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MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Public Safety Finance and Policy Committee 2/25/26
Public Safety Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- ><c> folks</c><00:37:59.599><c> are</c> restitution payments when folks are restitution payments when
- Um 10% of their court-ordered payments.
- other court-ordered payments and other court-ordered payments.<00:38:20.640><c> This</c><00:38:20.880
- This has been a long-standing payments.
- sort of payment to their restitution,<00:40:56.079><c> right?
Committee:
House Public Safety Finance and Policy
Keywords:
public safety, coercion, criminal penalties, law enforcement, victim protection, HF3496, supervision abatement, earned compliance credit, earned compliance credits, conditional release, supervised release, corrections, Minnesota Department of Corrections, restitution, willful nonpayment, probation-like supervision, release supervision, community supervision, lifetime conditional release, early termination of supervision
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Finance Dec 9th, 2025 at 08:40 am
Transcript Highlights:
- We pay a capitated payment every month. Each member gets a payment.
- So that's where the risk corridor payments will come in.
- You asked a lot of really good questions about the SNAP payment error rate...
- So it doesn't really have to do with the payment error rate issue.
- We feel like we've addressed the payment structures.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> first one is a transition direct payment first one is a transition direct payment of<00:09:36.000
- proposal directs payments for tribal allocation<00:09:50.760><c> payment</c><00:09:51.120><c> changes
- </c> provider who is subject to a payment provider who is subject to a payment withhold<00:35:49.400>
- </c> payment withholds. payment withholds.
- <00:36:20.520><c> withhold</c> payment withhold payment withhold under<00:36:22.480><c> federally</c>
Committee:
Senate Human Services
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Mortgage Finance Authority Act Oversight May 28th, 2025
Mortgage Finance Authority Act Oversight Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- Madam Chair and Senator Padilla, the, uh, the down payment assistance that we currently have is, uh,
- So they would get 4% of that is $12,000 and down payment.
- assistance has helped many folks get into homes with regard to keeping up with their payments.
- versus a rent payment, and that could be $3000 to $400 a month.
- We are doing a 0% down payment, um, program, and we think that this is also very necessary.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- After any SFIA payments have been adjusted to that limit, all SFIA payments are then adjusted proportionally
- This applies to all educational assistance payments received for student loans.
- This applies to all educational assistance payments received for student loans.
- This applies to all educational assistance payments received for student loans.
- House File 2437 that cuts the payments to SFIA.
Committee:
House Taxes
MS
Mississippi 2026 Regular Session
MS Senate Floor - 9 March, 2026; 4:00 PM
Mississippi Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Uh, the amendment prohibits a person who has received money or payment in accordance with their lease
- And so, they would have 60 days to make those payments.
- </c> person who has received money or payment person who has received money or payment uh<00:27:18.760
- Uh and if they showed where payments.
- </c><00:27:44.440><c> of</c> promises uh to prevent the payment of promises uh to prevent the payment
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure Jun 21st, 2026 at 01:00 pm
Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure
Transcript Highlights:
- or a City of Boston tax payment. ...a fee at the Registry of Motor Vehicles, or a state tax payment,
- or a City of Boston tax payment.
- I'm currently working with the Electronic Payment Coalition.
- , efficient card payment systems that we have today.
- And that's one of the things as we move to biometric payments and other forms of payments: security is
Summary:
The committee opened a hearing of the Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure and reviewed a broad agenda including credit card fees, event ticketing, music therapy licensure, senior psychologist licensure, CPA pathways, school mental health licensure, and a bill regulating alternative healing therapies. The chairs explained hearing logistics, including three-minute testimony limits and submission of written testimony, and noted that more than 70 people had signed up to testify. Legislators and advocates were heard out of order throughout the day.
A major portion of the hearing focused on credit card surcharge and interchange legislation. Restaurant owners, the Massachusetts Restaurant Association, NFIB, and other small-business witnesses supported bills allowing merchants to add convenience fees and, in one proposal, preventing card companies from charging fees on tax and tip portions of transactions. They argued that swipe fees are a major and growing cost, especially for restaurants, and that Massachusetts is one of only two states that bars surcharges. Opponents from the Cooperative Credit Union Association, the Electronic Payment Coalition, and the Electronic Transactions Association warned that the proposals would create compliance burdens, fragment the payment system, raise legal preemption issues, and disrupt a system they described as efficient and secure.
The committee also heard competing testimony on ticket transferability and ticket resale. Supporters, including the National Consumers League and Sports Fans Coalition, said bills on ticket transferability would protect consumers who cannot attend events and would increase competition and savings in the secondary market. Opponents, including United Musicians and Allied Workers and theater owners, argued that mandatory transferability would weaken artists’ and venues’ ability to prevent scalping and predatory resale, and that some ticket sellers should be exempt from the broader ticketing regulations. Separate testimony supported music therapy licensure, senior psychologist licensure, and new CPA education pathways, with witnesses saying these measures would expand access to care and strengthen the workforce while maintaining professional standards. The hearing also drew extensive opposition to S.261 on alternative healing therapies, with practitioners and clients arguing it would overregulate spiritual and holistic practices and was not an effective response to human trafficking concerns.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Financial Services Jun 21st, 2026 at 10:30 am
Joint Committee on Financial Services
Transcript Highlights:
- Instead, they risk destabilizing a payment ecosystem. ...benefit consumers.
- The risk of non-payment, a consumer defaulting on their credit card payment, transfers from the merchant
- Based on, and you can't just look at payment processing.
- I worked on payments policy for about 18 years in Washington for U.S.
- I worked on payments policy for about 18 years in Washington for U.S.
Committee:
Joint Joint Committee on Financial Services
Summary:
The Joint Committee on Financial Services heard testimony on several bills focused on financial security, banking regulation, and payment-card fees. Treasurer Deborah Goldberg supported the Massachusetts baby bonds proposal (H. 48) and also endorsed bills on matched savings (H. 1158/S. 737) and retirement planning/Secure Choice (H. 1143/S. 722), arguing these measures would help address wealth inequality, build assets, and improve retirement readiness. Supporters of baby bonds included policy experts and health advocates from Children’s Health Watch and Boston Medical Center, who said early-life asset building could improve long-term economic and health outcomes for children in low-income families. AARP also urged passage of the retirement planning bill, citing the large share of private-sector workers without access to an employer retirement plan. Representative Donato testified for H. 1143, describing it as a voluntary retirement-savings opportunity for workers at small employers.
The committee also heard testimony on H. 3933, concerning the Massachusetts Credit Union Share Insurance Corporation, from former Bank Commissioner Mike Hanson, who defended the state’s full deposit insurance system for credit unions and savings institutions as a longstanding consumer-protection model. The Massachusetts Bankers Association raised concerns about the bill’s technical provisions and broader credit union/bank competitive issues, while the Cooperative Credit Union Association supported related legislation allowing modest compensation for credit union directors (S. 821/H. 1338) and flexibility for state financial institutions to grow through partnerships (S. 723). Bankers opposed those credit union bills, arguing they would upset a level playing field and blur long-standing distinctions between banks and credit unions.
A major portion of the hearing focused on H. 1259/S. 688, which would prohibit card interchange fees on the tax and gratuity portions of restaurant transactions. Restaurant owners and the Massachusetts Restaurant Association testified in favor, saying the fees are a significant and growing expense, especially as most customers now pay by card; they argued the bills would save restaurants money without affecting state revenue. Credit union, banking, and payments-industry representatives opposed the bills, saying interchange helps fund fraud protection and payment infrastructure, that the proposal would create compliance burdens and likely litigation, and that it would mainly affect Massachusetts-chartered institutions while national banks could be preempted. Committee members noted that a commission on payment-card fees is being established and said the issue would be studied further. The hearing also included support for a separate bill on virtual credit cards for dental providers, with dentists saying automatic virtual-card payments impose hidden processing fees and fraud risks.
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- These payments are subject to an aggregate cap of $200 million.
- They're paying a lease payment to the school property, which is... Jurisdiction.
- They're paying a lease payment to the school property, which is not subject to taxes.
- They're paying a lease payment to the school property, which is jurisdiction.
- Not just the lease payment to the school.
Committee:
Senate Senate Finance Committee of Reference
Summary:
The Senate Finance Committee approved the March 16, 2026 minutes and then heard testimony on several bills, with the chair noting that votes would be taken in batches because members were coming and going. HB 2939 would increase the rural qualified facilities tax credit from $20,000 to $25,000 per job for certain projects with initial investment under $2 billion; Lucid Motors supported it as a rural economic development tool, while Senator Epstein questioned the fiscal note and whether the higher credit would actually attract new investment. HB 2950 would authorize tourism improvement areas funded by voluntary lodging assessments to support marketing and tourism promotion; the Arizona Lodging and Tourism Association and Visit Phoenix backed it as a competitive tool for rural and urban destinations, and committee members focused on whether participation was truly voluntary and how the assessments would be administered.
HB 2780 made technical conforming changes to Arizona’s property tax lien foreclosure and excess proceeds sale process, building on a prior law that created a mechanism for delinquent property owners to recover equity; the sponsor and a longtime constituent said the changes would fix timing and credit-bid language so qualified entity sales could work in practice. HB 2502 would let certain elected officials in ASRS retire at normal retirement age without resigning their office, with the employer paying the alternate contribution rate; ASRS said it was neutral, and the sponsor argued the bill would treat elected officials more like other ASRS members. The committee then adopted do-pass recommendations for HB 2502, HB 2780, HB 2950, and HB 2939, with each passing on split votes.
The committee also adopted a striker to HB 2140, allowing the State Treasurer to invest up to 10% of state trust and treasury monies in physical gold or silver bullion held in secure U.S. depositories. The sponsor and the Sound Money Defense League argued it would diversify reserves and hedge against market disruption, while opponents said gold is volatile, costly to store, and not something taxpayers need the state to buy. HB 2140 then passed as amended on a 4-2 vote. Finally, the committee heard HB 2398, as amended, which requires commercial liability insurance for watercraft rentals and peer-to-peer boat sharing programs, with supporters saying it addresses uninsured rental boats and law enforcement concerns; the bill passed as amended on a 6-1 vote. The committee also heard HB 2999, a major housing-finance bill creating state affordability infrastructure districts to finance public infrastructure through bonds and assessments; proponents said it would lower housing costs by spreading infrastructure costs over time, while contractors and some senators raised concerns about payment risk, impact-fee treatment, and whether savings would reach homebuyers. After adopting a striker and hearing extensive questions, HB 2999 passed as amended on a 6-1 vote.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Human Services Finance and Policy Committee 2/20/25
Human Services Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:18:09.280><c> underpayment</c> happening over payment underpayment happening over payment underpayment
- It doesn't say if we find other issues that would cause us to want to withhold payment.
- It doesn't say if we find other issues that would cause us to want to withhold payment.
- <00:59:48.640><c> representative</c> payment representative payment representative Anderson<00:59:51.520
- payments to Providers um rather than payments to Providers um rather than grants<01:26:06.320><c> and
Committee:
House Human Services Finance and Policy
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety - 03/18/26
Judiciary and Public Safety
Transcript Highlights:
- ,</c> responsibility for contract payments, responsibility for contract payments, homeowner<02:03:03.920
- of the payments and wants to continue to make 100% of the payments.
- I think an oral... making any payments for the last 6 making any payments for the last 6 months,<02:35
- respondent could be trying to make payments, could be making payments to the petitioner.
- <02:37:38.120><c> making</c> trying to make payments, could be making trying to make payments, could
Committee:
Senate Judiciary and Public Safety
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Commerce Finance and Policy Committee 2/19/25
Commerce Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- This includes breakdowns on reinsurance payments by health plan and product.
- This includes breakdowns on reinsurance payments by health plan and product.
- This includes breakdowns on reinsurance payments by health plan and product.
- This includes breakdowns on reinsurance payments by health plan and product.
- Provider, even though that payment is retrospective.
Committee:
House Commerce Finance and Policy
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House state government committee hears Gov. Walz's anti-fraud package 3/20/25
Transcript Highlights:
- beginning, and I am carrying House File 2370, which is a bipartisan bill which is also the program payment
- </c> and expanded authority to stop payments and expanded authority to stop payments and<00:04:04.959
- </c><00:04:08.319><c> from</c> agencies to withhold payments from agencies to withhold payments from
- This gives us an earlier intervention that we can use before payment. Withholds challenge it.
- This gives us an earlier intervention that we can use before payment.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Mental Health, Substance Use and Recovery Jun 21st, 2026 at 01:00 pm
Joint Committee on Mental Health, Substance Use and Recovery
Transcript Highlights:
- Altman said, out of the bundled payment and have it separate.
- cap and subcap payment.
- Our average length of stay is 13 days, so that's the one bill, equitable payment.
- We also have problems with payments from some of these MCOs.
- be available in addition to, not substituted for, existing primary care payments.
Summary:
The Joint Committee on Mental Health, Substance Use and Recovery held a public hearing on 14 bills focused on insurance, parity, opioids, behavioral health access, and mental health system reform. Chair Mindy Domb and Vice Chair Robyn Kennedy outlined hearing procedures and noted the committee would accept written testimony. The hearing featured testimony from legislators, providers, advocates, and behavioral health organizations, with most speakers urging favorable reports on the bills they addressed.
A major topic was psychiatric collaborative care, including H. 222/S. 1390, which would raise reimbursement for collaborative care codes to at least Medicare levels and allow billing outside the MassHealth primary care subcapitation model. Supporters said the model improves access, outcomes, and cost savings by embedding behavioral health in primary care, and several witnesses described successful implementation in practices and schools. Committee members asked questions about how the model works, what specialties use it, barriers to adoption, and whether copays, deductibles, and subcapitation rules should be changed. Witnesses also supported related innovation legislation, including H. 2224, which would create a mental health innovation fund and support nontraditional trauma-healing approaches.
Other bills discussed included H. 2212, which would require prescribers to discuss opioid and pain-medication risks, alternatives, and addiction/overdose concerns with patients or guardians; H. 2232 and H. 2233, which would address equitable payment and equitable access for behavioral health providers serving MassHealth patients; and S. 1406, which would add opioid maintenance treatment information to MassPAT and allow patient-authorized access to that information. Witnesses also strongly backed S. 1399, which would set targets to increase behavioral health spending within the overall health care cost benchmark, arguing that Massachusetts underinvests in behavioral health and that greater investment could reduce emergency, hospitalization, homelessness, and criminal justice costs. No votes were taken; the hearing concluded after testimony and committee questions.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 5 on State Administration Feb 18th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- received by a taxpayer from the federal government for services in the uniform services, and annuity payments
- It was a timing and a fiscal issue, so this covers payments that are made in 2025 or later.
- Recognizing that there are payments that would be made prior to that related to other fires, but also
- Distinction is the timing of the settlement payment itself.
- So if the settlement payment is made in 2024 or prior, retroactively, you're still going to have to do
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Senate Standing Committee on Health Service (3-25-26)
Transcript Highlights:
- It also ties reimbursement to quality metrics and aligns payments more closely with Medicare rates.
- It also ties reimbursement to quality metrics and aligns payments more closely with Medicare rates.
- </c><00:12:02.800><c> more</c><00:12:02.960><c> closely</c> metrics and aligns payments more closely
- metrics and aligns payments more closely with<00:12:03.560><c> Medicare</c><00:12:04.400><c> rates.
- parity for physicians in payment parity for physicians in underserved<00:13:09.040><c> communities,<
Summary:
The committee met with a quorum and took up a series of health-related measures. House Bill 178, on the psychiatric collaborative care model, was presented by Rep. Kim Mosher and psychiatrist Arthur Oliva. They said the bill would let primary care providers address mental health needs more quickly with psychiatrist consultation, reduce long wait times, and save money. Members voiced support, and the bill passed 7-0 with favorable expression and consent.
House Bill 387, presented by Speaker Pro Tem David Meade, would keep veterinarians excluded from KASPER reporting requirements and instead add two veterinarians to the Controlled Substance Council. Meade argued that veterinary prescribing is difficult to track by animal, that prior efforts created complications, and that rural Kentucky needs the flexibility. A senator asked about possible diversion of veterinary opioids to humans; Meade said there was no substantial evidence of widespread abuse. The bill passed 9-0 with favorable expression and consent.
House Bill 676, by Rep. Rebecca Raymer, was amended from creating a health data utility to directing LRC to study best practices for one during the interim, with a report due December 1, 2026. Members said the state needs a coordinated way to use health data. The amended bill passed 9-0 with favorable expression and consent. House Bill 689, presented by Rep. Amy Neighbors and Dr. Heidi Marley, would authorize a Medicaid state-directed payment program for qualifying hospital-affiliated physician and non-physician services, pending federal approval, with supporters saying it would improve access in underserved areas, support provider retention, and bring in about $29 million annually in federal funds without using state dollars. It also passed 9-0 with favorable expression and consent.
Finally, House Joint Resolution 24, presented by Rep. Kim Fleming, would direct the administration to withdraw a previously required community engagement waiver request because it is no longer needed. The resolution passed 9-0 with favorable expression and consent. The chair noted the next meeting might be April 1, though no bills were currently scheduled, and the committee adjourned.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Veterans and Federal Affairs Jun 21st, 2026 at 01:00 pm
Joint Committee on Veterans and Federal Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- system would save municipalities time and money and would be consistent with direct, sound direct payment
- By streamlining the benefits and shifting the payment to the state's municipalities, we can focus on
- You said that the payments to the veterans remain the same, which is important. Thank you.
- You said that the payments to the veterans remain the same, which is important.
- The state would be on the hook for 100% of the payments.
Summary:
The Joint Committee on Veterans and Federal Affairs held its first public hearing of the 2025–2026 session, with House Chair Rep. Joe McGonagle outlining the committee’s focus on veterans’ benefits, military families, and related policy priorities. He noted the committee’s recent record of advancing major veterans legislation, described the hearing as hybrid, and explained that testimony would be limited to three minutes. The committee then heard testimony on several bills, including H. 3886/S. 2503, H. 3863/S. 2480, and H. 3859, among others.
Melissa Willett of the Department of Defense and Rep. John Stanley testified in support of H. 3886/S. 2503, which would expand support for military families by improving school open enrollment flexibility, special education continuity, concurrent jurisdiction for juvenile matters on military installations, and coordination around military protective orders. Committee members questioned the juvenile jurisdiction and protective-order provisions, with concerns raised about federal versus state authority and due process; witnesses said the jurisdiction change would be case-by-case and that military protective orders are commander-issued decisions that could be used as evidence in civilian proceedings. The Department of Defense said the proposal aligns with priorities from military stakeholders and other New England states.
Jim Keene testified in support of H. 3863/S. 2480, seeking a cost-of-living adjustment for veterans’ benefits and extending certain benefits to Guard and Reserve members killed on active duty. Allie DeBateau of the Massachusetts Municipal Association testified on H. 3859, which would streamline veterans benefits administration by having the state pay benefits directly rather than reimbursing municipalities quarterly; she said this would reduce local administrative burden while leaving local veterans service officers’ roles unchanged. Committee members asked about municipal support and the fiscal impact, and the hearing concluded with no votes taken, followed by adjournment.
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Monday, March 31, 2025)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- She just wanted the payment she was owed.
- SHE JUST WANTED THE PAYMENT SHE WAS OWED.
- H.R. 1152, the Electronic Filing and Payment Fairness Act...
- I rise in support of H.R. 1152, Electronic Filing and Payment Fairness Act.
- I rise in strong support of my bill, the Electronic Filing and Payment Fairness Act.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- enrolling with Medicaid or continuing to receive payments.
- . payments. payments.
- based on what decide to suspend payments based on what we're<01:01:26.520><c> doing.
- And we don't ask them to suspend payments at any point.
- ,</c><01:33:39.440><c> that</c> is false or ineligible for payment, that is false or ineligible for payment
Committee:
Senate Human Services
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Health and Human Services - 01/30/25
Health and Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- Do we withhold payment?
- Do we withhold payment?
- Do we withhold payment?
- Do we withhold payment?
- Do we withhold payment?
Committee:
Senate Health and Human Services