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• Loop 323 in Tyler to the city limits of Bullard as a Veterans Memorial Highway and allow for the construction
• I will comment that the local funding requirement has been met. Uh, thank you.
• I'm testifying on behalf of Metrocare, which is one of the providers funded by TVFA.
• We support HB 19 lowering the match requirement for TBFA funding.
• I'm pleased to share with you a recent example of how we're using the grant funds.

Bills: HB101

Committee: House S/C on Defense & Veterans' Affairs

Keywords: voter approval, local tax, disaster declaration, tax rate increases, community funding

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• </c> it's important to note that this funding it's important to note that this funding was<00:16:47.600
• <00:30:04.399><c> $4.4</c> fund $4.4 fund $4.4 million<00:30:07.960><c> um</c><00:30:08.200><c> the</
• <00:53:53.920><c> and</c> funds and funds and support<00:53:55.839><c> what</c><00:53:55.960><c> is</
• </c> funding and then this that that funding funding and then this that that funding this<01:17:44.360

Bills: HF10

Committee: House State Government Finance and Policy

Keywords: undocumented immigrants, state funding, MinnesotaCare, scholarship ineligibility, state assistance, 1183, house

Bills: SB 26

Committee: Senate Education

Keywords: teacher compensation, education funding, public school educators, teacher retention, teacher designation

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• Who will have the funds to do it?
• This amount is self-funded by the judiciary and is subject to an available funding clause.
• and secure some funding for this particular type of fund.
• funds.
• funds.

Bills: HB12 , HB42 , HB205 , HB222 , HB324 , HB325 , HB350 , HB416 , HB482 , HB610 , HB749 , HB797 , HB807 , HB821 , HB979 , HB992 , HB1193

Committee: House Appropriations

Keywords: survivor benefits, law enforcement, reserve officer, auxiliary officer, public safety, phased retirement, Teachers Retirement System, faculty retention, administrative fees, public postsecondary education, Medicaid, dental coverage, healthcare access, medical necessity, Louisiana Department of Health, judicial salaries, judges, judiciary compensation, cost of living adjustment, COLA

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• The Washington State Transportation Improvement Board provides funds to high-priority transportation
• Previous legislatures have also authorized general obligation bond sales for the purposes of funding
• Funds were appropriated for this work in 2019 and again in 2021. In 2023, WSDOT and ODOT were...
• , could contribute to final design and construction of CID-identified projects.
• Our office noticed that the interest was going to the general fund.

Bills: HB1823 , HB2092 , HB2111 , HB2114

Committee: House Transportation

Keywords: transportation improvement board, TIB, transportation improvement account, motor vehicle fund, arterial streets, local match, private match, grant funding, transportation grants, county roads, city streets, transportation benefit district, urban county, small city program, active transportation, pedestrian, bicycle, bike routes, transit, public transit

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• , to be administered by DPRIT, called the... ...Dementia Prevention and Research Fund.
• It directs the transfer from the State General Revenue Fund to DPRIT.
• In Texas, the association currently funds 43 projects, totaling $12.5 million.
• So it's all ... non-governmental funds that the Alzheimer's Association gathers specifically to fund
• This includes studying how best to provide stable funding for long-term care.

Bills: SB5 , SJR3 , SB 5 , SJR 3

Committee: Senate Finance

Keywords: dementia, research institute, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, funding, grants, state health initiatives, research funding, state budget, prevention, healthcare, medical research, Dementia Prevention and Research Institute, disaster relief, flood preparedness, emergency funding, local government support, meteorological forecasting, district apportionment, legislative rules

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• funded by the state of Oklahoma.
• And then, funding, or excuse me, and funding for the, we did not do the restoration of embargoed funds
• as a constitutionally protected fund or will it be similar to the revenue stabilization fund?
• The sovereign wealth fund is a statutory fund. Follow up, thank you.
• The reason why I asked the question is the revenue stabilization fund is a statutory fund.

Bills: SB1177 , SB1177

Committee: House Joint Committee on Appropriations and Budget

Keywords: education funding, mental health services, public safety, housing, state budget, 914, all

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• trust fund.
• are we able to pull those funds?
• It has to do with the sheriff's office funding assistance revolving fund on page 47, section 128.
• The Legal Services Revolving Fund is a separate Fund unrelated to the Extraordinary Litigation.
• $1.5 million in that fund.

Bills: SB1177

Committee: Senate Joint Committee on Appropriations and Budget

Keywords: education funding, mental health services, public safety, housing, state budget, 914, all

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• To bring this project to life, the city of Show Low is seeking $6.5 million in funding for the roadway
• The city and its developers have already committed $7.56 million to the construction of the bridge over
• With funding, we can immediately begin construction and deliver long-lasting benefits to our region.
• to the project could cause funding to be pulled or canceled.
• , ...tirelessly to assemble funding from a variety of local, state, and federal partners, a funding gap

Bills: SB1272

Committee: House Rural Economic Development

Keywords: appropriation, Douglas port of entry, state funding, infrastructure, federal support, 1182, all

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• </c><00:32:13.279><c> that</c> the large amount of federal funding that the large amount of federal funding
• </c><00:34:47.440><c> um</c> of how important our federal funding um of how important our federal funding
• </c> the funding in hand to say start hiring. the funding in hand to say start hiring.
• Um, and and we did funding to enact.

Bills: HF3379

Committee: House Human Services Finance and Policy

Keywords: housing stabilization, disability services, predatory funding, provider requirements, housing accessibility, 1183, house

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• Destination Development Fund, we'll put that back to the $20 million that the Senate kicked over to us
• This is in reference to, if you remember, this committee had... ...sent over to the Senate funding under
• However, what this will do is that if the SIF fund reaches, exceeds... ...$410 million during the 2025
• However, what this will do is that if the SIF fund reaches, exceeds, is that if the SIF fund reaches,

Bills: SB2018

Committee: House Appropriations - Education and Environment Division

Keywords: funding, commerce, autonomous technology, workforce development, economic growth, grant programs, 908, all

Summary: The E&E Committee met to finalize action on Senate Bill 2018, the Commerce Department budget. Members reviewed several funding lines and made verbal adjustments, including reducing tourism marketing awareness to $5 million, keeping Operation Intern at $2 million, restoring the Destination Development Fund to $20 million, setting Autonomous Agriculture Grants/Grand Farm at $10 million, and reducing the WIP Regional Workforce Impact Program to $5 million. Representative Martinson proposed additional earmarks for the Fargo Theatre, Maddock trolley cars, a theater in Marmarth, and Driscoll’s community hall, and also moved to keep the Destination Development Fund at $25 million; the committee discussed these items, but the transcript does not show separate recorded votes on those proposals. The committee adopted two amendments. One dealt with the drone replacement program and related data-collection direction, with language agreed to by UAS representatives, IT, and the governor’s office. The second, offered by Representative Swantec, created a trigger for funding children’s science centers in Fargo and Grand Forks if the SIF fund exceeds a specified threshold during the 2025-27 biennium; the amendment was clarified to use the term “Children’s Science Education Center” and passed 7-0. The committee then approved a do-pass motion on the Commerce budget as amended and with the verbal changes discussed, passing the bill 7-0. During debate, Representative Louser raised concerns that the budget’s spending could affect property tax relief, while the chair responded that there would still be sufficient money for tax relief and that the programs funded were ongoing and successful. The chair closed by thanking members and staff, noting conference committee assignments and a committee dinner, and then adjourned.

Bills: HF2433

Committee: House Education Finance

Keywords: education funding, children with disabilities, transition aid, special education, school district consolidation

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• Yes, we understand shelter saves lives, and we're making sure that we fund some of the shelter programs
• Yes, we understand shelter saves lives, and we're making sure that we fund some of the shelter programs
• Yes, we understand shelter saves lives, and we're making sure that we fund some of the shelter programs
• And we found creative ways to address some of that, to be able to bring more funding in so we didn't
• We found creative ways to address some of that, to be able to bring more funding in so we didn't have

Bills: HF2434

Committee: House Human Services Finance and Policy

Keywords: healthcare, personal care assistance, worker retention, disability services, state funding, 1183, house

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• If you look at line 22, the general fund funding in this bill is $435,970,000.
• </c><00:03:12.959><c> bill</c><00:03:13.120><c> is</c> general fund uh funding in this bill is general
• fund uh funding in this bill is $435,97,000<00:03:16.239><c> that's</c><00:03:16.560><c> 10</c><00:03
• And then on line 132, of the fund.
• </c><00:04:56.720><c> in</c> environmental and remediation fund in environmental and remediation fund

Bills: HF2439

Committee: House Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Policy

Keywords: environmental protection, pollution reduction, waste management, climate change, funding allocations, 1183, house

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• </c> recommendation on behavioral health fund recommendation on behavioral health fund reforms.<00:08
• </c><00:32:28.159><c> substance</c> for behavioral health funds substance for behavioral health funds
• Funding the operating outcomes.
• Funding the effective treatment.
• Additionally, I have two units that are currently under construction that were awarded funding from Minnesota

Bills: HF2434

Committee: House Human Services Finance and Policy

Keywords: healthcare, personal care assistance, worker retention, disability services, state funding, 1183, house

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• quite a bit of that, adds to some of the other funding, removes funding for the continued care program
• We are working through on receiving some federal funds for our DOE weatherization IGA funding that has
• any funding either.
• Fund.
• But because the funding was one-time funding, the FTE were included as one-time positions.

Bills: SB2018

Committee: House Appropriations - Education and Environment Division

Keywords: funding, commerce, autonomous technology, workforce development, economic growth, grant programs, 908, all

Summary: The committee took up Senate Bill 2018, the Department of Commerce budget, and walked through the long sheet and a series of proposed changes. Members discussed restoring a vacant workforce FTE that Commerce said it could fill soon, monitoring federal funding delays but reporting no known cuts, and adjusting several one-time items including Operation Intern, the North Dakota Development Fund, the Global Talent Office, and tourism-related funding. The chair also proposed separating tourism marketing and Good Life funding again, rather than combining them, and members raised concerns about ensuring tourism dollars are used only for tourism purposes. A number of program amounts were reviewed or adjusted in discussion, including UAS grants, Vantus/Beyond Visual Line of Sight funding, Grand Sky, Grand Farm autonomous agriculture grants, base enhancement grants, Native American small business grants, regional workforce impact grants, technical skills training grants, and tribal college workforce grants. Commerce officials explained that some grant language would be changed to require competitive RFP processes, and they clarified that the housing opportunity and community property improvement items were handled in other bills or programs. The committee also discussed apprenticeship efforts across state agencies and Commerce’s role in workforce development. The committee reviewed carryover and exemption language for prior appropriations, including federal weatherization and energy funds, and Commerce said three one-time FTE tied to those federal programs should become ongoing because the federal dollars continue over several years. A motion to add $1.5 million for the North Dakota Safety Council failed for lack of a second. The committee then planned to return the next day to continue work on Commerce and take up the CTE budget, including a pending amendment related to CTE’s possible move from the 15th floor of the Capitol.

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• Do you support further cuts at NIH funding or staff?
• That amounts to a massive. funding cut for research institutions.
• And for the record, funding has not been canceled.
• For instance, that was once funded.
• Will you commit here today to reinstating funding for scientists whose funding has been terminated because

Committee: Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee

Keywords: NIH funding, healthcare research, chronic diseases, scientific integrity, public trust, pandemic response

Summary: The meeting of the committee focused on various healthcare and scientific issues, with significant discussions surrounding the impact of recent administrative actions on the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and its research agenda. Senators expressed concerns over funding cuts and personnel reductions, particularly the reported termination of over 1,200 NIH staff members, which could jeopardize ongoing and future research projects. The session included testimonies on the importance of supporting early-stage researchers and restoring public trust in scientific institutions following pandemic-related controversies. Additionally, the potential for future healthcare management based on diverse scientific ideas was emphasized as crucial to tackle chronic diseases effectively.

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• To a school's funding.
• Pursuant to the Texas Constitution, the funds may only be used for construction, maintaining, and acquiring
• Fund, and the Seaport Connectivity Fund.
• and don't fund.
• Yes, Ag Fund, EDAP, and currently the Flood Infrastructure Fund.

Committee: House Appropriations

Keywords: infrastructure, water supply, flood mitigation, Texas Water Fund, community projects, funding allocations

Summary: During this committee meeting, the focus was on discussing critical infrastructure funding, especially related to water supply and flood mitigation projects. Chairwoman Stepney and the Water Development Board presented extensive details regarding the Texas Water Fund, which included $1 billion appropriated to assist various financial programs and tackle pressing water and wastewater issues. Additionally, funding allocations aimed at compromising the state's flood risk and improving water conservation were hotly debated, emphasizing collaboration among committee members and the necessity of addressing community needs in such projects.

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• less 7.3 million which goes to the county. lateral road fund.
• fund than they get back.
• call new construction, typically about 40 percent in commercial construction.
• Senate Bill 1, the Appropriations Bill, includes continued funding to address this backlog. agency funding
• The problem is that we didn't fund it. And so.

Bills: SB214 , SB935 , SB1030 , SB1901 , SB2018 , SB2020 , SB2066 , SB2206

Committee: Senate Finance

Keywords: HVAC, tax exemption, energy efficiency, residential heating, installation services, Energy Star, sales tax, residential, installation, sales tax exemption, Environmental Protection Agency, temporary exemption, motor fuel tax, county exemption, diesel fuel, gasoline tax, transportation funding, SB 1030, Texas Tax Code, use tax exemption

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• chair lays out House Bill 4473, and we're going to pull it from Subcommittee on Transportation and funding
• This bill we heard previously is relating to a study by the Texas Department of Transportation of Construction
• It makes a ship channel fund a separate account, um, improvement fund, uh, separate from the state highway
• fund instead of general revenue.
• It keeps the scurf in the general revenue Fund and exempts it in the government code. OK.

Bills: HCR 114 , HB 137 , HB 283 , HB 1398 , HB 1960 , HB 2153 , HB 2431 , HB 2638 , HB 2699 , HB 2999 , HB 3208 , HB 3389 , HB 3413 , HB 3510 , HB 3642 , HB 3859 , HB 3974 , HB 3986 , HB 4142 , HB 4173 , HB 4174 , HB 4542 , HB 4605 , HB 4663 , HB 4731 , HB 5064 , HB 5216 , HB 5218 , HB 5332 , HB 5453 , HB 5577

Committee: House Transportation

Keywords: memorial, pedestrian bridge, Houston, Sergio Ivan Rodriguez, city council, oversize vehicles, transportation permits, Hidalgo County, port authority, highway routes, healthcare, insurance, mental health, treatment access, state funding, transportation, axle weight, aggregates, regulations, Texas law