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ND
Transcript Highlights:
  • on the bottom of page 3, there are some history and information on the statewide litigation funding pool
  • And the next one we had was the new and vacant FTE pool.
  • So some of those litigation fees are on the Spanium's litigation pool as well.
  • So some of those litigation fees are on the Spanium's litigation pool as well.
  • Some of the litigation pool went to fund some efforts to defend that statute.
Summary: The committee met as the Commerce and Legal Services Division and first approved the minutes, then received a Legislative Council overview of the Attorney General’s current budget status and a blue-sheet summary of the AG’s base budget for the next biennium. Staff highlighted compliance with legislative intent items, including FTE changes, one-time funding updates, litigation pool spending, opioid settlement receipts, and continuing appropriations. Members asked about specific funds such as the Missing Indigenous People Grant Fund and the Internet Crimes Investigation Fund, and staff explained the statutory basis and status of those items. The Attorney General’s office then presented an extensive overview of its divisions and budget pressures. Chief Deputy Attorney General Clare Ness described the office’s 14 divisions, the role of the office in defending the state and recouping funds, and concerns about attorney pay, recruitment, and retention. Members discussed whether attorney salaries should be benchmarked across state government and whether more legal work could be centralized in the AG’s office. The office also described challenges with the new-and-vacant FTE pool, operating expense cuts, leased office space, and the criminal justice information systems used to connect law enforcement, prosecutors, and courts. The Crime Laboratory director gave a detailed update on space and infrastructure problems, saying the current lab is overcrowded and outdated, with safety, workflow, air-handling, glycol leak, alarm, and maintenance issues that can delay casework and risk evidence integrity. She said a 2024 study projected a need for a much larger facility and that the preferred option would be a new building on the current health department site, at an estimated cost of roughly $40 million to $45 million. She also reported that backlogs have improved significantly in DNA, firearms, fingerprint, and drug cases, though toxicology had recently developed a small backlog after an air compressor failure. The Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, gaming division, and BCI also provided updates. MFCU’s new director said the unit is federally funded 75/25, focuses on fraud, abuse, and neglect, and is seeking two attorney hires while continuing to work with federal partners on cases and recertification. Gaming staff reported continued growth in charitable gaming and electronic pull-tab activity, with concerns about site competition, large trust balances, possible ineligible expenditures, and the need for more scrutiny as revenues have grown. BCI outlined its staffing, drug task forces, ICAC work, and the Missing Indigenous Person Task Force, which is using its $250,000 appropriation to help tribal nations develop emergency response plans and purchase alerting tools such as IPAWS. No formal votes were taken beyond approval of the minutes.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Appropriations and Finance Jan 16th, 2026 at 09:09 am

House Appropriations & Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • And then I got busy with this job and had to leave that one go. I think what you're doing is great.
  • I was always taught that you need to keep, you need to make something better than Leave it better than
  • We're asking all of you to please leave our bar alone and let us have the full funding from the bar to
  • So, depending on part of being part of a pool, you get the benefit of the cost savings, but also you
  • share the risk when it comes to other entities as far as the pool.
Keywords: 996, all
WY

Wyoming 2026 Regular Session

Select Committee on School Facilities, May 19, 2026 - AM

Select Committee on School Facilities

Transcript Highlights:
  • don't leave them hanging. Yep. Mr. don't leave them hanging. Yep. Mr.
  • . pool. pool.
  • pool when you're pool, you know, a pool when you're you're<02:37:07.680> teaching<02:37:08.120
  • It expands the risk pool.
  • pool, upside down a pool, a statewide pool, upside down when<03:30:44.080> a<03:30:44.120>
Keywords: 916, all
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/18/2026 - House Appropriations

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • So that left—so that's about 8,000 firefighters are protected in that reinsurance pool.
  • That leaves about 2,000 firefighters who are fire district employees.
  • The bigger the pool, the more stable.
  • And that's, you're leaving $4.8 million to grow a $1.6 billion fund.
  • We'll leave it and come in either way.
Summary: The committee heard several appropriations and policy bills, with testimony often focused on public safety, education, and procurement. HB 263 would appropriate $1.5 million in FY2027 to the Independent Correctional Oversight Office; the sponsor and supportive testimony argued the office is needed to address serious problems in the corrections system, and the bill received a due pass recommendation, 17-1. HB 2993, as amended, would allow DPS to spend on legal services independent of the Attorney General and redirect $5 million from the Consumer Protection/Consumer Fraud Revolving Fund to the Gang and Immigration Intelligence Team Enforcement Mission Fund; the Speaker framed it as supporting law enforcement and public safety, and it passed 17-0. HB 2271 dealt with firefighter cancer coverage and insurance rates. The bill would allow an insurer covering firefighters and fire investigators to file a uniform rate deviation only if it is not reimbursed by the municipal firefighter cancer reimbursement fund. Testimony described the measure as a temporary shell pending a broader consensus agreement to bring fire districts into the reimbursement system; members stressed that firefighters should not see changes in claim handling, but several said the bill still needed work. It received a due pass recommendation on a 16-1-1 vote. HB 2416 would appropriate $20 million to DPS for local border support, including law enforcement positions, prosecution and detention costs, and equipment; sheriffs and the Arizona Sheriffs Association supported it as a continuation of existing funding for drug interdiction and border-related crime, and it passed 11-6-1. The committee also advanced HB 2692, which revises public construction procurement rules and authorizes progressive design-build and one-step competition for certain federally funded projects. Construction and procurement stakeholders said the bill was the product of a long consensus process, while some members worried about taxpayer impacts and the move away from standard procurement; it passed 10-7-1. HB 2478, as amended, creates the Arizona Commission on Student Outcomes to study K-12 accountability, standards, graduation requirements, early childhood education, and a trade pathways diploma, funded by Classroom Site Fund dollars; members debated whether the work should instead be done by ADE or the State Board, and the bill passed 11-7. The committee also heard HB 4044, which would create a Public Safety Parity Fund to support DPS and corrections salaries using investment earnings from the Budget Stabilization Fund and proceeds from forfeited digital assets; the sponsor and a troopers association witness argued it would provide a stable long-term funding source to address chronic vacancies and pay gaps.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Joint Transportation Committee Dec 3rd, 2025

Joint Transportation Committee

Transcript Highlights:
  • We also have a limited pool of contractors that can bid on this work.
  • The assumptions I made as we move toward discussing the risk pool are that we're assuming that the pool
  • Those are things that we thought would likely be in some sort of risk pool.
  • WSDOT touched on this risk pool concept.
  • other type of leave, depending on what we find in the early stage of the investigation.
Summary: The committee first heard a presentation from WSDOT on balancing uncertainty in capital program estimates and cash flow management. WSDOT explained the differences between design-bid-build and design-build delivery, its tiered risk-assessment process by project size, and how it uses base estimates, inflation, and risk modeling to set budgets. Staff said design-bid-build estimates are generally accurate within about 1% across the program, while design-build projects carry much wider uncertainty and are better communicated as ranges; they cited a P85 budget approach and noted that large, complex projects can be affected by market competition and long procurement timelines. Members asked about the Columbia River Bridge cost growth and about value engineering, and WSDOT said it uses value engineering but has limited scope to cut costs because of project requirements and policy mandates. Troy Swing also discussed cash flow, noting that a few large projects can significantly affect biennial funding needs, and said a risk pool would not reduce overall program risk but could help manage timing if paired with appropriation and cash-flow controls. The committee then received the final presentation in the WSDOT Project Delivery and Innovative Practices study from HKA Global. The consultant said WSDOT’s estimating practices are generally robust and recommended improving transparency by presenting budget authorizations as ranges or estimate classes, better tracking estimate growth over time, and adjusting advertisement timing to avoid competing lettings. The report also discussed surety bonding, suggesting the legislature consider restoring authority for reduced bonding on select large design-build projects or using phased bonding and alternative securities. On indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contracting, the consultant said current job order contract rules are restrictive and recommended legislative changes to make such tools more usable, especially for smaller tasks and to help use unspent funds more flexibly. The committee also heard a follow-up presentation on transit-oriented development policy recommendations tied to HB 1491. The Urban Institute’s Yona Freemark said Washington has been a national leader on TOD but that housing construction, especially in the Puget Sound, has slowed sharply since 2022. He said rising construction costs, high financing costs, and local tax and rent conditions are making many TOD projects infeasible, and recommended that the state fill infrastructure funding gaps around stations, revisit MFTE affordability requirements, consider minimum rather than average density requirements near transit, and create a statewide system to track TOD outcomes such as affordability, gentrification, and transit access. Members questioned the study’s developer interviews, the role of rent control and crime, property tax assumptions, and parking needs; the presenter said the study included five private developers, that rent control was not part of the study scope, and that parking was included in the model assumptions. Finally, the committee began a presentation on regulating emissions from ocean-going vessels at berth. Staff and consultants described California-style at-berth rules, which require shore power or equivalent emissions controls so ships can shut off diesel auxiliary engines while docked. The study is examining vessel traffic, emissions reductions, implementation costs, labor and operational needs, and possible effects on port competitiveness and cargo diversion. No votes or formal actions were taken during the meeting.
FL

Florida 2025 Regular Session

February 12, 2025 - 03:30 PM

Transcript Highlights:
  • They want to leave the nursing facility and reside somewhere else.
  • We also have now published data that show that these patients leave earlier.
  • Are you having any issues with hiring, with talent pool issues, finding enough?
  • Are you having any issues with hiring, with talent pool issues, finding enough?
  • The nursing pool certainly is still an issue.
Summary: The committee held a panel discussion focused on how Florida health care organizations are working to improve access, quality, and affordability. Panelists from Florida Community Care/Independent Living Systems, Sunshine Health, AdventHealth, UF Health, and Nemours described their approaches, including Medicaid managed care, value-based contracting, community partnerships, mobile screening units, smart-room technology, telehealth, and specialized programs for maternal health, children, and complex chronic conditions. Several speakers emphasized that managed care and coordinated care can improve outcomes while reducing unnecessary utilization and costs. Members asked about the impact of Medicare’s V28 changes, mobile cancer screening, urgent care versus emergency room billing, pediatric specialty access, complaint resolution, Black maternal mortality, provider shortages, network adequacy, and the use of AI in prior authorization. Witnesses said V28 has affected providers and revenue, UF Health’s mobile screening program is expanding beyond a few cancer types, and its urgent care model bills patients at the appropriate level rather than both urgent care and ER rates. Nemours said it reduced specialty wait times through scheduling changes, telemedicine, and registry tools, while AdventHealth described postpartum coordination and maternal heart programs to reduce maternal complications and mortality. On complaints and access problems, panelists said their organizations use patient/member advocates, care managers, call centers, and escalation processes to resolve issues, and Sunshine Health specifically discussed a transportation complaint that was addressed with its vendor and the family. Sunshine Health also said it is not using AI for prior authorization, though it is exploring responsible uses elsewhere, and Florida Community Care said it is not using AI in utilization management. In closing, panelists identified workforce shortages, provider burnout, and high-cost drugs as the biggest ongoing challenges. The meeting ended with thanks to the panel and adjournment after Representative Brackett moved to rise, without objection.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • We had a low number of providers, and they were leaving the state.
  • It's important to have those risk pools be similar or the same exposure for the people in each pool.
  • It's important to have those risk pools be similar or the same exposure for the people in each pool.
  • I've got to leave and catch a flight. Yeah, yeah. Thanks.
  • Those—that leaves $46 million.
Keywords: 1185, senate, all
WA
Transcript Highlights:
  • And that is $16 million over four fiscal years, and that money is in the state IT pool.
  • And so the IT pool is allocated to WOTEC for a number of different projects.
  • We've been told we have up to $16 million allocated within that IT pool.
  • So it would not be—when you say how much is appropriated, you appropriate in the IT pool.
  • Yeah, as Sean stated, it's part of what's in the IT pool.
Keywords: 904, all
Summary: The committee heard a State Auditor’s Office performance audit on OSPI’s school apportionment system, which distributes K-12 funding to districts. Auditors said the system and its underlying 2008-era infrastructure are outdated, unstable, inefficient, and at high risk of errors or failure. They also found weak controls over data input, documentation, oversight, and monitoring, with heavy reliance on a small number of staff and vendor knowledge. In limited testing of three districts, the system calculated 2023–24 funding correctly, but auditors identified small discrepancies between state budget inputs and underlying statutory language and said broader system risks remain unresolved. JLARC members asked about the scope of the district testing, whether smaller districts face greater risk, the meaning of the funding discrepancies, and whether the system could support a future change to a simpler per-student funding formula. Auditors said the discrepancies were small but could compound into millions statewide, and that the audit did not evaluate broader policy questions or alternative system owners. They recommended OSPI modernize or replace the system and address current control weaknesses while the new platform is developed. OSPI officials largely agreed that the current platform needs replacement and said a feasibility study completed in 2024 found the system at catastrophic risk of failure. They clarified that the Legislature had approved up to $16 million in the state IT pool for the project, but that funding is released through gated oversight and not all of it had yet been appropriated for the current biennium. OSPI disputed the auditor’s characterization of some rounding and budget-law issues, saying the calculations were consistent with agency rules and legislative inputs, and explained that some manual workarounds are used to handle newer statutory requirements. One member of the public testified in support of modernizing the system and strengthening controls. The committee then adjourned.
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Fiscal Policy Feb 24th, 2026

Fiscal Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • SB 1112 is relating to the Florida Labor Pool Act.
  • Senator Garcia: Pool are reluctant to pay the placement fee, at times of thousands of dollars.
  • Part number two requires annual registration of labor pools operating.
  • Senator Garcia: Barriers to permanent hiring and improving accountability in labor pools.
  • We won't be the only Floridians to leave.
Keywords: 999, senate, all
HI
Transcript Highlights:
  • I lost Mark and Mina, my husband and youngest daughter, at the Makapu'u tide pools in 2016, and I truly
  • in 2016 and I truly Makapu'u tide pools in 2016 and I truly believe<01:01:47.600> they<01:01:
  • <01:40:02.760> Uh Yeah, I guess I can leave it there.
  • Uh Yeah, I guess I can leave it there.
  • And you know, Leimana did order laptops for, you know, to give to each of the pool for each island.
Summary: The Committee on Water and Land met on March 31, 2026, and heard testimony on several resolutions. HCR 13/HR 50, which asks DLNR to work with DOE and the Public Charter School Commission on a student coral stewardship program, drew comments from DLNR, which said it stood on written testimony and had proposed amendments, and from supporters in the room. HCR 61, urging investment in reforestation policies, workforce, nursery capacity, and related support for public and private lands, received strong support from DLNR and multiple testifiers, including members of a reforestation policy hui, a resident, and others who emphasized watershed protection, flood and fire resilience, and the need to upgrade nursery infrastructure and staffing. Committee members asked questions about nursery modernization, staffing, island-specific needs, and whether reforestation could reduce wildfire impacts; the DLNR witness said all islands need investment, with especially large opportunities on Hawaiʻi Island, and that healthier forests improve resilience though they cannot eliminate climate-related risks. The committee then heard HCR 136/HR 128 on wildland-urban interface safety standards for Maui plantation towns, but no one testified. It also heard HCR 185/HR 175, which urges denial of permits for ICE detention-related warehouses; Chris Coffey of Immua Alliance testified in support, saying migrant survivors of exploitation are harmed when ICE detains people and that Hawaii would not be the first place to take such action, citing examples from other states and cities. In questioning, members explored whether a local facility would keep people closer to families and services or instead increase local detention; Coffey said detention generally cuts off access to services and can intensify fear, and that a local facility could incentivize more detention and make survivors less likely to come forward. Finally, the committee heard HCR 155/HR 147 supporting the Hawaii Water Safety Coalition’s Hawaii Water Safety Act. Testifiers included Allison Shapera, who described the statewide water safety plan, Hawaii’s high drowning rate, the economic and human costs of drownings, and her personal loss of her daughter in a preventable drowning; Kirsten Hermstead and Kalani Vierra of the Hawaiian Lifeguard Association said the plan’s recommendations need legislative recognition to help with implementation and grant funding; and Jessamine Town Horner testified by Zoom as a co-founder and bereaved family advocate. The transcript provided does not show any votes or final committee actions on the measures discussed.
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Health Finance and Policy Committee 5/7/25

Health Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • And Chair care pool payment program.
  • to practice medicine, forced to leave to practice medicine, forced to leave their<00:45:25.040><
  • :56.640> bedridden,<00:47:57.359> severe leaving me homebound, bedridden, severe leaving
  • <00:57:20.559> the of my severe disability, leaving the of my severe disability, leaving the
  • Don't leave Don't turn your backs now.
Bills: HF2435
NH

New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session

House Session (05/14/2026)

New Hampshire House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • If an individual has a firearm in their dorm room, they leave for a day, they leave for the weekend.
  • firearm in their dorm room, they leave firearm in their dorm room, they leave for<05:49:35.920> a<
  • for a day, they leave for the weekend. for a day, they leave for the weekend.
  • whether or not you like tip pooling. whether or not you like tip pooling.
  • <06:57:18.718> one do adopting the FLSA, but leaves one do adopting the FLSA, but leaves one
Keywords: 1189, house, all
HI
FL

Florida 2025 Regular Session

Banking and Insurance Feb 4th, 2025

Transcript Highlights:
  • MAXIMIZE AND ACTUARIALLY SOUND WAY THE OVERALL AMOUNT OF RISK THE PROPERTY IS BRING TO THE POOL AND
  • IF THE FIRST ANSWER IS YES ALL RIGHT THEY ARE IN THE BIGGER COMMUNITY POOL.
  • AND IT WILL IMPROVE THE HEALTH OF THE RISK POOL OVER TIME BECAUSE YOU HAVE RIGHT NOW A VERY SICK POOL
  • YOU HAVE A HEALTHY POOL OVERALL.
  • YOU HAVE TO ESTABLISH THAT YOU ARE NOT ALLOWING ANYONE IN THE RISK POOLS TO SUBSIDIZE THE RISK.
Keywords: 999, senate, all
FL

Florida 2026 5th Special Session

Appropriations Feb 12th, 2026

Transcript Highlights:
  • Specifically, this bill expands eligibility for certain military service leave protections to include
  • It expands eligibility for certain leave protections to include public officials, Guard.
  • It expands eligibility for certain leave protections to include public officials and public employees
  • We are starting to see more algae, and fish started to leave us.
  • Insured and not a part of a larger risk pool.
Summary: The committee first took up SB 694, which would compensate the descendants of the Groveland Four—Charles Greenlee, Walter Irvin, Samuel Shepard, and Ernest Thomas—for the wrongful convictions, incarceration, and death tied to the 1949 case. Senator Bracey Davis described the bill as a final step after prior state apologies, pardons, and exonerations. The committee adopted a $4 million amendment that divided compensation equally among the four families and updated the recipient for Ernest Thomas’s share. Multiple family members and advocates testified in support, emphasizing the decades of trauma and the need for full justice. Senators in debate largely supported the bill, and it was reported favorably. The committee then approved SB 330, which clarifies disability provisions for firefighters, law enforcement officers, and correctional officers by refining the definition of heart disease and allowing certain officers who transfer agencies to rely on a prior physical under specified conditions. SB 474 also passed, expanding military leave protections to include public officials and employees who serve in the Coast Guard or Florida State Guard, adjusting pay eligibility for federal service, and updating related retirement and assistance provisions. SB 96, the Veterans Dental Care Grant Program bill, was amended to expand eligibility to veterans with incomes up to 400% of the federal poverty level and to move funding into the General Appropriations Act; members debated whether the broader eligibility could increase demand, but the bill was reported favorably. The committee also advanced SB 7018 on child welfare, making the Step Into Success pilot program permanent statewide, adjusting visitor/background-check rules for out-of-home placements, and creating a best-practices program through the Florida Institute for Child Welfare. CS/SB 480 on state IT governance was reported favorably after amendments that strengthened vendor performance metrics and restored state data center security provisions; it creates a new central IT governance structure under the Governor’s office and aims to improve oversight of procurement, spending, and technical debt. SB 1066, addressing partial restoration of the Ocklawaha River and Kirkpatrick Dam, passed after a late-file amendment and extensive testimony from environmental, recreation, and local economic interests. SB 1216, which gives school districts more flexibility in educator compensation, and SB 1120, which increases oversight and reporting for water management district spending, were also reported favorably. Finally, the committee considered SB 1366 on claims against the government, which raises sovereign immunity caps, ties future adjustments to CPI, shortens claim deadlines, and changes attorney-fee provisions. The bill drew support from local government and public-hospital groups as a compromise, but also significant concern from some senators about the impact on self-insured agencies and whether the fee changes would discourage attorneys from taking cases. The discussion remained ongoing, and the bill was still moving forward as the meeting continued.
ND

North Dakota 2026 1st Special Session

Agriculture and Water Management Committee Jun 17th, 2026 at 09:00 am

Agriculture and Water Management Committee

Transcript Highlights:
  • Poole to tell us the work that they've been...
  • Poole, yes, please go on. Chairman Halk, members of the committee, my name's Dr. Dwayne Poole.
  • Pool, if you want to continue. All right.
  • Poole talked about.
  • Poole, interested parties. All right, committee discussion.
Keywords: 908, all
US

US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session

US House Floor Proceedings (Wednesday, March 5, 2025)

US Federal House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
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  • :58.560> pump pumps excuse me swimming pool pump pumps excuse me swimming pool pump motors<03:
  • That came out of the Hunting Hills Swimming Club Country Club swimming pool, baby pool, where I was the
  • > or swimming pool pool supply place or swimming pool pool supply place or you're<03:42:53.279>
  • I<03:43:01.800> was<03:43:01.960> the swimming pool baby pool where I was the swimming