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TX

Texas 89th Regular

S/C on Transportation Funding Apr 14th, 2025

S/C on Transportation Funding

Transcript Highlights:
  • Chapter 91 of the Transportation Code addresses the acquisition, financing, construction, operation,
  • In 2008, Union Pacific applied to abandon the 14-mile rail spur that was constructed in Rusk County in
  • The Transportation Commission may provide financial assistance to support the construction and repair
  • HB 3080 allows funds from the governor's trustee program. to be used for the construction and improvement
  • It's a federal program designed to raid our highway funds to push construction and use of sidewalks and
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Transportation Finance and Policy Committee 3/24/25

Transportation Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • With part two being fully funded at this point, there will continue to be construction along I-494, I
  • With part two being fully funded at this point, there will continue to be construction along I-494, I
  • With part two being fully funded at this point, there will continue to be construction along I-494, I
  • Construction I...
  • Anderson Construction<00:27:44.960> I Council Member, would you like to update us on the construction
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Finance and Taxation Education Committee Feb 12th, 2025

Finance and Taxation Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • Now, my question is this: won't it take effect until we've got a lot of construction going on already
  • lot of construction going on already. Are we going to have to back up and change things?
  • Basically, it's got to be new construction, or you have to have a total demolition job of at least $500,000
Bills: SB1, SB83, SB159, SB160, SB1
KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • Public Protection Cabinet, Department of Housing, Buildings and Construction, 815 KAR 2:350.
  • Division Director for the Department of Housing, Buildings and Construction.
  • <01:06:28.079> Daryl<01:06:28.359> Morgan<01:06:28.720> electrical Construction
  • thank you so buildings and construction thank you so much<01:06:33.039> there<01:06:33.160>
  • <01:09:37.759> requirements variances for construction requirements variances for construction
Summary: The subcommittee met with a quorum, approved the minutes, and welcomed new members before taking up Council on Postsecondary Education regulations 13 KAR 2:120 and 13 KAR 2:130. The regulations, as amended by staff and agency amendments, update public university and KCTCS performance funding models to conform to 2024 Senate Bill 191 and the performance funding work group’s recommendations. Changes discussed included replacing the underrepresented minority metric with an underrepresented students metric defined as first-generation students, adding an adult learner metric, increasing the low-income degree premium, adjusting small-school and nonresident credit-hour weights, revising data aging and progression metrics, and adding STEM+H criteria in 13 KAR 2:120. Travis Pal of the Council on Postsecondary Education explained that the changes reflect the work group’s three-year review process and that the work group ultimately voted to define underrepresented students as first-generation students and to apply half-weighting between research and comprehensive universities for the new metric. Michael Frasier of the Kentucky Student Rights Coalition and Eastern Kentucky University student government opposed 13 KAR 2:120, arguing that the regulation improperly applies weights where the statute does not clearly authorize them and that the funding changes disadvantage comprehensive universities and vulnerable students. He asked the committee to find the regulation deficient or, alternatively, recommend legislative clarification and a revised fiscal analysis. Pal responded that weighting has been part of the model since 2017, that CPE was following the statute and work group recommendations, and that the model could be changed by future legislation. Members asked about the timing of the broader performance funding review, and Pal said the full model is reviewed every three years, with the next work group cycle beginning in 2026. No motion to find the regulation deficient was made, and the committee allowed the regulations to proceed to the committee of jurisdiction. The committee then approved a staff amendment to Teachers’ Retirement System regulations 102 KAR 1:195 and 102 KAR 1:340, which require annual reporting of accumulated sick leave, leave policies, and salary schedules to TRS and make technical changes to the final average salary calculation and related definitions.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Capital Investment Committee 3/25/25

Capital Investment

Transcript Highlights:
  • Chair Howard replied that by leveraging the off-site construction pieces of the proposal, they would
  • If funded, we would begin the design of these buildings this year in 2025, with construction starting
  • The building construction fund, called Fund 6 because of how we report to the Minnesota Department of
  • I like to think I'm unique in my area, but in Greater Minnesota, in general, construction prices are
  • I like to think I'm unique in my area, but in Greater Minnesota, in general, construction prices are
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Capital Investment Committee 2/13/25

Capital Investment

Transcript Highlights:
  • blue line at the bottom, have been far short of what was needed to address the deferred maintenance backlog
  • While asset preservation addresses the backlog of deferred maintenance and affects the safety, usability
  • We'll also note that in this category, we still have significant needs for funding to construct a plug
  • <00:10:45.680> of and will help us tackle the backlog of and will help us tackle the backlog
  • <00:41:06.760> that<00:41:06.920> Wetland<00:41:07.359> replacement constructing
Keywords: 1183, house
TX

Texas 89th Regular

State Affairs Apr 28th, 2025

State Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • did come from my community from a dire need from many of those in the industries, whether it's construction
  • If I understand this correctly, it's a building that is yet to be constructed, correct?
  • Is there a backlog in the immigration courts?
  • What I've been concerned about is, when I looked at this bill, I am looking at the backlog of asylum
  • I would say that the backlog is probably more of a result of the number of...
AR

Arkansas 2026 Regular Session

ALC-GAME & FISH/STATE POLICE Jun 18th, 2026

ALC-GAME & FISH/STATE POLICE

Transcript Highlights:
  • I know that we've got a new crime lab that is under construction, so maybe we could start with that,
  • We've got about one year left, a little over one year left, in the construction of that.
  • people crammed into every closet we possibly can over there as we've had to grow to take on that backlog
  • I know years ago there was quite a bit of controversy concerning the backlog of these sexual assault
  • Have you been able to get that information into the CODIS data file, and has that backlog been taken
Summary: The committee met with representatives from the Arkansas State Crime Lab for an update on operations, staffing, technology, and major projects. Crime lab officials said the new facility is on schedule and under budget, with completion expected at the end of July next year and phased move-in beginning around August 1. They described the current building as overcrowded and outdated, and said the new lab will expand workspace, improve workflow, double morgue autopsy tables, and allow new technologies such as 3D firearms microscopy, improved drug testing for emerging synthetic drugs, and enhanced fingerprint visualization. Officials also said the lab has been able to hire positions tied to the 2023 overdose-autopsy law and that recruitment for medical examiners and fellows has improved, including two new medical examiners starting in August and a successful new fellowship program. Members asked about rapid DNA, CODIS, forensic genealogy, sexual assault kit backlogs, and staffing. The lab said rapid DNA is in final testing with Faulkner and Saline counties and could go live by the end of July, which would make Arkansas one of the first states to do so. Officials explained that CODIS is used routinely, with DNA profiles from qualifying cases uploaded automatically and audited regularly, and cited it as a key investigative tool. On forensic genealogy, they said Arkansas currently relies on private labs such as Othram, Bode, and DNA Labs International, and is exploring whether to bring that capability in-house in the future. They reported that the sexual assault kit backlog from around 2016 has been cleared and that the lab is now meeting the statutory 60-day turnaround time, with kits tracked through a barcode-based system for transparency. The committee also discussed overdose data and confidentiality. The lab said a new overdose dashboard is being developed with the Office of State Technology and should go live by the end of the year, using newly available reporting data to help public health and law enforcement target prevention efforts. Members praised a recent law allowing toxicology information to be shared with the state drug director and another law protecting coroner records and toxicology reports from public release during criminal investigations; lab officials said both changes have been very helpful. The meeting ended with no votes or formal actions on the crime lab items, and the chair announced an August site visit to the Lake Conway dam project.
HI
Transcript Highlights:
  • Uh, Pacific Blue Construction, Nathan Konishi in support.
  • Pacific Blue Construction, Nathan Konishi in support.
  • Uh, Pacific Blue Construction, Nathan Konishi in support.
  • backlog that accumulated in the past. backlog that accumulated in the past.
  • for the construction industry. for the construction industry. Thank<00:42:27.400> you.
Keywords: 912, senate, all
Summary: The Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee heard a series of gubernatorial nominations to boards and commissions under the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs. The chair explained the 90-minute agenda, the 2-minute testimony limit, and that written testimony had been reviewed in advance. Testimony was generally supportive for each nominee, with agency boards, professional associations, and individuals submitting written or oral support. For the Board of Barbering and Cosmetology, Michael Basta Jr. described his 40 years in the industry, ownership of two salons, and experience training educators. For the Board of Dentistry, Christopher Woo said he had served as an interim board member since July 1 of the prior year, and Jerry Young said she was a retired pediatrician and former Hawaii Medical Board member; in response to questions, she identified a potential conflict through her role with Pu'ulu Lapa'au and said she would recuse herself when appropriate. For the Board of Psychology, Sean Scanlon and Sherry Takuishi Sara both emphasized long careers in the field and service to the community. Several members questioned psychology and medical nominees about interstate licensing compacts and access to care. Scanlon said he supported expanding the profession but would need to recuse himself on compact issues because of his role at Chaminade University, and he noted growth in local training programs. Sara said her main concern with compacts was cultural sensitivity and Hawaii’s unique cultural milieu, though she acknowledged the need for more psychologists. Pediatrician Robert Watring, nominated to the Hawaii Medical Board, said he supported local providers and was cautious about compacts, emphasizing the need to ensure qualified care in Hawaii; he said he had not seen much change from temporary licensing measures on Kauai. For the Contractors License Board, Jerry Nishik said backlog problems were driven by staff shortages and board vacancies, noting the board lacked quorum for upcoming meetings and needed more members and staff. Other nominees included Albert Dennis and Nolan Miyahara for the Motor Vehicle Repair Industry Board, both of whom said they wanted to continue public service and help ensure legitimate, certified repair shops; Miyahara described his career path from apprentice to automotive technology professor. The committee also heard support for Robert Woltering’s nomination to the Hawaii Medical Board, with Woltering saying he wanted to help ensure quality health care providers, especially for children on Kauai. The transcript does not show any final votes or confirmations during the excerpt provided.
HI

Hawaii 2025 Regular Session

FIN Info Briefing - Wed Jan 8, 2025 @ 9:00 AM HST

Hawaii House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Branch uh there is a continuous backlog Branch uh there is a continuous backlog of<00:23:37.279>
  • investigate and catch up on the backlog investigate and catch up on the backlog of<00:24:00.880>
  • The backlog is 65.
  • <06:08:06.200> permits time especially the construction permits time especially the construction
  • Construction Construction in<06:31:52.958> five<06:31:53.440> in<06:31:54.000> Spring
Keywords: 910, house, all
Summary: The Committee on Finance held an informational briefing with the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations on its budget, staffing, and operations. The director reviewed department leadership and reported on recruitment and retention efforts, including a 14% vacancy rate, a 10.5% workforce increase from filling 189 positions, and the Hela Imua internship program, which has placed 516 interns since inception and led to 62 permanent hires. The department also described modernization efforts, including the UI Huakai project and the Disability Compensation Division’s electronic case management system, and said the unemployment compensation trust fund exceeded $71.5 million, triggering Schedule C for calendar year 2025. The department’s main budget requests included $2.9 million for fiscal year 2026 to support maintenance and operations of the electronic case management system, plus restoration of two enforcement specialist positions. Officials said those positions are needed to address a decline in investigators from 11 to six since 2009, improve compliance, and handle Hawaii Compliance Express certificate work. Additional requests included two human resources specialists to address recruitment backlogs, two labor enforcement specialists to reduce a backlog of Chapter 104 prevailing wage and wage cases, and two positions for the Office of Community Services to expand immigrant services and access centers. The department also discussed federal funding for unemployment insurance and workforce programs, including National Dislocated Worker Grants and Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act funds, and said some funding is received in increments and may require extensions. Members asked about Kauai inspection coverage, federal funding uncertainty, the size of the special unemployment insurance fund, and whether the department could ramp up staffing during a future crisis. Officials said Kauai is currently served by inspectors from Honolulu and there are no plans to open a permanent island position because of staffing constraints. They said the department is meeting federal guidelines and is not in jeopardy, and that the special unemployment insurance fund has about $10 million, with current UI operations funded at a little over $15 million, meaning the fund may need to cover roughly $5 million if federal support declines. The director said the department would use the special fund to supplement shortfalls, but noted that federal funding cuts and the loss of ARPA support have already affected operations.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Transportation Dec 4th, 2025

Transcript Highlights:
  • The Puget Sound Capital Construction account, P-S-C-C-C-A, and the best. specific accounts, the Puget
  • You can see this new vessel construction number. This is just for the three boats.
  • of equipment and our backlog of fuel sites that need to be replaced.
  • And the second phase is the construction itself. So this is going to be challenging.
  • The outfall party was Puget Construction Services in Buckley.
Summary: The committee received a detailed staff presentation on Washington State Ferries’ capital needs, current fleet status, and long-range funding outlook. Staff described the current service pattern, ridership recovery since the pandemic, the aging fleet, and the state’s plan to add three new hybrid-electric Olympic-class vessels under the 2025 budget, with delivery expected around 2030-2032. Members also heard that the fleet is operating with no reserve vessel, that preservation time is below the desired level, and that terminal electrification and vessel conversion plans face timing, cost, and procurement risks. Questions focused on ridership trends, biofuel supply, design-risk allocation in vessel contracts, sequencing of terminal electrification with new vessel delivery, and the cost and feasibility of restoring international Sidney service, which would require a SOLAS-certified vessel. Staff then outlined ferry capital funding, saying recent spending and programmed needs are far above regular ferry-specific revenues and that the system relies on a mix of dedicated accounts, transportation package money, federal grants, and transfers. They said the near-term budget is balanced through 2027-29, but the longer-term capital outlook shows a shortfall of roughly $250 million to $300 million per biennium, with broader unmet needs much higher. The presentation estimated costs for future vessels, life extensions, terminal electrification, and additional Jumbo Mark II conversions, and noted that the current enacted plan does not fully fund fleet replacement, full electrification, or life extension of older vessels. Members asked for follow-up information on terminal seismic/environmental issues, contract options for additional vessels, and the timing and cost of alternative vessel designs. The committee then shifted to WSDOT maintenance and preservation. Pascoe Focktich described maintenance operations, including winter response, guardrail repair, facilities, equipment, and the effects of underfunding and inflation. He said most of the maintenance budget is fixed cost and labor, that material prices have risen sharply, and that many facilities are in poor condition with asbestos issues and deferred upkeep. He also noted growing guardrail damage, increasing pavement claims, and the burden of maintaining aging bridges and facilities. Members asked about prior planning for these needs, the role of asbestos, and whether more proactive sequencing could help budget decisions. Troy Suing then presented the highway preservation program, saying WSDOT is in the early stages of critical failure and has stretched preservation dollars as far as possible. He explained the distinction between pavement, bridge, and other highway asset preservation, said the department is largely reactive, and estimated that delaying work can make it three to five times more expensive later. He said about 40% of roadways are currently due or overdue for preservation, bridge conditions are nearing the federal poor-bridge threshold, and the department’s 10-year preservation need is about $8 billion. Members asked about the cost of deferring work, whether the department could do more if funded, how priorities are set, and whether other states face similar problems. Finally, Evan Grimm and Mike Fay briefed the committee on bridge strikes by overheight vehicles. They described recent incidents on I-90 near Cle Elum and SR 410 near White River, the damage and closures caused, and possible countermeasures such as public outreach, improved trip-planning tools, and a pilot warning system with sensors and flashing beacons. Fay explained the state’s financial recovery process for third-party damage, saying WSDOT recovers roughly $20 million per biennium and about 78% to 80% of billed damages, with money going to the motor vehicle fund. Members asked about prevention, insurance recovery, and whether the state uses claim data to inform future design or safety changes.
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

Committee on Capital Investment - 02/18/25

Capital Investment

Transcript Highlights:
  • <00:26:00.320> projects forward with new construction projects forward with new construction
  • <00:46:34.440> of can see our deferred our backlog of can see our deferred our backlog of
  • Grants were awarded to these 10 library construction projects from the FY 2024 Library Construction Grant
  • Grants were awarded to these 10 library construction projects from the FY 2024 Library Construction Grant
  • Grants were awarded to these 10 library construction projects from the FY 2024 Library Construction Grant
Keywords: 1187, senate, all
ND

North Dakota 2026 1st Special Session

Legislative Audit and Fiscal Review Committee Mar 24th, 2026 at 10:00 am

Legislative Audit and Fiscal Review Committee

Transcript Highlights:
  • Construction in process, which is this line item here, totaled $297 million.
  • Josh, do you also audit whether there is any backlog that they might have in their office?
  • That took an enormous amount of board time, and that just kind of churned this backlog.
  • That took an enormous amount of board time, and that just kind of churned this backlog.
  • I'm offering this as a reason why we were backlogged in certain operations of the board.
Keywords: 908, all
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Mar 18th, 2025

Alabama House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • There is a committee that backlog. There is a committee that backlog.
  • Criminal criminal cases backlog. Criminal criminal cases backlog.
  • So hopefully look we got some backlog. So hopefully look we got some backlog.
  • I just didn't know how much of a backlog. I truly don't know much of a backlog.
  • Now, I ain't the bill is constructed. Now, I ain't the bill is constructed.
Keywords: 1136, house, all
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • As of today, we have 118 cases that are backlogged. Backlog is considered anything over 90 days.
  • University of North Texas shut down, created a backlog.
  • It was construction, space, equipment, and people.
  • The chart highlights overall facility needs and new construction, with recommendations for the construction
  • Speaker: ...the construction of three barracks.
Bills: SB 1
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Committee on Capital Investment - 03/05/26

Capital Investment

Transcript Highlights:
  • Projects are then put out to bid, and then construction obviously is at the end of that.
  • Um as you can construction is complete.
  • heaper backlog is at $1.73<00:38:10.480> billion.
  • And all of those projects are working through the pipeline and moving towards construction.
  • But um you can see from construction.
Keywords: 1187, senate, all
ND
Transcript Highlights:
  • Do you have current construction?
  • We no longer have a large rape kit backlog.
  • Fingerprint and firearms units do not have backlogs.
  • Fingerprint and firearms units do not have backlogs.
  • have a small backlog now that they are working through.
Summary: The committee met as the Commerce and Legal Services Division and first approved the minutes, then received a Legislative Council overview of the Attorney General’s current budget status and a blue-sheet summary of the AG’s base budget for the next biennium. Staff highlighted compliance with legislative intent items, including FTE changes, one-time funding updates, litigation pool spending, opioid settlement receipts, and continuing appropriations. Members asked about specific funds such as the Missing Indigenous People Grant Fund and the Internet Crimes Investigation Fund, and staff explained the statutory basis and status of those items. The Attorney General’s office then presented an extensive overview of its divisions and budget pressures. Chief Deputy Attorney General Clare Ness described the office’s 14 divisions, the role of the office in defending the state and recouping funds, and concerns about attorney pay, recruitment, and retention. Members discussed whether attorney salaries should be benchmarked across state government and whether more legal work could be centralized in the AG’s office. The office also described challenges with the new-and-vacant FTE pool, operating expense cuts, leased office space, and the criminal justice information systems used to connect law enforcement, prosecutors, and courts. The Crime Laboratory director gave a detailed update on space and infrastructure problems, saying the current lab is overcrowded and outdated, with safety, workflow, air-handling, glycol leak, alarm, and maintenance issues that can delay casework and risk evidence integrity. She said a 2024 study projected a need for a much larger facility and that the preferred option would be a new building on the current health department site, at an estimated cost of roughly $40 million to $45 million. She also reported that backlogs have improved significantly in DNA, firearms, fingerprint, and drug cases, though toxicology had recently developed a small backlog after an air compressor failure. The Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, gaming division, and BCI also provided updates. MFCU’s new director said the unit is federally funded 75/25, focuses on fraud, abuse, and neglect, and is seeking two attorney hires while continuing to work with federal partners on cases and recertification. Gaming staff reported continued growth in charitable gaming and electronic pull-tab activity, with concerns about site competition, large trust balances, possible ineligible expenditures, and the need for more scrutiny as revenues have grown. BCI outlined its staffing, drug task forces, ICAC work, and the Missing Indigenous Person Task Force, which is using its $250,000 appropriation to help tribal nations develop emergency response plans and purchase alerting tools such as IPAWS. No formal votes were taken beyond approval of the minutes.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

EDU-WLA, EDU Public Hearings 02-13-2026

Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • They started construction.
  • They started construction.
  • They started construction.
  • They started construction.
  • construction is completed. construction is completed.
Bills: SB2613, SB2147
Summary: The committee heard SB 2613, a cleanup bill relating to public school land transfers under Act 307 (2022), which revises tax map key references and the conveyance process for properties transferred to the Department of Education. The Hawaii State Public Library System supported the measure, saying it would complete the long-unfinished separation of the library system from DOE property control and make future building projects more efficient and cost-effective. DOE also supported the bill and requested an amendment to remove TMK 43-62 parcel 10, the Wilcox Elementary School parcel, so that it could instead be transferred to the county for use with the adjacent park and tennis courts. Members focused heavily on why land transfers and construction approvals have been slow, especially the need for right-of-entry documents and an MOA for a library construction project. Library and DOE witnesses said the delays stemmed from site-control issues and confusion over property status, and that the bill would clarify which parcels are transferred by operation of law and remove the need for additional transactional documents in many cases. Several members questioned whether the bill actually changes authority or simply clarifies existing practice, and DOE said it wanted legislative clarity so the transfers are unmistakably effective on a date certain. The committee also discussed a separate section of the bill dealing with public use of school facilities after hours, including parking fees on property under DOE jurisdiction. DOE explained that any parking charges would apply only to property it controls, not county roads, and that fees are set through existing facility-use procedures. Members raised concerns about the pace of land transfers generally and urged DOE to move more expeditiously on pending parcels. The hearing then moved on to SB 2147, which would designate the first Friday in February as Love My Library Day; the library system testified in support as the committee began that measure.
OK
Transcript Highlights:
  • and bridge construction.
  • You don't have to have millions and millions of dollars for construction, but you have to have a dam
  • What we've requested is a modest $50 million in terms of infrastructure construction recurring.
  • We are just attacking the backlogs and prioritizing, especially when it comes to water applications.
  • And I'm gonna just end on a I don't want to say constructive criticism, but it's you know being an ag
Keywords: 914, all