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ND

North Dakota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Workforce Development Apr 10th, 2025 at 10:00 am

Workforce Development

Transcript Highlights:
  • Chairman, this really seems like a novel idea—something to form a group to study and then have it disbanded
Bills: HB1119
Summary: The Workforce Development Committee reconvened to consider House Bill 1119 with amendment version 02005. Senator Hogan explained that the amendment removed a section requiring the Department of Human Services to respond to legislative management, in order to make the bill feel more like a program evaluation than an audit and to avoid placing an unreasonable burden on the executive branch. The amendment also clarified that the Child Care Advisory Committee would provide an update and that the committee would dissolve after the rewrite of licensing standards, making it a time-limited body. Committee members discussed the bill as a novel approach to forming a group to study an issue and then disbanding after reporting back. Senator Larson noted the concept was similar to broader performance-review ideas, and Senator Hogan said the Legislative Council program evaluation effort was parallel to, but separate from, other performance-review proposals. The committee then voted 4-0-1 to adopt the amendment. Afterward, the committee moved to give House Bill 1119, as amended, a do pass recommendation. That motion also passed on a roll call vote, and the committee adjourned.
WY

Wyoming 2026 Regular Session

Senate Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions Committee, February 16, 2026

Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions

Transcript Highlights:
  • right at the out outset that this study right at the out outset that this study is<00:01:21.920>
  • study as well. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. study as well. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
  • The study will produce a be a gap.
  • studies about lot of studies uh national studies about how<00:15:11.360> transmission<00:15:12.079
  • it's a study. You can always work it. it's a study. You can always work it.
Bills: SF0102, SF0113
WY

Wyoming 2026 Regular Session

House Agriculture, State and Public Lands & Water Resources, February 12, 2026

Agriculture, State and Public Lands & Water Resources

Transcript Highlights:
  • And it's a level two study.
  • And it's a level two study.
  • being clear to your study. being clear to your study.
  • . study. study.
  • what I see coming out of this study. what I see coming out of this study.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Ways and Means Committee 4/23/25

Ways and Means

Transcript Highlights:
  • no recommendations that came out<00:31:57.360> of<00:31:57.519> that<00:31:57.760> study
  • > Um<00:31:59.200> but<00:31:59.760> looking<00:32:00.000> at out of that study
  • Um but looking at out of that study.
  • Anthony Falls study for the cutoff dam. I see that's been delayed by a year.
  • It's a study on the hydrology and the geology of that particular fall, or nick point as it's called in
KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • Riggs. uh of a potential aviation impact study uh of a potential aviation impact study and<01:15:41.440
  • Eight years ago we did an economic impact study on aerospace parts manufacturing and export.
  • > cost<01:17:14.600> $500,000, study we did previously cost $500,000, study we did previously
  • Uh, where it might come from for a new study, I don't know.
  • The study that you've referenced?
Summary: The committee’s first interim meeting opened with roll call, a quorum, and a briefing from Transportation Cabinet officials on the Cabinet’s response to severe weather and tornadoes in Kentucky, especially the May 16–17 storms that caused deaths and widespread damage in Pulaski and Laurel counties, with an additional tornado noted in Washington County. Secretary Jim Gray, State Highway Engineer James Ballinger, and District 11 engineer Chris Jones described how crews in all 120 counties were placed on alert, how roads were cleared of debris, and how KYTC coordinated with emergency management, law enforcement, local governments, and utilities to restore access and power. They reported major impacts on roads, signals, and other infrastructure, including the EF4 tornado path through Pulaski and Laurel counties, and said KYTC also helped with debris hauling, airport cleanup, and delivery of water and meals. The officials gave specific recovery figures for Laurel County, including 1,800 loads of construction and demolition debris hauled, about 11,000 tons and 22,000 cubic yards removed, with roughly 50% of vegetative debris cleared at that point. They said all state roadways in Laurel County were reopened, the London-Corbin Airport was returned to flight operations by Sunday, and a transition plan was underway for Laurel County Fiscal Court’s contractor to take over debris operations. Gray also noted that KYTC had helped issue replacement IDs, licenses, registrations, and titles at no cost in disaster areas, and said the Team Kentucky Storm Relief Fund had raised nearly $1.5 million from more than 6,000 donors. Members praised KYTC staff as first responders and thanked them for their quick response and coordination. Several legislators recounted local impacts in Washington, Pulaski, and Laurel counties, including blocked roads, rescue challenges, looting concerns, and the scale of property damage. One member asked how KYTC inspects bridges and infrastructure after disasters to check for hidden damage, and officials said the process depends on the event and can include bridge inspections and checks of tall infrastructure such as light poles. No votes or formal committee actions were taken during the discussion.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Rural Development, Land Grants And Cultural Affairs Feb 10th, 2026 at 09:01 am

House Rural Development, Land Grants And Cultural Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • This is just the studying part of it.
  • We are looking at ways to improve and see studies from the Health Care Authority.
  • The study that's going to be done, I also agree that we should have done the study before we implemented
  • So this study would really help. It would really help going down the line.
  • That's also a purpose of the study.
Bills: HB310, HB323, HM51, HB194
KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • RTC's<00:03:01.040> provide The study finds that RTC's provide The study finds that RTC's
  • > while<00:20:39.520> RTC's The study concludes that while RTC's The study concludes that
  • Um, we that was not part of the study Um, we that was not part of the study and<00:25:01.120>
  • our study. our study.
  • Nelson studies, I'll turn it over to Dr.
Summary: The subcommittee heard an Office of Education Accountability report on Kentucky’s early childhood regional training centers (RTCs). OEA said the centers provide valuable training, consultation, technical assistance, and materials for preschool personnel, especially for children with disabilities and at-risk students, and that the services align with state and federal requirements. However, the report found uneven student and teacher populations across regions, wide variation in per-student funding, some staffing data inaccuracies, and several fiscal oversight concerns, including inconsistent indirect cost rates, a building rental charge that may have been duplicative, and host districts recording RTC expenditures in a way that could blur them with district finances. OEA also said some documentation of progress toward goals was incomplete and that the technology lending library appeared underused. The report recommended stronger KDE oversight, uniform coding and accounting practices, review of budgets and expenditures, and an evaluation of whether the current five-center model remains the most efficient structure; OEA also suggested the General Assembly may wish to revisit KRS 157.318. Members asked about KDE’s response, whether the centers are required by federal law, how the centers operate, and whether changing the model would affect federal funding. OEA said KDE had only discussed the findings informally and had not issued a formal response, the centers are required by state law but not federal law, and changing the model would not jeopardize IDEA preschool funds. The committee accepted the report by motion. The subcommittee then approved the minutes from its July 14, 2025 meeting after initially delaying action because quorum was not yet present. After that, members turned to the Office of Education Accountability’s proposed 2026 study agenda. OEA said the three proposed topics are the annual district data profiles, facilities funding, and implementation of early literacy statutes. The district profiles would add an appendix showing the number and percentage of students moving to private school or homeschool by district and another appendix noting data-quality issues that affect comparability. OEA explained that district staffing data can undercount contract staff because those employees are not always entered into the system, and members expressed interest in tracking whether prior recommendations were implemented. One senator also raised a separate interest in reviewing whether KDE created and implemented regulations related to KFIX. The discussion remained informational, with no final vote on the study agenda shown in the transcript excerpt.
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Energy Finance and Policy Committee 2/20/25

Energy Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • He added that engineers have studied the performance of these arrays, and while they can reduce peak
  • the performance of these Rays studied the performance of these Rays you<00:07:17.000> arrays<
  • Has anyone studied that?
  • At the very least, we would request a cost-of-service study to work with data.
  • I think that this data needs to be looked at, and I would ask for a study on this.
Bills: HF845
WY

Wyoming 2026 Regular Session

House Minerals, Business & Economic Development Committee, February 27, 2026

Minerals, Business & Economic Development

Transcript Highlights:
  • Not in the, you know, the studies. We had some good input in the Senate.
  • <00:09:25.360> would information that uh this study would information that uh this study would
  • of studies about what it might produce. of studies about what it might produce.
  • So I just your studying this so long.
  • came out with their deep dive coal study came out with their deep dive coal study just<00:54:43.599
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Ways and Means Committee 3/3/25 - Part 2

Ways and Means

Transcript Highlights:
  • They changed that all of a sudden and went to an actuarial study, so it depends on the version of the
  • different ways of costing out the bill, including a microsimulation process in 2022 and then an actuarial study
  • He said they changed that all of a sudden and went to an actuarial study, so it depends on the version
Bills: HF11