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• Payment of the 2025-26 amount has been effectively deferred to 2027-28.
• the deferral payments.
• There is a technicality on the explanation of the two-year payment.
• So in 26-27, they will get one payment.
• What does it look like if those payments don't come?

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• And they have control of the federal government payment systems.
• Min: He's gained control of the Treasury's payment system, used to make all payments by the federal government
• a tax refund or government payment.
• MIN: HE'S GAINED CONTROL OF THE TREASURY'S PAYMENT SYSTEM, USED TO MAKE ALL PAYMENTS BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
• A TAX FUND OR GOVERNMENT PAYMENT.

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Tuesday, February 4, 2025, 1012, house, all

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• That would be kind of an ongoing set payment.
• corrections performance growth payment.
• It's a 2011 realignment payment.
• This won't change the payment a whole lot at a statewide level, but it could have some impact on some
• This won't change the payment a whole lot.

Summary: The committee heard a broad public safety budget hearing focused on youth justice funding, probation incentive grants, and disaster response and recovery. On the youth justice item, the Office of Youth and Community Restoration described a proposed change to the JJRBG funding formula that would shift resources away from a DJJ-based measure and toward county youth population, serious offenses, and step-down placements in less restrictive programs. Members asked about data on Native American youth; OYCR said statewide data are limited, but its SYTF data show about 1% of youth in secure youth treatment facilities were Native in 2024. The Department of Finance had no objections, and the item was discussed as a way to support alternatives to long-term incarceration. The committee then reviewed the community corrections performance incentive program for county probation departments. The Department of Finance proposed stabilizing the program with a maintenance payment, updating the performance baseline, and adding a growth factor; the LAO agreed the formula needed changes but recommended using 2022-23 data instead of 2021-23, using marginal rather than average cost assumptions, rejecting the growth payment and minimum guarantee, and adding stronger oversight through the BSCC. Finance said it was open to some technical changes but opposed a new BSCC audit framework, noting Judicial Council already surveys probation departments and that evidence-based practice use has increased over time. Members and staff indicated the proposal still needed further work. A major portion of the hearing focused on the January 2025 Southern California wildfires and state disaster response. A resident of Altadena gave emotional testimony about evacuation failures, loss of home, and the need for accountability. LAO and Cal OES outlined the disaster response and recovery system, including mutual aid, alert and warning, debris removal, FEMA and state funding streams, and the long timeline for reimbursement. Cal OES said it had pre-positioned resources, temporarily took over the county’s wireless emergency alert function for about three weeks, coordinated debris removal and recovery operations, and had already allocated more than $286 million in state funds. Officials also discussed the 100% federal cost share for emergency work for 180 days and the uncertainty created by changing federal processes and the cancellation of the BRIC resilience program. The committee also heard two smaller Cal OES items: a request to reappropriate about $22 million for the law enforcement mutual aid reimbursement program, which the LAO said should be placed in statute with clearer goals and reporting, and an update on Victims of Crime Act funding, where Cal OES said federal VOCA allocations have fallen sharply and that roughly $224 million would be needed to maintain current service levels if federal funding does not improve. Public comment included a request for funding to expand datacasting and emergency alert receivers for wildfire and earthquake warning.

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• Also, for the capitation payments for the MCOs for behavioral health, that was another rubbing point;
• We really, I mean, we were very focused on the payment error rate. That's good.
• We really, I mean, we were very focused on the payment error rate, to be honest.
• We know many of the drivers for the payment error...
• We know many of the drivers for the payment error rate.

Keywords: 996, all

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• We don't have real-time access to payment information to the point that we can run queries on...
• It wouldn't give us identical access, particularly if it doesn't cover payment information that would
• May be probable cause for fraud so that they could, in fact, stop payment.
• Ultimately, the determination of whether to stop payments or not rests with the state agency.
• payments when, in fact, there's been a search warrant that's been issued.

Bills: HF3043, HF2891

Keywords: public safety, illegal remunerations, healthcare fraud, grants, criminal penalties, state law, grants management, state employees training, certification, monitoring grants, accountability, grant fraud

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• First item on the agenda is HB 2270 HD1 SD1, relating to the down payment loan assistance program.
• <00:11:31.680> loan This bill amends the down payment loan This bill amends the down payment
• loans, and reducing the borrower's required personal contribution toward the down payment.
• Authorizes borrowers to use a portion of a down payment loan to pay for closing costs, prepaids, and
• reserves to purchase the residential property for which the down payment loan is provided.

Bills: SB2057, SB2109, SB2400, HB1752, SB2599, SB2930

Keywords: immigration enforcement, sanctuary policy, detainer, ICE, federal immigration authorities, 8 U.S.C. 1357(g), 8 U.S.C. 1373, 8 U.S.C. 1644, deportation, undocumented immigrants, noncitizen, migrant rights, local police cooperation, law enforcement cooperation, hold request, judicial warrant, probable cause, civil immigration enforcement, county police, state police

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• One little question is about the part that changes the required payments in Section 3.
• Representative Dotson, could you just explain what that's doing in regards to the payment of what that
• delay and withheld payments that combined totaled more than $1.5 billion each year as of 2023.
• I like to use the term improper payments because that's really what is at stake.
• Subsection 7 talks about payments. Subsection 8 talks about qualifying measures on that.

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• They have made seven out of eight milestone payments, and this $2.6 million payment will be the last
• payment.
• The milestone payments were broken up into eight milestones.
• The bond payments do not go through ASIS, like all the regular payments go through.
• The bond payments do not go through ASIS, like all the regular payments go through.

Summary: The committee met to review a supplemental agenda item, procurement rule revisions, methods of finance, discretionary grants, contracts, reports, and a member disclosure. The supplemental agenda was accepted, and the Office of State Procurement’s rule revisions were approved after Jessica Patterson explained they were driven by 2025 legislative changes, including Act 782, CASO Consulting recommendations, and updates to sole source, bid, protest, and debarment provisions. The methods of finance and discretionary grants were also approved, covering a range of university capital projects, health and human services grants, historic preservation awards, and tobacco prevention and cessation programs. The committee then reviewed RFQs and six ratifications. The ratifications included a Workforce Connections payment to ACT WorkKeys for services provided during a contract gap, a Department of Health ratification for water-leak repairs, a large Department of Public Safety ratification for Motorola’s Arkansas Wireless Information Network upgrade, a Veterans Affairs HVAC ratification, an ADFA medical services ratification, and a UA Little Rock painting contract ratification. Members questioned the Public Safety ratification at length about why the expired Motorola contract was not caught sooner and why it took months after discovery to come forward; agency officials said the work was tied to bond funding and was not tracked in ASIS, and the chair urged agencies to develop better monitoring procedures. The committee approved a large slate of construction, intergovernmental, out-of-state, and in-state contracts, including many recurring service agreements for DHS, higher education institutions, corrections, health agencies, and state support functions. Several members asked about specific contracts, including aerial application services for correctional farms and a Southern Arkansas University custodial contract, and staff or agency representatives provided brief explanations. The meeting concluded with review of reports and approval of a member disclosure involving Representative Andrew Collins’ investment interest in a company leasing property to Arkansas Rehabilitation Services.

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• They have made seven out of eight milestone payments, and this $2.6 million payment will be the last
• payment.
• The payment, the milestones, the payments were broken up into milestones, and there's eight milestones
• The bond payments do not go through ASIS like all the regular Paid out of bond money.
• The bond payments do not go through ASIS, like all the regular payments go through.

Keywords: 1204, all

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• So we've had two main methods of payment for state-funded projects, which are advance payment or reimbursement
• Our community-based organizations with limited resources having a reimbursement payment method caused
• We turn it back as an award and send out that first payment so they can begin the work.
• on yourselves to make sure you're getting that payment out within a certain period?
• I want to ask you right now about your payments or disbursements from the department.

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• Specifically, Senate Bill 1635 aims to provide a credit against required recapture payments.
• If a school district's recapture payment exceeds the amount of their premiums, the excess funds would
• If a school district's premiums are more than their recapture payment, they would only receive credit
• And then in the third column, you have what the recapture payments would be.
• In the third column, you have what the recapture payments would be under my proposed legislation.

Summary: The Committee on Education K-16 heard testimony on SB 1635, which would give certain coastal, recapture-paying school districts a credit against recapture payments for mandatory windstorm and hail insurance costs. Senator Hinojosa said the bill is intended to offset unusually high insurance expenses for districts in Tier 1 or Tier 2 coastal zones, and he estimated about a $12 million impact to state revenue. Witnesses from Port Aransas ISD and Gregory-Portland ISD described sharp premium increases, reduced coverage, higher deductibles, and the effect on teacher pay and classroom spending. Senators asked about the number of affected districts, the accuracy of the fiscal estimate, and whether the bill might encourage districts to maintain coverage. Public testimony was closed and SB 1635 was left pending. The committee then took up several other bills and committee substitutes, adopting and reporting favorably SB 2786, SB 2623, SB 646, SB 843, SB 2392, SB 1998, SB 1418, SB 2788, and SB 2076, with most votes unanimous or near-unanimous. SB 2392 was amended to add improper relationship between educator and student to mandatory reporting offenses and to authorize an attorney general civil penalty for failure to report. SB 2623 was revised to clarify duties and exemptions related to the Safe Schools and Neighborhood Task Force and school proximity restrictions. SB 843 would create a TEA database of school district bonds and related projects, and SB 2788 would exempt certain PSAT scorers from the Texas Success Initiative assessment. The committee also heard SB 2929, which would allow referees and other officials at school athletic events to immediately eject disruptive spectators. The Texas Association of Sports Officials testified in support, citing abusive spectator behavior and a shortage of officials. SB 2929 was left pending. Finally, the committee heard a substitute for SB 2927 on 1882 partnerships and a substitute for SB 2619, which would require more transparency and accountability for failing school districts, superintendent hiring, trustee training, and takeover timelines. Testimony on SB 2619 was mixed, with one witness from Texas 2036 supporting parts of the bill’s accountability provisions. The committee adopted the substitute for SB 2619, left it pending, and then recessed subject to the call of the chair.

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• WE HAVE PAYMENT PROJECTS GOING ON IN SEVERAL INSTITUTIONS. YOU CAN SEE IT THERE.
• PLAN AND MAYBE THIS ALLOWED PEOPLE TO MAKE PAYMENTS THROUGH WHAT I CALL THE DEAD BEAT DAD WINDOW.
• WE STARTED THE PAYMENT PLAN 20,000 IN VISUAL TO ENROLL IN THESE PAYMENT PLANS.
• SO CLERKS ARE TAKING THE IDEA OF PAYMENT PLANS AND TAKING THE IDEA OF SPLITTING THOSE THINGS OUT AND
• THE LICENSE AND WE DO PAYMENT PLANS AS LOW AS $10 A MONTH.

Keywords: 999, senate, all

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• The bill also makes it a crime for building contractors who have already received payment for completed
• only concerns or issues that we have relate to line 489 on the bill with reference to contractor payments
• . ...with reference to contractor payments.
• You have state government prompt payment that we work under, you have public works projects prompt payment
• Our contractors tell us that typically their payments are net 30 or net 45 days.

Summary: The Senate Committee on Agriculture received a presentation from Florida Forest Service Director Rick Dolan on the agency’s wildfire response, forest management, and emergency support roles. He described the service’s four regions and 14 districts, its year-round wildfire response, use of bulldozers, helicopters, and drones, and the current high fire danger due to drought conditions. Dolan also highlighted prescribed burning, fuels mitigation, state forest management, the pine seedling nursery, and the agency’s role in hurricane response and incident management. Members asked about equipment loans and whether more prescribed burning could reduce wildfire impacts; Dolan said Florida already leads the nation in prescribed fire and emphasized public education and fuels reduction. The committee then considered and unanimously reported favorably Senate Bill 386, which creates a farm-equipment consumer protection process similar to a lemon law, allowing purchasers to seek repair or replacement of defective major farm equipment at no cost. The committee also took up Senate Bill 290, the Agriculture and Consumer Services omnibus bill. The bill would modernize fair association rules, preempt local bans on gas- and diesel-powered farm and landscape equipment, allow surplus of certain state-owned lands for bona fide agricultural use while excluding parks, forests, and wildlife lands, create a veterinary loan repayment program, make Farmers Feeding Florida permanent, expand Forest Service training opportunities, criminalize signal-jamming devices, increase penalties for CDL and English-proficiency exam cheating, restrict certain door-to-door solicitation, protect food safety inspectors, clarify biosolids rules, and add criminal and vendor-list penalties for contractors who fail to pay subcontractors. The committee adopted three amendments to align dates and technical language and to authorize native seed research and marketing through the Florida Wildlife Foundation. Testimony on SB 290 included support from several industry groups, concerns from the Home Builders Association about the new contractor-payment criminal penalties, and opposition from a citizen worried about the new surplus-land process for conservation lands. Despite concerns, CS/SB 290 was reported favorably. Finally, the committee unanimously recommended confirmation of the appointees listed on tabs 4 and 5, and then adjourned.

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• Payment<02:11:53.280> payment<02:11:53.679> stable<02:11:54.079> coin<02:11:54.320
• > legislation Payment payment stable coin legislation Payment payment stable coin legislation
• How we use our money to make payments. payments. payments.
• The payment sector is leading the way, including payment stablecoins to enhance the payment rails.

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Thursday, July 17, 2025, 1012, house, all

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• So they're receiving payments for that.
• And then they have to essentially eat the LC payment on that.
• And that money, the payment for that LC payment, will come from UA.
• I think that what this is advocating for is to direct a payment, a direct payment into that account for
• the child to go on top of the federal payment or...

Bills: SB1177, SB1177

Keywords: education funding, mental health services, public safety, housing, state budget, 914, all

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• <01:01:46.960> error long-term costs of that payment error long-term costs of that payment
• like how is this related to the payment like how is this related to the payment error<01:09:50.400
• <01:10:09.920> error happens with what affects payment error happens with what affects payment
• <01:11:02.400> error that's going to affect the payment error that's going to affect the payment
• which was under a different payment which was under a different payment system.<01:40:07.040>

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• :09:56.800> the<00:09:57.040> already<00:09:57.440> reduced<00:09:57.839> payment
• on the already reduced payment on the already reduced payment requirement<00:09:58.959> for
• Now they want the federal government to reduce interest rate and extend payment to 25 years.
• <00:11:20.079> to<00:11:20.399> 25 interest rate and extend payment to 25 interest
• rate and extend payment to 25 years.<00:11:22.079> So<00:11:22.320> wrong.

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Friday, January 2, 2026, 1012, house, all

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• Um, and payments to that provider.
• <01:19:42.320> We I've done DHS withholds payments. We I've done DHS withholds payments.
• > in<01:19:47.520> fact stops making payments when in fact stops making payments when in
• say you do, but also to withhold payment say you do, but also to withhold payment if<02:06:12.880
• Members, these are payment is made.

Bills: HF3043, HF2891

Keywords: public safety, illegal remunerations, healthcare fraud, grants, criminal penalties, state law, grants management, state employees training, certification, monitoring grants, accountability, grant fraud, 1183, house

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• From the General Fund to the Department of General Services for the payment of claims against the state
• not cashed, and to verify that they have not been improperly cashed and then claimed for another payment
• those processes, but in 21st-century financial services, check clearance methodologies and stop payments—I
• These claims, although the claims date back to payments that were issued or that were owed earlier, the
• those processes, but in 21st century financial services, check clearance methodologies, and stop payments

Summary: The Assembly Appropriations Committee met on July 9, 2025, with a quorum present and opened by taking up its consent and suspense calendars. Several Senate bills were moved on consent, including SB 255, 361, 385, 387, 428, 602, 648, 652, and 693, along with SB 78 on a separate due-pass motion. The suspense calendar was then deemed approved without further discussion. The committee next heard AB 1533, a claims bill authorizing a General Fund appropriation of $672 million to pay state claims, including $600 to the Franchise Tax Board and $72 million to the DMV for stale claims. Assemblymember Wicks presented the bill as one of the annual claims measures, and the Department of Finance and Department of General Services both supported it. Assemblymember Dixon raised concerns about the age of claims, the cost and efficiency of the process, and whether the state could improve how it verifies and pays claims more quickly. After brief public comment was invited, the committee held a roll call vote on AB 1533 and the bill was moved out of committee. The meeting then adjourned after a late-arriving member was added to the roll call for the consent calendar and AB 1533.

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• DEED does not make payments until the grant agreement is signed.
• A final the final payment is made.
• <00:57:17.680> to agencies from making payments to agencies from making payments to grantees
• Again, we do look at the U payments.
• We would actually go a payment at that.

Keywords: 1183, house