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AL
Alabama 2025 Regular Session
Alabama House Ways and Means General Fund Committee Apr 9th, 2025
Ways and Means General Fund
Transcript Highlights:
- Um, but cancer is already a presumptive illness in terms of that if you contract cancer and ultimately
- Were in line of service you contracted some sort of cardiac issue or a lung issue, as the case may be
- Your son retired from the fire service, started his own contracting business, whatever the case may be
- Those who are in line of duty for police and fire, if they contracted COVID, they could be considered
Committee:
House Ways and Means General Fund
Keywords:
firefighter benefits, occupational disease, line of duty, disability pension, death benefits, retirement benefits, hypertension, heart disease, respiratory disease, cancer presumption, HIV, hepatitis, municipal firefighters, state firefighters, fire districts, workers' compensation, public safety employees, post-retirement benefits, benefit eligibility cutoff, occupational illness
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Veterans, military affairs panel considers HF3005 4/2/25
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- It's part of our contract with the VA that this pot is the last resort.
- 08.959><c> our</c> we have before um and it's part of our we have before um and it's part of our contract
- 11.399><c> that</c><00:09:11.920><c> the</c><00:09:12.240><c> that</c><00:09:12.480><c> this</c> contract
- with the VA that the that this contract with the VA that the that this pot<00:09:13.560><c> is</c><00
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
JDC, JDC DEFER Public Hearings 02-19-2025
Transcript Highlights:
- organizations, charitable fundraising platforms, and charity platforms should be required to file written contracts
- required to platform charity should be required to file<00:04:58.600><c> written</c><00:04:59.000><c> contracts
- </c><00:04:59.400><c> with</c><00:04:59.520><c> the</c> file written contracts with the file written
- contracts with the Department<00:05:00.360><c> before</c><00:05:00.680><c> commencing</c><00:05:01.080
Summary:
The Judiciary Committee held a decision-making-only agenda and voted on a series of bills, mostly following the chair’s recommendations. Measures passed unamended included SB 1202 on allowing campaign funds for child care and dependent care costs, SB 30 requiring all moped drivers to wear helmets, SB 55 requiring state administrative rules to be posted in a digitally accessible and searchable format, SB 106 on pedestrian conduct more than 200 feet from a crosswalk, SB 344 requiring helmets for skateboard users under 16, SB 849 increasing penalties for harming native species, SB 1337 clarifying Stadium Authority quorum rules, and SB 268 reducing the size of island burial councils and removing certain membership requirements. SB 1511, which prohibits vessels longer than 75 feet from entering Honay Bay, was also adopted, though the transcript includes some inconsistent wording about whether it was amended.
Several bills were approved with amendments. SB 1048 on solicitation of funds from the public was amended to remove a ministerial exception and to require certain charitable organizations and fundraising platforms to file written contracts with the Department before commencing solicitations. SB 109 was amended so that, in specified circumstances, the ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi version of a law would be binding when the law was originally drafted in English, translated into Hawaiian, and later amended. SB 66 on county building permits was amended to add a bad date, April 23, 2057. SB 1312, deferred to the 10 o’clock agenda, clarified that “profits from prostitution” includes money or property received from prostitution proceeds even if characterized as reimbursement or debt repayment; it was also passed with amendments.
The committee also adopted a recommendation to pass SB 55 and other measures with the noted excused absences of Senator Gabbard and, at times, other members. Throughout the meeting, no major opposition was recorded beyond one member voting no or with reservations on some bills, and the chair repeatedly announced that the recommendations had been adopted. The meeting concluded after the 10 o’clock agenda, with notice that the committee would meet upstairs for later agendas with WHAM.
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Disaster Preparedness & Flooding, Select Jul 23rd, 2025
Disaster Preparedness & Flooding, Select
Transcript Highlights:
- Or if I have to contract for debris cleanup or a contract for port-a-potties or things like that, right
- Otherwise, how can we receive a request for comp denial and reinstating the contract?
- No federal contract or procurement laws are waived.
- I'm not aware of any contracts that we have or agreements with them.
- We'd love to contract stuff, but we've learned and we've invested in terms of...
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- I have to start buying things immediately, or if I have to contract for debris cleanup or contract for
- One of those key provisions is to bypass contract and procurement processes in times of disaster.
- No federal contract or procurement laws are waived.
- I'm not aware of any contracts that we have or agreements with them.
- I know, I've seen it on the Fed side and the Department of Defense; we love to contract stuff.
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs Apr 2nd, 2025
Homeland Security, Public Safety & Veterans' Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- China, you know how many Chinese universities have a contract with the military.
- Third, it promotes transparency in foreign gifts, contracts. and academic partnerships.
- One is gifts and the other is contracts.
- With contracts, on the other hand... that there is something at stake here.
- risk and cancelled many of those contracts as a result of that review, you know...
Bills:
HB17 , HB34 , HB41 , HB 118 , HB 119 , HB 127 , HB 128 , HB 129 , HB 130 , HB132 , HB133 , HB17 , HB41 , HB118 , HB119 , HB127 , HB128 , HB129 , HB130 , HB132 , HB133
Keywords:
foreign ownership, real estate, national security, designated countries, Texas property law, lobbying, foreign adversaries, compensation prohibition, transparency, civil penalties, higher education, foreign adversary, research security, trade secrets, academic partnerships, HB 128, sister city, sister-city agreement, international exchange, municipal diplomacy
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- Well, CISA has terminated its contract with CIS, which runs this EIISAC.
- We know they've terminated that contract. We know that they're doing a review.
- So, to answer your question, what we do know now is that they have terminated their contract with CIS
- </c> with what comes next so that contract with what comes next so that contract has<00:36:26.200><c>
- </c> you know entering into a new contract you know entering into a new contract for<00:58:11.720><c>
Committee:
Senate Elections
HI
Transcript Highlights:
- It changes the contract warranty statute of limitations from six years down to two years.
- We were talking about a contract that’s entered after this bill is effectuated, right?
- Okay, so the language on the existing contract is certainly just if an existing contract does have something
- </c><02:08:59.800><c> that's</c> were talking about a contract that's were talking about a contract that's
- if an existing contract does have just if an existing contract does have something<02:10:04.079><c>
Committee:
House Housing
Summary:
The Committee on Housing held a public hearing on January 31 and heard testimony on a series of housing and building-code bills. The first major item, HB 1 relating to building codes, drew sharply divided testimony. Supporters, including BIA Hawaii, Grassroot Institute, Dr. Horton, and several builders and trade groups, argued the current code-adoption process is slow, fragmented, and costly, and that reform would help housing production. Opponents, including Sierra Club Hawaii, AIA Hawaii, ICC, and labor representative Kiko Bosi, said the bill would weaken public safety, reduce statewide consistency, and could leave tenants and first responders at greater risk. No vote was taken during the hearing, and members asked questions about the effect of a governor’s emergency proclamation suspending the Building Code Council and about county authority over code amendments.
The committee then heard HB 745 and HB 1321, both also relating to building codes. Grassroot Institute supported both measures, saying the system is broken and needs streamlining, while BIA Hawaii and others emphasized the cost burden of repeated code updates. Opponents, especially Bosi and ICC, argued that the bills would undermine the State Building Code Council’s role, create confusion, and prioritize cost over safety; Bosi also said labor should be included in any code discussions. Members questioned whether counties can remove state code provisions and whether the state code already supersedes county codes, and one member noted the need for clarity and consistent enforcement rather than a wholesale overhaul.
Later, the committee heard HB 284 on housing, HB 761 on county permitting and inspection, and HB 738 on historic preservation. HB 284 drew support from several housing and real estate groups, while DLNR opposed it. On HB 761, HHFDC supported the bill, DLNR warned that the proposed changes could jeopardize Hawaii’s participation in the National Flood Insurance Program, DAGS said it would likely need to duplicate county permitting staff, and the Department of Planning and Permitting opposed it; Grassroot Institute and NAIOP supported it. For HB 738, HHFDC, DLNR, Grassroot Institute, Hawaii YIMBY, NAIOP, and others supported the measure, with Grassroot and NAIOP suggesting clarifications so expedited review would also cover mixed-use projects and better define the scope of work. The transcript does not show any final votes or committee action on these bills during the hearing.
TX
Texas 89th 2nd C.S.
Senate Committee on Water, Agriculture, and Rural Affairs May 11th, 2026
Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- Is the risk factor adding contracting cost?
- What's your contingency, average contingency built into a contract now? Well, it depends.
- So I don't know, gosh, I mean, contingency has worked into some contracts.
- So I don't know, gosh, I mean, contingency has worked into some contracts.
- And then in the traditional world that we have, we're looking at low-bid type contracts.
Committee:
Senate Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Judiciary Finance and Civil Law Committee 3/17/26
Judiciary Finance and Civil Law
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:10:58.640><c> with</c><00:10:58.880><c> those</c> that also contracts with those that also contracts
- If you've looked at the contracts that they enter into, they are hugely expansive.
- ,</c><00:53:10.559><c> the</c> When teens enter into this contract, the When teens enter into this contract
- Nowhere else do we allow minors to enter a contract, not for sports camps or school outings.
- not for sports camps or a contract not for sports camps or school<00:57:14.960><c> outings.
Committee:
House Judiciary Finance and Civil Law
Keywords:
foreclosure, mortgage, redemption period, homestead, Minnesota Statutes, automated license plate reader, ALPR, license plate recognition, vehicle surveillance, Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, BCA, data privacy, government data practices, law enforcement data, surveillance technology, location data, vehicle tracking, warrant requirement, probable cause, exigent circumstances
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
Fiscal Committee (10/17/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- I know the contract runs for another year.
- I know the contract runs for another year.
- I know the contract runs for curious. I know the contract runs for another<00:20:37.760><c> year.
- Um, as of into a different contract.
- Um MAPD contract expires in one year.
Summary:
The committee first adopted the September 5 minutes and then approved the remaining consent calendar items after removing several bills for separate consideration, including 25-252, 25-248, 25-251, and 25-253. The committee then took up 25-252 from the Department of Natural and Cultural Resources, where members asked about the arts tax credit program, staffing, and volunteer coordination. Department representatives said the program had recently been authorized, forms had been finalized, three of six laid-off staff had been rehired through a federal grant, and the agency was now trying to recruit participants. Members also discussed whether tax-credit-raised funds could count as federal match; the department said they could not, because federal rules require state dollars. The item was adopted.
The committee next considered 25-248 from the Department of Safety, which was described as a technical correction moving funds from equipment to hardware and software after consultation with the Department of Administrative Services. A member asked about “buy American” waivers, and the department said it would follow up with more information. The item was adopted. The committee then approved 25-251 from the Department of Administrative Services, which included discussion of ongoing problems with Anthem’s retiree health plan mail-order pharmacy. Department staff said many issues were tied to implementation changes and prescription renewal rules, that some complaints were being resolved through the vendor and the retiree health office, and that the contract would be rebid in the coming year, likely causing further changes.
On 25-253 from the Department of Health and Human Services, members questioned the department’s September 5 health alert and whether it diverged from CDC guidance. DHHS said the alert was an annual evidence-based guideline for respiratory virus season and immunizations, largely aligned with CDC recommendations, and that some differences reflected timing and population-specific guidance. The item was adopted. The committee then heard 25-237 from the Department of Justice on the annual litigation fund request. Attorney General John Formela said the request was about $4.3 million, roughly 40% below last year and below the five-year average, with major costs tied to YDC civil and criminal litigation and some DHHS class actions. A member criticized the large increase over the budgeted $350,000 and said the budgeting approach should be corrected in the next cycle. Another member asked about YDC settlement reductions; the attorney general said confidentiality limited specifics, but explained that under the new statute the office had accepted well over half of administrator awards, rejected some, and negotiated lower amounts in others while still resolving most cases. The item remained under discussion at the end of the excerpt.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
Senate Energy and Natural Resources (04/01/2025)
Energy and Natural Resources
Transcript Highlights:
- would be regulated only by the contract developed<01:09:10.080><c> between</c><01:09:10.400><c> the<
- It builds on 2022's Senate Bill 54 that allows long-term energy contracts from new sources by adding
- Contracts can be up to 20 years.
- utilities who enter long-term contracts utilities who enter long-term contracts to<01:41:56.719><c> purchase
- Contracts can be up to 20 sources. Contracts can be up to 20 years. years. years.
Committee:
Senate Energy and Natural Resources
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- If you have contracted services, if you do not use in-house food service, they will not allow it.
- </c><00:48:40.160><c> Services</c><00:48:41.160><c> that's</c> up the the contracted Services that's
- up the the contracted Services that's that's<00:48:41.800><c> something</c><00:48:42.119><c> that</c>
- </c><00:48:45.480><c> their</c> of so the districts that contract their of so the districts that contract
- </c> nutrition staff versus Contra contracted nutrition staff versus Contra contracted out<00:51:50.200
Committee:
House Education Finance
Keywords:
education, school funding, consolidation aid, financial support, Minnesota Statutes, education finance, ice arena, school districts, cooperation agreement, equal sports opportunities, school milk program, nutrition, food waste, kindergarten, public schools, supplemental revenue, charter schools, funding, state appropriations, general education funding
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- especially with sort of like gig workers, is that they don't have an ability to negotiate their contracts
- especially with sort of like gig workers, is that they don't have an ability to negotiate their contracts
- Are they working out a contract? Are they drawing down the money?
- Are they working out a contract? Are they drawing down the money?
- Are they working out a contract? Are they drawing down the money?
Committee:
Senate Labor
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- But if they're existing in law, we have a contract in law.
- We need to keep that contract whole and not change the conditions of the contract.
- in law we need to keep that contract in law we need to keep that contract<01:15:12.840><c> whole</c>
- :15:15.960><c> my</c> conditions of the contract so what my conditions of the contract so what my Amendment
- We appreciate that that's not going to be done mid-contract.
Committee:
Senate Ways and Means
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Select Committee on Pension Policy Jul 21st, 2026 at 10:00 am
Select Committee on Pension Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- And on the aviation firefighters, do these local aviation entities contract with firefighters for protection
- So I'm not sure what other aviation firefighters might be contracted out, but the study was just for
- police officers who have a condition that would qualify, but need to prove where they might have contracted
- This program allows survivors to participate in the health plans and contracts that are offered through
- The plan also provides for reimbursement of premiums paid by survivors for health plans and contracts
Committee:
Joint Select Committee on Pension Policy
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
MN House debates bill requiring agencies to submit such reports to members electronically 5/4/26
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- use our positions to pass bills that appropriate tax dollars to organizations that then employ or contract
- organizations that then dollars to organizations that then employ<00:02:57.560><c> or</c><00:02:57.680><c> contract
- </c><00:02:58.360><c> with</c> employ or contract with employ or contract with us<00:02:59.760><c> outside
- there is an inherent conflict when a legislatively named direct appropriation then, uh, employs or contracts
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Republican Press Conference 3/10/26
Transcript Highlights:
- money could be used to pay teachers to provide tutoring or academic enrichment outside of their contract
- money could be used to pay teachers to provide tutoring or academic enrichment outside of their contract
- money could be used to pay teachers to provide tutoring or academic enrichment outside of their contract
- money could be used to pay teachers to provide tutoring or academic enrichment outside of their contract
- money could be used to pay teachers to provide tutoring or academic enrichment outside of their contract
Summary:
House Republican leaders and Speaker Melissa Hortman held a press event promoting House File 3490, which would opt Minnesota into a federal education tax credit program. They argued the bill has no state cost and would keep donations made by Minnesotans benefiting Minnesota students and schools rather than out-of-state scholarship organizations. Supporters said the funds could help with tutoring, extracurriculars, school supplies, special education-related services, learning loss, and other school needs, and they repeatedly urged Governor Tim Walz to opt in or publicly explain why he would not.
Rep. Andrew Myers, the bill’s chief author, said the proposal is personal to him as a parent and legislator and described recent school budget pressures, including staff and resource cuts and larger class sizes. Rep. Ben Bakeberg, a middle school principal, said the bill could generate significant funding if many taxpayers participate and argued it could help offset school district shortfalls and the Blue Ribbon Commission. Rep. Griesbach also backed the bill, calling it a “no-brainer” and saying he would not work with the governor on other budget items unless the governor opted in.
In response to questions, supporters said scholarship-granting organizations could be created by a variety of entities, including education foundations, and could support both private-school tuition and public-school-related costs such as extracurricular fees, field trips, and transportation for summer learning. They rejected the idea that the bill pits public and nonpublic schools against each other, saying it is meant to expand educational opportunity for all students. No vote or formal committee action was taken during the event; it ended with questions from reporters on the bill and other Republican priorities such as rental assistance, gas taxes, and energy costs.
AR
Arkansas 2026 Regular Session
EDUCATION- HOUSE EARLY CHILDHOOD SUBCOMMITTEE Feb 17th, 2026
EDUCATION- HOUSE EARLY CHILDHOOD SUBCOMMITTEE
Transcript Highlights:
- We used to pay for the data reporting system that was on a contract, on how we collect all this data
- had been on a mainframe since 2007, and the cost of that software to be held and updated with a contract
- No, there's hiccups, but we built that in-house with the existing staff to come off that contract.
- With that coming in-house, it frees up dollars in that contract, like in the CCDF grant.
- For example, looking at it through more of a contracted way to pay for it—pay for that particular seat
Summary:
The committee met to review early childhood education funding, access, and program sustainability, with Secretary Aleva and Director Ashland Abney providing updates on Arkansas’s ABC state-funded preschool program and the federal CCDF/SRA program. Members discussed the long-standing flat funding for ABC, which rose from $11 million to $14 million in 2018, compared with roughly $137 million in federal CCDF/SRA funding. Officials said ABC serves about 23,000 children, while SRA serves about 14,871 children and has a wait list of about 2,971 children. Members also asked for more data on rural versus urban access, provider types, and the number of slots and providers by region.
A major topic was how to improve quality and access while aligning early childhood with K-12. Officials said the department is moving from the Better Beginnings environmental rating system toward CLASS observations, using local leads and a kindergarten-readiness strategy tied to quality improvement. Members raised concerns about deserts and islands in service availability, the cost of school-based versus community-based providers, and the need to support infant-toddler care as well as preschool. The commissioner said early learning should be part of long-term state education investment, but that simply adding money would not solve access gaps without broader structural changes.
The committee also discussed recent funding changes and their effects on providers and families. Officials said a $14.741 million PDG-BFV competitive grant will support systems-building work, including local leads, workforce, data systems, and third-party CLASS observations, but it is a one-year grant and not direct service funding. Members questioned the impact of new co-pays, provider closures, and slot reallocations; officials said eight closures were tied specifically to funding changes, and that paying only for enrolled children rather than allocated slots saved about $576,000. They also discussed dual enrollment in home visiting and ABC, with officials estimating that limiting double enrollment could save about $2.4 million and potentially serve about 470 more children. The meeting ended with agreement to continue regular updates and further discussion, and the committee adjourned without a vote on legislation.
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
Senate - Health and Public Affairs Feb 13th, 2026 at 04:01 pm
Senate Health & Public Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- It adjusts contract language because in our 89 school districts, school-year contracts are varied lengths
- So the bill started with a nine-and-a-half-month contract, and we realized that did not work.
- So now it just says it matches the teacher contract. ...work.
- So now it just says it matches the teacher contract.
Committee:
Senate Senate Health & Public Affairs
Keywords:
physician assistants, interstate compact, medical services, licensure, cross-state practice, military families, regulatory authority, physical therapy, licensure compact, interstate practice, healthcare, military spouses, criminal background check, HB34, school nurse, school nurses, nurse licensure, charter school, charter schools, school district