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OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Oversight Committee for the Legislative Office of Fiscal Transparency -LOFT- Feb 26th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- existing property leases, or purchasing or constructing a building.
- existing property leases, or purchasing or constructing a building.
- Finding three: maximizing state-owned property can save tens of millions in private lease costs.
- Lease base that we're paying out to private property owners. Thank you for the follow-up.
- Currently, OMES has very little property in our inventory that we could lease.
Summary:
The LOFT Oversight Committee met with a quorum, approved the prior minutes, and then received LOFT’s report on state office space utilization in Oklahoma City and Tulsa. LOFT presented three main findings: OMES is not fully exercising its statutory authority over state property and relies on flawed self-reported data; state office space is being used inefficiently and often below policy benchmarks; and better use of state-owned space could save tens of millions in private lease costs. LOFT also described errors in the state’s real property inventory, low utilization rates across OMES-owned, agency-owned, and privately leased space, and recommended stronger data verification, clearer space standards, and more active oversight of underused property.
OMES responded that it believes it is meeting its statutory obligations and said it tries to balance oversight with being a partner to agencies, placing them in space that best fits their mission and service needs. OMES officials said they rely on agency-reported data, do not have enough staff to independently verify all inventory information, and do not “police” daily occupancy. Members questioned the distinction between meeting statutory duties and exercising full authority, the use of “shall” versus “recommend,” the lack of enforcement for agencies that decline space recommendations, and whether OMES should more aggressively consolidate or divest underused buildings. LOFT and OMES also discussed the methodology behind utilization calculations, including badge-swipe data, space standards, and common-area adjustments.
In the final finding, LOFT estimated that relocating agencies from private leases into existing state-owned space could save roughly $16 million to $28.8 million annually, depending on the scenario used. LOFT cited other states and federal reforms as models and recommended that OMES more actively assess underutilized properties, verify data, and use actual utilization analysis to reduce private leasing. OMES said it would review the comments and work to improve. The committee then unanimously approved a rapid-response evaluation request for LOFT to examine DHS child care subsidy verification and reimbursement processes, citing concerns about possible improprieties and the need to confirm whether fraud or waste is occurring.
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- for violation of the lease.
- Um so violation of the lease.
- There's no lease. >> Not all tenancies are leases, right?
- </c> property owner is responsible. property owner is responsible.
- </c> for property owners. for property owners.
Committee:
House Housing
MD
Transcript Highlights:
- . property. property.
- . lease. lease.
- , that is a violation of to a property, that is a violation of the<01:03:40.920><c> lease.
- You go to jail if you destroy somebody else's property, but if you're trusted and have a lease agreement
- Senate Bill 82, Criminal Law, Counterfeiting and Possession of Counterfeit Lease of Real Property, Penalty
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- As you'll recall, this site is seeking dramatic reductions in property value and, like many mall centers
Committee:
Senate Taxes
Keywords:
day care, tax subtraction, child care costs, licensed child care, dependent care assistance, HF4321, dependent care assistance programs, gross income exclusion, federal conformity, Internal Revenue Code, individual income tax, Minnesota tax law, tax conformity, child care assistance, employer-provided dependent care, taxable income, state income tax, retroactive tax change, family care benefits, housing tax credit
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- Since the program's inception, we have used it to preserve or develop 11 affordable housing properties
- housing properties with 833 units,<01:00:35.600><c> 465</c><01:00:36.680><c> deeply</c><01:00:37.040
- Paul, we used the credit to preserve<01:00:50.400><c> three</c><01:00:50.680><c> properties</c><01:00
- :51.280><c> serving</c><01:00:51.600><c> 670</c> preserve three properties serving 670 preserve three
- ,</c><01:01:16.560><c> closes</c> It flows directly to properties, closes It flows directly to properties
Committee:
House Taxes
Keywords:
day care, tax subtraction, child care costs, licensed child care, dependent care assistance, HF4321, dependent care assistance programs, gross income exclusion, federal conformity, Internal Revenue Code, individual income tax, Minnesota tax law, tax conformity, child care assistance, employer-provided dependent care, taxable income, state income tax, retroactive tax change, family care benefits, housing tax credit
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Commerce Finance and Policy Committee 2/24/26
Commerce Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> the costs on to other property owners. the costs on to other property owners.
- </c> We, the people that live here, own this property. They have vested property rights.
- <00:19:27.039><c> to</c> property management company failed to property management company failed to
- </c> Despite these findings, my property Despite these findings, my property management<00:35:05.040>
- </c> through the Henipin County property through the Henipin County property records<00:43:18.000><c>
Committee:
House Commerce Finance and Policy
Keywords:
common interest community, CIC, homeowners association, HOA, condominium, planned community, cooperative, unit owner, association board, declarant, declarant control, special declarant rights, assessment lien, foreclosure, late fees, fines, attorney fees, resale disclosure, annual report, maintenance plan
NM
Transcript Highlights:
- You have some mobile home spaces on that property as well, and we're always exploring ways that we can
- And we have noted that because just from operating a fund, when you have a bunch of rental properties
Committee:
Senate Senate Finance
Keywords:
State Fairgrounds District, fairgrounds bonds, public financing, bond authorization, gross receipts tax, gaming tax, tax-backed bonds, infrastructure funding, Albuquerque fairgrounds, State Fair Tid, economic development, municipal bonds, revenue pledge, capital projects, New Mexico finance, special education, office of special education, deputy secretary, public education department, IEP
WA
Transcript Highlights:
- disabilities assistance property tax levy.
- Part 7 relates to exceeding regular property tax levy limitations.
- And unlike sales or property taxes, REET is paid only by people able to buy or sell property.
- That was the main reason for buying a property.
- My family purchased property down here in Washington in 1925.
Committee:
House Finance
Keywords:
affordable housing, local government funding, housing programs, community development, financial assistance, adaptive housing, disabled veterans, tax preferences, housing affordability, retail sales tax, property tax, senior citizens, tax exemption, permanent legislation, local government, tax authority, sales tax, use tax, real estate excise tax, REET
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- They do have the opportunity. ...to create bureaucracy over the top of that property, and those property
- But as a property rights organization, we take interest in both small and large property owners.
- Puga and his family are property owners, and they have a right to otherwise legally divide their property
- To give property on the left and property on the right, 2 acres to each kid, keeping 2.5 acres or 3 acres
- since the property was already served by one water meter.
Committee:
House Land & Resource Management
Keywords:
county platting, subdivision platting, Local Government Code Chapter 232, Section 232.022, Section 232.0014, model subdivision rules, Water Code Section 16.343, Texas county subdivision law, residential subdivision, land conveyance, gift deed, family transfer, consanguinity, affinity, third degree relative, five acres or less, county land use, platting exemption, rural land division, property subdivision
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- I lease space to commercial clients.
- But rural rental housing represents 652 properties.
- Regular property tax owners or possibly on the land.
- I also represent a lot of property owners.
- The harm that it does to people that own property who can't get access to the property—I understand that
Committee:
House Intergovernmental Affairs
Keywords:
municipality, local government, Type A, Type B, Type C, change authority, emergency medical services, civil service status, municipal government, public safety, local government code, school funding, education, state budget, local control, equity, tenant legal services, eviction, low-income tenants, disability rights
AL
Alabama 2025 Regular Session
Alabama House Urban and Rural Development Committee Feb 12th, 2025
Urban and Rural Development
Transcript Highlights:
- HB68, which impacts property...
- Years back, I passed the Albo and Property Protection Act, which basically said if you're from a communist
- country, you can't purchase property in the state of Alabama within a 10-mile radius around military
- properties to these communist countries, and that's the concern.
- So, basically, it's the same bill we passed; we just added leases, and that's it. Okay, have...
Committee:
House Urban and Rural Development
Keywords:
foreign investment, agriculture, property rights, critical infrastructure, sanctions, HB140, private sewer systems, wastewater utilities, Public Service Commission, PSC jurisdiction, utility regulation, rate setting, rate consolidation, affiliated systems, common ownership, private utilities, sewer rates, wastewater management, Alabama utilities, Jefferson County Board of Health
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Oversight Committee for the Legislative Office of Fiscal Transparency -LOFT- Feb 26th, 2026 at 02:00 pm
Oversight Committee for the Legislative Office of Fiscal Transparency (LOFT)
Transcript Highlights:
- Agencies must receive approval from OES before entering into new property leases, renewing existing property
- Finding three: maximizing state-owned property can save tens of millions in private lease costs.
- Of The 576,000 square feet of office space leased by CLO state agencies lease 228,000 square feet or
- as an alternative to leasing.
- Finding three: Maximizing state-owned property can save tens of millions of dollars in private lease
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- , dispose of your property and being able to provide notice based on the terms of a lease, a contract
- , dispose of your property and being able to provide notice based on the terms of a lease, a contract
- , dispose of your property and being able to provide notice based on the terms of a lease, a contract
- , dispose of your property and being able to provide notice based on the terms of a lease, a contract
- , dispose of your property and being able to provide notice based on the terms of a lease, a contract
Committee:
House Housing
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- property taxpayers, and so the reason that they're going out and they're leasing this property is to
- and then lease it and... ...to buy hundreds of millions of dollars worth of property and then lease
- in order to then lease that property and generate revenue.
- district leased that property from another person.
- leasing out property for non-educational related activities.
Committees:
House Education , House House Education Committee of Reference
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Municipal and County Government (03/03/2025)
Municipal and County Government
Transcript Highlights:
- that allows for the lease of public property<00:31:36.799><c> for</c><00:31:37.120><c> longer</c><00:
- unused Town property to rent or lease unused Town property for<00:36:17.079><c> more</c><00:36:17.319
- So to conclude, the bill maintains the ability of the select board to lease property for less than a
- properties that are leased, and each year almost inevitably one of them comes up with leases expiring
- :42:49.040><c> each</c> properties that um are leased and each properties that um are leased and each
Committee:
House Municipal and County Government
VA
Virginia 2026 Regular Session
Virginia Housing Commission - Fees in Residential Rental Agreements Workgroup Jun 16th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- 50 property managers posting that fee.
- again upon lease renewal.
- This would be charged prior to signing the lease.
- Commencement date of the lease.
- Lease renewal fees: do we have any feedback from industry on lease renewal fees and these limitations
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Municipal and County Government (03/03/2025)
Municipal and County Government
Transcript Highlights:
- That the statute gives selectmen the blanket authority to rent or lease unused public property for up
- Then, in section two, the authority to rent or lease town property is provided under three options.
- So to conclude, the bill maintains the ability of the select board to lease property for less than a
- So to conclude, the bill maintains the ability of the select board to lease property for less than a
- :42:49.040><c> each</c> properties that um are leased and each properties that um are leased and each
Committee:
House Municipal and County Government
Summary:
The Municipal and County Government Committee held public hearings on House Bill 471 and House Bill 373. HB 471 would create a temporary commission to study growth, traffic, planning, and land use issues in a group of southern New Hampshire towns, with possible recommendations on regional planning commission boundaries or coordination. Representative Perez said the bill was requested by Londonderry residents and local officials, and Eric Power of Brookline testified in support, saying the towns share corridor and development issues that cross regional planning commission lines. Several members questioned whether existing law already allows towns to form regional planning commissions under RSA 364:6, whether the bill should be broader, and whether the town list should include additional communities. The hearing closed with testimony counts reported as two in support and three opposed on remote sign-in, plus one opposed and one in support on the blue sheet.
HB 373, sponsored by Representative Diane Powers, would revise RSA 41:11-a on town property leases. Powers said current law is too restrictive because leases over five years require repeated town votes, which she argued is impractical for long-term arrangements. She cited examples from Hampton and Brookline, including long-term road and property leases, and said she had found multiple similar cases. The bill would keep select board authority for leases under one year, allow a legislative body to authorize a specific longer lease by a three-fifths ballot vote, and preserve the existing five-year blanket leasing authority with a three-fifths vote, while keeping existing leases valid if authority is later rescinded. Eric Power testified in support, describing recurring lease renewals in Brookline and saying longer terms are needed for projects such as housing, cell towers, and solar arrays. Members asked about the change from a simple town vote to a three-fifths threshold and whether the bill duplicates existing mechanisms; Powers said the higher threshold was intended because the leases involve long-term commitments. No votes were taken during the hearing portion described.
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- in order to then lease that property and generate revenue.
- They should be leasing the property in the first place.
- property to as it relates to your rural districts but if if they are engaging in leasing property to
- if the school district lease that property to any person if the school district leased that property
- lease that property from another person.
Committee:
House House Education Committee of Reference
Summary:
The committee heard and advanced several school-related bills, with much of the discussion focused on governance, transparency, and accountability in school districts. House Bill 2318 would impose term limits on school district governing board members in districts with at least 250 students, while allowing county superintendents to appoint a term-limited member to fill a vacancy. Supporters argued it would bring fresh ideas and prevent entrenched leadership; opponents said voters should decide. The bill received a due pass recommendation after a divided roll call.
House Bill 2312 would allow certain patriotic youth groups to address students during school hours and require equal access for those groups in school forums. The sponsor said it was intended to promote programs such as FFA, Scouts, and similar organizations. Some members objected that it would take instructional time and was not truly permissive if access was granted to one group, and the bill nonetheless received a due pass recommendation. House Bill 2320 would require school districts to hire a registered independent municipal advisor before calling a bond election and for each successful bond issue. The sponsor and supporters said this could reduce underwriting fees and save taxpayers money, while some members raised questions about costs if a bond failed and whether the bill should be narrowed; it passed with a due pass recommendation after several members voted present or no.
The committee also approved House Bill 2376, which would bar districts from buying or leasing school property while a charter or private school is still operating there, and House Bill 2378, which tightens conflict-of-interest rules for the School Facilities Oversight Board by barring the architect and engineer members from having school-construction business. Both were framed by the sponsor as responses to concerns raised in Tolleson Union-related testimony and reporting. House Bill 2379, as amended, requires school board members to complete biennial training approved by the Auditor General, to be offered by county superintendents or ADE, with counties able to contract with others; supporters called it needed training, while opponents raised concerns about unfunded mandates, inclusion of ASBA, and charter schools. It received a due pass recommendation. Finally, House Bill 2380 would require board and subcommittee meetings to be held in-district, preserve online access to materials, and require public approval of out-of-state travel, with reimbursement if retroactive approval is denied. Rural districts and others raised concerns about flexibility, executive-session confidentiality, and administrative burden, but the bill was discussed with amendments and public access concerns rather than a final recorded action in the excerpt.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
WTL Public Hearing 02-05-2025
Transcript Highlights:
- It amends a definition of historic properties to require that the property meets the criteria for inclusion
- to require that the historic properties to require that the property<00:02:01.960><c> meets</c><00:02
- Yes, leases.
- And keep in mind some of the military leases—an example is a real old lease issued in 1964.
- </c> leases P an example is a real old lease leases P an example is a real old lease it's<00:27:38.880
Summary:
The committee heard several water, land, and natural resources measures. SB 5 would narrow the definition of historic property to properties eligible for the Hawaii Register of Historic Places or with important Native Hawaiian or ethnic cultural value. The State Historic Preservation Division said the bill would tighten the definition and could reduce or streamline reviews, while one testifier warned it could add another layer of review and delay. Support and opposition were both noted. SB 19 would appropriate funds to DLNR’s Division of Aquatic Resources to establish positions, and it drew strong support from DLNR and multiple ocean and reef advocates.
SB 145, concerning declarations of water shortage and emergency, was supported by the Commission on Water Resource Management and the Board of Water Supply, which said rulemaking would improve transparency and public input. The chair also noted broader public concern about water use and pricing, especially on Maui. SB 44 would prohibit commercial sale of parrotfish caught by spearing and ban spearing them at night; DLNR supported the measure, while several fishers and gathering-rights advocates opposed it, arguing it would restrict traditional gathering and that resource management should focus on fish populations rather than methods. The committee noted 26 communications in support and opposition combined.
SB 427 would bar the state from leasing or extending public land leases to parties in arrears, out of compliance with environmental obligations, or convicted of a crime, and would require gubernatorial certification for certain federal leases. DLNR said existing law and BLNR procedures already address compliance and cure periods, while supporters argued the bill would help ensure accountability for contaminated or poorly managed lands. The committee also began SB 457, dealing with submerged land reclamation and leasing of submerged/tidal lands; DLNR again said current statutes and BLNR protocols were already adequate, describing existing review and enforcement practices for shoreline structures and easements. No votes were taken in the portion provided.
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Energy and Natural Resources Oversight Mar 4th, 2026 at 09:00 am
Energy
Transcript Highlights:
- Would you agree that regulatory mandates, if this bill passes, could interfere with intellectual property
- It actually speaks specifically to trade secrets. secrets and intellectual property that we're going
- We're making companies get, if they're going to put a battery shortage, let's say they lease 500 acres
- But if they go out of business, now this landowner has this battery shortage facility on their property
- So, if a company goes out of business and can't perform their obligation to restore the property, that
Bills:
HB4246 , HB4230 , HB3617 , HB3657 , HB2976 , HB3391 , HB4459 , HB4128 , HB3989 , HB2989 , HB4060 , HB3145 , HB2992 , HB3464 , HB4246 , HB4230 , HB3617 , HB3657 , HB2976 , HB3391 , HB4459 , HB4128 , HB3989 , HB2989 , HB4060 , HB3145 , HB2992 , HB3464
Committees:
House Energy , House Energy and Natural Resources Oversight
Keywords:
HB4246, water rights, rural water, wastewater, drinking water, environmental quality, DEQ, Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality, Oklahoma Rural Water Association, technical assistance, water infrastructure, small systems, utility operators, emergency water response, nonprofit contractors, vendor qualification, competitive bidding, best value procurement, central purchasing act, rural utilities