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AL

Alabama 2026 Regular Session

Alabama House Ways and Means General Fund Committee Mar 11th, 2026

Ways and Means General Fund

Transcript Highlights:
  • . >> The only requirements are you and your household have to make the average income for a household
  • So, what this bill does, it's going to make some products of candy and sodas that contain mainly sugar
  • A rise. >> The amendment basically takes the Department of Revenue out totally and makes a list.
  • It just basically puts it makes a list.
  • <00:20:35.360> any lowincome households without making any lowincome households without making
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

TRS-LBT, TRS-EDT, TRS Public Hearings 02-10-2026

Transportation

Transcript Highlights:
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  • once you start on the path of making once you start on the path of making this<00:43:17.760>
  • decide to make the changes. decide to make the changes.
  • Makes uh life easier >> Okay. Makes uh life easier and<01:00:35.440> faster.
Summary: The joint committees on Transportation, Labor and Technology, and later Transportation and Economic Development and Tourism, heard several bills. SB 2573 would allow administrative driver’s license revocation hearings to be held by interactive conference technology such as Zoom and permit electronic exchange of evidence. The chief adjudicator for the ADLRO supported it as a non-mandatory option that has worked well since 2021, improving attendance and saving time and money; DOT also supported it. The committees voted to pass SB 2573 with technical, non-substantive amendments. SB 3215 would make permanent the requirement that securing mooring lines at commercial docks be performed by labor subject to collective bargaining by repealing the sunset date in existing harbor safety law. DOT did not submit testimony, and the chair noted support from longshore labor. The committees voted to pass SB 3215 unamended. The committees also heard SB 2693, which authorizes $15 million in general obligation bonds for planning, design, and construction of a 50,000-square-foot aerospace hangar and related facilities at Hilo International Airport. A Phoenix Space executive testified in support, saying Hawaii and Hilo have geographic advantages and that the project could support aerospace investment and jobs; several other organizations and individuals submitted supportive testimony. Committee members questioned whether federal matching funds or airport capacity existed, and DOT said it had no assurance of federal participation and would need to check on capacity and potential users. The hearing then moved to SB 2698, which would create a cruise ship special fund and impose a per-passenger head fee on cruise ships docking in state commercial harbors while repealing the existing cruise ship TAT framework effective January 1, 2026. DOT supported the bill but requested amendments to clarify that the new fee is in addition to existing passenger, port entry, and dockage fees and to raise the fee from $6.50 to $10; DOT said the higher amount would better fund harbor improvements such as shore power. Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings testified in support but said the added fee would significantly increase costs, while a local ship supply business supported the cruise industry and opposed the TAT approach, saying cruise activity benefits local farmers and jobs. No final vote on SB 2698 was taken in the excerpt provided.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Human Committee Meeting - 2025-04-03

Human Services Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • It also makes conforming changes throughout statutes where appropriate.
  • Nor is it adequate to make up the funding gap.
  • I want to make sure we think about it in that capacity as well.
  • If we continue to make strides in bettering the lives of our children.
  • on top of that, and those rates vary by facility.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Human Services Finance and Policy Committee 4/3/25

Human Services Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • <00:09:12.880> conforming hearing and review and makes conforming hearing and review and makes
  • for keeping people in their housing, making sure that everyone is safe, making sure everyone has the
  • And those rates vary by facility.
  • And those rates vary by facility.
  • getting the special rate. getting the special rate.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • Since then, we've only been able to have the accountability rate ratings released for one single. year
  • If a campus receives a not rated rating for any reason, the commissioner will continue. the intervention
  • with the school that doesn't want to be rated maybe but we don't know they were not rated because their
  • That's why I'm making the statements I'm making as it relates to school districts being able to have
  • It's been quality rating and there are other ratings. I see Yasmin nodding her head, so.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • I can make it balance on two legs if I have to. to, but I can't make it stand on one, and I've always
  • We have five-year rates yet.
  • Our teacher residents have a two-year retention rate of 91%. three- and four-year rates of 86 percent
  • Since then, we've only been able to have the accountability rate ratings released for one single. year
  • That's been a quality rating and there are other ratings. I see Yasmin nodding her head.
TX
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Health and Human Services (Part II) Mar 5th, 2025

Health & Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • Uh, that court system had an 85% success rate.
  • I make it work. Um, I enjoy Brown County.
  • to police EMS providers for not properly identifying billing rates.
  • This ensures that rates remain fair and responsive to rising cost without excessive fees.
  • Uh, and we have the highest uninsured rate at 21%, nearly doubling the national average.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Ways and Means May 5th, 2026

Ways & Means

Transcript Highlights:
  • I'll make a motion that we adopt the amendments. Is there any objection? Seeing no objection?
  • I'll offer up that motion that we adopt all the amendments except number four and authorize staff to make
  • I just remember that we were working, brainstorming lots of solutions to make it better, you know, I
  • We were working, brainstorming lots of solutions to make it better, you know, I guess you could say,
  • And, you know, I think that makes a lot of sense to me.
Bills: HB1039, SB423, SB436
Summary: The Ways and Means Committee met on May 5, 2026, and first considered Senate Bill 436 by Senator Cloud, which revises how annual aviation fuel estimates are calculated for the Aviation Trust Fund. Senator Cloud explained that the fund supports airport and aviation projects and has been supplemented in recent years with general fund dollars because the estimated balance has remained stagnant. The committee adopted amendments allowing DOTD’s Office of Multimodal Commerce to use federal and other public data sources, requiring Revenue to provide annual aviation fuel sales tax collections data, and making a technical change. After a brief question about existing airport disclosure requirements, the bill was reported as amended with support cards entered into the record. The committee then took up House Bill 1039 by Representative Desotel, dealing with local sales and use tax audit procedures. The bill was presented as a fairness and transparency measure for audits, but members and the author discussed substantial amendments that would remove or modify several provisions. The committee adopted the amendments except for Amendment 4, which would have required private auditing firms contracting with taxing authorities to be domiciled in Louisiana; that language was set aside for further work after concerns it could affect audits conducted outside Louisiana. Members also discussed provisions on waiving prescription periods, suspending interest and penalties by agreement, and concerns about multiple parishes auditing the same business at once. The bill was reported as amended, with several support cards and informational cards entered. Senate Bill 423 was voluntarily deferred, and there was no other business before the committee. The meeting adjourned after a motion to adjourn was adopted.
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Transcript Highlights:
  • Representative, just to clarify, Is this the tax rate?
  • Freezing the tax rate is that what that would do? It's freezing the avalloum.
  • House Bill 3781 is a change in the way Insurance rates are filed.
  • Put a little sunlight on it and make the insurance companies file the Rate first, wait 60 days before
  • I'm trying really hard to make sure we don't interrupt each other.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • Just making sure that the judicial infrastructure is in place.
  • Either make your way to the kiosk outside or come down here and let us know. Ms. Wood, welcome.
  • We just want to make sure that that's clear.
  • it better, makes it easier, and will make it more successful for all. people involved, and we will continue
  • to work with the Senator's office to try to flesh that out and make that. reality.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Ways and Means Apr 27th, 2026

Ways & Means

Transcript Highlights:
  • Okay, I just want to make sure. No, no, I just wanted to make sure. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
  • Just introduce yourself if you want to make a statement.
  • It was deemed a fair rate and investment by the PSC.
  • Private water companies, and the rates are set by PSC.
  • And the bill says that if the rates are high, then the state's going to subsidize the rate payer, right
Bills: HR118, HB1039, SB436, SB442
Summary: Yes. This appears to be a meeting of the House Ways and Means Committee, based on the chairman’s roll call, the committee’s tax-related agenda, and the motions to report bills favorably. The committee first announced that SB 436 by Senator Cloud was deferred. It then heard SB 442 by Senator Stein, which would extend and clarify a local sales and use tax exemption in Calcasieu Parish for repairs, upgrades, and overhauls of certain aircraft at qualifying facilities like Chennault. Testimony from Citadel Completions emphasized the bill’s economic-development purpose, competitiveness with other states, and job retention/expansion in Southwest Louisiana. Representative Orgeron moved favorable passage, and the bill was reported favorably without objection. The committee next considered HR 118 by Representative Wright, which would create a legislative subcommittee to study a possible state income tax credit for certain water utility customers affected by high rates tied to private water system upgrades and brown-water/manganese issues in parts of the Florida parishes and elsewhere. Members questioned the fiscal impact, eligibility, and whether the proposal would merely be a Band-Aid or a fair way to offset costs; Wright said it was only a study and not an automatic trigger for a tax credit. Representative Jackson moved to report the resolution favorably, and it was adopted without objection. Finally, HB 1039 by Representative Desotel was not presented and was held in committee. The committee then adjourned.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Judiciary Finance and Civil Law Committee 2/26/26

Judiciary Finance and Civil Law

Transcript Highlights:
  • We want to make sure eligible minor.
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  • <00:08:31.280> an requires a judge, um, to make an requires a judge, um, to make an explicit
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  • <00:43:39.760> are Um rents and capitalization rates are Um rents and capitalization rates
Bills: HF3676, HF2959, HF3233
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Senate Session Apr 3rd, 2025

Texas Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Current law allows a taxing unit to levy an INS tax rate in addition to an M&O tax rate.
  • However, we do not have the same restrictions on tax increases for INS rates as we do on M&O rates.
  • : state what the minimum INS tax rate would be, state the proposed rate, state the difference between
  • Senate Bill 1453, relating to the current debt rate and tax rate of a taxing unit for ad valorem tax
  • and the use of that rate in calculating certain other ad valorem tax rates, to Local Government.
Summary: The Senate convened with a quorum present, heard an invocation, and approved the previous day’s journal. The chamber then adopted Senate Resolution 358 honoring the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley on its 10th anniversary, with senators highlighting the university’s growth, medical school, research expansion, and role in serving South Texas. The Senate also adopted Senate Resolution 368 honoring outgoing Texas A&M University System Chancellor John Sharp, with numerous senators praising his long public career, leadership in higher education, and statewide impact. Senate Resolution 361 recognizing Texas HBCU Day and Senate Resolution 362 recognizing Denton County Days at the Capitol were also adopted, along with other routine recognitions and gubernatorial appointments being read into the record. The Senate then took up several bills. Committee Substitute Senate Bill 27, relating to rights and support for public school educators, was debated and amended to shorten vacancy posting requirements, allow bilingual certification candidates to retake only failed test sections, give teachers more flexibility with paid leave, clarify classroom removal procedures, and ensure parents are informed of appeal rights. The bill passed to engrossment, the three-day rule was suspended, and it was finally passed unanimously. Senate Joint Resolution 12, proposing a constitutional amendment to establish a parent’s right to direct a child’s education, was also brought up and passed to engrossment after a contested suspension vote. The Senate next passed Committee Substitute Senate Bill 1741, which would require reporting of foreign funding at public universities, bar gifts from adversarial governments, and require training and reporting systems to prevent foreign influence and intellectual property theft in higher education. Committee Substitute Senate Bill 29, the so-called “Dexit” bill, was debated at length for its corporate governance changes, including codifying the business judgment rule and altering internal corporate litigation and records rules; it passed to engrossment, the three-day rule was suspended, and it was finally passed by a 30-1 vote. Senate Bill 857, allowing law enforcement discretion to tow vehicles driven by unlicensed or uninsured drivers, passed after discussion of towing abuses during flooding and disaster conditions. Committee Substitute Senate Bill 1536, requiring dementia and Alzheimer’s training for certain guardians, passed with broad support, and Senate Bill 922, addressing delayed electronic disclosure of sensitive medical test results so physicians can discuss them first, was taken up and passed to engrossment as the chamber continued through its calendar.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session May 4th, 2026

Oklahoma Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • And is this truly going to give us rate review for every rate change on property insurance in our state
  • And so... ...do anything to push back on those rates.
  • , scrutinize rates... ...has much more ability to be able to look into rates, scrutinize rates, potentially
  • If they make a mistake, the dangers are still there.
  • So congratulations for making your golden anniversary.
Summary: The Senate convened with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, and a special family recitation of the Declaration of Independence by Senator Hamilton’s children. The chamber then adopted SR 28, recognizing May as Alpha-Gal Awareness and Prevention Month in Oklahoma and encouraging awareness, prevention, and research on alpha-gal syndrome, a tick-borne allergic condition. Senator Seifried also introduced constituents affected by alpha-gal. Later, the Senate heard a gallery introduction from advocates for victims of impaired driving, highlighting the toll of DUI-related crashes in Oklahoma. The Senate then took up several House amendments and final-passage votes on bills. SB 201, clarifying that a teacher pay raise applies to certified classroom teachers, passed 47-0 and was advanced as an emergency. SB 1379, SB 1525, SB 1966, SB 2112, and SB 2170 also passed after adoption of House amendments, with SB 1525 and SB 1379 advanced as emergency measures. SB 1525 raised the threshold for contracting to host a conference from $25,000 to $75,000, and SB 1966 served as the annual omnibus highway, memorial highway, and bridge designation bill. Among the House bills considered, HB 3262 increased the sheriff fee for service of process from $50 to $100 and passed 37-8. HB 3265 allowed a psychologist to make PTSD determinations for the Oklahoma Police Pension and Retirement System and passed 47-0. HB 3781, a major insurance modernization bill changing rate-filing procedures for homeowners insurance and expanding the insurance commissioner’s review authority, passed 39-6 after extended debate over transparency, regulation, and market impact. HB 3040 expanded sex-offender loitering restrictions around businesses serving minors and passed 40-4, while HB 3076 authorized alternative teacher certification providers under OEQA oversight and passed 38-6 as an emergency measure. The chamber also passed HB 3369, a deregulation and efficiency bill affecting fire suppression and LP gas inspections, HB 2749, which shifted an intergenerational education program toward a Medicaid state plan amendment, HB 3982 on fleet vehicle titling, HB 3462 creating a shorter residential-only plumbing licensure pathway, HB 3465 extending the Oklahoma Emission Reduction Technology Rebate Program to 2029, HB 3521 modernizing money transmission law, HB 3796 as an Oklahoma Insurance Department omnibus bill, HB 3800 as a roofing-industry cleanup bill, and HB 4095 modernizing the 211 hotline advisory council. Several of these measures drew debate over regulation, workforce needs, public safety, or fiscal and policy impacts, but all of the listed bills ultimately passed by recorded vote.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • Members, does anyone have a statement they wish to make? If not, we will begin.
  • We're just making sure that those who can pay do pay their fair share.
  • Unfortunately, people want to make side money, and things like that.
  • rate because we engage our population closest to home.
  • Our out-of-county individuals have 100% recidivism rate, making this a public safety issue.