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WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Environment, Energy & Technology Feb 20th, 2026 at 10:30 am
Environment, Energy & Technology
Transcript Highlights:
- impacts onto the community, onto the customer, and lower, and keep the rate payer's impacts that the
- These same principles guided Tacoma Power as we designed our large load rate in 2024.
- These same principles guided Tacoma Power as we designed our large load rate in 2024.
- The bill, as you've heard, does a number of good things from protecting rate payers. nearly 20 years.
- Our levy rates have dropped by over 64 percent.
Committee:
Senate Environment, Energy & Technology
Keywords:
weatherization, energy efficiency, community projects, sustainability, environment, coal-fired plant, preferential treatment, energy policy, electric generation, regulatory reform, pollution control, efficiency, appeals process, environmental regulation, hearing board, data protection, privacy, performance measures, reporting requirements, office of privacy
FL
Transcript Highlights:
- initiate the rural health transformation fund in its first year, $128 million in Medicaid provider rate
- How many people is DOC holding, and what is the reimbursement rate? Chair Garcia.
- $52 million for the inpatient hospital rate and about $37 million to the outpatient hospital rate.
- The 3% employee contribution rate is not changed by this bill.
- The 3% employee contribution rate is not changed by this bill.
Summary:
The Senate took up the 2026-2027 budget package, beginning with an overview of the $115 billion General Appropriations Bill (SB 2500/HB 500). Appropriations Chair Hooper said the budget is smaller than last year’s, maintains strong reserves, and includes a 3% pay raise for all state employees and 5% raises for state law enforcement, firefighters, correctional officers, and park rangers. Committee chairs then highlighted major spending in their areas, including $34.9 billion for Pre-K-12 education, $11.9 billion for higher education, a $2.1 billion-plus increase in health and human services, $7.9 billion for criminal and civil justice, $16.8 billion for transportation/tourism/economic development, and major environmental and regulatory investments such as Everglades restoration, water quality, and land acquisition.
Members asked detailed questions about several items. Topics included the Emergency Management Trust Fund, arts and cultural grants, Florida Forever land acquisition versus conservation easements, teacher salaries and charter school funding, New College funding, ADAP/HIV drug assistance, Medicaid rate reductions for non-critical access hospitals, DOC operational deficits and inmate health/food costs, judicial staffing, and school enrollment supplements. Chairs explained that some reductions reflected shifts in how scholarship and categorical funds are tracked, that the ADAP appropriation would take effect immediately upon enactment but would only cover part of the year, and that hospital reductions were tied to a broader DPP funding increase. Questions also covered lottery staffing, concealed carry licensing workload, and whether vacant positions were being eliminated as part of budget right-sizing.
After the budget discussion, the Senate substituted House bills for the Senate budget bills and adopted amendments placing the Senate language onto the House vehicles. The chamber then passed HB 500, HB 503, and HB 5201, and agreed to conference on each. It also passed SB 7028/HB 5205 on retirement, SB 2506 on fuel taxes, SB 2508 on the state agency law enforcement radio system, SB 2510/HB 5401 on court trust funds, SB 2512 on judgeships, SB 2514 on K-12 education, SB 2516 on higher education, and SB 2518 on health, with each bill passing by unanimous or near-unanimous votes and then being sent to conference or requested of the House for concurrence.
FL
Florida 2026 Regular Session
Children, Families, and Elder Affairs Jan 12th, 2026
Children, Families, and Elder Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- For decades, faith-based intervention programs have delivered some of the lowest recidivism rates in
- For decades, faith-based intervention programs have delivered some of the lowest recidivism rates in
- That's the outcome of your negotiated rates with your providers.
- They have top ratings, and yet they've always had deficits the last few years, you know.
- They have top ratings, and yet they've always had deficits the last few years, you know.
Committee:
Senate Children, Families, and Elder Affairs
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Health and Human Services Oct 7th, 2025
Legislative Health & Human Services Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- they're charging, they figure out how to charge higher rates.
- There are new insurance rates since 2021, by the way.
- These insurance companies are charging these rural hospitals rates that really are having a hard time
- Currently, we have the second highest rate of medical malpractice lawsuits of any state in the United
- Insurance rates will go up. Patient care costs will go up.
WY
Wyoming 2026 Regular Session
House Floor Session-Day 19, March 4, 2026-AM
Wyoming House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> lower assessment rate. lower assessment rate.
- </c><00:21:11.360><c> for</c> 35 states charge different rates for 35 states charge different rates for
- </c><00:34:07.440><c> on</c> around us actually raises the rate on around us actually raises the rate
- the super lowering the rate benefits the super rich. rich. rich.
- That's just off your assessment rate when that we all got, right?
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Science, Technology and Energy (01/21/2025)
Science, Technology and Energy
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> could add additional costs to both rate could add additional costs to both rate payers<02:41:08.840
- moderating our rates as well.
- </c><02:50:18.760><c> as</c> an effect on moderating our rates as an effect on moderating our rates as
- Rates were extremely high, and if I recall from earlier that term, the electrical rates of the co-op
- </c><04:22:52.040><c> payers</c> suffer but all the states rate payers suffer but all the states rate
Committee:
House Science, Technology and Energy
LA
Transcript Highlights:
- How much are their fares going up or rates going up?
- How much of their fairs going up or rates going up?
- , the rates that you charge your customers.
- So they will pay their in-network rate.
- They can't look at government payment rates.
Committee:
House Insurance
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Revenue Stabilization and Tax Policy Aug 14th, 2025
Revenue Stabilization & Tax Policy Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- Then you have the tax rate for federal purposes and credits.
- You can also change tax rates, and, you know, the feds have been known to do that.
- They know, for example, that If they raise the rate or lower the rate, it doesn't impact the states in
- change the rate because it's the ultimate tax-paying partner who will pay the tax, and their rate is
- At this point, we've reduced our vacancy rate from 19% just a few years ago to 14%.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- So, you know, this is based on contribution rates.
- We see that designated teachers from this program are teaching at campuses with higher rates of poverty
- We see an 88% retention rate for designated teachers versus 80% for their non-designated peers.
- For the first time in these last two years, Dallas ISD is retaining teachers at higher rates than both
- Additionally, we have an above 12% attrition rate.
Committees:
Senate Education , Senate Education K-16
Keywords:
teacher compensation, education funding, public school educators, teacher retention, teacher designation, SB 26, Texas Property Code, colonia, colonias, Spanish translation, bilingual contract, real estate contract, executory contract, residential property, border county, international border, economically distressed area, consumer protection, language access, translator certified in Spanish
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- Now, their marginal tax rate is 7.85%.
- All of the examples will use 2023 tax rates and calculations.
- The sixth component of review is to produce a revenue-neutral tax rate.
- The sixth component of review is to produce a revenue-neutral tax rate.
- a revenue-neutral rate that would reduce the current state sales tax rate from 6.875% to 6.866% for
Committee:
House Taxes
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Subcommittee No. 1 on Education May 20th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- We also are pleased to see the investment in our quality rating and improvement system block grant.
- We assumed a 2% utilization rate among female employees for that benefit, and then multiplied by the
- average daily rate for substitute teachers.
- average daily rate for substitute teachers. rate for substitute teachers.
- We support and appreciate the $62 million to increase the tier two rate for ELOP to 1800.
LA
Transcript Highlights:
- Fares going up or rates going up.
- , the rates that you charge your customers.
- , the rates that you charge your customers.
- So they will pay their in-network rate.
- They can't look at government payment rates.
Committee:
House Insurance
Summary:
The committee first took up HB 774, which would extend required hearing-aid coverage for certain individuals up to age 26. Representative Boyer said the bill helps young adults maintain access to hearing aids during school and early work years. The Louisiana Academy of Audiology supported the measure, and the committee adopted technical amendments and reported the bill favorably as amended.
The committee then heard extensive testimony on HB 702, which would require transportation network companies to provide uninsured/underinsured motorist coverage. Representative Landry and supporters argued that current law and court rulings have left injured drivers and passengers without meaningful coverage in some cases, especially for riders who do not own cars and therefore lack personal UM coverage. Insurance agents and legal witnesses said they cannot currently find a product to cover the driver in certain ride-share phases, while Uber representatives opposed the bill, warning it would raise fares and noting that drivers already have optional occupational accident coverage and that passengers’ own UM coverage would generally apply. After debate over costs, coverage gaps, and whether the issue should instead be studied further, the committee voted to voluntarily defer the bill.
The committee next considered HB 477, as substituted, which would require coverage for prosthetic and custom orthotic devices and associated services. Representative Ebert and witnesses described the bill as a modernization of existing coverage rules so people with limb loss can obtain more than one medically necessary device, including activity-specific prosthetics. Testimony from amputees and a physical therapist emphasized the impact on mobility, work, sports, and quality of life. The committee adopted the substitute and reported the bill favorably by substitute.
The committee also reported HB 76, which updates oral anti-cancer medication parity rules, by adopting amendments that clarify applicability and exempt certain limited-benefit and ERISA self-funded plans. HB 903, which increases the commissioner of insurance’s fine authority, was amended to set higher aggregate caps and then reported favorably. Finally, HB 291, which would prohibit health plans from penalizing hospitals when a member of the care team is out of network, drew support from the sponsor and the Louisiana Hospital Association as a preventative measure against insurer pressure tactics; Louisiana Blue opposed it, citing cost concerns and questioning the need for the bill. The transcript ends during that bill’s hearing, before final action is shown.
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Ways & Means Feb 24th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- Yakima County faces the state's highest rates of overdose.
- Yakima County faces the state's highest rates of overdose.
- It has since been replaced with a tiered rate structure based on the selling price, with rates ranging
- It has since been replaced with a tiered rate structure based on the selling price, with rates ranging
- However, state law applies the original 1.28% tax rate.
Summary:
The committee first heard a briefing on the proposed Senate capital budget, Substitute Senate Bill 6003, which would spend about $723 million total using debt-limit bonds, Climate Commitment Act funds, and other cash resources. Staff described major investments in housing and homelessness, human services, local infrastructure, flood response, water conservation and clean energy, K-12 school modernization and seismic work, and higher education projects. Members then took public testimony from a wide range of advocates and project sponsors, most of whom urged the Senate to preserve or increase funding for specific projects in the final budget, including affordable housing, permanent supportive housing, child care facilities, food banks, behavioral health and substance use treatment centers, tribal courthouse relocation, school modernization, community colleges, university projects, floodplain restoration, community forests, and local civic or cultural facilities. Several witnesses also asked the Senate to match or approach House funding levels on items such as the Housing Trust Fund, permanent supportive housing, the Community Forest Program, Floodplains by Design, and CCA-supported clean energy and water projects. The chair noted that amendments to the capital budget were due the next day at noon.
The committee then received a briefing on Engrossed Second Substitute House Bill 2251, which would restructure Climate Commitment Act accounts by repealing three existing accounts and replacing them with two new accounts: a CCA operating account and a CCA capital account. Staff explained that the bill would preserve most existing uses while changing revenue distribution formulas, capping Ecology administrative costs, expanding allowable uses for EV-related costs, housing, and carbon capture/sequestration, and changing reporting and tribal consultation provisions. The bill also shifts some reporting from annual to biannual and modifies the thresholds for tribal-supported and overburdened-community investments. The fiscal note was described as relatively small, with the main impact being the revised revenue allocation structure.
Public testimony on the CCA bill was mixed. Supporters, including the League of Women Voters, said the restructuring better aligns spending with the intent of the CCA and could improve investments for tribes and overburdened communities. Critics, including the Washington Policy Center, argued the bill still lacks strong requirements to ensure CCA spending is effective and objected to reducing the frequency of the state’s climate-spending report. No votes were taken during the portion of the meeting provided.
AZ
Arizona 2026 Regular Session
01/20/2026 - Senate Appropriations, Transportation & Technology and House Appropriations Joint Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- In fiscal year 2027, you're using a 4.6% growth rate, I believe.
- I'd rather be more conservative and have low growth rates and low expenditure rates, but I just wanted
- Henderson, did you look at the growth rate of Prop. 123 and the Land Trust?
- Hovering between 3.2% and 5.1% between the state growth rate and the national growth rate.
- And just for the record, I'm concerned about those cap rate increases again.
Summary:
The joint House-Senate appropriations committee met to review the governor’s fiscal 2027 budget presentation from Ben Henderson, director of the Office of Strategic Planning and Budgeting. Early discussion focused on the state economy and revenue outlook, with Henderson describing strong GDP growth and low unemployment but also fragility for working families. Members questioned the executive’s revenue assumptions, which were said to be about $100 million per year higher than the JLBC baseline, and the committee chair asked for a written comparison of the revenue differences. Henderson also said the governor’s budget is structurally balanced and includes both ongoing spending and proposed revenue changes.
A major portion of the hearing centered on data centers, AI investment, and water policy. Henderson argued Arizona’s data center tax incentive should be eliminated because it had already succeeded in attracting investment, while lawmakers questioned whether repealing the incentive and imposing a new water-related fee would discourage future growth. The executive said the water proposal would create a Colorado River Protection Fund and give the Department of Water Resources fee-setting authority, with the aim of encouraging more modern air-cooled facilities. Members also raised concerns about whether the data center changes would require a supermajority vote and whether the fee was effectively a new tax.
The committee then reviewed major “critical spending” items, including correctional officer pay, prison health care compliance, probation funding, body-worn cameras, law enforcement staffing, fentanyl enforcement, cyber readiness, and border-related costs. Henderson said the budget includes $24.4 million ongoing for correctional officer pay and $118.3 million one-time for prison health care staffing, plus other public safety and homeland security items. He also defended the governor’s assumption of $759.7 million in federal reimbursement for border expenses, saying the governor had met with federal officials and that the state would seek the full amount. Members expressed skepticism about relying on that reimbursement and asked what would be cut if it does not materialize.
Education and health and human services were also discussed. The governor’s budget includes K-12 funding, Prop. 123-related school facility bonding, and a proposal to shift some school facilities funding to bond financing, which several members criticized as inappropriate for short-term maintenance needs. The committee also reviewed AHCCCS/Medicaid costs, Division of Developmental Disabilities funding, and the expected impacts of federal HR1 changes on eligibility, provider funding, and rural hospitals. No votes were taken during the hearing, and the chair repeatedly limited debate and directed members to keep questions brief while the presentation continued.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
HRE, HRE DEFER Public Hearing 02-04--2025 Feb 5th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- And so what is your acceptance rate? Well, we accepted 77. So 3%, a little over 3.5%.
- in 2023 to see whether you actually stay in Hawaiʻi in practice, and then accept them at a higher rate
- </c> then accept them at a higher rate then accept them at a higher rate because<00:08:59.720><c> what
- after four years um the retention rate after four years do<00:15:35.279><c> you</c><00:15:35.399><c>
- </c><00:19:23.720><c> and</c> looking at again raising that rate and looking at again raising that rate
Summary:
The Committee on Higher Education heard Senate Bill 101, which would require University of Hawaiʻi John A. Burns School of Medicine graduates who paid in-state tuition to serve as physicians in Hawaiʻi for at least two years after residency or fellowship, beginning with the class of 2029. The Deputy Attorney General said the bill addressed a matter of statewide concern. JABSOM Dean Sam Shoemaker testified in opposition, arguing the school already uses scholarships, loan repayment, and other incentives, and that the strongest predictor of where physicians practice is where they complete residency; he said the school is working to expand residency slots, neighbor-island training, and class size. Supporters argued the state faces a severe physician shortage and should do more to ensure publicly subsidized students remain in Hawaiʻi. The committee ultimately recommended passage with amendments, including a statewide concern statement, and deferred the measure to July 31, 2025; the vote was adopted.
The committee then heard Senate Bill 19, which creates funds to establish a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree program on Maui. University of Hawaiʻi and nursing workforce representatives testified in support, saying there is ample capacity on Maui and strong demand for higher nursing education. Members discussed the broader nursing pathway, including existing associate and bachelor’s programs at UH campuses and the need to improve access for Maui and nearby communities. The measure was moved to decision-making and adopted with amendments and a deferred date.
Senate Bill 637, appropriating funds for various University of Hawaiʻi nursing programs, also received support from UH nursing leaders, who said the funding would support the final phase of the West Oʻahu-Manoa collaboration and an online RN-to-BS program. The Hawaiʻi State Center for Nursing said its research showed capacity and demand for these programs. The committee recommended amendments to blank out appropriation amounts for the committee report and deferred the measure, then adopted it. The committee also adopted Senate Bill 741, which establishes an external audit committee within the UH Board of Regents, and deferred or amended several other measures, including a wastewater technology pilot program, a coconut rhinoceros beetle response program, and a climate-resilient development appropriation.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
House - Energy, Environment and Natural Resources Feb 4th, 2025
House Energy, Environment & Natural Resources
Transcript Highlights:
- the Lee County asthma rate is, I think, 24 percent.
- Roosevelt is 51.6 42.2%, 42 above the overall state rate.
- Lee is 44.6, 24 above the overall state rate. And Rio Riba is 43, 19 above the overall state rates.
- Times the rate of the state average.
- Our school success rates.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy Committee 2/13/25 - Part 1
Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:07:42.520><c> and</c> trends of low unemployment rates and trends of low unemployment rates and
- decreasing experience rating benefit decreasing experience rating benefit payments<00:07:45.560><c> and
- are higher the taxable payroll tax rates are higher the taxable wage<00:08:09.560><c> rate</c><00:08
- In the last 10 years, her reimbursement rates have remained flat.
- In the last 10 years, her reimbursement rates have remained flat.
WY
Transcript Highlights:
- The standard rate for no on-site detention is $2,875 per acre, and there's a reduced rate at $575 an
- It has a reduced rate for on-site detention.
- Um our current rate $921,000 budget.
- Or we're going to have to raise rates for our residents.
- And uh I would rates for our residents.
Committee:
Joint Select Water Committee
LA
Transcript Highlights:
- If you have an error rate of greater than 6%, you're going to get penalized.
- Overall, the agency has an average annual spending rate of 1.8%.
- Overall, the agency has an average annual spending rate of 1.5%."
- This slide provides the agency's average annual spending rate beginning in FY21."
- Overall, the agency has an average annual spending rate of 4.4%."
Committee:
House Appropriations
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Legislative Committee on Climate Change Policies Feb 23rd, 2026
Joint Legislative Committee on Climate Change Policies
Transcript Highlights:
- So I think if there's one thing that Cap-and-Invest should protect, it's electricity rates.
- Are there other reasons that rates may increase?
- lower or driving electric rates down.
- So what does this mean for ratepayers in California and specifically POU rate payers?
- Rate increases are a real possibility.
Summary:
The committee heard an overview of CARB’s proposed amendments to California’s Cap-and-Invest program, implemented under AB 1207 and SB 840 after last year’s reauthorization through 2045. CARB said the draft rule changes are intended to support affordability, market certainty, and the state’s 2030 and 2045 climate targets, while also addressing offsets, utility allowance transfers, leakage protections for industry, and post-2030 allowance budgets. Members emphasized the importance of completing the rulemaking on schedule this spring so the changes can take effect by September 1, 2026.
A major focus was how allowances are allocated among electric utilities, natural gas utilities, industry, and the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. CARB explained that the proposal transfers natural gas utility allowances to electric utilities over time to support electrification and ratepayer protection, while maintaining free allowances for industry to reduce leakage risk and preserve in-state manufacturing and refining. Several members and panelists questioned whether the proposed utility changes could raise rates, whether the transition from gas to electric credits should happen faster, and whether the industrial allocation changes reduce climate credit and GGRF revenues more than necessary. CARB and panelists said they were open to additional data and comments, and noted that the proposal is still in public comment.
The committee also discussed carbon capture, carbon removal, and refining. Members asked CARB to ensure that CCUS and CDR are clearly recognized as viable compliance pathways and to keep SB 905 rulemaking on track. On refining, members raised concerns about imported gasoline, leakage, and the need for better data on the carbon intensity of imported fuels; CARB said cap-and-invest applies to fuel suppliers at the rack, while life-cycle accounting issues are handled more through the Low Carbon Fuel Standard and related modeling. CARB said it is continuing technical work on those data tools.
In the second panel, the LAO, IEMAC, EDF, and SCAPA representatives generally agreed that the program faces real tradeoffs between affordability, ambition, and leakage protection. The LAO and IEMAC stressed that the Legislature should scrutinize how CARB divides the allowance “pie,” since more free allocations to utilities or industry mean less revenue for GGRF. EDF argued the program could be somewhat more ambitious in the near term without harming affordability, while SCAPA said the proposal would reduce allowances for publicly owned utilities and could undermine early decarbonization investments and ratepayer benefits. No votes were taken during the hearing.