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• And the idea was you get an amount of money backed by a continuous flow of funds.
• I had to find that continuous flow and looked everywhere, and it was one casino license left.
• And we looked to see if that license couldn't create a container, but we're back to it: continuous flow
• And we looked to see if that license couldn't create a container, but we're back to it, continuous flow

Keywords: 995, all

Summary: The Joint Committee on Transportation heard testimony on a range of bills focused on transportation funding, governance, and equity. Supporters backed proposals to create a North Central Massachusetts intercity passenger rail fund tied to a possible new gaming license (H. 3680/S. 2363), local parking assessments (H. 3756), third-party delivery fees (S. 2356/H. 3774), broader roadway pricing and congestion management measures (S. 2353/S. 2354), tolling equity and regional transit authority advisory boards (S. 2400/S. 2401), and Steamship Authority oversight reforms including board term limits (S. 2395). Testimony in favor emphasized new dedicated revenue sources, commuter rail expansion, regional equity, improved oversight, and better transit access for riders and communities that rely on public transportation. There was also testimony in opposition to the third-party delivery fee bills from Chamber of Progress, which argued the fee would raise costs for consumers, small businesses, and delivery workers, could reduce demand and jobs, and might not achieve the intended environmental benefits. Associated Builders and Contractors of Massachusetts opposed H. 3633, a transit expansion, electrification, and resiliency bill, specifically objecting to its mandatory project labor agreement requirement and saying it would limit competition and disadvantage non-union contractors and workers. Several witnesses spoke in favor of the Steamship Authority bill, saying term limits would improve transparency, accountability, and board turnover. The committee also heard detailed support for the North Central rail proposal from a legislator, the North Central Massachusetts Chamber of Commerce, and a transportation advocate, who described the bill as a way to generate long-term bonded revenue for rail infrastructure. After testimony concluded and no questions remained, the chairs entertained and received a motion to adjourn.

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• , more reliable lookups, and a data flows, more reliable lookups, and a more<00:04:04.560> intuitive

Keywords: Meeting Start 00:00:00 Attendance Roll Call 00:00:14 Approval of Minutes 00:00:40 State Board of Elections 00:00:56, 958, all

Summary: The House Budget Review Subcommittee on General Government met to hear an update from the State Board of Elections on its Bluegrass Books electronic poll book system. Rachel Pointer and Richard House described the project as an in-house modernization effort intended to improve security, customization, integration with the voter registration system, reduce voter wait times, streamline supplemental and provisional ballot processing, and provide year-round local support to county clerks and poll workers. They emphasized that the system is already a working product, not just a concept, and showed a workflow demonstration of voter lookup, signature capture, ballot issuance, manual lookup, and handling voters who have already voted. The agency also outlined the financial rationale for the project, saying the state currently lacks dedicated funding for replacing the iPads used for election-day poll books and that counties now bear vendor maintenance and support costs. Under Bluegrass Books, the state would seek to cover hardware replacement, maintenance, and on-site support through future appropriations, potentially using bulk purchasing to lower costs. When asked about the size of the appropriation request, the presenters said it was not yet finalized but noted roughly 7,000 devices are deployed statewide and replacement would likely be phased rather than done all at once. Members asked about security and whether the e-poll book could affect vote totals. The Board explained that the e-poll book is separate from ballot casting, that voting machines themselves are not connected to the internet, and that the poll book is networked only to update check-ins and prevent double voting. They said the device is locked down to the poll book application and can operate offline until connectivity returns. A member also asked how to recruit more poll workers; the response suggested higher pay is the main incentive, along with outreach to schools, community colleges, and possible pilot programs involving professionals. The meeting concluded without any votes or formal action beyond approval of minutes, and the next meeting was announced for January 29, weather permitting.

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• If you turn to slide two, we have an overview of federal formula funding that flows to the state under
• recommending that 18 grants be consolidated into one flexible and discretionary funding stream that would flow
• But the administration has proposed eliminating a few of the smaller funding streams that flow through
• That's a separate funding stream that flows to New Mexico.

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• It is more a confluence of projects, cash flow opportunity, and a really innovative means to advance
• projects uh cash flow projects uh cash flow opportunity<00:03:48.720> uh<00:03:49.000>
• The fact that MnDOT is able to advance this work earlier with the cash flow on a cash flow basis of what
• c><00:06:33.000> basis<00:06:33.759> of the cash flow on a cash flow basis of the cash
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Keywords: 1187, senate, all

Summary: The Transportation Committee met on January 29, 2025, to hear the Metropolitan Council’s presentation on the Governor’s proposed agency budget requests. The Council outlined three main budget items: authorization to advance funds to MnDOT to help coordinate a highway project with arterial bus rapid transit construction; a proposal to make free regular-route transit rides permanent for eligible Metro Mobility riders, after a successful pilot that produced nearly 75,000 rides; and a reduction in general fund support for rail operations, which the Council said it could absorb in the near term. The Council also noted it was seeking $15 million in the bonding bill for bus rapid transit, including support for the H Line, and described other capital requests for an infill/infiltration program and regional parks. Council leadership said the advance-funds proposal would let two projects move together more efficiently, reduce disruption, and potentially lower costs by avoiding repeated reconstruction and maintenance. On the Metro Mobility fare pilot, they said the lower fare increased rider freedom and spontaneity while saving state money because fixed-route service is cheaper than individual Metro Mobility trips. On the general fund reduction, they said the agency is expanding service, opening the Gold Line, B Line, and E Line, and can manage the cut because of its diversified revenue sources, though it could affect future expansion. Senator Nelson raised concerns about the proposal to expand the Right-of-Way Acquisition Loan Fund to include regional parks and trails, warning that the legislation should clearly avoid creating condemnation authority for park or trail projects, especially where they are adjacent to MnDOT projects. Council staff responded that the program would finance local acquisitions rather than give the Met Council condemnation power, and said they would take the concern under advisement and ensure the legislation is carefully drafted. Members also discussed federal funding uncertainty; Council officials said federal transit operating support is about $30 million and that a pause or cut could affect future capital projects and some existing awards, while the region’s diversified funding base would help cushion operations. No votes or formal actions were taken at the meeting.

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• You want to tear down Eureka, we've got to free the Ocklawaha, are we going to let the Silver River flow
• get their drinking water from a well at 3:15 where it's fluid for years, it has dried up, no longer flowing
• In my lifetime I watched the Everglades go from stagnant to free-flowing.

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• That 1.1 billion value from flowing in through your tax assessment and you are save our homes assessment
• limitation protected. 26 save our homes assessment limitation protected. 26 percent of your value from flowing
• You have a exemptions that get applied, all flows down to taxable value.

Keywords: 999, senate, all

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• It'd be a good time to pay that off and then that money will flow through the tobacco formula and help
• It'd be a good time to pay that off and then that money will flow through the tobacco formula and help
• c><00:13:16.160> that<00:13:16.320> money<00:13:16.560> will<00:13:16.720> flow
• off and then that money will flow off and then that money will flow through<00:13:17.839> um<

Keywords: Meeting Start 00:00:00 Attendance Roll Call 00:00:20 Approval of Minutes 00:00:41 Department of Agriculture 00:01:06, 958, all

Summary: The House Budget Review Subcommittee on General Government met for its third meeting, approved the minutes, and heard a budget presentation from the Kentucky Department of Agriculture. Department representatives Brandon Reid, Lee Macintosh, and Mark Bolan outlined the agency’s funding mix and requested support for several priorities in House Bill 500, including continuation of existing items, county fair grants, and an additional $5 million for the new economic development fund. They also discussed a capital request to replace two aging scale trucks, noting the vehicles are from 2002 and 2006 and have become unreliable and expensive to repair. The department emphasized several additional needs: funding to begin regulating and inspecting electric vehicle charging stations through the weights and measures division, retention and recruitment funding after losing 108 employees over three years, and a request to pay off tobacco-related debt service so more money can flow through the tobacco formula. They also cited House Bill 417, filed by Speaker Osborne, as supporting farmland preservation, saying the agency has a program ready but needs funding to implement it. Officials said the farm-to-food-banks and rural mental health items in the budget were acceptable as reduced by the tobacco formula. Members asked questions about pump inspection fees and staffing losses. The department said the inspection fee is $100 per station, not per pump, and that the same fee applies even to larger stations. On retention and recruitment, officials said the cost of turnover is significant but they did not have a dollar estimate. No votes were taken beyond the motion to approve the minutes, and the meeting ended with a motion to adjourn.

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• That flows into item number 3, which is workforce So people are not aware of the industry.
• There's a there's a valve where we can reverse the flow and give them water if their water system fails
• Obviously, we want to shut both runways down at the same time, keep a little bit of traffic flow in there
• I think it has to do a lot with the water flow. There's no under drains.
• It's just sheet flows over the top of it when it rains.

Keywords: 914, all

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• request goes back to 2018, when we knew that this was a problem and we saw that water just wasn't flowing
• They either had no connection, so they have no positive flow.
• But right now the recharge rate is whatever water's falling in those outcroppings as it flows across
• I can't speak to that, but we have done assessments of sort of annual flows that do bypass... that's
• a lot of... ...assessments of sort of annual flows that do bypass reservoirs, but it depends on the year

Summary: The House Committee on Natural Resources met to focus on flooding issues across Texas, with particular attention to South Texas and the recent catastrophic flooding in Central Texas. Chair Harris and Vice Chair Martinez emphasized that flooding is a statewide problem requiring continued legislative attention. The committee heard invited testimony from Hidalgo County Commissioner David Fuentes and Hidalgo County Drainage District No. 1 General Manager Raul Sassine, who described the March flood event in Hidalgo County, including more than 20 inches of rain, six deaths, over $100 million in local damage, widespread road flooding, and repeated shutdowns of Interstate 2 and its frontage roads. They argued that existing drainage systems are under capacity, that TxDOT projects must account for downstream drainage impacts, and that local governments have already invested heavily in mitigation through bonds and partnerships. Fuentes and Sassine also described the county’s long-term flood mitigation and water-reuse efforts, including the Delta region water management project, which would capture stormwater, runoff, and treated effluent, reduce flooding, and create potable water supply. They said the drainage district manages about 780 miles of channels and 1,100 acres of detention facilities, has used prior Flood Infrastructure Fund and GLO grants, and has ongoing applications for additional state and federal assistance. Members discussed the need for TxDOT coordination, emergency access on frontage roads, local “skin in the game,” and the possibility of combining flood control with aquifer recharge and water supply projects. Texas Water Development Board Executive Administrator Brian McMath then presented an overview of the state’s flood planning and funding framework, including the post-Harvey legislative changes that created the Flood Infrastructure Fund, the Texas Infrastructure Resiliency Fund, and the regional/state flood planning process. He summarized the first state flood plan adopted in 2024, noting that about one in six Texans live or work in known flood hazard areas and that regional plans identified 4,609 flood risk reduction solutions with an estimated cost of $54.5 billion. He also reviewed TWDB programs for flood grants, community assistance, flood insurance compliance, stream gauges, TexMesonet, flood mapping, and the TexasFlood.org viewer. Members asked about drainage fees, technical assistance, gauge placement, the relationship between flood maps and FEMA FIRMs, and whether flood mitigation funds could support aquifer storage and recovery or recharge projects; TWDB staff said such projects can be eligible if they include flood mitigation components, but direct technical assistance cannot be paid from Flood Infrastructure Fund dollars. The committee concluded by expressing interest in further study of combining flood mitigation with aquifer recharge, and then adjourned.

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• Next, I'll briefly walk through this flow chart slide.
• The slide contains a flow chart outlining the process for handling provider complaints at the Office
• got a few questions. around that, and maybe you can verify if that's accurate with the money that flows
• So the question is, is it $20 billion annually of money that flows through for Medicaid?
• wondering, because you didn't give us any of that high-level information, can you first tell us how much flows

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• different angle than Assemblymember Irwin, I'm worried about a lot of things, but mudslides and debris flow
• Mudslides and debris flow are a huge risk in our communities now because of what has happened to the
• to actually put into erosion mitigation so that these communities are not devastated again by mud flows
• were recovering from the Thomas fire, and there was an intense rainstorm that caused a massive debris flow
• sure that they have systems and activities in place to guard against those types of activities, mud flows

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• These flow on to those other transfers of windfall oil revenue that go to trust funds and other places
• Some of the downside risks to the GRT forecast include the flow-through of tariffs to consumers, basically
• What is changed is the way that I'll highlight about three major changes to federal SIT that flow through
• but there were policy changes at the land office that recently allowed pent-up demand for leases to flow
• And if I had to guess, one is that they're managing their cash flow a little more carefully In light

Keywords: 996, all

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• are doing this are retired teachers who are, adjunct faculty, and that, for some reason, the funding flow
• And that did result in a delay of those funds flowing to our educator candidates.
• pre-service teachers and that we are clear about our expectations. associated with the funding that flows
• The image to the left shows the indoor-outdoor flow. We have our glass walls. You can see out to.
• The bios well, which will exist and kind of flow through that space, are also great areas for aquatic

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• And then what we're going to see next is that funds begin to flow out to LEAs; of course, that'll go
• Fiscal year 27, they'll keep flowing out.
• Representative, much of the money is already flowing out.
• When the programs begin, the rest of that money will start flowing out. Thank you. So, Mr.
• We'll just want to keep an eye on how that funding is flowing out each fiscal year within all of this

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• The Gabriel River flows across our land.
• If we can get it in the ground, it's not going to flow down. Flood your neighbor.
• Are flowing is going to make a big difference. It's the cumulative impact of all these things.
• Above the floodplain, it's exacerbating the flow of water into the waterways.
• The siren discussion has come up because of this flow; that's why we're here right now.

Bills: HB48, HB 66, HB 68, HB71, HB75, HB164, HB171, HB254, SB 3, SB 18, HB123, HB149, HB117

Keywords: HB 48, Texas alert notification systems, emergency alerts, public warning systems, alert fatigue, notification fatigue, Texas Division of Emergency Management, Department of Public Safety, DPS alerts, emergency management, State of Texas Emergency Assistance Registry, STEAR, disaster notifications, weather alerts, Amber Alert, Silver Alert, Blue Alert, missing persons alerts, accessible alerts, hearing impaired

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• He had to tackle challenges from the illegal immigration crisis and drugs flowing into our country to
• They were countering the flow of illegal weapons, and they were fighting against the radicalization of
• If there's a waiver granted to make sure that that money is actually flowing again.
• So I don't think it's concluded yet, but to the extent that aid is going to be flowing towards efforts
• gears are not turning and the gears have to turn in order for contracts to be restored and for aid to flow

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• ourselves to review our bills, for our drafters to have time with 11,000 great ideas that will be flowing
• Teacher Retention Allotment to the new allotment we're creating to ensure that raises actually... ...flow
• We're making that very specific on how those dollars flow from that new Teacher Pay Allotment, and no
• And they flow. They're not accepted. That's the issue. Thank you, Senator West. Senator Hinojosa.
• Nestled near the Rio Grande, it offers a close-knit environment where the river flows. is just a short

Bills: SB26, SB 26

Keywords: teacher compensation, education funding, public school educators, teacher retention, teacher designation, SB 26, Texas Property Code, colonia, colonias, Spanish translation, bilingual contract, real estate contract, executory contract, residential property, border county, international border, economically distressed area, consumer protection, language access, translator certified in Spanish

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• flow and that<00:43:08.319> they're<00:43:08.560> legitimately<00:43:09.119> in
• <00:47:32.000> and the business has enough cash flow and the business has enough cash flow
• ,<00:48:21.040> their um the business's cash flow, their um the business's cash flow, their
• And so if we're desiring to ensure that dollars are flowing to the people to which these dollars were
• And so if we're desiring to ensure that dollars are flowing to the people to which these dollars were

Keywords: 1183, house

Summary: The committee met on March 4, 2026, and focused almost entirely on an update and oversight discussion of the Promise Act, including its grant and loan programs. The chair opened by explaining that the committee wanted to better understand how the 2023 law was implemented, how funds are still being deployed in greater Minnesota and the metro, and whether adjustments made in 2024 and 2025 were working as intended. The minutes from March 3 were approved at the start of the meeting. Deputy Commissioner Kevin McKinnon of DEED outlined the program’s legislative history, funding structure, eligibility rules, and oversight process. He said the grant side has about $94 million available, with $16 million going to the Minnesota Initiative Foundations and $86 million to the Neighborhood Development Center, plus administrative and technical assistance set-asides. He noted legislative changes over time, including shifting the revenue eligibility test to the prior year, adding a home-office deduction requirement for businesses using a home address, and maintaining a preference for applicants who had not received more than $10,000 in prior state assistance. McKinnon said about $22 million had been awarded to 35 businesses at the time of the update, and that the loan program has $30 million appropriated, with about $9.5 million lent so far. He also described the application, verification, audit, and payment process, emphasizing that partners handle intake and DEED conducts final review and random audits. Shahir Ahmmed of the Neighborhood Development Center described the round-one and round-two grant process in more detail. He said NDC spent about nine months building the application platform, launched round one in June 2024, received more than 3,000 applications, and later paused awards while DEED and legislators clarified the law. He reported that 651 applications were approved in the first round for just under $9 million, and that round two launched in September 2025 with a goal of distributing up to $50 million in remaining grant funds. Ahmmed also explained the step-by-step applicant process, including email confirmation, eligibility screening, document upload, identity verification through Plaid, and final DEED review. He said applicants commonly use funds for payroll, equipment or inventory, rent, and utilities. The chair indicated there would be further testimony from other program partners and then member questions, but no votes or formal actions were taken on the Promise Act itself during this portion of the meeting.

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• How does the money flow?
• And then the fourth, as previous, the real revenue and earnings, once we have those flowing, go on a
• in an appropriate way without flowing in an appropriate way without affecting<01:09:28.719> the
• <01:09:54.480> And<01:09:54.719> we're How does the money flow?
• And we're How does the money flow?

Bills: SF0102, SF0123, SF0021, SF0099

Keywords: energy transmission, load growth, Wyoming energy authority, transmission planning study, public utilities, regional cooperation, energy, funding, grants, loans, coal, natural gas, mineral processing, economic development, stable token, liquidity, trust account, Wyoming, fund distribution, financial regulation

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• permanent middle trust fund and flow permanent middle trust fund and flow down<00:20:39.520>
• We're going to flow that back in.
• We're going to flow that back in.
• We're going to flow that general fund. We're going to flow that back<01:11:27.280> in.
• So, the worst thing to do is flowing.

Keywords: 916, all