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MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Financial Services Jun 21st, 2026 at 10:30 am
Joint Committee on Financial Services
Transcript Highlights:
- We'll start with House Bill 1113, relative to public adjusters. This bill is very simple..."
- Christopher Stock continued: "...House Bill 1113, relative to public adjusters.
- community, because, again, local public adjusters by and large are very good actors in this space.
- My share of which is $1,300 a month on a $3,500 per month take-home salary.
- Public adjusters are required to be licensed by the Commonwealth.
Committee:
Joint Joint Committee on Financial Services
Summary:
The Joint Committee on Financial Services held a public hearing with about 43 witnesses and a 1:00 p.m. hard stop, and the chair repeatedly asked speakers to keep testimony to three minutes. Much of the hearing focused on S. 747/H. 1336, which would extend paid family and medical leave and unemployment insurance to graduate student workers. Supporters included legislators, union leaders, graduate workers from MIT, Harvard, BU, WPI, UMass Lowell, and others, and legal advocates. They argued graduate workers perform full-time teaching and research work, pay taxes, and should not be excluded from basic safety-net benefits; several witnesses described personal hardships involving childbirth, serious illness, mental health crises, funding cuts, or fear of losing income. Testifiers also said the change would be revenue-neutral or revenue-generating and would not create major administrative burdens for universities, which already provide similar benefits to other employees.
The committee also heard testimony on insurance-related bills. Christopher Stock of the Massachusetts Insurance Federation supported H. 1113 on public adjusters and H. 1345/S. 753 on flood-zone notifications for homebuyers, but opposed H. 4112, which would add a $2 surcharge on home insurance policies to fund fire cistern programs. The Metropolitan Area Planning Council strongly supported H. 1345, saying flood disclosure is needed because Massachusetts lacks statewide flood-notification requirements and flooding risks are increasing. Karen Alvarado supported H. 4352 on travel insurance, and John Fielding supported H. 1186 on pet insurance; both said the bills would create uniform regulatory frameworks and consumer protections. Rep. LeBoeuf testified for H. 4061 on workers’ compensation premium fraud, describing the bill as a transparency measure to combat fraud in construction by creating a public certificate-of-insurance database and QR-code verification system. Joe Bright of the carpenters’ union also supported H. 4061, citing fraud, misclassification, and the harm to injured workers.
The hearing also included testimony on H. 4112, a bill to create a statewide fire suppression water resource fund and cistern program. Rep. Hogan and a Stowe fire chief described drought, brush fires, and the need for dedicated cisterns in communities without municipal water systems, saying the tanks provide reliable water for firefighting and are relatively low-tech once installed. Committee members asked questions about tank capacity, siting, maintenance, and funding. No votes or formal actions were taken during the hearing.
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Transcript Highlights:
- It's to provide districts for uniform rate of tax adjustments.
- It's supported by salary savings.
- These adjustments support the department's organizational realignment and also prevent salaries and match
- Almost all cite the salary adjustments that came from implementation of the pay plan within the class
- Limited salary reimbursements for their services.
Committee:
All JBC-PEER REVIEW
NM
Transcript Highlights:
- Well, that's the whole point, you know, is to get it right and make adjustments.
- And so we brought up those pay, we've adjusted the pay bands, we're doing pay studies.
- Adjusted the pay bands, we're doing pay studies.
- In a matter of hours, and we could be back here in 3 days trying to make those adjustments.
- Then we can either adjust that or not adjust that, and see where they're at.
Committee:
Senate Senate Finance
AL
Alabama 2026 Regular Session
Alabama House County and Municipal Government Committee Jan 21st, 2026
County and Municipal Government
Transcript Highlights:
- population and, uh, it deals with the public utilities in those cities, and what we want to do is adjust
- What we want to do is adjust the compensation for the directors and for the board members.
- It is not about salaries or paying for services; it is about typical grant funding. public works folks
- </c><00:10:51.920><c> It's</c><00:10:52.079><c> not</c> it's it's not about salaries.
- It's not it's it's not about salaries.
Committee:
House County and Municipal Government
FL
Florida 2026 Regular Session
FL House Floor Session - 2026-02-20 (9:00AM Session)
Florida House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- I want to talk a little bit about teacher salaries.
- million that we're giving to help those districts reach and maintain that salary?
- We do know, where does Florida rank relative to the national average for teacher salaries?
- Executive salaries are based on whatever your Board of Trustees determines they are.
- A lot of what we've had to do on budget adjustments has to do with the recent inflation.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Education Jun 21st, 2026 at 01:00 pm
Joint Committee on Education
Transcript Highlights:
- Adjusted for inflation, FY25 Rural Aid was roughly only a quarter of what rural schools actually need
- Adjusted for inflation, FY25 Rural Aid was roughly only a quarter of what rural schools actually need
- And FY23 alone, the equivalent of approximately 10 teachers' salaries.
- And one of the biggest barriers to that is the faculty salaries.
- Because it's a known fact that teachers don't get paid a lot of money, and salaries—28 out of the 35
Committee:
Joint Joint Committee on Education
Summary:
The hearing focused primarily on H. 517/S. 314, a bill to provide a sustainable future for rural schools, and H. 697, a bill to require full funding of regional school transportation. Witnesses from rural districts, school committees, superintendents, students, and local officials described chronic underfunding, declining enrollment, high fixed costs, special education and transportation burdens, and the loss of programs, staff, and extracurriculars. Several speakers argued that rural aid should be funded at $60 million annually and made non-discretionary, while others emphasized that transportation reimbursement for regional districts has repeatedly fallen short of the state’s promise and is driving budget crises and overrides. A number of students testified in support of rural aid, describing cuts to classes, counselors, and activities, and the impact on their schools and communities. Committee members also discussed whether transportation policy should be revisited to address underlying cost drivers, including bus bidding practices and whether regional districts should have more flexibility in transportation requirements.
The committee also heard H. 515, concerning Hancock Elementary School and a school choice-related exemption from a state requirement that has created a large financial burden for the district. Hancock’s superintendent and Rep. John Barrett explained that a decades-old regulation, recently enforced by DESE, would require Hancock to pay tuition for choice-in students through high school graduation even though the district only serves pre-K through grade 6 and sends its own students elsewhere for middle and high school. They said the rule creates a significant per-student shortfall and has forced Hancock to opt out of school choice. Committee members asked for clarification about how the arrangement works and how the costs fall on Hancock.
Additional testimony supported related transportation bills for non-regional districts, especially Plymouth/Carver and North Middlesex, describing high and rising bus costs, special education and McKinney-Vento transportation expenses, and the strain on local budgets. Speakers repeatedly said that state reimbursement has not matched actual costs and that communities are being forced to choose between transportation and classroom services. No votes or final actions were taken in the hearing; the committee simply received testimony and closed the hearing on the bills discussed.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Health and Human Services - 01/28/25
Health and Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
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- </c><00:53:48.119><c> to</c> for uh some operating adjustment to for uh some operating adjustment to
- </c><01:04:07.400><c> for</c> costs which have not been adjusted for costs which have not been adjusted
- On page 21 of our budget book is our operating adjustment.
Committee:
Senate Health and Human Services
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
State Committee Meeting - 2025-03-27
State Government Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- the office for 2024 and 2025, base funding is still only 65 percent of what it was 30 years ago, adjusted
- Next, when our salaries are competitive, we're able to hire, retain, and promote the best talent to protect
- fiscal year to bring parity to the legal assistant portion of our staff and to continue to close the salary
- gap between our staff. the AGO and the salaries of other public law offices.
- Criteria of age and health from considering salary on demotion.
Committee:
House State Government Finance and Policy
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Investments and Pensions Oversight Sep 12th, 2025
Investments & Pensions Oversight Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- Adjusted for inflation. This is a nice long chart that goes back to 1979.
- markets and adjusting investments, and so on and so forth.
- We've got salaried firefighters and non-salaried firefighters.
- Only non-salaried firefighters are covered under this plan.
- They are not eligible for a cost of living adjustment. Talking with Mr.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
House - Appropriations and Finance Jan 28th, 2025
House Appropriations & Finance
Transcript Highlights:
- I can ask for a budget adjustment because of where you were at on your flatlined budget.
- We just never had the salaries or the budget to do that. Thank you for that, Madam Chair.
- The others were temporary salary increases because we have people doing two jobs.
- We do this to make sure we have room to adjust the budget for we know that there will be budgets that
- The salaries that SPO offers for vets are $70,000 to $80,000 a year.
Committee:
House House Appropriations & Finance
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- There are differences between districts based on salary apportionment and benefit apportionment and where
- And that is because a support unit includes the salary apportionment and benefit apportionment.
- And the amount that you receive in salary apportionment and benefit apportionment is determined by where
- The support unit also includes discretionary funding and health insurance funding, and part of the salary
- The support unit also includes discretionary funding and health insurance funding, and part of the salary
Committee:
House Education
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
House - Appropriations and Finance Jan 22nd, 2026 at 02:01 pm
House Appropriations & Finance
Transcript Highlights:
- I am actually going to go to Volume 3 on the budget adjustments.
- adjustment special.
- We had a non-recurring amount in for the salary adjustments that I did about a year and a half to two
- years ago. ...for the salary adjustments that I did about a year and a half to two years ago, which
- The salary increases I went through.
Bills:
HB1
Committee:
House House Appropriations & Finance
FL
Florida 2026 5th Special Session
Senate in Special Session E May 29th, 2026
Florida Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- We reinstitute a retirement cost-of-living adjustment for our special risk employees that will ensure
- We reinstitute a retirement cost-of-living adjustment for our special risk employees that will ensure
- We set aside a total of $1.56 billion from the base funds for teacher salary increases, which includes
- Are you able to comment on the salary differential between a state attorney and a public defender?
- I regret that there's no across-the-board increase in salary for our state employees.
Summary:
The Senate took up the conference report on House Bill 501E, the General Appropriations Act for fiscal year 2026-27, with Chair Hooper and the appropriations chairs walking through the $114.5 billion budget. Major highlights included pay increases for state law enforcement, firefighters, park rangers, and correctional officers; funding for teacher salary increases and K-12 enrollment stabilization; workforce and university funding in higher education; major Medicaid, nursing home, waiver, and opioid-related investments in health and human services; corrections and prison-capacity funding; transportation, housing, and emergency management spending; and large environmental appropriations for Florida Forever, Everglades restoration, and water quality projects.
Members then asked detailed questions about specific items. Senators pressed on the Hamilton Center at UF, the difference between assistant state attorney and public defender pay, declining student enrollment funding, private school scholarship vouchers, mental health funding in schools, the lack of preeminence funding, APD’s iBudget waiver wait list and provider rates, ADAP premium assistance and the return of Biktarvy to the formulary, prison staffing and air conditioning, Florida Forever land-buying versus easements, SNAP and Sun Bucks funding, Hope Florida, election audit funding, and the IDD managed care program. Chairs generally explained the negotiated compromises, noted where funding was flat or omitted, and in several cases said items would be revisited next year or depended on agency implementation.
Several senators used debate to praise the budget while also criticizing major policy choices. Leader Berman argued the state should have expanded Medicaid, invested more in public schools instead of vouchers, and accepted federal summer EBT funds. Other senators highlighted local wins such as Biscayne Bay restoration, Tri-Rail, housing assistance, ADAP funding, and declining enrollment support. The transcript ends with debate remarks thanking Chair Hooper for his work on the budget; no final vote is shown in the excerpt.
LA
Transcript Highlights:
- These amendments to HB 312 also include adjustments to the fund, projected expenditures in certain agencies
- We'll likely make some additional adjustments there.
- It makes adjustments to the self-insured fund allocation caps, survivor benefit measures, and caps survivor
- The amendment removes adjustments to the staff pay plan and salary increases for justices of the Supreme
- agency working capital fund authorized for use in covering office expenses, including employees' salaries
Committee:
Senate Finance
Summary:
Senate Finance met on May 21, 2026, with nine members present. The committee first recognized Mother Pearl Porter during a personal privilege presentation by Senator Boudreaux. It then took up the major budget measures for fiscal year 2026-27, beginning with HB 1, the general appropriation bill. The committee heard that the state budget was about $46.6 billion and that recent Revenue Estimating Conference revisions required reductions in recurring spending. Amendments removed new funding for GATOR and increased MFP amounts, while also directing Revenue Stabilization Fund dollars toward infrastructure, economic development, and local government needs. The committee adopted amendment set 4238 and reported HB 1 as amended, with authority for technical changes.
The committee next considered HB 312, the supplemental appropriations bill for the current fiscal year. Members were told the amendments balanced the budget to the May REC forecast through a net reduction in state general fund spending, including savings in Medicaid and other agencies, while covering updated costs such as medical vendor administration, DCFS operations, DOC offender medical expenses, and disaster-related costs. Amendment set 4239 was adopted, and HB 312 was reported favorably as amended. HB 2, the capital outlay/infrastructure bill, was then amended with set 4230 and reported as amended. HB 3, the omnibus bond act authorizing bond usage for HB 2, had no amendments and was reported favorably.
The committee also advanced HB 313, the funds bill, which includes the constitutionally required deposit of $144.3 million of FY 2025 surplus into the Budget Stabilization Fund and various transfers and fund adjustments. Amendments expanded or created several funds and mechanisms, including infrastructure and economic development-related funds, and HB 313 was reported favorably as amended. HB 314, the revenue sharing bill distributing the constitutionally mandated $90 million to local governments, was reported favorably without amendment. HB 383, the ancillary appropriations bill for fee-supported agencies, received amendment 3138 and was reported favorably as amended. HB 983, funding the judiciary, was amended to remove judicial pay adjustments and instead fund a possible transfer of the integrated criminal justice information system to the Supreme Court if SB 141 becomes law; it was reported favorably as amended. HB 1126, the legislative branch appropriations bill, was amended and reported favorably as amended. Finally, HCR 3, the hospital stabilization resolution used to support Medicaid hospital reimbursements, was amended to give LDH more flexibility on the timing of directed payments and preprint submissions, then reported as amended. The committee adjourned after a motion to do so.
LA
Transcript Highlights:
- These amendments to HB 312 also include adjustments to projected expenditures in certain agencies through
- We'll likely make some additional adjustments there.
- It makes adjustments to the self-insured fund allocation caps and the fiscal responsibility measures.
- The amendment removes adjustments to the staff pay plan and salary increases for justices of the Supreme
- agency working capital fund authorized for use in covering office expenses, including employees' salaries
Committee:
Senate Finance
CO
Colorado 2026 Regular Session
Colorado Senate 2026 Legislative Day 119 Part 2 May 13th, 2026
Colorado Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Adjustments to transportation funding. This is an act.
- basis, even for a working on a salary basis, even for a meager<07:47:21.360><c> salary</c><07:47:21.760
- The inflation-adjusted limit of $120,000 is being increased to an inflation-adjusted limit of $300,000
- So we need to adjust what we're doing here.
- They get paid salary.
OK
Transcript Highlights:
- Where it says, 'and to fix the salaries and duties thereof,' and the language is stricken where it says
- So why would we not allow the Legislature to have some say in the salary ranges of the deputy directors
- Do you know what the current salary range is of a deputy director and why there might be controversy
- agree that probably these same voters that voted for it are thanking God that we can come in and adjust
- to stop illegal marijuana sales, and we're still making adjustments on that.
Committee:
Senate Public Safety
Summary:
The Public Safety Committee met to consider several executive nominations and a series of bills. The committee advanced Joel Franks to the Polygraph Examiner Board, Julie Pittman to a full term on the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs Control Commission, and Justin Ferris to serve as Director of Corrections. Each nominee was introduced by a sponsoring senator, gave brief remarks, and was advanced on unanimous or near-unanimous roll calls.
On legislation, the committee passed House Bill 4125, which would restore certain rights to nonviolent felons after completion of sentence and includes an expungement component; members focused heavily on whether the language could unintentionally allow firearm possession by people still on probation or deferred sentences, and the author said he would work with staff on clarifying language. House Bill 2951, as amended, renamed a correctional facility after Chief James Smith; House Bill 3082 barred sex offenders from serving as firefighters; and House Bill 4142 expanded the crime involving unlawful use of bombs or explosives to include conspiracy. All three advanced with little opposition.
The committee also passed House Bill 4106, which lowers the grand larceny threshold by $100 and adds an escalator for repeated thefts, though the author struck the title to continue working with the Attorney General’s office on retail theft issues. Members debated whether the change conflicted with the voter-approved theft threshold and whether it would meaningfully deter crime. House Bill 1752 exempted the Attorney General’s Office and the District Attorneys Council from the OMES vehicle requisition process and passed unanimously. House Bill 3268 made knowingly displaying a false or fictitious license plate a felony; members questioned its scope, including whether it could affect temporary tags or other situations, and it passed on a 5-3 vote.
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
February 5, 2025 - 03:00 PM
Transcript Highlights:
- These are two additional factors used to make adjustments.
- These adjustments can significantly impact our overall funding and operations.
- If our FTE count is higher, obviously we will receive adjusted income for those.
- resources or adjust spending plans.
- resources or adjust spending plans.
Summary:
The Pre-K through 12 Budget Subcommittee met to review how Florida’s Education Finance Program (FEFP) works, receive an update from the Department of Education on the October 2024 FTE survey and third FEFP calculation, and hear from three county superintendents about forecasting enrollment and reconciling scholarship students. The chair explained that FEFP is funded by both state and local dollars, is recalculated multiple times during the year, and is now closely tied to school choice policy. Department staff said the third calculation was still being rerun but should be completed soon, and described the forecasting process as collaborative among districts, DOE, and the Education Estimating Conference.
Superintendents from Polk, St. Lucie, and Hendry counties said enrollment shifts, especially students moving to Family Empowerment Scholarships, homeschooling, or private schools, make budgeting and staffing difficult. They said districts often must hold back funds to protect against midyear losses, which affects collective bargaining, staffing, transportation, and classroom organization. Several members raised concerns about duplicate counting, transparency, and whether students receiving scholarship funds can also remain in district classrooms. DOE said districts can access scholarship information through a secure portal and that scholarship funding organizations are paid quarterly, with a new process requiring certification and possible future payment adjustments to reduce duplication.
The superintendents urged better real-time tracking of students through a statewide ID or student information system and suggested scholarship students should be funded separately from district FEFP calculations. Members also discussed whether more frequent or daily attendance-based calculations would improve accuracy, though some warned that daily attendance could create new problems for high-poverty districts. The committee also briefly discussed categoricals, including mental health and ESE funding, with DOE saying it evaluates programs through studies, reporting requirements, and legislative direction. No votes were taken; the meeting ended with a motion to rise and adjourn.
AR
Transcript Highlights:
- You're asking to go to a salary that is competitive within the market.
- And increasing their regular salary and match appropriation by $103,000.
- They’ve also requested to lower the regular salary and match appropriation by $948,000.
- I'm just not seeing where those employees regular salaries match.
- Section 3, tying into Section 1, takes the salaries from 1.4 to $969,000.
Committee:
All JBC-PERSONNEL
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Related to the basic allotment and guaranteed yield in the foundation school program including an adjustment
- HB 2499 by Gerdes relating to the placement of minimum salary schedule for the public school employees
- HB 2529 by Dean relating to the Annual State Salary Supplement for certain county judges refer to the
- the Committee on Land and Resource Management, HB2562. do by Isaac relating to a limitation on the salary
- burn manager self-insurance pool HB 2564 by Wilson relating to the evaluation of defense economic adjustment