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• TALKED ABOUT IT IN THIS COMMITTEE, IS A BOY NAMED JACOB WHO, 14 YEARS OLD, Went home one day, wrote a note
• They need an on-time budget, fiscal restraint, and they need to know their voices are being heard in
• THEY NEED AN ON-TIME BUDGET, FISCAL RESTRAINT, AND THEY NEED TO KNOW THEIR VOICES ARE BEING HEARD IN
• >> I would like to note the State Education Department is at this table, and the Senate designates Cath

Keywords: 993, senate, all

Summary: The Education Budget Conference Joint Committee met on March 18 to begin negotiations on the state education budget. Co-chairs Senator Shelley Mayer and Assembly Member Benedetto outlined their chambers’ priorities, with the Senate emphasizing Foundation Aid changes to better support students experiencing homelessness or foster care, English language learners, a minimum 2% increase for all districts, expanded universal pre-K, and continued support for special education programs and nonpublic schools. The Assembly highlighted its one-house proposal, including a $1.4 billion increase in Foundation Aid, a higher ELL and pupil needs weighting, a new weight for students in foster care or housing instability, removal of the pupil needs cap, $600 million for New York City class size reduction, additional community schools funding, and restorations or increases for libraries, teacher resource centers, 4201 schools, My Brother’s Keeper, and educational television and radio. Members from both chambers offered opening remarks stressing education as a top budget priority and expressing confidence that a compromise could be reached. Senator Tedisco focused on school safety and bullying, arguing that parents should be notified when their children are bullied and citing the need to protect students’ ability to learn. Assembly Member Vanel emphasized education as a tool for economic mobility and called for stronger financial literacy instruction. Assembly Member Carroll supported funding for libraries and evidence-based reading programs, while Assembly Member Smith said the Foundation Aid formula remains outdated and urged more support for English language learners, special education, and community schools. Assembly Member Chludzinski stressed local control, criticized the electric school bus mandate, and called for greater support for libraries and fiscal restraint. No votes were taken. The meeting was an opening conference session, with both sides stating their intent to continue negotiations and work toward an on-time budget that reflects shared priorities for students, schools, and libraries across New York State.

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• And just to go on note is a dad of 4 daughters.
• And if you guys will notice, I'm not going to look at my notes much because I lived it.
• Next up, we have Karen Woodall, what it would all Florida center for fiscal and economic policy waiving
• And my concern here is if we do not know the fiscal impact of this bill, how much it would cost to check

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• There is a fiscal note, just received yesterday. Okay, fiscal note.

Bills: SB208, SB628, SB777, SB1042, SB2354, SB2477, SB2521, SB2523, SB2608, SB2703, SB2778, SB2835, SB2965, SB2367, SB3044

Keywords: workforce housing, capital investment fund, affordable housing, housing development, Texas housing laws, loan programs, community development, Texas housing, zero-interest loans, low-income housing, nonprofit organizations, construction, economic stability, housing affordability, capital investment, Texas housing policy, county fire code, fire marshal, local government code, interlocal agreement

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• We also recognize the challenges of the current fiscal environment and the need to make difficult decisions
• decisions that were made in assembling the budget bill, not only as we face incredible challenges. on the fiscal
• Sometimes I don't always get all the notes. Please introduce yourself for the record and proceed.
• the bill that we have, and I think that we certainly wanted to make sure that we jotted down the SBI notes

Bills: HF2783

Keywords: state government finance, biennial budget, appropriations, Minnesota Management and Budget, Healthy Aging Subcabinet, Office of Healthy Aging, older adults, aging policy, long-term care, caregivers, public health, Medicaid fraud, medical assistance fraud, attorney general subpoena power, fraud enforcement, business filing fraud, Secretary of State, deceptive mailings, consumer protection, certified public accountant

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• get a fiscal note on that uh computer get a fiscal note on that uh computer change<01:30:07.920> by
• Speaking of<01:30:23.199> fiscal<01:30:23.600> notes,<01:30:24.320> we<01:30:24.560
• > had<01:30:24.719> some<01:30:24.960> discussion of fiscal notes, we had some discussion
• of fiscal notes, we had some discussion on<01:30:25.600> the<01:30:26.080> sixmonth,<01
• that would look like fiscally? that would look like fiscally?

Bills: SF0061, SF0098, SF0110

Keywords: sales tax, motor vehicle, family transfer, tax exemption, Wyoming legislation, veteran, property tax exemption, Wyoming National Guard, honorable discharge, tax benefits, surviving spouse, military service, property tax, residential real estate, tax assessment, primary residence, tax revenue, 916, all

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• As a side note, some of the anti-human trafficking bills that you've heard in the past have come from
• It's important to note that embracing innovation is vital for the future of the state's manufacturing
• Does this have a fiscal note? I don't. I was looking for a copy of it in here?
• First off, to answer your question on the fiscal note, the fiscal note that was just put out late this
• Stakeholders have noted some owners.

Bills: HB2963, HB3005, HB3287, HB3288, HB3289, HB3290, HB3344, HB3712, HB3862, HB3874, HB4196, HB4308, HB4901, HB4984

Keywords: digital equipment, repair rights, manufacturers, maintenance, consumer rights, construction contracts, payment regulations, public works, dispute resolution, audit procedures, construction, trust funds, mechanic's lien, contractor, subcontractor, residential properties, disputes, payment obligations, accountability, payment disputes

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• So how, what will be the fiscal impact to our counties if we did away with the farm? You recognize?
• So I want to echo some of the concerns about fiscally constrained counties.
• So I want to echo some of the concerns about fiscally constrained counties.
• I know it's an HCR, so I didn't see a fiscal on it.
• So I didn't see a fiscal on it. Do you have any estimation of what is an REC on it?

Summary: The Ways and Means Committee met on March 20, 2025, and first approved HB 4025, creating the Duke Farm Stewardship District in Lee County, on a 17-0 vote. The committee then advanced HJR 1215, which proposes a constitutional amendment to exempt agricultural tangible personal property from property tax, after extended debate about the fiscal impact on counties, especially rural and fiscally constrained ones; it passed 16-1. HB 411 also passed unanimously after an amendment, extending affordable housing tax exemption treatment to certain nonprofit projects on leased land, including Habitat for Humanity projects. The committee likewise approved CS/HB 669, allowing local governments to purchase certain unrated bonds, and CS/HB 4017, codifying the Vermont Drainage District charter in Charlotte County, both without opposition. The committee also approved HJR 1039, which would let the Legislature prevent assessed-value increases for homestead properties that are improved to mitigate flood damage, and the related implementing bill HB 1041; both passed 17-0. Public testimony on these items included some opposition to the flood-related amendment, but no floor debate changed the outcome. The final major item was CS/HB 1221 by Rep. Miller, which would require local option taxes to be renewed by voter referendum every eight years, with longer terms allowed for bonded projects. That bill drew the most extensive testimony and debate, with counties, tourism groups, and local officials warning about impacts on tourism funding, infrastructure, schools, and public safety, while supporters argued for taxpayer accountability and periodic review. After debate, the committee reported the bill favorably on a 13-4 vote.

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• more straightforward for the next fiscal more straightforward for the next fiscal year.<00:11:52.240
• Thank you for my testimony. note that this uh bill is no way note that this uh bill is no way intended
• I I just do want to note in opposition.
• I just do want to note that exempt employees are considered applicable by the employer.
• You noted for the Uh this is also true.

Bills: SB2198, SB2140, SB3055, SB3090, SB3091, SB3092, SB2761

Keywords: workforce development, craftspersons, skilled trades, artisan, craftsmanship, trade recognition, award program, DLIR, Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, Meilleur Ouvrier de France, vocational education, career pathways, cultural preservation, workforce excellence, apprenticeship, Hawaii trades, economic diversification, public nominations, governor awards, historically significant venue

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• noting the excuse of Senator Gabbert. noting the excuse of Senator Gabbert.
• <00:36:03.599> Deer's report, u we're going to note Deer's report, u we're going to note Deer's
• Noting the excuse of Senate draft 1. Noting the excuse of Senator<00:36:31.440> Gabard.
• retirements and um you know we do note retirements and um you know we do note that<00:51:42.160>
• Um noting the excused with amendments.

Keywords: 912, senate, all

Summary: The committees heard testimony on several personnel and employment bills. SB 2119 would require the state or counties to reimburse public officers and employees for approved work-related travel costs within 30 days; testifiers from the State Procurement Office, UPW, HGA, the University of Hawaii Professional Assembly, and others supported the measure, citing delayed reimbursements. SB 3131 would update state position titles by changing “private secretary” to “executive assistant” and “secretary” to “administrative assistant” where applicable, and it drew support from DEED and comments from the State Librarian. SB 3069 would permanently exempt a limited number of specialized positions in DAGS Public Works and the Comptroller’s office from civil service; DAGS, HCDA, and DEED supported it, while UPW opposed it. Committee members questioned whether the exemption should be narrower and whether the positions should be consultants or actual employees, and DAGS said the roles were narrowly tailored, highly specialized, and intended to help manage complex projects such as Aloha Stadium, the convention center, and other major redevelopment work. The committee then heard SB 3180, which would repeal the limit on temporary employment in a single position for two 89-day terms. Testimony included support from the Procurement Office, DOE, DHRD, the State Librarian in opposition, UPW written comments, HGA, the Grassroots Institute of Hawaii, and others. Discussion focused on whether the bill was needed to address abuse of repeated 89-day hires and whether it would affect recruitment and career pathways. Finally, SB 2137 would allow departments, divisions, and agencies to assume hiring and recruitment functions from DHRD under certain conditions. DHRD opposed the bill, saying existing law already allows delegation and that agency-level recruitment often lacks the expertise and staffing to do the work; UHPA supported it, and UPW submitted written support. In questioning, DHRD said it had reduced backlog and was now current on screening, while also offering programs like Operation Hire Hawaii for faster agency-led recruitment.

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• Here, need to note that as we move forward. Let me ask some questions.
• They were reauthorized to grant these funds for this fiscal year.
• We do have a Fiscal year 2026 supplemental.
• So we are requesting a supplemental for fiscal year 2026.
• At about sixty-four thousand in fiscal year 25 and then a little less in fiscal year 26.

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• Members before you is SPB-25-200, the General Appropriations Bill for the 2025-2026 fiscal year.
• It's a fiscally responsible budget that reduces overall spending compared to our last year's budget.
• It's a fiscally responsible budget that reduces overall spending compared to our last year's budget.
• As a side note, one of the biggest differences in our budget and the House budget, the Senate note, one
• Within the Department of Revenue, there is $76.4 million for payments to fiscally constrained counties

Summary: The Appropriations Committee met for Budget Day and heard presentations on the Senate’s proposed 2025-2026 budget, SPB 25-200, totaling $117.4 billion. Chair Hooper said the plan reduces overall spending from the prior year, keeps strong reserves, includes a 4% pay raise for state employees, maintains employee health care contributions, and makes major investments in water quality, transportation, and education infrastructure. Committee chairs then summarized their budget silos, including K-12 education, higher education, health and human services, criminal and civil justice, transportation/tourism/economic development, and agriculture/environment/general government. Members asked questions mainly about school funding, AP and dual enrollment support, voucher and scholarship impacts, and the My Safe Florida Home program. The committee adopted a large consent package of amendments and then approved three late-file amendments: funding virtual college tours for high school students, funding the FSU Sunshine Genetics program, and providing money for the Port of Fernandina customs facility. The committee then voted to report SPB 2500, the General Appropriations Bill, as a committee bill. It also favorably reported SPB 2502 (implementing bill), SPB 2504 (state employees placeholder), SB 7022 (Florida Retirement System contribution rates and DROP changes), CS/SB 1320 (recreating the Resilient Florida Trust Fund), SPB 2506 (gaming compact revenue distributions, including water projects and rural lands), SPB 2508 (29 new judgeships), SB 7014 (ending the court mediation and arbitration trust fund), SPB 2510 (K-12 conforming bill), SPB 2512 (higher education conforming bill), and SPB 2514 (health and human services conforming bill). The committee also took up several policy bills. It approved SB 7028 on cancer research, creating grant parameters, reporting requirements, a five-year pediatric cancer research incubator, and the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute VisionGen Initiative. It approved CS/CS/SB 170 on nursing home quality, adding resident satisfaction surveys, medical director standards, safety culture reviews, electronic health record requirements, financial reporting penalties, and a study of best practices. It approved CS/CS/SB 168, the Tristan Murphy Act, which expands mental health diversion options, adds Hillsborough County to a forensic hospital diversion pilot, expands grant uses, and creates a behavioral health data repository. It also approved SB 114 creating the Florida Center for Excellence in Insurance and Risk Management at FSU and moving the public hurricane loss model there. The committee then began considering SB 180 on emergency preparedness and response, including a late-file amendment, but the transcript cuts off before final action on that bill.

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• So that's what that note references, and you see that at the bottom where we explain the note. right
• So that's what that note account two.
• probably a little more fiscally probably a little more fiscally conservative. conservative. conservative
• <02:34:38.560> tools preeemption of local fiscal tools preeemption of local fiscal tools continue
• Um I'll also note simpler way to do it.

Keywords: 916, all

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• year ended June 30th, 2026, and $2,500,000 for the fiscal year ended June 30th, 2027.
• year ended June 30th for the fiscal year ended June 30th 2026<00:14:56.720> and<00:14:57.040>
• <01:02:32.400> sound simple, effective, and fiscally sound simple, effective, and fiscally
• approved budget and ensures fiscal approved budget and ensures fiscal discipline. discipline. discipline
• And if you look at the fiscal note for this, that is the ongoing expense.

Keywords: 928, house, all

Summary: The Finance Committee met on October 30 to act on a series of bills that had been considered during the budget process, with many being recommended for inexpedient to legislate because their funding or policy language had already been handled in House Bill 2. Early actions were largely unanimous. House Bill 54, allowing alternate treatment centers to operate for profit, was recommended ought to pass and was approved 25-0, then placed on the consent calendar because it carried no appropriation. House Bill 97, a wastewater and infrastructure appropriation, was recommended inexpedient to legislate because its funding had been replaced in HB 2; Representative Rum opposed the motion and argued the grant funding helps local taxpayers and housing development, but the committee adopted ITL 14-11, with a minority report to follow. House Bill 111, dealing with the right-to-know ombudsman, was also unanimously recommended ITL because the budget had already made related reforms. The committee then took up House Bill 164, and adopted Amendment 225-2979H, which appropriates $150,000 in FY 2027 to the Secretary of State’s Division of Archives and Records Management for a local government records manager position. The amended bill was then recommended ought to pass as amended and approved 25-0. House Bill 197, the Property Tax Relief Act, drew the most extended debate. Supporters said it would restore a state contribution to retirement costs for local employers and provide property tax relief, while opponents argued the earlier change was largely offset by employee contribution increases and other retirement-system adjustments. The committee ultimately adopted ITL 14-11, and a minority report was requested. The committee also acted on House Bill 215, a landfill-related bill. Members explained that most of its language had been included in HB 2 but was removed in conference, so the bill was retained and amended to apply more narrowly to new landfills. Amendment 2025-2970H was adopted unanimously, and the bill was then recommended ought to pass as amended by a 25-0 vote. House Bill 216, which would change retirement eligibility rules for certain workers injured on the job, was recommended inexpedient to legislate after its sponsor said the fiscal impact was too uncertain to support. Finally, House Bill 219 received Amendment 2025-2988H to change its effective date to July 1, 2027, and discussion began on the bill’s broader purpose of returning about $5.7 million annually from RPS funds to ratepayers.

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• Finally, it is worth noting that this bill does not have a fiscal impact whatsoever.
• Uh, we noted the explosion of bureaucracy in the administrative state, and I've seen nothing that has
• What this does, because this bill has a fiscal note, it's not a big fiscal note, but what I want to have
• So have a place to accept and... a fiscal note. It's not a big fiscal a fiscal note.
• It's not a big fiscal note,<01:50:31.679> but<01:50:31.920> what<01:50:32.080> I

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

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• Moving forward, fiscal year 2024. We have a total of 1,845.
• Additionally, we're supporting fiscal sponsorship models through counties and soil water conservation
• A lot of us are limited by staff and fiscal resources as well.
• I was trying to take notes, so let me pull them out here for everybody, and I'll try to be brief.
• I have been in works with DFA and others to see if we can find some fiscal resources for that.

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• year or last fiscal year and this fiscal year.
• year or last funding for this fiscal year or last fiscal<00:21:15.440> year<00:21:15.600>
• <00:21:16.559> Um, fiscal year and this fiscal year.
• Um, fiscal year and this fiscal year.
• There's no more funding fiscal year $26.

Keywords: Meeting Start 00:00:15 Roll Call 00:00:45 Discussion of Pro-Growth Housing Policies 00:02:33 Adjournment 01:17:15, 958, all

Summary: The Housing Task Force 2.0 reconvened with several new members and heard a presentation from Kentucky Housing Corporation Executive Director Winston Miller and Deputy Executive Director Wendy Smith. They framed the task force’s work as a practical effort to address Kentucky’s housing shortage, update members on the current housing landscape, summarize existing state and federal resources, and suggest areas for the task force to focus on over the coming year. KHC said its 2024 housing supply gap analysis found Kentucky is short about 206,000 housing units, split roughly evenly between rental and homeownership, and projected the gap could grow to 287,000 units by 2029 if current trends continue. They emphasized that every county in Kentucky needs more housing, that the 2008 housing crisis and loss of construction capacity remain major causes of the shortage, and that current pressures include high interest rates, rising insurance and tax costs, construction cost inflation, and housing prices and rents growing faster than incomes. KHC also said homelessness has risen in Kentucky, with point-in-time counts showing double-digit increases in recent years. The presenters reviewed existing resources, including federal programs, the Kentucky Affordable Housing Trust Fund, the rural housing trust fund, KHC mortgage and down payment assistance programs, and the state mortgage interest deduction. They said these resources are important but insufficient to close the gap, and noted that a proposed federal FY2026 budget would cut HUD programs by 44%, potentially removing about $286 million from Kentucky housing resources, though no action has been taken yet. They urged the task force to consider stronger, more flexible tools such as a revolving loan fund, a state affordable housing tax credit, and economic development and employer-assisted housing incentives, and pointed to Indiana’s housing infrastructure and regional development funds as examples. No votes or formal actions were taken in the portion provided.

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• program stab and one fiscal program stab and one fiscal stab<01:32:27.960> uh<01:32:28.080
• So we're asking for $30 million for fiscal year 26 and $35 million for fiscal year 27.
• we're asking for 30 million for fiscal we're asking for 30 million for fiscal year<02:47:07.880>
• <02:47:09.680> year year 26 and 35 for fiscal year year 26 and 35 for fiscal year 27<02:47
• As noted before, this is a little bit different.

Keywords: 912, senate, all

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• c> in<00:37:12.000> the >> And as I noted in the >> And as I noted in the >
• our section, our fiscal head of fiscal, our section, our fiscal head of fiscal, our head<01:13:19.920
• For fiscal year 25, we had 393,07 and fiscal year 26568 and 7.
• This is since the initiation in fiscal year 23 through fiscal year 26. Okay.
• >> a year fiscal year. >> a year fiscal year.

Keywords: 912, senate, all

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• There is, again, you know, a bit of a fiscal impact there.
• So what we're going to do is we are going to make that note.
• Let's get the reporting done for each one of those as a side note. I think that's all I have.
• On that note, everybody, thank you. You all just kind of showed up.
• And so thank you on that note. We are recessed, right? Right. All right. Thank you, everybody.

Bills: SB36, SB88, SB92, SB97, SB48, SB55, SB58, SB76, SB93, SB89, SB60

Keywords: quantum technology, tax credit, infrastructure, economic development, New Mexico, corporate tax, research and development, innovation, foster care, income tax, guardianship, youth services, financial relief, affordable housing, gross receipts tax, tax deduction, construction materials, multifamily housing, low income, tax credits

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• There's even a small fiscal cost.
• And believe it or not, if you hear this, they're absorbing the fiscal cost. this.
• There's even a small<00:36:05.680> fiscal<00:36:06.079> cost.
• And believe it or small fiscal cost.
• You don't hear that the fiscal cost.

Keywords: 1183, house