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MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Legislative Commission on Pensions and Retirement - 03/18/25
Minnesota Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- I think the key to being able to take that risk is having a well-balanced portfolio and reminding yourself
- I think the key to being able to take that risk is having a well-balanced portfolio and reminding yourself
- I think the key to being able to take that risk is having a well-balanced portfolio and reminding yourself
- I think the key to being able to take that risk is having a well-balanced portfolio and reminding yourself
- Risk, I think the key to being able to take that risk is having a well-balanced portfolio and reminding
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Commerce Finance and Policy Committee 2/11/25
Commerce Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- And so that 70% just for adult use is trying to cut a balance between products that people are interested
- </c> adult use is trying to cut a balance adult use is trying to cut a balance between between between
- ><01:15:04.920><c> to</c> problem with youth and so trying to problem with youth and so trying to balance
- :15:06.520><c> what</c><01:15:06.639><c> we</c><01:15:06.760><c> were</c><01:15:07.040><c> we</c> balance
- that was really what we were we balance that was really what we were we trying<01:15:07.400><c> to</
Committee:
House Commerce Finance and Policy
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Energy, Utilities, Environment and Climate - 01/29/25
Energy, Utilities, Environment, and Climate
Transcript Highlights:
- with federal agencies as well, so there will be, there already is, in place a lot of checks and balances
- with federal agencies as well, so there will be, there already is, in place a lot of checks and balances
- c><00:36:09.359><c> of</c><00:36:09.480><c> checks</c><00:36:09.760><c> and</c><00:36:09.960><c> balances
- </c> in place a lot of checks and balances in place a lot of checks and balances should<00:36:11.160>
- on the grid um to maintain balance on the grid um energy<01:15:04.679><c> storage</c><01:15:05.360><
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on State and Local Government - 01/23/25
State and Local Government
Transcript Highlights:
- appreciate your comments and thoughts, and I think they, you know, really represent the important balance
- I think you raise many really valid things, but I think that balance of a capability also that can really
- And so I think there’s a really important balance, and I certainly welcome, you know, the conversations
- I mean, if you were to balance the two, what would be most important?
- the two what would be most balance the two what would be most important<01:20:38.679><c> and</c><01:
Committee:
Senate State and Local Government
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband and Rural Development - 01/22/25
Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband, and Rural Development
Transcript Highlights:
- One other piece I always put on this, which I think is really important, is that Minnesota balances well
- But as we look at that, you know, you can see where our fund balance is right now.
- is now you got you know what the balance is now you got 126<00:47:42.160><c> that</c><00:47:42.319><
- </c><00:52:33.720><c> it</c><00:52:33.880><c> out</c> did and we were able to balance it out did and
- we were able to balance it out but<00:52:34.400><c> it</c><00:52:34.559><c> doesn't</c><00:52:34.799>
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Session Jun 21st, 2026 at 11:00 am
Massachusetts Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- We wanted to recognize Katie Lee from Balanced Acupuncture, as well as a member of the Acupuncture Society
Summary:
The Senate opened with the Pledge of Allegiance and adopted two ceremonial resolutions: one commending the Ark of Plymouth and Upper Cape Cod on its 50th anniversary, and another congratulating Mark D. Drazen on his retirement from the Metropolitan Area Planning Council. The chamber then received a favorable committee report from the Committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight on Senate 2135, a bill concerning the disposition of certain property in Upton, and, after suspending the rules, ordered the bill to a third reading.
The Senate also recognized Katie Lee of Balanced Acupuncture and the Acupuncture Society of Massachusetts, with remarks noting concerns that the Group Insurance Commission is one of the few coverage carriers not to cover acupuncture services. Later, the Senate suspended Joint Rule 12 to refer several House petitions to their respective committees.
The remainder of the session consisted largely of welcomes to visiting guests, including members of the Caribbean American Leaders Forum and representatives from Caribbean diplomatic and community organizations. At the close of business, the Senate adopted an order to meet again on Thursday at 11:00 a.m., dispensed with printing a calendar, and then adjourned.
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
Agriculture Oct 7th, 2025
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
House - Taxation and Revenue Mar 21st, 2025
House Taxation & Revenue
Transcript Highlights:
- The estimated balance in the projects included in this bill as of January of 2025 is $262.7 million.
Committee:
House House Taxation & Revenue
WY
Transcript Highlights:
- Uh so the balance of those accounts.
- The funds in the account are balance.
- As of April, it has a balance of 30.6 million.
- And then the large projects account has a balance of 18.8 million.
- And then the large projects account has a balance of 18.8 million.
Committee:
Joint Appropriations
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- in this so that all these fund balance in this so that all these kinds<01:26:17.360><c> of</c><01:26
- It says the balance of the New Hampshire Recovery Monument special account lapse to the alcohol abuse
- The balance of the New Hampshire Recovery Monument special account, formally established in RSA 4:9-P
- </c><03:07:58.640><c> Hampshire</c> The balance of the New Hampshire The balance of the New Hampshire
- a budget and I don't um think balance a budget and I don't um think that<03:35:30.640><c> uh</c><03:
Committee:
House Ways and Means
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Criminal Justice and Public Safety (01/30/2025)
Criminal Justice and Public Safety
Transcript Highlights:
- c><00:45:54.079><c> safety</c><00:45:54.559><c> can</c><00:45:54.720><c> be</c><00:45:55.000><c> balanced
- </c> is safe so our safety can be balanced is safe so our safety can be balanced with<00:45:55.760><c
- , and that balance does not always mean that if it's a Second Amendment issue it tips over every other
- , and that balance does not always mean that if it's a Second Amendment issue it tips over every other
- , and that balance does not always mean that if it's a Second Amendment issue it tips over every other
Committee:
House Criminal Justice and Public Safety
HI
Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
FIN Info Briefing - Fri Jan 16, 2026 @ 9:00 AM HST
Hawaii House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- I'm assuming you keep a normal balance sheet, so the money had to come from somewhere.
- </c><00:51:48.640><c> it</c><00:51:48.960><c> because</c> you sort of have to balance it because you
- sort of have to balance it because we<00:51:49.440><c> we</c><00:51:49.760><c> are</c><00:51:50.000><
- Um, so the balance of that is what we're asking for.
- </c> >> $2,000 is still the balance. >> $2,000 is still the balance.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Consensus Forecasting Group (9-16-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> Uh fiduciary has had a negative balance Uh fiduciary has had a negative balance for<01:16:12.719
- We thought the investable balances was going to drop a little bit more sharply than it did.
- It's just a function of two parts: investable balances and interest rates.
- on those balances. and 25 which is hefty growth.
- This is the S&P global uh balances.
Summary:
The meeting focused on preliminary fiscal 2026 revenue estimates and the governor’s office request for an official revision to fiscal 2026, with members reminded that any estimate adopted now would not bind the December official estimates. Staff from S&P Global walked through three forecast scenarios—control, optimistic, and pessimistic—based on recent federal tax changes, tariffs, and other policy developments, emphasizing that the outlook remains highly uncertain.
Under the control scenario, the presentation projected below-trend real GDP growth of 1.8% in fiscal 2026, slowing to 1.5% by fiscal 2028, with unemployment peaking around 4.5% and the Federal Reserve cutting rates three times to a long-run range of about 2.75% to 3%. The optimistic scenario assumed lower effective tariffs, stronger growth, and better labor and housing outcomes, while the pessimistic scenario assumed a broader trade war, higher effective tariffs, faster deportations, weaker employment and consumer spending, and unemployment rising to about 6.3%. Speakers also noted that the forecast was prepared before later BLS revisions and that recent data on inventories and AI-related investment made the recent quarters look unusually volatile.
Members discussed how the current fiscal 2026 outlook compared with earlier assumptions and noted that the eventual revenue revision may be smaller than the spread between the optimistic and pessimistic economic scenarios. The governor’s office and committee members also reviewed sector-specific impacts, including manufacturing, housing, light vehicle production, exports, and consumer sentiment, with particular concern about Kentucky’s auto and housing-related industries. No votes or formal actions were taken in the portion provided.
DE
Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session
House of Representatives Legislative Session - Session 2 - 42nd Legislative Day- REASSEMBLE Part 1 Jun 30th, 2026
Delaware House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- don't, none of them would have to follow this law, and we just didn't feel that that injected the balance
- Senate Amendment 1 ensures that any remaining balances owed solely for the cost of incarceration charges
- access to qualified nutrition professionals, modernized standards to match best national practices, balances
- access to qualified nutrition professionals, modernizes standards to match best national practices, balances
- This resolution asks Delaware to explore a more balanced, modern approach that still maintains federal
Summary:
The House convened on June 30, 2026, with opening ceremonies, guest introductions, and moments of silence for Gerlindy Lancelotti and Iva Durham. Members then took up a long agenda of bills and resolutions, including consent calendar items and several measures related to agriculture, lottery reporting, health care, fire service membership standards, inmate work, telecommunications, rent increases, youth camp licensing, primary elections, respiratory care practice, and marriage equality. The chamber also heard extended debate on Senate Bill 233, concerning removal of snow and ice from vehicles, and on House Bill 188, which would allow unaffiliated voters to choose a party primary while barring participation in both parties’ primaries.
Among the notable actions, House Concurrent Resolution 157 passed as amended, directing the State Lottery to report on options to support traditional lottery retailers. Senate Bill 53, preserving the Delaware Farm to Community Program if federal support declines, passed unanimously. Senate Bill 307, giving the Public Service Commission authority to designate eligible Lifeline carriers, and Senate Bill 339, clarifying advance health care directives, also passed. Senate Bill 235, removing a sunset on manufactured home rent increase calculations, passed, as did Senate Bill 325 after House Amendment 1 narrowed disqualifying offenses for fire service membership and adjusted related background-check rules. Senate Bill 309, discharging remaining incarceration-cost balances, and Senate Bill 324, addressing constable-related firearm permit provisions, both passed.
The chamber tabled Senate Bill 233 once to consider a proposed amendment for trucks and other hard-to-clear vehicles, but the amendment failed and the bill later passed as amended by the Senate. Senate Joint Resolution 19, directing DHSS to study strategies to reduce health care costs, was tabled pending legal review. Senate Substitute 2 for Senate Bill 100, proposing a constitutional amendment to protect the right to marry, passed after extensive floor debate and personal statements from members on both sides. Senate Bill 293, creating a licensure pathway for summer camps to participate in purchase-of-care, passed after House Amendment 1. House Bill 188 on open primary access for unaffiliated voters passed 22-17, and Senate Bill 94, concerning respiratory care practitioners and ECMO medication delivery, passed after House Amendment 2. The transcript ends as the House begins consideration of House Substitute 1 for House Bill 404.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on the Judiciary Jun 21st, 2026 at 01:00 pm
Joint Committee on the Judiciary
Transcript Highlights:
- Our goal is to ensure that technological advancements are balanced with the fundamental rights of individuals
- And again, you may not have an answer now, but I think that we would need to balance that to move this
- In short, this is the balanced, focused, and effective solution we need to resolve the emerging risk
- In contrast, these three bills are a more balanced and responsible approach.
- If a definition is necessary, consider an alternative that provides a balance and an effective framework
Committee:
Joint Joint Committee on the Judiciary
Summary:
The committee opened with procedural guidance for a very large hearing, explaining testimony limits, written testimony procedures, and rules for maintaining order. Members then heard testimony on a wide range of bills, including proposals to define antisemitism using the IHRA definition, regulate facial recognition technology, restrict weaponized robotics and drone use, expand protections for journalists’ confidential sources, address access to decedents’ email accounts, and create or adjust rules around municipal enforcement and animal cruelty fines. Several sponsors and advocates asked for favorable reports, and committee members asked clarifying questions on implementation, costs, and how the bills would interact with existing law.
On facial recognition, sponsors and advocates described the technology as a threat to privacy, due process, and civil liberties, and urged adoption of the Special Commission’s recommendations, including warrant requirements, notice to defendants, and limits on untargeted surveillance. Support came from legislators, the ACLU, CDT, EFF, and a UMass professor, while committee members asked about current state law and municipal bans. On robotics, Senator Moore and industry witnesses from MassRobotics, Boston Dynamics, and AUVSI supported a bill prohibiting weaponized robots and requiring warrants for certain law enforcement uses, describing it as a public-safety and trust-building measure. On the shield law bill, newspaper publishers, journalists, NEFAC, and the Reporters Committee argued Massachusetts needs statutory protection for confidential sources, citing costly subpoenas and chilling effects on reporting.
The committee also heard testimony on a bill to expand the right of publicity to cover image and voice, with SAG-AFTRA members supporting protections against AI-driven exploitation and some discussion about viral content and consent. Another bill would allow limited access to a decedent’s email accounts, with one witness describing a family’s inability to use a deceased relative’s email to notify friends. The committee then took testimony on psilocybin-related bills: supporters described medical and personal benefits and argued for narrow decriminalization or study, while an opponent warned of public-health risks, impaired driving, and youth exposure; the Massachusetts Psychiatric Society supported limited, safety-based decriminalization. Finally, the committee heard strong support for a “safe reporting” bill for sex workers and trafficking survivors, with advocates saying immunity would encourage victims and witnesses to report crimes without fear of arrest, and members raised questions about how the immunity would work in practice.
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- So, previously it just said balance sheets, revenue sources, but from the Senate bill it was stuff like
- So, previously it just said balance sheets, revenue sources, but from the Senate bill it was stuff like
- , but uh balance sheets, revenue sources, but the<00:14:10.320><c> but</c><00:14:10.800><c> from</c><
- You know, saying you don't have the right checks and balances going on to make sure that only people
- You know, saying you don't have the right checks and balances going on to make sure that only people
Committee:
House Education Funding
Summary:
The Education Funding Committee met in executive session and reviewed several previously heard bills, but focused its discussion on SB 586 and SB 580. The chair explained that SB 586 would require school districts and school administrative units to publish audit reports after the fiscal year, and that an amendment, 1472H, had been prepared to replace the relevant audit/reporting section. The amendment would add SAUs to the reporting entities, expand the contents of audits to include items such as employee lists, pay, benefits, and pension liabilities, and change the timing so audits are submitted nine months after the fiscal year end, followed by a three-month Department of Education review and then a further correction period before any grant funding could be withheld. The amendment would also require the reports to be posted in searchable electronic form on the web. Committee members discussed whether the bill’s “non-compliance” language referred only to incomplete submissions or also to audit findings, and several members raised concerns about whether the Department of Education had the staff and authority to take on this role, whether the existing DOE25 process would be displaced, and whether the bill should instead remain with the Department of Revenue Administration. One member noted that the fiscal note anticipated the need for additional auditors and significant staffing costs.
The committee also reviewed SB 580, described as a school cooperative purchasing program bill that also contains policy provisions for charter school trustees, school board members, and receivership-related language tied to Claremont. The chair said the committee had previously heard comments from Charlie Arlinghouse on the cooperative purchasing portion and would use a side-by-side comparison prepared by staff when it reached that bill. Other bills on the docket were briefly described but not taken up that day: SB 491, which has committee-requested amendments and a separate non-germane amendment related to curriculum frameworks and academic standards; SB 513, an owner’s project manager bill held as a possible vehicle for future non-germane language; and SB 531, concerning a cosmetology program in Coös County and a possible task force. The chair said the committee would not address 491, 513, or 531 that day and would return to 580 and 586.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- guidelines exist to help decision Debt guidelines exist to help decision makers<00:47:02.400><c> balance
- </c><00:47:02.800><c> today's</c><00:47:03.200><c> capital</c><00:47:03.599><c> needs</c> makers balance
- today's capital needs makers balance today's capital needs with<00:47:04.079><c> future</c><00:47:04.400
- cash-funded capital projects enacted more than four years ago that have unspent and unencumbered balances
- If canceled, any canceled balances will go towards either repaying state bonds or back to the general
Committee:
House Capital Investment
NV
Nevada 2025 Regular Session
Senate Committee on Government Affairs May 30th, 2025 at 03:30 pm
Government Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- I mean, in theory, it should be our government's set up on a system of checks and balances.
- So we tried to strike the balance of not making it something that's intrusive on local government, but
- We currently have awarded five projects and executed two agreements of those five, and the balance are
- We currently have awarded five projects and executed two agreements of those five, and the balance are
- We hope it will be comprehensive, but, understanding the need to balance that with time, an abbreviated
Committee:
Senate Government Affairs
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- integrity of their agency, continue to do their fraud work, and still have those other checks and balances
- integrity of their agency, continue to do their fraud work, and still have those other checks and balances
- integrity of their agency, continue to do their fraud work, and still have those other checks and balances
- integrity of their agency, continue to do their fraud work, and still have those other checks and balances
- integrity of their agency, continue to do their fraud work, and still have those other checks and balances
Committee:
Senate Finance
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Through it all, Erica has balanced her professional achievements with her role as a devoted mother and
- Any unobligated and unexpended balances remaining as of August 31st, 2026. are appropriated for the same
- We have a balanced budget in this state, so that means a hundred percent... of that cost increase has
- So in a balanced budget state, there is no question that means it pushes out everything else that you
- We have carried forward a cash balance of $24 billion because we didn't spend $5 billion on public education
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