Video & Transcript Research : 'functional needs'
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NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs (01/28/2026)
Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- treatments to patients who need them. treatments to patients who need them.
- Yeah, I need a pink card. One >> Uh okay. Yeah, I need a pink card.
- That's what makes the law functional. functional. functional.
- Uh, I need to get CMS to reimburse my stuff. I need to pay my investors.
- been functioning on this basis. been functioning on this basis.
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- It's badly needed.
- >
we <00:50:21.240>don't <00:50:21.400>need needs. - And what we don't need needs.
- <00:58:47.240>
to needs to be we continue we need to needs to be we continue we need to continue - So that's a—would you believe—we need to... Is it a quick one last question? needed it. needed it.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Policy Committee 3/5/26
Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- , we would then need to put in place need, we would then need to put in place controls<00:29:02.320><
- We need to protect the public's money. We need to protect the public's money.
- need to be the lead organization on it. need to be the lead organization on it.
- small nonprofit organizations function. small nonprofit organizations function.
- We need the people to do it."
Summary:
The committee approved the March 3 minutes and then heard a presentation from the Office of the Legislative Auditor on state grant-management requirements. Deputy Legislative Auditor Katherine Tyson outlined the main controls agencies must follow, including pre-award risk assessments for grants of $50,000 or more, reimbursement as the preferred payment method, limits and documentation requirements for advance payments, and monitoring obligations for active grants. She emphasized that these controls are intended to reduce improper payments and fraud, but also require staff time and strong internal systems. In response to questions, she said advance payments are used in some grants but reimbursement is more common, and noted that agencies can add controls such as retaining a portion of funds, surprise visits, or audits. She also said surety bonds are required in some state programs, but not generally for grants, and that this could be a policy discussion for the executive branch.
The committee then received a Department of Natural Resources presentation on the new Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund community grant program created in 2023 law. DNR officials said the program is intended to expand access to ENRTF funding, especially for communities affected by pollution and environmental degradation, and to support projects such as environmental education, resource restoration, trail work, and aquatic invasive species management. They said the department will use the same grants team that handles Outdoor Heritage Fund and LCCMR grants, which already manages a large volume of grants, and that the advisory council application is open through April 10.
DNR described its implementation plan as similar to the Conservation Partners Legacy program, with both standard and expedited grant rounds, technical assistance, and use of technical experts. Differences include no match requirement, allowance for fiscal agents to help smaller organizations, and more flexibility for administrative expenses to reduce barriers to participation. Officials said the program will follow state grant rules, including pre-award financial reviews and monitoring, and will use the 5 percent administrative allowance to support both oversight and grantee assistance. They also said the report’s suggestion of advance payments for grants under $50,000 was raised for discussion, but they did not dispute the auditor’s emphasis that reimbursement is the preferred approach.
ND
North Dakota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Appropriations - Education and Environment Division Apr 10th, 2025 at 09:30 am
Appropriations - Education and Environment Division
Transcript Highlights:
- I do need to interrupt.
- But so the process that we would need to go to to procure, we'd need to get a consultant in place.
- So one of the things we would, probably a policy thing that you'd need to consider is do we need to go
- That you need to consider is do we need to go through the standard procurement processes of the state
- We need to collect that information.
Bills:
HB1329
Keywords:
government spending database, public expenditure transparency, open data, government transparency, school district spending, state spending, local government finance, education finance, budget database, expenditure reporting, salary transparency, benefits data, public records, Legislative Management study, North Dakota, school board training, superintendent, principal, business manager, higher education spending
Summary:
The Education Division met with all members present and first took up House Bill 1329, which would create a transparency database and website for school spending information. Senator Schaible offered Amendment 0204 to turn the bill into a study, citing concerns that the proposal would impose major data-collection burdens on 168 school districts, require new data standards and privacy protections, and likely cost far more than the $500,000 in the bill. Several members supported transparency but agreed the implementation costs and technical feasibility were unclear. The committee adopted the amendment 4-1, then passed HB 1329 as amended on a 5-0 vote, with Senator Shively to carry the bill.
The committee then discussed House Bill 1540, the education savings account/voucher bill. Representatives from the Bank of North Dakota and the Department of Public Instruction explained that they had not been consulted on the original drafting and outlined needed administrative changes, including clarifying the Bank as administrator, using a third-party program manager, involving DPI in rulemaking, adding audit and appeal procedures, and adjusting language on eligible purchases and school disqualification. They also said the current timeline was likely too aggressive to launch by the 2026-27 school year and estimated the program would require about 15 months to implement, with a fiscal note now around $5.1 million.
Members also discussed policy-related amendments on means testing and application timing. Senator Shively proposed a 300% of poverty-level means test and a sign-up period to reduce costs and limit open-ended enrollment, while Senator Axman proposed a tiered approach that would keep all students technically eligible but phase in funding levels by income, preserving access for students who qualify for other federal supports. DPI said it could not currently disaggregate some data by family income and that the appeal process and procurement timeline still needed work. The committee did not move HB 1540 out that morning and instead recessed to continue discussion later after members had time to review the administrative and fiscal issues separately from the means-testing proposals.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Health and Human Services - 03/12/26
Health and Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
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to <01:09:45.640>do they need to do and when they need to do they need - Indeed, in any functional crime.
- And so clearly this is needed.
- this is needed. this is needed.
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
Committee on Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband and Rural Development - 04/21/25
Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband, and Rural Development
Transcript Highlights:
- And importantly, they would need years.
- >
where <00:26:37.279>the need to better understand where the need to better understand - <01:17:02.800>
specialty Why do we need another specialty Why do we need another specialty - So we're not to address that need.
- farmers to feed the world, we need farmers to feed the world, we need pollinators.<01:41:57.440>
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
EEP/AEN Joint Info Briefing - Tue Jan 7, 2025 @ 9:00 AM HST
Hawaii House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- We need a solid waste permit, we need an air permit.
- We need a solid waste permit, we need an air permit.
- We need a solid waste permit, we need an air permit.
- We need a solid waste permit, we need an air permit.
- We need a solid waste permit, we need an air permit.
Summary:
The informational briefing focused on the City and County of Honolulu’s effort to site a replacement landfill for Oahu before the Waimanalo Gulch landfill closes in 2028. Chair Nicole Lowen and other legislators opened the meeting by framing the issue as important statewide and encouraging recycling, composting, and proper use of the curbside bins. The city’s Department of Environmental Services, led by Director Roger Babcock and Deputy Director Mike O’Keefe, then presented the background and siting process.
ENV explained the legal and technical constraints that shaped the search, including the 2019 Land Use Commission decision requiring closure of Waimanalo Gulch by March 2, 2028, and the 2020 Act 73 restrictions on landfill siting near residences, schools, hospitals, conservation districts, airports, and tsunami inundation areas. They said a landfill advisory committee reviewed six candidate sites in 2021-2022 and rejected them because they fell within the Board of Water Supply’s no-pass zone. After further evaluation and an extension of the naming deadline, the city selected a site in central Oahu near Wahiawa, on agricultural land currently used as a Dole pineapple field.
City officials said the selected site was chosen as the best of the evaluated options and, in their view, could be permitted under state and federal law. They described planned environmental protections, including a modern sanitary landfill design with double liners, leachate collection systems, monitoring wells, and post-closure monitoring, and said the existing Waimanalo Gulch landfill has operated for 35 years without leachate leaks. They also emphasized that the site would still require a special use permit, Department of Health approvals, an environmental impact statement, and other public permitting processes, and that public engagement would continue over the next several years.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- So this committee functions under a zero levy target.
- additional uh uh academic needs additional uh uh academic needs compensatory<00:59:54.480>
Revenue - The students that the money needs to be directed to—the money needs to stay at the site, but the students
- Or do you need to go cool your brains?
- <01:34:53.800>
that have students who have high needs that have students who have high needs
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- Minnesota reported that they will need Minnesota reported that they will need to<00:07:16.280>
- don't let potential funding needs don't let potential funding needs gatekeep<00:34:50.720>
the - additional res resources will be needed additional res resources will be needed and<01:15:27.320
- We need preceptors who have time to teach. We need operations.
- get the much needed care they need while get the much needed care they need while ensuring<01:47
- don't let potential funding needs don't let potential funding needs gatekeep<00:34:50.720>
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
Committee on Energy, Utilities, Environment and Climate - 03/26/25
Energy, Utilities, Environment, and Climate
Transcript Highlights:
- benefits to the grid avoiding the need benefits to the grid avoiding the need for<00:19:09.840><
- quoting a Republican said, "We need quoting a Republican said, "We need clean,<00:47:58.800>
- We need a yes and lot more solar.
- to take away a functioning to take away a functioning voluntary<01:02:30.880>
opt-in <01:02 - <01:04:59.119>
We <01:04:59.359>need We need to take this out of the bubble.
MN
FL
Florida 2026 Regular Session
Appropriations Committee on Higher Education Feb 19th, 2025
Appropriations Committee on Higher Education
Transcript Highlights:
- Not everyone needs to have a four-year degree, and not everybody needs to find their niche and what works
- decisions that you need to make on appropriations.
- need calculation.
- And so anybody who's the smallest needs some economies of scale.
- going to need for English, for example.
Summary:
The Appropriations Committee for Higher Education met to review Florida’s workforce and Florida College System funding models as part of budget planning. Chair Harrell opened by emphasizing the state’s growing focus on technical education and workforce pathways, and the committee first heard from Tara Goodman of the Department of Education on district workforce education. Goodman explained the programs funded through district workforce dollars, including career certificates, applied technology diplomas, registered apprenticeship, and adult general education, and described the model’s reliance on lagged enrollment, program cost weights, local tuition offsets, and supplemental factors such as disability services, GED testing, and minimum funding for small rural districts. She also noted federal support through Perkins and WIOA and said the model is used to determine unmet need and guide appropriations. In response to questions, she said health care programs are generally among the higher-cost offerings and may be supplemented by pipeline funds.
The committee then heard from Kathy Hebda, Chancellor of the Florida College System, on the college system’s funding model. Hebda described the main funding sources, including the program fund, student success incentive funds, pipeline funds, tuition and fees, and performance-based incentives, and explained that the current model was developed by the 28 college presidents under legislative direction. She said the model uses a three-year average FTE, weights workforce enrollment more heavily than non-workforce enrollment, gives significant weight to completions, includes a small-college factor and regional cost differentials, and also provides targeted funding to bring colleges up to a floor based on per-FTE funding. Senators asked about colleges below the target, cost differences among programs, faculty salaries, and health insurance costs; Hebda said the model is meant to provide flexible operating dollars that colleges can use for those expenses, but specific salary and benefit decisions are left to the institutions.
Seminole State College President Georgia Lorenz also testified in support of the college funding model, saying it holds institutions accountable for enrollment and completions, can be adjusted to reflect state priorities like workforce, and addresses differences in size and regional costs. No bills were voted on, and the committee adjourned after brief closing remarks thanking Seminole State College and the presenters.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy Committee 2/13/25 - Part 2
Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
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to that they're ready to go we we need to that they're ready to go we we need - bringing up is why I think we just need bringing up is why I think we just need to<00:07:26.039>
- two years is yeah there is a real need two years is yeah there is a real need to<00:11:15.680>
- need to have a really good job they need need to have a really good job they need a<00:12:33.639
- <00:24:25.760>
to <00:24:25.919>move need to move need to move forward<00:24:27.840>
AZ
Arizona 2026 Regular Session
02/05/2026 - House Artificial Intelligence & Innovation
Artificial Intelligence & Innovation
Transcript Highlights:
- And we need to be thinking about how do we be proactive about it?
- It needs to be a review of opportunities to deliver value.
- It needs to be a review of opportunities to deliver valid.
- I don’t even need to count to three.
- It needed some work, so I’m a magnanimous guy.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Commerce and Consumer Affairs (05/20/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- We may or may not need to do do that.
- And why we're here is because we realize that there is a need for regulation and there is a need for
- need for regulation and there is a need need for regulation and there is a need for<00:21:24.559
- going to say you need to uh do the 990. going to say you need to uh do the 990.
- it's likely that there will be need it's likely that there will be need there<01:07:40.319>
needs
Summary:
The subcommittee took up the pooled risk management program bill and reviewed a new amendment drafted with input from the Insurance Department and Legislative Services. Department witnesses explained that the proposal would move oversight of pooled risk management programs from the Secretary of State’s office to the Insurance Department, add a licensure requirement, preserve the programs’ non-insurer status, and exempt them from third-party administrator licensure. They also described a series of solvency tools in the draft, including financial reporting, risk-based capital standards, minimum capitalization, investment limits, commissioner examination and enforcement authority, rulemaking authority, merger and affiliate-transaction review, confidentiality protections, and a separability clause.
A major theme of the discussion was that pooled risk management programs differ from commercial insurers because the risk remains with the member local governments rather than being backed by a state guarantee fund. Witnesses said the bill is designed to emphasize solvency over return of premium and to give the Insurance Department a regulatory “toolbox” to prevent insolvency, including a proposed $5 million excess or stop-loss coverage benchmark, optional accessible policies, and a requirement that boards vote on dividends or premium returns when capital exceeds 600% of risk-based capital. Members questioned how this approach differed from the original Secretary of State bill and whether assessments on towns would still be possible; the department responded that the new framework would allow more flexible oversight and alternatives to immediate court action.
The committee also discussed why the statute should continue to say the programs are not insurers, with the department explaining that this preserves their autonomy and avoids applying unrelated insurance laws and premium taxes. Members asked about the department’s workload and were told the department believed it could absorb the new duties without additional funding. No vote or final committee action was taken in the portion provided.
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
House - Government, Elections And Indian Affairs Feb 9th, 2026 at 08:35 am
House Government, Elections & Indian Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- There is a clear need for the state... ...in the state needing access to special education services.
- Our state needs the contributions of all its citizens.
- You know, do you think he needs 45 minutes or an hour? Well, I don't know.
- So this is old language that just needed to be changed.
- Some are more functional, and they are still left behind.
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
An oversight hearing to examine Native communities' priorities for the 119th Congress. Feb 12th, 2025 at 01:30 pm
Indian Affairs Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- Second, we need stable and adequate funding.
- , the need. this moment, but we need to understand what's happening right now is unlawful, and it is
- Tribes need jurisdiction back. The ability.
- We need to address those jurisdictional issues.
- And so we need... to hear from you on that.
Keywords:
tribal sovereignty, healthcare, education, public safety, Economic Development, Tax Parity Act, PROTECT Act, trust obligations, bipartisan support, Indian Health Services
Summary:
The committee meeting focused on crucial issues facing tribal nations, particularly emphasizing the federal government's trust and treaty obligations. The discussions highlighted ongoing challenges such as disparities in healthcare, education, and public safety within Native communities. Chair Murkowski underscored the importance of listening to Native leaders and aligning congressional efforts with community needs, advocating for legislative actions that support tribal sovereignty and economic development. Various initiatives, including the Tax Parity Act and the PROTECT Act, aimed at addressing jurisdictional and financial disparities, were discussed in detail. A call for bipartisan support to alleviate the funding shortages affecting Indian Health Services was made several times during the meeting. Testimonies from tribal leaders and representatives emphasized the dire need for legislative support to enhance infrastructure, healthcare access, and public safety initiatives in tribal communities.
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government Jan 15th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- They need those things and we need to help give them the tools to do that.
- We need to set goals we need to collect as we understand it.
- People need to be going out and to them we need to get people enrolled in doing them.
- We need to start figuring that out.
- And so definitely a need there.
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
Committee on Environment, Climate and Legacy - 02/18/25
Environment, Climate, and Legacy
Transcript Highlights:
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our a downtown that's functioning our a downtown that's functioning our community - <00:27:42.440>
to layer of communities and we need to layer of communities and we need to - I think this is um an area where we need I think this is um an area where we need to<00:43:29.680
- <00:48:29.800>
to on their farms uh now I don't need to on their farms uh now I don't need - need we need this that we're really we need we need this funding<00:52:40.760>
so <00:52:40.920
MN
Transcript Highlights:
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a reasons for a language or needing a reasons for a language or needing a language - How many years do we need?
- Why do we need to learn this?
- bit so that we make sure that the needs bit so that we make sure that the needs of<01:32:04.239>
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to are we learning this why do we need to are we learning this why do we need