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TX

Texas 89th Regular

Senate Committee on Water, Agriculture, and Rural Affairs May 19th, 2025

Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • House Bill 3497 would then rename the program to the Rio Grande Vegetative Management Program and expand
  • Two of the most influential programs from the authority are the Young Farmers Grant Program and the Interest
  • Rate Reduction Program.
  • We lost a couple of federal programs already.
  • , but looking at microloan programs.
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs Apr 23rd, 2025

Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • Whereas if you take the program away, in the places that have taken the program away, they've seen the
  • I use this program, which is an optional program. It's not an automatic program.
  • Yeah, there's other programs that we can use, but this program gets people into my court. ...that the
  • Tickner replied that he was aware and referenced an early-2000s program called JTF5, a joint program
  • Now, I will tell you, they have a great reserve program. This reserve program is so great.
Summary: The committee heard testimony on several public safety, criminal justice, and regulatory bills. HB 4995 would create a training and certification program allowing licensed physicians and certain EMS personnel assigned to tactical units to carry firearms during high-risk deployments, with supporters saying it would let tactical medical staff protect themselves while providing immediate care; the bill was left pending. HB 2609 would repeal the failure-to-appear-or-pay/OmniBase license-hold program, with the author and advocates arguing it creates compounding debt and unnecessary barriers to driving, while judges and municipal court representatives said the program is a voluntary, cost-effective tool that improves court appearances and reduces warrants; the bill was also left pending. HB 4879 would create a grant program to help local law enforcement pay for lab testing of suspected hemp/Delta-9 THC substances, and HB 5436 would let licensed auto recyclers buy certain untitled vehicles for scrap or parts to curb illegal sales, VIN cloning, and chop shops; both measures were left pending after brief testimony in support. The committee also heard HB 1777, which would require a discrete designation on driver’s licenses and state IDs for people required to register as sex offenders. The author and supporters argued the marker would help law enforcement and businesses quickly identify potentially dangerous offenders and prevent harm, while opponents called it a stigmatizing “scarlet letter” that would increase harassment, family harm, and reintegration barriers. The bill was left pending. HB 4155 would create a two-year Family Violence Criminal Homicide Prevention Task Force in the Governor’s Office to study family violence homicides, gather stakeholders, and recommend policy changes; the author, HHSC, the Texas Council on Family Violence, and a survivor testified in support, and the bill was left pending. The committee also heard HB 4514, which would authorize DPS to use facial image verification, with consent and privacy safeguards, to help businesses confirm identities and combat fraud; supporters from the lumber and identity-verification industries said it would reduce theft and fraud, and the bill was left pending. Finally, HB 5139 would clarify that peace officers and jailers are justified in using less lethal force weapons when acting within training and official duties; law enforcement groups supported the measure as a way to encourage use of less lethal tools without fear of prosecution, and testimony was underway when the transcript ended.
HI

Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

FIN Info Briefing - Fri Jan 10, 2025 @ 9:00 AM HST

Hawaii House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • capital Improvement project program capital Improvement project program request<00:24:35.480>
  • who are in this grant program with who are in this grant program with shamad<01:02:37.359> now
  • vision for for that program vision for for that program sure<01:24:36.880> of<01:24:37.040
  • Childhood special education program Childhood special education program accepts<02:06:37.559>
  • These are existing programs.
Keywords: 910, house, all
Summary: The Committee on Finance received an informational briefing from the Department of Education on its budget request for the upcoming fiscal year. The Superintendent and staff described the department’s mission, enrollment and staffing scale, recent gains in NAEP reading and math, persistent attendance problems since the pandemic, and the need for resources to support student recovery, middle school math, and other strategic priorities. The department said its proposal is intended to be aligned with its 2023–2029 strategic plan, fiscally balanced, and reliable for schools, while also addressing inflation, workforce needs, and uncertainty in federal funding. Assistant Superintendent and CFO Brian Hallet reviewed federal grants, non-general funds, and the budget development process. He said federal funds make up about 11% of the department’s FY25 appropriation and warned that House budget proposals could threaten predictable funding for core programs. He also explained that the department began its biennial budget work in April 2024 and used an internal review group to identify possible reallocations. The department characterized its request as a “flat” budget proposal overall, with a large share devoted to continued funding for existing recurring needs, and noted challenges including a projected state funding decline, inflation, lingering pandemic impacts, recruitment and retention, and uncertainty about future federal support. A major topic was the department’s capital improvement program. DOE officials argued for a risk-based, proactive approach using lump-sum “buckets” to manage facilities and deferred maintenance across more than 21.5 million square feet at 268 sites. They said this would allow more efficient prioritization of projects and better coordination with complex area superintendents, principals, and legislators. Members asked about how legislative priorities would fit into the bucket system, county-versus-state property jurisdiction issues affecting school facilities, enrollment decline and staffing ratios, and how the department plans to adjust facilities and human resources to shifting enrollment patterns. DOE said it is studying enrollment trends, will brief the Board of Education next month, and is willing to provide further briefings to legislators. No votes or formal actions were taken during the informational briefing.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/11/2026 - Senate Education

Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • What this program does...
  • What this program does, and what it required after four years of a study program, is if there's a problem
  • Both programs are supposed to be the school safety interoperability program.
  • The 1583 program mentioned is meant to be the program in this bill.
  • All the programs happen in schools.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Health Finance and Policy Committee 2/12/25

Health Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • This funding allowed us to offer critical programs, including our car seat program, which ensured every
  • This funding allowed us to offer critical programs, including our car seat program, which ensured every
  • continues in our life coaching program continues in our life coaching program baby<00:35:28.800>
  • she told me several times that program she told me several times that our<00:35:45.800> programs<
  • They went to the Jeremiah program from us. We were directly affiliated with many other programs.
Keywords: 1183, house
NH

New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session

House Education Funding (03/31/2025)

Transcript Highlights:
  • So to the detriment particular program.
  • And so, good handle on this program?
  • And that's another piece of the program: the people who build the program have to be licensed by our
  • individual cannot supervise your program individual cannot supervise your program or<00:47:27.599
  • community college and our CTE programs. community college and our CTE programs.
Keywords: 1189, house, all
Summary: The subcommittee met to begin work on HB 742, which would require catastrophic special education aid to be drawn from the education trust fund, and more broadly to study special education aid/differentiated aid and related costing issues. The chair said the group was starting early because the issue has been debated for years without resolution, local districts are being forced to absorb prorated costs, and the committee wants to send the Department of Education and HHS Medicaid a clear request for data and recommendations before retained bills return in the fall. A committee clerk was also selected, with Representative Reverend volunteering to take notes for the meeting. Members reviewed background materials on special education enrollment, high-cost students, and possible funding formulas, including data on students in high-cost brackets and prior ideas such as category-based funding and caseload-based approaches. The chair also referenced research on other states, including Arkansas, which uses a different special education funding structure and audits IEPs. The committee emphasized that it was focused on the funding mechanics and costs, not on questioning whether services should be provided. Henry Lipman of HHS explained how Medicaid-to-schools currently works in New Hampshire. He said 172 school districts participate, but utilization dropped during the pandemic and remains below historical levels, in part because districts need the capacity to bill Medicaid. Under the current system, schools receive reimbursement based on half of the Medicaid fee schedule, with the school district effectively providing the state share. He said the federal government is requiring a shift by July 1, 2026, to a true certified public expenditure model based on actual costs, which should allow schools to recover 50% of their true costs and some administrative overhead. The department has received a roughly $2.5 million grant to hire a vendor and support districts through the transition, and an RFP and stakeholder meetings are underway. Committee members asked about how costs would be determined, whether the new system would use actual district-specific costs rather than averages, and how the department would support districts that do not currently participate. Lipman said the cost model would be based on each district’s own reasonable costs, subject to audit standards, and that the department expects to provide templates and technical assistance through the vendor because its staff is limited. He also said about one in four New Hampshire children are enrolled in Medicaid, that child enrollment has been relatively stable, and that continuous coverage rules should reduce churn. No votes or formal actions on HB 742 were taken during the meeting beyond organizing the subcommittee and beginning testimony and discussion.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Higher Education Finance and Policy Committee 3/11/25

Higher Education Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • <00:14:07.839> fiscal planning academic programs fiscal planning academic programs fiscal
  • <00:16:04.759> high to an applied doctoral program high to an applied doctoral program high
  • provided is our emergency grant program provided is our emergency grant program last<00:31:23.240
  • <00:42:48.559> so administer the application program so administer the application program
  • assistance in dental hygiene programs assistance in dental hygiene programs four<00:48:03.160>
Keywords: 1183, house
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Legacy Finance Committee 2/26/25

Legacy Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • > to<00:05:24.520> work and residence program an effort to work and residence program an effort
  • and we're trying to do these programs and we're trying to do these programs based<00:18:30.039><
  • with youth to get kids in the program beyond the program and outdoor more—whomever would respond to
  • Our naturalist programs, though, have like 8,000 programs with 245,000 participants, and we delivered
  • <01:06:59.400> and program as a skill building program and program as a skill building program
Keywords: 1183, house
NM
Transcript Highlights:
  • , such as under the EPA's programs.
  • I'm the program manager for the Mining Act Reclamation Program.
  • Behalf of the program with the state because we don't have a program in place that's funded to do so.
  • The program you had mentioned, the DOD program that was actually dealing with DOD sites that you said
  • They enter the program.
Summary: The committee first heard a presentation from the Environment Department on PFAS contamination in private wells in La Cienega, Santa Fe County. Staff said the plume likely came from historic use of firefighting foam associated with airport and National Guard fire-training activities, with possible additional contribution from septic systems and consumer products. They described the contamination as affecting about 200 private wells, the short-term response of providing residential filters through a $2 million legislative appropriation, and ongoing work to define the plume’s full extent, identify responsible parties, and consider longer-term regional water solutions. Members asked about filter costs, replacement schedules, disposal of used cartridges, follow-up testing, health studies, and whether cleanup or containment had begun; the department said cleanup would follow once the plume is fully mapped and that DOH is soliciting interest in a blood study. The committee also discussed the need to track disposal of PFAS filters and the possibility of broader statewide capacity for similar work. The committee then took up abandoned uranium mine cleanup. NMED and EMNRD staff reviewed the new uranium mine reclamation program created by HB 164, the state dashboard tracking sites, and the FY26 appropriation of $20 million for neglected contaminated sites, of which $12 million is being used for neglected uranium mines and the remainder for other contaminated sites. They said six contractors were hired, three priority sites in Grant County are moving forward quickly, and additional sites are being prepared for possible FY27 work. Members pressed for details on how funds are spent, why the revolving fund remains unfunded, how federal, state, tribal, and landowner requirements are coordinated, where contaminated material will be moved, and whether cleanup could also address homes built with contaminated materials. Staff said the work is governed by multiple regulatory layers, that the state is seeking an additional $25 million for FY27-FY28 plus a time extension, and that partnerships with tribes would require longer-term agreements. The committee also discussed federal cleanup efforts and the new Good Samaritan law, with members urging stronger advocacy for New Mexico sites, including tribal lands, and asking whether the Attorney General should pursue legal action against federal parties responsible for legacy contamination. Staff explained that some sites are already covered by settlement funds tied to responsible parties, while neglected sites are those with no responsible party and no other cleanup program. The committee then heard from EMNRD on Class VI carbon sequestration primacy. Staff said New Mexico currently has no operating Class VI wells, about 27 Class II acid-gas injection wells are operating, and only a small number might be candidates for conversion. They explained that the state’s primacy application would require more public outreach than federal rules alone, and that cost estimates for post-injection site care are based on long planning horizons, with some costs borne by operators and some by the state after closure. No votes were taken on the substantive items discussed; the committee approved the prior meeting minutes and took a brief recess between presentations.
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

Committee on Taxes - 03/05/25

Taxes

Transcript Highlights:
  • 26:54.200> program<00:26:55.000> and<00:26:55.240> Elder tribal assistance program
  • <00:49:38.839> has since its Inception this program has since its Inception this program has
  • First, in our view, the ag water quality program is a nation-leading program that has a lot of buy-in
  • <01:02:45.520> we<01:02:45.680> know new program we know this program we know new program
  • <01:03:07.680> in the definition of uh Grant programs in the definition of uh Grant programs
Keywords: 1187, senate, all
MN
Transcript Highlights:
  • Um um as as good program evaluations.
  • That's more is a more recent program.
  • Senator Rest asked whether, from what she gathered, the emergency program, topic 30, is the program used
  • <00:15:27.760> evaluation just done as a um a program evaluation just done as a um a program
  • problems in that program legislatively. problems in that program legislatively.
Keywords: 919, house, all
Summary: The Legislative Audit Commission Evaluation Subcommittee met on October 6, 2025, to choose additional program evaluation topics for the Office of the Legislative Auditor. Deputy Legislative Auditor Jody Mson Rodriguez explained that the commission had previously selected seven topics from an initial list of 11, with background papers already prepared on five of those items, and that the subcommittee was now being asked to select five more topics for background papers before narrowing the full set to four recommendations later in the fall or early spring. Members discussed several possible topics, especially emergency medical services, non-emergency medical transportation, MinnesotaCare eligibility, child care assistance, medical assistance fraud prevention, and U.S. Bank Stadium. David Kersner of OLA said emergency medical services and non-emergency medical transportation are distinct programs, and noted the EMS topic was evaluated in 2022 while non-emergency medical transportation had not been reviewed since 2011. Auditor Judy Randall said MinnesotaCare eligibility, child care assistance, and medical assistance fraud prevention are better suited to OLA’s financial audit division or special review unit rather than program evaluation, and that financial audits and special reviews do not require Legislative Audit Commission nomination. On process, Mson Rodriguez said the subcommittee had already met its minimum required selections under the commission’s policy and was free to choose additional topics. The discussion also covered whether to broaden the stadium topic beyond U.S. Bank Stadium; staff said the U.S. Bank financing structure alone would be a major undertaking, but they could help craft a future topic focused on maintenance across multiple facilities. No final vote or motion was taken in the portion of the meeting provided, and the chair indicated the committee would continue nominations and discussion.
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Energy Finance and Policy Committee 3/18/25

Energy Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • just be another ask of the Loan program just be another ask of the Loan program office<00:26:22.480
  • Loan program office staff on both the Loan program office staff on both the solar<00:27:50.519> for
  • 400,000 students are touched by programs 400,000 students are touched by programs and<00:41:54.960
  • <00:57:21.960> under proposal for this grant program under proposal for this grant program
  • <00:57:59.240> to geothermal planning grant program to geothermal planning grant program to
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Education Apr 23rd, 2026

Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • We spent an entire summer building this program. We spent an entire summer building this program.
  • Our infants and toddler program operates under a daycare license, and we offer appropriate academic programming
  • Then our pre-K program is part of our academic institution, transitioning from our daycare program.
  • I went to, in March, an accreditation program in Memphis called the National Early Child Program accreditation
  • National Early Child Program accreditation.
Summary: The committee first heard SB 206, which would require cardiovascular pre-screening and blood pressure testing for student athletes beginning in the 2026-2027 school year. Chairman Miller said the bill was prompted by concerns about undiagnosed hypertension and sudden cardiac arrest in young athletes, and Coach Marcus Scott testified about his own kidney transplant after years of untreated high blood pressure. Members asked about who would perform the screenings and how follow-up would work; the American Heart Association said existing athletic physical processes and referral networks could handle it. An amendment was adopted, and the committee reported SB 206 favorably as amended. The committee then took up SB 305, which would require a publicly available statewide career-alignment dashboard showing how degree programs connect to workforce outcomes, including completion, employment, wages, and high-demand jobs. Chairman Edmonds and student task force member Cruz Cassard said the goal was to help students understand job opportunities in Louisiana and reduce the number leaving the state after graduation. Workforce and higher education stakeholders supported the measure as a transparency and workforce-planning tool. The committee reported SB 305 favorably. Next, the committee considered HB 624, a school safety cleanup bill updating references from crisis management plans to emergency operations plans and aligning school emergency language with national standards. Representative Johnson and the Louisiana Center for Safe Schools said the bill would not create new mandates or costs, but would clarify existing requirements. The committee reported HB 624 favorably. The committee then heard HB 1022, as substituted, concerning school-based health care services. Representative Jackson said the bill was intended to clarify that medical decisions in school-based health centers should be made by licensed health professionals, not school staff, while preserving parental consent. Testimony from school-based health center providers supported the bill, but several members raised concerns about consent, parental authority, and whether the language shifted too much responsibility away from schools; the Charter School Association suggested adding more collaborative language. After discussion, the committee adopted the substitute and reported HB 1022 favorably by a 10-4 vote.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate Chamber Feb 12th, 2026 at 12:12 pm

New Mexico Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • This program is really growing.
  • President, Senator, I think that would be another program. ...or is that another program for them?
  • Is the LIHEAP program being modeled after the LIHEAP program? Thank you, Mr. President.
  • or early Head Start program or an early pre-kindergarten program or a pre-kindergarten program except
  • President, so we're creating a behemoth program that is a volatile program.
Keywords: 996, all
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Appropriations and Finance Jan 16th, 2026 at 09:09 am

House Appropriations & Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • I appreciate the support on that program.
  • So, what is this program?
  • The J TIP program our jobs training incentive program. It's been around since 1972.
  • Our JTIP program. If you're in a rural community, you get a 5% bump up on that program.
  • We do have incentives to help companies do their own like the job training program incentive program.
Keywords: 996, all
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Working Group on Omnibus K-12 Education Appropriations - 05/22/25

Minnesota Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • <00:09:25.519> related<00:09:25.839> to programs or other programs uh related to programs
  • from a department program.
  • Section 14 allows a program participant excluded from that program to request a contested case hearing
  • teacher preparation grant program. teacher preparation grant program.
  • <00:27:03.840> without unemployment insurance program without unemployment insurance program
Keywords: 1187, senate, all
HI
Transcript Highlights:
  • Do we add on new programs in other areas? Do we add on more for a new program at the Cancer Center?
  • Statewide program so we're here to Statewide program so we're here to answer<00:26:29.480> questions
  • Starting a program, even if it's a spoke, requires program accreditation.
  • Starting a program, even if it's a spoke, requires program accreditation.
  • <00:32:52.880> a system for various nursing programs a system for various nursing programs
Keywords: 912, senate, all
Summary: The Committee on Higher Education heard Senate Bill 101, which would require University of Hawaiʻi John A. Burns School of Medicine graduates who paid in-state tuition to serve as physicians in Hawaiʻi for at least two years after residency or fellowship, beginning with the class of 2029. The Deputy Attorney General said the bill addressed a matter of statewide concern. JABSOM Dean Sam Shoemaker testified in opposition, arguing the school already uses scholarships, loan repayment, and other incentives, and that the strongest predictor of where physicians practice is where they complete residency; he said the school is working to expand residency slots, neighbor-island training, and class size. Supporters argued the state faces a severe physician shortage and should do more to ensure publicly subsidized students remain in Hawaiʻi. The committee ultimately recommended passage with amendments, including a statewide concern statement, and deferred the measure to July 31, 2025; the vote was adopted. The committee then heard Senate Bill 19, which creates funds to establish a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree program on Maui. University of Hawaiʻi and nursing workforce representatives testified in support, saying there is ample capacity on Maui and strong demand for higher nursing education. Members discussed the broader nursing pathway, including existing associate and bachelor’s programs at UH campuses and the need to improve access for Maui and nearby communities. The measure was moved to decision-making and adopted with amendments and a deferred date. Senate Bill 637, appropriating funds for various University of Hawaiʻi nursing programs, also received support from UH nursing leaders, who said the funding would support the final phase of the West Oʻahu-Manoa collaboration and an online RN-to-BS program. The Hawaiʻi State Center for Nursing said its research showed capacity and demand for these programs. The committee recommended amendments to blank out appropriation amounts for the committee report and deferred the measure, then adopted it. The committee also adopted Senate Bill 741, which establishes an external audit committee within the UH Board of Regents, and deferred or amended several other measures, including a wastewater technology pilot program, a coconut rhinoceros beetle response program, and a climate-resilient development appropriation.
OR
Transcript Highlights:
  • What under-enrolled programs are you looking at eliminating?
  • The Vitality Plan, as proposed, recommends the elimination of three programs.
  • It was basically stumbled upon by folks who were doing the recovery program.
  • expansion for anything that would be beyond an existing program.
  • The modernization program is a large-scale, multi-bania, information, The modernization program is a
Summary: The Emergency Board approved a series of consent federal grant applications from the Natural Resources and Public Safety subcommittees, along with several budget and position requests. The board approved grant applications for parks, transportation, judicial, emergency management, higher education, school nutrition, and other programs, including retroactive approvals where deadlines had passed. One member objected to the Natural Resources consent grants over concerns about future funding needs, but the motion still passed. The board also approved a one-time increase for Judicial Department court security, including digital privacy protections, circuit court security, and a statewide facilities assessment. A major discussion centered on Southern Oregon University’s financial stability. The Higher Education Coordinating Commission reported on SOU’s structural deficits, declining enrollment, and projected cash shortfall. The subcommittee recommended, and the board approved, allocating $7.5 million from the special appropriation for short-term stability, with a required update at the September 2026 Emergency Board meeting and a future request for the remaining funds. Members debated the broader crisis in higher education, with several saying SOU’s situation reflects systemwide enrollment and funding pressures and that long-term restructuring will be needed. The board also approved an AmeriCorps volunteer generation grant, an apprenticeship expansion grant, and a Department of Education nutrition equipment grant. In public safety, it approved funding for Oregon Military Department readiness facilities, a statewide evacuation planning tool, and a juvenile justice information system modernization report, while requiring a follow-up viability report. The Department of Justice received approval for additional antitrust positions and expenditure limitation, though several members raised concerns about the funding structure and incentives tied to settlement revenues; the motion passed despite objections. In natural resources, the board approved funding for the Water Resources Department’s well abandonment, repair and replacement grants, an assistant water master position in Washington County, groundwater data collection in the Lower Umatilla Basin, a wetlands remote sensing pilot, and parks-related grant applications for operations, maintenance, and capital improvements. Members generally supported the requests but raised concerns about geographic equity, long-term sustainability, and whether some county responsibilities were being shifted to the state. The meeting also included discussion of a Department of Emergency Management evacuation tool as an urgent wildfire preparedness measure, with members emphasizing its potential to save lives.
VT

Vermont 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Session - 2026-04-22 - 1:00PM

Vermont House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • program next session.
  • ,<00:07:12.040> I And regarding the internship program, I And regarding the internship program
  • up for the intern internship program up for the intern internship program next<00:07:17.920>
  • programs, and aerospace education. programs, and aerospace education.
  • the program. the program.
Keywords: 926, house, all
Summary: The House opened with a devotional in honor of Earth Day, then referred three Senate bills to money committees under House Rule 35A: S. 173 to Appropriations, and S. 232 and S. 327 to Ways and Means. The chamber also adopted JRS 50, a joint resolution setting weekend adjournment so the House and Senate would reconvene no later than April 28, 2026. Several members then made announcements recognizing guests and interns in the gallery, including a homeschooling eighth grader, UVM interns, a constituent shadowing a member, family members, and a Civil Air Patrol delegation. The House next took up S. 89, expanding survivor benefits, and passed it in concurrence with proposal of amendment. It then considered S. 157 on recovery residence certification. The Human Services Committee described the bill as making permanent a temporary framework for certified recovery residences, placing oversight with the Department of Health, requiring standards, data collection, and annual reporting, and preserving resident protections such as written agreements, notice, grievance procedures, and alternative housing arrangements. The committee also said the bill would modernize definitions and repeal the sunset on the current framework. Human Services voted 9-0-2 to recommend the strike-all amendment, and Ways and Means reported the bill favorable 11-0-0, noting no fiscal impact unless a future fee is proposed and enacted. The House adopted the amendment, ordered third reading, and moved the bill forward. The final major item was S. 239, creating a child abuse and neglect reporting working group. The Human Services Committee said Vermont’s mandated reporting system has not been substantially reviewed in over a decade and that the bill would convene experts to review the law and recommend updates. Committee testimony emphasized that Vermont has a very high reporting rate but relatively low rates of substantiation and referral to supportive services, and members said the working group should examine reporting before, during, and after a report, including alternatives when in a child’s best interests. The committee’s strike-all amendment added findings, narrowed and prioritized the working group membership to people with direct child-serving or mandated-reporting experience, set deadlines for an interim report by April 1, 2027 and final recommendations by October 1, 2027, and required the first meeting by August 15. The committee also heard from a wide range of child welfare, education, law enforcement, and advocacy witnesses.
UT

Utah 2025 Regular Session

Economic Development and Workforce Services Interim Committee - November 19, 2025

Economic Development and Workforce Services Interim Committee

Transcript Highlights:
  • This is not a grant program; it is a loan program that provides access to capital for small businesses
  • The other thing we wanted to highlight is our specific program called the ABLE program.
  • The other thing we wanted to highlight is our specific program called the ABLE program.
  • Street Program.
  • We talked about a bunch of signature programs, and those programs are really underway.
Keywords: 985, all