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• Image Industry Incentive Program.
• , and grants.
• One important component of all of our programs is the Film Friendly Texas Certified Community program
• College that has a film program.
• There are high school programs.

Bills: HB4568, HB5458, HB4543, HB2703, HB3728, HCR113, HCR126

Keywords: film industry, incentives, grants, Texas, moving image, economic development, production companies, content standards, HB 5458, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, TPWD, chronic wasting disease, CWD, cervids, deer, elk, moose, wildlife management, game animals, disease management

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• So, and that we want, it's going to be a grant program, basically. We're working with the James B.
• Yeah, I mean, the only programs we have are the programs that we have, right? It's Go-Biz.
• programming for small businesses as California’s flagship trade program.
• Do they have programs? I know your chair right now. Do they have similar programs?
• The program is the California Investment and Innovation Program, or CalIP.

Summary: The hearing focused on the Governor’s Office of Business and Economic Development (Go-Biz) and several related budget proposals. Director D.D. Myers described the California Jobs First economic blueprint, regional planning efforts across 13 regions, and the state’s strategy to target sectors such as ag tech, space, life sciences, semiconductors, and emerging technologies. She also discussed the California brand campaign, export promotion, film tax credits, and the California Civic Media Fund, emphasizing job creation, regional equity, and business attraction/retention. Members raised questions about support for journalism, arts and creative industries, AI’s impact on jobs, foreign direct investment, manufacturing, tariffs, and how the Jobs First framework is being implemented across regions. Go-Biz then presented trailer bill language to extend the encumbrance deadline for remaining Jobs First administrative funds and to codify the Office of Regional Economic Development Initiatives. The department said $95 million of the $100 million Jobs First appropriation had already been deployed to grants for counties and tribes, and members asked for more information on regional outcomes, including Orange County and the North State. Public comment supported Jobs First and the Small Business Development Centers’ role in helping businesses access capital and create jobs. The committee also heard a request for ongoing CalExport funding to replace uncertain federal STEP support; the LAO noted the Legislature may want to weigh whether to backfill federal reductions, while Go-Biz argued the state program is needed because federal support appears unlikely to continue and demand exceeds available funding. The committee next heard the film and television tax credit staffing request. Go-Biz asked for funding for three permanent positions to manage the expanded program, and the LAO recommended approval given the increased workload. The Film Commission reported a sharp rise in applications after AB 1138 and the program expansion, with productions taking place both inside and outside the Los Angeles 30-mile zone and activity spread across the state. Finally, Go-Biz presented a request for one permanent position and one graduate student assistant to support innovation and emerging technologies, including quantum and fusion. Members asked about the use of the state’s quantum funding, and staff explained it would support microgrants, state capacity-building, and workforce education. No formal votes were taken in the portions provided, and the chair indicated some items would be moved and heard later in the agenda.

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• The elimination of the Health Care Innovation Council and Grant Program results in a $51 million reduction
• Program.
• Restoration, $348.7 million; water quality improvement grant program and local water projects totaling
• We have reappropriated funding for the My Safe Florida Home grant program to fully fund program administration
• The Local Government Cybersecurity Grant Program will receive $23.8 million.

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• Our graduate program is the Western Regional Graduate Program, or WRGP.
• access programs they were called student exchange program but we are excuse me, student access programs
• As seen in the table on the slide, the number of schools awarded program grant monies has grown substantially
• the program.
• , especially a program as important as the school safety program.

Keywords: 1182, all

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• This is an amended grant, federal grant, for the Senior Community Service Employment Program.
• These are the DHS grants. Members, do we have any questions on DHS grants?
• This is also a federal grant.
• This is amendment four to an existing grant. It's a federal grant.
• waiver program.

Summary: The committee first considered an $88,000 used tire program contract for District 4 with LTR Intermediate Holdings. Senators raised concerns that the tire district’s revised business plan had not yet been approved and that the contract could worsen cash flow before funding was confirmed. Questions were also raised about procurement language in the RFP that excluded bidders under corrective action plans. After discussion, a motion was made and approved to hold the contract until next month so the tire board could appear and answer questions. Members then reviewed a large slate of methods of finance, alternative delivery projects, and discretionary grants. These included capital projects at ASU Mid-South, Arkansas Tech, Ozarka, UA Fayetteville, UA Little Rock, UAMS, and UCA; a new UCA multi-purpose arena project estimated at $75.5 million; and DHS and Department of Health grants for aging services, substance abuse prevention, mental health, nutrition, hearing-loss follow-up, HIV services, and rural hospital quality improvement. All of these items were reviewed without objection. The committee also heard a ratification request from UAMS for a Family and Medical Leave Act outsourcing contract with FMLA Source. UAMS said an amendment had been prepared but never submitted for review, and payments continued after expiration; members expressed frustration and asked UAMS to review whether other contracts had similarly lapsed. The committee then reviewed numerous construction-related, intergovernmental, out-of-state, and in-state contracts, including airport economic impact study work, parking guidance technology at the University of Arkansas, veteran nursing services, and multiple DHS service contracts. Most items were reviewed without objection, and the meeting adjourned after reports of routine contract amendments and minor contracts were presented for information.

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• , also known as HAP, and the Encampment Resolution Grant Program.
• , as well as many of the programs that California runs through DHCS, Many of the programs that California
• Nearly $47 million in the grants have supported housing programs downtown.
• There are exits to programs.
• They shouldn't grow up in our programs.

Summary: The Assembly Budget Subcommittee on Accountability and Oversight held a hearing on California’s homelessness funding, focusing on the Homeless Housing Assistance and Prevention (HAP) Grant and the Encampment Resolution Grant Program. HCD described new accountability requirements, including regional action plans, stronger reporting and expenditure conditions, housing-element compliance, encampment response plans, and public dashboards that track fiscal spending, service outcomes, and encampment resolution status. Officials said the goal is to use the data to identify underperforming grantees, provide technical assistance, and, if needed, withhold or reallocate funds. Local officials from San Diego, Fresno, and Santa Cruz said the programs have helped expand shelter, outreach, and permanent housing, and that state dollars have leveraged local and federal resources. Mayor Todd Gloria said San Diego has used HAP to expand shelter and safe sleeping options, reduce downtown encampments, and increase housing production, but argued the state’s new accountability website is too high-level and does not fully reflect countywide conditions, behavioral health outcomes, or the role of continuum-of-care partners. Fresno officials said HAP and other state funds helped the city add shelter beds and reduce homelessness, while Santa Cruz emphasized that state funding helped build local coordination and draw in federal vouchers. Members pressed the panel on whether HAP is actually reducing homelessness, what the best success metrics should be, and whether the state is getting full, usable data from grantees and subcontractors. Several members asked for more granular jurisdiction-level reporting, better tracking of nonprofit spending, and clearer measures beyond point-in-time counts and “people served.” HCD said it is still improving HMIS participation and data quality, but can already show outcomes such as exits to permanent housing and returns to homelessness. The hearing ended with broad agreement that transparency is important, but disagreement remained over the best measures of success and how much emphasis should be placed on housing, prevention, shelter, and treatment.

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• </c> saying to the program the program do the saying to the program the program do the interviews<01:
• </c> funded by those grants so the grants are funded by those grants so the grants are really<01:29:11.360
• of that grant.
• It's a 10-year grant.
• </c><02:30:47.399><c> Federal</c><02:30:47.800><c> grant</c> apply for the ahead Grant Federal grant

Keywords: 912, senate, all

Summary: The joint Ways and Means and Health and Human Services committees heard Hawaii Health Systems Corporation’s biennium budget request, with testimony from HHSC leadership on the Hilo/Big Island region (HTH 212) and the Oahu region (HTH 215), plus discussion of capital improvement projects and systemwide partnerships. HHSC described its role as the rural healthcare safety net, serving a high share of Medicare, Medicaid/Quest, and uninsured patients, and said its costs are elevated by state employee fringe benefits, which it said are about 64% compared with roughly 30% in the private sector. HHSC also said pandemic-era federal aid, including relief funds and PPP loans totaling about $100 million, reduced the need for general fund support in prior years. For HTH 212, HHSC said its general fund request for fiscal years 2026 and 2027 was higher than the governor’s recommendation because of rising insurance, pharmaceutical, and contractor labor costs, and because it includes $13.2 million in FY 2026 and $2.3 million in FY 2027 for Epic electronic medical record implementation in East Hawaii. For HTH 215, HHSC said the requested general funds were aligned with the governor’s recommendation, in part because of increased Medicaid reimbursement rates for long-term care facilities under prior legislation. HHSC also said it was restoring a special fund ceiling so the region could spend its cash collections on operations. Members asked about the 64% fringe rate, and HHSC explained the difference was mainly due to defined-benefit pension and retiree health insurance costs, which private hospitals generally do not bear at the same level. Members also asked about the Daniel K. Akaka State Veterans Home, and HHSC said operations would be funded through the general fund corporation for the home when it opens, with management by Ohana Pacific, but no additional legislative operating funds were being requested at that time. Other questions focused on staffing and vacancies, including an abolished procurement position and an ongoing IT help desk recruitment need. HHSC highlighted several capital and partnership projects, including a $25 million state CIP request matched by $25 million from the Benioff family for the Benioff Health Center, an ER expansion and reconfiguration at Corner Community Hospital, and $7.5 million in each fiscal year for Kauai EMR capital funds to join the Epic platform. Testimony also described collaborations with Queen’s, the University of California San Francisco, Hawaii Pacific Health, the Hawaii Cancer Consortium, the Department of Health, and the state hospital to improve specialty access, clinical trials, behavioral health, and patient placement across the system.

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• So, and that we want, it’s going to be a grant program, basically. We’re working with the James B.
• Yeah, I mean, the only programs, the programs that we have are the programs that we have, right, is Go-Biz
• So a portion of that funding, we're looking at establishing a micro-grant program, which will be available
• working with the Energy Commission and the grant programs, to be able to educate different state-level
• working with the Energy Commission and the grant programs, to be able to educate different state-level

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• </c><00:08:46.880><c> The</c> ready response grant program. The ready response grant program.
• This would establish in title 20 a new program to issue grants of not more than $5,000 per grant, totaling
• authority</c> program managers granted APA authority program managers granted APA authority to<00:10
• Program and the Technical Rescue Grant Program only if there are available funds, as a former presenter
• </c> year 2027 for the Ready Response Grant year 2027 for the Ready Response Grant Program<00:25:12.640

Keywords: 927, senate, all

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• It's a six-month program.
• </c> million of uh public health program million of uh public health program support,<00:22:39.200><c
• </c> program and but but water still going. program and but but water still going.
• Um so, to operate one program.
• </c> &gt;&gt; they're doing the grants. &gt;&gt; they're doing the grants.

Keywords: Appropriations - Room 409, 28 January, 2026; 10:30 A.M., 925, all

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• The Outdoor Equity Grants and the Trails Plus Grants are two different programs, both currently within
• My information is that the Land of Enchantment Legacy Fund for FY26 for the Outdoor Equity Grant program
• grow program.
• Correctly, I've been going to the ECECD website and reviewing their pilot program grants that they've
• program.

Keywords: 996, all

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• In the Bright Act, it contemplates both direct spending and it contemplates grant programs.
• Similarly, I wonder how you're imagining the rollout of grant programs and how you're thinking about
• We wanted to hit the ground running on this right away, and having these grant programs gives us the
• , including the Workforce Skills Capital Grants Program.
• We strongly support the reauthorization of the Skills Capital Grants program.

Keywords: 995, all

Summary: The Joint Committee on Higher Education held its second public hearing of the 194th General Court on capital investments in higher education, focusing primarily on H.54, the Bright Act, along with H.1426/S.949 on green and healthy public colleges and universities and deferred maintenance, and H.1424 on capital investment in Gateway Cities. Chairs and administration officials framed the hearing as a response to aging campus infrastructure, climate goals, workforce needs, and federal pressures on higher education, and explained that testimony would be taken from pre-registered speakers in person and virtually. University of Massachusetts leaders strongly supported the Bright Act, describing large deferred maintenance backlogs, aging buildings, and the need to decarbonize campuses while modernizing research and teaching facilities. UMass officials said the bill would help keep tuition and fees lower by reducing the need for campuses to finance capital work themselves, and argued that the investments would improve competitiveness, support research, and create construction jobs. Governor Healey, Lieutenant Governor Driscoll, Secretary of Education Tuttweiler, and Secretary of Administration and Finance Gorzkowicz also backed the bill, saying it would leverage Fair Share surtax revenues for a proposed $2.5 billion in campus investments plus additional targeted grants, and that it would support affordability, economic growth, and climate resilience. Committee members asked about the balance between deferred maintenance and decarbonization, the role of grant programs versus direct spending, the impact on tuition and fees, and how the plan would help campuses respond to federal cuts such as NIH and NSF funding. Administration officials said the proposal was designed to be phased in quickly, with some projects ready to start immediately and others taking longer, and that the grant programs would be structured to include all campuses equitably. They also said the plan would build on an existing financing model similar to the Commonwealth Transportation Fund and could help campuses avoid future tuition increases tied to capital costs. Additional testimony came from MassBay Community College, where President David Podell and recent nursing graduate Deanna Cavazos described the benefits of a new Framingham campus building and said community colleges need modern labs, better planning capacity, and deferred maintenance support to serve the enrollment growth from MassReconnect and MassEducate. State university leaders, including President Mary Grant, President Linda Thompson, and President John Keenan, said their campuses face outdated classrooms, insufficient electrical capacity, and aging facilities, and urged passage of the Bright Act as a long-overdue investment in student success and workforce preparation.

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• Abortion Savings Program to these entities.
• kindergarten program, and bus depreciation.
• So, sunset's not killing the program.
• To make sure that our TTK programs are made whole.
• the transition to kindergarten programs that we have in our schools The TK programs, the transition

Keywords: 904, all

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• So my question is: you said, so the grant, you know, I apply for a grant, I receive the check then?
• The grant would have to go to them.
• And then do I turn in my receipts to the grant program to show that I bought the headstone?
• “So we have a breeding program that we use to have some of our doggos come into our program.
• grant.

Keywords: 959, house, all

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• My folks struggle with when this money is coming out, their notice about the money, the grant programs
• Second, I would like to address state financial aid, specifically the Mass Grant Plus program.
• We respectfully ask the committee to consider adding additional funding to the Mass Grant Plus program
• So we respectfully ask for your continued support of the C3 grant program, the governor's request around
• So we respectfully ask for your continued support of the C3 grant program, the governor's request around

Keywords: 1212, all

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• Recommendations largely maintain the 88th Legislature's investment in mental health matching grant programs
• The grants that are made through the program, those are not rejected and those remain steady. So...
• , changes to block grants, or do we have... programs that receive a substantial amount of federal funds
• They administer the SNAP program, the WIP program, TANF, CHIP, etc.
• We have a grant program that we got, a small grant from the federal government that I'll answer you.

Keywords: 1184, house, all

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• Item D are the discretionary grants for your review today.
• This is an amended grant, a federal grant for targeted youth advocacy initiatives for the Southwest Arkansas
• It helps develop program initiatives or change program initiatives.
• the program.
• This program works, and we need to utilize it.

Summary: The review subcommittee met to consider a supplemental agenda, methods of finance, an alternative delivery project, discretionary grants, and a large slate of construction, out-of-state, and in-state contracts. The supplemental item was a $2.6 million out-of-state contract with Tyler Technologies for a mobile app that would let citizens access state services through a single sign-on, initially for DFA vehicle and licensing services, with possible expansion to other agencies. Members also reviewed five methods of finance, including University of Arkansas projects for roof and cooling tower replacements, a new $100 million academic classroom building at U of A Fayetteville, a police department renovation at UA Fort Smith, and a boiler/chiller replacement at Hope-Texarkana. Questions focused on project timing, why some items were being reviewed after work had begun, and the high estimated cost of the Fayetteville classroom building; DFA explained that projects under $250,000 are not reviewed and that the larger project was still in design and would later seek a guaranteed maximum price. The committee also reviewed two DHS discretionary grants: one for targeted youth advocacy in southwest Arkansas and another adding $582,000 for family-centered treatment training and implementation. In the services contract section, members discussed construction-related contracts, including an ASMSA electrical scope increase tied to three-phase power requirements and the U of A Fayetteville architect contract for the classroom building. Out-of-state contracts included major items such as ACT Education’s $17 million amendment to provide required pre-ACT testing for 9th and 10th graders, a $12.5 million DFA contract for rural health transformation grant management, DHS’s $16.5 million EBT services contract with updated chip-card and fraud-prevention features, and ADH’s special procurement for the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System survey. The committee also reviewed U of A system consulting contracts for financial advisory and sponsorship strategy work, with university officials saying the outside expertise was needed for specialized planning and revenue-generation efforts. In-state contracts covered corrections reentry services, nursing board investigations, foster care and child welfare services, DHS office janitorial work, emergency management radio system expansion, veterans’ home nursing staffing, and UAMS grants consulting. A lengthy exchange centered on the Department of Corrections’ reentry housing contract, with members pressing officials about vacant beds and urging fuller use of the program, while corrections staff said placements depend on screening and eligibility. Another discussion addressed the balance between out-of-state and in-state contracting, with a member noting the large dollar volume going to out-of-state vendors and asking whether Arkansas vendors receive any preference; State Procurement said current law does not allow an in-state preference. The committee approved the supplemental agenda, the methods of finance, the alternative delivery project, the discretionary grants, and the contract lists, and then received routine reports and an emergency action report before adjourning.

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• . up and put in place is or vessel turn in program.
• The advantages to RV to program is that it's a voluntary program that's no cost to the owner.
• One recent change that we've made that has just taken effect as our new block grant program, where local
• program.
• But the majority of removals are done through grant the grant process and because those grants are issued

Keywords: 999, senate, all

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• </c> program integrity and efficiency. program integrity and efficiency.
• </c><00:08:42.399><c> that</c> on people uh getting in programs that on people uh getting in programs
• Some of these projects find it hard to apply through competitive grants.
• So that leave um the grant from them.
• </c> successful in in in the uh grant successful in in in the uh grant consideration<00:26:25.039><c>

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• To help provide relief to distressed hospitals, California has created various loan and grant programs
• We have one bond program, four loan programs, and four grant programs.
• We've also had past programs like the Lifeline Grant program that provided $20 million.
• This is because it provides a limited-term grant to create an ongoing program that, in concept, could
• Already, demand for this program is approximately double the amount we are able to award each grant.

Keywords: 988, house, all