Transcript Highlights:

• effectiveness and efficiency of state government through the development of a skilled workforce; granting
• Our child placing agencies have access to enter contacts and things like that, so it would be just granting
• Senator Deeds? No. Senator Deeds? No. Senator Fuller? No. Senator Fuller? Senator Garcia?
• Senator Deeds. Yea. Senator Deeds. Senator Fuller.
• Senator Deeds. Yeah. Senator Deeds. Senator Fuller. Senator Deeds? Yeah. Senator Deeds. Yay.

Committee: Senate Judiciary

Keywords: 994, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• </c> identification and development grant identification and development grant funding.<00:04:38.560>
• </c> line 1.11 is inserting the word grants line 1.11 is inserting the word grants as<00:55:39.920><c
• </c><01:02:58.079><c> that</c> had one-time microransit grants that had one-time microransit grants that
• </c> have a a federal state partnership grant have a a federal state partnership grant application<01
• </c> could also do kind of a phased grant could also do kind of a phased grant application<01:21:58.239

Committee: Senate Transportation

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• </c><00:09:04.966><c> [clears throat]</c> required sub-granting [clears throat] required sub-granting
• </c> &gt;&gt; Chair, would you like someone from DEED &gt;&gt; Chair, would you like someone from DEED
• </c> appropriations or competitive grants. appropriations or competitive grants.
• </c> the grant. the grant.
• </c> this grant program. this grant program.

Committee: House Ways and Means

Keywords: 1183, house

Transcript Highlights:

• And so those are grants.
• The other $10 million is for state infrastructure development grants.
• Staff and work through all of the deeds.
• So, when we were reviewing deeds, we make sure that the court clerk certification and the citizenship
• affidavit is attached to those deeds for any deeds we received after that law went into effect.

Keywords: 914, all

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• And with that, I will introduce our great friend from the Senate, Senator Grant Hauschild.
• </c> friend from the Senate, Senator Grant friend from the Senate, Senator Grant Hostel.
• In theory, I mean, the money would be appropriated to DEED.
• In theory, I mean, the money would be appropriated to DEED.
• Do you have a sense of scope of where that is right now given the grants that have been cancelled?

Keywords: 1183, house

Transcript Highlights:

• They started encroaching on the Spanish land grant, the Las Vegas Grant, and other grants in the area
• When it says land-grant merced, that is an Article I or Article IV land-grant.
• of the heirs of the land grant.
• We did work on the land grants; we asked for grants. I know they asked for grants; I remember.
• deed.

Committee: House House Rural Development, Land Grants And Cultural Affairs

Transcript Highlights:

• I'm here to testify in support of two bills: an act granting a local option for a real estate transfer
• So our goal is to add 200 more deed-restricted units to bring Concord to 10% affordability and not just
• About a third of the housing stock in some of these communities is year-round deed-restricted.
• We had ADUs by right before the Affordable Homes Act, and we've created 120 deed-restricted units for
• We had a Mass DEP grant that fully funded the— or sorry, it was a GAP grant, actually.

Committee: Joint Joint Committee on Revenue

Keywords: 995, all

Summary: The Joint Committee on Revenue held a public hearing on a series of bills focused largely on local-option real estate transfer fees and housing funding tools for communities facing severe affordability pressures. Testimony strongly favored bills for Somerville, Concord, Martha’s Vineyard, Nantucket, Chatham, and a statewide local-option transfer fee, with speakers arguing that high-end real estate transactions should help fund affordable housing, anti-displacement efforts, workforce housing, and related capital improvements. Elected officials and local housing leaders described rising rents and home prices, investor activity, shrinking year-round housing stock, and difficulty recruiting or retaining teachers, police, health care workers, and other essential employees. Several witnesses emphasized that the proposals would be optional for municipalities, could include exemptions for first-time homebuyers or seniors, and would direct revenue into local affordable housing trust funds or housing banks. Committee members asked questions about who would pay the fee and whether it could make housing less affordable, and supporters responded that the fees would be targeted at higher-value transactions and designed with local flexibility. For Somerville, the delegation and Mayor Katjana Ballantyne backed both a local home rule petition and statewide enabling legislation, saying the city has already used zoning reform, inclusionary zoning, and local housing funds but still needs a new revenue source to address displacement and investor-driven purchases. For Concord, Representative Carmine Gentile and Concord housing advocates supported a home rule petition and the statewide bill, arguing that a modest fee on sales above $1 million could generate predictable revenue for affordable housing production and preservation. One committee exchange focused on whether the fee would affect most Concord sales and whether it would be passed on to buyers; supporters said the policy was intended to shift costs toward higher-value properties and help leverage other funding sources. The committee also heard testimony on House 4105, which would redirect a casino-related revenue stream to the Healthy Incentives Program. Farmers, advocates, and residents said the current funding was originally intended to support horse racing but has not met that goal, and that the money would be better used to support Massachusetts farmers and food-insecure residents through HIP. In a separate bill, Senator Becca Rausch testified in support of Senate 268, which would create a state-level hostile learning environment complaint process for higher education institutions and potentially strip tax exemptions from colleges or universities found to have such environments; she cited anti-Semitic and transphobic incidents on campuses and argued that existing federal protections should be mirrored in state law. The hearing also included testimony on college tuition debt reduction legislation from Senator Michael Moore, who said the bill would allow a deduction for tuition and fees paid to Massachusetts public colleges and universities to ease student debt and support the state’s workforce. A major portion of the hearing focused on Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket housing bank proposals. Hospital, school, housing, planning, and municipal officials from Martha’s Vineyard said the island’s year-round housing shortage is harming health care, schools, and the local workforce, and urged approval of a housing bank funded by a local-option transfer fee. Nantucket witnesses made similar arguments, pointing to a very high median home price, a large seasonal housing stock, and the need for a dedicated revenue stream to preserve and create year-round housing. Supporters repeatedly cited the long-running success of the islands’ land banks as evidence that transfer fees can work without harming real estate markets. Senator Julian Cyr and Representative Thomas Moakley Luddy also backed the Cape and Islands transfer-fee bills, saying the region needs bold action and a sustainable local funding source to address its housing crisis.

Transcript Highlights:

• </c><00:02:00.680><c> have</c> throughout their courageous deeds have throughout their courageous deeds
• </c> the state grant. the state grant.
• </c> we did not address the state grant we did not address the state grant shortfall,<00:09:56.560><c
• </c> fix anything with the state grant fix anything with the state grant program. program. program.
• And getting all of the grant programs.

Keywords: 1183, house

Transcript Highlights:

• to six dollars and allocates an additional dollar to the land survey program and to a recorder of deeds
• As a former employee at a recorder of deeds office, I know how important these records are to people
• As a former employee at a recorder of Deeds office, I know how important these records are to people
• So we've got major grants sitting out here for St.
• There's grants set up for this, and I would encourage the body to vote for it. Thank you.

Keywords: 959, house, all

Summary: The House convened with prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance, approved the House Journal for the prior day by a 126-0 vote, and then heard several points of personal privilege, including recognition of National Fentanyl Awareness Day and a moment of silence for journalist Ray Hartman. Members also introduced numerous student groups, interns, and special guests visiting the chamber. The chamber then took up conference committee business on House Bills 2637 and 3155, a large public safety/criminal justice package. Members discussed the bill’s juvenile justice provisions, including narrowing prosecutorial certification of juveniles to certain serious offenses, changes to age language, juvenile detention facility funding, outpatient mental health treatment, cyberstalking provisions, drone restrictions, prosecutorial salaries, and sex offender registry language. The House approved the motion to exceed the conference differences, adopted the conference committee report by 124-13, passed the bill 119-18, and adopted the emergency clause for the drone-related sections by 125-15. The House also passed Senate Bill 834, a consumer protection measure dealing with mortgage modifications and sale-leaseback transactions, by 139-1 after discussion of its protections for homeowners. Senate Bill 937, a land transfer bill authorizing the governor to dispose of certain state properties, was amended and passed 137-2-1. Senate Bill 938, which raises recording fees from $4 to $6 to support the state land survey program and recorder of deeds offices, passed 121-21-2 after supporters said the increase was overdue and necessary to sustain the program. Finally, House Committee Substitute for Senate Bill 973, concerning wholesaler disclosures and land banks, was amended to remove a school property provision and add land bank authority, then passed 110-36. The House adjourned after announcements and was set to return the next day with several bills on the agenda.

Transcript Highlights:

• Chair and members, Senate Bill 1805 requires a county recorder, before recording any quitclaim deed,
• the grantor, seller, or the persons who are conveying an interest in real property with a quitclaim deed
• county recorder must reject the document and advise the person attempting to record the quitclaim deed
• I know that the county acts as a pass-through for a lot of state funds coming in through block grants

Bills: SB1246 , SB1338 , SB1428 , SB1443 , SB1501 , SB1566 , SB1571 , SB1645 , SB1646 , SB1663 , SB1688 , SB1805 , SB1808 , SB1825 , SCR1023 , SCR1029 , HB2079 , HB2080 , HB2130 , HB2239 , HB2324 , HB2375 , HB2610 , HB2619 , HB2620 , HB2716 , HB2745 , HB2749 , HB2837 , HB2857 , HB2968 , HB4064 , HB4066 , HB4087 , HB4130 , HCR2048 , HCR2058

Committee: Senate Government

Keywords: homeowners associations, foreclosure, common expense liens, condominiums, special assessments, unit owner, public benefits, eligibility, immigration status, documentation, Arizona law, county governance, supervisorial board, population-based representation, local government, elections, noise pollution, environmental nuisances, building permits, urban development

Bills: SF1959 , HF2444 , SF2298 , HF2445 , SF2216 , HF2443 , HF2130 , HF1943 , HF2436 , HF2442

Committee: House Ways and Means

Keywords: veterans, military affairs, Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of Military Affairs, omnibus veterans bill, appropriations, National Guard, state active service, armory, State Armory Building Commission, veterans homes, veterans cemeteries, county veterans service office, Minnesota GI Bill, Gold Star families, Blue Star families, Secret War in Laos, Hmong veterans, Laos veterans, special guerrilla units

Transcript Highlights:

• would be quick summary of those would be restorative<00:34:56.000><c> policy</c><00:34:56.399><c> grant
• </c><00:34:57.200><c> program</c><00:34:57.599><c> from</c> restorative policy grant program from restorative
• policy grant program from representative<00:34:58.480><c> fee.

Bills: SF1959 , HF2444 , SF2298 , HF2445 , SF2216 , HF2443 , HF2130 , HF1943 , HF2436 , HF2442

Committee: House Ways and Means

Keywords: veterans, military affairs, Department of Veterans Affairs, Department of Military Affairs, omnibus veterans bill, appropriations, National Guard, state active service, armory, State Armory Building Commission, veterans homes, veterans cemeteries, county veterans service office, Minnesota GI Bill, Gold Star families, Blue Star families, Secret War in Laos, Hmong veterans, Laos veterans, special guerrilla units

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• grants as quickly as possible.
• ><c> quickly</c> lottery to help deploy grants as quickly lottery to help deploy grants as quickly as
• </c><00:25:02.960><c> up</c> The bill will also allow for grants up The bill will also allow for grants
• I'm here today to support Senate 4527 grant. That grant, we believe...
• Roll call granted. Roll call requested. Roll call granted.

Committee: Senate Jobs and Economic Development

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• That's granted for supervised visits.
• being granted the right to reside.
• Permanently in the United States, granted by whom?
• And so, I get to see the exhibits and deeds that were passed from Senate Bill 212 back in 2023.
• Since that time The deed, the exhibit to the deed, which is the affidavit that was created by the Oklahoma

Bills: SB2030 , SB1926 , SB2170 , SB2151 , SB2166 , SB1213 , SB1381 , SB1824 , SB1876 , SB1728 , SB1582 , SB1286 , SB1386 , SB1708 , SB1618

Committee: Senate Judiciary

Keywords: expungement, record sealing, criminal records, clean slate, automatic expungement, expedited expungement, criminal history, OSBI, Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, deferred judgment, delayed sentence, pardon, pardon and parole board, law enforcement records, sealed records, arrest records, conviction records, reclassification of felony to misdemeanor, reentry, second chance

Transcript Highlights:

• </c> throughout the duration of the grant. throughout the duration of the grant.
• , DEED has done a great job.
• </c><00:24:45.039><c> We</c> grant and deed has done a great job.
• We grant and deed has done a great job.
• of the grant life cycle slide?

Bills: HF4072 , HF3691 , HF4613

Committee: House Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy

Keywords: workforce development, journalism, local news, internships, media training, emergency management, essential employees, public safety, law enforcement, workforce, economic development, appropriation, Twin Cities Marathon, Explore Minnesota, grants, 1183, house

Transcript Highlights:

• MHC to grant an extension period within MHC to grant an extension period within which<00:46:29.040><c
• documents for the TOD deed; five, exemption of the TOD deed from recordation taxes and transfer fees
• The bill applies to a Todd deed bill.
• </c><01:40:26.960><c> that</c> provides that a Todd deed that provides that a Todd deed that designates
• And if the indicated on the Todd deed.

Keywords: Senate streaming session for Friday, March 20, 2026, 960, senate, all

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• ,</c> it's structured in this case as a grant, it's structured in this case as a grant, but<00:14:21.079
• Section 8 provides a $100,000 grant to the city of South St. Paul.
• And so DEED and the city of Minneapolis.
• And so, this was a grant to make up for that. Thank you.
• </c> a grant to to make up for that. a grant to to make up for that.

Keywords: 1183, house

Transcript Highlights:

• What happens is the property is deeded to the H.E.B. On the tax records, it is owned by H.E.B.
• It grants tax abatement in exchange for providing a mix of affordable units in a development.
• If they meet the requirements, we can grant a tax exemption.
• We had a grant when 5290 first passed. We don't have one right now.
• The CLT uses grants and donations to lower the initial purchase price of a home.

Summary: The Senate Housing Committee heard presentations on a range of housing finance, permitting, and affordability tools. Chattanooga described its affordable housing PILOT program, which uses a per-unit property tax abatement tied to the rent loss from providing affordable units, with a 15-year term and annual compliance monitoring. Committee members asked about the program’s structure, whether it had been used elsewhere, and who was participating; the presenter said the first mixed-income project would bring 278 units with 42 affordable units and that the model was attracting private market-rate developers. Shoreline then described its MFTE and inclusionary zoning approach, emphasizing that longer tax exemption periods and station-area zoning changes had helped spur development, with most current pipeline projects concentrated near light rail stations. The committee also heard from the Municipal Research Services Center and the Department of Commerce on tax increment financing, proportional impact fees, and permit timelines. Commerce explained that TIF can fund public improvements such as roads, utilities, broadband, and some affordable housing or child care facilities, while proportional impact fee guidance is intended to help jurisdictions charge fees more closely aligned with actual project impacts. On permit timelines, Commerce presented its first annual report under recent law changes, using 2024 as a baseline year and noting that reported timelines were generally longer than statutory goals; members asked about outliers, paper versus electronic processing, and whether back-and-forth between applicants and staff was driving delays. Commerce said it would follow up with more data, including on CHIP funding and permit reform practices. Several local governments then shared permitting process improvements. Auburn reported relatively short review cycles and described its move to fully electronic permitting, internal performance standards, and a stock plan program that speeds review for repeated home designs. Bellevue described an AI permitting pilot with a local startup to help with pre-application questions, document triage, and plan review, aiming to reduce incomplete applications and revision cycles. Seattle presented a pilot for accessory dwelling unit co-development in which a mission-driven partner would help homeowners split lots, finance, build, and manage ADUs, with the homeowner eventually buying out the partner and retaining ownership; committee members asked about rent setting, management fees, and default risk, and staff said they would follow up. The committee also heard brief overviews of community land trusts and limited equity cooperatives as permanent affordability models, with presenters urging continued state and local funding support and policy recognition for these approaches.

Transcript Highlights:

• program and the Native Hawaiian housing loan guarantee program and the Native Hawaiian housing block grant
• And then, you know, another one is, why do we have to apply for grants?
• </c><00:36:05.319><c> why</c> why do you have to apply for Grants why why do you have to apply for Grants
• Second, to insert appropriate standards for the issuance of grants by the counties.
• </c><01:17:36.520><c> restrictions</c> purchase voluntary deed restrictions purchase voluntary deed restrictions

Keywords: 912, senate, all

Summary: The committee heard testimony on SB 834, which would change restrictions on transfers of real property under chapter 201H, HRS, and was discussed in the context of Hawaiian homelands and HHFDC-funded projects. Supporters, including HHFDC, DHHL, and individual testifiers, said the bill would clarify that Hawaiian homelands should not be subject to the 201H buyback and appreciation restrictions, while preserving affordability requirements tied to federal mortgage and tax credit programs. HHFDC explained that the main concern was the buyback/share-appreciation provisions, especially for DHHL projects using LIHTC or similar financing, and said aligning the statute with DHHL’s program goals would not be a problem. Members questioned whether removing the restrictions could weaken affordability protections, and whether the state could still prioritize beneficiaries and workforce housing, but no vote was taken in the portion provided. The committee then took up SB 759, which would add the DHHL chairperson or designee to the HHFDC board of directors and adjust quorum requirements. DHHL and several supporters argued the measure would give Hawaiian Homes a seat at the table, improve access to HHFDC funding sources such as tax credits, private activity bonds, and revolving funds, and help leverage limited resources to reduce the Hawaiian Homes waitlist. One testifier supported the bill but urged safeguards to prevent favoritism or abuse of power, and another raised concerns about whether a DHHL representative would need to recuse from voting on projects involving DHHL. HHFDC testified that DHHL projects still must compete under the same criteria and set-asides as other applicants, and that the board already includes multiple public and executive representatives. Members pressed on whether DHHL could achieve the same informational goals without a voting seat, and whether the added board role would create leverage or conflicts. The DHHL witness said a nonvoting role could provide information, but a voting seat would be more useful for decision-making and advocacy. The discussion also covered DHHL’s use of LIHTC, rent-to-own models, transitional housing, and other layered financing, as well as the broader need to coordinate state housing resources. The transcript ends during continued questioning, with no final committee action or vote shown.

Transcript Highlights:

• </c> running on privately owned deed ground. running on privately owned deed ground.
• Benson, thank you. fence out, or does it come to um deed fence out, or does it come to um deed land,<
• or</c> land, non-deed land, trust, or land, non-deed land, trust, or what what what is<01:45:30.159>
• </c> the buffalo that are running on deed the buffalo that are running on deed land<01:46:48.239><c>
• It is still deed land. trust land. It is still deed land.

Committee: Joint Select Committee on Tribal Relations

Keywords: 916, all