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MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Agriculture Finance and Policy Committee 3/3/25

Agriculture Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • That's how we use the funds.
  • </c><00:13:50.120><c> was</c> they knew the funding was they knew the funding was exhausted<00:13:53.199
  • </c> priorities go so projected funding priorities go so projected funding shortfall<00:17:44.200><c>
  • </c> this program out of undesignated funds this program out of undesignated funds um<00:49:24.240><c
  • So $3.04 million in the grant funding and $4.7 million in private funding to upgrade facilities here
Bills: HF770 , HF857 , HF38 , HF1500 , HF43
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Feb 27th, 2025

Alabama Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • and provide for the speedy trial fund and provide for the speedy trial fund and provide for the use
  • and to Officers family scholarship fund and to Officers family scholarship fund and to establish a dis
  • Education to adopt an Internet safety Education to adopt an Internet safety policy to add section 16413
  • course prior to a social media safety course prior to a social media safety course prior to entering
  • uh coach safety uh coach safety act and I want to tell you that I I act and I want to tell you that
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Senate Session Feb 27th, 2025

Texas Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • The common sense gun reform that we can do the common sense guns safety issue that we can do a member
  • We have raised through the Fund for Veterans Assistance out of the Texas lotto since its inception. $262
  • This amendment seeks to prevent any loss of revenue from the fund of veterans.
Bills: SB26 , SB28 , SJR36 , SB616 , SB565 , SB384 , SB28 , SB28 , SR131 , SR168 , SR174 , SR175
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Transcript Highlights:
  • Because I couldn't find a School Security Fund.
  • Members, this JCR appropriates funds. from the General Revenue Fund to establish the Cybercrimes and
  • them there to fund COLAs in the future.
  • But the other part of this is where a pension fund is adequately funded as long as you have employees
  • We want to see the pensions fully funded, so if you hit a 100% target, you'd have the best-funded systems
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Transcript Highlights:
  • I'm not quite clear what fund that is.
  • Members, this JCR appropriates funds from the general revenue fund to establish the cybercrimes and fraud
  • Appropriates funds from the general revenue fund to establish the cybercrimes and fraud unit inside the
  • them there to fund COLAs in the future.
  • But the other part of this is where is a pension fund adequately funded as long as you have employees
Summary: The House opened with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and several gallery introductions, including the Oklahoma Elks Lodge Association, Guthrie Day visitors, students from Sanger Ridge Elementary and Stillwater, and multiple honored guests and athletic teams. The chamber also heard a farewell speech from Representative Dale Kerbs reflecting on his 10 years in the House, his committee work, staff, family, and major policy changes during his tenure. A concurrent resolution recognizing the YMCA on its 175th anniversary was also adopted. The bulk of the meeting focused on a series of Senate bills carrying joint committee reports, many of them appropriations or retirement-related measures. The House passed bills providing COLAs or related benefit changes for judicial retirees (SB 1148), firefighters (SB 1147), police retirees (SB 1146), public employees (SB 1145), and teachers (SB 1144), along with a one-time stipend for a small group of retired police and firefighters who missed prior increases (SB 1149). Members asked questions about pension solvency, tiered COLA structures, and whether any bills reduced state contributions; the sponsors generally said the systems were stable or that future legislatures would retain oversight. The House also passed limits bills for the Health Care Authority (SB 1161), State Department of Health (SB 1162), Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services (SB 1164), Department of Human Services (SB 1163), Public Safety (SB 1165), Agriculture (SB 1166), and the Oklahoma Water Resources Board (SB 1175 and SB 1176). Several other measures were approved with little or no debate, including appropriations for remediation assistance (SB 1159), a Pardon and Parole Board pay increase (SB 1156), funding for the Office of Juvenile Affairs to ensure juveniles receive prescribed medication (SB 1158), a new OSBI cybercrimes and fraud unit (SB 1157), and OMES provisions for Pay for Success and a public contract-spending database (SB 1167). The House also passed a school bill adding 20 minutes of recess for K-5 students, with members joking about recess for legislators as well. Most bills passed with strong bipartisan margins, and several emergency clauses were adopted by the required two-thirds vote. The House then recalled HB 1933 from engrossing and enrolling and adjourned until Monday, April 20, 2026.
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  • fund as a state.
  • So, what this bill is doing is establishing two funds, and so those funds don't exist.
  • , creating something called the Heartland Facilities Fund.
  • The state appropriated $10 million, put it into the fund.
  • And so, without the funds, none of that happens.
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Transcript Highlights:
  • So you're saying we could be taking funds.
  • fund as a state.
  • So what this bill is doing is establishing two funds, and so those funds don't exist.
  • The state appropriated $10 million and put it into the fund.
  • And so without the fund, none of that happens.
Summary: The House convened, completed the roll call, heard an invocation, the Pledge of Allegiance, and several introductions and recognitions, including guests in the galleries and a special recognition of a doctor of the day and a state volleyball championship team. The chamber then took up a series of bills, with most receiving brief explanations and little or no debate. House Bill 2997, dealing with used-car bait-and-switch enforcement and higher fines, failed on final passage 47-39, and notice was given of a possible motion to reconsider. House Bill 2021, creating a DHS grant program for out-of-school programming through larger community-based organizations, passed 51-29 after questions about eligibility and partnerships. House Bill 3041, adjusting the cap on credit-card surcharges so retailers can recover actual processing costs up to 2%, passed 86-1 and its emergency was adopted. The House also passed House Bill 1823 on Oklahoma Housing Finance Agency compliance with federal HOME grant guidelines, 83-5, with the emergency adopted. House Bill 3372, creating lower-cost financing tools for high-performing charter schools, drew extensive questioning about taxpayer funding, ownership, default risk, and comparisons to public-school bonds, but ultimately passed 53-36. House Bill 1427, as amended by the Senate, was adopted and passed 57-20, codifying current clean-burning vehicle tax-credit practices tied to the bank privilege tax. House Bill 3127, which would have broadened employer drug-testing and zero-tolerance authority beyond current safety-sensitive positions for medical marijuana users, drew the most extended debate over worker protections, constitutionality, and testing standards, but failed narrowly 47-46; notice of reconsideration was given. Later measures passed with broad support, including House Bill 3128 creating a task force to identify workplace barriers and recommend administrative or legislative fixes, 73-21; House Bill 4198 allowing employers to seek protective orders against former employees who pose an imminent threat, 88-12; and a series of sunset-extension bills for professional and advisory boards. Those included House Bills 3000 through 3007, covering the cosmetology board, child death review board, county personnel training commission, chiropractic examiners, optometry board, Oklahoma Climatological Survey, Oklahoma Advisory Council on Indian Education, and DEQ natural resource advisory councils, with most also receiving emergency clauses. House Concurrent Resolution 1020, commending Team USA Olympic hockey teams for gold medals, was adopted by unanimous consent.
AL

Alabama 2026 Regular Session

Alabama House Fiscal Responsibility Committee Feb 11th, 2026

Fiscal Responsibility

Transcript Highlights:
  • Ivy's executive order that allows Alabama to participate... ...in the federal tax credit program to fund
  • The funds can be used for tuition, fees, special needs services, tutoring, books, and supplies.
  • They also have to have 90% of the funding that they receive from these income tax donations actually
  • has to go straight to the scholarship fund themselves.
Bills: HB342 , HB342 , HB168 , HB220 , SB187 , SB270 , SB265 , SB220 , SB242 , SB277
AL

Alabama 2026 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Finance and Taxation Education Committee Apr 1st, 2026

Finance and Taxation Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • </c> &gt;&gt; And that's all general fund. Exactly. &gt;&gt; And that's all general fund. Exactly.
  • </c> not be responsible for for funding. Mr. not be responsible for for funding. Mr. Chairman.
  • </c> trust fund. trust fund.
  • and the cheer fund.
  • </c> higher ed and once we get enough funding higher ed and once we get enough funding corpus<01:01:26.560
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Appropriations and Finance Feb 16th, 2026 at 10:48 pm

House Appropriations & Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • That directly impacts public safety staffing and services.
  • We're securing the funding. We have guardrails. We're codifying a system.
  • funds pursuant to the State Equalization Guarantee Distribution or funds appropriated for instructional
  • or general funding.
  • Relieve the early childhood trust fund rather than increase general funds.
Bills: SB132 , SB241
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Finance Feb 16th, 2026

House Appropriations & Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • Representative Little, HB 158 as amended, plan on use of certain funds, and then Public Safety Workforce
  • House Bill 255 streamlines several public safety workforce funding into one unified public safety workforce
  • capacity building fund.
  • The fund right now.
  • Money from the fund shall be... ...general fund or any other fund of the state.
Bills: SB132 , SB241
Summary: The committee first heard HB 158 as amended, which would require state agencies receiving appropriations from the Grow Fund to submit accountability and evaluation plans to the State Budget Division and the Legislative Finance Committee. LFC staff said the bill would put existing practice into statute and formalize agency reporting and evaluation responsibilities. The bill drew no opposition testimony, and after questions about whether agencies or LFC would do the evaluations, it passed on a 9-0 due pass vote. HB 255, the Public Safety Workforce Building Program, was then presented as a bipartisan measure to consolidate public safety workforce funding into a competitive grant program for local law enforcement, fire, detention, and public attorney offices. The sponsor said it would not require a new appropriation. There was no opposition testimony, and the committee approved it on a 9-0 due pass vote. The committee then took up SB 309, which would replace the lottery’s 30% return requirement with a fixed floor return for several fiscal years, with a reversion to the current law if the floor is not met. Lottery officials and supporters argued the change would let the lottery offer more competitive prizes, including higher-value scratchers, and potentially increase scholarship revenue; opponents, including Think New Mexico and a nursing student, warned it could cap long-term growth and reduce scholarship funding. After extended debate, the bill passed on a 7-2 due pass vote. Later, SB 79, creating a statewide mosquito-borne disease prevention program through the Department of Health, was presented by its sponsor as a response to West Nile virus and warmer winters. Testimony from the sponsor and the state entomologist emphasized rising mosquito risk and the need for county grants and statewide coordination. Although the committee initially moved to table the bill because funding had already been included in the budget, that motion failed and the bill ultimately received a due pass vote. The committee also heard HB 295, which would create a centralized accessibility reporting position in the Department of Health; after testimony for and against, an amendment stripping the appropriation was adopted, and the bill passed 5-3. The committee then heard HB 124, establishing an Office of New Americans within Workforce Solutions to coordinate workforce integration for immigrants with lawful status. Supporters described barriers faced by immigrant workers and the need for bilingual training and centralized assistance, while the sponsor said the office would have no first-year budget impact. The bill passed 6-4. Finally, the committee considered SB 273 and SB 274, both involving state financial support for affected entities and the Patient Compensation Fund. SB 273, which would provide temporary state assistance to communities affected by economic disruption, passed after debate about precedent and economic recovery. SB 274, which sought repayment from the Patient Compensation Fund for prior state infusions, drew opposition from hospitals and physicians who warned of higher surcharges and questioned the timing and legality; discussion continued around the committee substitute and the fund’s statutory restrictions.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Finance Feb 11th, 2026 at 04:38 pm

Senate Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • There was additional money on line 67 for that fund, for the Rural Libraries Fund.
  • For that fund, for the Rural Libraries Fund.
  • other state funds.
  • This is how you're funding the computer funding.
  • general fund, right?
Bills: SB152 , SB145 , SB190 , HB247
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Finance Feb 11th, 2026 at 09:05 am

Senate Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • and use of the fund.
  • And how much was in that fund?
  • as opposed to we funding it on the front end of the general fund.
  • This doesn't get rid of that funding. It just shifts it from the federal funds to general funds.
  • the two public safety.
Bills: SB152 , SB145 , SB190 , HB247
NV
Transcript Highlights:
  • Those funds get basically returned back to the Highway Fund.
  • Two of these positions were approved to be funded with general fund appropriations in fiscal year 2026
  • I just want to confirm that this position is then funded through the fees. No general funds?
  • The two positions would continue to be funded with the general fund appropriations in fiscal year 2026
  • It appropriates $18.9 million of Highway Fund to the Department of Public Safety, Nevada Highway Patrol
Bills: AB6 , AB102 , AB131 , AB212 , AB213 , AB220 , AB259 , AB282 , AB376 , AB396 , AB479 , AB503 , AB570 , AB572 , AB574 , AB576 , AB593 , SB185 , SB207 , SB507 , AB6
Committee: Senate Finance
KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • What can be funded? infrastructure mean? What can be funded?
  • Here's how it's funded.
  • </c> and Shelby have gotten some funding. and Shelby have gotten some funding.
  • mechanism of funding their housing trust<00:57:57.520><c> funds.
  • </c> how was the fund uh funded? how was the fund uh funded? &gt;&gt; Sure. &gt;&gt; Sure.
Summary: The Housing Task Force heard a presentation from Anita Sanford of the Homebuilders Association of Kentucky and Sheri Cybert of Indiana’s Residential Infrastructure Fund about Indiana’s low-interest loan program for local housing infrastructure. They described the program as a voluntary, locally driven model that helps communities finance roads, sewers, sidewalks, traffic lights, turning lanes, and other infrastructure needed for new housing development. Sanford emphasized that infrastructure and regulation are major drivers of housing costs, citing estimates that infrastructure can account for up to 30% of a home’s cost and regulations another 25%, and said the association is studying Kentucky-specific regulatory costs. She also noted that every $1,000 added to new home construction can price out about 2,000 Kentucky households. Cybert explained that Indiana’s program, administered through the Indiana Finance Authority, began in 2023 with $75 million appropriated over two years and has since closed 17 loans totaling $60.7 million, with more than 2,700 projected housing units. The program reserves 70% of funds for rural communities and 30% for urban communities, requires applications from local governments rather than developers, and asks communities to show need through a market study, describe the infrastructure and housing to be built, and provide preliminary engineering plans and a repayment source. She said the loans currently carry an interest rate around 3.5%, reset quarterly, and that the program has generated about $25 million in savings to communities compared with private borrowing. She also described recent Indiana legislative changes that encourage higher density and other zoning reforms, and said a majority of those local ordinance changes must be adopted for an application to be fundable. Members asked about the ordinance requirements, the funding split between rural and urban areas, repayment mechanisms, and whether there were caps on project size. Cybert said repayment is worked out case by case, often through existing or project-specific TIFs, temporary tax agreements, or letters of credit, and that the program has no cap on request size or income/affordability restrictions. She said the largest request funded was $19 million for a 700-unit project. Co-chair Mills and others discussed whether Kentucky could adopt a similar model and what it would cost, while Sanford and Cybert said they were still refining budget estimates. Later, Scott Welch, president of the Homebuilders Association of Kentucky, testified that upfront infrastructure costs are a major barrier in his projects, citing a $1 million pump station and road-widening and utility relocation costs as examples, and said an infrastructure fund would help get projects off the ground.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Appropriations Revised Apr 22nd, 2026 at 03:30 pm

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • This sets up a revolving fund at the Department of Health for Ivocasearch.
  • So this would be a totally separate program or funding. It would have no connection.
  • But this bill would be state-funded if the soldiers are. Thank you.
  • So this would be a totally separate program or funding. It would have no connection.
  • I believe other states across the country do not realize this gap in care and safety exists.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/18/2026 - House Transportation & Infrastructure

Transportation & Infrastructure

AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Ways and Means General Fund Committee Apr 16th, 2025

Ways and Means General Fund

Transcript Highlights:
  • So, um, and a lot of states have limited it to just approved funds that can invest on behalf of the investor
  • In this bill, up to 10% of a fund ... ...in this bill, up to 10% of a fund that they're investing in.
Bills: HB227 , HB556 , HB543 , HB542 , HB482 , HB483 , HB484
NE

Nebraska 2025-2026 Regular Session

Legislative Afternoon Session Apr 7th, 2026

Nebraska Unicameral Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Following the process, Funds to fund the initial assessment process.
  • Of course, if there is not enough funding in that unused lottery fund, then they will not get any funding
  • out of general funds, it's coming out of some other fund.
  • The next $1.45 million comes from the excess fund. And that excess fund is funded by those doctors.
  • The next $1.45 million comes from the excess fund. And that excess fund is funded by those doctors.