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• executive-level management experience with specific areas of expertise in leadership development, facility
• Particularly, he's actually real military, because you served with the Navy Facility Engineering Command
• Houston and Dallas are beautiful facilities, and we have room to grow there, but Denton. ...and will
• We have facilities, and I'll get to Andy. But we're having facilities that have to be vacated.
• Which it does in West Texas pretty often, and we have to vacate those facilities.

Keywords: 1185, senate, all

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• We've actually walked down that facility and seen what they can do for veterans.
• We've seen veterans that have come out of that facility.
• Uh, outpatient facility, mental health facility, but the blue herring can.
• For that reason, we've toured the facility.
• Um, this is a, a sober living facility where, you know, there's a house that's dedicated to veterans.

Bills: HCR7

Keywords: memorial, tribute, military service, community contribution, Texas legislature

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• technical change to delete Section 10 of the bill as it incorrectly subjects access to nursing home facility
• >> The same recourse that they would today to hold the healthcare provider or facility accountable if
• Every time your loved one steps into a healthcare facility.
• We regulate over 50,000 facilities and my vision is that we execute that duty with fairness, timeliness
• So in certain areas you can get to facility within an hour and a half, but it could be in a county that

Keywords: 999, senate, all

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• revocation of the farm's registration and the DNR's ability to seize and destroy animals on the facility
• While some breeders have successfully added barriers to their entire facility, others have had to sell
• Whether an individual facility complies with the relevant statutes and rules will be determined on a
• Whether an individual facility complies with the relevant statutes and rules will be determined on a
• Chair, Representative Hansen, yes, that is very common at these facilities. And, Mr.

Keywords: 919, house, all

Summary: House File 40, authored by Representative Burkel, was heard and laid over. The bill would remove the statutory requirement that farmed deer/elk facilities maintain a physical barrier preventing contact with wild deer, and it would also strike language allowing revocation of registration and seizure/destruction of animals for fencing or escape violations. Burkel argued the current law is unfair to deer farmers, treats them differently than other livestock producers, and amounts to a regulatory taking of a legal agricultural enterprise. Supporters from the Minnesota Elk Breeders Association and Minnesota Deer Farmers Association said the 2023 secondary-fence requirement is expensive, difficult to implement on long-established properties, and has pushed some breeders out of the industry. They described costs ranging from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars, said the DNR’s guidance is case-by-case and unclear, and argued that the penalty structure is too harsh for what they view as minor or unavoidable escape incidents. One testifier said the industry is being driven out of business and that the state should help pay for the fencing if it remains required. The DNR opposed the bill. Its enforcement representative said the physical-contact barrier is intended to reduce the risk of chronic wasting disease transmission and that removing penalties would leave little incentive for compliance. He said the agency continues to work with the roughly 10 noncompliant whitetail farms and that the DNR provides case-by-case review because farm topography varies. In committee questions, members discussed whether wild deer commonly travel along fence lines, whether ear-tagged deer have been found, and whether there is a standard approved fence design; the DNR said there is no single standard fence, only suggestions and review. Representative Burkel closed by reiterating his support for the bill and the committee then laid it over.

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• There is a rule regarding the intermediate care facilities for the developmentally disabled.
• There is a rule regarding assisted living facilities.
• The assisted living facility rule includes definitions for that assisted living facility, admission procedures
• There is an administrative hearing procedure associated also with the health facilities and certificate
• a rule on payment methodology for nursing home services and payment methodology for services in facilities

Summary: The Joint Administrative Procedures Committee met on February 3, 2025, with a quorum present and took up three main items. First, the committee considered a large set of recommended objections to Agency for Health Care Administration rules, all centered on sunset provisions stating the rules would expire after five years. AHCA asked for another deferral while it reviewed the rules, arguing the sunset language was a form of self-restraint rather than an invalid exercise of rulemaking authority. Committee leadership disagreed that further delay would resolve the issue and moved to a single vote covering all objections. The motion passed by roll call, and the committee informed AHCA that an objection would be filed unless the agency amended the rules within 30 days. The committee then heard an informational briefing from the Department of Environmental Protection on its Outstanding Florida Springs rule and stormwater rule. DEP explained that it did not prepare a statement of estimated regulatory cost for the springs rule because the proposed standards largely mirror existing water management district rules and the Central Florida Water Initiative framework, so DEP said there was no new regulatory burden. Members asked about permit authority, costs, and whether the rules were functionally different from prior rules. DEP maintained the rules set minimum standards and did not add costs beyond what regulated parties were already doing. DEP also described implementation of the stormwater rule adopted under the 2020 Clean Waterways Act and later ratified by the Legislature in 2024. DEP said the rule was the product of years of workshops and technical advisory committee meetings, and that the final version included lower-cost alternatives, grandfathering, and phased implementation. DEP estimated the rule’s cost at about $2,600 per acre in the revised CERC, while industry witnesses said the real cost could be much higher, especially if land costs are included. A home builders representative argued the estimate understated impacts, while a stormwater engineer said the rule gives more flexible, performance-based tools and could become more cost-effective over time. Finally, Senator Graal presented proposed Chapter 120 changes in SB 108, aimed at tightening and modernizing rulemaking. The proposal would require five-year rule reviews, annual agency reporting, faster notice of proposed rulemaking after authorizing legislation, electronic filing, public access to incorporated materials, clearer tracking of technical changes, and limits on how long rules can remain pending ratification. Members discussed whether the Legislature should be more specific in statutes about rulemaking deadlines and whether agencies should be more accountable when rules stall. No formal action was taken on the Chapter 120 proposals, and the committee adjourned after discussion.

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• search warrant on a rural Sonoma County property suspected of operating as a cockfighter feeding facility
• When these vapes do make their way to a facility, It's not considered to be created by a household.
• When these vapes do make their way to a facility, they're unable to process them cost effectively.
• We're focused on school safety and cost savings for our facilities.
• So it's a safety issue for our facilities as well.

Keywords: 987, senate, all

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• So, we can expect these facilities to contribute to skyrocketing out-of-pocket costs and health insurance
• <00:37:18.200> to So, we can expect these facilities to So, we can expect these facilities
• HB 1442-FN, as amended by the House, limits the use of certain facilities on the basis of sex, redefines
• HB 1442-FN, as amended by the House, limits the use of certain facilities on the basis of sex, redefines
• to talk about what this bill actually does because the title says, "Limiting the use of certain facilities

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

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• He said the chair of the School Facilities Board is an architect with the firm that bid on and won the
• The chair said he believes the School Facilities Oversight Board has to continually monitor and oversee
• It's very similar to what we've seen the universities do with their stadium facilities district, for
• They pay a lease payment to ASU's Stadium Facilities District.
• Unfortunately, that was not known at the time that the school facilities board approved the purchase

Keywords: 1182, all

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• This recognizes a fundamental principle: communities deserve a voice when a permanent waste facility
• This would be the largest carbon sequestration facility in the world.
• facility is proposed in their backyard. facility is proposed in their backyard.
• sequestration facility in the world. sequestration facility in the world.
• [applause] If we require local approval for well-understood waste facilities, we must require it for

Bills: HB61, HB176, SB12

Keywords: 1136, house, all

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• With regard to the new facility, my understanding is that there is a great deal of elevation work at
• that facility that is the source of a very significant additional capital request.
• One of the larger items you'll see on here is for the Facilities Management Division on line 316.
• One of the larger items you'll see on here is for the facilities management division online 316.
• Now, this time, it's a public school facility authority and early pre-kindergarten classrooms when we

Summary: The Department of Public Safety presented its FY27 budget request, emphasizing three priorities: improving community engagement through a redesigned website and outreach, expanding statewide data and intelligence integration through intelligence-led policing, and improving emergency response and officer safety through fleet replacement, a driving track, and a requested helicopter. DPS said much of its increase is driven by rising health care premiums, and it is also seeking special appropriations for fleet replacement, the website rebuild, and an Honor Guard program created after the 2022 helicopter crash that killed four public servants. Members asked about vacancies, fleet costs, cybersecurity compliance, the real-time crime center, EV fleet participation, and the Metro DPS facility. DPS said its vacancy rate is about 9%, its fleet replacement needs are driven by mileage and condition, it is compliant with federal CJIS standards even though DoIT has raised concerns, the real-time crime center would be built as a regional model to complement Albuquerque’s center, and the Metro facility is moving toward a January groundbreaking. Committee members also discussed several DPS-related capital and IT requests, including the intelligence-led policing data lake, recurring maintenance for critical systems, and a $5.6 million reauthorization for state crime lab DNA backlog work and a $900,000 reauthorization for fingerprinting equipment. DPS explained that the website request is high because the current site must be rebuilt from scratch to support missing-person alerts, memorial updates, ADA compliance, and better communication with law enforcement and the public. Members also raised concerns about speed enforcement, construction-zone cameras, and whether EVs are practical for patrol use; DPS said it is not pursuing speed cameras and is only partially participating in the state EV initiative because patrol needs make full electrification difficult. The committee then received an LFC quarterly update on non-recurring appropriations from the 2025 General Appropriation Act. LFC reported that of the $1.4 billion appropriated in Section 5, $164 million had been expended and $333 million encumbered, leaving $897.4 million unspent, which is a slower pace than the prior year. Staff highlighted a number of reauthorization requests and slow-moving projects across agencies, including AOC cybersecurity funding, DFA housing and public safety grants, DoIT cybersecurity and higher education funds, EDD economic development and energy programs, OSI mitigation and malpractice funds, EMNRD energy and geothermal grants, Health Care Authority behavioral health-related appropriations, DPS crime lab and fingerprinting funds, PED career technical education and special education initiatives, and higher education loan repayment and technology funds. Members questioned why some large appropriations had little or no spending, discussed the need to monitor reauthorizations more closely, and asked for follow-up on several specific line items and project balances.

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• The child care facility is paying themselves at a rate that's not grown.
• I apologize, that's a typo in child care assistance, and it's the projected cost by age and facility
• they have and what the capacity of each facility is.
• So what we did is we took the number of... we divided facilities into registered homes, high-quality
• Do you have those types of facilities on the horizon in the planning process for design, development,

Keywords: 996, all

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• And the effects on our hospitals, health care facilities, and health care providers will be felt for
• Ridgecrest is next to a China Lake Navy facility.
• of the next several months to better understand, from the hospital's perspective and health care facilities
• indicating that our facilities are open for business and our primary Indicating that our facilities
• This, in combination with immigration enforcement actions, is making our health care facilities into

Summary: The joint informational hearing focused on the impacts of H.R. 1 on California’s Medi-Cal program and on community health effects from recent immigration enforcement actions. Committee leaders said H.R. 1 would sharply reduce federal funding, increase administrative burdens, and worsen access to care, especially for Medi-Cal enrollees, immigrant families, rural communities, and reproductive health patients. The second half of the hearing examined how ICE raids and related federal actions are creating fear, reducing clinic and emergency department use, and disrupting children’s access to schools and early childhood education. Department of Health Care Services Director Michelle Bass outlined the main H.R. 1 provisions affecting Medi-Cal: work requirements, semiannual eligibility redeterminations, shorter retroactive coverage, new cost-sharing, limits on provider taxes and state-directed payments, reduced federal support for emergency and lawful immigrant coverage, and a one-year ban on Medicaid funding for prohibited abortion providers. She estimated millions could lose coverage, with tens of billions of dollars in federal funding at risk. Planned Parenthood Affiliates of California warned the defunding provision could force clinic closures, service reductions, and loss of access to family planning, STI testing, and cancer screenings. The California Hospital Association said the financing changes could cut hospital revenue by tens of billions over 10 years and threaten access, especially for rural and safety-net hospitals. The Western Center on Law and Poverty argued the law would increase churn, paperwork, and uninsured rates, disproportionately harming working adults and people experiencing homelessness. Committee members asked about implementation timelines, notification systems, administrative costs, the effect on immigrant eligibility, and whether California could delay or mitigate some provisions. Bass said the state was still assessing federal guidance, planning county and provider outreach, and exploring a possible delay for work requirements and a transition period for provider-tax changes. Members also discussed how state budget actions may need to be revisited in light of H.R. 1, and how California might preserve access through state-only funding or other policy changes. In the second panel, CHIRLA, Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, and the Children’s Partnership described the health consequences of immigration enforcement. Speakers said raids and data-sharing fears are causing anxiety, trauma, and avoidance of care, with Los Angeles County reporting declines in emergency, urgent care, and clinic visits after enforcement actions. The Children’s Partnership said school and early childhood absences are rising in some communities and that enforcement is undermining children’s emotional well-being and access to education. Members asked for more data and discussed possible state protections, telehealth, mobile care, and legal and policy responses to reduce fear and preserve access to health and education services.

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• appropriation for PRTF facility appropriation for PRTF facility renovation<00:08:27.599> grants
• Line 512 contains a one-time cost in the upcoming biennium for Hennepin County facility.
• Uh, line 850 is a Senate position, one-time, relating to reporting for facility fees.
• and Education Facilities and Education Facilities Authority<00:32:45.679> and<00:32:46.000
• It renames the authority as the Minnesota Health and Education Facilities Authority.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• . ...of employees and persons incarcerated inside our state correctional facilities.
• Many California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation facilities are located where extreme weather
• With one egregious and unjust exception, if this work is done inside CDCR facilities, including those
• Those facilities don't have any ventilation.
• She worked 18 hours a day in an elderly care facility and slept on the floor.

Summary: The committee heard several labor-related bills, with AB 1424, AB 1340, AB 288, and AB 746 all advancing on due-pass motions to Appropriations after testimony and roll calls. AB 1424 would require climate resiliency and extreme-heat protections in CDCR facilities; supporters described dangerous heat conditions for incarcerated workers and staff, while no opposition testified. AB 1340 would allow rideshare drivers to unionize and collectively bargain; drivers, labor groups, and researchers testified that app-based work is low-paid and unstable, while TechNet, Uber, Lyft, and other business groups argued the bill conflicts with Proposition 22 and could raise costs. AB 288 would let PERB step in when federal labor remedies are unavailable; supporters said it is needed because of NLRB dysfunction, while the Chamber of Commerce raised preemption and enforcement concerns. AB 746 would create an inmate cooperative program and a green reentry reserve; supporters framed it as a recidivism-reduction and reentry strategy, and there was no opposition testimony. The committee also heard AB 858, which would extend hotel and hospitality worker recall rights after declared emergencies and extend existing COVID-era protections. Hospitality workers and unions supported the bill as a way to protect jobs after pandemics, wildfires, and other disasters, while hotel, chamber, retail, restaurant, trucking, travel, and attractions groups opposed it, saying the current recall rules were meant to sunset and that the bill would create broad liabilities and hiring complications. The bill was moved to Appropriations but remained on call after the roll. AB 291, creating a credentialed educator apprenticeship program to address teacher shortages and improve diversity, drew support from education groups and stakeholders who said apprenticeships could lower preparation costs and provide better support; it was also moved to Appropriations and placed on call. Later, the committee took up AB 1104, a solar-energy bill intended to clarify that private solar customers are not “awarding bodies” and to ease certain business-to-business solar transactions while preserving prevailing wage and apprenticeship requirements for contractors. Supporters said the current interpretation has chilled commercial solar adoption and harmed jobs, while opponents from electrical workers, PG&E, and others warned about expanded “over-the-fence” power sales and the need for clearer limits. Members questioned the lack of a definition of “small,” and the bill was held without a second. The committee also heard AB 338, which seeks $50 million for Los Angeles and Ventura wildfire workforce recovery; the author and county officials described major job loss and business destruction and said the funds would support displaced workers and rebuilding, with the testimony continuing beyond the excerpt provided.

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• how valuable our timber industry is, and we're not going to see good cordwood being put into, uh, facilities
• wood products, so that instead of bringing discarded wood products to landfills, they could go to facilities
• for use to being put into uh facilities for use to produce<00:02:16.280> energy<00:02:16.959>
• <00:02:23.680> where<00:02:23.879> we they could go to facilities where we they could
• go to facilities where we could<00:02:24.160> create<00:02:24.680> renewable<00:02:25.200

Keywords: 919, house, all

Summary: House File 249 was moved toward the General Register after Representative Igo offered and the committee adopted an author’s amendment that removed a 50% line and clarified the bill’s language. Igo described the bill as a change to Minnesota’s carbon-free definition to include woody biomass from timber harvesting residues and discarded wood products, arguing it would support an all-of-the-above energy strategy, reduce landfill use, and create markets for forest byproducts while avoiding clear-cutting or use of good cordwood for energy. Several industry witnesses testified in support. Ray Higgins of the Minnesota Timber Producers Association said the bill would help utilities convert coal plants to use forest residues and dead or dying timber, and argued Minnesota forests are significant carbon sinks with annual growth exceeding mortality. Tom McCabe, a logger and trucker from Duluth, said biomass markets are critical to his business, help reduce fire danger, and support rural economies, while Rod Enberg described past waste of low-value timber and said biomass markets have helped businesses and local economies, including a successful chip-burning system at American Peat Technology. Rick Horton of Minnesota Forest Industries said woody biomass can provide reliable baseload power, help manage dead and dying forests affected by spruce budworm, emerald ash borer, and eastern larch beetle, and keep industrial energy costs competitive. Opposition came from Sarah Meridian of CURE, who argued the bill conflicts with Minnesota’s 100% carbon-free law because burning biomass emits carbon dioxide and other pollutants, and said the bill’s broad reference to discarded wood products could allow combustion of treated or contaminated wood. In committee discussion, Representative Craft questioned whether biomass can truly be called carbon neutral on the time scales discussed, noting that decay and regrowth can take decades and warning against overstating the climate benefits. The bill was advanced despite those concerns, with supporters emphasizing forest management, rural jobs, and energy reliability.

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• The only people who would participate in the agreements would be the jails and detention facilities.
• That 287G program is a federal program and Right now, it only applies to the detention facilities.
• Where in the bill does it say our facilities have to come online to be compliant to be added?
• Wants to go to the facility; there is still a process they have to follow.
• As it is written right now, that is a federal law and it only retains detention facilities.

Bills: SJR36, SR8, SR14, SR15, SR17, HCR54

Keywords: accountants, Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants, advocacy, legislation, business issues, memorial, law enforcement, sacrifice, tribute, community support, service, community, Holocaust, remembrance, antisemitism, human rights, education, Holocaust Remembrance Day, memorialization, sexual assault

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• Because my stepdaughter lives in such a facility, which is a house, and she lives with her boyfriend.
• <01:12:47.320> and<01:12:47.480> also<01:12:47.800> hire facility and also hire
• <01:39:39.960> well and independent living facilities well and independent living facilities
• If you could just quickly go through what kind of facilities this bill affects in terms of a list.
• other kinds of care to the same facility other kinds of care to the same facility women<04:04:14.279

Keywords: 1189, house, all

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• This does not apply to nursing facilities or intermediate care facilities for people with developmental
• This does not apply to nursing facilities or intermediate care facilities for people with developmental
• This does not apply to nursing facilities or intermediate care facilities for people with developmental
• , a stroke facility.
• at the Mayo Clinic, a stroke facility. at the Mayo Clinic, a stroke facility.

Keywords: 919, house, all

Summary: The Department of Human Services briefed the committee on how the federal HR1 law will affect Minnesota Medicaid and related programs. Budget Director Elise Bailey said the 900-page bill makes sweeping changes that will reduce coverage, increase administrative complexity for counties and tribal governments, raise uncompensated care for providers, and reduce federal funding. She reviewed current Medicaid spending and enrollment, emphasizing that the largest impacts will fall on the adult expansion group (adults ages 21-64 without children), which currently receives a 90% federal match. Bailey walked through several major provisions: work and community engagement requirements for the adult expansion group beginning January 1, 2027; six-month renewals for that same group; shorter retroactive coverage periods; new cost-sharing requirements for expansion enrollees above 100% of poverty; narrower Medicaid eligibility for certain lawful noncitizens; limits on provider taxes and state-directed payments; a reduced federal match for emergency medical assistance; and tighter federal rules on payment error penalties. She said many provisions require state law changes and additional federal guidance, and she cited research from Georgia suggesting work requirements increased administrative burden and caused coverage losses without increasing employment. The department estimated fiscal effects including reduced Medicaid spending in some areas but higher state costs in others, such as MinnesotaCare, emergency medical assistance, administrative systems, and provider uncompensated care. Bailey said the immigration-status changes would shift some people from Medical Assistance to MinnesotaCare, and that provider-tax and state-directed-payment changes could reduce future funding to hospitals and other providers. No votes or formal committee actions were taken in the portion provided; the presentation was informational and the department indicated it would return with proposed state-law language as needed.

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• An act to amend the Lien Law in relation to prohibiting self-service facility owners from enforcing liens
• on personal property held in self-storage facilities during state disaster emergencies or county state
• Limiting self-service facility owners from enforcing the leads on personal property-held and self-storage
• facilities during the state-disaster emergencies or county state health emergencies.

Keywords: 993, senate, all

Summary: The Judiciary Committee met for its first meeting of the 2026 session and began with congratulatory remarks to the chair and other members. The committee then took up a short agenda of bills, with members repeatedly noting support for the chair’s leadership and for the committee’s work on language access, housing, family court access, and other judiciary issues. The first bill, Print 338 by Senator Bailey, would require certain New York City Civil Court documents to be provided in parties’ native languages; it was moved, seconded, and reported to the floor, with some members speaking in favor of language access. The committee also advanced Print 874, designating Harriet Tubman Day, and Print 2497 by Senator Gounardes, allowing certain testimony and evidence by agents in discrimination proceedings. Print 2597 by Senator Mayer, establishing standards for public access to family court, was also reported to the floor. Additional measures approved included Print 3394A on anti-stalking orders, with support noted for updating protections in the digital age; Print 5066 on housing courts; Print 5278 on new fee rates for large estates, which was described as bipartisan; Print 5285 on who may become a voluntary administrator; Print 5286 on prohibiting self-storage lien enforcement during state disaster or health emergencies; and Print 5968 on increasing the homestead exemption from civil judgments. Most bills were approved unanimously or without recorded opposition, and several were reported to the floor while others were referred onward as noted in the meeting.

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• buyers and storage facilities between 40 buyers and storage facilities between 40 and<01:19:11.800>
• But we acknowledge the biggest facilities will see a large increase.
• inspect that location even though it has no grain storage facilities, could you comment on that?
• <01:25:00.119> could has no grain storage facilities could has no grain storage facilities
• They may still maintain that but not have facilities to store, correct? That's what I'm hearing.

Bills: HF2446, HF2878, HF2667, HF1795, HF2683, HF2916

Keywords: agriculture finance, broadband development, Department of Agriculture, Board of Animal Health, Agricultural Utilization Research Institute, Office of Broadband Development, food safety, food handler license, cottage food, home processed food, livestock dealer, meat packing company, milk marketer, milk marketing license, grain buyer, grain storage, beginning farmer, emerging farmer, farm down payment assistance, livestock investment grant