Video & Transcript Research : 'distributed ledger technology'

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MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Health Finance and Policy Committee 1/22/25

Health Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • But between the supply cost costs and expenses for technology and supplies and the expenses to support
  • our workforce, the expense side of our ledger is growing, and what we get paid, or the reimbursement
  • uh and other equipment and Technology uh and other services<00:08:04.000> and<00:08:04.360>
  • cost costs and expenses for technology cost costs and expenses for technology and<00:08:31.760><
  • <00:08:37.800> is Ledger is Ledger is growing<00:08:39.680> and<00:08:39.959> our
Keywords: 1183, house
Summary: The Health Finance and Policy Committee heard testimony from the Minnesota Hospital Association and several hospital leaders about the financial strain facing hospitals across Minnesota. The association’s CEO said hospitals are essential 24/7 safety-net providers, but rising labor, supply, technology, and drug costs are outpacing reimbursement from Medicaid, Medicare, and commercial payers. He warned that many not-for-profit hospitals are struggling, that workforce shortages remain significant, and that the committee should consider help on Medicaid rates, discharge/boarding problems, mental health services, workforce development, protecting the 340B drug discount program, and avoiding new mandates that add costs. Relle Schultz of Winona Health described a community hospital with a 49-bed facility and long-term care services that has faced years of losses, including a $17 million loss in 2023 and $12 million in losses the following year. She said government payers now make up about 65% of the hospital’s mix, and each 1% increase in that mix costs about $1 million. She highlighted the difficulty of sustaining services such as dialysis, which was nearly closed until a local donor provided $3 million to keep it open for three years, and she emphasized the importance of 340B savings and the need for higher Medicaid payments. Carrie Mulski of Riverview Health in Crookston said critical access hospitals are also under pressure despite their federal designation. She explained that federal support has eroded, that Medicaid and other public programs do not cover full costs, and that her hospital’s 340B savings help keep the doors open. She said Riverview opened a new hospital in 2020 but was hit by the pandemic and inflation, leading to annual losses of $5 million to $6 million and a negative operating margin of 9% to 10%. She also described bond covenant problems, low cash on hand, the prior closure of the nursing home, and the need for rapid state action to stabilize rural hospitals and preserve access to care.
US

US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session

US House Floor Proceedings (Monday, June 23, 2025)

US Federal House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • or other distributed ledger technology.
  • or other distributed ledger technology.
  • to provide a secure ledger to enhance data security, blockchain can usher in a new era in American technological
  • to provide a secure ledger to enhance data security, blockchain can usher in a new era in American technological
  • to provide a secure ledger to enhance data security, blockchain can usher in a new era in American technological
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Education Feb 6th, 2026 at 09:04 am

House Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • Most of the technology, Mr. Chair, that we are using didn't exist 19 years ago.
  • to do... ...that we are now, like the chairman of our chair said, trying to catch up because the technology
  • No one ever could have possibly imagined where we are today in terms of technology and distance education
  • generated $40 million worth of growth units that were not accounted for when we first started to distribute
  • They've learned how to use technology to learn, and they're beginning to use that quite a bit.
Bills: HB2, SB204, SB241, HB34
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Fiscal Policy Feb 5th, 2026

Fiscal Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • likely to face morbidity challenges, chronic illness, caregiving duties, and limited access to technology
  • likely to face morbidity challenges, chronic illness, caregiving duties, and limited access to technology
  • accountability so those funds will continue to directly support frontline investigations, training, technology
Summary: The Committee on Fiscal Policy met and first postponed SB 524 and SB 1156. It then heard and favorably reported several bills, including SB 488 and SB 490 by Sen. Massullo, which update Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles procedures, raise the crash-reporting threshold, expand email use, and create a related public-records exemption. The committee also favorably reported SB 892 by Sen. Martin on enhanced sentencing for repeat offenders, SB 124 by Sen. Rodriguez updating Florida Virtual School statutes, and SB 584 by Sen. Yarbrough strengthening oversight of commercial driving schools and tax collector authority. SB 656 by Sen. Bradley, codifying the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force and related grant program, and SB 816 by Sen. Bradley, formally establishing the University of Florida Diabetes Institute, also passed unanimously or near-unanimously. The most extensive debate centered on SB 216 by Sen. McLean, which would tighten unemployment assistance eligibility by adding job-search requirements, more frequent verification, and fraud-reporting measures. Supporters argued the bill would reduce fraud and improve program integrity, while opponents from labor groups and several senators warned it would burden claimants, especially rural residents, seniors, and workers facing layoffs, and could sharply reduce access to benefits. Despite those objections, the committee reported the bill favorably on a divided vote. The committee also considered CS/SB 382 by Sen. Truenow on electric bicycles, requiring riders to yield to pedestrians, sound an audible signal before passing, and limit speed near pedestrians, while creating a task force to study broader regulation of e-bikes and related devices. A mother whose son was killed on an electric scooter urged the committee to restore scooters to the bill, and several members expressed support for further work on that issue. The committee reported the bill favorably. At the end of the meeting, members recorded additional affirmative votes on selected tabs, and the committee adjourned.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

01/28/2026 - House Federalism, Military Affairs & Elections

Federalism, Military Affairs & Elections

Transcript Highlights:
  • So this technology will assist with that.
  • Chair, Representative Marquist, there are a number of these technologies.
  • So I don't know of any state that is discussing bringing this technology on.
  • But as far as the underlying technologies, I sound like right. Mr.
  • American technology available and we should be using that.
Summary: The committee first heard House Bill 2348, which would appropriate state general fund money in FY 2027 for Arizona Department of Emergency and Military Affairs projects including wireless networking at training centers, a reimbursement program for service members without government computers, lodging and kind for service members, and HVAC upgrades and maintenance. Two amendments were considered: the Marquez Amendment, which filled in dollar amounts for the appropriations, failed; and the Gillette Amendment, which restricted certain networking equipment for national security reasons, removed the reimbursement program, revised the lodging language, and tied some funding intentions to compliance, passed. After extensive testimony from the sponsor and several Army Reserve and National Guard witnesses about lack of Wi-Fi, inadequate lodging, safety concerns from long drives, and poor HVAC at joint facilities, the committee approved HB 2348 as amended on a 4-3 vote. The committee then considered HCR 2016, a ballot referral that would cap precinct size at 2,500 voters and eliminate county authority to use vote centers, emergency voting centers, and certain on-site early voting options. The sponsor said the measure was intended to restore precinct-based voting and let voters decide. County officials and election advocates opposed it, arguing that vote centers and early voting provide flexibility, are more cost-effective in many counties, and are necessary where geography, staffing, and facility availability make precinct voting difficult. After debate over local control, voter choice, and the practicality of precincting, the committee gave HCR 2016 a 4-3 do-pass recommendation. Finally, the committee heard House Bill 2165, which exempts veterans from Arizona State Parks admission fees, and adopted the Marquez Amendment to extend the exemption to active military members, National Guard members, and reserve-unit members, with alternative ID options. Arizona State Parks testified in neutral, saying it supports veterans but is concerned about revenue losses; it estimated that even a modest share of veteran visits could reduce revenue by about $1.8 million annually. The sponsor said the bill was prompted by constituent requests and was meant to help veterans enjoy outdoor recreation and therapeutic opportunities. The committee then approved HB 2165 as amended on a vote of 4-0, with some members absent or not voting.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Energy Resources Apr 14th, 2025

Energy Resources

Transcript Highlights:
  • While the definition hasn't changed, our processes, methods, and technology have evolved.
  • The problem is because it's out of date due to advances in technology.
  • The technology and the framework by which you could separate. These separate.
  • your help because the technology has outpaced the law.
  • I'm also a board member of the NRC Energy Workforce and Technology Council.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Energy Resources Apr 14th, 2025

Energy Resources

Transcript Highlights:
  • Additionally, innovative technologies such as the closed-loop... system already exist.
  • This was distributed to your desk, and it has pictures of, for example, the first picture is cattle being
  • Withheld funds that were rightfully due should have been distributed.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Trade, Workforce & Economic Development Apr 2nd, 2025

Trade, Workforce & Economic Development

Transcript Highlights:
  • As things stand, a semiconductor fab depends on distributed global supply chains for key inputs, including
  • It will help solidify Texas's leadership in science, technology, and advanced manufacturing. sectors
  • serve as magnets for capital, talent, and industry, accelerating the commercialization of new technologies
  • Semiconductors, aerospace, including space, defense manufacturing, and energy technologies— The United
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy Committee 2/18/25

Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • to be a sports coach, working at a community center, in nutritional services, or doing work in a technology
  • <00:18:58.280> School a technology School a technology School um<00:18:59.799> and<
  • then announced that tomorrow the committee would hear from the agency at DEED about information technology
  • 07:47.599> information little bit about the information little bit about the information technology
  • and what's coming uh where technology and what's coming uh where are<01:07:50.440> they<01:07
Bills: HF110, HF111, HF263, HF105
NH

New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session

Senate Judiciary (01/28/2025)

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • It is obviously an emerging technology, a popular technology. yeah<00:21:29.360> first<00:21:29.520
  • <00:21:42.480> a<00:21:42.760> popular<00:21:43.360> technology And fortunately
  • People are distributing something they know can kill someone and is killing people, and they're doing
  • into the state and then they distribute into the state and then they distribute it<01:59:47.199>
  • <02:05:35.239> side who are engaged in the distribution side who are engaged in the distribution
Keywords: 1191, senate, all
TX

Texas 89th Regular

89th Legislative Session May 15th, 2025

Texas House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • ledger or blockchain technology for certain business purposes, authorizing... ...fees.
  • Distributions are not made like in a traditional... Corporation.
  • There's not any profit that is distributed.
  • There's not any type of distributions or anything like that.
  • Well, it references using smart contracts and distributed ledger technology for governance and exempting
Bills: HB75, HB188, HB199, HB4029, HB330, HB507, HB524, HB1517, HB 1065, HB1375, HB1630, HB1398, HB 1227, HB689, HB1814, HB2160, HB2140, HB4897, HB5600, HB5489, HB4188, HB2881, HB2048, HB3900, HB4074, HB5568, HB5528, HB3811, HB3726, HB3382, HB4507, HB4775, HB3626, HB3569, HB5212, HB5248, HB5178, HB3453, HB3231, HB3941, HB1571, HB1969, HB1865, HB2879, HB2643, HB4799, HB4891, HB5567, HB5549, HB5187, HB5118, HB3191, HB1730, HB1687, HB2192, HB4511, HB4805, HB1863, HB3195, HB3199, HB5562, HB5551, HB5169, HB3290, HB3712, HB3996, HB5098, HB5097, HB5089, HB3897, HB3868, HB3829, HB4840, HB3753, HB4368, HB4142, HB2841, HB3457, HB3784, HCR46, HCR109, HCR10, SB1844, SB1833, SB2284, SB2052, SB1666, SB1265, SB1146, SB1921, SB480, SB1734, SB296, SB2039, SB462, SB1646, SB2173, SB2925, SB682, SB1173, HB4535, HB4520, HB3824, HB3066, HB2442, HB3863, HB4773, HB4327, HB5115, HB5515, HB3372, HB5659, HB 127, HB386, HB 115, HB2868, HB 1249, HB4766, HB3720, HB4879, HB5383, HB4621, HB5431, HB5678, HB5534, HB4212, HB3954, HB3966, HB3918, HB1422, HB4765, HB4732, HB4742, HB4518, HB5084, HB3986, HB4144, HB3976, HB4473, HB3425, HB3641, HB3642, HB3475, HB3424, HB4744, HB4539, HB3159, HB5228, HB5370, HB4359, HB4443, HB4466, HB3849, HB4240, HB5141, HB5686, HB3629, HB3554, HB3567, HB2015, HB3575, HB5381, HB4398, HB3514, HB4614, HB4546, HB5681, HB5663, HB4271, HB4350, HB4035, HB3812, HB3540, HB3715, HB3664, HB4233, HB3333, HB3510, HB4222, HB2070, HB2854, HB2347, HB 113, HJR218, HB5623, HB4921, HB5673, HB5520, HB 105, HB4685, HB5354, HB4683, HB75, HB983, HB4847, HB1449, HB3833, HB5151, HB265, HB1845, HB782, HB 108, HB1960, HB158, HB1954, HB1955, HB2512, HB605, HB2581, HB2803, HB627, HB2667, HB1738, HB636, HB3679, HB2638, HB2655, HB871, HB2438, HB 1107, HB1765, HB1822, HB2153, HB4099, HB3732, HB3171, HB3178, HB3182, HB3749, HB2814, HB3977, HB4204, HB4207, HB4449, HB1820, HB1876, HB1939, HB1347, HB2593, HB2136, HB2132, HB2658, HB2413, HB2757, HB2080, HB3154, HB3063, HB3009, HB3448, HB3006, HB2844, HB3241, HB3680, HB3169, HB2078, HB2507, HB4559, HB3946, HB3460, HB3405, HB475, HB3463, HB3441, HB3441, HB3520, HB2060, HB4731, HB4991, HB1991, HB5596, HB2014, HB2142, HB2673, HB2731, HB2417, HB2399, HB2301, HB2301, HB3335, HB3234, HB3320, HB5573, HB5573, HB4848, HB4848, HB4748, HB4769, HB4795, HB2086, HB2086, HB2234, HB2234, HB2203, HB4916, HB5624, HB4505, HB139, HB5093, HB5302, HB5402, HB5606, HB2333, HB4630, HB4701, HB2583, HB2983, HB4924, HB3339, HB3339, HB3793, HB3631, HB4882, HB5509, HB5499, HB5430, HB5561, HB5561, HB5611, HB5043, HB5064, HB5064, HB3733, HB3733, HB3781, HB3219, HB32, HB4515, HB5348, HB3902, HB4420, HB3269, HB469, HB336, HB316, HB5396, HB993, HB1342, HB1342, HB5216, HB2046, HB2046, HB2188, HB2188, HB2450, HB2813, HB2857, HB4075, HB4075, HB2911, HB4682, HB4682, HB3117, HB3253, HB3442, HB4820, HB4336, HB5356, HB3669, HB3428, HB5465, HB3662, HB2590, HB2288, HB2288, HB1886, HB3458, HB3458, HB5603, HB5620, HB1489, HB1489, HB4101, HB4990, HB5685, HB5685, HB4950, HB4950, HB4980, HB5684, HB3507, HB3507, HB3566, HB4487, HB4487, HB4462, HB4462, HB4876, HB4915, HB4663, HB5570, HB2929, HB5261, HB2920, HB4642, HB4746, HB1609, HB5403, HB5453, HB3844, HB2336, HB1572, HB 1226, HB 1226, HB2806, HB2806, HB2617, HB2617, HB2827, HB3948, HB3948, HB3945, HB4266, HB4542, HB3319, HB1772, HB2496, HB1970, HB3434, HB5545, HB5545, HB5577, HB5577, HB31, HB31, HB279, HB370, HB370, HB4768, HB513, HB875, HB982, HB 1085, HB 1085, HB2677, HB2874, HB5478, HB4880, HB4798, HB4514, HB4958, HB4958, HB4508, HB4508, HB3758, HB3830, HB3744, HB3622, HB741, HB741, HB2204, HB2204, HB2860, HB4659, HB4578, HB813, HB712, HB712, HB1551, HB2790, HB2698, HB3365, HB3504, HB3118, HB3118, HB2959, HB1862, HB1862, HB 1026, HB4401, HB4401, HB4164, HB4164, HB3920, HB4737, HB4966, HB4966, HB4967, HB1958, HB4979, HB4979, HB5459, HB3862, HB1823, HB1823, HB4415, HB4893, HB2343, HB 1228, HB4337, HB188, HB199, HB4029, HB330, HB507, HB524, HB1517, HB 1065, HB1375, HB1630, HB1398, HB 1227, HB689, HB689, HB1814, HB2160, HB2140, HB4897, HB5600, HB5489, HB4188, HB2881, HB2048, HB3900, HB4074, HB5568, HB5528, HB3811, HB3726, HB3382, HB3382, HB4507, HB4775, HB3626, HB3569, HB5212, HB5248, HB5178, HB3453, HB3231, HB3941, HB1571, HB1969, HB1865, HB2879, HB2879, HB2643, HB4799, HB4891, HB5567, HB5549, HB5187, HB5118, HB3191, HB1730, HB1687, HB1687, HB2192, HB4511, HB4805, HB4805, HB1863, HB3195, HB3199, HB5562, HB5562, HB5551, HB5169, HB3290, HB3712, HB3996, HB5098, HB5098, HB5097, HB5089, HB5089, HB3897, HB3868, HB3829, HB4840, HB3753, HB4368, HB4142, HB2841, HB3457, HB3784, HCR76, HCR76, HCR127, HCR9, HCR40, HCR118, HR559, HCR59, HCR59, HCR135, HCR141, HCR46, HCR46, HCR109, HCR10
NM

New Mexico 2025 Regular Session

Senate - Finance Jan 23rd, 2025

Senate Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • taken care of a lot of the oil and gas volatility in the general fund by setting these caps and distributions
  • We're seeing that in some investment earnings, specifically distributions to the general fund from the
  • It is simply a factor of the financial mechanism by which they distribute to the general fund, which
  • Janae Ledger leads that unit.
  • The Fund has a statutory district distribution amount that LFC recommended appropriating to the administration
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

89th Legislative Session May 2nd, 2025

Texas House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • ledger-based title registry pilot program.
  • HB 2768 by Capriglione, relating to the development of a state information technology apprenticeship
  • So the language in here, it also refers to cell distribution display, right?
  • And if you go further down in the code, it says that a person distributes, exhibits...
  • It says that a person distributes, exhibits, or possesses for sale.
Summary: The House convened with a quorum, offered an invocation, led the pledges, and approved a series of routine motions, including excusing absent members and granting permission for several committees to meet while the House was in session. Members also adopted several memorial and recognition resolutions, including H.R. 1023 honoring Christian Beerbill, H.R. 1033 recognizing International Bereaved Mother’s Day, and H.R. 877 recognizing Urban League Advocates Day. The House also recommitted SB 17 and HB 4211 to committee and postponed SCR 27 and HB 2145 for later consideration. The chamber then took up a long third-reading calendar of bills covering a wide range of topics, including Sunset review measures, health care workforce and pricing, child custody and family law, Medicaid, rural ambulance grants, energy reporting, public information requests, trail development, virtual meeting disruptions, occupational licensing, protective orders, county leave pools, animal cruelty, infrastructure, and higher education. Most bills were explained briefly by their authors and passed with broad support, though several drew notable opposition, including HB 5265, HB 2402, HB 3000, HB 3237, HB 3326, HB 1056, HB 281, HB 3308, HB 1043, HB 1234, HB 1193, HB 294, HB 809, HB 334, HB 2037, HB 285, HB 1353, HB 3960, HB 4044, HB 4264, HB 2807, HB 3349, HB 4406, HB 1593, HB 1899, HB 1201, and others. Several bills prompted extended debate or amendments. HB 3237, extending public energy-use reporting for state and higher-education buildings, passed after questions about its public-sector-only scope and energy savings. HB 3326, addressing public service loan forgiveness credit for adjunct professors, initially failed on a 69-70 vote but later passed after verification and machine corrections. HB 3211, concerning optometrists in managed care plans, adopted a Buckley amendment before passing. HB 2213 on Texas Windstorm Insurance Association board composition adopted a Metcalf amendment requiring certain board members to be Texas residents. HB 412, dealing with harmful materials and sexual performance of a child, generated extensive questioning about its scope, existing legal standards, and effects on educators and medical professionals; the excerpt ends during that debate.
FL

Florida 2026 4th Special Session

February 12, 2026 - 09:15 AM

Transcript Highlights:
  • all of the cooperatives that belong to the association, I can tell you today, not one of those distribution
  • The Florida statutes recognize this all the time when something is technologically or scientifically
  • It just deletes the provision regarding ledger.
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Health Finance and Policy Committee 5/7/25

Health Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • initiative and modifies the method by which American Indian health special emphasis grants are distributed
  • We are a technology trade association representing 100 innovative member companies.
  • have to make the dollars and cents work when it is really quite a bit larger discussion and larger ledger
  • 47:03.920> discussion<01:47:04.400> and<01:47:04.719> larger<01:47:05.679> ledger
  • uh larger discussion and larger ledger uh larger discussion and larger ledger for<01:47:06.480><
Bills: HF2435
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

House of Representatives Jun 1st, 2026

Louisiana House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • It's just a task force to study blockchain technology in Louisiana. Rep. Thomas for a question.
  • Well, I think blockchain technology at where we are today is very, very important, and I do believe that
  • you're going to see blockchain technology shape the future of Louisiana.
  • I only believe that with this new technology available, and it is being misused, you should at least
  • So I'm preventing the misuse of their technology. I would think they would want this step?
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

House of Representatives Jun 1st, 2026

Louisiana House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • It's just a task force to study blockchain technology in Louisiana. Rep. Thomas for a question.
  • Well, I think blockchain technology, where we are today, is very, very important, and I do believe that
  • you're going to see blockchain technology shape the future of Louisiana.
  • American Sugarcane League, LSU AgCenter, and Southern University Ag Center to continue work on further technology
Summary: The House convened with a quorum, opened with prayer, the pledge, and a national anthem performance, then moved through several personal privileges and recognitions. Members welcomed a student cancer survivor and entrepreneur, Bella of Brave Bella Bead Company, and also recognized a new legislative assistant, a page leaving for college, and a resolution honoring National Mississippi River Day. The chamber also received conference committee reports and enrollment reports, and returned some previously failed measures to the calendar, including H.R. 119 and H.B. 410. The main floor action centered on a series of Senate concurrent resolutions, most of which were adopted overwhelmingly. These included SCR 59 on re-evaluating flood maps and insurance rates tied to the Comite River Diversion Canal, SCR 61 urging higher reimbursement for behavioral health crisis centers, SCR 62 calling for review of school-zone safety and speed limits, SCR 68 creating a blockchain and digital innovation task force, SCR 69 encouraging continued research to reduce sugarcane burning, SCR 70 supporting the Major Richard Star Act for medically retired combat-wounded veterans, SCR 54 supporting the Mississippi River Basin Fishery Commission Act, SCR 55 designating the Peggy Martin Rose as the official state rose, SCR 64 creating a construction manager-at-risk task force, SCR 75 studying a Louisiana maneuvers museum and trail, and SCR 80 creating a task force on the minimum foundation program and long-term teacher pay funding. Most passed with little or no opposition, with SCR 84 on earthquake seismic activity in several parishes amended to adjust task force membership before final adoption. The House also heard a personal privilege statement honoring the late Ponder P.C. Clinton Jr., a noted Black farmer, cattleman, and community leader in Shreveport’s Cedar Grove neighborhood, and expressed condolences to his family. Later, members received a hurricane-season reminder from Rep. Jay Galle about disaster response procedures and the need to work through parish emergency offices. The transcript ends as the House moves into additional concurrent resolutions returned from the Senate with amendments.
US

US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session

US House Floor Proceedings (Wednesday, June 24, 2026)

US Federal House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Thank you so much, Congresswoman Ledger Fernandez, for those beautiful words and... ...to share this
  • With the advent of new technologies like artificial intelligence, senior fraud is...
  • Seattle is a hub of creation, developing, and advancing cutting-edge technology and research.
  • Let's do it on this disaster that is technology in the pockets of our children. We can do that.
  • in a sober out and then distributed in a sober and appropriate way.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Conference Committee on HF2431 5/8/25

Transcript Highlights:
  • State side of the ledger.
  • <00:23:15.280> to<00:23:15.360> the the OE side of the ledger to the the OE side of
  • ><00:23:16.240> ledger.
  • <00:23:16.880> So,<00:23:17.120> $1.2 minstate side of the ledger.
  • So, $1.2 minstate side of the ledger.
Keywords: 919, house, all
Summary: The Higher Education Finance and Policy Conference Committee met publicly to compare House and Senate positions on the higher education budget, with the chairs emphasizing transparency and alternating gavel control. Nonpartisan fiscal staff walked through a spreadsheet of differences across the Office of Higher Education and Minnesota State, including major items such as state grants, childcare grants, work study, tribal college grants, emergency assistance grants, hunger-free campus grants, student parent support, direct admissions, paramedic scholarships, and several medical residency and fellowship programs. The House and Senate also differed on administrative funding, campus sexual assault reporting, and a House FY25 cancellation that would be carried forward. Members discussed several of the larger policy and funding choices. The Senate explained its increase for Minitex as support for operating costs and statewide access to information. The House explained its cuts to student parent support and other items as necessary to work within a zero target and to prioritize direct aid to students, while the Senate said it focused on direct appropriations and access-related programs. On hunger-free campus grants and emergency assistance grants, the Senate said it was changing the distribution method and direct appropriations rather than reducing the overall money, while the House noted differences in whether nonprofit institutions remained included. The committee also reviewed Senate-only additions and reductions in Minnesota State, including free course materials, Lake Superior College remediation, and changes to the Kids on Campus appropriation. A representative from Lake Superior College testified that the PAS remediation funding would help address contamination issues at an emergency training site near Lake Superior and that the money was shifted from the Kids on Campus initiative. No final conference agreement or vote was taken in the portion of the meeting provided; the committee continued discussing differences and testimony.