Video & Transcript Research : 'development fees'
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NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
House - Labor, Veterans and Military Affairs Feb 4th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- of an establishment that employs workers cannot use a portion of those tips to pay for transaction fees
- Right now, some employers deduct credit card processing fees from employee tips, meaning workers are
- Other states have already put similar protections in place, ensuring that credit card processing fees
- At the high end, this results in over $112 million per year in fees paid to process those tips.
- Some restaurants could very easily easily pick up an extra half percent on the fee, right?
NH
Transcript Highlights:
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hinder <00:11:14.240>the Development Bureau will hinder the Development Bureau will hinder - They develop wounds.
- If we raid the renewable Development.
- The New Hampshire Mom Hub was developed as the initial component of an overarching initiative to develop
- second is the truck registration fees. second is the truck registration fees.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Arts, Entertainment, Sports, and Tourism Committee Apr 22nd, 2025
Arts, Entertainment, Sports, and Tourism
Transcript Highlights:
- addresses the longstanding inequities in youth sports by establishing a Blue Ribbon Commission to develop
- I've seen many children improve their grades, improve attendance, heal from trauma, and develop positive
- The fact that sports impact us so much, especially as women, gives us the opportunity to develop the
- Fees collected for games.
- Los Angeles County would transmit the fees to LA Metro, and fees collected for games in Santa Clara County
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Finance Nov 20th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- We have not as of yet raised administrative admissions fees.
- fees for out-of-state attendees.
- In FY25, OSI collected over $35 million in assessments and fees. $31.4 million was from license fees,
- Are the legal fees part of the settlement agreement?
- So we don't have any cap on what the legal fee could be? Mr.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
AEN-TCA-EIG, TCA-AEN, AEN, AEN DEFER Public Hearings 02-05-2025
Agriculture and Environment
Transcript Highlights:
- SB 634, relating to marine passenger fees, which establishes a cruise ship passenger fee to be collected
- SB 634, relating to marine passenger fees, which establishes a cruise ship passenger fee to be collected
- <00:43:05.520>
in there's already a passenger fee in there's already a passenger fee in existence - And then, based on those fees, what kind of infrastructure projects would the fees support?
- control Economic Development control Economic Development Environmental<00:48:52.280>
Quality
Summary:
The joint hearing covered SB 1023, which would create a spay-neuter special fund to reduce pet overpopulation and free-roaming cats, with funding sources including an income tax checkoff. The Department of Taxation had no substantive comment, while the Hawaii Invasive Species Council supported the measure but opposed any trap-neuter-release or re-release approach, saying spay-neuter is important but release does not reduce cats on the landscape. The Tax Foundation of Hawaii raised concerns about creating another special fund and tax checkoff, saying the fund may not meet statutory criteria and could create administrative burdens. The Hawaiian Humane Society strongly supported the bill, arguing the state currently provides little funding for animal overpopulation control and that the measure would help nonprofits and align conservation and animal welfare goals. Several other supporters testified, including a cat sanctuary representative who described the need for a dedicated funding mechanism and a possible Oahu sanctuary to remove cats from sensitive areas. After questions about the effectiveness of trap-neuter-release and the need for alternative management tools, the committees voted to recommend passage with amendments, including blanking appropriation amounts, moving them into the committee report, setting the effective date to July 1, 2050, and noting Budget and Finance concerns; the recommendations were adopted in both committees, with some members voting with reservations.
The hearing then moved to SB 1120, relating to transportation and a clean fuel standard. The Department of Transportation said it supported the intent but wanted more information on economic impacts. Electrify America and Neste supported the bill, saying a clean fuel standard would help finance EV charging, encourage investment, and expand lower-carbon fuel options such as renewable diesel. In response to questions from senators about rural and agricultural transportation needs, witnesses said the standard could support both electrification where feasible and cleaner liquid fuels in the interim for equipment that cannot yet be electrified. DOT also described county transit efforts and said it was working with Maui, Kauai, and Hawaii Island on assessments for zero-emission bus replacement and charging infrastructure. The committees also heard testimony on SB 586, relating to climate change and zero-emission buses by 2045, with the State Procurement Office supporting the intent but suggesting the language be moved to a different statute; DOT said it was providing pass-through funding to counties and had some zero-emission bus purchases and charging stations on order. The discussion emphasized infrastructure costs and implementation challenges, but no final vote on SB 1120 or SB 586 was described in the transcript excerpt.
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
House Energy Finance and Policy Committee 3/4/25
Energy Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
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- now since the renewable Development Fund now since the renewable Development Fund now the<00:18:
- c> which the renewable development account which the renewable development account which was<00:18
- has been a good program uh has developed has been a good program uh has developed a<00:53:57.520
WY
Wyoming 2026 Regular Session
Senate Floor Session-Day 5, February 13, 2026-PM
Wyoming Senate Floor Meeting
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- legislature as an economic development legislature as an economic development arm<00:58:19.599><
- development group for Wyoming has to do. development group for Wyoming has to do.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
Senate Energy and Natural Resources (02/20/2025)
Energy and Natural Resources
Transcript Highlights:
- , which I don’t know how that’s going to go over in the development community, but I guess we’ll hear
- a doubling of the fees which I don't a doubling of the fees which I don't know<00:22:53.799>
how <00:24:42.840>- , the doubling of the fees.
the square footage and the same fees the square footage and the same fees the - so doubling of the fees so doubling of the fees so um<00:24:47.520>
I <00:24:47.679>guess
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Public Works and Highways (02/04/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- It relies on user fees to fund its maintenance, repairs, and any capital projects.
- It relies on user fees to fund its maintenance, repairs, and any capital projects.
- Turnpike has no user fees um from the Turnpike has no user fees um from the state<00:55:48.799>
line - discussion about planning the developing discussion about planning the developing of<02:01:36.360
- Charles Redfern has worked tirelessly to develop and improve the multi-use trails.
Summary:
The committee first heard House Bill 561, sponsored by Representative Nancy Murphy, which would limit the state’s ability to discontinue, reclassify, or revert state-owned highway property to municipalities without local approval. Murphy and other supporters argued the bill would protect towns from unfunded mandates and prevent property tax increases caused by taking on costly road maintenance. Representative Wendy Thomas, Rosemarie Rung, Merrimack Town Council Chairman Finley Rothhouse, and Town Manager Paul McAuliffe all testified in support, describing the financial burden of the planned transfer of Continental Boulevard in Merrimack and warning it would set a harmful precedent for other communities. The Department of Transportation’s Steve Leon explained the department’s current authority and processes for discontinuance and reclassification, said active highways are not surplus property, and noted that the Supreme Court’s Town of Nelson decision held such reclassifications were not an unfunded mandate. The committee then closed the public hearing on HB 561.
The committee next took up House Bill 578, presented by Representative Mooney on behalf of Representative Bill Boyd, to require sound barriers along the F. Everett Turnpike in Merrimack. Supporters said widening the turnpike would increase noise in nearby neighborhoods and that a 2019 NHDOT study identified 17 neighborhoods with noise levels above federal standards, though only four were included for mitigation under the current project. They argued the remaining neighborhoods should also receive relief and cited quality-of-life and property-value concerns. Senator Tim McGuire also testified in support, saying residents were experiencing unexpected and severe noise impacts and urging the committee to act outside the usual criteria to approve the barriers. The transcript provided does not show a final committee vote or action on HB 578.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- prohibits us from assigning development prohibits us from assigning development value<01:00:14.720
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simple valuing them according to a fee simple valuing them according to a fee - title and state held by the state in fee title and administered by the DNR are eligible for...
- title and state held by the state in fee title and administered by the DNR are eligible for.
- Would you explain what fee title means? That means that we own it outright. It's not an easement.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 4 on Climate Crisis, Resources, Energy, and Transportation Mar 5th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- , revise, and develop guidelines.
- years in the process, working in a public format to develop that.
- I developed that.
- So we're not developing any new programs or guidelines.
- I'll add is that we have developed regulations that. Good morning.
Summary:
The Assembly Budget Subcommittee on water and coastal resilience heard an overview of the governor’s Proposition 4 spending plan, with presentations from the Department of Finance, the State Water Resources Control Board, the Department of Water Resources, the Legislative Analyst’s Office, and later coastal agencies. Members discussed the water chapter’s major allocations for drinking water and wastewater, recycled water, tribal water infrastructure, groundwater recharge and SGMA implementation, dam safety, flood protection, integrated regional water management, Salton Sea projects, and water data/stream gauges. The LAO noted that many programs are established and have clear funding processes, but some newer or less-defined programs may warrant more detailed future budget requests and reporting. No votes were taken on the agenda items.
Members raised concerns about groundwater subsidence, water deliveries from the Delta, the pace of water storage investments, instream flows, and whether bond dollars were being used to backfill General Fund reductions. Administration witnesses said groundwater recharge spending is being paced because prior years already funded substantial SGMA work, that Delta operations are governed by water quality, salinity, and species requirements, and that Proposition 1 storage projects have moved slowly because they are locally led and require permitting and financing. The Water Board and DWR said they use public needs assessments, annual plans, and existing grant processes to prioritize projects, and Finance said some General Fund programs were shifted to Proposition 4 to help balance the budget. Members also asked for clearer public tracking of bond spending and more concise future reporting.
In the coastal resilience portion, the Ocean Protection Council and Coastal Conservancy described Proposition 4 funding for sea level rise adaptation, coastal flood management, habitat restoration, public access, and San Francisco Bay projects, with a multi-year rollout based on project readiness and recent large state investments. The Conservancy said it would use its existing rolling grant process, while OPC said its sea level rise grants would build on existing programs and new technical assistance. The Department of Fish and Wildlife explained its proposed use of bond funds for climate-ready fisheries, hatchery modernization, salmon monitoring, whale- and turtle-safe fishing gear, and a specific hatchery operations request tied to the Friant settlement. The LAO said the coastal chapter’s proposed first-year spending is relatively modest but generally reasonable given staffing and project readiness, while members emphasized oversight, transparency, and coordination across agencies and jurisdictions.
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Senate Committee on Health and Human Services Apr 1st, 2025
Health & Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- require the expungement of these records and require reparations to be paid by the board regarding fees
- My legal fees were $259. ...thousand dollars. You're forty-eight thousand, forty-three cents.
- This abuse of power cost individual health care providers thousands upon thousands in legal fees and
- Right now, group home consultants get referred fees.
- Group home consultants get... lean in a little bit, Senator... fees. Yeah, I gotta hear. Lean in.
Bills:
SB331, SB883, SB926, SB1137, SB1138, SB1144, SB1151, SB1236, SB1270, SB1522, SB1869, SB2207, SB2422
Keywords:
healthcare, cost disclosure, transparency, administrative penalties, health facility compliance, COVID-19, off-label use, prescription drugs, patient access, medical standards, insurance, physician ranking, incentives, fiduciary duty, health plan issuers, SB 1137, group home, assisted living, residential care, board and care
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Think of it as an impact fee.
- If you've got a new development coming into one of your cities in your district, they come in, they go
- to the city, and the city looks at the cost, the impact that that development, that housing addition
- , will have on the water and wastewater systems, and they assess an impact fee.
- And that impact fee is determined by study, and it is to offset the cost so that the other residents
Summary:
The Senate Committee on Business and Commerce met to consider and vote on a committee substitute for Senate Bill 6, which Senator King said was intended to address rapidly growing electricity demand from large loads such as data centers while protecting reliability and keeping costs from shifting to homeowners and small businesses. He described the bill as a response to updated ERCOT and PUC forecasts showing much higher generation needs than previously expected.
Senator King outlined several substantive changes in the substitute: replacing a minimum transmission charge with an upfront interconnection charge for new large loads; requiring the PUC to conduct a more detailed 4CP evaluation and adopt rules based on it; expanding load-forecasting data collection to smaller loads and standardizing criteria for interconnections; removing an exemption from ERCOT/PUC reliability review for certain net metering arrangements; making some PUC conditions temporary and limiting intervenors in those proceedings; and requiring utilities to work with large load customers on protocols and equipment for firm load shed participation. He also noted technical changes meant to close loopholes, including changing references from “duplicate” to “substantially similar” projects and from “affiliated” to “unaffiliated.”
Senator Menendez asked for clarification on several provisions, including whether stranded infrastructure costs applied to generation or only transmission, how “single site” would be defined, how ERCOT-directed curtailment and notice would work, and what “load ramp milestones” meant. King responded that the bill was meant to cover both distribution and transmission-level loads, that the PUC would define certain terms through rulemaking, that large customers would work with utilities in advance on flexible load and backup generation arrangements, and that ramp milestones would help utilities plan for phased growth in demand. After questions concluded, Senator King moved adoption of the committee substitute and passage of SB 6 as substituted. The motion passed on a 7-0 vote, and the bill was reported favorably to the full Senate.
HI
Transcript Highlights:
- Up next, House Bill 1170, HD1, SD1, relating to the University of Hawaii resident tuition fee.
- Hawaii relating to the University of Hawaii resident<00:03:37.920>
tuition <00:03:38.400>fee - resident tuition fee. resident tuition fee.
- For Senate Bill 657 relating to the Center for Climate Resilient Development...
- , uh so uh the Resilient Development, uh so uh the conferees<00:11:12.399>
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TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Members, this bill extends public notice requirements for the imposition of impact fees.
- recognizes, uh, Representative Hinoza and establishes a higher threshold for the adoption of such fees
- I'm currently a director in an in-city developing mud.
- Uh, even when the district starts to develop and there's buildings and improvements, um.
- So, um, where do most muds collect their, their fees for doing the work that they do?
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
Joint Administrative Procedures Committee Mar 31st, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- THE AGENCY'S POSITION IN GENERAL WITH REGARD TO SUNSET PROVISIONS, IN THAT THE POSITION WAS NOT DEVELOPED
- OF DOLLARS IN LICENSE FEES.
- AND I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY WERE IN FACT DEVELOPED AND IN COMPLIANCE SO IF YOU COULD ALSO GIVE
- THIS SYSTEM DEVELOPED BY DEP IN COLLABORATION WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF MANAGEMENT SERVICES IS KNOWN AS
- SINCE BEING DIRECTED TO DEVELOP A COMPUTERIZED SYSTEM FOR STATE LANDS RECORDS TECHNOLOGY HAS OF COURSE
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Housing Jun 21st, 2026 at 01:00 pm
Joint Committee on Housing
Transcript Highlights:
- The 2022 Omnibus Economic Development Bill expanded on this revival by placing Mass CEO within the Mass
- But right now, developers must navigate a maze of state agencies to fund supportive housing.
- This complex process adds time, increases costs, and slows development.
- Jason Brady, Cooperative Development Institute. Good afternoon.
- I'm with the Cooperative Development Institute.
Summary:
The Joint Committee on Housing held a hybrid hearing on a broad slate of housing and homelessness bills. Chairs Rich Haggerty and Julian Cyr opened by noting the committee’s focus on EOHLC programs such as RAFT, MRVP, and HomeBASE, and several members and advocates emphasized the urgency of the state’s homelessness crisis, including rising family homelessness and the need for earlier intervention, more stable subsidies, and stronger long-term housing tools.
A major theme was homelessness prevention and rehousing. Multiple witnesses supported bills to codify and strengthen RAFT and HomeBASE, arguing that assistance should be available earlier in a crisis rather than only after a notice to quit or imminent loss of housing. Testimony from legal services, homelessness coalitions, social workers, municipal housing staff, and tenant advocates said the programs help families avoid eviction and shelter, but need more flexibility, higher benefit caps, and permanent statutory protection. Several speakers also urged support for codifying the Massachusetts Rental Voucher Program (MRVP), describing it as a critical long-term subsidy for low-income households and older adults, and warning that codification would protect the program from future budget or policy changes.
The committee also heard testimony on housing stability for older adults, affordable homes for people with disabilities, supportive housing, housing cooperatives, home sharing, local preference, and reentry housing for returning citizens. Advocates for older adults described a Somerville bridge subsidy pilot that helped stabilize seniors while they waited for permanent housing, and urged statewide expansion. Supporters of supportive housing called for an interagency board to streamline funding and development, while cooperative housing proponents backed creation of a Massachusetts Center for Housing Cooperatives and a dedicated funding reserve. A bill to secure housing for returning citizens drew support from reentry providers and Senator Adam Gomez, who said stable housing is essential to successful reintegration. No votes were taken during the hearing; witnesses generally asked the committee to report the bills favorably, and some members asked follow-up questions on data and program details.
KY
Transcript Highlights:
- do independent research and development. do independent research and development.
- development districts we'll be working. development districts we'll be working.
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where process that's been developed where process that's been developed where - is developing that. is developing that.
- there's no fee. there's no fee.
DE
Transcript Highlights:
- Two years ago, there was a very hard-fought battle against what we consider to be junk fees.
- The General Assembly agreed with us at the time and banned these fees.
- investigation or feelings, decide that you willfully did something, you would be liable for these fees
- That gives a lot of leeway to the car rental companies to charge these fees.
- the House, there was an amendment that put a 30-day cap on it, which seems like it would keep these fees
Summary:
The committee met in hybrid format, approved the June 24 and June 25, 2026 minutes, and then heard several bills and a joint resolution. On House Bill 382 with House Amendment 2, Senator Hoffer explained the measure as a technical correction to prior rental-car and peer-to-peer car-sharing law that would clarify when loss-of-use damages may be recovered while preserving recovery for intentional, willful, or criminal conduct. Avis Budget Group and Enterprise Mobility supported the bill, saying it resolved ambiguity and restored limited common-law recovery, while Allstate and Toro opposed it, arguing the bill could reintroduce unfair and unpredictable fees and leave too much discretion to rental companies. No vote was taken in the transcript, and Senator Townsend said he still had questions about how the bill would operate.
The committee then considered House Bill 476, a Frederica charter change that would reduce town council meetings from twice monthly to monthly and make ordinances effective immediately unless otherwise stated. Representative Postles presented it as a simple, noncontroversial change, though members noted Senator Buckson, the Senate sponsor, was not present at the time. No public comment was offered on that bill. The committee also heard House Joint Resolution 13, which directs the Department of Labor to study a Delaware health care apprenticeship degree program and report recommendations; the Delaware Health Care Association supported the resolution and urged coordination with existing workforce efforts.
Finally, the committee heard House Bill 458 with House Amendment 1 on backflow devices in low-hazard buildings. Senator Pardee said the bill would exempt residences and office-type buildings from costly backflow retrofits until regulations are updated, and DHSS said the current regulations do not clearly define low hazard but that the bill’s list of exempted buildings would not raise immediate public health concerns. The Delaware Association of Realtors supported the bill, arguing the regulations were overbroad and costly, while the Delaware Rural Water Association opposed it, warning that weakening backflow protections could threaten drinking water and aquifers. The committee then adjourned without any recorded votes on the substantive bills in the transcript.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Energy Finance and Policy Committee 3/27/25
Energy Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- Most of our members are focused on developing community-scale projects, but they also develop utility-scale
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life one will not finish the development life one will not finish the development - is an indicator that private development should continue in the solar industry.
- Chair Swedzinski asked for final comments. which the um development Community can which the um development
- continue to have um private development continue to have um private development in<01:39:36.719>