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TX
Transcript Highlights:
- shift that from the commercial tax base to the residential base, and that's larger than the total budget
- back, it will be roughly half that it could impact him, but because this is in the middle of the budget
- What's your total property tax budget?
- Now, ballpark for me what your property tax budget is per year?
- It does increase to 136 million by the 28-29 budget. Biennium time frame.
Bills:
SB1331 , SB1375 , SB1443 , SB1578 , SB2251 , SB2519 , SB2553 , SB2655 , SB2764 , SB2907 , SB3030 , SB3033 , SB3035 , SB3036 , SB3037 , SB3043 , SB3047 , SB3050 , SB3051 , SB3056 , SB3057 , SB3063 , HB9 , HB467 , HB331 , HB1244 , HB1399 , HB2559 , HB2730 , HB3307 , HJR1 , HJR99 , SB3048 , SB3052 , SB3053 , SJR78 , HB1327 , HB2723 , HB9 , HJR1
Committee:
Senate Local Government
Keywords:
civil service, firefighters, police officers, municipalities, local government, repeal, voter petition, health care, provider participation, continuation programs, population-based regulation, health care provider participation, Medicaid, hospital funding, voluntary compliance, mandatory payments, public health, healthcare program, county participation, nonpublic hospitals
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
Appropriations Committee on Agriculture, Environment, and General Government Mar 26th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- First thing we're going to do today is the budget, all the other copy of it in front of you.
- Some of the major highlights in the budget are over 1.0, 2 billion for water quality improvements, including
- As you can see, we have a very strong budget for the environment, regulatory agencies and well, while
- This concludes the highlights of the budget.
- This is just the first step of our budget.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Floor Session Feb 20th, 2025
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- does, the Attorney General's office has plenty of money and plenty of employees under their current budget
- It's easily absorbed in the Attorney General's rather large and significantly expanded budget.
- In November of 2014, he announced a $40 million budget. $39 million settlement in a generic drug price-fixing
- After you guys squandered $18 billion surplus, raised taxes by $10 billion, And increased the state budget
- by 38%, went from a $52 billion budget to almost a $72.3 billion budget.
AL
Alabama 2025 Regular Session
Alabama House Military and Veterans Affairs Committee Feb 12th, 2025
Military and Veterans Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- General Huber has set up a center similar to this in the state of Tennessee on a very limited budget
- The governor sent her budget over, and we worked with the chairman and the speaker on a very generous
- policies and key decisions about... budget policies and key decisions about veterans.
- Then the State Board of Veterans Affairs should retain oversight of the commissioner's budget and be
- No one person made those... budget.
Committee:
House Military and Veterans Affairs
Keywords:
veterans affairs, Alabama Department of Veterans Affairs, State Board of Veterans Affairs, commissioner, governor appointment, board advisory, veteran service organizations, veterans homes, veterans cemeteries, veteran service officers, district managers, state veterans home trust fund, veterans benefits, military veterans, disabled veterans, elderly veterans, active-duty service members, state agency reorganization, executive authority, governance reform
HI
Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
EDN Info Briefing - Thu Jan 15, 2026 @ 2:00 PM HST
Hawaii House Floor Meeting
ND
North Dakota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Tax Reform and Relief Advisory Property Tax Div. Aug 10th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- Well, would you say that most budget...
- Well, would you say that most budgets have built in the discount into their budgets because over 90%
- Could you further explain or talk about how the PRC reimbursement from the state impacts budgets?
- Also, to address the 5% discount, I don't know how many counties—at least half of them, I think—budget
- Is it difficult to separate voter-approved tax dollars from just general budget? Yeah, I mean, Mr.
Summary:
The subcommittee met with a quorum, approved the prior minutes, and focused primarily on property tax statement issues tied to the primary residence credit and the 5% early-payment discount. North Dakota Association of Counties representatives said the current special-session language creates problems because the discount is being applied even when no taxes are ultimately owed, and because the discount is calculated before the PRC funds are actually received. They recommended reverting to the prior law so the discount is applied after the PRC, and noted that all four programmers said they could revert the software to the earlier version if needed.
The committee also reviewed a bill draft to remove the legislative tax relief line item from the required contents of the property tax statement. Members agreed the current line item is not especially accurate or useful on the statement, and several members said the committee should go further by adding clearer taxpayer education, such as a pie chart or other supplemental breakdown of where property taxes go. County officials said some counties already provide supplemental charts or explanatory material, but others would need help with printing, mailing, or formatting.
To support that idea, staff presented a second bill draft creating a grant program, administered through the Association of Counties with OMB as a pass-through, to reimburse counties for supplemental property tax statement information and related administration. After discussion, the committee voted unanimously to combine the two bill drafts into one recommendation and forward it to the full Tax Reform and Relief Advisory Committee. The subcommittee then voted to adjourn after directing staff to prepare its summary and recommended bill draft for the interim report.
DE
Transcript Highlights:
- all applications, giving consideration to all of an agency's revenue sources and how much of its budget
- So it didn't affect last year's budget? No. All right. Thank you. Other questions? Other questions?
- Section 28 provides authorization to the Office of Management and Budget to identify, reallocate, and
- It would authorize the Office of Management and Budget to reprogram these funds.
- Also, I want to acknowledge our partners from the Office of Management and Budget.
Committee:
Joint Finance
Summary:
The Joint Finance Committee met to review and vote on the fiscal year 2027 Grants and Aid Act, which was expected to be pre-filed as Senate Bill 337. Members first reviewed Section 1, covering county seat payments, paramedic operations, senior center allocations, senior center transportation, and Homeland Security grants. They approved Section 1 after discussion of how senior center transportation is being moved from DART to grant-in-aid and how some organizations can appear in both the senior center formula and the general aging category.
The committee then worked through Section 2, which included one-time appropriations and the various grant categories for aging, arts/historical/recreation, economic housing or labor services, family and youth services, health or disability services, and neighborhood and community services. Members discussed several specific items, including New Castle County reassessment-related funding, Friends of Cooch’s Bridge, Slaughter Neck Community Action Organization, Plastic-Free Delaware, Love, Inc. of the Delmarva, and the Southern Delaware Horse Retirement Association. One aging line for Slaughter Neck was reduced back to flat funding after members questioned a large increase, and the revised category total was adjusted accordingly. Each of the Section 2 subcategories was then adopted.
Section 3, covering fire companies and public service ambulance companies, was approved with increases across apparatus, ambulance, rescue truck, aerial truck, rescue boat, substation, and insurance rebate equalization funding. Section 4, for veterans organizations and youth programs such as Boys State, Girls State, and Trooper Youth Week, was also adopted. The committee then approved the epilogue sections, which included eligibility, audit, payment, and reporting rules; special provisions for the Wilmington Senior Center contingency; conditions tied to several one-time appropriations; withholding funding from Merri-Dell Volunteer Fire Company pending a corrective report; and reprogramming $1,485,000 from a prior SMART food program appropriation toward SNAP/WIC-related food access initiatives. The meeting ended with remarks thanking staff and noting that it was likely the last JFC meeting for two members, followed by adjournment.
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- On the operational side, the M&O side of the budget, for stuff that under the equalization base of a
- school budget, you make it whole by backfilling state aid, putting hundreds of thousands and millions
- State aid in the general fund money we're not having to use elsewhere—just I don't have my budget with
- The state is trying to find a bunch of money in the budget.
- state aid, and we can just do that in the budget.
Committee:
House Ways & Means
Keywords:
taxpayer protection, law interpretation, transparency, public hearings, tax policies, GPLET, abatement, tax incentives, local government, property improvement, central business district, property tax, assessment, destruction, proration, Arizona Revised Statutes, Arizona tax corrections act, transaction privilege tax, sales tax, use tax
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- You'll see in the other handout the impact that hunting has on the state budget and how much tax revenue
- it brings in. ...impact that hunting has on the state budget and how much tax revenue it brings in.
- Well, the current budget outlook, as of January, according to the February LSO General Fund Budget Monitor
- so I totally sympathize with the gentleman for the chore he has of figuring out how to balance the budget
- That's the kind of detail that we are pinching pennies in the budget this year.
Summary:
The House convened with a quorum, approved the journal, and received committee reports and bill referrals. Among the measures introduced or advanced were bills on restroom access and indecency, assertive community treatment, foreign law in Idaho courts, police dog protections, hospital taxing district petitions, legislative residency requirements, driver education options for parents, and redesigning the agricultural license plate. The House also passed several bills on second or third reading, including HB 652, HB 556, HB 602, HB 654, HB 549, HB 628, and HB 663, sending them to the Senate.
HB 556 drew the most debate. Supporters argued the state should raise reimbursement to counties for housing state inmates in county jails because county costs have risen well above current reimbursement levels, counties are overcrowded, and property taxpayers are subsidizing state obligations. Opponents said the fiscal note was too large for the current budget year, though several members still acknowledged the underlying problem. The bill ultimately passed the House 59-10. HB 602, which limits the use of foreign law when it conflicts with Idaho or U.S. constitutional rights, also passed after questions about prior legislation affecting child support enforcement; the sponsor said this bill was narrower and preserved existing law as the guardrail.
HB 673, which would require legislative candidates to have lived in their district for 120 days in the preceding year before filing, generated significant concern about retroactivity, fairness, and impacts on military members, missionaries, traveling workers, and others with temporary absences. After debate, the House voted to send it to general orders for further work rather than advancing it immediately. HB 628, concerning parent-taught driver education in urban districts, was defended as expanding parental choice and reducing costs, while opponents raised safety concerns about teaching teens on busy roads without dual brakes or other safeguards; it passed 63-6. The House adjourned after announcements and committee meeting notices.
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Agriculture & Natural Resources Feb 19th, 2026 at 01:30 pm
Agriculture & Natural Resources
Transcript Highlights:
- showed no impact, DNR states in the fiscal note that approximately $661,000 in funding is in the budget
- So when you say that $600 and some-odd thousand is in the budget, clearly not like the current biennial
- budget?
- Yeah, it's in the base budget.
- . 2199 would help prevent these situations by clarifying that vessels... budget. 2199 would help prevent
Committee:
Senate Agriculture & Natural Resources
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Higher Education & Workforce Development Feb 19th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- And I can vouch for former Senator Frockt's involvement in the capital budget world.
- Senator Frockt's involvement in the capital budget world, because we did have the opportunity to either
- And, you know, that was a priority when we had those discussions on capital budget.
- And, you know, we see it as a discretionary dollar amount in our budget.
- And outs and secret hiding places in the budget are.
Summary:
The Senate Higher Education and Workforce Development Committee first waived the five-day notice rule and held a public hearing on Substitute House Bill 2525, which would establish a Heritage Orchard Program at Washington State University. Staff explained the bill was narrowed from the original version and would require WSU to maintain a registry of heritage orchards and a list of rare and lost apple varieties, with a null and void clause and fiscal note available. Representative Gloria Mendoza testified in support, describing Washington’s apple history and the effort to identify and preserve old apple trees still found on farms and trails around the state. Members asked questions about how the program would locate trees and preserve historic varieties, but no vote was taken on the bill during the hearing.
The committee then heard several gubernatorial appointments to higher education boards. Representative Deborah Inteman was nominated to the State Board for Community and Technical Colleges, Bryce W. McKibben to the Pierce College Board of Trustees, former Senator David Frockt to the Western Washington University Board of Trustees, and former Senator Christine Rolfes to the Olympic College Board of Trustees. Each appointee described their background in higher education, public service, and community college or university advocacy, and members asked about attendance, board service, and how they would help bridge legislative and institutional priorities. The committee also held a work session on Central Washington University’s geothermal and decarbonization efforts, with staff explaining the university’s open-loop geothermal system, planned geo-eco plants, and climate action goals tied to state clean building and decarbonization mandates. CWU officials said the project is intended to reduce emissions, support campus heating and cooling, and serve as a living laboratory for students.
In executive session, the committee moved to report a panel of gubernatorial appointments, including the higher education appointments heard that day, with a recommendation that they be confirmed. The motion passed by voice vote, and the committee adjourned.
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- And this is a study that was funded equally by the Lakes Commission under our budget and the University
- And, you know, I know the question that you've all had with everybody is, what about the budget cuts?
- The budget cuts will have some issues with us with regard to the general fund itself.
- We have some line-item requests in the budget, and all of our budget line-item requests are dedicated
- None of them are general fund budget requests because of our dedicated funds, and all of these funds
Committee:
Senate Resources and Environment
MO
Missouri 2026 Regular Session
Veterans and Armed Forces Feb 10th, 2026 at 12:00 pm
Veterans and Armed Forces
Transcript Highlights:
- We do not have the funding in our budget to make this happen.
- I don't have the capacity budget-wise to be able to take care of this.
- decides not to appropriate any funding toward this, what— And then the budget committee decides not
- You know, I mean, we're in a position where we're at the whim of every budget year.
- I would just encourage that to be a part of our bigger thoughts as we talk about the budget and as we
Committee:
House Veterans and Armed Forces
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Health Care & Wellness Feb 3rd, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- In the biennial operating budget last year, the legislature directed the Health Care Authority to apply
- Even if we get the waiver in soon, it won't be until next biennium that there will really be a budget
- Even if we get the waiver in soon, it won't be until next biennium that there will really be a budget
- We just held our first roundtable after the governor's budget was announced, least impactful to the GFS
- If we took this amendment, the policy would die due to a fiscal note because of our budget crisis.
Summary:
The House Health Care and Wellness Committee held public hearings on four bills and then took executive action on three measures. HB 2555 would require the Health Care Authority to apply for a Medicaid waiver to cover traditional health care practices provided through Indian Health Service, tribal, and urban Indian facilities. Supporters, including the prime sponsor, tribal health leaders, and the Health Care Authority, said the bill would recognize traditional medicine, expand access, and leverage federal funding, though HCA noted the July 1, 2026 waiver deadline and urban Indian reimbursement questions may be difficult to resolve. HB 2685 would codify tribal data sovereignty principles for state agencies, require reporting of notifiable conditions to tribal health jurisdictions, and exempt certain tribal data from public disclosure. Tribal representatives supported the bill as necessary for access, governance, and better public health planning, while the Washington Coalition for Open Government and HCA raised concerns about the breadth of the PRA exemption, undefined ownership interests, and implementation details.
HB 2658 would require health carriers to submit standardized public data on behavioral health and other coverage and access metrics, with the Insurance Commissioner posting the information on a public dashboard. Supporters said the bill would improve transparency about mental health parity and help families, employers, and policymakers compare plans; opponents argued it duplicates or complicates recent parity reforms and could be misinterpreted. HB 2683 would shorten carrier credentialing timelines from 90 days to 30 days and require carriers to post billing and coverage information online. Supporters said it would reduce delays for providers and patients, while opponents warned the shorter timeline could be hard to meet and that posting information without login protections could raise privacy concerns.
In executive session, the committee adopted two amendments to HB 2168, which concerns overdose mapping data, then reported the substitute bill out with a due pass recommendation by a vote of 16-1. It rejected an amendment to HB 2196 that would have extended PANDAS/PANS coverage to public and school employee plans, then advanced the substitute bill with a due pass recommendation by a vote of 15-2. Finally, the committee passed HB 2545, which would allow ambulatory surgical facilities to perform elective percutaneous coronary interventions, by a vote of 13-4, after members discussed safety, access, and cost savings.
NM
Transcript Highlights:
- Chairman, there is funding in the budget. Thank you. So, Mr.
- Chairman, there is funding in the budget, not the full amount.
- We're still working on that, but we've consistently put money into the budget for early literacy.
- So that is what we're still trying to get into the budget. Mr.
- Chairman, $55 million is in the budget for that.
Committee:
Senate Senate Education
Keywords:
SB29, math requirements for teaching license, teacher licensure, teacher endorsement, mathematics methods, elementary education, secondary education, special education, early childhood education, reciprocity, Public Education Department, Mathematics and Science Education Act, mathematics instructional leadership framework, professional learning plan, K-3 screening, mathematics screening assessment, mathematics difficulty, support plan, multilevel support, intervention
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Administrative Regulation Review Subcommittee (1-12-26)
Transcript Highlights:
- inflationary increases, we then looked at whether that would cover what we anticipated to be our budget
- to be our budget, but some uncertainty<00:14:52.079><c> on</c><00:14:52.320><c> how</c><00:14:52.560
- So whenever you're before them, just I would bring your prior budget and just, you know, pretty much
- <00:16:05.839><c> prior</c> then just I would bring your prior then just I would bring your prior budget
- and just you know pretty much be budget and just you know pretty much be able<00:16:08.000><c> to</c
Keywords:
0:00– Meeting start/roll call
0:39 – Approval of minutes
1:11 – Council on Postsecondary Education
3:06 - State Board of Elections
5:33 - Office of the Attorney General; Office of Regulatory Relief
7:02 - Board of Examiners of Psychology
16:38 - Energy and Environment Cabinet; Department for Environmental Protection
17:37 - Education and Labor Cabinet - Department of Education
19:14 - Adjournment, 958, all
Summary:
The Administrative Regulation Review Subcommittee met for its January meeting, approved the minutes from the prior meeting, and welcomed the new regulations compiler. The first item was a repealer from the Council on Postsecondary Education, 13 KAR 2:111, which was explained as necessary because Senate Bill 77 from the 2025 session removed the regulatory authority for advanced practice doctoral degree programs at comprehensive universities. No questions were raised, and the repealer moved forward without objection.
The subcommittee then reviewed a large package of State Board of Elections regulations with staff-suggested amendments. The package would update definitions and election procedures, require e-poll books to be ready before polls open, change the standard and timeline for removing an election officer, add oversight by a State Board appointee on election days, recognize the Kentucky party, require voter registration records to be added to electronic voter records, require ballots to fit all races and questions on a single sheet, adjust precinct consolidation petition deadlines, and update incorporated forms and identification references. The package was approved without objection.
The Office of the Attorney General’s Office of Regulatory Relief also presented multiple regulations with staff amendments, covering funeral planning declarations, cemetery companies, pre-need cemetery merchandise and funeral/burial contract sellers, and crematory contract sellers. These changes were described as adding specificity, streamlining forms and reporting, and bringing the regulations into compliance with KRS Chapter 13A; they were approved without objection.
The Board of Examiners of Psychology presented several regulations, including compact rules, grace-period extensions, and significant fee increases for applications, renewals, reinstatements, exam retakes, and reciprocity. Board representatives said the increases were needed because many fees had not been raised since 2002, the board was operating at a deficit, and legal and administrative costs had risen sharply after the termination of state legal services. Members expressed concern about the size of the increases, but the chair said he would not hold the matter up and would raise the issue with the committee of jurisdiction. The subcommittee also approved staff amendments for the Energy and Environment Cabinet’s air quality regulations and the Education and Labor Cabinet’s education regulations, which updated nontraditional instruction procedures, waiver requests, instruction topics, superintendent assessment requirements, and academic standards. The meeting ended with the next meeting scheduled for February 9 at 1 p.m., and the agenda was adjourned without further objection.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- We have to balance our budget against those revenues.
- in history, this represents billions of dollars in impact to our districts and a commitment in our budget
- So it's definitely considered new spending in our budget. I understand that's what it's considered.
- Saying that it's because of deficit budgets they've had to pay us, and also inflation.
- Teacher compensation amounts to between 50 and 55 percent of district budgets.
Bills:
HB2
Committee:
Senate Education
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Environment Committee Meeting - 2025-04-03
Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- policy, the information that I'm receiving right now is that we're looking at putting together a budget
- And I should say we found that the reason why it's part of the governor's budget to turn back this is
- Is there a reason, when we have a 6 billion dollar budget deficit that we're facing, that you think we
- So that's what I'm referencing; it's It's not in the budget. It's not in the budget.
- is one of the things as we're looking at putting together a budget.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Floor Session Mar 20th, 2025
California House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Proposed $300 million budget cut to preschool programs for kids with developmental disabilities.
- I'm ashamed of that and I will tell you that even in the governor's budget this year Special Olympics
- As my colleague from Northern California correctly points out, we have a variety of budget shortfalls
- Individuals, this bill does allow counties to use their discretion, looking carefully at their budgets
- Assembly Bill 100 by Assemblymember Gabriel, an act relating to the Budget Act of 2025.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- The UTP is not a budget.
- And these two sources alone now make up almost 40% of our budget.
- OK, so that's a budget that's put out by appropriations.
- So that being the case, then, do you have, you had to have had some kind of a budget, some, some form
- of a budget to be able to move this thing forward, correct?
Committee:
House Transportation