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AL
Alabama 2025 Regular Session
Alabama Senate State Governmental Affairs Committee Apr 9th, 2025
State Governmental Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- Coming out of your budget. Let's start Coming out of your budget. Let's start there.
- You're not sure, but you think it's going to come out of our budget. That's right. Uh, our money.
- My recollection is that the goal was... and the way the budgeting process was working, Senator, is that
- And I'll point out that in the budget that we have currently, as my understanding, I've perused through
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NH
Transcript Highlights:
- How do we budget for that?
- How do we budget for that?
- “Yes, that’s current law, but when we’re budgeting, which we’re budgeting now, and you’ve had experience
- which we're budgeting we're budgeting which we're budgeting now<02:11:00.960><c> and</c><02:11:01.360
- </c> property tax issues in the last budget property tax issues in the last budget but<02:36:31.760><
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- and the government's balance the budget and the government's budget<01:50:50.280><c> itself</c><01:50
- :50.639><c> includes</c><01:50:51.119><c> signific</c> budget itself includes signific budget itself
- </c> approximately $75,000 to a school budget approximately $75,000 to a school budget each<03:26:46.239
- </c> districts regardless of size or budget districts regardless of size or budget can<03:33:20.000><
- </c><05:47:55.240><c> accounting</c> including the state budget accounting including the state budget
CO
Colorado 2026 Regular Session
Colorado Senate 2026 Legislative Day 100 Apr 24th, 2026
Colorado Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- I know just from my time sitting on the Joint Budget Committee, listening to everything that Senator
- in and talk to the Joint Budget Committee about what truly is going on with the requirement for new,
- </c><01:12:01.120><c> process,</c> the budget process, the budget process, um,<01:12:02.600><c> next<
- </c> come in and talk to the Joint Budget come in and talk to the Joint Budget Committee<01:12:06.400
- 44:12.880><c> meeting</c><01:44:13.600><c> today</c> Budget Committee will be meeting today Budget Committee
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Government Contract Review Committee 2-10-26
Transcript Highlights:
- That's our education in general budget, and so through the appropriation process, I believe that it is
- in general budget, and so through<00:10:34.520><c> the</c><00:10:34.600><c> appropriation</c><00:10:
- . budget. budget.
- We all share the same concerns with some of the upcoming budget items that we can have in this budget
- </c> items that we can have in this budget. items that we can have in this budget.
Summary:
The committee first approved the minutes from its January 13 meeting and then moved through a large agenda of contracts and agreements, with members repeatedly voting to review items without objection. The chair noted the agenda included 227 contracts totaling about $89.5 million, all with vendors registered with the Secretary of State. Most items were approved after brief discussion and roll-call votes.
Several contracts drew questions. Kentucky State University explained two four-month contracts tied to its online academic program: one for continued implementation support and one for marketing. University officials said the program is in a transition year under a management improvement plan, that the university owns the intellectual property, and that the marketing effort is aimed at growing enrollment in targeted programs such as business and social work. They reported online enrollment had grown from 74 students to 612, with an overall university enrollment of 2,872, and said the goal is to reach about 1,000 online students by fall. The committee approved both items, though Senator Douglas said he would keep watching university spending.
The Department of Education presented a contract cancellation for administrative reviews of the National School Lunch and School Breakfast Program. Officials said USDA changed the review requirement from every three years to every five years, making the outside contract unnecessary because internal staff can now handle the work. The committee approved the cancellation. The Transportation Cabinet also explained an increase to a professional services contract for engineering work on a section of KY 54 in Owensboro, describing it as preliminary design and commissioning work for a multi-section roadway project; the committee approved that item as well.
The Kentucky Lottery Corporation sought approval for an amendment tied to its iLottery platform. Officials said the increase reflected higher sales volume, since the contract structure causes prize and platform-related expenses to rise as sales grow. The committee approved the amendment. The Department of Public Health also discussed a perinatal psychiatry consultation program funded by a five-year federal HRSA grant; members raised concerns about what would happen if federal support changes, but no action beyond discussion was noted in the excerpt.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Minnesota House repasses omnibus housing finance bill, SF2298 5/18/25
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Members, yes, we have a good conference committee report in front of us, with the budget targets that
- It's not just predicated on how much you spend in the budget year of the biennium.
- If our state's general fund budget was an entire gallon jug of water, under this new budget we're about
- </c> jug of water, uh under this new budget jug of water, uh under this new budget we're<00:28:16.880
- > uh</c> economic security. under this budget uh economic security. under this budget uh we<00:29:20.960
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Rules and Administration - 04/30/25
Rules and Administration
Transcript Highlights:
- bill, our budget and policy bill.
- </c><00:07:43.680><c> bill,</c> we were finalizing um our budget bill, we were finalizing um our budget
- It's all our budget and policy bill.
- Um, and one of the things we talk about is the budget that we did put together.
- And so what we tried to do was to lay across an even scale of budget tightening.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
House Standing Committee BR Sub. on Justice, Public Safety, & Judiciary (3-4-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- We realize that, as the legislature, you are tasked with budgeting for the state, and part of that is
- So I'm just exploring all sorts of options as we go into the budget year.
- So I'm just exploring all sorts of options as we go into the budget year.
- bill, where we can use the budget reserve trust fund if needed if not enough is appropriated.
- > Reserve</c> where we can use the um budget Reserve where we can use the um budget Reserve trust<00:
Summary:
The subcommittee met to discuss the guardian ad litem system, including appointment qualifications, training, payment, and whether any changes are needed. Roll was called, the February 25, 2025 minutes were approved, and the chair emphasized that the meeting was informational only and no vote would be taken. Representatives from the Court of Justice, including Chief Justice Deborah Henry Lambert and several family and district judges, testified about how the system has evolved since concerns raised in 2019 about overappointment and fees.
Court witnesses said the judiciary responded to earlier concerns by requiring open appointment lists of trained and qualified attorneys, improving training, and increasing oversight of fee orders. They reported that statewide GAL fees have fallen from a little over $14 million in 2019 to about $12 million, even as caseloads have grown, and said the average payment works out to about $650 per case, with the statutory cap for trial-level GAL fees still set at $500 since 1986. They argued that the current local appointment model works well, especially in rural areas, and warned that moving to a DPA-style regional model would create serious scheduling and conflict problems because of overlapping dockets and related criminal cases.
Judges from rural districts described shortages of available attorneys, high burnout, travel burdens, and the difficulty of finding enough counsel in smaller counties. They also said the Court of Justice cannot seek certain federal Title IV-E reimbursements, but urged the legislature to encourage the Finance and Administration Cabinet and the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to pursue that funding through an MOU. One judge noted that some appointed attorneys are effectively underpaid relative to private rates and that better compensation would help attract and retain lawyers.
The discussion also covered training standards adopted after the 2019 audit. Witnesses said Rule 37 now requires initial training and four hours of multidisciplinary continuing training every two years, with topics including child development, trauma-informed care, substance use, child welfare, forensics, ethics, and communication with clients. They said the Court of Justice has offered in-person regional trainings and remote options, and that the goal is to keep qualified attorneys on the appointment lists while improving representation for children and parents in dependency, neglect, abuse, and termination-of-parental-rights cases.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Interim Joint Committee on Education (8-18-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><01:28:19.760><c> bill</c> that or or showed the budget bill that or or showed the budget bill language
- I know you all are about and budgeting.
- So, this is a to begin a budget year.
- 01:29:27.120><c> those</c> you're preparing your budgets, those you're preparing your budgets, those
- Like we did find I don't mean budgeting.
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Call to Order and Roll Call - 00:13
Approval of Minutes - 4:07
Kentucky Academic Standards for Reading and Writing - 5:18
Math Improvement Committee Report - 21:02
ETS Praxis Exam - 41:47
KDE Performance Review Data - 1:15:04
Adjournment - 1:57:54, 958, all
Summary:
The committee heard a presentation from KDE on the revised Kentucky academic standards for reading and writing. KDE explained the statutory six-year review process, the public comment periods, and the main revisions, including updates tied to the science of reading, decodable text, encoding/decoding, and an updated vision statement. KDE said 308 responses were received on the initial public comment, most respondents favored keeping standards as-is, and about 12% of standards were revised. The department also said the document was streamlined by removing repeated graphics and reducing its size by about 24%, and that a later comment period drew more than 400 responses. No new standards were flagged for review.
Members asked about alignment between standards, curriculum, assessments, and NAEP, and KDE said instructional resources should be aligned to standards, KSA assessments are aligned to the standards, and screeners/diagnostics help identify student needs. Representative Truett raised the idea of a textbook-to-standards crosswalk, and KDE said publishers and a future repository partner should provide such crosswalks for local districts. Representative Bojanowski asked why foundational reading skills are not directly assessed on the third-grade KSA; KDE responded that the assessment is designed to measure end-of-grade expectations, while screening and diagnostics are used earlier to identify decoding needs. Representative Gel asked about early childhood supports, and KDE said it is working with early learning and special education offices and promoting LETRS professional learning for both teachers and preschool educators.
The committee then received the mathematics improvement committee report. KDE said the mathematics committee unanimously approved a new strategic plan for improving math achievement from pre-K through grade 20 and adult education. The plan centers on six priorities: student empowerment, effective mathematics teaching and learning, continuous educator development and growth, a continuum of learning, community and family partnerships, and teacher recruitment and retention. KDE said the plan is intended as a living document with goals, recommended actions, and evidence bases, and that it aligns with the Kentucky Numeracy Counts Act by supporting high-quality instructional resources, professional learning, and family resources. In response to Senator Thomas, KDE explained that the professional learning recommendation means districts should tailor teacher training to classroom needs and instructional materials so math teachers are better equipped to implement standards and support students.
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Pandemic Relief Funding Revised Apr 15th, 2026 at 09:30 am
Joint Committee on Pandemic Relief Funding
Transcript Highlights:
- We will be recommending funds budgeted to be spent in Q4 be reallocated to projects with gaps who can
- Pass to the Joint Committee on Appropriations and Budget.
- The Joint Committee on Appropriations and Budget, with a vote of 21 to 0, will report out to do pass
- to the Joint Committee on Appropriations and Budget.
- Will declare the motion to have passed to move on to a Joint Committee on Appropriation and Budget.
MO
Transcript Highlights:
- reappropriations, but it does make me a little nervous anytime we move something out of the operating budget
- And second to that, obviously moving $186 million out of the operating budget to 17 does significantly
- ... ...moving $186 million out of the operating budget to 17 does significantly decrease what our operating
- budget looks like, but really we’re just moving $186 million from the operating budget to 17.
- And again, after last year, I’ve had this conversation: not watching all the budget bills make it to
Summary:
The committee took up a series of capital and reappropriation bills, with the chair explaining proposed reductions or removals of funding that had not been spent or were no longer expected to be needed. Discussion focused on projects such as railroad grade crossing work, Mississippi levee stabilization, strategic mining, the Missouri Housing Trust Fund, tornado-related reappropriations, the Kansas City Behavioral Health Hospital, Camp Avery, and a Columbia-area highway/interchange project. Members asked for clarification on several items, including the strategic mining line item, the Columbia/Highway 63 project, and the treatment of older projects that had been appropriated in 2023 but had little or no expenditure. The chair said his general approach was to pull back funds that had not been used unless there was a clear, imminent need, and noted that some projects had grown significantly beyond original estimates.
House Bill 2017 was amended and advanced after discussion of moving storm-related funding into reappropriations and concerns about taking large amounts out of the operating budget. The committee then adopted substitutes and voted House Bill 2017 do pass by a 28-1 vote, House Bill 2018 do pass by a 28-0 vote, House Bill 2019 do pass by a 29-0 vote, and House Bill 2020 do pass by a 28-0 vote. House Bill 2019 included a $10.7 million increase for a DSS youth services facility in the St. Louis area, described as a new treatment-oriented youth center in Bellefontaine, with members noting the project had risen from an earlier estimate of about $7 million to roughly $18 million total. House Bill 2020 involved final ARPA-related adjustments, including a small reduction and moving FTE language back to another bill, with the chair explaining that remaining unspent ARPA dollars would ultimately be directed to the foundation formula if not otherwise obligated and spent before the deadline.
AZ
Arizona 2026 Regular Session
02/19/2026 - Senate Government
Senate Government Committee of Reference
Transcript Highlights:
- Joint Legislative Budget Committee staff must adjust the CSF per-pupil calculations to exclude the weighted
- There are severe impacts toward budgeting, toward overall budgeting.
- a district spend at least 60% of operational funding on teacher pay, but operational funding and budgets
- And operational budgets also fund curriculum development, teacher training, technology services, special
- They want teachers who are actually compensated and given classroom supply budgets, right?
Summary:
The Senate Committee on Government considered only SCR 1032, along with a strike-everything amendment. The amendment would require school districts, subject to voter approval, to dedicate at least 60% of operational spending to teacher pay, with a phased-in increase beginning in FY 2028 for districts below that threshold. It also ties compliance to Classroom Site Fund eligibility, requires unexpended CSF monies to revert if a district is found out of compliance, and allows limited waivers from the Superintendent of Public Instruction. The sponsor argued the measure would correct what he described as a long-term misallocation of education funding and give voters a chance to prioritize teachers.
Supporters, including representatives from Heritage Action, the Goldwater Institute, and the Center for Arizona Policy, said district spending has risen while teacher pay has remained flat in real terms, and argued the measure would increase transparency and accountability and ensure more money reaches teachers. Opponents, including a representative of the Rural Arizona School Coalition, said the proposal would be difficult for rural districts to meet and would squeeze out other necessary costs such as fuel, insurance, facilities, and minimum wage increases. A committee member also raised concerns that the measure could harm special education and other student support services by forcing districts to shift funds away from those areas.
During discussion, the sponsor said charter schools were not included because he viewed them as private businesses, despite a member noting state law defines them as public schools. The committee adopted the strike-everything amendment and then approved SCR 1032 as amended. The final vote was 4 ayes, 3 nays, and 0 not voting, sending the measure out with a do pass as amended recommendation.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Human Services Finance and Policy Committee 2/26/26
Human Services Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- So while comparable Medicaid budget.
- Um, and how much of this budget is >> Yep.
- </c> compared to our overall budget. compared to our overall budget.
- So from your already very large budget.
- Um, and then terms of Medicaid budget.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy Committee 2/19/26
Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- Chair, we have a budget that we have to live by. We've agreed to a budget. We did it last year.
- Chair, we have a budget that that, Mr.
- </c><00:28:09.360><c> The</c><00:28:09.600><c> budget</c> budget. We did it last year.
- The budget budget. We did it last year.
- </c><01:30:08.400><c> surpluses</c> massive surpluses but budget surpluses massive surpluses but budget
FL
Transcript Highlights:
- President, can you go through, you just said that everything will go through the legislative budgeting
- consultation process, including the requirement that a Legislative Budget Commission approve certain
- budget amendments.
- the requirement that the LBC approve certain budget amendments.
- If approved through the budget consultation process. Peter Berman. Thank you, Mr.
MO
Missouri 2026 Regular Session
2026 Legislative Session - Day Twenty Eight - Thursday, February 26
Missouri House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- We have the governor's budget proposal, which reduces our spending by 600 million.
- When you say growth, you mean growth of the budget. And that's what we need.
- No, we need a growth of budget. So I want to be clear.
- When you say growth, you mean growth of the budget. And that's what we need.
- We have a balanced budget amendment in our state.
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
House Budget Review Sub. on Economic Development, Pub. Protection, Tourism, and Energy (1-14-26)
Transcript Highlights:
- request and our six-year capital plan and biennial budget requests. may have uh loss of life if you
- ><c> and</c><00:05:18.160><c> bianual</c><00:05:18.639><c> budget</c> capital plan and bianual budget
- capital plan and bianual budget requests.
- </c><00:14:52.720><c> session</c> was money authorized last budget session was money authorized last
- in or the upcoming budget cycle.
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00:02 EEC – State-Owned Dams
21:07 EEC – Grid Resilience Grant Funds
37:24 Adjournment, 958, all
Summary:
The committee heard presentations from the Department for Environmental Protection and the Office of Energy Policy on Kentucky’s state-owned dam repair program and the electric grid resilience program. Commissioner Tony Hatton explained how state dams are defined and classified under Kentucky law, the criteria used to prioritize repairs or decommissioning, and the status of several projects funded in the last biennium. He said the department is using a design-bid-build process, with major work planned or underway at Willisburg Lake, Big Bone Lick State Park Dam, Clemens Lake Dam, Marion County Sportsman’s Dam, Chinoa Lake Creek/Canning Creek Dam, and Lake Malone, and that $0.5 million is reserved for routine repairs. He also described the timeline and cost pressures, noting that construction seasons and bid uncertainty can affect schedules and estimates.
Members asked several questions about whether the estimates were current, how accurate the bids tend to be, why the process takes so long, and whether it would be better to fund design separately before construction. Hatton said the estimates are the best current engineering estimates, that costs often stay within about 10% but can vary, and that the overall process is usually closer to two years than four, though delays can occur. He also said all of the allocated dam funds must be available before bids can be let. The committee discussed whether design work can become stale if construction is delayed.
Kenya Stump then updated the committee on Kentucky’s electric grid resilience program under federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act funding. She said Kentucky has received years one through three of the five-year program and has allocated funds to state park electric systems and municipal utilities, with years four and five not yet received. She identified Ken Lake State Park and Kentucky Dam Village as the two state park projects in progress, and Owensboro, Princeton, Williamstown, and Hopkinsville as the municipal projects selected through a competitive process. She said the projects are under contract or in final negotiations, with municipal construction expected to begin in the first quarter of 2026 and finish by the end of 2026, and explained that the work includes line, pole, transformer, meter, and outage-management upgrades. Members asked about the relationship between this program and prior park appropriations, the timing of agreements with Parks, and whether the park systems could eventually be transferred to the local electric cooperative; Stump said the park agreements are imminent and that the upgrades are intended to bring the systems up to code so the cooperative can maintain them. No votes were taken, and the chair adjourned the committee until the following Wednesday, with a possible time change to avoid a scheduling conflict.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Conference Committee on SF3045 5/19/25
Transcript Highlights:
- For Minnesota Management and Budget, an increase of $3.4 million.
- And we are in alignment with the budget forecast or the budget plan that we had for this committee.
- state government policy and Secretary of State business fraud filing provisions. forecast or the budget
- um plan that we forecast or the budget um plan that we had<00:04:45.600><c> for</c><00:04:45.759><c>
- On the next page is the repealer of the advisory council on infrastructure and then the budget forecast
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Housing Finance and Policy Committee 4/8/25
Housing Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- been a part of and we may ever be a part of again where we went through a whole session writing a budget
- I appreciate the work of both co-chairs to receive an astounding budget target of $75 million and $100
- budget target.
- We understand that this is a difficult budget year.
- </c> omnimous bill uh knowing the budget omnimous bill uh knowing the budget limitation<00:32:00.399>
FL
Florida 2026 Regular Session
FL House Floor Session - 2025-03-26 (3:00PM Session)
Florida House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- They are irrelevant and incidental to the true growth of the budget.
- Our budget... House GAA will be historic.
- Our budget will not only be lower than the governor's proposed budget, it will also be lower than the
- budget passed by the legislature last term.
- It has been in the budget for 10 years.
Summary:
The House convened with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, quorum confirmed, and several recognitions, including a moment of silence for retired fire captain Bill Guston and a welcome for guests in the galleries. The Speaker then outlined the House’s budget approach, saying the proposed General Appropriations Act would be lower than both the governor’s proposal and last year’s budget, and announced plans to seek a permanent 0.75% reduction in the state sales tax. The chamber also received the governor’s veto message on portions of HB 5001 and began considering motions to restore several vetoed appropriations.
Members unanimously reinstated funding for the Florida Senior Veterans and Crisis Fund, the Rockledge Advanced Water Treatment Phase 1 project, the automated staffing/time management system for the Department of Corrections, and the Baldwin sanitary sewer and water main replacement project. The House also adopted special order and GAA amendment-procedure reports. On the special order calendar, the chamber passed HB 289 on boating safety (“Lucy’s Law”), HB 735 on water access facilities, HB 11 on municipal water and sewer utility rates, CS/HB 85 on hazardous walking conditions, and CS/HB 157 on service of process, all by wide margins.
The most debated measure was HB 6017, which would repeal Florida’s “free kill” law limiting wrongful-death damages in medical negligence cases. Supporters described the bill as a long-sought justice measure for families who lost adult children and were barred from suing, while opponents argued it was needed to provide accountability and fairness. The bill passed 104-6. The House then took up HB 759, which would lower the minimum age to purchase or transfer a firearm from 21 to 18. An amendment to keep the age at 21 was defeated, and debate featured strong arguments on both sides about constitutional rights, public safety, Parkland, military service, and data on youth violence; the transcript ends during continued debate on the bill, before final passage is shown.