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MO
Transcript Highlights:
- This fund is used by the Department of Revenue to deposit tax refund intercepts for those students who
- program, nursing student loan repayment program.
- Do we have the breakdown on how many, what percentage of students, I guess, that would be?
- We do know the number of students that are not meeting their obligation.
- On page 238 is a new decision item for the student loan repayment federal authority increase.
Committee:
House Budget
Summary:
The committee heard the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services present its FY 2027 budget request, with Director Sarah Wilson and budget staff describing the department’s mission, major divisions, and the impact of federal funding shifts, especially the FMAP change that will shift costs to general revenue. Wilson emphasized prevention, public health infrastructure, workforce capacity, and data modernization, while several members praised the department’s responsiveness and cost-cutting efforts. The discussion repeatedly focused on lapses, excess authority, and the department’s stated practice of spending federal and other funds before general revenue where possible.
Members asked detailed questions about local public health agency support, nutrition programs, rural health and primary care, newborn screening, the state public health lab, and the department’s use of flexibility and reallocations. There was extended discussion of substance use disorder funding: the department explained that some funding is being reduced in its own budget because transfer authority is being added for the Department of Mental Health and the Department of Corrections, while some other SUD-related lines are actual reductions. Members also questioned tobacco prevention and cessation cuts, maternal and infant health programs, fetal infant mortality review, and minority health initiatives, with staff explaining program purposes and noting that some reductions were tied to excess authority or to moving programs to other departments.
The committee also reviewed specific operational items such as the Health Initiatives Fund transfer, debt offset escrow for loan repayment defaults, donated funds authority, emergency preparedness, environmental health, health informatics, HIV/STI/hepatitis services, local public health incentives, and the COVID/ARPA authority reductions. Several members requested follow-up information on vacancies, lapse trends, grant spending plans, and program details. No final vote or formal action was taken in the portion provided; the chair recessed briefly and the hearing continued with additional budget testimony.
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Transportation Jan 13th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- So the governor funds an additional DOL mobile office.
- This is a mobile office system that can go out to rural communities, roll in, set up, and those communities
- And then the budget also restores funding for regional mobility grants in the out biennium.
- to-go truck or the mobile licensing truck.
- strong investment in core transportation priorities, including preservation, safety, and freight mobility
Summary:
The Senate Transportation Committee met on January 13, 2026, for a work session on Governor Ferguson’s proposed 2026 supplemental transportation budget and a public hearing on Senate Bill 6005, which makes supplemental transportation appropriations for the 2025–27 biennium. Committee staff reviewed the transportation budget outlook, noting that the 2025 session had balanced the transportation budget over four years with significant new revenues, but that recent fuel-tax and Climate Commitment Act forecasts had softened the long-term outlook. Staff and the governor’s budget team said the proposal still leaves the budget in positive shape while addressing major needs such as preservation, ferry replacement, maintenance, and the state self-insurance account.
The governor’s office described a $16.8 billion transportation budget proposal centered on preservation and maintenance, including $3.1 billion in bonding for eligible preservation projects, $1.1 billion for three new ferries, additional ferry preservation funding, pavement and bridge work, maintenance funding, County Road Administration Board startup money, State Patrol communications upgrades, DOL service access improvements, dredging for the Lower Columbia River, and restored regional mobility grant funding. Committee members asked about ferry capacity, DOL mobile offices, self-insurance costs, and whether additional preservation money could be used in 2026. Testifiers from cities, counties, labor, ports, construction, business, and environmental groups generally supported the emphasis on preservation, ferry reliability, local road funding, and freight projects, while some urged broader transit and rail investment and one witness criticized the budget’s spending approach.
During public testimony on SB 6005, speakers from Bainbridge Island and ferry communities supported ferry investments and reliability improvements; local government and labor representatives backed preservation funding and better working conditions for transportation workers; business and construction groups endorsed maintenance, paving, bridge repair, and the Lower Columbia dredging item; and port and environmental advocates supported freight, port electrification, and rail funding. One witness raised concerns about the cost and long-term implications of hybrid-electric ferry maintenance, and another urged restraint in spending. The hearing ended after testimony, with the chair noting the sign-in tally and adjourning the committee without a vote on the bill.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- line and shares a common theme with another bill that will be heard before the committee today, the Mobile
- Mobile workforce... Legislation, as Mr.
- House File 950 promotes workforce mobility while exempting non-residents who work in Minnesota 30 days
- It is essential to recognize the increasing mobility of today's workforce.
- You know, just the, I guess, small-town like mobile workers.
Committee:
House Taxes
Keywords:
individual income tax, retirement contributions, tax corrections, annuity contracts, tax year attribution, tax credit, economic development, community investment, data disclosure, Minnesota regulations, tax increment financing, municipal authority, job creation, transferred increment, public hearing, nonresident employees, income tax exemption, Minnesota taxation, employment duties, tax withholding
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
House Standing Committee on Small Business & Information Technology. (3-11-26)
Small Business & Information Technology
Transcript Highlights:
- You'll also see that we've excluded mobile devices and voice assistant devices.
- You'll also see that we've excluded<00:04:21.120><c> mobile</c><00:04:21.440><c> devices</c><00:04:22.400
- ><c> and</c><00:04:22.720><c> voice</c> excluded mobile devices and voice excluded mobile devices and
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
November 18, 2025 - 01:00 PM
Transcript Highlights:
- However, we have overlooked a segment of our population who need our help and that's mobile home residents
- This bill eliminates the discrimination that exists against mobile home owners within the larger conversation
- With this bill, eligible mobile home owners who own their homes that are placed on leased land will be
- And I think some of our residents and our mobile home populations, I feel like they're being forgotten
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- The lack of access to adjacent free lanes reduces access to businesses, restricts mobility, and increases
- TxDOT concluded that safer, smarter designs better serve mobility, safety, and economic development.
- Those toll lanes were operated and maintained by North Tarrant Express Mobility.
- A report says that NTE Mobility Partners, and I quote, "failed to effectively monitor and address icy
Bills:
HB483 , HB3345 , HB3643 , HB3821 , HB3849 , HB4472 , HB4523 , HB4524 , HB5346 , HB5347 , HB5376
Committee:
House S/C on Transportation Funding
Keywords:
high-speed rail, Texas Department of Transportation, TxDOT, public-private partnership, comprehensive development agreement, CDA, Interstate 35, I-35 corridor, Dallas, Waco, Austin, San Antonio, intercity passenger rail, rail infrastructure, private entity, transportation infrastructure, rail corridor, passenger rail, infrastructure finance, vehicle registration
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Committee on the Census Jun 21st, 2026 at 01:00 pm
Senate Committee on the Census
Transcript Highlights:
- So the college students that are coming, this also would have applied to me, right?
- worked on things like college fix, which they've applied to Hampshire County so far, where the overall student
- population is such a large percent of the total. ...where the overall student population is such a large
- Of course, some of these are students, but also workers all the way through 40- through 49.
- Now, those housing needs may change as they become on a fixed income; mobility issues may change.
Committee:
Senate Senate Committee on the Census
Summary:
The Senate Committee on the Census heard presentations on Massachusetts population trends and how they affect state housing planning. Susan Strait of the UMass Donahue Institute reviewed recent Census Bureau estimates, saying Massachusetts grew strongly over the last decade but that growth has slowed sharply in the newest estimates, largely because net international migration has fallen from a post-pandemic surge. She also described the four components of population change—births, deaths, domestic migration, and international migration—along with aging trends, declining fertility, the importance of the millennial cohort, and the role of foreign-born residents in births and the labor force. Committee members asked about college students in group quarters and about counting incarcerated people, and Strait explained the Census Bureau’s current methods and noted that some issues remain under discussion.
Jesse Guerrero of the Metropolitan Area Planning Council then explained how MAPC uses UMass Donahue population projections to build household and local land-use forecasts for MassDOT and the statewide housing plan. He said the earlier transportation projections anticipated slower statewide growth and regional decline in western Massachusetts and on the Cape, with more growth in eastern Massachusetts. He also described how household formation, development patterns, zoning, and affordability are modeled, and noted that newer housing-plan scenarios use updated Census data and different assumptions about migration. Senator Miranda raised concerns about Cape Cod population loss and whether seasonal residents are being counted, and Guerrero and Strait said the projections focus on permanent residents, not seasonal populations.
Tim Reardon of the Executive Office of Housing and Livable Communities tied the demographic forecasts to the statewide housing plan, saying housing demand exists even under low-growth or slight-decline scenarios. He said the plan estimates about 115,000 homes are needed to address existing shortages, including doubled-up households, shelter families, seasonal conversion losses, and the need for healthier vacancy rates, plus additional units tied to future household formation. He added that the state’s total housing target is about 222,000 units, or as high as 262,000 under a higher-growth scenario. Senators pressed him on whether the scenarios are now too high given the recent drop in immigration, on affordability and out-migration, and on whether the housing plan adequately reflects homelessness and overcrowding in Boston and elsewhere. Reardon said the plan includes production, rental assistance, shelter prevention, and preservation strategies, and noted that HLC is also using grant programs and MBTA Communities-related infrastructure funding to support housing production statewide.
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- Reproductive Freedom for All mobilizes four million members to advocate for access to abortion, birth
- Kyrene de la Sierra is located in Phoenix, in Ahwatukee, and serves students in grades pre-K through
- At Sierra, the staff, community, and students empower each other, respect diversity, and achieve academic
- I was born, my uncle, the first to go to college in our family, Manuel Luis Sortega, met him as a student
- And as someone who's a professor, I know what it's like to talk to students who live part-time in one
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
Senate - Health and Public Affairs Feb 16th, 2026 at 02:54 pm
Senate Health & Public Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- Expanding interstate licensure mobility is essential to addressing workforce shortages and strengthening
- I'm one of those students.
- access and engagement at the statewide level, I think it's important to also realize when low income students
- And I was one of those low income students. and by having organizations or entities that put forward
- this intentional approach to engage students and youth across the state, it really creates a long standing
Committee:
Senate Senate Health & Public Affairs
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Committee on the Census Feb 10th, 2026
Senate Committee on the Census
Transcript Highlights:
- So the college students that are coming, this also would have applied to me, right?
- worked on things like college fix, which they've applied to Hampshire County so far, where the overall student
- The overall, you know, where the student population is such a large percent of the total population.
- Of course, some of these are students, but also workers all the way through 40 through 49.
- Now, those housing needs may change as they become on a fixed income; mobility issues may change.
Committee:
Senate Senate Committee on the Census
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
House - Appropriations and Finance Jan 15th, 2026 at 01:32 pm
House Appropriations & Finance
Transcript Highlights:
- The authority also ensures over 49,000 employees, 2.4 billion in payroll, over 416,000 students, over
- The deductible was structured by separating members into six classes based on student enrollment counties
- of Vector Solutions, grooming and boundaries training, an anonymous reporting system for members, student
- Albuquerque Public Schools brings on with their property and with their liability and also their students
- includes additional staffing and program support for back office functions related to the agency's Mobile
Committee:
House House Appropriations & Finance
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
House - Appropriations and Finance Oct 1st, 2025
House Appropriations & Finance
Transcript Highlights:
- then finally, funding directly to New Mexico State University for the CAMP program, which supports students
- And this is to make sure students who are currently enrolled in that program have the ability to continue
- public radio, including food benefits for a wide variety of New Mexico residents, including the NMSU students
- There'll be a sort of mobile food pantry set up, either at an ECECD site, at a public school, or at a
- They were such a tremendous gift to the isolated and unisolated students in this state in serving their
Committee:
House House Appropriations & Finance
MS
Mississippi 2026 Regular Session
MS Senate Floor - 4 February, 2026; 10:00 AM
Mississippi Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
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- He added that the formula recognizes the importance of gifted students, low-income students, English
- language students, special education students, and career and technical education.
- language students and the needs English language students and the needs of<01:19:31.040><c> special<
- What happens now with international students? These are doctors. These are not students.
DE
Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Legislative Session - Session 2 - 38th Legislative Day Jun 18th, 2026
Delaware Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Everyone, please silence your mobile devices. The Senate is reconvened.
- It's an annual essay contest for high school students across Delaware.
- And it's an annual essay contest for high school students across Delaware.
- It offers them a It's an annual essay contest for high school students across Delaware.
- This budget invests more than $2.5 billion in public education for over 140,000 Delaware students.
Summary:
The Senate reconvened, read committee reports, and assigned House Bill 89 with House Amendment 1 and House Bill 393 with House Amendment 1 to the Senate Finance Committee. It then adopted Consent Calendar 64, which included resolutions recognizing Take Our Children to Work Day, Juneteenth, National Farmers Day, Invisible Disabilities Week, Stonewall Uprising Remembrance Day, National Nonprofit Day, and two property-assessment working group resolutions. The calendar passed by a unanimous roll call, and the chamber heard remarks supporting Juneteenth, Delaware agriculture, invisible disabilities awareness, and the nonprofit sector.
The Senate passed the fiscal year 2026 and 2027 revenue estimates in Senate Joint Resolution 16 and Senate Joint Resolution 17, and approved the fiscal year 2027 operating budget in Senate Bill 335 after extended debate on budget growth, recurring costs, health care, education, public safety, retiree obligations, and fiscal restraint. It also passed Senate Bill 336, the one-time supplemental appropriation bill, which includes one-time investments such as a $100 million transition toward a weighted education funding formula, election support, early childhood education, classroom projects, lead remediation, and campaign finance modernization. Several members praised the budget process and staff, while others cautioned against future spending growth.
Among policy bills, the Senate passed House Bill 369 to codify the Office of Gun Violence Prevention and Community Safety, House Bill 268 to increase penalties for assaulting postal workers, House Bill 374 to require workforce reporting on large public works projects, Senate Bill 253 with House Amendment 1 to standardize school bullying parental-notification procedures, Senate Substitute 1 for Senate Bill 342 to modernize the Delaware Motion Picture and Television Development Commission, House Bill 402 to extend Clean Air Act Title V permit fees, and Senate Bill 346 with Senate Amendment 1 to streamline Environmental Appeals Board timelines. The Senate also began consideration of House Bill 293, which would add hate crimes to the Victims’ Compensation Assistance Program, but the transcript cuts off before its vote is shown.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security Mar 18th, 2026
Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security
Transcript Highlights:
- often are international students and visa holders themselves.
- Students are... ...to rectify is that we have the fear of students are leaving their schools because
- All immigrant students deserve this opportunity. Immigrant families need more.
- All immigrant students deserve this opportunity.
- It means protecting student information.
Summary:
The hearing covered several public safety bills and related testimony. On S. 2681, “Colby’s Law,” which would establish safety standards for BMX/motocross tracks, the committee heard emotional testimony from the family of a teen killed at a track and from advocates who said minimum standards are needed for barriers, medical staff, emergency planning, insurance, and oversight. A track owner and rider also testified that safety is important but argued the bill was incomplete and should better distinguish between BMX and motocross and include more specific equipment and weather-related rules. On S. 2680, a bill to expand emergency planning around aging nuclear plants and high-level nuclear waste sites, supporters from Cape Cod, medical groups, and anti-nuclear organizations urged a 50-mile emergency planning radius and stronger state preparedness, citing risks from long-term waste storage and inadequate federal oversight. The committee also heard testimony on a Barnstable home rule petition to allow certain emergency response vehicles to use red lights, with the town supporting the change to improve response times on the water.
A substantial portion of the hearing focused on H. 5158, the Protect Act, which would limit state and local cooperation with federal civil immigration enforcement. County sheriffs testified about how ICE notifications and detainers work in practice, distinguishing between criminal warrants and civil immigration requests to notify, and describing their discretion when people are released on bail or at the end of a sentence. Sheriffs said they generally notify ICE when requested, especially in cases involving serious charges, but emphasized the need to balance public safety, victim notification, and due process. Committee members pressed them on the impact of ICE pickups at courthouses and jails, and several lawmakers and witnesses argued that pretrial detainees taken by ICE can disrupt prosecutions and deny victims their day in court.
Supporters of the Protect Act included labor, education, health care, and immigrant advocacy groups. They said immigrants and mixed-status families are living in fear of routine interactions with police, schools, courts, and hospitals, and urged the committee to ban 287(g) agreements, prohibit law enforcement from asking about immigration status or providing operational assistance to ICE, and add stronger protections for sensitive locations such as schools and health care facilities. Medical witnesses described patients and families avoiding care because of ICE presence, and educators said students are missing school out of fear. No votes or final actions were taken during the hearing; the committee heard testimony and indicated it would continue receiving written testimony before taking action later.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security Mar 18th, 2026
Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security
Transcript Highlights:
- often are international students and visa holders themselves.
- All immigrant students deserve this opportunity. By immigrant communities.
- All immigrant students deserve this opportunity. All immigrant students deserve this opportunity.
- It means protecting student information.
- our families, and we uphold the right of every student to a public education.
WY
Wyoming 2026 Regular Session
Select Committee on School Finance Recalibration, June 25, 2026 - AM
Select Committee on School Finance Recalibration
Transcript Highlights:
- Every Wyoming student in grades 6...
- When students enter the classroom, often students are told, "Please Please open your laptops."
- Um, to give you an idea of our student... Um, give you an idea of our student count.
- We're really small, 47 students.
- student-side software."
WY
Wyoming 2026 Regular Session
Joint Transportation, Highways & Military Affairs Committee, May 4, 2026 - AM
Transportation, Highways & Military Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- And student housing loans are also $60 million.
- And student housing loans are also 60 million. million. million.
- And these roads are extremely important for mobility.
- For so if a person wants to go mobility.
- But once they get closer to mobility.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Conference Committee on SF4282 5/14/26
Transcript Highlights:
- This includes Metro Mobility and Metro Move, and that is an increase of 8.9 million in fiscal year 26
- This includes Metro Mobility and Metro Move, and that is an increase of 8.9 million in fiscal year 26
- This<00:04:12.840><c> includes</c><00:04:13.200><c> Metro</c><00:04:13.480><c> Mobility</c><00:04:13.959
- ><c> and</c><00:04:14.080><c> Metro</c> This includes Metro Mobility and Metro This includes Metro Mobility
Summary:
The conference committee on Senate File 4282 met with a quorum present and heard a walkthrough of the bill, which contains forecast adjustments for several agencies. Senate staff explained that Article 1 makes education forecast adjustments for fiscal years 2026 and 2027, Article 2 adjusts appropriations for the Department of Human Services, Article 3 does the same for the Department of Children, Youth, and Families, and Article 4 increases special transportation services funding for Metropolitan Council programs including Metro Mobility and Metro Move by $8.9 million in FY 2026 and $10.9 million in FY 2027 to match the February forecast. House staff noted that the House language matched Article 1 but did not include Articles 2 through 4.
Representative Youakim presented amendment A26-0180, describing six sections that add provisions on paraprofessional qualifications, aid for tribal contract schools tied to revised permanent school fund distributions, expanded allowable uses of school operating capital revenue to include certain utility costs, an extension of an existing appropriation for gender-neutral single-use restrooms, and two school district fund transfer provisions for West St. Paul/Mendota Heights/Eagan and Maple Lake. Members discussed that several items were no-cost and that some fund transfer language had been previously discussed in committee. The amendment was adopted on an 8-0 roll call vote.
After adopting the amendment, the committee voted on the bill as amended. The conference committee agreement for Senate File 4282 passed on an 8-0 vote, and the meeting was adjourned.
FL
Florida 2026 5th Special Session
Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development Apr 10th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- Within special mobile equipment, the biggest amendment, partisan amendment, it allows cranes to apply
- for special blanket permits to transport oversized mobile cranes and their accessory support vehicles
- Florida is home to hundreds of thousands of residents who live in mobile home parks and communities,
- State Housing Initiatives Partnership Program must include a strategy for providing program funds to mobile
- Your constituents who own their homes and live in mobile home parks, and, senators, no one expects to
Summary:
The Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development considered a full agenda of transportation, economic development, housing, emergency services, and specialty license plate bills. Several measures were explained and advanced without opposition, including the Department of Transportation agency bill (CS/CS/SB 1662), a Purple Heart toll exemption bill (CS/SB 574), a Florida Highway Patrol specialty plate bill (CS/SB 824), a construction disruption assistance loan program for small businesses (CS/CS/SB 324), a manufactured housing assistance bill for local housing plans (CS/SB 1714), a foreign agents registration bill (CS/CS/SB 766), military academy specialty plates (CS/SB 1024), a Safe Coastal Wildlife specialty plate (CS/SB 1246), an emergency services warning-light bill (CS/SB 1644), the Florida Wildflower specialty plate (SB 1152), and a toll exemption bill for 100% disabled veterans and Purple Heart recipients (CS/SB 532).
The committee adopted amendments on several bills. On CS/CS/SB 1662, Senator Collins’ strike-all amendment made a range of DOT-related changes, including the Florida Transportation Academy, seaport and airport accountability provisions, and allowing cranes to move under special blanket permits at night. On CS/CS/SB 324, the committee adopted a delete-everything amendment and a further amendment removing liability language; the bill would create a revolving loan program for small businesses harmed by public works construction, with members raising concerns about eligibility, verification of losses, and public records issues for financial documents. On CS/SB 766, an amendment clarified definitions and aligned the bill with federal FARA standards, including a 20% beneficial ownership threshold. On CS/SB 532, an amendment added Purple Heart recipients to the toll exemption.
Testimony and debate were generally supportive, with several outside witnesses appearing in favor of the bills, including Florida PBA, the Florida Manufactured Homeowners Federation, the Florida Manufactured Housing Association, the Center for Security Policy, and the Florida Wildflower Foundation. Members highlighted constituent impacts and policy concerns on a few measures, especially the construction disruption loan bill and the disabled veteran toll exemption, where some senators suggested narrowing the scope or adding protections. All bills considered were reported favorably, and senators later requested to be recorded as voting in the affirmative on selected tabs before the committee adjourned.