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HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
HSH Public Hearing - Tue Jan 28, 2025 @ 9:00 AM HST
Human Services & Homelessness
Transcript Highlights:
- I just want to make a comment to the Tax Foundation about the caregiver tax credit and about this one
- Chair: We also have on Zoom the Tax Foundation of Hawaii. Tom Yamachika from the Tax Foundation.
- </c> actually get the full amount of the tax actually get the full amount of the tax credit<00:41:25.440
- </c> um we also have on Zoom um tax um we also have on Zoom um tax Foundation<00:42:20.839><c> of</c>
- </c> the committee tomm yach from tax the committee tomm yach from tax Foundation<00:42:32.640><c> uh
Committee:
House Human Services & Homelessness
Summary:
The committee heard testimony on several measures related to housing, homelessness, caregiving, and tax relief. On HB 431, which appropriates funds for the CAL initiative and HHFDC, the Department of Human Services supported the bill and noted the Governor’s request for $50 million per year for HMS, the need for more permanent supportive housing, and a technical issue with establishing a special fund in session law. The Statewide Office on Homelessness and Housing Solutions strongly supported the measure, describing it as unprecedented funding for CAL projects and linking it to goals of reducing homelessness and expanding housing inventory. Catholic Charities Hawaii, the ACLU of Hawaii, and the Reimagining Public Safety in Hawaii Coalition also supported the bill, emphasizing permanent supportive housing, diversion from jail, and public safety benefits. The chair redirected one testifier to stay on the measure when testimony drifted to another program. Written support was also noted from several organizations and agencies.
The committee then heard HB 225 on squatting. DHS said it appreciated the intent and deferred to the Attorney General and task force members, while noting that outreach on public lands differs from private land, where owner consent is required. The Office of the Public Defender supported the bill and wanted a voice in finding a solution. The Statewide Office on Homelessness and Housing Solutions also said it supported the intent, while opposition from the Kingdom of the Hawaiian Islands and support from one individual were noted.
For HB 280, which would make the community outreach court permanent and appropriate funds, the Judiciary strongly supported the bill, describing the court as a mobile, community-based program serving vulnerable populations and connecting participants to services. The Office of the Public Defender also supported the measure, saying the program has helped people move off the streets and into stable housing and that permanent funding would allow expansion. Written support from the Hawaii Substance Abuse Coalition was noted. The committee then moved to HB 71, creating a refundable family caregiver tax credit, where the Department of Taxation provided comments, the Executive Office on Aging and AARP Hawaii supported the measure, and the Tax Foundation of Hawaii raised concerns about duplication with an existing dependent care credit and the lack of incentives for cost control. The committee next heard HB 753, which would increase the applicable percentage for the household and dependent care services tax credit. Support came from the Executive Office on Aging, Catholic Charities Hawaii, AARP Hawaii, and Hawaii Children’s Action Network, while the Tax Foundation again raised technical concerns about complexity and administration but noted the bill adds guardrails against abuse. No votes were taken during the portion of the hearing provided.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Senate Standing Committee on Appropriations and Revenue (3-10-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- They've taken the 4% tax increase for the last 10 out of 14 years since I've been superintendent, and
- They've taken the 4% tax increase for the last 10 out of 14 years since I've been superintendent, and
- I know you've done nickels and all that, but what is your tax rate?
- Augusta Independent's tax rate is 79.8. Our tax rate at Walton Verona is 11.8.
- </c> different situation in which our tax different situation in which our tax basees<00:31:35.720><c
Summary:
The committee took up several measures related to appropriations and school facilities. House Bill 537 was explained as a technical fix to Kentucky’s opioid abatement settlement framework so the state can accept funds from national bankruptcy settlements under the allocation structure now used by the courts; the bill was supported by the Attorney General’s office and local government groups and received a favorable recommendation. House Joint Resolution 34 authorized release of previously appropriated KCTCS funds for three projects, and members discussed whether KCTCS facilities could be used more broadly for community needs such as public health, workforce, and other services. KCTCS officials said they were open to that idea, and the resolution also received a favorable recommendation. House Joint Resolution 30, concerning the Waters program and release of funds for projects that had remained in design, was adopted by committee substitute and passed favorably.
The committee then heard extensive testimony on House Joint Resolution 32, which concerns school facility gap funding for districts with low bonding capacity. The chair and sponsor explained that the General Assembly had previously asked the auditor and Blue & Co. to analyze district data because of disputes over project costs and bonding capacity. Superintendents from Marion County, Augusta Independent, Williamstown, and Walton Verona described their projects and financial constraints. Marion County and Augusta argued that full gap funding is necessary for new school or multipurpose facility projects that cannot be phased in; Augusta emphasized its old building stock, high poverty rate, and the need for a gymnasium/multipurpose space used for school and community functions. Williamstown described a STEM center and field expansion, saying the project would be delayed for years without full funding. Walton Verona described rapid growth, overcrowding, and an intermediate school project that had risen sharply in cost from the original estimate.
Members asked questions about the accuracy of cost estimates and the scope of the projects, including why some estimates differed from the auditor’s figures and whether the funding requests covered only parts of larger phased plans. The testimony generally supported full funding for the listed districts, with the districts arguing that the projects are necessary for safe, modern learning environments and that local tax effort has already been substantial. Each of the measures considered during the meeting was reported out favorably, with the chair voting no on the resolutions and bills before the committee.
AZ
Arizona 2026 Regular Session
06/12/2026 - House Democratic Caucus Calendar #23
Transcript Highlights:
- You are only going to be covered in short by what is on those tax rolls.
- record of what's on your property because it's used not just for tax purposes but for other things.
- on an improvement for the current tax year or any prior tax year in which the improvement existed, and
- A Roth IRA is a tax-deferred, tax-free, post-payment-of-tax way to grow assets. ...post-payment-of-tax
- It would be moving tax-free education dollars into a tax-free retirement account.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Legislative Audit Commission - Evaluation Subcommittee 5/8/26
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> has a tax expenditure research section. has a tax expenditure research section.
- </c> um a tax-related um a tax-related one<00:26:10.040><c> because</c><00:26:10.440><c> it</c><00:26
- <00:27:07.920><c> expenditures</c> tax expenditures tax expenditures are<00:27:10.560><c> um</c><00:27
- And depending on whether you want to give tax relief or you want to raise taxes, that's where, you know
- </c> information about those um tax information about those um tax expenditures<00:29:50.080><c> and<
Summary:
The subcommittee met on May 8, 2026, to narrow 12 proposed Legislative Audit Commission evaluation topics down to 8-10 semi-finalists for a legislative survey. Deputy Legislative Auditor Jodi Munson Rodriguez reviewed the selection criteria and explained which topics were promising now, which might be better deferred to fall because of timing or data limitations, and which were less promising because OLA would have limited ability to add value. She identified the Board of Behavioral Health and Therapy, DHS Adult Day Services Licensing, DHS county service approvals and provision, MDH mortuary science program, MPCA feedlot permitting, Minnesota paid leave, the Office of Cannabis Management, and several other DHS-related items as candidates, while recommending that DHS system modernization be shifted to an IT audit and that corporate concentration be narrowed substantially if pursued.
Members discussed several topics in detail. Representative Lee asked how a broad DHS county services topic could be narrowed and suggested providing legislators with an addendum listing possible subprograms so they would know what they were ranking; Munson Rodriguez said OLA could add a few suggested subtopics and tailor the survey materials. Representative Hansen urged that the MPCA feedlot permitting review focus on effectiveness and environmental and health impacts, not just speed, and Munson Rodriguez said those kinds of questions could be added. The Office of Cannabis Management was viewed as promising but probably too new to evaluate immediately, and the MDH mortuary science program was also seen as worthwhile but potentially delayed because of overlap with other MDH licensing work.
The Minnesota research tax credit drew the most extended discussion. Munson Rodriguez said it remained a weak fit for OLA because of limited data and unclear program goals, and Senator Rest argued it would be better handled by the Department of Revenue’s research staff or possibly the Legislative Budget Office’s tax expenditure research section. Representative Lee asked whether OLA’s financial audit division could review whether the credit “pays for itself,” but Munson Rodriguez said that would require econometric analysis outside the financial audit division’s normal work. The committee did not take a formal vote in the portion provided, but the chair indicated the tax credit issue should be brought to the full commission agenda, and the meeting continued with additional topic review, including the Attorney General Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, which staff said was heavily federally controlled and already reviewed by federal OIG, limiting OLA’s likely impact.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
House Chamber - Wed Mar 12, 2025, 12:00PM HST - Day 30
Hawaii House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- We ensure that minimum wage earners would not be paying middle-income taxes.
- tax, and we're ranked number eight with the overall tax burden.
- Let's instead use people's tax money to buy back guns.
- ><c> other</c> a lot of taxes compared to the other a lot of taxes compared to the other states<01:15
- </c><01:16:29.960><c> to</c> let's instead use people's tax money to let's instead use people's tax money
WV
West Virginia 2026 Regular Session
Senate in Session Mar 11th, 2026 at 08:02 pm
West Virginia Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- House Bill 4625 relates to the excise tax on property transfers and seeks to update the law in this area
- Engrossed Committee Substitute for House Bill 5162, relating to the sales of tax liens, second reading
- Engrossed committee substitute for House Bill 5162 relating to the sales of tax liens, second reading
- Engrossed Committee Substitute for House Bill 4418, creating the Tax Efficiency Act of 2026.
- limitations for new and existing customers, and Engrossed House Bill 5687, relating to reducing the tax
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
House - Chamber Meeting Jan 26th, 2026 at 11:12 am
New Mexico House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Credit and the Advanced Energy Equipment Corporate Income Tax Credit.
- Credit and the Advanced Energy Equipment Corporate Income Tax Credit.
- Credit and the Advanced Energy Equipment Corporate Income Tax Credit.
- and counties, distributing a portion of gross receipts tax revenue to all cities and counties fund.
- Capital outlay will be spearheaded by the Honorable Chairman of the Tax Committee, along with a team
FL
Florida 2026 4th Special Session
January 21, 2026 - 04:00 PM
Transcript Highlights:
- If you looked at our two largest programs, General Tax and Tax and Child Support, they're as large as
- We'll hit it on a general tax a little bit later.
- keeping our property tax oversight program going.
- Right now, finally, there's general tax. General tax causes a little pause.
- , local option sales taxes, and the like.
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
Community Affairs Jan 14th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- WE HAVE TO TAX CREDIT CONTRIBUTION PROGRAM.
- WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE ON SO ESSENTIALLY BUSINESSES THAT HAVE THAT INSURANCE PREMIUM INCOME TAX
- SO WE HAVE TO TAX EXEMPTION, SALES TAX REBATE SO IF YOU'RE USING BUILDING MATERIALS FOR AFFORDABLE TAX
- LASTLY I'LL SHOW YOU 216, THOSE ARE THE TWO PURPLE DOTS ARE THE TAX CREDIT CONTRIBUTION PROGRAM.
- LIVE LOCAL SALE IS ITS OWN IN THE CAPITAL STACK AND THERE WILL BE TAX CREDITS OR THINGS LIKE THAT BUT
HI
Transcript Highlights:
- tax forms and instructions.
- the Tax Department's computerized tax administration system.
- tax forms and instructions.
- the Tax Department's computerized tax administration system.
- tax forms and instructions.
Committee:
House Labor
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Local Government Committee Jun 17th, 2026
Local Government
Transcript Highlights:
- I want to emphasize this is not a tax increase.
- Importantly, this bill does not impose a tax increase.
- Hercules is a city of 26,000, and we are a low-property-tax city.
- Importantly, this bill does not impose a tax increase.
- Hercules is a city of 26,000, and we are a low-property tax city.
Committee:
House Local Government
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- The argument that people are using fireworks anyway, so we should at least benefit from the sales tax
- Tax revenue received from the sale of aerial fireworks are deposited into the special revenue account
- Tax<00:08:07.560><c> revenue</c><00:08:07.920><c> received</c><00:08:08.280><c> from</c><00:08:08.480
- So sales tax are paid. Jobs are created. Just across the border.
- So sales tax and just base those here. So sales tax are<00:25:51.720><c> paid.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Governor Tim Walz Media Availability 3/6/25
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- now: Minnesota's put our money into things that invested to improve people's lives—public education, tax
- R&D tax credit that will continue to spur the innovation that we're seeing.
- Do you want your taxes cut? Yes. Do you want your services cut? No.
- and improving the R&D tax credit.
- </c> and improving the r uh the R&D tax and improving the r uh the R&D tax credit<00:18:21.280
NM
Transcript Highlights:
- This amendment was brought forward this morning in the House Tax and Revenue Committee.
- In addition to what our tax package brought, they did make some minor changes to the language of the
- So the GRT for medical supplies is no longer in that tax package.
- However, they did add the 1% salary increase for state employees... ...tax and revenue committee.
- So the GRT for medical supplies is no longer in that tax package.
Bills:
SB241
Keywords:
child care, child care assistance, child care subsidy, early childhood education, early childhood care, daycare, preschool, pre-K, Head Start, Early Head Start, Children's Code, early childhood education and care department, ECECD, child care facilities, licensed child care, registered child care, copayments, waitlist, subsidy, federal poverty level
Summary:
The Senate began by outlining the day’s agenda, then received several House messages, including the House’s request for concurrence on Senate Bill 151 and notice that the House had concurred in Senate amendments to House Bills 2, 3, and 70. The Senate also received enrolled bills SB 64 and SB 101, and later adopted committee reports on House Bill 120 and SB 64. The chamber then took up concurrence on SB 151, a tax package that the House amended to remove the gross receipts tax provision for medical supplies, add a 1% salary increase for state employees, higher education, and public schools, extend a high-wage job tax credit, and add sunsets. Senator Hamblen supported concurrence as a friendly amendment, while Senator Cervantes argued the House changes transformed the bill into an unconstitutional appropriations measure and urged a conference committee. The Senate nevertheless concurred, 22-14.
On third reading, the Senate passed House Bill 61, which increases the penalty for aggravated battery on a peace officer from a third-degree to a second-degree felony to align with other sentencing provisions. Supporters, including Senator Cervantes, cited consistency in the criminal code and noted the Sentencing Commission’s endorsement; the bill passed 37-0. The Senate also passed House Joint Memorial 3, directing the Environment Department to convene stakeholders and report on implementation of the PFAS Protection Act, despite a brief exchange over whether the memorial could be read as expanding authority under the existing PFAS law; it passed 22-13.
The chamber then passed several memorials: Senate Memorial 20, amended to include youth and family voices and legislative appointees in a statewide youth violence summit, passed 35-0; Senate Memorial 21, calling for a study of a statewide overdose prevention program, passed 35-0; Senate Memorial 22, which asks the Legislative Finance Committee to convene a working group on domestic violence funding and CYFD-related funding flows, passed; and Senate Memorial 27, urging expansion of the Radiation Exposure Act to compensate New Mexicans affected by atomic testing and uranium mining, passed 34-0. At the end of the session, the Senate received a governor’s message authorizing consideration of SB 74 on cockfighting penalties, followed by a playful Senate response message. The body also agreed to move House Joint Memorial 2 from Rules to the President’s table and then recessed until 8:30 a.m. the next day.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Republican Media Availability 6/4/25
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Um, right now that taxes bill is being looked at.
- Would you vote for for the taxes bill. Would you vote for it?
- Um right now that taxes bill is it?
- Why do members of your caucus not like the skinny tax bills?
- Um, the tax bill, the one that had come out, was actually a Senator Rest bill.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- the issue in three payment of the debt by local governments, including the adoption of an ad valorem tax
- rate and the use of ad valorem tax revenue that a repayment of the debt were for the committee. on Ways
- Higher Education, HB 103, by talks clearly relating to the creation and maintenance of data-based taxing
- These bonds use taxes and bond-related products for providing of criminal penalty or for the committee
- An appraisal district for the Subcommittee on Property Tax Appraisals.
NM
Transcript Highlights:
- And referred to the Senate Health, Public Affairs Committee, then Senate Tax, Business, and Transportation
- title, is ordered printed and referred to the Senate Health, Public Affairs Committee, then Senate Tax
- title, is ordered printed and referred to the Senate Health, Public Affairs Committee, then Senate Tax
- Were printed and referred to the Senate Tax, Business, Transportation Committee, thence Senate Finance
- That's **Senate Bill 67.** To the Senate Tax, Business, Transportation Committee, then to the Senate
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Leadership's Plans for Session / Online Sports Betting Testimony / November Budget Forecast Jan 14th, 2025
Minnesota Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Act, all things that put more real money in people's pockets, if you put together the child tax credit
- , which are Minnesota's largest tax categories for many years.
- We are number 46 when it comes to state and local tax burden across the country.
- are Minnesota's and sales taxes which are Minnesota's largest<00:23:13.240><c> tax</c><00:23:13.600>
- </c> tariffs budget cuts or federal tax tariffs budget cuts or federal tax policies<00:25:43.440><c>
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Arts, Entertainment, Sports, and Tourism Committee Jul 8th, 2025
Arts, Entertainment, Sports, and Tourism
Transcript Highlights:
- Yet many residents rarely have access to these good union jobs and the productions that our tax dollars
- done so much work, many around this table, to ensure that we have the strongest film and television tax
- About two and a half years ago, we stood together to We need tracking in the film tax credit because
- Again, as you talked about taxes, we all pay taxes.
- of this program and further feedback to the legislature for continuous improvements. the important tax
HI
Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
House Chamber - Mon Jan 26, 2026, 10:00AM HST - State of the State Address
Hawaii House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- In our first year together, we doubled the earned income tax credit and the food tax credit and increased
- credit and the food earned income tax credit and the food tax<00:22:00.480><c> credit</c><00:22:01.440
- </c><00:22:07.440><c> to</c> families $88 million less in taxes to families $88 million less in taxes
- Lowering taxes for working like.
- These and all previous tax cuts will be completely preserved, but that we pause the tax cuts plan for