Transcript Highlights:

• inventory, and should there be some equipment failure, we will, at that point in time, provide those purchases
• Our market participants purchase goods and services at a tune of $5 billion, and those monies are at
• This is for programming such as after-school and summer learning initiatives, the purchase of educational

Summary: The subcommittee heard May Revision presentations for the Office of Emergency Services, Judicial Branch, CDCR, and the Department of Justice, with the LAO offering comments and recommendations throughout. For Cal OES, the administration outlined funding for relocating the Red Mountain communications site, increased FEMA reimbursement authority, cybersecurity grants, next-generation 911 support, and a reduction to the Flexible Cash Assistance for Survivors of Crime program. Members raised concerns about VOCA backfill and disaster reimbursement, while the LAO recommended approving the 911 request with reporting, adding contingency planning for cybersecurity grants, clarifying the FEMA reimbursement language, and increasing reporting on emergency spending. For the Judicial Branch, the May Revision included funding for implementation of the Trial Nations Access to Justice Act, reductions tied to court facilities and employee benefits, and General Fund solutions such as a reduction to the pretrial release program, a reversion from the Trial Court Trust Fund, and elimination of the jury duty pilot program. The LAO cautioned that the pretrial reduction could affect detention and release decisions and recommended tighter legislative oversight over the trust fund transfer and reallocation language. Members questioned the impact of the pretrial cut, the lack of Prop. 36 court funding, and the rationale for the jury pilot elimination; the Judicial Branch said it was generally supportive of the budget as proposed. CDCR presented requests for roof repairs, fire alarm replacements, CalAIM-related costs, and trailer bill changes on incarcerated college students, mental health hiring, and tuberculosis testing, along with a planned prison closure by October 2026. The department also proposed reducing or delaying several items, including radio replacement, ADA improvements, COVID mitigation, and some facility upgrades, while adding a $125 million placeholder for consultant-driven operational savings. The LAO recommended rejecting or reducing several San Quentin-related proposals, questioned the staffing and contract medical requests, and urged more transparency on the consultant savings plan; members expressed concern about the realism of the savings targets and the potential legal or operational risks from delaying ADA and radio projects. For DOJ, the May Revision proposed ongoing funding and 44 positions to defend against federal actions, IT and accounting system upgrades, implementation funding for AB 1877, and a special fund loan. The LAO supported the KLETS connection but asked for a contingency plan if the new DMV link is delayed, noted that AB 1877 would not be fully implemented without additional funding, and recommended limiting and reporting on the federal accountability workload. Members questioned the size and permanence of the DOJ request, the use of the earlier $25 million special session appropriation, and the pace of federal litigation; DOJ said the new request would support ongoing litigation, expert assistance, and coordination across multiple cases and states.

Transcript Highlights:

• There's a number of counties that have purchased our latest model of equipment, but in a typical county
• Tooth thank you mr. chairman The ballot paper is that purchased from you it can be.
• Certain states, and I think Texas is included, prefer to purchase their ballot paper. from local or state-run

Keywords: 1184, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• their contract pharmacies in the This legislation would prevent the manufacturers from reviewing purchasing
• And so they may Utilize 340B discount to purchase medications that are used in the course of a visit.
• Purchases a drug or say $2,000.

Transcript Highlights:

• has procurement language in here that would require MDA to follow state procurement laws on any purchases
• that are made, any product purchases that are made through this infrastructure fund.
• that<00:10:08.080> are<00:10:08.160> made,<00:10:08.480> any on any purchases
• that are made, any on any purchases that are made, any product<00:10:09.040> purchases<00:10:
• that are made through product purchases that are made through this<00:10:11.200> uh<00:10:11.280

Keywords: MS Senate Floor - 11 March, 2026; 10:00 AM, 925, all

Summary: The Senate convened with a quorum, opened with an invocation by Reverend Anthony Phillips, and dispensed with the reading of the journal and committee reports. The chamber also recognized several guests in the galleries, including family members of senators, medical professionals for Early Childhood Day, and advocates and local officials. After introductions, the Senate moved into the calendar and began considering bills and motions. Among the measures taken up, the Senate passed House Bill 1393 to create the Mississippi Energy Infrastructure Fund, with the sponsor explaining it would allow MDA to support energy projects and require compliance with state procurement laws. The Senate also passed House Bill 420, which provides a full homestead ad valorem tax exemption for honorably discharged veterans age 85 or older and allows an unremarried surviving spouse to keep the exemption; senators asked about eligibility, age limits, and safeguards against improper exemptions. Another bill passed was House Bill 1941 on the Mississippi Outdoor Stewardship Trust Fund, which would allow funding through bonds or other means in addition to direct appropriation and raise the DFA processing cap from 2% to 3%; several senators raised concerns about state debt and the funding mechanism. The Senate concurred in Senate Bill 2906, which gives the Secretary of State additional time to establish minimum cybersecurity standards for county election systems. It also adopted motions to table reconsideration on several House bills, including House Bill 908 on absentee ballot receipt dates, House Bill 525 on mandatory minimum penalties for sexual battery, and House Bill 538 on sanctuary policies and immigration enforcement. The chamber voted to reconsider and then again pass House Bill 1613, described as a bill on aggravated trafficking weight and pill counts that also included a chemical abortion ban, after some senators who were absent earlier asked to go on record. For House Bill 2409, dealing with a comprehensive mitigation program for retrofitting insurable homes, the Senate voted not to concur and invited conference. The Senate also passed and retained numerous other items as it worked through the calendar.

Transcript Highlights:

• The speaker gave an example involving a felon purchasing a firearm and having to fill out a 4473, saying
• In my own experience, and I've never purchased a piece of property from the DOT, but I have seen it happen
• They have to sue to put their home where they have already purchased land.
• They have to sue to put their home where they have already purchased land.
• <05:44:54.240> So they have already purchases land. So they have already purchases land.

Keywords: 1189, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• /c><04:14:23.600> be<04:14:23.720> forced<04:14:24.080> to<04:14:24.279> purchase
• <04:14:24.760> more stores would be forced to purchase more stores would be forced to purchase
• Americans deserve the ability to purchase the appliances that best suit their family's functional and
• > the<04:47:01.638> appliances<04:47:02.160> that<04:47:02.360> best to purchase
• the appliances that best to purchase the appliances that best suit<04:47:02.878> their<04:47:

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Wednesday, March 26, 2025, 1012, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• very expensive S-Rex out and purchase very expensive S-Rex and<01:03:08.319> partly<01:03:08.640
• They could purchase non-emitting resources such as new clean energy generation assets, new virtual power
• <01:16:19.040> non-emitting storage, or purchasing non-emitting storage, or purchasing non-emitting
• They<01:16:24.159> could<01:16:24.400> purchase<01:16:24.960> non-emitting They
• could purchase non-emitting They could purchase non-emitting resources resources resources >> such

Keywords: Senate streaming session for Monday, April 13, 2026, 960, senate, all

Summary: The Senate reconvened with a quorum and first honored Nancy Crawford with a resolution recognizing her 46 years of state service, including 20 years as Senator Pam Beidle’s chief of staff. Senator Beidle then spoke at length about her own retirement plans and public service, reflecting on her career in the House and Senate, her work on the Finance Committee, and thanking her staff and colleagues. The chamber unanimously journalized the remarks. The Senate then moved into business on House and Senate messages, including House Bill 139 and Senate Bill 311, and adopted a conference committee report on House Bill 1532, the Utility Relief/Reducing Energy Load for Inflation measure. The report was described as a broad energy and utility package that had already passed the Senate 38-4 and was said to address short-, medium-, and long-term issues, including rate relief, in-state generation, data center policy, consumer transparency, and low-income utility assistance. During debate on the conference report, the majority leader explained several changes from prior versions: no legislative ban on forecast test years, instead deferring to the Public Service Commission; removal of gas programs from Empower to avoid inequities across service territories; modest opening of the retail supply market with guardrails; and rejection of some floor amendments, including a gas line extension provision and a study amendment. The minority leader argued the bill offered only limited relief, focused too much on talking points and short-term savings, and said many bipartisan amendments were not retained. The majority leader responded that the bill would save ratepayers real dollars through provisions on utility adders, executive bonuses, FERC-related returns, and new generation, and urged adoption of the conference report.

Transcript Highlights:

• We know that people cross the border into Massachusetts, Vermont, and Maine to purchase these products
• these these products and to purchase these these products and sometimes<00:20:19.600> they<00
• a firearm and have them who purchases a firearm and have them fingerprinted?
• ,<04:04:03.920> receiving,<04:04:04.319> or<04:04:04.640> possessing purchasing,
• receiving, or possessing purchasing, receiving, or possessing deadly<04:04:05.920> weapons<04

Keywords: 1189, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• Because maybe if all the doors that had to be 30 inches wide were purchased without tax, then there would
• 52.720> the because due to fatigue they neglect the because due to fatigue they neglect the purchase
• purchase of food. purchase of food.
• figure ranks well behind other major expenditures such as feed at 27.3% and livestock or poultry purchases
• <04:27:39.280> at and livestock or poultry purchases at and livestock or poultry purchases

Keywords: 981, all

Transcript Highlights:

• If you purchase a warranty, it transfers with the house.

Bills: HB95, HB382

Keywords: HVAC, air conditioning, heating, ventilation, warranty transfer, manufacturer warranty, consumer protection, home sale, residential real property, real estate, homebuyer, homeowner, property transfer, fixture, condominium, cooperative, duplex, triplex, quadraplex, warrantor

Transcript Highlights:

• So, the people that purchased in the past could not fulfill for those plan.
• So, the people that purchased in the past could not fulfill those plans.
• So, the people that<00:17:47.240> purchased<00:17:47.720> in<00:17:47.800> the<00
• :17:47.880> past<00:17:48.560> could<00:17:48.760> not that purchased in the past
• could not that purchased in the past could not fulfill<00:17:49.560> for<00:17:49.679> those

Transcript Highlights:

• This program is critically important in helping farmers purchase their first farm and, as you heard a
• This program is critically important in helping farmers purchase their first farm and, as you heard a
• This program is critically important in helping farmers purchase their first farm and, as you heard a
• This program is critically important in helping farmers purchase their first farm and, as you heard a
• So now you can still purchase paraquat until January 1, 2028.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• there was a bill in the legislature that passed in the 1980s that required uh the state of Minnesota purchase
• there was a bill in the legislature that passed in the 1980s that required uh the state of Minnesota purchase
• c> Minnesota that required uh the state of Minnesota that required uh the state of Minnesota purchase
• > made<00:14:48.720> in<00:14:48.880> Minnesota<00:14:49.279> before purchase
• items made in Minnesota before purchase items made in Minnesota before other<00:14:49.920> states

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• that could save schools a considerable amount of money because they would not necessarily have to purchase
• <00:09:04.320> to they wouldn't necessarily have to they wouldn't necessarily have to purchase
• the<00:09:05.920> medication<00:09:06.839> themselves<00:09:07.279> to purchase
• the medication themselves to purchase the medication themselves to have<00:09:07.640> on<00:09
• in the correctional setting, as you may be aware, the New Hampshire Department of Corrections has purchased

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• So, the bill adds an exception for spouses in situations like ours, allowing them to continue purchasing
• 00:27:12.960> them<00:27:13.200> to<00:27:13.720> continue<00:27:15.080> purchasing
• allowing them to continue purchasing allowing them to continue purchasing retirey<00:27:16.799><
• In 2023, the legislature created a new registration filing type called the structured settlement purchaser

Bills: HF1151, HF1239, HF1240, HF2020, HF2514, HF2515, HF2451

Keywords: Compensation Council, salaries, state officials, judicial compensation, legislative process, public funds, misuse, law enforcement, accountability, state government, legislative auditor, compliance, transparency, retirement benefits, health insurance, dependents, state employees, Medicare, legislative studies, government oversight

Transcript Highlights:

• I am here to express my support for SB 599, which requires the appropriate department to purchase and
• :32.240> to requires the appropriate Department to requires the appropriate Department to purchase
• > provide<00:13:33.440> micro<00:13:33.800> chip<00:13:33.959> scanning purchase
• and provide micro chip scanning purchase and provide micro chip scanning equipment<00:13:35.279>
• :14.760> establishes Relating to taxation, which establishes an income tax credit for the purchase

Keywords: 912, senate, all

Summary: The committee heard testimony on a series of transportation-related bills. SB 21 on water carriers would create an inflationary cost index mechanism; DOT, Agriculture, DCCA, the PUC, and several harbor and logistics interests supported it, while Pacific Transfer opposed. SB 1478 would require vessel masters to follow harbor master evacuation orders during emergencies; DOT clarified it applies only to commercial ports, with support from Hima and the Harbor Users Group and opposition from the Hailongm Association. SB 108 would authorize DOT to regulate vessel noise near commercial harbors; the White Harbor Users Group opposed, while DOT said it supported the intent but warned the bill may be preempted by federal law. SB 1475 would raise the bond ceiling for harbor improvement projects from $100 million to $600 million, and SB 1473 would cap central services assessments on DOT funds at $5 million and tie them to CPI; DOT supported both, and Budget and Finance explained the central services fee is generally a 5% deduction from special funds with some statutory exceptions. The committee also heard SB 1402 on securing mooring lines in state commercial harbors, which drew support from the General Contractors Association of Hawaii and the Hawaii Longline Association. SB 1522 on vehicle title transfers was supported by the City and County of Honolulu’s Department of Customer Services. SB 599 would require DOT or counties to scan deceased cats and dogs for microchips before disposal; DOT said it would provide scanners, the Hawaiian Humane Society and a private witness strongly supported the bill, and the committee discussed that the measure would not charge pet owners and that Oʻahu microchip rates are about 80% for dogs and 70% for cats. SB 1025 would allow service and non-service animals on mass transit under certain conditions; DHS offered comments, Maui and Honolulu opposed, while the Hawaiian Humane Society, the Environmental Caucus, and others supported it, and an opponent raised concerns about large pets, service animals, and the need for size and off-peak restrictions. Later, the committee heard SB 1096 on license plate-flipping devices, with DOT and Honolulu police supporting it. SB 384 would expand victim restitution in DUI-related negligent homicide cases to include child support for surviving minor children; DOT, MADD, and the Kiki Injury Prevention Coalition supported it, while the Public Defender opposed, arguing the restitution amounts would be unverified and better handled through civil remedies. SB 597 would extend the deadline for the administrative driver license revocation office to issue decisions, and the Attorney General, police, and Maui prosecutors supported it because of drug-testing delays, especially on neighbor islands. Finally, SB 1285 would create a lower-level impaired driving offense and authorize administrative action; the Attorney General and Public Defender both raised concerns about charging discretion and resource impacts, while county, public health, alcohol policy, and victim advocates strongly supported the bill as a life-saving measure. The transcript ends partway through testimony on SB 1285, with no final committee votes or actions recorded in the excerpt.

Transcript Highlights:

• And purchased inpatient capacity, including competency restoration beds.
• then I think at our high end we're paying some where I think around 850 maybe 900 for some of those purchased
• In addition to that, a lot of the work that was done last session is adding. additional sites for purchased
• It's an insurance purchase model. program to expand the TEP program, which is the Insurance Assistance
• the AIDS Drug Assistance Program, which is the ADAP program, which is the. program that directly purchases

Bills: SB1, SB 1

Keywords: appropriations, budget, state funding, education, healthcare, infrastructure, campground safety, youth camp regulations, flood safety, emergency evacuation, health and safety standards, 1185, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• Is this used for value-based purchasing, or is it intended to be in the future used for value-based purchasing
• <00:50:44.400> Is Is this information going to be used for value-based purchasing, or is it
• intended to be in the future used for value-based purchasing for services?
• <00:51:02.720> drive<00:51:03.119> their<00:51:03.680> uh<00:51:03.839> purchasing
• data to drive their uh purchasing data to drive their uh purchasing decisions<00:51:05.359> and

Keywords: During the committee meeting live stream, portion of the video was lost due to network issues. There were also some technical difficulties with content and the incorrect background image being used. The lost footage was recovered from backup, and the other issues corrected in post production editing. 1. 00:00:41 Call to Order 2. 00:01:02 Roll Call 3. 00:02:54 Approval of Minutes 4. 00:05:06 Statutory Reports and Data Requests 5. 00:35:14 2025 and 2026 Session Update 6. 01:03:10 Board Structure Updates and Subcommittees 7. 01:05:20 Public Comment 8. 02:23:14 Adjournment, 958, all

Summary: The Medicaid Oversight Board meeting opened with quorum, approval of the March 9 and March 16, 2026 minutes, and a welcome to new member Representative Willner. The board then heard a presentation from the Department of Medicaid Services on several statutory reports: the quarterly budget analysis (LRC) report, the quarterly MCO report, the provider tax and assessment report, the enrollee demographic report, the annual behavioral health/substance use disorder utilization report, and the Medicaid pharmaceutical rebate fund. Commissioner Lisa Lee and CFO Steve Bechal explained the reports and answered questions. On spending, DMS said the quarterly budget analysis report should be read using the summary tabs because the first tab reflects only traditional Medicaid and does not include all populations. Lee said the first three quarters of fiscal year 2026 showed about $191 million more in waiver spending than the same period last year, about $250 million more in other categories such as nursing facilities, CCBHCs, and FQHCs, and roughly $450 million more in total fee-for-service spending. She also noted that Medicare Part D premiums are 100% state funds and estimated the state-fund increase at about $140 million. For managed care, DMS said pharmacy, inpatient hospital, and outpatient hospital spending made up about 66% of MCO payments so far this fiscal year. Members asked about administrative costs, provider tax impacts, citizenship-status categories, medical loss ratio, and whether the reports could be expanded to show recoupments and citizenship-based spending. DMS clarified that the spending figures discussed were benefit costs only, not administrative costs, and said administrative match rates vary. On the provider tax and directed payments report, Lee said the new CMS proposed rule would allow separate payment terms to continue through the grandfathering period, but that the impact would be substantial for providers even if the administrative effect was minimal. She also said DMS was still reviewing unusual citizenship categories such as “other” and “unspecified,” and would provide more information on medical loss ratio and recoupments if available. Auditor Ball raised concerns about alleged waste, duplicate Social Security numbers, ineligible enrollees, and high error rates in other programs. Lee responded that Medicaid focuses on fraud, waste, and abuse, but said the cited $800 million figure was not factual because it did not account for people enrolled in more than one Medicaid program at the same time. She said DMS is reviewing eligibility systems, including changes tied to community engagement requirements, and is working with the cabinet’s eligibility staff and ombudsman division on error rates. No additional votes or formal actions were taken beyond approving the minutes.

Transcript Highlights:

• This is a fee that is collected, for instance, if you have a $575,000 home purchase, you would pay 5750
• This is a fee that is collected, for instance, if you have a $575,000 home purchase, you would pay 5750
• for instance, if you have a $575,000 for instance, if you have a $575,000 home<02:07:00.760> purchase
• , you would pay 5750 home purchase, you would pay 5750 for<02:07:04.040> this<02:07:04.240>
• Um whether it is the cost of purchasing Um whether it is the cost of purchasing asphalt<02:12:57.480

Keywords: 981, all

Transcript Highlights:

• AI language in the nature of a continuing appropriation for administrative expenses and, frankly, purchases
• <00:38:35.599> and<00:38:36.079> uh removing those purchases and uh removing those
• purchases and uh expenditures<00:38:37.599> from<00:38:38.160> the<00:38:38.480> budget
• This was for the purchase of vehicles within DCI.
• It is appropriated to purchase and make available those ear tags for livestock producers.

Keywords: 916, all