Video & Transcript Research : 'fee increase'

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OK
Transcript Highlights:
  • I can tell you this over the last five years because of the partnership, we've increased scholarships
  • We've increased need-based aid by 49%.
  • Full tuition and fees for an entire year at the University of Oklahoma right now, for in Oklahoma, on
  • We're increasing the number of MDs we produce every year as fast as we can.
  • He was trying to increase the tickets on students for football and basketball.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

04/28/2026 - Joint Appropriations

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • raising utility fees because...
  • But that also raises utility fees, so we're raising utility fees and preventing this budget does not
  • raise utility fees.
  • The bills require the director of ADEQ to maintain vehicle emission fees in Area A so that fees collected
  • That was more than double the rate of increase in population and inflation, which increased by 3%.
Summary: The committee met in a special joint appropriations session to review the FY 2027 budget package, including House Bill 4138 and Senate Bill 1831, the general appropriations or “feed” bills. Staff described the budget as including a one-time transfer of state funds, a 5% lump-sum reduction to most agencies’ discretionary general-fund budgets, continued funding for the state health insurance plan and school facilities, and various one-time restorations or reversions of prior appropriations. Members spent much of the meeting clarifying how the 5% reductions would work, noting that formula and mandatory funding such as K-12 basic aid are excluded, while the governor’s executive branch would decide how to implement the cuts within agencies. The chair repeatedly emphasized that the committee was not specifying line-item cuts and that agencies would have discretion over implementation. A large portion of the discussion focused on the practical effects of the budget on universities, public safety, health care, rural programs, and fund sweeps. Arizona Board of Regents and university representatives said the proposed reductions would amount to more than $85 million statewide and could affect programs such as the Arizona Promise Program, Teachers Academy, and tuition freezes, though no specific program cuts were written into the bill. Other testimony raised concerns about fund sweeps from encumbered balances, including university research funds, housing trust funds, utility regulation funds, and ADOT-related accounts, with some members warning about possible impacts on rural infrastructure and federal matching dollars. The committee also discussed the state employee health plan, including a $228 million general-fund infusion and proposed employee premium increases over three years, as well as questions about corrections, forestry and fire management, and rural critical access hospitals. Public testimony was largely opposed to the budget. Speakers from Opportunity Arizona, the Arizona Board of Regents, health care, and local government argued that the package would reduce support for education, housing, SNAP, health care access, and rural communities while preserving tax benefits for data centers and wealthy taxpayers. A mayor from Globe described severe flood damage and asked for state help for a flood relief fund, while a motorcycle safety advocate questioned a proposed transfer from the motorcycle safety fund. Committee members debated whether the budget’s effects should be described as speculative or as likely consequences of the broad cuts, and several exchanges became contentious over comparisons to the Great Recession and references to federal tax policy. The meeting ended with continued public testimony and no final vote taken in the portion provided, though leadership had earlier said the committee planned a mass roll-call vote on all the bills at the end.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Criminal Judiciary Apr 7th, 2026 at 03:00 pm

Criminal Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • Members, this bill is just create a felony offense and increase the fines to help stop copper theft.
  • This bill is part of our ongoing work addressing fines and fees.
  • protection of victims are made whole, just Simply provides consistency across county lines for fines and fees
  • Representative, when somebody gets fines and Fees they may be paying that in two or three different counties
  • I believe that you and I, during our time here, have continued to increase those revenues, including
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

TRS-EIG, TRS Public Hearings 02-05-2026

Transportation

Transcript Highlights:
  • And with increased ridership, there will be increased advocacy for more efficiency and faster routes
  • But there's also a fee charging a registration addition to the registration.
  • and the potential of these fees being assessed on a commercial vehicle.
  • Hawaii had the biggest jump in percentage, with a 73% increase.
  • This is the, uh, what is typically known as a fee-bait bill. Yes. Yeah.
Summary: The committees heard testimony on several transportation-related measures. SB 2356, relating to parking, drew support from the Office of Planning, the Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Commission, Appleseed Center, Realtors, and the Hawaii Bicycling League. Members discussed the bill in the context of the planned stadium-area mixed-use development, with questions about whether parking would be built in structures rather than as large surface lots. Senators expressed support and noted the measure’s broader housing and parking-reduction goals, but no vote was taken during the hearing. The bulk of the hearing focused on SB 2699, which would create a fare-free youth transit program, a special fund, annual evaluations, and appropriations tied to the environmental, energy, and food security tax. The Attorney General’s office raised technical concerns about whether the special fund met statutory requirements. The Department of Education and Department of Health supported the bill, as did the City and County of Honolulu DOT, Appleseed Center, Hawaii Youth Transportation Council, Public Health Institute, Hawaii Children’s Action Network, Hawaii Bicycling League, Our Children’s Trust, and numerous youth testifiers. Supporters emphasized reduced family transportation costs, better school attendance, improved health and mobility, and environmental benefits. One senator raised emergency-planning concerns about how children using free transit would be handled during events like tsunamis; DOT and DOE responded that emergency procedures are being developed. The chair said the committee would work on language changes, including a delayed effective date to July 2027, and defer decision-making until the 12th. The final measure discussed was SB 2470, which would require leading pedestrian intervals, accessible pedestrian signals, and other safety improvements at state-controlled intersections, and create a process for community requests for accessible pedestrian signals. Appleseed Center, the Hawaii Association of the Blind, and the Disability Rights Center supported the bill, citing pedestrian safety, reduced collisions, and the need for audible cues for blind and low-vision pedestrians. Testifiers urged a phased-in approach that prioritizes high-traffic intersections. The hearing ended with the bill still under consideration and no final vote announced.
NV
Transcript Highlights:
  • In addition, there is a user fee associated with this concept where the Department of Taxation would
  • Can use some of that fee to pay for their position. So essentially, it will pay for itself.
  • This year, Nevada has seen an increase of 8% in fatal crashes.
  • Lyon County saw a 33% increase. Washoe County, a 78% spike.
  • In the states that allowed it, the increase was just 12.5%. That is not a coincidence.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Public Health Apr 28th, 2025 at 08:04 am

Public Health

Transcript Highlights:
  • It's about closing gaps in care and increasing increasing access to critical vaccines, and working as
  • We have seen a significant increase in families. Thank you for your testimony.
  • Patient beds and mental health facilities increased 12% between 2023 and 2024.
  • Furthermore, despite efforts to increase mental health training for peace officers.
  • If we increase the number of professionals that can initiate- detentions, we will truly see an increase
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Ways and Means Committee 4/23/25

Ways and Means

Transcript Highlights:
  • It caps the state grant to match tuition increases at Minnesota State and the University of Minnesota
  • at minstate and the University increases at minstate and the University of<00:04:33.680> Minnesota
  • increases in tuition.
  • increases in tuition.
  • increases in tuition.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • Right now, tax is being assessed through fees with a swipe fee process.
  • It may also result in card issuers increasing credit card rates or adding additional annual fees to offset
  • There is a fee that's called a network assessment fee.
  • Swipe, these bills would increase swipe fee competition and transparency.
  • pay interchange fees.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • is not disclosing that fee.
  • These bills would increase swipe fee competition and transparency.
  • Detailed fee data is necessary so you can manage your merchant fee costs.
  • interchange fees; merchants do.
  • And what all of these fees do, whether it's chargebacks or the swipe fees in general, has to be built
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Business and Commerce (Part I) Apr 3rd, 2025

Business & Commerce

Transcript Highlights:
  • It allows the PUC to assess a fee, I'm sorry, a fee to cover the cost of reviewing the applications.
  • We are increasing the amount of work we're doing, increasing the amount of linemen that we have on staff
  • “I don’t know that it’s an increase in reasons, right?
  • increase, the state’s population has increased on that, right?
  • But also, you know, if we're looking at percentage increase, the state's population has increased on
Summary: The Senate Committee on Business and Commerce met with a quorum and first took up several pending and uncontested bills. It favorably reported SB 1405, SB 1762, SB 1977, SB 2077, SB 2148, and SB 1968, and also moved SB 2321 to the local and uncontested calendar. The committee then heard SB 819, which would change how the Public Utility Commission reviews proposed utility-scale solar and related interconnection projects. The committee substitute would shift the default so interconnection is allowed unless the PUC affirmatively prohibits it within 180 days, limit denial to cases where harm substantially outweighs benefits, remove public meeting requirements, retain setback and financial assurance provisions, add optional application materials such as national security and environmental information, and restore local control over county tax abatements. The substitute was adopted and SB 819 was favorably reported to the full Senate on a 7-3 vote. The committee then took up SB 231, focused on CenterPoint’s use of large emergency generators after Hurricane Beryl. Senator King explained that the original bill was intended to prevent customers from being charged for non-mobile generators that were leased at great cost and did not match the bill’s emergency-response purpose. CenterPoint’s Jason Ryan apologized for the company’s communication failures and said the company would make customers whole through a combination of rate reductions, foregone storm-cost recovery, and a donation of the 15 large generators to ERCOT for about two years to address a San Antonio-area reliability issue, with the company absorbing the associated costs. PUC Executive Director Connie Corona said the commission could enforce the agreement through its contested-case process. Public testimony included consumer and reliability advocates, one of whom argued utility-scale microgrids should be preserved as a policy option. SB 231 was left pending. The committee also heard SB 986, which would create an alternative process for routine Public Information Act requests so local governments can make initial redactions without sending every routine exception to the Attorney General, while preserving an appeal path and training requirements. Supporters said it would reduce backlog and speed access to records; opponents argued it would shift the burden to requesters and encourage delay. The AG’s office testified that the process could improve efficiency and still fit within current timelines if used promptly. SB 986 was left pending. Finally, SB 584 was briefly laid out to require consumer reporting agencies that buy data from others to ensure the information complies with Texas law on excluded items such as bankruptcies, judgments, and tax liens, and SB 600 was heard on heir property. SB 600’s substitute would strengthen notice, require an attorney ad litem, add an heir’s bill of rights, allow settlement conferences, and require fair-market-value sales protections; supporters said it would curb predatory partition practices, while opponents warned some provisions could burden or diminish minority heirs’ property rights. SB 584 and SB 600 were left pending after testimony.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Senate Committee on Water, Agriculture, and Rural Affairs Mar 31st, 2025

Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • This bill will not add any additional fees or generate any new revenue.
  • The bill also increases the funding cap for the Rural Volunteer Fire Department Assistance Fund.
  • Floods or hurricanes have impacted the market, leading to an increase in title fraud.
  • There's a $10 fee down below that you didn't know about, and there's another $10 fee if the bird actually
  • If it runs, there's a $10 fee as well.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate County and Municipal Government Committee Feb 5th, 2025

County and Municipal Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • of wire transfer fee of wire transfer fee of $7.50 Plus plus one and a half% of $7.50 Plus plus one
  • there is a fee because them to wire there is a fee because them to wire there is a fee because there
  • that we fee that we fee that we are placing on individuals again who are are placing on individuals
  • I think I think starting with the fee I think I think starting with the fee I think I think starting
  • violence and all these other increased violence and all these other increased violence and all these
Bills: SB82, SB78, SB4, SB6, SB62, SB66, SB77, SB63, SB79, SB53, SB55, HB14
NE

Nebraska 2025-2026 Regular Session

Legislative Morning Session Apr 10th, 2026

Nebraska Unicameral Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • to tax-related provisions, including changes to the preliminary tax, release of the medical action fee
  • Eight, conference fees, meals, lodging, travel by the office, and staff involved in activities related
  • Nine, in the case of the candidate committee for the governor, conference fees, meals, lodging, travel
  • , and the authority of the board to set fees.
  • The bill also changes fees and charges for brand renewal, physical inspection, electronic inspection,
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Rules Feb 17th, 2026

Rules

Transcript Highlights:
  • There is no royalty cost that the airport is paying, and there's no franchise fee that the airport is
  • Please, legislators, lead in increasing safety. Oppose Senate Bill 212. Madam Chair, thank you.
  • I do have one question, because these convenience fees are charged by many other people.
  • storage fee, only dealing with storage.
  • aircraft entering into a specific radius of the airspace of the airport assessing this fee.
Summary: The Committee on Rules met with a quorum and considered a long agenda of bills, many of them retained from the prior week. The most debated measure was CS for SB 706, which would preempt naming of major commercial service airports to the state and designate Palm Beach International Airport as the Donald J. Trump International Airport, subject to FAA approval and a trademark agreement. Amendments were offered and rejected, including proposals to prevent private financial benefit from the naming. Several senators spoke in opposition, citing concerns about naming an airport after a sitting president, lack of local input, and the trademark/licensing arrangement; supporters argued there was no cost to the airport and that the bill simply set a state naming policy. The committee reported the bill favorably after a roll call vote. The committee also reported favorably CS for SB 546 on conservation land notice requirements, CS for CS for SB 1014 on municipal utility service to properties outside city limits, CS for SB 1500 on uncontested probate proceedings, SB 962 on excluding farms from certain zoning definitions, and CS for SB 820 on problem-solving court reporting requirements. The committee then approved several bills from Senator DiCeglie and Senator Arrington. SB 840, addressing land-use regulations for local governments affected by natural disasters, was supported by local-government and environmental advocates who said it would restore local control after SB 180’s hurricane-related restrictions; the sponsor said it was intended to correct unintended consequences of last year’s law. CS for SB 856, requiring online listing platforms to show estimated ad valorem taxes on residential listings, was amended to exclude social media platforms and broaden liability protections; the sponsor and a county property appraiser described it as a consumer-transparency measure. CS for SB 110, clarifying homestead exemption treatment for long-term leases that end at death, was also reported favorably. The committee took up a controversial strike-all amendment to SB 212, which focused on public swimming pools and added residency and related restrictions for certain sex offenders and offenders on community control or probation. The amendment drew strong opposition from advocates and affected families, who argued it would worsen homelessness, impose broad geographic restrictions, and lack evidence of improving child safety; supporters said it was a targeted public-safety measure. Despite the objections, the committee reported the bill favorably. The committee also approved SB 684 on electronic signatures for total-loss vehicle and vessel titles, SB 394 on reinsurance intermediary managers, SB 434 on property tax assessment treatment for wind-hardening improvements, CS for CS for SBs 658 and 608 on water-safety requirements for rental properties with pools or nearby water, SB 748 on adding voting-rights restoration information to sentencing score sheets, and CS for SB 824 requiring school districts to inventory unimproved real property. The meeting ended while the committee was beginning SB 848 on stormwater treatment, with an amendment being introduced as the transcript cut off.
NV
Transcript Highlights:
  • It should be something that's supported by the fees.
  • It should be something that's supported by the fees.
  • fee of $6,300 for each type of vapor product, then an annual renewal fee of $6,300.
  • So $6,300 a year is a per-sku fee. They consider a product fee, right?
  • First and foremost, the fee that is provided for in Senate Bill 435 is a fee that is paid by manufacturers
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

House Chamber - Wed Feb 18, 2026, 12:00PM HST - Day 17

Hawaii House Floor Meeting

LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Senate May 31st, 2026

Louisiana Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • in Title 51 relative to the regulation of certain broadband services, to provide for administration fees
  • to amend Titles 42 and 17 relative to labor organizations, to provide relative to employee dues and fees
  • the Office of Motor Vehicles to require the commissioner to temporarily waive or suspend fines and fees
  • This deals with the suspension of the collection of the fee related to hybrids.
  • This is the other part of the PBM bill dealing with dispensing fees. I ask you to adopt the report.