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ID
Transcript Highlights:
- are provided and say, can I negotiate a lower price than what you have?
- So I go in there and I negotiate a lower price and I say, I'll pay you today.
- And so the provider is allowed to negotiate. ...that claim.
- You negotiate it down to $4,000.
- that complete negotiation amount that the provider and the patient agreed upon.
Committee:
Senate Commerce and Human Resources
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House DFL Media Availability 1/28/25
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- We had some negotiations this morning from 9 to 12:30.
- We have narrowed the issues a bit as we're negotiating, actually pretty substantially, so I think we're
- </c><00:00:45.960><c> um</c><00:00:46.199><c> actually</c> bit as we're negotiating um actually bit as
- we're negotiating um actually pretty<00:00:46.960><c> substantially</c><00:00:47.960><c> so</c><00:00
- in negotiations that I think<00:02:47.480><c> is</c><00:02:47.599><c> going</c><00:02:47.760><c> to<
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House DFL Media Availability 1/24/25
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- We are hopeful that the court's order now enables us to move forward and reach a negotiated agreement
- the negotiating table we don't back to the negotiating table we don't need<00:03:47.519><c> to</c><00
- A Democrat's denial of quorum is a negotiating strategy.
- </c> that we can get back to the negotiating that we can get back to the negotiating table<00:08:00.759
- What do you anticipate this will look like when you guys get back to the negotiating table?
MD
Transcript Highlights:
- Isn't negotiation a better path?
- Negotiation. Negotiation.
- </c> engage in good faith negotiations. engage in good faith negotiations.
- And he was not allergic to negotiation. negotiation. negotiation.
- Isn't negotiation a better path? forth? Isn't negotiation a better path?
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy Committee 1/23/25
Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:03:56.959><c> benefits</c> with our locally negotiated benefits with our locally negotiated benefits
- It has only led to disagreements at the negotiations table.
- We call this our state negotiators meeting.
- </c><01:20:39.480><c> process</c> have said about our negotiations process have said about our negotiations
- </c><01:20:42.880><c> um</c> um we have very wonderful negotiation um um we have very wonderful negotiation
Summary:
The committee opened by approving the January 16 and January 21 minutes. Members then heard testimony focused on the impact of Earned Sick and Safe Time (ESST) and the proposed paid family and medical leave program on Minnesota school districts, with the chair framing the hearing as an opportunity to hear from major employers and school leaders about costs and operational effects.
Kimberly Lewis, speaking for the Minnesota School Boards Association and related school administrator groups, said districts generally already provide generous, locally negotiated sick leave and had initially adapted to ESST by separating vacation, sick time, and ESST into different buckets. She argued that a 2024 law effectively converted previously bargained sick leave into ESST, which she said undermines contracts, creates large unfunded costs, and may raise constitutional contract-clause concerns. Lewis cited large accumulated leave banks in some districts, increased sick leave use, and estimated significant costs from paid leave, including a reported $2.5 million impact for one large district. She urged flexibility such as prorating ESST for midyear hires and part-time staff and exempting coaches, short-term substitutes, and similar employees from ESST.
Superintendent Anarie Fuco of St. Michael-Albertville said her district expects about $400,000 in added fiscal 2026 costs from ESST and paid leave, plus indirect costs from substitute coverage and increased absenteeism. She said schools already have generous bargaining agreements, but the new laws reduce verification and require districts to track leave for temporary staff, creating what she described as a need for “substitutes for our substitutes.” Fuco said the district would face more than $211,000 in direct payroll costs from paid leave alone and asked for flexibility or exceptions for districts already offering comparable benefits. Members asked follow-up questions about how substitute teachers accrue leave and how many districts may be cutting budgets; Lewis and Fuco said many districts are making cuts and that substitute and staffing burdens are growing. A third testifier began by Zoom, but the transcript cuts off before her full testimony.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Republican Media Availability 2/3/25
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- How did negotiations go this morning?
- How did negotiations go this morning?
- That is our negotiating team that we brought forward.
- Do you think that might complicate negotiations more further?
- 05.680><c> further</c><00:05:06.040><c> or</c> complicate negotiations more further or complicate negotiations
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Business, Trade & Economic Development Jan 21st, 2026 at 08:00 am
Business, Trade & Economic Development
Transcript Highlights:
- IGRA sets the framework for which tribes and states can negotiate Class III gaming on tribal lands to
- IGRA also outlines what the tribe and the state can negotiate into compacts, including such things as
- When negotiations are requested by the tribe, the state requires, IGRA requires, the states to negotiate
- I understand it was a pleasant and principled negotiation.
- This means that the homeowner can sometimes not be able to negotiate settling of payments.
Keywords:
mortgage modification, uniform regulations, homeowners, financial stability, foreclosure prevention, public safety, insurance fraud, law enforcement, crime prevention, penalties, SB6178, property insurance, insurance claims, assignment of benefits, AOB, post-loss assignment, post-loss benefits, homeowners insurance, policyholder, insured
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- to negotiate.
- We were able to do negotiated rulemaking.
- So that's why we're able to negotiate that.
- So we have started that negotiated rulemaking process, and we held a scoping meeting and a negotiated
- ... ...a non-ZBR negotiated rulemaking.
Committee:
House Environment, Energy and Technology
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Public Employment and Retirement Committee Apr 2nd, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- We believe that should still remain negotiated at the MOU.
- That's all bargained and negotiated at the bargaining table. Thank you."
- That's all bargained and negotiated at the bargaining table. Thank you."
- negotiations can be consolidated.
- negotiations can be consolidated.
Summary:
The committee heard several labor and employment measures. AB 465 would require local public employers, at a union’s request, to negotiate minimum disciplinary and grievance procedures in MOUs, including progressive discipline, just-cause protections, grievance appeal rights, and paid release time for representatives. Supporters, including AFSCME and SEIU, said it would create fairer and more consistent due process protections for local government workers; opponents from county and city groups argued it would impose binding arbitration and rigid discipline rules that could undermine local flexibility and accountability. The bill passed on a 5-0 vote and was re-referred to Appropriations.
AB 792 would allow court interpreter bargaining to be consolidated when multiple regions are negotiating at the same time. The author and the California Federation of Interpreters said the change would reduce repeated bargaining, improve efficiency, and help address interpreter recruitment and retention. There was no opposition, but some members questioned whether the proposal would really solve wage and staffing problems; the bill passed 5-0 and was placed on hold. AB 1309, which would improve Cal Fire firefighter compensation by tying salaries more closely to comparable local fire departments, drew strong support from firefighters and no opposition. Members praised Cal Fire’s work and the bill passed 7-0 and was held for add-ons.
The committee also approved AJR 8, a resolution urging protection of Social Security and opposing federal cuts or office closures. Supporters said Social Security is essential to seniors, veterans, people with disabilities, and children, and warned that reductions would increase poverty and homelessness. One member objected to naming political figures in the resolution, but the measure still passed 7-0 and was held. AB 1247, which would require contracted-out school classified workers to meet the same training and qualification standards as direct hires and address related retirement contributions, passed 5-2 despite opposition from county superintendents and school administrators who said it would add costs and limit contracting flexibility. Finally, AB 288, which would authorize PERB to act when the NLRB fails to remedy labor claims by a deadline, passed 6-0 with strong union support and no opposition.
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
Organizational business meeting to consider committee rules for the 119th Congress, an original resolution authorizing expenditures by the committee during the 119th Congress, designation of subcommittees for the 119th Congress, designation of member Feb 6th, 2025 at 08:50 am
Finance Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- USTR is, as I said, Trade negotiator.
- Trade Representative as the Chief trade negotiator, negotiating trade deals.
- The free trade agreements that were negotiated under George W.
- You were instrumental in the drafting and negotiating of these documents.
- That was, of course, negotiated during the Trump administration. Sure.
Committee:
Senate Finance Committee
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- I mean, we negotiated that in 2021.
- I don't think that that should be negotiated away in a side deal somewhere.
- In that room, during those negotiations, yes, we were present in some of those negotiations.
- Representative Alders asked specifically about these negotiations.
- Representative Alders asked specifically about these negotiations.
Committee:
House Land & Resource Management
Keywords:
impact fee, moratorium, local government, Texas legislation, infrastructure funding, municipal utility district, eminent domain, bonds, assessments, infrastructure, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, Harris County, Municipal Utility District, territory exclusion, debt service taxes, property taxation, condemnation, property acquisition, real property, appraisal reports
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Working Group on Omnibus Jobs, Labor and Economic Development - 05/27/25
Minnesota Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- ><c> between</c><00:39:56.720><c> this</c> trying to negotiate between this trying to negotiate between
- You're negotiating and non-competes.
- </c> better negotiation. Thank you. better negotiation. Thank you.
- negotiating.
- So, gotten to the actual negotiation.
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- Negotiated rulemaking meetings were not held for the temporary proposed rule.
- Negotiated rulemaking meetings were not held for the temporary proposed rule.
- So we have initiated that negotiated rulemaking process.
- And we have additional negotiated rulemaking meetings planned this spring.
- And through the negotiation, we had made several changes in the discussion.
Committee:
Senate Resources and Environment
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Press Conference: Subcommittee on Federal Impact on Minnesotans and Economic Stability - 10/15/2 Oct 16th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- They're not coming to the table to negotiate.
- They're not coming to the table to negotiate.
- President Trump the table to negotiate.
- And so far it seems like negotiate.
- If they won't<00:04:12.239><c> negotiate,</c> won't negotiate, won't negotiate, like<00:04:14.480><c>
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
JT Business, Financial Services & Trade w/State Government & Tribal Relations Dec 19th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- So that's the ...or whether to refer back for further negotiation.
- IGRA also outlines what the tribe and the state can negotiate.
- IGRA requires states to negotiate in good faith when negotiations are requested by the tribe.
- Tribal negotiations are delegated, as a governor to the commission director.
- As such, I am a member of Director Griffin's negotiations team.
Summary:
The joint House and Senate committee meeting heard public testimony on tentative tribal-state gaming compact amendments for the Port Gamble S'Klallam Tribe and the Upper Skagit Indian Tribe. Staff from the Washington State Gambling Commission explained the compacting process, the role of ex officio legislative members, and that the amendments would next go to the Gambling Commission for a January 8, 2026 vote before possible governor review. The Port Gamble S'Klallam presentation emphasized how gaming revenue supports tribal government services, health care, housing, education, language revitalization, natural resources work, and community investment projects in Kitsap County.
For Port Gamble S'Klallam, the proposed changes include expanded credit and wager limits, more gaming stations and player terminals, language for a second facility, and adoption of an electronic table games appendix similar to other tribes. Members asked about pre-screening for high-limit tables, including how the tribe would define problem gambling and self-exclusion; tribal counsel said internal minimum control standards were still being developed and more detail would follow. A question about green crab removal in Port Gamble Bay was deferred for follow-up because the natural resources director was not present.
The Upper Skagit Indian Tribe described its history, sovereignty, gaming operations, and how gaming revenue supports member programs such as nutrition assistance, education aid, homeownership down payment help, and charitable giving in Skagit County. Its amendment would allow electronic table games after the tribe removed traditional table games due to staffing and cost pressures, with the goal of remaining competitive. Committee members also asked about air quality and smoking-related provisions in the compact; the tribe said it maintains separate smoking and non-smoking areas and supports smoking cessation efforts. Chairs from both chambers closed by thanking the tribes for their contributions to members, local communities, and natural resource protection.
FL
Florida 2026 Regular Session
FL House Floor Session - 2026-03-05 (10:00AM Session)
Florida House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- I'm specifically talking about the negotiated bargaining agreement that includes negotiated provisions
- I'm specifically talking about the negotiated bargaining agreement that includes negotiated provisions
- I don't know why my parents let me negotiate on my own, but I negotiated an hourly wage.
- I don't know why my parents let me negotiate on my own, but I negotiated an hourly wait.
- I negotiated.
Summary:
The Senate convened with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and several guest introductions before moving into a long special-order calendar. The chamber first considered two claims bills: SB 6/HB 6507 for relief of L.E. through the Department of Children and Families, described as compensation for severe injuries after DCF returned the child to unsafe parents, and SB 26/HB 6509 for the estate of Mark Legata, involving catastrophic injuries tied to FDOT negligence. Both bills were substituted with their House companions and passed overwhelmingly.
Members then approved several policy bills focused on child welfare, education, and professional regulation. CS/CS/SB 42/HB 47 required child protective investigators to consider certain medical diagnoses before proceeding in abuse cases; CS/SB 206/HB 851 expanded autism-related training and incentives for teacher preparation programs; SB 556/HB 453 allowed Special Olympics participation to satisfy PE requirements for students with disabilities and clarified marching band credit; SB 688 reestablished licensure and regulation for naturopathic doctors; SB 878/HB 1347 addressed clinical laboratory personnel shortages by aligning more closely with federal CLIA standards; and SB 914/HB 867 clarified that licensed occupational therapists may perform dry needling. Each of these measures passed, most by unanimous or near-unanimous votes.
The chamber also approved bills on court administration, public records, financial disclosure, and child welfare. SB 326/HB 131 modernized rules for curators of estates; SB 758/HB 625 updated the composition of the Justice Administrative Commission, with an amendment broadening the judicial member to a judge or senior judge; SB 830 created a public records exemption for certain local government executives and their families; SB 964/HB 6011 revised how gifts and honoraria are reported and, via amendment, restored a percentage-based reporting option for financial disclosures; and SB 1002 clarified that acute or chronic parental drug abuse can constitute harm or neglect and allow courts to order assessment and services. These bills all passed, with SB 830 drawing the most opposition among them.
The most contentious debate centered on CS/CS/CS/SB 354, the Blue Ribbon Projects bill, which would create a framework for very large planned communities with substantial conservation set-asides. Supporters argued it would provide a new growth-management tool and economic opportunity, while opponents warned it was too broad, lacked specificity, weakened local control, and could be exploited by large developers. After extensive debate and an amendment limiting data centers in commercial areas, the bill was temporarily postponed rather than brought to a final vote. The Senate also passed SB 530 on lottery operations, SB 1632/HB 1471 on foreign law and domestic terrorist designations after a lengthy and divisive amendment debate over references to Sharia law, and SB 21/HB 218 on land-use regulations tied to hurricane recovery, which preserves SB 180 restrictions in storm-affected counties while lifting them later for unaffected counties.
MO
Missouri 2026 Regular Session
Special Committee on Rural Issues Feb 25th, 2026
Special Committee on Rural Issues
Transcript Highlights:
- But it is a negotiation. You know, sometimes negotiations are hard, but it's a negotiation.
- with them, do you negotiate?
- They are all negotiated with individually, as my understanding.
- I haven't been involved in those negotiations.
- Some of the getting information about negotiations.
Committee:
House Special Committee on Rural Issues
Summary:
The committee heard House Bill 3114, which would require operating railroads in Missouri to provide digital copies of valuation and station maps to the state land surveyor for inclusion in a public repository. The sponsor said the bill is intended to help surveyors locate abandoned railroad rights-of-way and determine center lines for adjoining landowners’ reversionary rights. Committee members asked about whether the bill would apply to active versus abandoned lines, whether records still exist for older railroads, and whether a deadline should be added for compliance. Railroad testimony raised concerns about the breadth of the request, potential security and proprietary issues, and the burden of compiling historical records, while indicating a willingness to continue discussions and possibly work with surveyors on a more targeted process.
The committee then heard House Bill 2298, which would remove the current exemption for electric cooperatives from the requirement that condemning entities pay 150% of appraised value in eminent domain cases. The sponsor argued that co-ops should be treated the same as regulated utilities because landowners face the same burden when transmission lines cross their property, and he cited examples where co-op offers were far below what he believed comparable utility projects would pay. Landowners and a lawyer testifying in favor described alleged unfair treatment, uneven compensation, and the impact of transmission lines on farm operations and property value, while emphasizing that the bill would simply put co-ops on the same footing as other utilities.
Opposition testimony from Associated Industries of Missouri and the Missouri Electric Cooperatives argued that the bill would interfere with the cooperative model, which is member-owned and governed by elected boards, and would reduce flexibility in negotiating easements. The co-op representative said the organizations are not partnered with Grain Belt Express, that any interconnection compensation is separate from the project itself, and that most easement acquisitions are settled by negotiation rather than condemnation. Committee members questioned whether co-ops already pay comparable amounts in practice, whether the bill would affect transmission projects tied to Grain Belt Express, and how co-op governance and member oversight should factor into eminent domain policy.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy Committee 3/13/25
Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:18:56.080><c> that</c> those policies were negotiated that those policies were negotiated that
- If the contribution structure remains negotiable, we will be required to separately negotiate the paid
- we will be required to negotiable we will be required to separately<00:42:18.960><c> negotiate</c><00
- </c><00:42:37.200><c> programming</c> costs Beyond negotiations programming costs Beyond negotiations
- </c><01:18:32.360><c> this</c> paired out and have to negotiate this paired out and have to negotiate
Bills:
HF1976
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- So we have been negotiating, at least attempting to negotiate, and give these options to the governor's
- session so we have been negotiating at least attempting negotiate and give these options to the governor's
- Blattman, I understand that she's open to negotiate.
- So we want to negotiate a budget with no details...
- So we want to negotiate a budget with no details.
Keywords:
individual income tax, subtraction, Arizona Revised Statutes, retirement benefits, adoption costs, charitable contributions, health insurance, premium payment, Arizona State Retirement System, contingent annuitant, long-term disability, benefits limitations, disability compensation, social security, retirement system, elected officials, ASRS, eligibility waiver, age 65, taxation
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Natural Resources Committee Sep 12th, 2025
Natural Resources
Transcript Highlights:
- to be not included in another big negotiation as what we view as an end run around that negotiation.
- was made with this committee, and there were no negotiations.
- is slightly different than what was negotiated earlier.
- But as we know, when we are in negotiations, there is a give and take.
- And having said in those negotiating meetings with you, if you've not seen the Senator negotiate, it
Committee:
House Natural Resources
Summary:
The Assembly Natural Resources Committee heard three major bills focused on California’s energy transition, fuel supply, and climate investments. SB 237 by Sen. Grayson proposed short-term measures to stabilize gasoline supply and prices, including validating the Kern County EIR for new oil and gas permitting with setbacks, a well cap, offshore/pipeline provisions, possible suspension of summer fuel blend requirements, and a study of regional fuel blends. Supporters argued it would help keep refineries operating, protect jobs, and reduce price spikes during a “mid-transition” away from fossil fuels, while opponents said it was a fossil-fuel giveaway that would worsen pollution in Kern County and fail to address refinery-community protections or broader transition planning. The committee approved SB 237 on a due-pass vote, with some members voting no or not voting.
The committee also heard SB 352 by Sen. Reyes, which would strengthen implementation of AB 617 by codifying the Environmental Justice Bureau in the Attorney General’s office, requiring at least five years of monitoring in AB 617 communities, and mandating annual reporting by CARB and air districts on program implementation. Supporters said the bill would add accountability and ensure the new continuous funding for AB 617 leads to real emissions reductions, while opponents criticized the process and argued the bill was an end run around separate negotiations and imposed rigid requirements on limited resources. The bill advanced on a due-pass vote after extensive testimony from environmental justice groups, business organizations, and local air districts.
Finally, SB 840 by Sen. Limon was presented as the cap-and-invest package, maintaining California’s climate leadership while directing revenues to state and community priorities. Supporters highlighted stronger offset integrity, more frequent protocol updates, continued funding for programs such as AB 617, transit, housing, and other climate investments, and broad labor and local government support. Some witnesses and members noted the bill did not include dedicated funding for zero-emission vehicles or climate-smart agriculture and urged future work on those priorities. The committee passed SB 840 on a due-pass vote as well, and all three bills were later confirmed out of committee on the floor call.