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NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Finance Jan 22nd, 2026 at 09:36 am

Senate Finance

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  • And lastly, fund type, so if you just want to see general fund versus service tax funds.
  • We also have an appropriation and a general obligation.
  • General Obligation Bond Package.
  • Just for a severance tax bond and general fund.
  • We can do work for others, small business assistance.
Bills: HB1
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

01/21/2026 - Senate Public Safety

Public Safety

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  • How about your assistant? Yes. Good afternoon, Mr. Chairman and members.
  • and since then I've been a bill clerk and grossing clerk, an admin for research, and now I'm an assistant
  • And, fun fact, I have officially been an assistant analyst for every committee in the Senate. Wow.
  • next to General Washington, okay?
  • Chair and members, Senate Bill 1035 appropriates an unspecified amount from the State General Fund in
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Appropriations and Finance Jan 20th, 2026 at 04:16 pm

House Appropriations & Finance

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  • Representatives, the asterisk does represent requests from legislative cash balances as opposed to, say, from a general
  • However, all of the district staff Offices, all of that appropriation was from the general fund.
  • Emergency in general life in order for this to.
  • Anything that is not expended out of these appropriations does revert to the general fund.
Bills: HB1
KY
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  • Will the committee assistant please call the roll?
  • Probably reach out to the county judge on that to try to get some assistance. mergers.
  • As we are revenue-limited, it is essential for cities to generate the funds necessary to provide the
  • An example of an economic development opportunity created by revenue generated from the restaurant tax
  • opportunity created by revenue generated opportunity created by revenue generated from<00:20:33.039
Summary: The committee received reports on special purpose governmental entities from the Department for Local Government and the Fire Commission. DLG staff described SPGEs as limited-jurisdiction political subdivisions and reviewed the department’s registry, reporting portal, compliance monitoring, and planned system upgrades such as a two-way message center, automated noncompliance notices, and tracking for new entities and board expirations. They reported that, as of October 10, 2025, 69% of SPGEs were active and discussed compliance data by cycle, fiscal year, and district type. The Fire Commission reported that fire department mergers have reduced the number of departments by 16 since last year, largely because of volunteer staffing shortages, while financial disclosure compliance had risen to 94%. The commission also noted 509 compliance reviews, 19 in-house inquiries, seven referrals to outside agencies, and one recent federal prison sentence in a theft case. Members asked whether DLG advises SPGEs on tax rates; staff said it only performs calculations and the entities set their own rates. Questions to the Fire Commission focused on whether department reductions meant station closures; officials explained that most changes were mergers that keep physical buildings in place while combining personnel and finances to meet minimum staffing requirements. They said the trend is spread across the state but is especially pronounced in rural areas. The Kentucky League of Cities then presented its 2026 legislative agenda. Its priorities included modernizing city revenue options, increasing equity in road funding, fixing tax increment financing issues, addressing transient room tax collection from web-based platforms, strengthening emergency response coordination, clarifying massage parlor regulation preemption, correcting unintended consequences of House Bill 606, improving newspaper publication rules, and modernizing procurement statutes. KLC also said it supports allowing all cities to collect restaurant tax revenue, wants cities to receive a larger share of road funds and EV-related revenues, and seeks state collection and remittance of any future local sales tax to comply with the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement. Members asked about best-value bidding, road-fund equity, Airbnb tax litigation, EV prevalence, and disaster funding applications; KLC said cities currently must accept the lowest bid, the road split should better reflect city street costs, the Airbnb tax case remains pending, EV data by locality has not been studied, and allowing cities to apply directly for disaster funds would reduce reliance on county officials. No votes or formal actions were taken beyond approving the September meeting minutes.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Children and Youth Health Committee Feb 27th, 2025

Children and Youth Health

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  • crime victims advocate, and I've been asked to read a testimony this morning from Benjamin Bull, the General
  • Benjamin Bull, the General Counsel for the National Center on Sexual Exploitation, that Alabama SB on
Bills: SB186, SB187
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Corrections Apr 9th, 2025

Corrections

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  • If you require assistance in registering or testifying, please get in touch with our committee staff.
  • Josh, right here, will be happy to help you, the assistant clerk.
  • Studies have shown that when compared to the general population, inmates are more likely to have high
  • HB 4120 seeks to build on what we did last year by directing TDCJ to work with HHSC to assist in the
  • , ensuring those dollars still support victims rather than being transferred to general state revenue
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Public Health Mar 31st, 2025

Public Health

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  • My goal is not to open up for general market.
  • And I also have Ambika Sanchez, you are Assistant General Counsel. ...with the Board of Dental Examiners
  • Ohio, but generally they're uniform.
  • He generally will file good bills.
  • And PAs, Physician Assistants... Assistants can now have a doctorate degree as well.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Delivery of Government Efficiency Mar 26th, 2025

Delivery of Government Efficiency

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  • They can call the call centers and get assistance finding a network pharmacy if they need to, but generally
  • Who is the general counsel for you? Um, internal.
  • I mean, you probably have lots of assistant general counsel, deputy general counsel, but do you have
  • a general counsel?
  • You are very generous with your time.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

CPN-AEN Informational Briefing 04-15-2026

Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting

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  • It's generally a survey inspection, depending on the particular goods and the volume.
  • Bovine tuberculosis. a list that needs to be generated for a list that needs to be generated for you<
  • I'm going to seek the advice of the Attorney General, Deputy N. N.
  • , the advice of the Attorney General, the advice of the Attorney General, Deputy<01:12:45.200>
  • Lopez, Attorney General, and Deputy N N.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

PSM-HWN Informational Briefing 04-15-2026

Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting

AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/04/2026 - Senate Government

Government

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  • It creates more barriers to receiving assistance, you know, using anecdotal information to impugn an
  • It creates more barriers to receiving assistance, you know, using anecdotal information to impugn an
  • I'm just kind of a general-type person, down to earth.
  • And does it come from—do any of our salaries, are they all coming from the general fund?
  • Chairman, ultimately our salaries come indirectly from the general fund.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Intergovernmental Affairs Apr 22nd, 2025

Intergovernmental Affairs

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  • If you need assistance registering, you can come up here and feel free to ask our clerk to assist you
  • So it's exceedingly difficult to get this assistance. We have never.
  • Households that qualify for housing assistance are headed by someone over the age of 60.
  • I'm General Counsel for the Texas Hotel and Lodging Association.
  • So the capital that is generated from that sale is what is used to build...
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Intergovernmental Affairs Apr 22nd, 2025

Intergovernmental Affairs

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  • as much- affordable housing on the ground as possible for low-income families and for families in general
  • Testimony is to ask you to pass this in general terms and let the Texas Department of Housing and Community
TX

Texas 89th Regular

S/C on Disease Prevention & Women's & Children's Health Apr 17th, 2025

S/C on Disease Prevention & Women's & Children's Health

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  • If you require assistance, please speak to our assistant clerk at the desk.
  • If Medicaid in general, as opposed to just Star Health, covered these services, more people would be
  • I know some of the generic names, but Ozempic is the GL— I mean, that's Ozempic. ...become very familiar
  • The medications assist that behavior. ...be much more effective and can be maintained over a longer period
TX

Texas 89th Regular

S/C on Disease Prevention & Women's & Children's Health Apr 17th, 2025

S/C on Disease Prevention & Women's & Children's Health

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  • If you require assistance, please let us know.
  • Registering or testifying, please speak with the assistant clerk at the desk in front of the dais in
  • We're doing a lot of the technical assistance with them, and we believe that if the Women's Health Advisory
  • Committee was reinstated, they could offer a more targeted approach to providing that technical assistance
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Health and Welfare May 12th, 2026

Health and Welfare

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  • and report on the cost, feasibility, and impact of allowing recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
  • SNAP recipients can already purchase groceries online, but federal rules generally prohibit benefits
  • Under the definition of facility, it means non-hospital facility, including a nursing facility, assisted
  • And all I want to do is see if our great Surgeon General will engage.
  • And I brought the Surgeon General with me to the table today. Evelyn Griffin, Surgeon General.
Summary: The House Committee on Health and Welfare met on May 12 and first reported HCR 98 favorably without objection. The resolution asks the Louisiana Department of Health to study whether SNAP benefits could be used to pay grocery delivery fees and related costs, especially for elderly and mobility-limited recipients. The author said the measure would not change SNAP rules, only request a study, and LDH was not opposed. The committee then advanced several Senate bills. SB 273, on hospice care in inpatient licensed facilities, was amended and reported favorably; the bill requires documentation of hydration, nutrition, and care decisions and clarifies facility responsibility when multiple providers are involved. SB 415, creating the Empower Louisiana Food Purchase Program, was amended and reported favorably; the author described it as a privately funded, charity-run food card program for people in need, with LDH to develop rules. SB 437, a cleanup bill on judicially referred residential substance abuse treatment facilities, was reported favorably, with LDH explaining that facilities providing treatment must be licensed and surveyed. The committee also approved SB 451 on newborn hearing screenings, which updates terminology and expands reporting requirements to improve early detection and intervention for deaf or hard-of-hearing children. SB 426, modernizing the addictive disorder regulatory authority and creating a licensure pathway for peer support specialists, was reported favorably with amendments after testimony from behavioral health providers and training organizations. SB 236 on annual LDH reviews of kidney disease treatment in Medicaid, SB 39 creating provisional licenses for massage therapist graduates, SB 190 tightening oversight of nursing facilities in the CMS Special Focus Facility Program, and SB 124 allowing peer review sharing within a health system were all reported favorably, most with technical amendments. The committee also reported favorably HR 174 urging study of fenbendazole for cancer, SB 270 allowing terminally ill patients to use medical marijuana in health care facilities, SB 359 changing terms for a Morehouse Parish hospital district board, and HR 194 requesting de-identified school visual acuity screening data for researchers. The meeting ended with a motion to adjourn.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Appropriations May 11th, 2026

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • This doesn't take any state general fund. It's self-generated revenues.
  • This doesn't take any state general fund.
  • For grants, technical assistance, and any other financial assistance? Yes. Okay.
  • For grants, technical assistance, and any other financial assistance. Yes. Okay.
  • Evelyn Griffin, who is the surgeon general.
Summary: The committee first took up Senate Bill 105, which would reinstate an existing TOPS Tech benefit for eligible veterans after a sunset expired. The author said the program had been underused because it was not well promoted, but that the new veterans workforce effort called “The Boot” would help connect veterans to the benefit. Members confirmed it would use existing TOPS funds and not require new money, and the bill was reported favorably without objection. House Resolution 3 asked the Louisiana Housing Corporation to study whether vacant state-owned property could be used for housing and rental assistance for cost-burdened state employees. The author described it as an exploratory study, while members raised concerns about the fiscal note and the scope of the study. Fiscal staff explained the agency had requested additional positions to do the work. The committee discussed narrowing the study to certain areas, but the resolution was ultimately reported favorably. House Bill 189 sought supplemental pay for fire protection officers at the Lakefront Management Authority’s airport. The author and airport representatives argued the firefighters perform hazardous, specialized ARFF duties at a busy public airport and should be treated like other supplemental-pay recipients. Some members questioned whether the airport and its employees qualified under existing law and whether the proposal would expand an already costly program. After debate, the committee rejected the bill on an 8-10 vote. The committee then reported Senate Bill 461 favorably, which would place certain small groups of active employees under the Office of Group Benefits to improve insurance rates without using general fund money. House Bill 623, creating a three-tier permitting system for vapor product producers, manufacturers, and wholesalers, was amended to clarify the direct-to-consumer shipment prohibition and then reported favorably. House Bill 1222, which would authorize LED to create a grocery initiative grant and assistance program to address food deserts, drew extended debate over whether it would amount to government-run grocery stores; supporters said it would only create incentives for private grocers and related assistance. It was amended and reported favorably by a 16-2 vote. Finally, House Resolution 80, as amended, would shift a proposed audit-related effort on higher education budget metrics away from the legislative auditor and toward university systems’ own boards; members questioned the need for a look-back report and the added workload, and the chair indicated he would move to recommit the resolution to the education committee.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Revenue and Taxation Apr 20th, 2026 at 02:00 pm

Revenue and Taxation

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  • These are funds that the treasurer's office has generated in the investment of tax dollars.
  • based necessarily on the value of the property, but based on the value of the rental that they're generating