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NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
House - Chamber Meeting Oct 1st, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- So what someone pays in December versus what they're going to pay in January, whether they receive assistance
- a month to paying $2,000 a month.
- Paying the co-pays that you have to.
- Because instead of having individuals of higher income paying for those that are paying sort of $0, we're
- So, the family of four paying $520 is now paying $2,200. That's an increase of $20,000 a year.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- The patient doesn't pay it, and the health plans don't pay it, so the provider has to pay it, and it's
- </c><00:11:00.920><c> that</c> company is not going to pay that company is not going to pay that tax<
- and the health insurer is under no requirement to pay.
- <00:57:43.720><c> taxes</c> pay taxes pay taxes here<00:57:45.799><c> is</c><00:57:46.119><c> one</c>
- </c> that explanation you don't have to pay that explanation you don't have to pay um<01:05:36.079><c
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- We pay them.
- paying less.
- paying they're actually<00:57:55.280><c> paying</c><00:57:55.520><c> less</c> actually paying less actually
- </c> taxpayers pay less? taxpayers pay less?
- </c> to pay for these interest groups. to pay for these interest groups.
MO
Missouri 2026 Regular Session
Special Committee on Property Tax Reform Jan 13th, 2026 at 12:00 pm
Special Committee on Property Tax Reform
Transcript Highlights:
- No doubt about it—we have to pay our bills. Oh, yeah. No doubt about it—we have to pay our bills.
- Well, if we need to pay the bills, we need to find the right way to pay them and not against our citizens
- Which would make them pay more money on their residences.
- , I still have to pay for this service.
- I have to pay lawyers, or I have to pay the, I've done a few myself, but yeah.
MO
Transcript Highlights:
- He is a tax-paying citizen.
- So Kansas City Police Department, the state pays for it, or Kansas City pays for their settlements?
- have it to pay for it.
- Attorney under its umbrella to pay for.
- I'm someone who pays taxes in the city of St. Louis.
Summary:
The committee on Crime and Public Safety held public hearings on House Bill 3175 and House Bill 3066. HB 3175, called Mason’s Law, was presented by Rep. Chris Brown as a system to let the Department of Revenue, Missouri Highway Patrol, and MULES alert officers during traffic stops if a driver may have a disability or health condition affecting communication. Brown described a traffic stop involving a young man with autism and said the bill would allow a physician-verified designation tied to license plates and driver records. Testimony in support came from Mason and his mother, who said the bill could prevent dangerous misunderstandings, along with a friend, a speech-hearing association representative, and Kansas City police, who said officers already receive crisis-intervention training. No opposition testimony was offered.
HB 3066, by Rep. Brad Christ, would clarify parts of the new St. Louis City police governance structure, including responsibility for civil liabilities, budgeting, and extending the transition director’s term. Christ said the bill is meant to clean up language from last year’s police governance changes and address disputes over who pays for lawsuits arising from different time periods, while also allowing the Board of Police Commissioners more flexibility to move money within its budget. Several witnesses and members raised concerns that the bill would weaken the city’s Board of Estimate and Apportionment, reduce transparency and checks and balances, and shift financial burdens onto city taxpayers and vital city services. City representatives opposed the bill and urged waiting for a memorandum of understanding to resolve the issues locally, while supporters from the police board, the police officers association, and the Attorney General’s office said the bill would provide needed clarity and efficiency and help resolve lingering liability questions.
No votes were taken on either bill during the hearing. At the end of the meeting, the chair announced that several other House bills and a House resolution would not be executed that day and might be heard later.
FL
Transcript Highlights:
- When the rate went to 8%, banks were paying 1.92%.
- When the rate went to 8%, banks were paying 1.92%, 192 basis points.
- The bottom line is in 2006-2007, banks were paying 16 times more.
- In 2006-2007, banks were paying 16 times more than they were paying with the same interest rates in 2016
- , or supposed to pay, rather.
Summary:
The committee heard several bills and amendments, beginning with CS/SB 498 on trust fund interest for IOTA accounts. The sponsor said a 2023 Florida Supreme Court rule sharply increased interest paid into legal aid funding, creating a windfall and making participation difficult for banks. An amendment was adopted requiring savings institutions to pay the higher of 0.25% or the highest comparable rate offered on certain non-IOTA accounts, and the bill then passed favorably after testimony from banks, legal aid representatives, and other stakeholders both supporting and opposing the measure.
The committee also approved CS/SB 232, which clarifies Florida’s consumer collection law applies only to phone calls during restricted hours and not emails or text messages, after a delete-all amendment and supportive testimony from industry groups. It then approved SB 132, as amended, to designate gold and silver as legal tender and set rules for custody, audits, electronic transfer, and government acceptance of payments; supporters called it a sound-money measure, while the banking association said it still had unresolved technical concerns.
Later, the committee passed SB 1466 to create a trust fund for the My Safe Florida Home Program, with an amendment funding it from 20% of collected insurance premium tax revenue. It also considered SB 1206 on transportation network company insurance, reducing coverage during the “dead-leg” period before a rider is picked up from $1 million to lower limits; the bill drew sharp opposition from trial lawyers and support from insurers and some business groups, and the committee adopted a clarifying amendment before reporting the bill favorably. Finally, CS/SB 924 on fertility preservation for cancer patients was amended several times to narrow scope and clarify coverage rules, then passed favorably after debate over cost, preauthorization, and post-treatment storage obligations. The committee adjourned after allowing technical and conforming changes to implement the adopted amendments.
NM
Transcript Highlights:
- And so we brought up those pay, we've adjusted the pay bands, we're doing pay studies.
- Adjusted the pay bands, we're doing pay studies.
- I drive occasionally, and I pay way more into it.
- vehicle, they're going to pay. $22.37 a year.
- I want to pay my fair share.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> what the correct appropriation is to pay what the correct appropriation is to pay those<00:04:32.440
- Every one of them paying district.
- So if we were going to pay off this house by 2048, present projections are we're going to pay it off
- </c> we're earning enough so that we can pay we're earning enough so that we can pay a<00:18:51.600><
- </c><00:21:42.640><c> off</c> overcharging and start not paying off overcharging and start not paying
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
Senate in Special Session B Jan 28th, 2025
Florida Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- that person is going to pay three times the resident of Tallahassee is going to pay.
- You pay for risk to get a free education, but you won't pay for a 19-year-old kid who obeys the law is
- We don't need taxpayer dollars to pay for these kids.
- It's not one line; you pay for all kinds of problems.
- I am paying the most and not insuring myself; I am paying the most to cover someone else's insurance.
Keywords:
accountants, Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants, advocacy, legislation, business issues, memorial, law enforcement, sacrifice, tribute, community support, service, community, Holocaust, remembrance, antisemitism, human rights, education, Holocaust Remembrance Day, memorialization, sexual assault
AR
Arkansas 2026 1st Special Session
STATE AGENCIES & GOVT'L AFFAIRS-SENATE AND HOUSE May 6th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- So that was part of the pay plan that went into effect last summer, that now we pay them, what did you
- Now, we can say we're paying these people adequately, and we are paying them, based on the rate study
- , what other states pay.
- When the new pay plan was implemented, one of the goals behind it was to, because the pay was increasing
- Everybody is paying.
Summary:
The Joint State Agencies committee met to approve the October 8, 2025 minutes and then held an extended hearing on the death of Zachary Moore at the Southeast Arkansas Human Development Center. DHS officials Lori McDonald, Jennifer Brise, and Melissa Weatherton described the HDC system, staffing and resident needs, and said Moore died after being held in a prone restraint for about 13 minutes, followed by a delayed chemical restraint and delayed CPR. They said the family settled a wrongful death claim for $725,000, 13 staff were terminated, the facility leadership was changed, and at least five staff had been criminally charged, with the death certificate later described as homicide and the cause of death as physiologic stress associated with struggle and prone restraint.
Members pressed DHS on why the family was not kept informed, whether there was a written restraint protocol, how staff are trained, and why the agency did not have more complete information ready for the hearing. DHS said staff receive CPI restraint training, annual restraint training is mandatory, and a consultant is reviewing policies, retraining staff, and conducting a root cause analysis under a directed plan of correction from the Office of Long-Term Care. Legislators also raised broader concerns about low pay, staffing shortages, use of float and contract staff, and a waiting list of about 2,000 people for home- and community-based care. DHS said it is working on a retention and recruitment plan and a rate report for certain PASS services, but that the PASS rate study does not cover CNA pay.
Several members said the incident reflected both a failure of restraint practice and a broader staffing and oversight problem. DHS acknowledged that prone restraint should not have been used, that the chemical restraint was given at the wrong time, and that multiple breakdowns occurred in supervision, communication, and equipment use. The committee also discussed whether there should be more regular independent audits of HDC policies, and DHS said it does not currently have a separate annual policy audit beyond existing oversight. At the end of the meeting, the committee asked DHS to keep it updated on recruitment, consultant reports, and to contact Moore’s mother about the communication she had been promised. The meeting adjourned without any additional formal action beyond approving the minutes.
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- to the state, and we would have to convert that ourselves to dollars to pay the agencies.
- And that involves raising taxes on billionaires so that they pay their fair share.
- But the argument comes down too often: well, hey, all these people are paying taxes.
- It's adverse if you have to pay more money than you otherwise would have.
- It's adverse if you have to pay more money than you otherwise would have.
Keywords:
public funds, virtual currency, bitcoin, investment, Arizona Strategic Digital Asset Reserve Act, state treasurer, retirement system, state payments, cryptocurrency, Arizona law, payment methods, government transactions, tax lien, property tax lien, real property tax lien, foreclosure, right of redemption, redeem, excess proceeds, county abatement lien
ID
Idaho 2026 Regular Session
Agenda Feb 10th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- It's my understanding that counties are paying for that.
- Estate recovery system contractor—so we're paying 50%...
- Director, you mentioned milestones for paying out the contracts.
- So we're paying them operating.
- We pay them through SWICAP. So I'm happy to provide any more detail.
Summary:
The House Health and Welfare Committee approved the February 5, 2026 minutes and then heard a lengthy budget presentation from Department of Health and Welfare Director Juliet Sharon and Medicaid Director Sasha O’Connell. The department outlined numerous supplemental and line-item requests across Medicaid, child and family services, welfare/self-reliance, and support functions, including funding for state hospital billing authority, Medicaid caseload and cost growth, rural health transformation staffing and program funds, child care capacity and program integrity work, kinship navigation, home visiting, and IT and procurement modernization. The committee also discussed the department’s reorganization and the need for additional procurement support for large Medicaid contracts.
Much of the discussion focused on Medicaid spending growth, especially in disability services and behavioral health. Sharon said higher utilization and more intensive services, including residential habilitation, youth residential treatment, and substance use services, were driving costs. Members asked about safeguards against provider overuse or steerage; the director said the department uses annual assessments, internal reviews, data mining, and referrals to program integrity, and that some provider behavior had already prompted a proposed rate reduction for residential habilitation. She also explained that the department is seeking to maintain contractor support for disability assessments rather than absorb the work in-house.
The committee also reviewed the department’s response to budget reductions and federal changes. Sharon explained the 4% provider rate reduction, the resulting savings, and the need for an additional $22 million in general funds to balance Medicaid, with options for further cuts still before the legislature. Other topics included the state’s Medicaid estate recovery and program integrity contractors, the impact of new SNAP administrative cost-sharing rules, Medicaid work requirements and more frequent eligibility reviews under state and federal law, and a request for three dedicated procurement staff in the Department of Administration to speed Medicaid contracting. No further votes were taken beyond approval of the minutes, and the committee adjourned to attend the floor session.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Banking and Finance Committee Apr 21st, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- We are the people who have to pay for the chargebacks.
- We are the people who have to pay for the chargebacks.
- Fine, you pay that, right?
- The state is paying all the fees and startup and organizing?
- Okay, but the state of California would be paying... ...paying whatever service fees, the cost of operating
Summary:
The Assembly Banking and Finance Committee heard several bills, beginning with AB 407, which would expand the California Pollution Control Financing Authority. The author said the measure would increase flexibility and access to resources, and the bill was approved 7-0 and sent to the Committee on Local Government. The committee also adopted the consent calendar, which included AB 76, by a 7-0 vote.
A lengthy portion of the meeting focused on AB 1065, which would prohibit swipe fees on the sales tax portion of credit card transactions. Supporters, including small business owners, restaurant and grocery representatives, and a payments-policy expert, argued the bill would reduce costs for merchants and consumers and rein in dominant card networks. Opponents, including banks, credit unions, and payment industry groups, argued the bill is likely preempted by federal law, would be difficult to implement, and could disproportionately affect community banks and credit unions. After extensive questioning about preemption, fraud, implementation, and consumer impacts, the committee rejected the bill on a 6-0 vote, but then granted reconsideration by a 7-1 vote.
The committee then heard AB 1365, which would create the Cal Account Program, a zero-fee, zero-penalty state banking account for unbanked and underbanked Californians. Supporters said the program would help low-income households, survivors of abuse, and others facing barriers to traditional banking, while opponents from community banks and credit unions argued existing low-cost accounts and the Bank On program already address the need and raised concerns about cost, feasibility, and duplication. The bill advanced on a 6-0 vote and later received enough votes on the reopened roll to move forward to the Committee on Labor and Employment.
The committee also approved AB 1052, which would create a legal framework for digital assets and address unclaimed digital property and restrictions on public officials issuing or promoting digital assets, and AB 1180, which would create a pilot program for paying state fees with digital financial assets and require a report on broader adoption. Both bills passed with broad support after brief testimony and discussion. Final roll calls later confirmed AB 1052 and AB 1180, along with AB 407 and AB 1365, were moved out of committee.
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:41:36.440><c> for</c> whole so we're actually paying for whole so we're actually paying for students
- </c> system that the state used to pay system that the state used to pay towards<00:42:48.800><c> that
- [No questions.] room all of us are paying for this along room all of us are paying for this along with
- </c><02:30:28.120><c> for</c> Bill there is no way to pay for Bill there is no way to pay for Universal
- </c> Hampshire the choice to make others pay Hampshire the choice to make others pay for<02:37:01.120
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
Senate Energy and Natural Resources (05/06/2025)
Energy and Natural Resources
FL
Florida 2026 Regular Session
FL House Floor Session - 2026-05-29 (10:00AM Session)
Florida House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Parents pay nearly $800 to $1,400 a month for child care.
- Parents pay nearly $800 to $1,400 a month for child care.
- Our state employees are having difficult times paying their bills, paying for child care, paying their
- And so I know there's nothing we can do about pay raises this year.
- And really, even at this point, Florida ranks last in state pay.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- We need to have a conversation about what we pay the governor, what we pay the lieutenant governor, the
- They deserve this pay raise. They need this pay raise.
- I say that because not coming through with a pay raise and a much-deserved, much-needed pay raise will
- I say that because not coming through with a pay raise and a much-deserved, much-needed pay raise, not
- coming through with a pay raise and a much deserved, much needed pay raise will have an effect, a very
Summary:
The House met in a late-session floor session that began with prayer, pledges, quorum, and a series of excused absences and Senate messages reporting action on numerous bills, conference committee appointments, and conference reports. Members also adopted a memorial resolution honoring Mark James Hanna, a Capitol lobbyist and advocate for nurses, and a congratulatory resolution for Rishi Tarumalasetti, an eighth-grade civics bee winner from Katy. The chamber also received and recorded a parliamentary colloquy about an unusual Senate request on SB 293, with the Chair stating the House could not recede from only part of its amendments and could not suspend the rules because the bill had not been returned from the Senate.
The bulk of the session was devoted to taking up conference committee reports and related procedural resolutions, especially the state budget. The House adopted a resolution allowing the SB 1 conferees to go outside the normal bounds, then adopted the SB 1 conference report on a 107-21 vote. Debate on the budget centered on public education funding, tax relief, health care, corrections pay, and judicial compensation, with supporters calling it a responsible compromise and opponents arguing it was overly expansive and insufficient on property tax relief. The House also adopted a technical correction resolution tying judicial pay increases in SB 1 to the House version of SB 293, and members discussed at length the relationship between judicial salaries and legislative pensions.
The chamber then adopted a long series of conference reports on measures covering topics such as school library review and book challenges (SB 13), SNAP restrictions on sweetened drinks and candy (SB 379), hospital price transparency (SB 331), nursing home accountability (SB 457), school district personnel compensation conflicts (HB 3372), property notice rules (HB 2011), research and development tax credits (SB 2018), and several other bills affecting elections, permits, education, and criminal justice. Most reports passed by wide margins, though some drew significant opposition, especially SB 13 and SB 379. The House also granted several Senate requests for conference committees and introduced additional resolutions to suspend conferee limits on various bills as the session moved toward adjournment.
AR
Arkansas 2026 Regular Session
EDUCATION COMMITTEE - SENATE AND HOUSE Jun 1st, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- I love merit pay. I love all of that."
- I love merit pay. I love all of that. But I do have a question.
- Salaries include not only base salary, but also bonuses like merit pay and extra duty pay, which...
- Salaries include not only base salary, but also bonuses like merit pay and extra duty pay, which is pay
- Special education incentive pay, are there any?
AL
Alabama 2026 Regular Session
Alabama House Ways and Means Education Committee Apr 1st, 2026
Ways and Means Education
Transcript Highlights:
- 3 or 4%—you're paying the percentage.
- 3 or 4%—you're paying the percentage. >> That's yes, sir.
- </c> would still be paying it. would still be paying it.
- </c><00:18:08.960><c> the</c> a fee that we've been paying the a fee that we've been paying the government
- </c><00:19:03.760><c> the</c> dollar amount that you're paying the dollar amount that you're paying the
LA
Louisiana 2026 Regular Session
Ways and Means Mar 17th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- They pay $200,000 for that house.
- So when I go to pay it this next time, the CPI is at 5%, then... ...this next bill I would be paying,
- And what we are all been paying on everything, all kind of goods and everything that we have been paying
- I mean, you've got to pay somewhere.
- Citizens pay more, businesses pay more, and in many cases, that money sits in surplus accounts.
Summary:
The Ways and Means Committee met on March 26 and first reported favorably HB 287, which renews the Louisiana Tax Commission’s authority to levy certain fees used to fund its operations. The author and Tax Commission representatives said the fee supports the commission’s appeals and assessment work and is not a new charge. The committee then adopted a technical amendment and reported HB 553 favorably as amended; that bill expands the Assessor Certification Program Committee from 5 to 11 members and adjusts education and recertification requirements for assessors.
The committee then took up HB 412, a constitutional amendment on property assessment and reappraisal. After an amendment in concept was adopted to remove the bill’s proposed 30-year homestead exemption, members questioned the remaining provisions, which would tie annual assessment growth to CPI and move the reassessment cycle from four years to five. The author, assessors, and local government representatives debated whether the proposal would create predictable tax growth or instead leave many properties assessed below market value and shift burdens to businesses and local services. The author ultimately voluntarily deferred HB 412 and its companion HB 340 for further work.
Members next heard HB 514 and HB 961, both senior-property-tax measures, but both were voluntarily deferred after brief discussion and technical amendments. HB 514 would have created an optional additional homestead exemption for certain homeowners age 65 and older, phased in over time and tied to income and a surviving-spouse provision; HB 961 would have extended related eligibility to certain trusts. The committee also deferred HB 515, 543, and 540 to future meetings.
Finally, the committee favorably reported HB 521 and HB 570, both dealing with millage and reassessment rules. Supporters, including local government and industry groups, argued the bills would give taxing authorities more flexibility to avoid being forced to levy the maximum millage simply to preserve future authority. Assessors and local officials explained current reassessment and roll-forward rules, while the author said the bills would reduce pressure to overtax residents and businesses. HB 521 was reported favorably, and HB 570 was reported favorably as amended after adoption of a six-part amendment set, mostly technical changes.