Transcript Highlights:

• We have to keep the receipts, like if we expect a deduction for it.
• If you’re an Uber driver, you keep your gas receipts. It’s like it’s part of the process.
• We have to keep the receipts, like if we expect a deduction for it.
• If you’re an Uber driver, you keep your gas receipts. It’s like it’s part of the process.
• 00:45:44.559> like you keep your gas receipts it's like you keep your gas receipts it's like it's

Bills: HF1277, HF1006

Keywords: data centers, tax exemption, Minnesota statutes, economic development, employment growth, property tax, abatement, land bank, redevelopment, political subdivision, 1183, house

Transcript Highlights:

• So maybe there’s a misunderstanding there, but we got the receipts on that one. And with that, Mr.
• That the concurrent resolution be considered as read and that the previous question be considered as
• ordered on the concurrent resolution to adoption without intervening motion except for one hour of debate

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Wednesday, January 21, 2026, 1012, house, all

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• the rate is applied to the gross receipt from the sale, so it stacks on top of sales tax and combines
• Representative Johnson, I believe it is only liquor and cannabis that have gross receipts taxes.
• <00:58:15.559> taxes cannabis that have gross receipts taxes cannabis that have gross receipts
• She said the gross receipts tax on liquor is 2.5%, and the gross receipts tax on cannabis and cannabis
• She said the gross receipts tax on liquor is 2.5%, and the gross receipts tax on cannabis and cannabis

Keywords: 1183, house

Summary: The House Tax Committee met for an organizational and orientation session. Members and staff introduced themselves, with several lawmakers noting their districts, business backgrounds, and interest in tax policy. Chair Greg Davids then opened the committee’s first substantive item: a presentation from House Research and House Fiscal staff on how the committee works and on basic tax concepts. House Research staff Sean Williams and Chris Clayman explained their roles in drafting bills and amendments, writing bill summaries, answering legal and policy questions, and modeling tax proposals. They also described the committee’s key documents, including partisan and nonpartisan bill summaries, revenue estimates, fiscal notes, and supporting materials. Their presentation covered core tax concepts such as tax bases, rates, deductions, exemptions, credits, tax revenues, and tax expenditures, emphasizing that tax expenditures function like spending through the tax code and are reviewed by a legislative commission. The staff then reviewed Minnesota’s major taxes, focusing on the individual income tax and business taxation. They explained that Minnesota’s individual income tax starts with federal adjusted gross income, then applies state additions, deductions, subtractions, and credits, and that the state’s income tax brackets and rates are set separately from federal law. They also outlined the difference between corporate franchise taxes for C corporations and individual income tax treatment for pass-through entities, and discussed how the federal SALT cap led Minnesota and other states to adopt pass-through entity taxes so businesses could preserve federal deductibility of state taxes. Members asked questions about a duplicate “marriage penalty” entry on a slide, the purpose of Minnesota’s marriage penalty credit, comparisons with other states, and the timing and effect of the pass-through entity tax; staff answered that the duplicate was a mistake, the credit offsets bracket-related marriage penalties, and the pass-through entity tax was adopted in response to the federal SALT cap.

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• Other receipts were altogether just $400,000 short of the $38 million estimate.
• <00:04:41.840> Other<00:04:42.160> receipts stronger than predicted.
• Other receipts stronger than predicted.
• Other receipts were<00:04:43.520> altogether<00:04:44.240> just<00:04:44.639> $400,000
• The change in motor fuels tax receipts.

Keywords: 958, all

Summary: The committee met on Transportation, approved the prior meeting minutes, and received a road fund update from Transportation Cabinet officials Mike Hancock, Sean McCernan, and Ron Rigney. McCernan reported that FY 2024-2025 road fund revenue came in $38.5 million above the enacted estimate, but was about $11 million below FY24 because of a lower motor fuels tax rate. He said motor vehicle usage tax receipts were stronger than expected, and that the road fund ended the year with a $61.6 million surplus account that, under the budget bill, must be appropriated to state construction. Members focused heavily on how declining motor fuels receipts affect the formula funds that support cities, counties, and rural/secondary roads. Hancock and McCernan explained that lower gas tax receipts reduce both the road plan and revenue sharing, while higher vehicle sales tax receipts from motor vehicle usage go directly to the road fund and do not help the formula distributions. They also said fuel efficiency, hybrid and electric vehicle trends, and the removal of a prior hybrid fee all affect revenue collections. On tolling, officials said Louisville bridge toll revenues are covering bills and commitments, but they did not have the latest collection figures in front of them and said they would provide them later. The committee also asked about project delivery delays, right-of-way acquisition, disaster recovery work, annual contract awards, cash management, and overprogramming in the highway plan. Officials said project delays often stem from right-of-way purchases, utility relocation, and the large volume of projects in the plan, and described the process as a “duck paddling” situation with substantial work happening behind the scenes. They said FY25 contract awards were already just under $998 million by the July letting and expected to exceed last year’s total, and explained that cash balances are managed so they do not fall below $100 million; the current balance was said to be about $166 million. No further votes or formal actions were taken beyond approving the minutes.

Transcript Highlights:

• Um, currently, uh, political subdivisions have to pay miscellaneous grocery receipts taxes when they
• Uh, this is, these, uh, gross receipts taxes, are they paid basically by the city of Pearland once a
• Currently, the miscellaneous gross receipts tax is collected.
• Then a portion of their tax dollars goes to defray the cost of the gross receipts assessment paid by
• Overall, our 169 members paid $2.3 million in gross receipts taxes in 2024 alone.

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• essential to the safety or health of an older adult or person with a disability within 45 days of receipt
• within<00:09:06.040> 45<00:09:06.520> days<00:09:06.840> of<00:09:06.920> receipt
• ><00:09:07.800> of<00:09:08.000> a<00:09:08.040> completed within 45 days of receipt
• of a completed within 45 days of receipt of a completed application. application. application.
• <00:22:42.520> of disability within 45 days of receipt of disability within 45 days of receipt

Bills: SCR63, SCR8, SCR160, SCR90, SCR93

Keywords: disability, accessibility, healthcare communication, sign language interpreters, deaf, hard of hearing, deaf-blind, auxiliary aids, building permits, seniors, health care, safety modifications, county regulations, expedited processing, housing ladder, move-up housing, subsidized housing, public housing, affordable housing, housing mobility

Summary: The House Committee on Human Services and Homelessness heard several resolutions focused on disability access, housing, and support for Native Hawaiian beneficiaries. SCR 63 SD1 would have the Disability and Communication Access Board study communication needs in health care settings for people who are deaf, hard of hearing, or deaf-blind and revise provider guidance; testimony was strongly supportive, including from the board, a physician, and a family member who described harmful delays in care, and the committee later recommended passage as is. SCR 8 would require counties to act within 45 days on completed permit applications for home modifications needed for an older adult or person with a disability; testimony noted delays in permitting and financing, and the committee recommended passage as is. The committee also heard SCR 160, which urges state housing agencies to create a “housing ladder” program to help individuals and families move from subsidized to unsubsidized housing. Hawaii Public Housing Authority and other agencies supported the concept, and DHS described its family self-sufficiency program and said prior federal resident-services funding had declined over the past 20 years. The committee acknowledged the program may already exist in some form but still recommended adoption of the resolution as is. SCR 90 would ask county planning departments to establish kupuna-friendly building permit requirements for parking accessibility in private businesses. The committee moved it forward with an HD1 for technical amendments; a member raised concern that the measure did not specify the age threshold for “kupuna,” and said they would vote with reservations. Finally, SCR 93 would direct DHHL and the Statewide Office of Homelessness and Housing Solutions to develop a coordinated support and stabilization pathway for Native Hawaiian beneficiaries experiencing homelessness or very low income. DHHL said it is already operating a transitional housing effort called Ka Leo Opu Mama for about 18 beneficiaries using more than $6 million in federal Nah Ho Sa funds, with no dedicated state funding, and the committee recommended passage as is. The meeting ended with the chair thanking testifiers and members and adjourning the hearing.

Transcript Highlights:

• Uh, primarily the media waiver program provider gross receipts, which will actually allow for collections
• on gross receipts on some of those activities.
• The gross receipts tax deduction for healthcare, uh, practitioners was on co-insurance, paid directly
• Also significant is the gross receipts tax cut that happened in 2022/200 million dollars.
• And you can see gross receipts taxes, corporate income taxes are Collecting high, so we have a cushion

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• We found no issues in our testing of receipts and payroll expenditures, and we noted that the office
• <00:03:19.200> payroll period which includes receipts payroll period which includes receipts
• <00:05:06.720> and<00:05:06.919> payroll receipts and payroll receipts and payroll expenditures
• We found that in 15 of these grants the grantee did not provide the detailed invoices or receipts.
• the 15 that didn't have uh the receipts the 15 that didn't have uh the receipts or or or invoices

Keywords: 1183, house

Transcript Highlights:

• of you and doctors around the state, we've just introduced legislation to eliminate all the gross receipts
• Providing a gross receipts tax deduction for the sale of medical equipment, supplies, and drugs. tax
• deduction to receipts for certain medical services, except for those for Medicaid patients.
• Removing the sunset date of a gross receipts tax deduction for receipts from co-payments or deductibles
• Extending a gross receipts tax deduction to receipts from a patient paid to a health care practitioner

Transcript Highlights:

• So, I believe you are in receipt of a conference draft which adopts the House position and makes the
• Chair, I believe you're in receipt of a conference draft.
• And we are in receipt of your CD.
• And we are in receipt<00:16:02.040> of<00:16:02.120> your<00:16:02.240> CD.
• We'll take a look at receipt of your CD.

Bills: SB2876, SB3253, SB2125, SB2781, HB549, HB1768, SB2053, SB2494, SB2851, SB3073, HB1678, HB1721, HB2475, HB2246, HB1667, HB1516, SB2532, SB3131, SB3154, HB2297, HB1737, SB2143, SB2398, SB2623, HB1740, HB1920, HB1682, SB2153, SB3140, HB1515, SB2835, HB2282, SB3083, SB2031, SB2519, SB2667, SB2140, SB2544, SB2069, SB2697, SB874, SB2043, SB888, SB2721, HB2152, HB1334, HB2385, HB1643, HB2314, HB1688, HB1692, SB2568, SB2983, SB2108, SB3136, HB1959, SB3156, HB1511, HB1753, HB1824, HB2137, HB1810, HB2279, HB2309, HB1548, HB2078, HB2293, SB3262, SB2169, SB2607, SB2964, SB3255, HB2576, HB1481, HB1864, HB1550, SB2818, SB3067, SB2061, HB1728, HB1881, HB2361, HB2395, HB1823, SB2050, SB2397, SB2175, SB2852, SB847, SB3001

Keywords: natural hair braiding, hair braiding, braids, braider, braiding license, cosmetology, barbering, barber board, Board of Barbering and Cosmetology, registration, licensure exemption, sanitation training, health and safety, hair extensions, cornrows, twists, locks, protective hairstyles, beauty industry, occupational licensing

Transcript Highlights:

• I opened the Bible and an envelope fell out I had never noticed, and inside was this poll tax receipt
• And I stand here with my father's poll tax receipt behind me to remind me we cannot go back.
• AND I STAND HERE WITH MY FATHER'S POLL TAX RECEIPT BEHIND ME TO REMIND ME, WE CANNOT GO BACK.
• In a decade, there's data saying 30% of our tax receipts will go just to pay interest.
• IN A DECADE, THERE'S DATA SAYING 30% OF OUR TAX RECEIPTS WILL GO JUST TO PAY INTEREST.

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Monday, March 31, 2025, 1012, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• If receipts were, you know, rental income or interest income or anything like that, you had to allocate
• If receipts were, you know, rental income or interest income or anything like that, you had to allocate
• If receipts were, you know, rental income or interest income or anything like that, you had to allocate
• If receipts were, you know, rental income or interest income or anything like that, you had to allocate
• Ability to adjust the way it characterizes receipts and disbursements, uh, with ongoing and, you know

Bills: SB309, HB192, SB178, SB179, SB237, HB10, HB107, HB189, HB37, HB226, SB309, HB192, SB178, SB179, SB237, HB10, HB107, HB189, HB37, HB226

Keywords: automated driving systems, oversized vehicles, transportation, regulations, permits, HB192, international wire transfer, wire transfer fee, remittance fee, money transmission business, Alabama Securities Commission, Department of Revenue, Education Trust Fund, ELL instructors, English Language Learner, ESL teachers, income tax credit, remittances, international money transfer, migrant families

Bills: SJR60, SJR62, SJR65, SJR66, SJR67, SJR68, SCR27, SCR28, SCR29, SB1576, SB1577, SB1578, SB1579, SB1580, SB1581, SB1582, SB1583, SB1584, SB1585, SB1586, SB1587, SB1588, SB1589, SB1590, SB1591, SB1592, SB1593, SB1594, SB1595, SB1596, SB1597, SB1598, SB1599, SB1600, SB1601, SB1602, SB1603, SB1604, SB1605, SB1606, SB1607, SB1608, SB1609, SB1610, SB1611, SB1612, SB1613, SB1614, SB1615, SB1616, SB1618, SB1619, SB1620, SB1622, SB1623, SB1624, SB1625, SJR60, SJR62, SJR65, SJR66, SJR67, SJR68, SCR27, SCR28, SCR29, SB1576, SB1577, SB1578, SB1579, SB1580, SB1581, SB1582, SB1583, SB1584, SB1585, SB1586, SB1587, SB1588, SB1589, SB1590, SB1591, SB1592, SB1593, SB1594, SB1595, SB1596, SB1597, SB1598, SB1599, SB1600, SB1601, SB1602, SB1603, SB1604, SB1605, SB1606, SB1607, SB1608, SB1609, SB1610, SB1611, SB1612, SB1613, SB1614, SB1615, SB1616, SB1618, SB1619, SB1620, SB1622, SB1623, SB1624, SB1625

Keywords: SJR 60, Texas constitutional amendment, property tax exemption, ad valorem taxation, rainwater harvesting, graywater system, water conservation, water reuse, residential tax incentive, local government finance, county commissioners court, appraisal value, environmental incentive, November 2025 ballot, Article VIII, tax relief, healthcare workforce, education funding, higher education, economic growth

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• <00:02:49.959> education<00:02:50.680> and<00:02:50.879> employment All tax receipts
• In recognition of the growing amount of statewide transient room tax receipts, the Governor's budget
• Statewide Transit growing amount of the Statewide Transit room<00:04:28.800> tax<00:04:29.120> receipts
• c><00:04:29.520> the<00:04:29.800> Governor's<00:04:30.199> budget room tax receipts
• the Governor's budget room tax receipts the Governor's budget recommended<00:04:31.520> an<00

Keywords: 958, all

Summary: The committee met for the second Budget Review on Economic Development, Public Protection, Tourism, and Energy and approved the minutes from the previous meeting. After a quorum was confirmed, members heard a presentation from Melissa Brewer of the Tourism, Arts, and Heritage Cabinet, along with Olivia Atkins of Kentucky State Parks and Commissioner Mike Manet of the Kentucky Department of Tourism. The presentation focused on the state’s 1% tourism meeting and convention marketing fund and the broader role of tourism in Kentucky’s economy. Brewer explained that the fund is used only for marketing and promoting tourism-related activities, cannot be used for capital or construction projects, and must be reported annually to the governor and LRC. She said the Governor’s budget and enacted budget increased appropriations in response to growing transient room tax receipts, adding $3 million in FY 2025 and $7 million in FY 2026, and noted legislative support for the Kentucky Mountain Regional Recreation Authority, the National Quilt Museum, and the Southern Kentucky Tourism Initiative. Manet emphasized that tourism marketing drives overnight visitation, local spending, jobs, and economic development, and described the 1% fund as the source for marketing, advertising, website development, public relations, international and group sales, trade shows, research, and regional matching funds. He highlighted efforts to secure media coverage and said the matching funds program distributed $2 million last year to 87 local tourism commissions across the state. No votes or other committee actions were taken beyond approving the minutes.

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• Uh, this recommendation also would revert the deadline for state grant receipt to the 30th day of the
• Uh, this recommendation also would revert the deadline for state grant receipt to the 30th day of the
• Uh, this recommendation also would revert the deadline for state grant receipt to the 30th day of the
• Uh, this recommendation also would revert the deadline for state grant receipt to the 30th day of the
• Uh, this recommendation also would revert the deadline for state grant receipt to the 30th day of the

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• But for certain governmental gross receipts tax, we can have tax and revenue pay us directly, which is
• Gross receipts tax we can have tax and revenue pay us directly, which is quite helpful.
• And then also offering that additional pledge of governmental gross receipts tax.
• Our senior capacity gets the first crack at the gross receipts tax that's available, and then what's
• So I would just, but generally speaking, you know, the governmental. receipts tax, which hasn't been

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• prohibited in this chapter, the person shall not be disqualified from shipping, transport, possession, receipt
• prohibited in this chapter, the person shall not be disqualified from shipping, transport, possession, receipt
• prohibited in this chapter, the person shall not be disqualified from shipping, transport, possession, receipt
• <00:09:52.800> So<00:09:53.360> is receipt, or purchase of a firearm.
• So is receipt, or purchase of a firearm.

Keywords: 1183, house

Transcript Highlights:

• That we have to fund through either gross receipts tax, property tax, or some other revenue source for
• you'll see the different sources of revenue coming into the general fund, and largely it's gross receipts
• Because gross receipts tax is applicable based on the activities at the laboratory or the community,
• It's an increment for gross receipts tax in order to manage some of it.
• I want to mention that I really applaud you for keeping your gross receipts tax so low.

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• And if you were to compare a receipt, I don't know if you went to spring training in Arizona and your
• And I would just add that, you know, I'm upset that you weren't looking at a Lyft receipt.
• So after external fees, so that's what you were talking about as far as airport fees, gross receipts,
• It's on our receipts.
• It's on our receipts now in terms of the median of what those costs are in California on receipts.

Summary: The committee heard several insurance-related bills. SB 371 by Senator Cabaldon would lower uninsured/underinsured motorist coverage requirements for rideshare companies from the current $1 million level to $100,000 per person and $300,000 per incident, with added transparency and data-reporting provisions. Uber, Lyft, and several business groups supported the bill as a way to reduce fares and improve affordability, while consumer attorneys, labor groups, and others opposed it as a major cut in protection for injured passengers and drivers. Committee members raised concerns about whether savings would actually reach riders and drivers, but the bill was approved on a do-pass vote to the next committee, with one member not voting. SB 487 by Senator Grayson would change how settlement or judgment proceeds are distributed when peace officers or firefighters are injured by a third party, ensuring they receive at least two-thirds of the at-fault party’s liability insurance limits in certain cases. Supporters, including public safety unions and an injured deputy sheriff, said current law can leave injured first responders with little or no recovery after employer reimbursement, while opponents representing cities, counties, and public agencies argued the bill would reduce recovery of taxpayer-funded workers’ compensation costs and lacked sufficient data. The committee members who spoke largely supported the bill, and it passed on a do-pass vote to Appropriations, with one member not voting. SB 616 by Senator Rubio would create an independent community hardening commission within the Department of Insurance to develop statewide wildfire mitigation recommendations and a post-catastrophe reporting process. The Department of Insurance, local governments, consumer groups, and fire-related organizations supported the measure as a way to improve wildfire resilience and insurance availability, while water agencies opposed provisions touching water infrastructure and warned of litigation and ratepayer impacts. The bill advanced on a do-pass vote to Appropriations, with some members not voting and one member voting no. The committee also heard SB 547 by Senator Perez, coauthored by Senator Rubio, which would extend wildfire-related insurance cancellation/nonrenewal moratoriums to commercial properties; insurers removed their opposition after amendments, and the bill passed to Appropriations on a do-pass vote.

Transcript Highlights:

• We text you your tickets and we hand you a paper receipt.
• I get my receipt from you. I then have my receipt, but I sell my ticket to Jackie.
• And then I show up at the venue and I say, hey, I got my receipt. And I go in.
• What problem are you trying to solve by having a requirement to have a receipt as well as a ticket?
• Because they legitimately have a receipt that is verifiable and hasn't been let into the stadium.

Summary: The committee heard several bills and took up multiple votes. AB 576, dealing with updates to California’s charitable fundraising platform registry after AB 488, was presented as a technical fix to help charities and platforms more quickly update eligible listings; there was no opposition testimony, and the measure was later moved on a due pass basis. AB 1160, on law enforcement drone programs, was presented with proposed amendments requiring U.S.-based data storage and limits on sharing or selling collected data; supporters said it would protect sensitive drone-collected information while preserving affordable drone use, while there was no opposition testimony, and it was also later passed out on a due pass as amended basis. AB 75, which would require insurers to give notice before collecting aerial images of homes and provide homeowners access to those images, drew support from the Department of Insurance and consumer advocates, while insurers opposed it unless amended, arguing aerial imaging is a cost-saving inspection tool and that the bill could worsen availability and affordability; the bill was moved to Appropriations on a due pass basis, with the roll held open for absent members. The committee spent the most time on AB 325, which would address algorithmic price-fixing and collusion. The author and supporters argued that competitors using the same pricing software or algorithm to set prices can function as collusion even when the agreement is hidden behind code, and cited examples involving housing, frozen potatoes, gas pricing, and other industries. Opponents, including apartment, business, hospital, retail, chamber, and tech groups, said the bill was too broad, could sweep in lawful software and public-data market research, and might chill legitimate pricing tools, especially for small businesses and housing providers. Committee members raised concerns about clarity, intent standards, and whether the bill should focus more narrowly on nonpublic competitor data; despite those concerns, AB 325 was moved to Appropriations on a due pass basis, with the roll held open. Later, AB 1221 was presented as a workplace surveillance bill that would prohibit certain invasive or discriminatory surveillance tools, require notice to workers, limit sharing of worker data, and require corroborating evidence before discipline based on surveillance outputs. Labor and consumer groups supported the bill, saying modern surveillance technologies can track speech, movement, emotion, and other sensitive traits and can be biased or abusive. The Security Industry Association opposed it, warning that the bill’s broad definitions could restrict legitimate security systems, emergency sharing with first responders, and employer responses to misconduct or unsafe behavior. The transcript cuts off before any final vote on AB 1221 is shown.