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AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama Senate Judiciary Committee Mar 11th, 2026

Judiciary

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  • That's for the principal and the superintendent, the school board necessary to handle that.
  • <00:51:27.040> fight<00:51:27.200> in<00:51:27.359> the<00:51:27.440> school
  • And so those are the main two uh<00:53:16.559> items<00:53:16.880> of<00:53:17.040>
  • <00:53:18.160> put<00:53:18.319> in<00:53:18.480> a<00:53:18.720> a uh items
  • We did put in a a uh items of this bill.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Retirement Apr 29th, 2026

Retirement

Transcript Highlights:
  • Higher ed, K-12, multiple layers, superintendent, school boards, HR, finance folks, to look at those
  • I'm assistant superintendent currently in the Livingston Parish School System.
  • Middle school teachers, not so much.
  • High school teachers are almost non-existent coming out of the systems right now.
  • Senate Bill 20 standardized how the gains and losses are processed for the Louisiana School Employees
Summary: The Retirement Committee met on April 29, 2026, established a quorum, and heard a series of retirement-related bills, mostly cleanup or technical measures affecting various public retirement systems. SB 22 would extend Municipal Employees Retirement System eligibility to certain positions in the Second City Court constable’s office in New Orleans. SB 17 would create a funding deposit account for cost-of-living adjustments for registrars of voters’ employees’ retirement system. SB 455 would allow certain district and parish courts to participate in the Parochial Employees Retirement System. SB 456 would update compensation rules for assigned retired judges, and SB 8 would add the Louisiana Asset Management Pool as a participating employer in MERS. All of these bills were described as aligning statutes with current practice or expanding participation options, and each was reported favorably without objection. The committee also heard several Louisiana State Police retirement bills. SB 10 would repeal outdated priority allocation and retiree raise rules and adjust handling of surplus employee contributions; SB 11 would increase the funding cap for benefit increases from 2.5% to 3.5%; and SB 12 would update membership and definition language to reflect the State Police Commission rather than the Civil Service Commission. SB 18 would repeal a special exception allowing certain MERS retirees to return to part-time work while collecting full benefits, while protecting roughly 30 current participants. SB 20 and SB 21 would update actuarial gain/loss and unfunded liability funding rules for school employees’ retirement and LASERS, respectively, in light of the new permanent benefit increase funding structure. Each of these bills was supported by system officials as cleanup or modernization measures and was reported favorably. The committee spent the most time on education and return-to-work issues for teachers and public employees. SB 16 would reduce annual trustee training requirements for retirement system boards from 16 hours back to 12 hours, which witnesses said would better fit smaller systems and match the original intent of the law. SB 13 would similarly update TRSL’s actuarial funding rules after the sunset of the experience account. SB 14, based on a 2025 study work group, would consolidate and simplify TRSL return-to-work rules and expand options for retired teachers, with witnesses emphasizing teacher shortages and the need to retain experienced educators. All three were reported favorably. Finally, SB 416 would allow certain Department of Public Safety and Corrections retirees to return to critical shortage positions after one year, and SB 477 would classify the chairman of the Louisiana Gaming Control Board as a full-time state employee for retirement purposes. Both bills drew questions and discussion, especially SB 416, and both were reported favorably. The chair announced the committee’s next meeting would be moved from Monday to Tuesday, and the meeting adjourned.
KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • And when you get your property tax bill and you see that line item for your school tax embedded in there
  • /c><00:15:23.600> children schools our schools for our children schools our schools for our children
  • Uh, one is what we call A1 schools, which are your elementary, high school, middle schools.
  • School.
  • Middle<00:24:31.840> School.
Summary: The committee received an informational presentation from the Kentucky Department of Education and the School Facilities Construction Commission on school facilities funding. Staff explained the main funding sources used for school construction and renovation, including the mandatory “nickel” property tax levy, growth and equalized growth nickels, the equalized facility funding nickel, the Fort Knox/BRAC-related nickel for Hardin County, and the recallable nickel that districts can adopt locally. They also described the state equalization formula, noting that local construction costs have risen and that state support is formula-driven rather than a dollar-for-dollar match. The SFCC outlined how unmet facility need is calculated through district facility plans, which are developed locally with community, staff, and board input and then reviewed by KDE staff for consistency and reasonableness. The commission said it will update the statewide unmet need report this fall, adopt it in December, and provide the figure to the committee in January 2026. It reported that the statewide unmet facility need was about $7 billion in 2023, with about $951 million in local revenue available, and said its offers of assistance are paid as debt service over eight years. The commission also said the most recent legislative offer of assistance was its smallest since SFCC’s creation in 1985, and requested an additional $60 million for the next biennium. Members asked about how districts use nickel tax levies, who determines facility need, whether the process includes physical inspections, and how bonding capacity affects offers of assistance. Staff said nickel levies are generally adopted with regular tax rates, that facility need is locally developed but reviewed by KDE, and that KDE project managers and district-hired architects review plans on paper rather than through in-person inspections. They also explained that bonding capacity can affect a district’s ability to use or receive assistance. Questions were also raised about federal funds tied to earlier KIX grants and about districts with zero remaining offers of assistance; staff said most grant-funded projects are underway or complete, and that a zero balance means a district has spent its available assistance. No votes or formal actions were taken.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Urban and Rural Development Committee Apr 9th, 2025

Urban and Rural Development

Transcript Highlights:
  • school systems.
  • You go past a city school system in G Shores and have to go all the way to Fing.
  • and drive on into FO to go to a county school, which is about an hour drive.
  • school system. ...your city school system, right?
  • You're driving past a city school in Gulf Shores or Orange Beach to get to a county school, and it puts
Bills: HB402, HB402
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Mar 6th, 2025

Alabama House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • was my dad's best friend in high school was my dad's best friend in high school uh Don's oldest son
  • um and his his oldest son in high school um and his his oldest son in high school um and his his oldest
  • with them our kids play we go to school with them our kids play we go to school with them our kids play
  • through driver's your license in school through driver's your license in school through driver's ed
  • to school so I had to drive my kids to school I had to drive drive my kids to school I had to drive
TX

Texas 89th Regular

89th Legislative Session Mar 6th, 2025

Texas House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • He grew up and excelled at Wheatley High School. from Howard University.
  • Austin High Schools.
  • with Save East Austin School, both groups she founded.
  • HR 152 by Vo, Alif Early College High School. HR 167 by Martinez Fisher. Homes High School.
  • Superintendent and Chief Executive Officers of School Districts and Open Enrollment Charmant Schools
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama House Ways and Means Education Committee Jan 21st, 2026

Ways and Means Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • schools they have in their districts. schools they have in their districts.
  • that needs to be made between um school that needs to be made between um school consolidation<00
  • <00:20:40.080> system consolidation and school board or system consolidation and school board
  • provide for consolidation of schools provide for consolidation of schools between<00:20:45.760><
  • to essentially you know have a school to essentially you know have a school that's<00:21:01.520>
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Economic Development Apr 7th, 2025

Economic Development

Transcript Highlights:
  • We did that with school districts. I viewed it as we need to do the same with 313 and 312.”
  • I refused to do so because each needs to be looked at on their own merits based upon school districts
  • a 10-year school district M&O tax appraised value limitation of 50%.
  • school district M&O tax appraised value limitation of 50%.
  • Nearly 14% of young Texans ages 16 to 24, which is about 500,000, are not in school or employed.
Summary: The committee heard a series of bills, mostly related to economic development, tax incentives, and workforce programs. Senate Bill 1534 would direct a study by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board and the Texas Workforce Commission on health physics education and workforce needs; resource witnesses from the Workforce Commission and Coordinating Board testified, and the bill was left pending. Senate Bill 1553 would authorize Kerr County to impose a hotel occupancy tax for tourism-related uses, and Senate Bills 1086 and 1087 would authorize similar county hotel taxes for Children’s County and Mason County; all three bills received supportive testimony and were left pending. The committee also heard Senate Bill 1754, which would prohibit county and local tax abatements for renewable energy facilities selling power wholesale, with testimony sharply divided between landowners and policy groups opposing renewable subsidies and industry representatives and some senators arguing the bill would harm clean energy investment and local decision-making; the bill was left pending. The committee then heard Senate Bill 2322, which would exempt dispatchable electric generation facilities from the JEDI program’s compelling-factor test so they could qualify for school district tax incentives; testimony was mixed, and the bill was left pending. Later, the committee heard Senate Bill 1718, which would add the NRA annual meeting to the state’s major events reimbursement program. The bill’s sponsor and NRA representatives argued the event brings substantial tourism and economic activity, while opponents said it would use taxpayer funds to subsidize an organization that opposes gun safety measures; the bill was left pending. Senate Bill 2004 would add the Arlington Grand Prix to the major events reimbursement program, with the committee substitute exempting it from the usual competitive site-selection requirement because of timing; testimony from the event organizers and Arlington tourism officials was supportive, and the bill was left pending. Senate Bill 2448 would create a rural workforce development grant program at the Texas Workforce Commission to support college-and-career readiness and technical assistance in rural communities; witnesses from Texas 2036, Collegiate Edgination, and a rural school district supported it, and it was left pending. Finally, Senate Bill 913 would repeal a special requirement that Alpine dedicate at least 50% of its hotel occupancy tax to advertising and promotion, and Senate Bill 1143 would require more coordination and reporting for youth workforce programs serving disconnected young Texans; both bills received supportive testimony and were left pending. At the end of the hearing, Senator Johnson moved that the committee stand in recess, subject to the call of the chair.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • It took away the ability of school districts to grant reinvestment zones and tax abatements.
  • We did that with school districts.
  • This program allows the governor, the school district, and the company to enter into an agreement for
  • As such, they should not be when it comes to school abatement tax incentives.
  • Nearly 14% of young Texans aged 16 to 24, which is about 500,000, are not in school or employed.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • We did that with school districts.
  • a 10-year school district M&O tax-appraised value limitation of 50%.
  • As the superintendent of schools in Hamlin, I saw firsthand the positive impact...
  • Orrke here with GW. for our high school graduates. Thank you for hearing our testimony. Thank you.
  • Nearly 14% of young Texans age 16 to 24, about 500,000, are not in school or employed.
Summary: The Senate Economic Development Committee met to hear a series of bills and informational primers, with several resource witnesses from the Governor’s Office, the Texas Workforce Commission, and the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. The chair opened by noting the death of Senator King’s son and asking members to keep the family in their prayers. Most bills were laid out and left pending subject to the call of the chair after brief author presentations and public testimony. The committee heard several local hotel occupancy tax bills: SB 1553 for Kerr County, SB 1086 for Childress County, SB 1087 for Mason County, and SB 913 for Alpine. Supporters, including the Texas Hotel and Lodging Association and local officials, said the measures would allow counties or the city to use hotel tax revenue for tourism-related projects and local development. The committee also heard SB 1534, which would direct a study on health physics education and workforce needs in Texas; resource witnesses from TWC and THECB testified on the bill. All of these measures were left pending. A major portion of the hearing focused on SB 1754, which would prohibit local tax abatements for renewable energy facilities selling power at wholesale, with an exception for certain battery storage tied to dispatchable generation. The bill drew strong support from witnesses who argued counties should not subsidize wind and solar projects that can harm neighboring landowners and that renewables already receive substantial federal support. Opponents from the solar and storage industry argued the bill would remove a voluntary local economic development tool, raise power prices, and discourage investment. Senators also debated landowner impacts, grid reliability, and whether the bill was the right policy tool; the bill was left pending. The committee also heard SB 2322, a committee substitute related to the Jobs, Energy, Technology, and Innovation Act, which would exempt electric generation facilities from the program’s compelling-factor test so they can qualify for school tax limitation agreements. Supporters said the change would correct an unintended barrier for dispatchable generation, while Senator Johnson argued it would weaken the program’s purpose by subsidizing projects that would locate in Texas anyway. SB 1718 would add the NRA annual meeting to the major events reimbursement program; the NRA supported it, while gun violence prevention advocates opposed using state incentives for the organization. SB 2004 would add the Arlington Grand Prix to the major events program, and SB 2448 would create a rural workforce development grant program; both drew supportive testimony and were left pending. The committee also heard SB 1143, a substitute bill aimed at improving transparency and coordination in programs serving opportunity youth ages 14 to 24, with witnesses supporting better reporting and workforce alignment. At the end of the meeting, Senator Johnson moved that the committee stand in recess subject to the call of the chair.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Leg Committee Meeting - 2025-03-26

Legacy Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • came over from Southeast Asia, Minnesota welcomed folks and took them into their homes, into their schools
  • The senior members are committed to mentoring high school students and homeschool students, and through
  • The history book will live on in our schools, our libraries, and our organization, ensuring that future
  • As schools and rural areas face budget constraints, this also allows our FFA members to find ways to
  • It will be an opportunity for the entire community, including our schools, businesses, churches, multiple
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Legacy Finance Committee 3/26/25

Legacy Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • The senior members are committed to mentoring high school students and homeschool students.
  • school students and homeschool students. school students and homeschool students.
  • <00:55:25.119> and<00:55:25.359> our will live on in our schools and our will live
  • on in our schools and our libraries<00:55:26.079> and<00:55:26.240> our<00:55:26.760>
  • ,<01:03:54.000> businesses, including our schools, businesses, including our schools, businesses
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Senate Floor Session 04-07-2026 11:30am

Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting

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  • Richardson School of Law at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, where she also received a Pacific-Asian
  • Richardson School of Law at Mānoa. Ms.
  • He received his Juris Doctor from the Suffolk University School of Law in Boston, Massachusetts.
  • Received his juris doctor from the Suffolk University School of Law in Boston, Massachusetts after having
TX

Texas 89th Regular

S/C on Defense & Veterans' Affairs Mar 24th, 2025

S/C on Defense & Veterans' Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • Sergeant Johnson joined the Corps, graduated high school, and served as a radio operator.
  • He was a proud graduate of Willis High School, and FM 1097 is one of the most traveled corridors in Willis
  • I was a one-way K-1, pit instructor, flight instructor at the T-6 school. Oh.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Education Policy Committee Mar 5th, 2025

Education Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • high school diploma.
  • The non-traditional high school diploma has the same weight as a traditional high school diploma.
  • Then that is turned over to the local high school, and the local high school goes through the transcripts
  • Not every school has a school... occur.
  • Not every school has a school nurse or another system set up to handle this.
Bills: HB266, SB85, SB166, HB266, SB85, SB166
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama House Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee Feb 4th, 2026

Public Safety and Homeland Security

Transcript Highlights:
  • School teachers and down the road because we care and love about every one of these people in our community
  • <00:10:26.560> School provisions. So what's next? School provisions. So what's next?
  • School teachers<00:10:27.920> uh<00:10:28.240> and<00:10:28.480> down<00:10:28.720