Video & Transcript Research : 'grant program'

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NV
Transcript Highlights:
  • So thank you, and certainly supportive of the programs and the concept.
  • However, the bill directs NDE to establish a grant program for transportation resources to the extent
  • We do have a program officer who... ...those versions.
  • This program is actually a really broad program. It's great.
  • The bill makes an appropriation to the outdoor education and recreation grant program account in the
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Government Modernization and Technology Feb 9th, 2026 at 03:00 pm

Government Modernization and Technology

Transcript Highlights:
  • It's being done in order for them to administer the final and largest of the grant monies to the BEAD
  • program, which is a Broadband Equity Access Development program, a federal program.
  • make it clear that artificial intelligence systems and other nonhuman inanimate objects cannot be granted
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Appropriations Feb 24th, 2026

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • Institutions are allowed to seek security grants subject to appropriations.
  • They do not want to alter their program at all.
  • The heart of this bill are those provisions that don't relate to the Guardian program.
  • The heart of this bill are those provisions that don't relate to the Guardian program.
  • There's probably going to be grants from the grant ferry and all that kind of stuff.
Bills: S0118, S0896, S1690, S1756
Summary: The committee first took up CS for SB 896, a school safety bill expanding the Guardian program to public postsecondary institutions. The bill requires active assailant response plans, security risk assessments, threat-management protocols, use of the suspicious activity reporting tool, and allows voluntary participation in Guardian for colleges and universities. A late-file amendment by Senator Polsky was adopted to clarify that students who are also employees or faculty are not eligible for Guardian. Members debated campus carry concerns, storage of firearms, and whether the bill could lead to broader gun access on campuses. Several faculty and gun-safety advocates testified against the bill, while supporters argued trained guardians can deter violence. The committee reported the bill favorably by roll call vote. The committee then approved CS for CS for CS for SB 1690 on child care and early learning services. The bill updates child care laws, clarifies regulations, and reduces overregulation of before- and after-school programs. An amendment expanded authority for the Florida Education Foundation to fundraise for early learning from birth to VPK. Testimony was largely supportive, emphasizing affordability, access to quality child care, and relief for working families, though one speaker opposed the bill as an expansion of government. The bill was reported favorably. Next, the committee passed CS for CS for SB 118, which clarifies how non-ad valorem special assessments are applied to recreational vehicle parks and limits the square footage used for assessment purposes to the maximum size of an RV space. The committee also approved CS for CS for SB 1220, the Department of Transportation package, which addresses seaport and airport planning, personal delivery devices, autonomous vehicles, advanced air mobility, toll programming, and other transportation-related changes. Amendments modified provisions on personal delivery devices, utility permits, autonomous vehicle penalties, and law-enforcement cruiser lights. Both bills were reported favorably. Finally, the committee began hearing SB 1756, the medical freedom bill, which proposes new vaccine information requirements, conscience-based school immunization exemptions, limits on compelled vaccination during public health emergencies, and behind-the-counter access to ivermectin for adults. The sponsor and supporters framed the bill as strengthening informed consent and parental rights, while opponents and some senators raised concerns about vaccine hesitancy, herd immunity, and the inclusion of ivermectin. Public testimony was extensive and sharply divided. The transcript ends during continued testimony and debate on SB 1756, before a final vote is taken.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Apr 22nd, 2025

Alabama House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Permission granted.
  • Hearing no objections, absent members are granted. objections. Absent members are granted leave.
  • But the scholarship programs... ...programs, the GI dependent. Oh, this is for the dependent.
  • And we've also put in a two-year pilot program for 100 students per year for this pilot program.
  • So, if we eliminated one of the programs that... ...we eliminated one of the programs that we're using
TX

Texas 89th Regular

89th Legislative Session Apr 22nd, 2025

Texas House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • It requires a tri-agency to jointly coordinate grant programs expands the definition of credentials of
  • Those are grants. Correct. And those grants will go to a profit-making entity, is that correct?
  • program with protections around it that if these companies don't hit key milestones, then those grants
  • The agriculture program and the interest rate reduction Program.
  • Currently the Young Farmer Grant Program provides a dollar-for-dollar matching grants for producers from
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Apr 8th, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Rogers County Leadership Program, would you all stand? I spent lunch with them.
  • And if you could come into our building trades program and see some of these young people learning how
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Health and Human Services 2ND REVISED Apr 8th, 2026 at 10:00 am

Health and Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • workforce training mission to receive the funds already allocated through the rural health transformation grant
  • Now, I don't have any information on the timeline of the program overall, but I'm happy to connect and
  • being selected one of 15 states that is authorized from the federal government to be under the TMAH program
  • that there is some funding tied to birth-friendly designation for hospitals through CMS under this program
  • One of the things that I can say is I I have friends that have benefitted from programs such as this,
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Education 2ND REVISED Mar 3rd, 2026 at 10:00 am

Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • Senate Bill 514 provides clarification in regards to alternative education programming through charter
  • You, in order to be eligible for the grant at all, you have to be a resident.
  • It was an incentive to incentivize our Oklahoma teacher prep programs to think outside the box, work
  • one of those programs?
  • And we had some private dollars that helped pay for the technical assistance program.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Trade, Workforce & Economic Development Apr 9th, 2025

Trade, Workforce & Economic Development

Transcript Highlights:
  • Third, HB 3191 builds on a successful four-horse pilot program. by creating a childcare innovation program
  • to then provide grants to programs that provide certain services outlined in the grant.
  • The other issue was that it was a pilot program only.
  • An evaluation of Michigan's tri-share program found that the program reduced childcare costs by an average
  • We also offer tremendous warmth. programs.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Trade, Workforce & Economic Development Apr 9th, 2025

Trade, Workforce & Economic Development

Transcript Highlights:
  • relating to the use of funds awarded under the Jobs and Educations for Tech. better known as a JET grant
  • program.
  • Child Care Scholarship, or CCS, program.
  • But also we'll expand the number of those programs actually available by providing grants to actually
  • Having a grant program in place where people can engage and And getting that financial support means
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy Committee 2/25/26

Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • It also converts the grant program into a competitive grant program instead of a direct grant to a specific
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Bills: HF3004, HF3663
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Appropriations and Finance Feb 15th, 2026 at 12:53 pm

House Appropriations & Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • This is all company-based, corporate-based program. Mr.
  • Chair, Representative, the schools could apply for the program.
  • Is this the first year of this pilot program? Mr.
  • I'm the Executive Director of the New Mexico Coalition of Sexual Assault Programs.
  • for that type of program.
Bills: HB97, HB280, HB183, HB151, HB202
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Ways and Means Committee 3/10/25

Ways and Means

Transcript Highlights:
  • In fact, I looked at the grant agreements. The grant agreements had evaluation of the program.
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  • It's part of the grant language where there's an evaluation of the program by an outside entity, and
  • It's part of the grant language where there's an evaluation of the program by an outside entity, and
  • It's part of the grant language where there's an evaluation of the program by an outside entity, and
Bills: HF25, HF4
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Education Finance Committee 2/18/25

Education Finance

Transcript Highlights:
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  • Also, we need to preserve the program integrity.
  • Also, we need to preserve the program integrity.
  • Also, we need to preserve the program integrity.
  • Also, we need to preserve the program integrity.
Bills: HF6, HF52, HF53
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

AEN-TRS, EDT-AEN, AEN DEFER, AEN Public Hearings 02-13-2026

Agriculture and Environment

Transcript Highlights:
  • . programs. programs.
  • of a reimbursement program and a grant program within DAB to assist certain farmers and livestock producers
  • program within ADAB. program within ADAB.
  • and a grant program within DAG.
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Bills: SB2709, SB3154
Summary: The hearing began with SB 2709, which would require the Department of Agriculture and Biosecurity to establish rules to enforce the Okami arrival program and strengthen quarantine enforcement for plants, non-domestic animals, and microorganisms. The Department of Land and Natural Resources and the Hawaii Invasive Species Council supported the bill, as did DAB, saying it would improve biosecurity and make some provisions mandatory rather than optional. Alaska/Hawaiian Airlines supported the goal but raised concerns about language changing inspections from “may” to “shall” for aircraft, warning of possible federal preemption and operational conflicts unless the bill is clarified to align with federal aviation safety, security, and operational requirements. Committee members questioned DAB about inspection timing, scope, and compliance; DAB said the measure is intended to increase enforcement, improve form completion rates toward a 90% goal, and expand beyond airlines to other entry modes, while also noting plans to restore detector dog use and improve software/AI tools for processing forms. Decision-making on SB 2709 was deferred to February 17 at 3:02 p.m. in Room CR229. The committees then took up SB 3154, an administration measure authorizing the Department of Transportation to assume certain National Environmental Policy Act responsibilities for highway, rail, public transportation, and multimodal projects, with the aim of streamlining environmental review. DOT supported the bill and explained that it would allow the department to work directly with federal resource agencies such as U.S. Fish and Wildlife and SHPO rather than routing everything through federal highways. After brief discussion, the Committee on Transportation voted to pass SB 3154 with technical amendments, and the AEN committee followed with the same recommendation; the measure was adopted with five votes in favor. A later portion of the transcript shifted to SB 2374 on the blue economy. DBED said it supported the concept but noted that it already sits on many working groups and would need resources if a new working group is created. DBED suggested the committee could instead request research through a letter or memo, and said agencies including ADC, HTDC, and Agriculture had already begun internal discussions. Testimony in support came from IMUA Alliance, Hawaii Food Policy, and others, emphasizing the potential for blue economy ventures to support survivors, align with climate and cultural goals, and create economic opportunity. No final vote on SB 2374 appears in the excerpt.