transportation Advancement Account, and the retail delivery fee, which began in July 2024 and therefore would affect fiscal year 2025 rather than the fiscal 2024 data shown.
The presentation also covered how highway dollars flow through constitutional formulas, including the 95/5 split from the Highway User Tax Distribution Fund, with the 5 percent set-aside used for town roads, town bridges, and flexible highway purposes such as turnbacks. Burus distinguished trunk highway bonds from general obligation bonds and explained that both are debt-financing tools for transportation projects, but with different repayment sources and uses. No votes or formal actions were taken at this informational meeting.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
larger bonding authorizations and then larger bonding authorizations and then larger catch-up- As you know, when bonds are first authorized by the legislature, they are not all sold at once.
- When bonds are first authorized, they first appear in guideline two.
- I don't remember when they did it, maybe a couple years ago, where they authorized trunk highway bonds
- into<01:25:39.760>
the authorized trunk highway bonds into the authorized trunk highway bonds
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- Senate File 3839 authorizes $200 million in housing infrastructure bonds and makes no policy changes.
- I don't know that<00:35:36.040>
GO <00:35:36.320>bonds that GO bonds that GO bonds would - Other states such as Massachusetts have already taken a step authorizing over 1.6 billion in bonded IT
- . bonds. bonds.
- We bond for much of these things. And it could be GO bonding.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- But bonds, we don't know what they're going to sell at in the market until after the bond is...
- Questions of the author?
- entities for going out for bond.
- And that changes from bond election to bond election. So I think, I think...
- And that changes from bond election to bond election.
Bills:
SJR12, SJR81, SCR39, SB22, SB32, SB241, SB393, SB414, SB458, SB464, SB568, SB583, SB609, SB660, SB693, SB731, SB732, SB746, SB783, SB785, SB897, SB993, SB996, SB1008, SB1029, SB1035, SB1036, SB1120, SB1122, SB1147, SB1163, SB1188, SB1197, SB1209, SB1227, SB1245, SB1267, SB1307, SB1321, SB1332, SB1386, SB1394, SB1396, SB1470, SB1494, SB1537, SB1596, SB1598, SB1610, SB1664, SB1814, SB1822, SB1841, SB1948, SB2065, SB2155, SB2406, SB2407
Keywords:
parental rights, education, constitutional amendment, school choice, child education, tax exemption, ad valorem, tangible personal property, income production, border security, southern border, federal immigration policy, illegal immigration, cartels, transnational cartels, fentanyl, drug trafficking, human trafficking, Operation Lone Star, Texas border
Summary:
The Senate opened with a quorum call, invocation, approval of routine motions, and the reading of gubernatorial nominations and several honorary resolutions. The chamber adopted resolutions recognizing Jack and Jill of America Day and DJ Daniel Day at the Capitol, with multiple senators offering remarks praising youth leadership, perseverance, and public service. The Senate also introduced the Doctor of the Day and then proceeded to a long series of floor actions on bills.
A major focus was Committee Substitute for Senate Bill 568, which overhauls special education funding and services in public schools by moving from a placement-based model to an intensity-based system tied to student needs and IEPs. Senators Bettencourt, Creighton, and Menendez emphasized transparency, parent input, evaluation funding, dyslexia services, and better alignment of funding with actual services; Senator Hinojosa shared a personal story about dyslexia and the importance of early intervention. The bill was advanced on second and third reading and finally passed 30-0. The Senate also passed SB 1396 to prohibit national sex education standards in public schools, SB 2065 on the Texas Emergency Services Retirement System, SB 1664 requiring clearer public disclosure of transmission and distribution utility rate changes, SB 1029 on advertising certain used motor vehicles, SB 1120 expanding rights for family violence victims, SB 1036 regulating residential solar retail transactions, SB 464 creating school-proximity restrictions and penalties for tobacco and vaping sales, SB 1035 giving farmers and ranchers equitable relief from certain local agricultural regulations, SB 1610 addressing civil commitment facility safety and prosecution issues, SB 1197 extending drone restrictions to spaceports, and SB 1386 changing legislative witness immunity from transactional to testimonial immunity.
Another major bill was Committee Substitute for Senate Bill 1188, which updates electronic health record requirements. Senator Kolkhorst said the bill builds on Texas medical privacy law by requiring U.S.-based storage of EMR data, prohibiting recording of voter registration status and credit score information, requiring provider verification and disclosure for AI-assisted diagnosis or treatment recommendations, preserving parental access to minors’ records until age 18, and ensuring EMRs can capture metabolic health and biological sex information. A floor amendment clarified the bill’s scope and enforcement, and the bill passed 23-7. Several measures drew debate, especially SB 414 on bond ballot transparency, where Senators Eckhardt and Menendez questioned whether requiring estimated interest and total debt cost on ballots could be misleading or difficult to implement because interest rates and financing terms can change before issuance or over time. The transcript ends during that discussion, with no final action shown on SB 414.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- So once a bond project, always a bond project. So now the dollars cannot go.
- of appropriation bonds from 2020.
- infrastructure bonds.
- in housing infrastructure bonds. in housing infrastructure bonds. So<00:37:16.680>
Ms. - that the housing infrastructure bonds that the housing infrastructure bonds are<00:37:20.840>
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Pensions, Investments & Financial Services Mar 24th, 2025
Pensions, Investments & Financial Services
Transcript Highlights:
- . bonds.
- Therefore, if you decide to issue revenue bonds or water bonds, for example, through the Texas Water
- We had some general obligation bonds from a previous bond issue that we… And then three months later,
- The bonds are for 30 years.
- It's about private activity bonds, one of the easier types of bonds we're going to hear about today.
Keywords:
local governments, anticipation notes, certificates of obligation, public works, flood control, financial management, local government, municipal financing, private activity bonds, closing definition, real estate finance, bond issuance, government regulation, bond election, general obligation bonds, GO bonds, political subdivision, city bonds, county bonds, school district bonds
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- bond authorizations in the obligation bond authorizations in the budget<00:09:06.720>
and <00:09 - to put the did not have the authority to put the bonding<00:26:42.480>
bill <00:26:42.640> - So, our 2023 bonding authorization, we have approximately $26 million left on that appropriation
- As I recall, if we don't pass a bonding bill, sometimes the Rural Finance Authority is running out of
- As I recall, if we don't pass a bonding bill, sometimes the Rural Finance Authority is running out of
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Capital Projects and Bond Oversight Committee - (5-21-26) - Part 2
Transcript Highlights:
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two, <00:01:45.480>section authorized pursuant to part two, section authorized - development authority. development authority.
- Corporation multi-family conduit bond Corporation multi-family conduit bond uh<00:26:55.840>
- The bonds will be for $5.5 million.
- The bonds will be The<00:27:02.320>
bonds <00:27:02.640>will <00:27:02.760>be <00
Keywords:
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Summary:
The committee first discussed and approved a new airport-related project involving two 60-by-80 corporate hangars. Members asked about how the project would generate revenue, and staff explained that hangar rent and fuel sales would help repay the costs, with more than half of the funding coming from the FAA. The project was approved by roll call vote.
The committee then approved two large capital pool projects: a $1,715,120 roof replacement and skylight project for the Libraries and Archives building in Frankfort, and a $2,105,400 exterior renovation project for several state buildings, including Health and Family Services, the Kentucky History Center, and the State Office Building. After that, the Kentucky Infrastructure Authority presented one loan increase and five grant reallocations. The loan increase was for Springfield’s wastewater treatment plant project, rising by $262,300 to just over $2.88 million because bids came in higher than estimated. Members asked about the delay between approval and bidding, and staff explained the design, environmental review, and state approval process can take one to two years. The committee approved the six action items, and then received informational updates on additional water projects that required no action.
The Cabinet for Economic Development next presented one forgivable loan and 11 KPDI/KPDI EDF grant projects. The loan was a $1 million forgivable loan for the Perry County Economic Development Board to acquire the Coalfields Industrial Building, with repayment forgivable if a project creates at least 75 jobs. The grant projects included site-readiness and industrial development work in Pendleton, Elizabethtown/Hardin, McCreary, Floyd, Marion, Fleming, Graves, Eddyville/Lyon, Caldwell, Mercer, and Johnson counties. Members asked how local match percentages are set and were told they are based on county population and updated every two years; staff also explained that beneficiaries usually provide the match and are reimbursed after submitting costs. The committee approved the action items.
Finally, the Office of Financial Management presented two new debt issues and three SFCC debt issues. The new debt items were a Kentucky Housing Corporation bond authorization of up to $600 million for single-family mortgage revenue bonds, including a $100 million initial transaction, and a $5.5 million multifamily conduit bond for 98 apartments in Lexington. Informational items covered University of Kentucky refunding bonds and Turnpike Authority refunding bonds, both of which produced savings. The three SFCC debt issues for Campbell, Edmonson, and Perry counties were then approved by roll call vote. The meeting ended with brief discussion of the upcoming calendar and scheduling before adjournment.