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MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Energy Finance and Policy Committee 4/14/26

Energy Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • <00:55:21.840> standards building performance standards building performance standards Oh,
  • Uh, that's where building performance standards come in, or building energy performance standards.
  • Uh that's where building performance Uh that's where building performance standards<00:58:38.200
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  • warranties and performance guarantees. warranties and performance guarantees.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Health and Human Services May 20th, 2025

Health & Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • limited enforcement authority for poor contractor performance.
  • Delayed bonding.
  • Delayed bonding.
  • bonding with adoptive family is also detrimental.
  • That delay meant he was bonding with other caregivers before he was able to start bonding with us.
Summary: The committee met without a quorum at first, then established a quorum with five members present. Members heard and left pending several House bills, including HB 4743 on allowing hospitals to license mobile stroke units under a hospital license, HB 4129 on earlier DFPS enforcement tools for single-source continuum contractors in community-based foster care, HB 4903 creating a Quad Agency Child Care Initiative to coordinate child care regulations across state agencies, HB 3812 revising the gold card/prior authorization process for physicians, HB 4535 requiring written informed consent before COVID-19 vaccination and a standardized state information sheet, and HB 4666 reducing the frequency of some HHSC reports to the legislature. The chair also noted HB 35 would be voted on later after a subcommittee back was received, and that a large number of bills would be heard the next day. Most of the testimony focused on HB 4535 and HB 4730. On HB 4535, supporters argued the bill would strengthen informed consent for COVID vaccination by requiring written consent and clearer state-level information about risks, manufacturer liability protections, and adverse-event reporting; opponents, including a pediatrician and medical groups, said existing federal and state informed-consent materials already cover these topics and warned the bill could create duplicative paperwork and penalties. On HB 3812, the Texas Medical Association supported changes that would extend the gold-card evaluation period to one year, raise transparency, and make prior authorization exemptions easier to administer, while health plans said they were neutral and viewed the bill as a balance between reducing burden and preventing fraud or unsafe care. HB 4730 drew extensive testimony from adoption professionals, birth mothers, adoptive parents, and child welfare advocates. The bill would require DFPS to create a relinquishment form, train child-placing agency staff, and extend the minimum waiting period for voluntary relinquishment from 48 hours to seven days. Supporters of the current law argued the 48-hour period aligns with hospital discharge, allows informed decisions, and helps birth parents and adoptive families begin healing and bonding without pushing children into foster care or creating legal and Medicaid complications. The author said the bill would be revised and that the seven-day provision was a work in progress. No votes were taken on the bills during the meeting; each bill was left pending after public testimony closed.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Apr 22nd, 2025

Alabama House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • I mean, you ought to say definitely yes, because what your word is, your bond.
  • Process: any operation or set of operations, whether by manual or automated means, performed on personal
  • Profiling: Any form of solely automated processing performed on personal data to evaluate, analyze, or
  • Processing personal data solely to measure report advertising frequency, performance, or reach.
  • Perform under a contract to which a consumer is a party.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

89th Legislative Session Apr 22nd, 2025

Texas House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • situation where university students who start school maybe before they're prepared and they don't perform
  • Demanding a cash bond with any pipeline being built and that with that what there's no right of review
  • A county may not require a cash bond as a condition of approval for. construction, a pipeline in the
  • bill. 1718 by plessa relating to the definition of closing for purposes of certain prior Activity Bonds
  • HB 38-7, by Zaffirini, ruling the bond requirements for certain judges or friends of committee.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Rules Apr 23rd, 2026 at 08:30 am

Rules

Transcript Highlights:
  • We are trying to bring some awareness for taxpayers on instructional expenses as it relates to bonds.
  • As it relates to bonds, which you'll see that language on page five. Follow up.
  • So our school district's bonding for instructional expenditures.
  • What is the current process or what is allowable for school districts to bond for?
  • What are school districts currently allowed to bond for? Thank you for the question again.
HI
Transcript Highlights:
  • those units are dedicated for our kupuna, who have particularly strong benefits from the human-animal bond
Summary: The House Housing Committee opened its Friday morning hearing by noting potentially catastrophic flooding on the island and acknowledging that some members were absent helping their communities, so quorum for voting was uncertain. The committee then heard testimony on several housing-related measures, with most bills drawing support from housing agencies and community organizations and little or no opposition in the room. On SB 2069 SD2, SB 2177 SD2, and SB 2342 SD2, witnesses largely supported the measures. HHFDC supported SB 2069 and SB 2177, and HPHA supported SB 2342. For SB 2342, HHFDC raised concerns that the bill would alter the Qualified Allocation Plan outside the normal open, public process required by federal law and could exclude stakeholders; Kathy Charities echoed those concerns and also objected to changing point allocations in ways that could raise rents and weaken long-term affordability. Members questioned HHFDC about how the QAP is normally updated, the meaning of the point system, and whether a legislative working group could mandate changes; HHFDC said recommendations would still need public hearing and board approval. The committee also heard SB 2060 SD2, which would create a mixed-income subaccount in the rental housing revolving fund. HHFDC said the subaccount would likely use tier-two funds, estimated at about $100 million total, to support mixed-income projects above 60% AMI, citing Front Street Apartments as a possible example. Members asked about project selection and funding needs. On SB 2544 SD2, OHA opposed the bill’s Chapter 6E-related exemptions and mandatory review timelines, arguing that burial review protections should not be weakened and that the SPEED Task Force process was a better venue for streamlining. The sponsor later clarified that the bill was not meant to eliminate the 60-day review process but to make the deadline clearer. For SB 3011 SD1, which concerns public housing and pet ownership, HPHA and several humane organizations supported the measure, saying it would help low-income residents and seniors keep pets and benefit from animal companionship. HPHA explained its existing pet policy, including deposits, monthly fees, and restrictions, and said the requested funding would support ADA-accessible pet areas and related administration. Finally, on SB 2061 SD2, HCDA supported the bill while OHA opposed it unless protections for Hawaiian Crown and Government lands were strengthened. Committee members questioned the project’s 60/40 split between income-restricted and market-rate units, the 10-year owner-occupancy restriction, and the procurement exemption; the sponsor said the exemption was tied to a real estate transaction and that the project would still use 103D-like solicitation procedures. No votes were taken during the hearing, and several items were left for later action because quorum was uncertain.
HI
Transcript Highlights:
  • It increases the HMM multifamily revenue bond authorization ceiling amount to continue financing affordable
  • So, we'll be adopting that language, which would replace the $5 billion HUD multifamily revenue bond
  • 38:10.000> revenue $5 billion HUD multif family revenue $5 billion HUD multif family revenue bond
  • authorization<02:38:11.200> with<02:38:11.600> quote<02:38:12.080> aggregate bond
  • authorization with quote aggregate bond authorization with quote aggregate principal<02:38:12.960>
Summary: The committee first took up HB 2611, which would prohibit algorithmic price-setting in Hawaii’s rental market, require public education by the Attorney General, and establish fines and penalties. The Department of the Attorney General opposed the bill, saying its language was too unclear and could expose landlords and agents to criminal and civil liability for ordinary rent-setting practices based on public information or assistance from property professionals. Members asked about antitrust standards, tacit agreement, and whether using county-published affordable-rent schedules would be unlawful; the AG said that would not be unlawful if based on public information and without collusion. Testimony was mixed, with the chair noting support from the Hawaii Civil Rights Commission, Hawaii Realtors with comments, 50501 Hawaii and General Strike Hawaii, Haloha Project, 13 individuals, and one opponent. The committee then heard HB 2102, which clarifies that residential projects involving ground disturbance in high-risk areas remain subject to state historic preservation review and removes an exemption for lands presumed nominally sensitive. The Office of Planning and Sustainable Development and the Department of Planning and Permitting supported the measure, saying it would improve clarity and ensure review focuses on projects most likely to affect historic properties or iwi kupuna, while also urging language refinements to better define sensitive sandy-soil areas and balance preservation with housing timelines. NAP Hawaii opposed the bill, arguing it would undo progress made last session and that the current process already includes protections for inadvertent discoveries and efficiency for lower-risk areas. The Office of Hawaiian Affairs strongly supported HB 2102, explaining it was responding to beneficiary complaints about late-added language in last year’s law and saying the nominally sensitive-area language should be removed because it was adopted without sufficient stakeholder input and could be harmful to iwi kupuna protections. Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation and several individuals also supported the bill. Committee discussion focused on how “nominally sensitive” areas are determined, whether project proponents could self-certify areas as exempt, and how high-density residential projects should be treated; SHPD said it uses survey and monitoring data to map sensitivity, that highly sensitive areas like Kīauea are not nominally sensitive, and that some high-density projects should remain exempt if they do not involve new ground disturbance. The hearing included no final vote in the portion provided, but the chair noted 48 individuals in support and continued questioning on the bill’s definitions and implementation.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • bathroom bill, telling us exactly this: that they had found no known crimes of bathroom assaults performed
  • Is this going to impact their ratings when it comes down to bond deals?
  • the way, has and is currently happening, where, for instance, a former Texas physician who was performing
  • Texas abortion laws already provide for severe civil and criminal penalties for elective abortions performed
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Local Government (Part II) May 26th, 2025

Local Government

Summary: The Senate Local Government Committee briefly convened and then immediately moved to recess. Senator Paxton made a motion to recess subject to the call of the chair, which was accepted. No bills, testimony, or substantive policy issues were discussed during the meeting. With no other business before the committee, it stood in recess subject to the call of the chair.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Local Government (Part I) May 26th, 2025

Local Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • Steps in the review process are only applicable to bonds secured through property taxes.
  • that eliminates the requirements that are applicable to tax bonds.
  • We're basically trying to allow these SUDs to actually use a revenue bond capability.
  • And so the TCEQ process is geared more for taxing revenue bonds like property taxes.
  • Instead, it would have the ability to issue bonds secured by district revenue.
Summary: The committee heard and discussed several local-government-related bills, mostly with committee substitutes. House Bill 2731 would let certain border counties regulate roadside vendors selling live animals in unincorporated areas and along public rights-of-way; the substitute narrowed the bill to live animal sales only and excluded livestock and other roadside commerce. House Bill 3483 would streamline TCEQ review of special utility district revenue bonds by removing tax-bond requirements that do not apply to SUDs. House Bill 4308 would create a county industrial development district framework, limited in the substitute to certain counties including Fort Bend County, to help finance industrial sites and related infrastructure. House Bill 5663 would create a Wood County Hospital District memory-care-focused district with no taxing power, intended to help pursue grants and other funding for a new facility. House Bill 4582 addressed attainable housing in Dallas and Tarrant counties, allowing local reimbursement tools for developers under a uniform, optional framework. House Bill 5509 would let municipalities suspend or revoke a hotel’s certificate of occupancy if law enforcement and a criminal court both find probable cause of human trafficking, with the substitute adding due-process protections. House Bill 1532 created a Lake Houston dredging and maintenance district funded by revenue from dredged material sales and revenue bonds, with no taxing authority or eminent domain. House Bill 23, heard as pending business, would revise the process for local governments to rescind development documents and adjust third-party reviewer liability and eligibility rules. House Bill 4580, concerning property tax exemptions for charitable organizations such as the Houston Rodeo, was amended to remove language about exempting revenue from property use and instead focus on land used for agricultural, youth, and educational support. Public testimony was generally supportive on the bills heard, with witnesses including county officials, utility and water association representatives, hotel industry representatives, and housing developers. Several speakers emphasized the need for faster financing or permitting tools, flood mitigation, housing affordability, anti-trafficking enforcement, or local economic development. Some members raised concerns about scope, precedent, consultation with affected senators, and due process, particularly on House Bill 4582 and House Bill 5509, but the committee largely accepted the committee substitutes as improvements. No public testimony was offered on several bills, and most measures were left pending before later being voted out. The committee took recorded votes on multiple pending bills and reported them favorably, often with committee substitutes adopted in lieu of the filed versions. House Bills 1532, 2731, 3483, 5509, 5663, and 4580 were reported out, with 1532 and 5663 passing unanimously and 3483, 2731, and 5509 also receiving favorable votes despite one present-not-voting on 3483. House Bill 23 and House Bill 4582 were left pending subject to call of the chair. The committee then recessed until adjournment or later.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Senate Committee on Water, Agriculture, and Rural Affairs Apr 7th, 2025

Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • Their revenue bonds, and if the revenues decrease, then they've got a problem.
  • In the city to pay off the bond.
  • A quandary arises if the PUC performs the calculation; then all of these things happen.
  • stipulates if you have investor capital for future development, that it will be based on future revenue bonds
  • The threshold in the bill was never meant to be a water loss performance threshold; it was a number from
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Water, Agriculture, and Rural Affairs Apr 7th, 2025

Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • But for those areas that do have damages, because services would be interrupted, their revenue bonds.
  • are rate payers out of the city, what does it cost the remaining members in the city to pay off the bond
  • What does it cost the remaining members in the city to pay off the bond?
  • clear that if you have investor capital for future development that will be based on future revenue bonds
  • The threshold being used in the bill was never meant to be a water loss performance threshold.
Summary: The Senate Committee on Water, Agriculture, and Rural Affairs heard several water-related bills, with testimony focused on drinking water quality, groundwater contamination notice, flood infrastructure funding, water rights conservation, and utility service areas. SB 1662 would limit TCEQ’s advance notice to public water systems to no more than 24 hours before testing after a consumer complaint, to reduce the chance of temporary treatment affecting results. SB 1663 would allow TCEQ to notify private well owners, groundwater conservation districts, and nearby residents by direct means about known groundwater contamination, rather than relying mainly on first-class mail and annual reporting. SB 2124 would move the deadline for publishing the Texas Groundwater Protection Committee’s annual report from April 1 to June 1. Witnesses on the first two bills described long-running water quality problems and delayed notice in their communities and supported the measures. No opposition was recorded, and each bill was left pending for a later vote. The committee also heard SB 1967, which would expand eligibility for Flood Infrastructure Fund financing to multipurpose projects that both reduce flooding and create water supply. Senator Hinojosa and Hidalgo County representatives described the Delta Reclamation Project as a shovel-ready example that would capture flood and drainage water, treat it, and produce new potable supply while also providing detention and flood mitigation. A Sierra Club witness also supported the bill, saying such projects could help manage floodwaters and reduce polluted discharges to bays and estuaries. The bill was left pending. A lengthy and divided discussion followed on SB 1413, which would expand the streamlined expedited release process for landowners seeking removal from a water or sewer CCN in additional counties. Senator Nichols said the bill was a property-rights measure aimed at legacy monopolies and bad actors who use CCNs to hold landowners hostage, while supporters described cases where developers could not get timely service, including fire flow, or were asked to fund infrastructure without reasonable recoupment. Opponents from rural water corporations and utility associations argued the bill would undermine investment in water infrastructure, strand debt, and weaken the return on planned expansion. PUC and TCEQ resource witnesses explained that compensation is handled case by case through appraisal and can include stranded costs, planning, design, construction, and some legal fees, but members noted the statute is unclear and discussed possible committee substitute language. Public testimony was closed with the bill left pending. Later, SB 1624 would allow the Texas Water Trust within the Texas Water Bank to hold donated water rights for conservation purposes and protect them from use-it-or-lose-it cancellation, and SB 863 would address Edwards Aquifer utilities that straddle the aquifer boundary by allowing them to continue using Edwards water within their certificated areas under specified conditions. Both bills were laid out, received no public opposition in the hearing, and were left pending.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Housing Committee Meeting - 2025-04-01

Housing Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • Studies show that children, like Maria's, in stable homes perform better academically.
  • The bill will expand the use of housing infrastructure bonds for adaptive reuse for the development of
  • Chair and committee members, why I'm bringing it forth is that when we go on our bonding tours across
  • Who's going to be the ultimate owner of the building, and does it matter with bonding money?
  • According to that survey, 51% of the people in Minnesota who performed a housing search reported they
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Housing Finance and Policy Committee 4/1/25

Housing Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • Studies show that children like Maria's in stable homes perform better academically, and home ownership
  • Studies show that children like Maria's in stable homes perform better academically, and home ownership
  • Chair and committee members, why I'm bringing it forth is, you know, when we go on our bonding tours
  • Who's going to be the ultimate owner of the building, and does it matter with bonding money?
  • with bonding with bonding money<00:20:20.559> Cher<00:20:20.840> Le<00:20:21.400><
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Public Health Mar 31st, 2025

Public Health

Transcript Highlights:
  • accreditation component has verified and validated that that's actually a better predictor of in-the-mouth performance
  • And so, the short answer is any acts performed here would be subject to the dental board.
  • Any acts performed by that person in another compact state would also be subject to the dental board.