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MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Human Services Finance and Policy Committee 2/27/25
Human Services Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
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- House File 1419 would fund the nursing home Workforce Standards Board's mandates and provide an annual
- Home Standards Board.
Committee:
House Human Services Finance and Policy
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Floor Session Feb 28th, 2026
Washington Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Substitute House Bill 2151, the Secretary will read: An act relating to adopting national standards for
- , that anything being built and becoming a home or a house in our state meets our standards, but does
- 1859, House Bill 2113, substitute House Bill 2151, House Bill 2151, House Bill 215, substitute House
- substitute House Bill 2492, House Bill 2540, and House Bill 2606.
- Bill 2269, House Bill 2304, substitute House Bill 2355, substitute House Bill 2492, House Bill 2540,
Bills:
SB6061 , SB6234 , SB6170 , SB6176 , SB6182 , SB6335 , SB5647 , SB6047 , HB2367 , HB2606 , SB6129 , SB6228 , SB6231 , HB2235 , HB2272 , HB2340 , HB2543 , HB2554 , HB2632 , HB2464 , HB2619
Keywords:
tourism, self-supported assessment, funding, statewide promotion, economic development, sewage, grinder pumps, residential buildings, regulation, construction, contracting rules, state highway construction, procurement limits, state regulations, infrastructure funding, vehicle registration, enforcement, renewal, transportation, state law
Summary:
The Senate opened with ceremonial items, then moved through gubernatorial appointments and a series of floor votes. It confirmed Acacia E. Ingram to the Evergreen State College Board of Trustees, Ashland J. Tibbet and David S. Frockt to the Western Washington University Board of Trustees, and Christine Rolfes to the Olympic College Board of Trustees. Members spoke in support of the appointees’ public service and ties to higher education. The chamber also heard a personal privilege statement honoring a Colfax basketball coach who died of pancreatic cancer, followed by a caucus break.
The Senate then considered several bills, passing measures on derelict vessels (SHB 2199), radiologic technologist supervision (HB 2113), nitrous oxide retail sales (ESHB 2532), ambulance transport fund alignment (HB 2531), EMT recertification (HB 2540), affordable housing on religious property (2SHB 1859), factory-built housing standards (SHB 2151), social housing public development authorities (EHB 1687), the Washington Voting Rights Act and voter suppression claims (ESSHB 1750), privacy and data protection reporting and AI use (HB 2606), military family school stability (ESHB 2534), coal-fired utility treatment (HB 2367), and school access to albuterol (SHB 2360). Most passed on strong bipartisan roll calls, though the voting-rights bill and coal-utility bill drew the most debate and partisan division.
Several bills were amended on the floor. The Senate adopted changes to the nitrous oxide bill, the factory-built housing bill, the social housing bill, the albuterol bill, and the 3D-printer/firearm-manufacturing bill (ESHB 2320), while rejecting some proposed amendments on the voting-rights and 3D-printer bills. Debate centered on whether the voting-rights bill set too low a threshold for lawsuits and whether the coal-utility bill gave improper treatment to coal generation; supporters framed both as needed protections or transition measures, while opponents warned about litigation and policy overreach. The chamber also discussed tribal consultation in energy siting (SHB 2496), ultimately passing it after a close vote, and later returned to the 3D-printer bill, which advanced after amendments narrowed exemptions for gunsmiths and dealers and clarified the bill’s focus on digital files used to manufacture firearms.
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Floor Session Mar 6th, 2026
Washington Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- In gross, second substitute House Bill 2034.
- I move that the rules be suspended so that engrossed second-substitute House Bill 2034 as amended be
- Engrossed Second Substitute House Bill 2034, as amended by the Senate, is declared passed.
- Hearing none, the question before the Senate is final passage of Substitute House Bill 2178.
- Substitute House Bill 2178, as amended, is declared passed.
Bills:
SB6061 , SB6234 , SB6176 , SB6335 , SB6047 , HB2235 , HB2464 , HB2619 , HB1376 , SB5808 , SB5949 , HB1347 , HB1759 , HB1983 , HB2120 , HB2264 , HB2338 , HB2385 , HB2495 , HB2521 , HB2604 , HB2610 , HB2675 , HB2426
Keywords:
tourism, self-supported assessment, funding, statewide promotion, economic development, sewage, grinder pumps, residential buildings, regulation, construction, vehicle registration, enforcement, renewal, transportation, state law, state commission, infrastructure, traffic safety, responsibilities, state capital projects
Summary:
The Senate considered Engrossed Second Substitute House Bill 2034, a measure to terminate and restate the LEOFF 1 pension plan and use surplus funds for other state purposes if federal approval is obtained. During debate, senators discussed whether the plan should remain funded at 110% or 120% of actuarial value, whether surplus dollars should instead go to transportation or the budget stabilization account, whether members should receive an additional distribution, and whether local governments should be reimbursed for retiree health care costs. Several amendments were offered: a Gildon amendment to raise the funding target to 120% failed; a technical Robinson amendment adding a date passed; Holy, King, Harris, Schessler, and Conway amendments addressing member distributions, transportation, budget stabilization, local government health care costs, and a reconstituted board distribution all failed; and Robinson’s amendment removing Climate Commitment Act repayment language passed. The Ways and Means striking amendment, as amended, was then adopted.
On final passage, supporters argued the bill was actuarially sound, had been reviewed by attorneys, actuaries, the State Investment Board, and the Department of Retirement Systems, and would allow use of excess funding for other state needs. Opponents warned it left too little in the pension fund, should dedicate surplus dollars only to one-time uses, and did not adequately reimburse cities and counties for retiree medical obligations. After debate, the Senate passed E2SHB 2034 by a vote of 25 yeas, 22 nays, with one absent and one excused.
Afterward, the Senate returned to Substitute House Bill 2178, which was also passed on final passage by a vote of 39 yeas and 9 nays, with one excused. The chamber then adjourned until the next scheduled meeting.
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- Now, malice is a very high standard. Malice is a very high standard.
- objective design standards.
- It's not a big heat bomb attached to your house. It's basically making your house a lot hotter.
- comes to housing but I also don't don't feel that having zero design standards is the way to go either
- Ultimately, more affordable housing means that we have more supply and more diversity of housing.
Committee:
House Commerce
Keywords:
workers' compensation, industrial commission, safety regulations, employee protection, penalties, compliance, municipal planning, homeowners associations, design regulations, property rights, building permits, single-family homes, liquor, alcohol, spirituous liquor, liquor license, liquor licensing, Arizona Department of Liquor Licenses and Control, restaurant to-go cocktails, mixed cocktails
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Floor Session Jan 19th, 2026 at 10:30 am
Washington House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- House will be in order. The question before the House is the adoption of House Resolution 40.
- The question before the House is the adoption of House Resolution 4672.
- House Resolution 4672 is adopted. Now it would be an appropriate time for applause from the House.
- Clerk will read: House Bill 1160, Local Government Design Review; House Bill 1798, Firefighters' Pension
- With the consent of the House, the House will now adjourn until 9:55 a.m.
Keywords:
design review, local government, land use, zoning, project permits, housing density, middle housing, affordable housing, parking minimums, single-family zoning, infill development, growth management, comprehensive plan, permit streamlining, objective development regulations, architectural review, administrative review, transit-oriented development, accessory dwelling units, ADU
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Commerce Committee Meeting - 2025-04-10
Commerce Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- The first bill we're hearing today is House File 1646.
- With that, this bill, House File 1646, is laid over.
- Solveig Beckel, House Fiscal.
- This was House File 22,000. I'm sorry about that.
- These are in House File 1615, the first engrossment.
Committee:
House Commerce Finance and Policy
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Administrative Regulation Review Subcommittee (1-13-25)
Transcript Highlights:
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- </c> information and update standards information and update standards Incorporated<00:32:01.080><c>
- </c> with the record Robin Maples a standard with the record Robin Maples a standard specialist<01:04
- </c> the Department of workplace standards the Department of workplace standards legal<01:05:02.920><
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Keywords:
0:01– Meeting start/roll call
0:34 – Approval of minutes
0:48 – Welcome of new committee members
1:34 – Council on Postsecondary Education
25:17 – Teachers’ Retirement System
27:00 – Kentucky Public Pension Authority
29:04 – Board of Veterinary Examiners
31:40 – Board of Nursing
34:01 – Board of Emergency Medical Services
36:15 – Fish & Wildlife Resources
40:34 – Department of Corrections
56:00 – Department of State Police
58:05 – Department of Criminal Justice Training
59:22 – Transportation Cabinet
1:00:18 – Department of Education
1:01:23 – Department of Employment Services
1:04:17 – Department of Workplace Standards
1:05:25 – Department of Housing, Buildings & Construction
1:06:59 – Cabinet for Health & Family Services, Dept. for Public Health (Sanitation)
1:13:50 – Cabinet for Health & Family Services, Dept. for Public Health (Trauma System)
1:17:46 – Cabinet for Health & Family Services, Dept. for Public Health (Radon)
1:18:30 – Cabinet for Health & Family Services, Dept. for Medicaid Services
1:19:15 – Cabinet for Health & Family Services, Dept. of Aging Services
1:20:36 – Other Business/Adjournment, 958, all
Summary:
The subcommittee met with a quorum, approved the minutes, and welcomed new members before taking up Council on Postsecondary Education regulations 13 KAR 2:120 and 13 KAR 2:130. The regulations, as amended by staff and agency amendments, update public university and KCTCS performance funding models to conform to 2024 Senate Bill 191 and the performance funding work group’s recommendations. Changes discussed included replacing the underrepresented minority metric with an underrepresented students metric defined as first-generation students, adding an adult learner metric, increasing the low-income degree premium, adjusting small-school and nonresident credit-hour weights, revising data aging and progression metrics, and adding STEM+H criteria in 13 KAR 2:120.
Travis Pal of the Council on Postsecondary Education explained that the changes reflect the work group’s three-year review process and that the work group ultimately voted to define underrepresented students as first-generation students and to apply half-weighting between research and comprehensive universities for the new metric. Michael Frasier of the Kentucky Student Rights Coalition and Eastern Kentucky University student government opposed 13 KAR 2:120, arguing that the regulation improperly applies weights where the statute does not clearly authorize them and that the funding changes disadvantage comprehensive universities and vulnerable students. He asked the committee to find the regulation deficient or, alternatively, recommend legislative clarification and a revised fiscal analysis. Pal responded that weighting has been part of the model since 2017, that CPE was following the statute and work group recommendations, and that the model could be changed by future legislation.
Members asked about the timing of the broader performance funding review, and Pal said the full model is reviewed every three years, with the next work group cycle beginning in 2026. No motion to find the regulation deficient was made, and the committee allowed the regulations to proceed to the committee of jurisdiction. The committee then approved a staff amendment to Teachers’ Retirement System regulations 102 KAR 1:195 and 102 KAR 1:340, which require annual reporting of accumulated sick leave, leave policies, and salary schedules to TRS and make technical changes to the final average salary calculation and related definitions.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- The chair lays out House Bill 3816.
- Anyone present wish to testify on behalf of the House, for or against House Bill 2017?
- House Bill 1828 is pending.
- The chair moves the House Bill.
- House Bill 2017 by Hagenbueh. That's six ayes, one nay. House Bill 2017. Okay, House Bill 2017.
Committee:
Senate Criminal Justice
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Human Services Finance and Policy Committee hears HF500 2/27/25
Human Services Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- Home Standards Board.
- The standards will impact Minnesota.
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- </c><00:25:48.960><c> board</c> Workforce board leg standard board Workforce board leg standard board
- </c> so I thought that was a standard so I thought that was a standard practice<00:30:21.039><c> this
Committee:
House Human Services Finance and Policy
Keywords:
nursing facilities, reimbursement rates, elderly care, minimum wage, healthcare funding, nursing home, employment standards, worker rights, Minnesota Statutes, labor compensation, 919, house, all
Summary:
The committee took up House File 500, which would require the legislature to fund the Nursing Home Workforce Standards Board’s standards before they could take effect. An author’s DE2 amendment was adopted first; the amendment was described as pausing the board’s standards unless the legislature estimates and fully pays the cost for each nursing home. The bill author argued that mandates without money create serious consequences for seniors and providers, and said the measure would keep budget authority with the legislature rather than an appointed board.
Supporters, including nursing home operators and the Long-Term Care Imperative, said the board’s holiday pay and minimum wage standards would create large unfunded costs, citing estimates ranging from hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars for individual facilities and more than $200 million statewide. They argued that some facilities could face debt, reserve depletion, or reduced access to care if the standards are not funded. Opponents, including SEIU workers and union leaders, said the board has improved staffing, recruitment, morale, and worker safety, and that caregivers deserve higher wages and holiday pay. They argued the bill would weaken the board’s ability to address chronic understaffing and would shift focus away from worker protections.
Members also debated whether nursing home reimbursement rates have already risen enough to cover wages and whether the problem lies with how funds are used by providers. After public testimony closed, several members spoke in opposition and support. A roll call was requested, and the committee voted 9-7 to re-refer House File 500, as amended, to the Committee on Labor and Workforce and Economic Development Finance and Policy.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- The deletion of the agency's sunset contingency rider and the deletion of Rider Six, House contingency
- for House Bill 2555, and Rider Seven, contingency for 2627, as both of those bills. have been enacted
- The findings show that hiring experts who are experienced in-house — economists, engineers, and financial
- Recognized, Chair Huffman, that's your house and members. My name is Dr. Scott Wofford.
- So we have someone in-house. Thank you for funding that. That's been very beneficial.
Committee:
Senate Finance
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Moving on to the next page, section two, this is just a list of standard budgeting changes.
- expected continued growth at 4% annually, we will need additional resources to maintain current standards
- Aside from maintaining current standards, we want to improve services, which is why one of our exceptional
- These are just a list of standard budgeting changes.
- These require a significant administrative review to ensure minimum standards are met.
Committee:
Senate Finance
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Our standard is two weeks from the time that you submit a claim.
- Behind me is Jim Hicks, the Executive Director for the Manufactured Housing.
- activities, and for regulating the manufactured housing industry.
- House Bill 619 requires.
- are housing vouchers.
Committee:
Senate Finance
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- $8.6 billion in disaster relief. recovery and mitigation funding to date and has built over 30,000 housing
- Coast Guard standards. I request funds to U.S.
- Coast Guard standards. oil spill incidences in fiscal year 2024 alone has been stranded multiple times
- So, the GCPD has a combination of in-house employees.
- To bring ourselves in line with the Coast Guard standards for their boats, but to give you a couple examples
Committee:
Senate Finance
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- The program was created by House Bill 4256 of the 88th legislature.
- It's the last step toward clean data housed within our numerous agency systems and detect and respond
- It's not every day that, Madam Chairman, that a... existing HUD-brokered, you know, housing authority
- A large portion of the change here were required under the current nature and health standards.
- A house, any structure that has people in it will be enough to make it high hazard.
Committee:
Senate Finance
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Where we have to have a standard. I love the national standard conversation, by the way.
- It's not an easy thing, but it bothers me that we have a standard here and a standard there, and it's
- If it's not, we need to be really careful when that becomes our standard, whether NAEP is the standard
- or STAAR is the standard.
- Different House Bill 3. Yeah. Sorry, this is the 2019 House Bill 3.
Committee:
Senate Finance
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- The design of tests and standards offers students the chance to earn degrees from A&M system regional
- I know that we served together in the Texas House many, many years ago, served in the Senate, then you
- I remember being on the back deck of my house running a grill with my... ...daughter one evening, and
- The House is on board with that too. That's something Dr. Abond and I have worked on.
- Additionally, it will house the center described in our exceptional item request.
Committee:
Senate Finance
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- So, nationally, that's a pretty standard number.
- Gonzalez, and I served with her in the Texas House.
- My goodness, we served in the Texas House together and had some good times.
- The request that the Senate and the House both have so generously...
- And the other thing is, like housing. I mean, I can't even figure out.
Committee:
Senate Finance
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- I will say that I am fully supportive of **House Bill 8** and the method, the goals.
- I'm going to skip to **House Bill 8**.
- Basically, we don't give them credit in **House Bill 8**. So **Senate Bill 49**, I believe.
- **Senator.** Staying on **House Bill 8**, I have some questions.
- Does **House Bill 8** give that community college credit for that?
Committee:
Senate Finance
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- The LIDAs lack standardization.
- This funding will ensure that recovery housing providers meet nationally recognized standards.
- This funding will ensure that recovery housing providers meet nationally recognized standards, are good
- This funding will ensure recovery housing providers meet nationally recognized standards and improve
- This funding will ensure that recovery housing providers meet nationally recognized standards. ...are
Committee:
Senate Finance
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- So he went and broke a small window of a neighbor's house.
- We have to follow 385 federal standards and 373 state standards.
- So you're referencing the 385 federal standards and 373 state standards?
- I help around the house.
- standards.
Committee:
Senate Finance