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• When it comes to sales tax, it's either you don't pay it or you don't pay it. or you get it back, which
• or I've chosen not to pay.
• We don't ask those counties to pay us back.
• We have to pay sales tax on the fees we pay marketplaces.
• It's now refinanced. at a lower rate but it's still going to pay back principal and interest which will

Bills: HB19, HB30, HB851, HB1663, HB1681, HB1769, HB1937, HB1979, HB2428, HB2433, HB2825, HB3159, HB3424, HB3486, HB3487, HB3504, HB3605, HB3879, HB3994, HB4382, HB4752, HB5444, HB5446, HB5447, HB3199, HB4847, HB19

Keywords: local government debt, property tax, ad valorem tax, bond election, certificate of obligation, anticipation note, school district tax rate, voter-approval rate, debt service cap, municipal finance, county bonds, flood control district, hospital district, public works, tax transparency, property tax notice, November uniform election date, general obligation bonds, local debt reform, taxpayer notice

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• Back to House Bill 99. Mr.
• So again, back to the actuaries.
• That you have discretion to go back and make the hospitals pay their share, and even make independent
• They get that whole amount back.
• They went back and forth in the negotiations.

Keywords: 996, all

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• The real challenge is they come back. They don't come back to the bridge.
• They don't come back to the bridge, The real challenge is that they come back.
• I can go back in those days.
• And this would pay for 18...
• So in the last, if you go back to 2022, you have paid given a 31% pay increase to correctional officers

Summary: The Senate Finance Committee heard the Legislative Budget Board’s overview of the Texas Department of Public Safety’s 2026-27 budget, followed by extensive testimony from DPS leadership. The LBB presentation covered funding and staffing changes across driver license services, facilities, troopers and recruit schools, crime labs, vehicle and aircraft operations, and border security. The recommendations included added support for customer service staffing and trooper hiring, but did not include several DPS exceptional items such as major driver license staffing and technology requests, new regional headquarters in El Paso and San Antonio, and other capital projects. Members also discussed proposed rider changes, including a new rider to lapse unused trooper funding and require reporting after recruit schools. Much of the committee’s questioning focused on driver license operations, where senators criticized long call wait times, low call-answer rates, appointment delays, and what they viewed as an overreliance on adding staff rather than improving processes. DPS and LBB witnesses said the agency is pursuing some technology upgrades, including automation, online pre-population of applications, and appointment-system improvements, but acknowledged that the driver license division remains a major problem area. Senators also raised concerns about whether the 2019 efficiency study led to meaningful changes and whether the agency should consider broader process redesign or even a different administrative structure. Colonel Freeman and other DPS officials then defended the agency’s broader law enforcement and border-security work, emphasizing the need for the Williamson County training academy, the 500 additional troopers funded in prior sessions, and continued support for Operation Lone Star. They described DPS’s role in border interdiction, threat-to-life investigations, oilfield theft cases, Capitol and Alamo security, and highway safety, and said the agency is stretched thin by deployments and overtime. Members asked about border reimbursement possibilities, regional staffing differences, pursuit safety, fleet and aircraft replacement needs, and the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame museum. No votes or formal actions were taken in the portion provided.

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• a pay raise.
• a pay raise.
• We're following six of them, and they're all back to back to back today. I love that.
• to back to them and they're all back to back to back<00:54:40.319> to<00:54:40.480> back
• back to back to back today. I love that. back to back to back today. I love that.

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

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• We pay 70% of the premium; you pay 30%.
• They're still back there. I do either. They're still back there.
• paying the premium for them. paying the premium for them.
• back to staff. That's 9,200. back to staff. That's 9,200.
• back to me as a pay as an that came back to me as a pay as an employee,<03:57:12.880> and<03:57

Keywords: 916, all

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• So H.R. 1 says that states can no longer go back 3 months and that they'll only pay for 2 months of retroactive
• I will take that back.
• So a private pay pays the same as public pay.
• So a private pay pays is the same that public pay pace.
• So if employees choose to pay the higher rate and it goes back to January, that will be reinvested based

Keywords: 1183, house

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• And with that, I yield<00:48:24.640> back. yield back. yield back.
• Thank you and I yield<04:30:13.120> back. yield back. yield back.
• I yield<04:50:47.920> back. yield back. yield back.
• Thank you, and I yield back. pay less, and a balanced approach to pay less, and a balanced approach to
• I yield back. back. back. Thank<05:07:22.080> you.

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Tuesday, February 3, 2026, 1012, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• Historically, in Arizona, it was an all-or-nothing proposition: you either pay the back taxes or you
• You either pay the back taxes or you lose your property and all the value that goes with it.
• Their employer would pay the ACR; they would... ...Friday, come back to work in a pensionable position
• pay off their home, then now they have to pay their property taxes and they have to pay this new taxing
• And then they leased that same building back to the Isaac Elementary School District, which was paying

Bills: HB2091, HB2140, HB2320, HB2384, HB2398, HB2502, HB2780, HB2918, HB2939, HB2950, HB2999, HB4020, HB4026, HB4029

Keywords: insurance, financial surveillance, regulations, assessments, Arizona Revised Statutes, investment, state treasurer, gold bullion, treasury management, financial regulations, school districts, bonds, financial advisors, elections, municipal advisors, cost of borrowing, lease agreements, school property, tax exemptions, impact aid revenue bonds

Summary: The Senate Finance Committee approved the minutes from March 16, 2026, then heard testimony on a series of bills, with the chair noting that testimony and votes would be handled in batches because members were coming and going. HB 2939 would raise the rural qualified facilities tax credit from $20,000 to $25,000 per job for certain projects with initial investment under $2 billion. Lucid Motors supported the change as a tool to attract manufacturing jobs to rural Arizona, while opponents questioned whether the higher credit would actually create new jobs and pointed to a fiscal note that could reach $48 million. The committee later passed the bill 5-2. HB 2950 would authorize municipalities and counties to form tourism improvement areas funded by lodging business assessments for marketing and tourism promotion. The Arizona Lodging and Tourism Association and Visit Phoenix supported the measure, describing TIAs as voluntary, locally controlled tools already used in other states and useful for rural destinations; senators pressed on whether the assessments were truly voluntary and how the districts would be formed and administered. The bill passed 5-2. HB 2780, a technical cleanup bill related to property tax lien foreclosure and excess proceeds sales, was described as conforming changes to a prior law creating a mechanism for delinquent taxpayers to recover equity; it passed 6-1. HB 2502 would allow certain ASRS members who are elected officials to retire at normal retirement age without resigning their elected office, with the employer paying the alternate contribution rate. ASRS said it was neutral, and the sponsor and a lobbyist argued the bill would create parity with non-elected members who can retire and return to work; the committee passed it 5-2. HB 2140, as amended by a striker, would let the state treasurer invest up to 10% of trust and treasury monies in physical gold or silver bullion held in secure U.S. depositories. The sponsor and Sound Money Defense League supported it as a diversification and inflation hedge, while opponents argued gold is volatile, costly to store, and not a better use of taxpayer funds; the committee adopted the striker and passed the bill 4-2. HB 2398 would require commercial liability insurance for watercraft rented or hired in Arizona, including peer-to-peer boat-sharing programs, while not affecting ordinary personal boat ownership. The sponsor, insurers, and rental operators said the bill responds to uninsured boats being rented through apps and to safety and liability problems; some members said training should also be addressed. The committee adopted an amendment and passed the bill 6-1. Finally, HB 2999 would create state affordable infrastructure districts to finance public infrastructure for housing through bonds, taxes, and assessments, with unanimous landowner consent and disclosure requirements. Home builders and contractors said the districts could lower upfront housing costs and improve financing, but contractors sought stronger payment protections and some senators worried the bill could add red tape and costs without guaranteeing savings to homebuyers. After adopting a large amendment, the committee passed HB 2999, though at least one member voted no and another passed on the vote.

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• So, when Social Security redeems its bonds, we pay them back the money they need for that next month
• <05:22:19.840> So,<05:22:20.080> when we have to pay interest back.
• So, when we have to pay interest back.
• <05:22:23.760> they<05:22:23.920> need<05:22:24.080> for we pay them back the
• , or like we did back in January, we owed like $1.2 trillion in cuts to meet the pay-as-you-go rules.

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Tuesday, May 6, 2025, 1012, house, all

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• To pay most of their property taxes, may pay a prorated fee to use the local library.
• And you said giving it back.
• I have to go back there. I have city leaders, county leaders, mayors,... Go back there.
• We are now back on the bill as amended. We are now back on the bill as amended.
• Come back to me. Okay. Question? Anybody? We're back to you.

Keywords: 999, senate, all

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• us back.
• back.
• I'm not in the mood of thinking that trust us, they're going to pay it back.
• There's no evidence that anyone that we hand over money of this magnitude to that they pay it back.
• If the terms are, we'll give you all that money, you don't have to pay it back, where do I sign up?

Keywords: 1146, all

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• If you can't pay me the back rent, you probably can't pay me the attorneys' fees either.
• pay the mortgage.
• pay the mortgage.
• pay the mortgage.
• pay the mortgage.

Keywords: House streaming session for Friday, April 3, 2026, 957, house, all

Summary: The House convened with 113 members present and took up House Bill 774, a local enabling bill on residential landlord-tenant good-cause termination and eviction standards. The sponsor and floor leader described the bill as intended to create stability for families and communities by limiting nonrenewal of leases without good cause, while emphasizing that it would only take effect if adopted by local counties. The bill’s stated good-cause grounds include repeated late rent payment, lease violations, and other specified reasons. Several amendments were offered and debated. One amendment sought to require tenants to keep paying rent, late fees, and other lease obligations during any legal challenge to a nonrenewal; the floor leader argued this was redundant because existing law already requires payment during holdover proceedings, and the House rejected the amendment by roll call, 79 in the negative. Another amendment added a good-cause ground where housing is tied to employment on the property and the employment ends; the floor leader accepted it as a friendly amendment, and it was adopted. A further amendment exempted short-term rentals such as VRBOs from the bill; it was also accepted as friendly and adopted. The House then rejected another amendment that would have changed the late-rent good-cause standard from four notices in a 12-month period to three. The sponsor argued the change would reduce the time and financial burden on small landlords, while the floor leader responded that the bill did not alter existing eviction timelines for nonpayment and that the current four-instance standard was appropriate. Finally, an amendment to extend access to the state’s eviction counsel fund to low-income landlords was offered, with the sponsor arguing for fairness to small property owners; the floor leader opposed it, saying the fund was created to represent low-income tenants and that most landlords are already represented. The transcript cuts off before the final vote on that amendment.

Transcript Highlights:

• So, they have to pay us back if they have overestimated.
• us back.
• And they're using additional monies appropriated by taxpayers in order to pay us back for the money they
• And now that we're going to appropriate additional money to them in order to pay the taxpayers back money
• And they're paying $5 million back per year using state taxpayer dollars in order to pay it back.

Bills: SB1, SB 1

Keywords: appropriations, budget, state funding, education, healthcare, infrastructure, campground safety, youth camp regulations, flood safety, emergency evacuation, health and safety standards, 1185, senate, all

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• fees and paying infrastructure costs and these other elements to contribute back to the utility.
• fees and paying infrastructure costs and these other elements to contribute back to the utility.
• fees and paying infrastructure costs and these other elements to contribute back to the utility.
• fees and paying infrastructure costs and these other elements to contribute back to the utility.
• fees and paying some uh and paying fees and paying infrastructure<01:37:28.360> costs<01:37:28.639

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• and um, we are paying for a new school. and um, we are paying for a new school.
• they're paying never pay more than what they're paying for<00:31:42.880> a<00:31:42.920> lease
• So, we don't pay major maintenance directly, we pay for the lease.
• Um, Tanya, back to you.
• Tanya, back to you. Do you have any Tanya, back to you.

Keywords: 916, all

Summary: The Select Committee on School Facilities met to satisfy its quarterly statutory requirement and to discuss interim priorities. Staff from LSO reviewed the committee’s duties: monitoring K-12 school facilities statewide, prioritizing needs for the interim, and preparing a budget request due by November 1. They also noted the ongoing litigation related to the Chapter 3, Section 8 exception process and said the committee would move forward with securing a consultant to study that issue, as previously authorized by Management Council. A major topic was school funding formulas, especially how average daily membership (ADM) affects routine and major maintenance funding and how excess square footage is treated. Members revisited an earlier proposal to fund 135% of allowable square footage, which did not advance this session, and discussed whether some schools should instead be funded at a minimum percentage of their actual square footage. Staff explained that some districts have buildings larger than their formula allowance, and that the issue is complicated by older buildings, pools, and other unique facilities. They also noted that recent changes to the major maintenance multiplier increased funding and that some districts are still not fully covered by the formulas. Safety and security funding was another focus. The State Construction Department reported that $10 million was appropriated this year for safety and security upgrades, with some funds expected to go toward vestibules, bollards, and design work, and the rest through a district application process. Officials said the last comprehensive safety assessment was done more than 10 years ago and suggested a new consultant-led study to update priorities, since technology and building conditions have changed. Members also discussed the role of school resource officers and whether the committee should continue leading this work rather than handing it off to the recalibration committee. The committee also examined declining enrollment and excess capacity across the state, citing examples such as Newcastle, Shoshoni, Casper, Campbell County, and Fremont County. Officials said some districts are right-sizing by taking schools offline, while others cannot easily reduce capacity because the buildings are essential to the community. Charter school leasing was raised as a related concern, including the Mills charter school and the fact that the state pays lease costs based on ADM and allowable square footage. No formal votes were taken, but the committee agreed to continue studying these issues, likely including site visits and further data requests during the interim.

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• <00:01:15.439> who withhold back pay to these workers who withhold back pay to these workers
• back pay when the or furled to receive back pay when the shutdown<00:15:01.519> ends.
• paid back anyway after the shutdown ends and back pay is given.
• back pay like what people might not get back pay like what what<00:20:58.000> does<00:20:58.159
• back pay?

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• from pay as you go. from pay as you go.
• > the<01:50:49.760> trends back to back on the trends back to back on the trends um<01:
• them back.
• back.<01:58:44.320> But<01:58:44.480> when<01:58:44.719> you<01:58:44.880> pay
• But when you pay out that lump sum back.

Keywords: 958, all

Summary: The meeting opened with a quorum call, the Pledge of Allegiance, a prayer, and approval of the prior meeting minutes. The first presentation was from Bo Craycraft of the Judicial Form Retirement System, who gave an update on investment performance, asset allocation, cash flow, and projected employer costs. He reported strong fiscal year 2025 investment results, with both the legislative and judicial retirement plans outperforming their actuarial assumed rates of return and benchmarks, driven largely by U.S. equity performance. He also noted the plans remained near their target asset allocation and continued to experience negative cash flow, though he said that was manageable in context of strong asset growth. Craycraft then discussed a recent experience study and actuarial assumption changes, especially a revised salary growth assumption and a higher cash balance interest credit rate. He said these changes increased projected employer costs, with contributions rising from about $700,000 to a projected $2 million in later years, though he expected the eventual 2025 valuation and investment gains to reduce that estimate. Members asked about mortality assumptions, the impact of the experience study on liabilities, and the sharp increase in the judicial plan’s projected employer cost. Craycraft explained that the increase was driven mainly by the updated assumptions and that no other major plan changes were involved. At the chair’s request, Craycraft also addressed the recent rise in Medicare Advantage premiums for the plan’s health coverage, saying the 2025 increase was largely tied to Part D changes and the Inflation Reduction Act and had been about 45%, but that future growth was expected to be under 5%. After his presentation, the committee moved to the Kentucky Public Pensions Authority update, where the next speaker began by saying the funds had exceeded actuarial assumed returns for the fiscal year.

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• And when this country wakes up, there will be consequences to pay for this, and I yield back.
• And when this country wakes up, there will be consequences to pay for this, and I yield back.
• And when this country wakes up, there will be consequences to pay for this, and I yield back.
• And when this country wakes up, there will be consequences to pay for this, and I yield back.
• And when this country wakes up, there will be consequences to pay for this, and I yield back.

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Wednesday, May 21, 2025, 1012, house, all

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• So they came back with recommendations that we need to grow our staffing, but we also need to start paying
• I will reach back to RLD on that.
• They'd also have to pay a premium I'm not sure what they're exactly paying right now in premium, but
• We'll be back up.
• But when they become eligible, PERA will pay our portion to them, and E R B will pay their portion, but

Keywords: 996, all

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• So when you offered a tax incentive, you don't pay as much as what you would normally pay if you didn't
• Nobody's paying the point 4. It's just that you don't pay the.4.
• If there's a subsidy or if there's A way for the governor, the government to pay that back.
• as much but you're bringing back more than you would be paying so this is a plus for the state so we
• And I'm gonna go back to economics.

Bills: SB2102, SB1940, SB1625, SB1442, SB1623, SB1242, SB1949, SB1592, SB1913, SB592, SB992, SB1241, SB259, SB1928, SB1426, SB1531, SB1561, SB1122

Keywords: credit card fees, merchant discounts, payment card network, interchange fees, transparency in fees, Oklahoma law, payment card, rebate, merchant, tax compliance, health insurance, mandate, impact analysis, insurance department, public health, access to healthcare, SB1442, alcoholic beverage control, ABLE Commission, liquor license fees