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TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

Criminal Jurisprudence Apr 1st, 2025

Criminal Jurisprudence

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  • And so one of the concerns that I have is it might, is this bill might be designed to Be a vehicle for
  • In 2020, the rate was 20.5%, and since then, we've fallen all the way to 14.7% in 2023.
  • Uh, this is the bill we heard last week that allows the managed to sign council director to designate
  • schoolyard hypotheticals, despite consistent evidence showing that false rape accusations occur at rates
  • The national reporting rate for rape has plummeted from 40% to just 25% in the last few years, with survivors
Bills: HB47
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

Ways & Means Mar 3rd, 2025

Ways & Means

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  • We appreciate and recognize the rate compression policies in place today and lowering the rate for all
  • Sure, so we have the voter approved rate, which is the highest rate that you could approve without a,
  • We have typically adopted a rate lower than the voter approved rate in the last several years in order
  • to keep our property tax rate low.
  • But what you're saying is right, that yes, tax rates go up and then that tax rate is paid by everyone
Bills: HB8, HB9, HJR1, HB 22
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

HF702 heard in House Human Services Finance and Policy Committee 3/6/25

Human Services Finance and Policy

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  • Once your project is complete, your rates get increased to cover the cost of those projects.
  • Once your project is complete, your rates get increased to cover the cost of those projects.
  • once your project is complete your rates once your project is complete your rates um<00:01:54.840
  • rather than moving to a their old rate rather than moving to a updated updated updated rate<00:04:54.160
  • extent for some of the property uh rate extent for some of the property uh rate moratorium<00:05
Bills: HF958, HF688, HF702
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

S/C on Disease Prevention & Women's & Children's Health Mar 20th, 2025

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

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  • It's because our system is not designed to make people healthy.
  • It is designed to make industry profitable.
  • They allow industry to rate and in the food industry, they have generally accepted safe products.
  • eating foods that may have had pesticides for treatment because those pesticides and herbicides are designed
  • vital to earning industry certifications, uh, being compliant in district accountability, A through F ratings
Bills: HB25, HB38
OK
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  • regulate insurance rates?
  • , they have cheaper rates.
  • to lower rates.
  • rate that's being filed, it has no impact on that rate that's being filed.
  • To raise rates, then another carrier can come in and just charge a lesser rate.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Senate Session (Part I) Aug 6th, 2025

Texas Senate Floor Meeting

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  • the voter approval tax rate, previously known as the rollback rate, for cities and counties from a certain
  • Lowers the rollback of the old rollback rate, now the voter-approved rate, to two and a half percent.
  • Affect debt rate setting across the state.
  • current tax rates from 3.5% to 2.5% or less.
  • They would allow them to increase the tax rate.
Bills: SB15, SB9, SB7, SB1, SB2, SB67, SB15, SB9, SB7
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Education Pre-K - 12 Feb 3rd, 2026

Education Pre-K - 12

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  • Namely, the bill requires the review to develop recommendations for facility design and construction
  • student-to-student misconduct, including consideration of crime prevention through environmental design
  • The amendment I just mentioned, crime prevention through environmental design, or CPTED, provisions,
  • Our school district experienced unprecedented success in recent years, earning an A rating for the first
Bills: S0824, S1170, S1620, S1738, S7036
Summary: The Education Pre-K-12 Committee considered several K-12 bills and resolutions. SJR 1104, by Senator Massullo, would place on the ballot a proposed constitutional amendment protecting voluntary religious expression in public schools; supporters said it simply codifies existing law and protects student and employee rights, while opponents warned it could entrench religious pressure and exclusion. The resolution was reported favorably. The committee also heard SB 1738, by Senator Yarborough, on educational facilities; an amendment removed crime-prevention-through-environmental-design language and adjusted transparency/safe-space provisions, and the bill was reported favorably as amended. SB 824, by Senator Truenow, was amended into a transparency measure requiring districts to submit annual reports on unimproved land holdings to DOE, and it was reported favorably. Appointments in tabs 7 and 8 were recommended for confirmation. The committee then took up SPB 7036, a comprehensive education package by Chair Simon. The bill would expand educational emergency triggers, adjust Title I withholding uses, align charter school rules with school improvement processes, update safety and early learning provisions, expand literacy and math interventions, and revise educator pipeline policies. Members raised concerns about a provision that could allow the state to develop instructional materials; Simon said that section was still being considered and would need guardrails. The committee adopted a motion to submit the bill as a committee bill, and it was reported favorably. SB 1620, by Senator Leak, proposed a “school board members’ bill of rights” giving board members direct access to district documents and staff, limiting district attorneys’ dual representation, strengthening nepotism rules, and prohibiting nondisclosure agreements. Volusia County school board members and others testified both for and against the bill, with supporters citing transparency and accountability and opponents warning about confidentiality, staff pressure, and undermining the superintendent’s authority. The bill was reported favorably. Finally, SB 1170, by Senator Calatayud, as amended, would allow parents of students in self-contained ESE classrooms to request cameras, with district policies governing review, notice, timelines, and appeals. Parents, advocates, and educators testified strongly in support, while one witness opposed it as an unfunded mandate. The committee reported the bill favorably.
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

S/C on State-Federal Relations Mar 13th, 2025

S/C on State-Federal Relations

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  • You know, whether they need to designate an officer that's closer to our community if they were only
  • Death rate. We are now the number one nation of human trafficking in the entire world.
Bills: HB176, HB180
OK
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  • thing that I thought because I know we want to continue lowering the energy costs so our can to our rate
  • Chairman, is when we consider the large load consumer as they shoulder this expense and keep that off the rate
  • All the rate cases go through them, and they have a whole staff that are experts in that.
  • in line with other parts of the country, or did you just land there because that was the negotiated rate
TX
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  • They are not consistently granted in-state tuition rates across all Texas institutions.
  • these students, who are actively preparing for military service, receive resident tuition and fee rates
  • The task force is designed to expire on September 1, 2026. Any questions, members?
Bills: HB101, HB290
KY
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  • atrip program the hospital rate atrip program the hospital rate Improvement<00:26:05.600> plan
  • We are very excited to be here today to share the wonderful success of the Hospital Rate Improvement
  • So this is bringing those payments up to 95% of the average commercial rate.
  • That is not a negotiated rate. The federal government sets that price through regulations.
  • <00:51:16.720> the that is not a negotiated rate the that is not a negotiated rate the federal
Summary: The committee began by reviewing a large slate of administrative regulations and explaining that it does not approve regulations but can find them deficient and send them back for further work. Members then asked questions on several items, including EMS reciprocity, dental hygienist licensure, and interpreter licensure. The EMS board explained that reciprocity would extend to applicants from any state, not just contiguous states, because the underlying statute had been amended. On the dental regulation, staff said the changes mainly clarified licensure requirements, reinstatement fees, and that dental hygienists administering local anesthetic must do so under direct dentist supervision. The most extended discussion involved the Board of Interpreters for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. The board chair said the main concern was that the EIPA is an educational specialty assessment, not a nationally recognized certification, yet the regulation would allow it to support full licensure. Members discussed whether that could let educational interpreters work outside their intended scope and whether a separate educational license or statutory change would be more appropriate. The board said it did not think the regulation could be fixed further at this point and suggested a statute could create a narrower educational interpreter license. After discussion, the committee voted to defer both related interpreter regulations, 201 KAR 39:030 and the companion regulation, for further work. The committee then took up two community mental health regulations, 907 KAR 1:044 and 907 KAR 5:005, which had been found deficient in Administrative Regulations. Department for Medicaid Services staff said the rules would expand and rename the mental health associate role as a behavioral health associate, making the role available in many more facilities, but would also require additional coursework or progress toward licensure. Some members and providers raised access-to-care concerns, especially for rural areas and unlicensed staff already working in the field. Staff said the proposal had been revised through work with CMHCs and licensing boards, but the committee ultimately voted to defer both regulations as well. After finishing the regulation review, the committee heard a presentation from the Kentucky Hospital Association on the ATRIP hospital rate improvement program. Hospital representatives said ATRIP is a Medicaid state-directed payment program funded through a provider tax and federal matching dollars, allowing hospitals to receive payments tied to quality measures. They reported improvements including lower Medicaid readmissions, high sepsis screening rates, reduced infections and opioid prescribing, expanded postpartum depression and suicide screening, and training for more than 1,000 people. They said the program has helped hospitals invest in staffing and quality improvement and warned that without it, many hospitals would face severe financial strain.
TX
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  • Everything is the same tax rate right now, right? It's the same. Yeah, there's a uniform tax rate.
  • Okay, the total amount of tax rate increase was 15 percent.
  • above the voter approval tax rate for specific purposes.
  • cents back in 2018. to our current rate of $0.379, which is actually the no-new-revenue rate for the
  • They kept the tax rate the same and they say, "Hey, it wasn't us; we kept the tax rate the same."
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Human Services Finance and Policy Committee 3/3/26

Human Services Finance and Policy

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  • This is a limited support program paid at a smaller rate for people who may have the abilities already
  • IHS with training also has a designation within the community-based service manual as a habilitative
  • of growth in Medicaid, how much the rate of growth in Medicaid, how much rate<01:23:24.520> of
  • I'm supposed to keep my heart rate a little low. It's a little high right now.
  • I'm supposed to keep my heart rate a I'm supposed to keep my heart rate a little<01:28:58.160> low
Bills: HF3526, HF3375, HF3469
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Intergovernmental Affairs Mar 18th, 2025

Intergovernmental Affairs

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  • Because that's already their market rate, yeah?
  • A market-rate one-bedroom might be $1,500, and the market rate on one-bedroom, or excuse me, 60% AMI.
  • Tax rates change every year.
  • And could that potentially also affect your bond rating?
  • We saw how the employment rate increased from 56% to 76%.