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ID
Transcript Highlights:
- The one caveat to that right now is that the United States dollar continues to be the reserve currency
- in order or we continue to take efforts to make sure that we re-instill the fact that we are the reserve
Summary:
The Senate State Affairs Committee opened its first meeting of the 2020 session with member introductions, a welcome to new secretary Abby Rowe, and introductions of the committee pages. The pages, Chase Van Epps and Christian Fusco, answered questions about their interests and future plans, and each asked a committee member a question. Senators also briefly introduced themselves and their districts, and Senator Den Hartog offered remarks about serving on the committee.
The committee then heard gubernatorial reappointment testimony from Megan Ronk to the Commission on Human Rights. Ronk described her background in state government and Idaho Power, her long service on the commission since 2008, and the commission’s role in investigating discrimination complaints and often resolving cases through education and training. Senators asked about balancing enforcement with due process, the commission’s authority, and whether complaint types have changed over time; Ronk said the commission follows a high evidentiary threshold and most complaints remain sex-based or sexual-harassment related. Senators praised her service, and the chair said the appointment would be voted on at a later meeting.
The committee also considered Salvador Cruz’s appointment to the Treasurer’s Investment Advisory Committee. Cruz, currently with the Department of Finance, outlined his banking and federal regulatory background and said he would apply the prudent investor rule to any investment decisions, including any future proposal involving precious metals. In response to questions, he expressed concern about the federal debt and its long-term economic effects. The meeting concluded with a rules assignment discussion, in which Senator Burns distributed agency rule review responsibilities to committee members and asked them to contact agencies and schedule meetings as needed before adjourning.
MO
Missouri 2026 Regular Session
2026 Legislative Session - Day One - Wednesday, January 7
Missouri House Floor Meeting
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- for your support in passing legislation, and I believe we have some witnesses, and I would like to reserve
- passing this legislation, and, uh, I don't think we have any witnesses, but, uh, I would like to reserve
TX
Texas 89th 2nd C.S.
Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs May 14th, 2025
Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- can get into this three page or I'll try to answer any questions you might have and would like to reserve
- Alright, reserve the right to close. Uh, Chair calls Jason Day.
TX
Texas 89th 2nd C.S.
Pensions, Investments & Financial Services Apr 28th, 2025
Pensions, Investments & Financial Services
Transcript Highlights:
- I'm happy to answer any questions and reserve my right to close.
- witnesses here to testify on the bill, happy to answer any questions the committee might have and reserve
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Pensions, Investments & Financial Services Apr 28th, 2025
Pensions, Investments & Financial Services
Transcript Highlights:
- I'm happy to answer any questions and reserve my right to close.
- I'm happy to answer any questions the committee might have and reserve the right to close.
Keywords:
healthcare, direct primary care, insurance deductibles, Texas Health Benefit Plans, telemedicine, police retirement, disability pension, municipalities, law enforcement, retirement benefits, retirement, beneficiary, Employees Retirement System of Texas, divorce decree, beneficiary designation, Veterans' Land Board, general obligation bonds, constitutional amendment, veterans, housing assistance
TX
Texas 89th 2nd C.S.
S/C on Academic & Career-Oriented Education Apr 24th, 2025
S/C on Academic & Career-Oriented Education
Transcript Highlights:
- Chairman, I will close and reserve the right. Uh, thank you, Representative Cunningham.
- All right, if there's no further questions, uh, we'll reserve your right to close.
AL
Alabama 2025 Regular Session
Alabama Joint ARPA Oversight Committee Apr 15th, 2025
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- And so, we don't want to prematurely plug off reserves that could be accessed later, but at the same
- Members, please reserve your questions until we have finished the entire panel. panel's testimony.
Keywords:
oil and gas waste, application fees, permit amendments, environmental regulation, Texas natural resources, battery recycling, battery disposal, consumer batteries, energy storage modules, electrochemical devices, lithium-ion battery, household hazardous waste, solid waste, municipal recycling, waste management, battery stewardship, producer responsibility, TCEQ, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, recycling program
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- pellets that are made right here in New Hampshire with New Hampshire trees, an important part of our forest
- pellets that are made right here in New Hampshire with New Hampshire trees, an important part of our forest
- pellets that are made right here in New Hampshire with New Hampshire trees, an important part of our forest
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House Executive Departments and Administration (02/04/2026)
Executive Departments and Administration
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Municipalities and Regional Government Jun 21st, 2026 at 01:00 pm
Joint Committee on Municipalities and Regional Government
Transcript Highlights:
- those two are out for fiscal 26, and the other two will be kicking off shortly, and you have them in reserve
- are out for fiscal 26, and the other two will be kicking those off shortly, and you have them in reserve
- . ...to where we’ll be kicking those off shortly, and you have them in reserve.
- We have just barely enough reserves to get through.
- We have just barely enough reserves to get through.
Summary:
The hearing focused on Governor Healey and Lt. Gov. Driscoll’s Municipal Empowerment Act, with administration officials and municipal leaders broadly supporting the bill as a package of tools to help cities and towns manage rising costs, staffing shortages, and service demands. The administration highlighted procurement reforms, including raising Chapter 30B advertising thresholds, clarifying cooperative purchasing, and removing the Commbuys notice requirement; permanent authority to amortize emergency-related deficits over three years; expanded authority and enforcement for removing double poles; continued flexibility for hybrid and remote public meetings; regionalization options such as regional boards of assessors and intermunicipal agreements; cybersecurity reporting to EOTSS; and several local revenue options and other municipal finance changes. They said the bill was shaped by listening sessions with municipal officials and was intended to increase flexibility, efficiency, and stability without imposing broad mandates.
Committee members asked about regionalization, cybersecurity costs, Commbuys, hybrid meetings, and double poles. Administration witnesses said cybersecurity reporting would help the state target resources and that existing Community Compact and capital grant programs, including IT and municipal fiber funding, could support local needs; they said EOTSS would absorb reporting within existing resources. On procurement, they said the Commbuys notice change would be optional and that other public notice methods would remain available. On hybrid meetings, they emphasized flexibility for different types of boards and the burdens a one-size-fits-all mandate could create for small towns and volunteer boards. On double poles, they said the bill’s main change from last session was to give utilities more time and improve the removal process while keeping enforcement mechanisms aimed at speeding removal rather than raising revenue.
The Massachusetts Municipal Association, MAPC, the Pioneer Valley Planning Commission, and multiple mayors and town managers testified in support. They described the bill as a practical modernization measure that would help local governments operate more efficiently and respond to fiscal pressure. Witnesses from Northampton, Lynn, Gardner, Cambridge, Franklin, North Andover, Manchester-by-the-Sea, and Ashland praised the hybrid meeting provisions, procurement changes, regional service-sharing, and emergency deficit amortization. Several also urged adoption of local revenue tools, including meals and lodging tax options and other local fees, as ways to preserve services and staffing. No votes were taken during the hearing.
CA
Transcript Highlights:
- Popular textbook providers, for example, reserve the right to use students, And sold.
- Popular textbook providers, for example, reserve the right to use students' educational information for
- So, like, I'm not opposed to the bill, but do want to reserve judgment on the details.
- better answer— For that question, and to give a better understanding: growing up on the Samoa Indian Reservation
- Seventy percent of Native Americans live outside of Indian reservations.
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- to seek clarification from the Administration for Children and Families regarding the use of TANF reserve
- Health and Human Services to seek clarification from the federal government regarding the use of TANF reserve
- regarding the<01:15:54.240><c> use</c><01:15:54.520><c> of</c><01:15:54.640><c> TANF</c><01:15:55.040><c> reserve
- </c><01:15:55.560><c> funds</c><01:15:56.040><c> and</c><01:15:56.160><c> to</c> the use of TANF reserve
- funds and to the use of TANF reserve funds and to request<01:15:56.680><c> a</c><01:15:56.760><c> waiver
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- voting locations as prescribed by law, and it asserts that the legislature and the people of Arizona reserve
- Further, the amendment... ...and the people of Arizona reserve the ability to enact laws governing elections
- I will be an aye for the time being, but I reserve my right...
- I will be an aye for the time being, but I reserve my right to change my vote on the floor.
- I'm going to probably reserve judgment on this bill. Okay. Anything else? Jordy, Dana, thank you.
Bills:
HB2109, HB2168, HB2198, HB2226, HB2415, HB2440, HB2665, HB2805, HB2811, HB2825, HB2857, HB2874, HB2966, HB4067, HB4117, HCR2001, HCR2016, HCR2051
Keywords:
distracted driving, portable wireless communication devices, motorcycles, traffic safety, civil penalties, public nuisance, nuisance abatement, abatement action, injunction, superior court, attorney general, county attorney, city attorney, board of supervisors, obscenity, obscene materials, adult materials, pornography, schools, parks
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Subcommittee No. 1 on Education Mar 5th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- And I'm always looking at our National Guard, our reserves, and our veterans and so on, and their families
- And I'm always looking at our National Guard, our reserves, and our veterans and so on, and their families
- The unallocated core funds reserves the system-wide has are not enough to cover these shortfalls.
- UC campuses have approximately $155 million in unallocated reserves, which is only enough for about four
- These reserves are not significant enough to cover new campus expenditures while we wait to receive the
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 3 on Education Finance Feb 24th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- want to also point out to you, on the very last slide, which gives you a quick snapshot of average reserves
- And so you start to see that decline in reserves, which is really a cumulative effect of that. ...which
- gives you a quick snapshot of average reserves.
- And so you start to see that decline in reserves, which is really a cumulative effect of some of the
- In reserves, which is really a cumulative effect of some of the trends we've been talking about the last
AZ
Arizona 2026 Regular Session
02/09/2026 - Senate Military Affairs and Border Security
Military Affairs and Border Security
Transcript Highlights:
- It took me approximately five to six years after the National Guard reserves was even able to receive
- I am going to reach out to them, and I'm going to reserve my vote for the floor, but right now I'll vote
- I am going to reach out to them, and I'm going to reserve my vote for the floor, but right now I'll vote
- no. ...going to reserve my vote for the floor, but right now I'll vote no.
- Right now I'll reserve my right to change my vote on the floor, but right now I will vote no to actually
Keywords:
outdoor advertising, military compatibility, zoning, electronic signage, permitting, undocumented immigrants, financial services, identification requirements, loans, foreign remittances, transitional housing, military, veterans, grant program, supportive services, SB1511, commercial driver license, CDL, nondomiciled CDL, nondomiciled commercial driver license
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
House Standing Committee on Local Government. (1-28-26)
Local Government
Transcript Highlights:
- Representative Hampton, yes, but I'd like to reserve my right to change my vote.
- Representative Hampton, yes, but I'd like to reserve my right to change my vote.
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- But I'd like to reserve my right to >> Yes.
- But I'd like to reserve my right to change<00:14:02.320><c> my</c><00:14:02.560><c> vote.
Keywords:
Meeting Start 00:00:10
Roll Call 00:00:24
HB 108 Discussion 00:03:45
HB 108 Vote 00:05:15
HB 194 Discussion 00:07:13
HB 194 Vote 00:09:45
HB 276 Discussion 00:11:53
HB 276 Vote 00:13:35
HB 290 Discussion 00:15:32
HB 290 Vote 00:18:29
HB 103 Discussion 00:20:31
HB 103 Vote 00:46:59
Adjournment 00:50:36, 958, all
ID
Idaho 2026 Regular Session
Agenda Jan 14th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- themes that we're dealing with right now, both in 2025 and going into '26, is looking at the Federal Reserve
- . 2025 and going into '26 is looking at the Federal Reserve, looking at interest rates.
- And so the Federal Reserve really controls the short end of the yield curve or those short-term interest
- This is essentially forward guidance from the Federal Reserve about where they intend to go with that
- drop in the bucket and where farm financials are, I pulled some data from the Kansas City Federal Reserve
Summary:
The committee was convened to review Idaho’s economic outlook and general fund revenue projections for fiscal years 2025-2028, with members instructed to submit “homework” revenue estimates by noon the next day so staff could compile committee averages and medians for deliberations and a final recommendation to JFAC. Opening remarks emphasized the committee’s constitutional charge, the use of the binder materials and online packet, and that the committee would meet again the next day to discuss and vote on the revenue projection recommendation.
Staff and agency presentations focused on the state’s budget and revenue picture. Legislative Services Office staff described structural imbalance concerns, noting that statutory spending changes and earmarked sales tax distributions have crowded out flexibility, while cash reserves remain substantial. The Division of Financial Management’s economist explained the official revenue forecast, including revised treatment of sales tax and tax relief fund accruals, and said the forecast largely held steady overall even as corporate and individual income tax categories shifted. She also discussed the impact of the federal One Big Beautiful Bill Act on SALT deductions and said recent corporate collections had rebounded sharply, suggesting timing and behavior changes rather than a broad economic downturn.
Outside economists and labor experts painted a generally stable to positive economic picture. Zions Bank’s economist said the Federal Reserve is likely near the end of major rate cuts, long-term rates and mortgage rates remain elevated, tariffs have risen sharply, but inflation has not yet shown broad tariff-driven acceleration; he described the national labor market as slowing but not contracting and said 2026 could be a rebuilding year. The Idaho Department of Labor reported that Idaho’s unemployment remains historically low, job growth is steady, wage growth is moderating from overheated pandemic-era levels, and the state’s labor market remains healthier and more balanced than the national picture. The committee also heard from Idaho Power’s economist, who began a presentation on broader economic conditions and utility-related demand trends before the transcript ended.