Video & Transcript Research : 'assistance program'
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MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband and Rural Development - 02/18/26
Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband, and Rural Development
Transcript Highlights:
- You might recall the local food purchasing assistance program, or LFPA, which is a federal program that
- We also have our down payment assistance grant, which is a somewhat new program.
- So our program assistant, Christy, is more than happy and answers the phone, and we'll take applications
- So, our program assistant, call.
- So, our program assistant, Christy,<01:14:15.840>
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NV
Nevada 2025 Regular Session
Senate Floor Session Jun 2nd, 2025 at 12:00 pm
Nevada Senate Floor Meeting
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
Cmte on Rules - Subcommittee on the Federal Impact on Minnesotans and Economic Stability - 10/15/25
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- uh which are the medical assistance uh which are the public<00:03:29.040>
programs <00:03:29.760 - In that program, Minnesota's reinsurance program has typically lowered rates by about 20%.
- And we assume, since it's hospitals that are generally using the emergency medical assistance program
- And we assume, since it's hospitals that are generally using the emergency medical assistance program
- population within medical assistance. population within medical assistance.
AR
Arkansas 2026 Regular Session
ALC-HOSPITAL, MEDICAID, & DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES STUDY SUBCOMMITTEE Mar 16th, 2026
ALC-HOSPITAL, MEDICAID, & DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES STUDY SUBCOMMITTEE
Transcript Highlights:
- We also have an organized care model called the PASS program.
- So the UPL program, or the upper payment limit program, was established by federal statute to be used
- The upper payment limit program, or access payment program, is limited to the private hospitals currently
- The upper payment limit program, or access payment program, is limited to the private hospitals currently
- Our PAST program is a 1915(c) waiver. We have 1115 waivers for the expansion program.
Summary:
The subcommittee met to review Arkansas DHS hospital spending and reimbursement methods, with Secretary Janet Mann and Deputy Secretary Misty Eubanks explaining Medicaid hospital payments. They described fee-for-service per diem payments, cost settlements, and the upper payment limit (UPL) program, noting that SFY 2025 hospital payments included $688 million in inpatient/outpatient claims, $473 million in UPL payments, $248 million in cost settlements, and about $47 million in other payments such as graduate medical education and disproportionate share hospital funds. Members asked about why per diem rates vary, how cost settlements work, why UPL applies mainly to private hospitals, and how assessment fees are structured and funded. DHS said the hospital assessment fee is broad-based and uniform, used as the state share to draw federal funds, and that supplemental hospital payments after federal match totaled $548 million with no general revenue used.
The Arkansas Hospital Association’s Jody Ann Tritt then gave a broader overview of the hospital landscape, explaining the different hospital types in the state, including critical access hospitals, rural emergency hospitals, PPS hospitals, and specialty hospitals. She said Arkansas hospitals face financial strain, citing a negative 5.18% patient service margin statewide and lower reimbursement than surrounding states. She argued that Arkansas hospitals are paid less than hospitals in neighboring states for similar services, that commercial payer rates and administrative burdens are a major problem, and that Medicaid and Medicare rates remain below cost even with UPL support. She also said hospitals are the backbone of community care, provide emergency and public health functions, and are looking for ways to invest in technology and telehealth but often lack the revenue to do so.
Members pressed for clearer data on hospital finances, reimbursement adequacy, and the impact of commercial insurers. Tritt said the association had just authorized a statewide survey to gather updated financial information from hospitals, which she said would take about a year to complete. She also explained that Medicaid pays weekly, Medicare and commercial plans can involve delays and denials, and that hospitals often spend significant resources on revenue cycle work. The discussion ended with a brief update on assisted living reimbursement: DHS said one facility, The Pillars of the Community in Crossett, had announced closure, nine Living Choices waiver clients were being transitioned, and the updated rate study would be available after cost reports are collected, likely before the end of the fiscal year. The meeting then adjourned.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Workforce Development Committee Meeting - 2026-04-16
Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- program and the youth at work programs. program and the youth at work programs.
- The Minnesota Green Enterprise Assistance Program, which was last funded in 2009, but became a different
- The Minnesota Green Enterprise Assistance Program, which was last funded in 2009, but became a different
- The Minnesota Green Enterprise Assistance Program, which was last funded in 2009, but became a different
- The Minnesota Green Enterprise Assistance Program, which was last funded in 2009, but became a different
Bills:
HF3732
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Appropriations and Budget Judiciary Subcommittee - Morning Session Jan 13th, 2026 at 09:00 am
A&B Judiciary Subcommittee
Transcript Highlights:
- And if you notice, it is not a loan forgiveness plan; it is a loan assistance program that there will
- But the uh, Lucoats program through the FFA program for doctors to get doctors in rural areas.
- I was in District 19 as a part-time assistant DA in Cole County.
- And you know, what we can do, we just need a little assistance.
- Lastly, is the RAP program.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Health and Human Services Jul 21st, 2025
Legislative Health & Human Services Committee
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- The different programs that are available.
- We plan to have a lot of programs going.
- Hands-on programs for the youth.
- We need to partner up with the state and any other program that can help us get that program off and
- But San Miguel County is kind of a model program in terms of the medical assistance that you're providing
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Criminal Justice and Public Safety (01/15/2025)
Criminal Justice and Public Safety
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and program and program and um<00:29:29.200>but <00:29:29.279>it's <00:30:00.399>domestic violence um Dove program domestic violence um Dove program domestic - 03.080>
and violence emergency program and and violence emergency program and and getting<00:30 - examiner program.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Arts, Entertainment, Sports, and Tourism Committee Apr 22nd, 2025
Arts, Entertainment, Sports, and Tourism
Transcript Highlights:
- longer even apply for our programs.
- to the programs in Canada, New York, and other countries.
- Rabia Khan, Key Assistant Location Manager.
- As part of the 2023 Film and Television Tax Credit Program 3.0, the program expanded its diversity, equity
- AB 1377 strengthens these programs through additional accountability and the new 4.0 program protections
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
Health Policy Apr 1st, 2025
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- But are we moving this program?
- It has to do the whole program on private duty nursing.
- Several different programs.
- Care Centers Program Safety NET Program and the Sexual Abuse Treatment program Safety NET Program and
- the Sexual Abuse Treatment program and then the title 4 programs, these programs off they under DOH.
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Senate SessionReading and Referral of Bills Feb 7th, 2025
Texas Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- relating to prohibiting the disbursement of certain economic and tax incentives to entities that assist
- Senate Bill 722 by Colorado relating to a mobile stroke unit grant program to Health and Human Services
- Senate Bill 728 by Johnson relating to an incentive program to promote beverage container recycling to
- Senate Bill 733 by Menendez relating to the creation of a medical cannabis research program to help.
- to reimburse certain supplemental nutrition assistance program.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Emergency Management Committee May 12th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- The cancellation of all approved BRIC program hazard mitigation project applications from fiscal year
- And I also am our assistant director that oversees all the hazard mitigation assistance programs at Cal
- And I also am our assistant director that oversees all the hazard mitigation assistance programs at CaloES
- I am the mitigation director of the California Residential Mitigation Program.
- I am the mitigation director of the California Residential Mitigation Program, which was established
Summary:
The Assembly Committee on Emergency Management met to consider Assembly Joint Resolution 11, which urges the President and Congress to restore funding for FEMA’s Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) grant program. Chair Rhodesia Ransom and Assembly Member Lisa Calderon described the resolution as a bipartisan effort to preserve funding for hazard mitigation projects that help communities prevent disasters rather than simply recover from them. They cited major California impacts from the program’s cancellation, including losses for wildfire mitigation, seismic retrofits, and dam safety projects in several counties and districts.
Support testimony came from Catherine Freeman of the California State Association of Counties and Robin Finning of Cal OES. Freeman said counties rely on BRIC for flexible, proactive disaster-prevention funding and warned that canceling the program would set back years of resilience work. Finning said 49 communities had contacted Cal OES after the cancellation announcement and that the agency had been working closely with them on next steps. Stephanie Stevens of the California Residential Mitigation Program also testified in support, noting the loss of more than $40 million for earthquake soft-story retrofit grants.
Members expressed support and noted the importance of the affected district projects. There was no opposition testimony. The committee then voted unanimously to adopt AJR 11 and refer it to third reading, with all members present voting aye. The meeting was then adjourned.
MN
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This steal from our public programs. This steal from our public programs. - And fraud across our public programs.
- That's all this bill does. public funds and public programs in the public funds and public programs in
- fraud um on fraud on public programs. fraud um on fraud on public programs.
- be able to be in the Medicaid program. be able to be in the Medicaid program.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- If you require assistance in registering or testifying, please contact the committee staff.
- Um, would, would that constitute, um, illegal assistance under this bill?
- Abortion assistance entity means. Can you read that word that starts with a P? Yes, sir.
- Um, providing assistance to these organizations in San Antonio and for that matter, in Austin.
- Um, religious messages were not part of a formal school program.
Keywords:
electric power, interconnection, utilities, ERCOT, large load customers, water supply, sewer service, demand management, school prayer, Bible reading, religious text, public schools, Texas Education Code, student prayer, silent prayer, meditation, religious liberty, First Amendment, Establishment Clause, church and state
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- If you require assistance in registering or testifying, please contact the committee staff.
- Would that constitute illegal assistance under this bill?
- Abortion assistance entity means, can you read that word that starts with a "P"? Yes, sir. Okay.
- We cannot provide material resources or support that assists someone else in breaking the law.
- Granted, the permission slip program in this instance may lessen those...
Keywords:
electric power, interconnection, utilities, ERCOT, large load customers, water supply, sewer service, demand management, school prayer, Bible reading, religious text, public schools, Texas Education Code, student prayer, silent prayer, meditation, religious liberty, First Amendment, Establishment Clause, church and state
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
State Rep. Shaun Scott Press Conference Dec 2nd, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, and the elimination of aid following climate disasters
- It will generate $3 billion annually to support public programs.
- The Washington State Office of Financial Management has identified cash assistance programs, higher education
- programs, such as the kind that the Well Washington Fund will support.
- The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, for every federal dollar that is spent in Washington State
Summary:
The meeting was a press conference and Q&A led by Rep. Shaun Scott to promote the proposed Well Washington Fund, a new dedicated account intended to raise about $3 billion annually through a corporate payroll tax on wages above $125,000. Scott said the bill would help offset expected federal cuts under Trump-era policies and support programs most at risk, including cash assistance, higher education, health care, housing, and wildfire mitigation. He also referenced two related proposals: restoring wildfire mitigation funding by ending a tax break for large banks, and allowing counties to raise corporate taxes.
Several advocates and affected residents testified in support of progressive revenue. Michelle Thomas of the Washington Low Income Housing Alliance warned that federal homelessness policy changes and state underinvestment could worsen homelessness and evictions. Christina Savitsky, a disabled veteran, described how Medicaid, food assistance, and work requirements would affect her family. Representatives from the University of Washington AAUP said federal cuts and Medicaid changes threaten teaching, research, workforce training, and hospital finances. Fatima Boxwala of Tech for Taxes and Mikey Stramskis of the Washington Federation of State Employees argued that large corporations and the wealthy should pay more to sustain public services and address understaffing, burnout, and service backlogs.
In the Q&A, Scott said the bill may need an emergency clause to make it referendum-proof and argued that the legislature has a mandate to act, citing the 2024 capital gains tax referendum and the state’s regressive tax system. He acknowledged concerns about businesses leaving but said he was more concerned about working people being displaced by unaffordable housing, child care, and health care. No vote or formal committee action occurred; the event was a call for a hearing in the House Finance Committee in 2026 and for legislative passage in both chambers.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - New Mexico Finance Authority Oversight Jul 9th, 2025
New Mexico Finance Authority Oversight Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- So, through the school-based program, there are sort of two components.
- That's our total program, total package. Thank you, Madam Chair.
- Medicaid and the safe ride programs Address that to some extent.
- Assistance and capacity building we're going to be providing.
- I'm in the process right now of seeing where to assist, right?
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
House - Appropriations and Finance Jan 15th, 2026 at 01:36 pm
House Appropriations & Finance
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Housing Finance and Policy Committee 3/17/26
Housing Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- Housing and redevelopment authorities are tasked with a wide variety of housing-related programming.
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Has housing related programming. Has housing related programming. - Our assistant man security staff.
- choice<00:07:07.280>
voucher <00:07:07.680>program. - federal housing choice voucher program. federal housing choice voucher program.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- , Josh right here will be happy to help you, the assistant clerk.
- So, um, right now we provide certain programming.
- These programs provide these people with the support and adaptive assistance they need, but there's an
- conduct biannual program evaluations and recommend changes to programs when needed.
- and developing and maintaining associated program lists.
Bills:
HB153