Transcript Highlights:

• The Department of Public Safety had a duplicate payment to a vendor and insufficient collateral on hand
• The Department of Transportation and Shared Services made a career service payment in error, had several
• Cash receipts journals were not properly maintained and were not reconciled to total deposits per bank
• Cash receipts journals were not properly maintained and were not reconciled to total deposits per bank
• We eliminated cash at the RV park.

Committee: All LEGISLATIVE JOINT AUDITING

Summary: The Legislative Joint Auditing Committee met to approve prior minutes and receive reports from several subcommittees and audits. The executive committee reported that audit and special reports were scheduled for presentation, one requested report remained outstanding, and staff had reviewed circuit-court caseload assignments in Benton County’s 19th West Judicial District. The committee also heard that Arkansas legislative audit financial statements and audits for fiscal years 2024 and 2025 received clean opinions with no internal-control findings, and that the report was accepted. The counties and municipalities report covered delinquent private water and sewer audits, with many entities reinstated after filing required reports, and reviewed current and deferred reports; several reports were referred to prosecutors, the attorney general, or the Government Bonding Board. The education audit report covered 57 school district audits, with three districts—Camden Fairview, Forest City, and Eudora—deferred until the June meeting because of findings and referrals. A substitute motion amended the report to file the Nettleton School District report, and the amended report passed. The state agencies report noted findings at the Department of Public Safety and the Department of Transportation and Shared Services, including duplicate payments, collateral issues, record-keeping problems, and missing vehicle logs; the committee filed five reports. The committee then reviewed the City of Pine Bluff’s 2024 financial audit. The city received clean opinions overall, but the management letter identified serious issues in the mayor’s office, Parks and Recreation, and Finance, including unaccounted-for receipts, altered invoices, unallowable and questionable purchases, missing equipment, and weak cash-receipting and reconciliation procedures. City officials, including the mayor and department heads, testified that the problems largely involved prior activity, said they had terminated involved employees, referred matters to law enforcement, and described corrective steps such as a forensic audit, new procurement and accounting procedures, electronic receipting and payments, and software upgrades. After questions from members, the committee voted to file the Pine Bluff report and adjourned, with the next meeting set for June 4-5, 2026.

Transcript Highlights:

• The Department of Public Safety had a duplicate payment to a vendor and insufficient collateral on hand
• The Department of Transportation and Shared Services made a career service payment in error, had several
• Cash receipts journals were not properly maintained and were not reconciled to total deposits per bank
• Cash receipts journals were not properly maintained and were not reconciled to total deposits per bank
• We eliminated cash at the RV park.

Committee: All LEGISLATIVE JOINT AUDITING

Keywords: 1204, all

Transcript Highlights:

• Social Security is just an auto payment.
• Almost 3% of our GDP is just paying off previous debt payments.
• They usually have cash.
• The hospital payment issue is a big one.
• But most of that is not sitting in cash at the bank.

Transcript Highlights:

• ... when you do just put up cash. cash, when you do just put up cash that the rate of failure to appear
• only money that we can get from a defendant is the cash they put up to get out of... is the cash they
• payment to go ahead and get that person out.
• Well, I mean, if cash is accepted, I guess.
• And also, just as a practical application of this, the cash bond ability to do cash bonds, especially

Bills: SB210 , SB225 , HB280 , HB287 , HB94 , HB88 , SB157 , HB7 , HB8 , HB42

Committee: Senate Judiciary

Keywords: hospital liens, medical billing, government healthcare, insurance claims, patient rights, blood tests, DUI, law enforcement, traffic offenses, chemical analysis, public nuisance, event liability, local government, community health, legal action, transparency, reporting, public safety, regulation, accountability

Transcript Highlights:

• So I will say on the Ag fund, the FY26 unobligated cash was $115,000.
• This is the core for restitution payments.
• Payments are capped at $65,000, subject to appropriation.
• So they have cash set aside for those investments.
• The cash balance would be used for the retooling.

Committee: House Budget

Keywords: 959, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• So instead of just being like cash, where you can just spend cash, it's actually money that's coded with
• Most people understand cash, and then most people understand a debit card.
• It's a payment system. It's the actual money that's programmable.
• This is a new chapter, Chapter 54, and it's called the Consumer Payment Rights and Transaction Act.
• So that that's this bit this bill does not ban stable coins digital payments or cryptocurrencies and

Committee: House Business

Keywords: 989, all

Transcript Highlights:

• How much cash do they have that's available to pay their tax bills?
• How much cash do they have that's available to pay their tax bills?
• ><c> insurance</c><00:34:07.120><c> payments.
• We're able to get the cash income.
• We're able to get the cash income.

Bills: HF331 , HF916

Committee: House Taxes

Keywords: school supplies, sales tax exemption, use tax, sales and use tax, back-to-school, classroom supplies, education tax relief, tax holiday, retail exemption, Minnesota sales tax, school materials, binders, calculators, notebooks, pencils, backpacks, book bags, local tax revenue, taxable sales base, income tax

Transcript Highlights:

• And if those requirements again were met, there is a formula by which cash payments are made back to
• > back</c><00:10:08.800><c> to</c><00:10:08.959><c> the</c> which cash payments are made back to the
• which cash payments are made back to the state<00:10:09.360><c> of</c><00:10:09.519><c> Kentucky.
• And this goes on all the way through 2037, with obviously compliance dates in December and cash payments
• And this goes on all the way through 2037 with obviously compliance dates in December and cash payments

Keywords: Meeting Start 00:00:00 Roll Call 00:00:04 Economic Development Projects Funding 00:01:25 Blue Oval SK 00:05:20, 958, all

Summary: The committee met with a quorum to hear a recap of the 2021 special session legislation, Senate Bill 5, and then receive testimony from the Secretary of Economic Development on the Blue Oval SK project and related economic development issues. Staff explained that Senate Bill 5 appropriated five amounts from the budget reserve trust fund for a project tied to a minimum $2 billion investment: $350 million for forgivable loans through the Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority, $10,639,600 to pay off a Hardin County loan tied to 47 tracts of property, $20 million for Bluegrass State Skills Corporation training grants, $5 million for KCTCS training grants, and $25 million for a KCTCS on-site training center. Staff also noted there were no job-related requirements in the bill itself. The secretary said the Blue Oval SK incentive was structured as a $250 million forgivable loan rather than the state’s usual pay-as-you-go incentives, with clawback provisions tied to jobs, wages, investment, and changes in ownership or operations. He said the project had already exceeded the $2 billion investment threshold, that corporate guarantees were required from SK On and Ford, and that the agreement’s compliance period begins in December 2026 with payments starting in March 2027 and running through 2038. He said the state’s goal after the joint venture dissolution was to protect taxpayers, support affected workers, and preserve future job creation, while also ensuring the money would be repaid if performance targets are not met. Members asked about the workforce impact, the training programs, and whether the jobs targets would be revised. The secretary said the project had about 1,850 workers at the site, with both production and salaried employees affected, and described state-led job fairs, a job portal, and other rapid-response efforts to help displaced workers find new jobs or training. He said Ford had agreed to continue discussions, invest an additional $2 billion in the site for energy storage solutions, and pursue roughly 2,100 new jobs, while the state sought to keep the company accountable for the full repayment obligation if jobs are not created. One senator raised broader concerns about mega-projects displacing small businesses and creating infrastructure burdens in surrounding communities.

Transcript Highlights:

• So AB 290 was largely an automatic payment issue to establish within the Fair Plan.
• So it's a, you know, as most of you know, we operate on a cash-in, cash-out basis.
• for, in the olden days when I was younger, the check's not going to cash for three weeks.
• For in the olden days when I was younger, the check's not going to cash for three weeks.
• Most of the claims, if they were closed without payment, are closed because they were duplicate.

Summary: The Assembly Insurance Committee held an oversight hearing on the California Fair Plan, focused on the plan’s rapid growth, its financial stability after the January Southern California wildfires, and its role as the insurer of last resort. Fair Plan officials explained that the plan was created in 1968, is a not-for-profit involuntary association of licensed property insurers, and is intended to be a temporary safety net until policyholders can return to the admitted market. They emphasized that the plan is not a state agency or taxpayer-funded, but is regulated by the Department of Insurance and supported by member-company assessments if claims exceed available funds. Victoria Roach and Armand Feliciano said the Fair Plan has grown sharply since 2018 and especially after market pullbacks by major insurers, reaching about 575,000 policies and roughly $600 billion in exposure by spring 2025. They noted that growth is increasingly occurring in lower wildfire-risk areas, where the plan can sometimes be cheaper than the voluntary market, and said this undermines depopulation back into the private market. They also discussed recent policy expansions, including coverage for farms, higher residential and commercial limits, and pending or proposed changes such as AB 290, SB 525, and AB 226, which would add tools like a line of credit and bond access. A major portion of the hearing addressed the January wildfire losses and the plan’s financial response. Fair Plan officials said they assessed member insurers for $1 billion after determining claims and cash flow would exceed available resources, and that the process was approved quickly and paid smoothly, with more than 80% of the assessment collected within 10 days. They also described the reinsurance tower, the plan’s limited surplus, and the need for actuarially sound rates to reduce future reliance on assessments. On claims handling, they said the plan has received over 5,500 claims from the fires, has paid more than $2.9 billion so far, expects total payments near $4 billion, and has focused on advancing payments quickly for total losses and other urgent needs. Members questioned the plan’s solvency, the growth in non-wildfire areas, claim denials, smoke-loss coverage, and how depopulation works. Roach said most closed claims without payment were duplicates rather than denials, and that smoke claims require direct physical loss under the policy, with coverage determined case by case. Public commenters from the California Building Industry Association and the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of California said the Fair Plan’s growth reflects a weak voluntary market, inadequate rates, and insurer fear of future assessments, and urged support for rate increases and AB 226. The hearing concluded with no vote, but with a commitment from Fair Plan officials to follow up on unanswered questions and continue providing more transparency through public data and website disclosures.

Transcript Highlights:

• Cash flow is going to be impacted by some of the federal. Office closures.
• Those payments are kind of irregular to begin with and often come later in the year anyways.
• Require our Attorney General suing the federal government for back payment.
• And Madam Chair, and that's to get the payments.
• And how often do we get that payment? Every month. Every month.

Committee: House Federal Funding Stabilization Subcommittee

Transcript Highlights:

• Those are payments from all of our borrowers.
• So we've got $185 million of loan payments. This is for fiscal... 2006.
• So that's cash that we hold.
• So we don't have bond payments matched up against them, but we're still getting those payments in.
• It's coming in from the loan payments into the debt service account.

Committee: House New Mexico Finance Authority Oversight Committee

Transcript Highlights:

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• ><c> the</c> need via advanced payments to get the need via advanced payments to get the programs<00:
• </c><00:15:50.079><c> versus</c> of advanced payments versus of advanced payments versus reimbursement
• </c><00:25:12.960><c> of</c> or insurer that has commenced payment of or insurer that has commenced payment
• </c> personal injury to terminate the payment personal injury to terminate the payment of<00:25:21.520

Bills: HF4862 , HF4598

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

Keywords: apprenticeship, education, teacher training, grant program, labor and industry, workers' compensation, Minnesota workers' compensation, Workers' Compensation Advisory Council, reinsurance association, Workers' Compensation Reinsurance Association, WCRA, occupational disease, presumption, first responders, firefighter cancer, PTSD, post-traumatic stress disorder, police officer, paramedic, emergency medical technician

Transcript Highlights:

• And so, have payments gone out? When are you expecting payments to come out?
• We have a plan for payment pauses.
• </c> &gt;&gt; ICS units had their payments frozen? &gt;&gt; ICS units had their payments frozen?
• </c> payments before dollars go out the door. payments before dollars go out the door.
• Payment delays become care happening. Payment delays become care delays. delays. delays.

Committee: Senate Human Services

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• This delay creates cash flow challenges.
• </c><00:03:55.959><c> flow</c> Pharmacy came to me with their cash flow Pharmacy came to me with their
• cash flow tax<00:03:56.760><c> impact</c><00:03:57.280><c> situation</c><00:03:58.280><c> we</c><00:
• The amounts withheld create a significant cash flow burden on the company until the tax can be trued
• </c> a house it isn't just what the payment a house it isn't just what the payment is<00:40:00.880><c

Committee: House Taxes

Keywords: 1183, house

Transcript Highlights:

• PILOT stands for payment in lieu of taxes.
• That cash flow is your market-rate rents, subtracting out all of your expenses.
• That is a way to schedule payments, but you ultimately...
• Payments and stable housing households are stabilized.
• It's not cashed out from one sale.

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:

• Administration includes five budgeted programs and is drawn largely from dedicated funds sourced by payments
• The appropriation for the bond payments program is currently inactive.
• When the department does not require cash on hand, as in the case of some health insurance reserves and
• permanent building fund products, When the department does not require cash on hand, as in the case
• The first item is a cash transfer of $33.7 million.

Keywords: 989, all

Transcript Highlights:

• The piece that you're missing is the cash on hand. All the cash on hand here.
• And then $522,000 a year payment.
• Is that, are you cash, will that, does that allow you to cash flow?
• We've worked through different payment programs and stuff like that.
• We've worked through different payment programs and stuff like that.

Bills: HB1623

Committee: Joint Appropriations

Keywords: HB 1623, North Dakota, rural health, rural health transformation program, medical facility infrastructure loan fund, medical facility infrastructure loan program, rural health loan program, Bank of North Dakota, Department of Health and Human Services, HHS, federal grant, health care infrastructure, rural hospitals, critical access hospitals, nonprofit health care providers, gap financing, loan fund, public health funding, healthcare financing, Medicaid

Summary: The committee first heard House Bill 1624, the “Universal Lunch Bill,” from Rep. Mike Nathie. He argued the proposal should be placed in Century Code rather than the Constitution so future legislatures can adjust it if state finances tighten, and said the bill would start the program a year earlier with a $65 million appropriation for one school year. DPI testified that the estimate did not include nonpublic schools that do not participate, and members questioned the impact on Title I, free-and-reduced applications, private-school accountability, breakfast mandates for schools that do not currently serve breakfast, and whether the funding could come from the DPI budget or other sources. Supporters, including North Dakota United, the North Dakota Catholic Conference, a pediatrician, and the American Heart Association, said universal meals improve student health and learning, reduce family costs, and are better handled in statute than by constitutional amendment. No opposition testimony was offered, and the chair closed the hearing for later work-session action. The committee then took up House Bill 1627, introduced by Rep. Tye Dressler, which would raise the income threshold for the state-funded school lunch program from 225% to 300% of poverty, with an estimated cost of about $7 million for 2026-27. Dressler said the bill is intended as a targeted, budget-friendly alternative to the ballot measure and emphasized that the state should maximize federal meal dollars while improving participation in the current program. Members questioned whether raising the threshold would actually increase utilization, whether a dollar amount would be clearer than a percentage, and how the change would affect federal reimbursements and application rates. DPI said it could quickly calculate additional percentage levels, and the chair closed the hearing, directing DPI to prepare more numbers for the work session. Finally, the committee opened Senate Bill 2403, presented by Sen. Schiable, to create a short-term bridge-loan program for financially distressed hospitals, centered on Jacobson Memorial Hospital in Elgin. The bill would authorize up to $5 million per loan, with a $10 million appropriation available on a first-come, first-served basis, and would run only through June 30, 2027. Schiable said the hospital’s debt and operating problems threaten local health care, ambulance service, and the community’s economy, and that the proposal was designed narrowly with Bank of North Dakota review to avoid creating a broad precedent. Committee members asked whether the appropriation could be reduced and whether the bank would still apply commercial feasibility and repayment standards; Schiable said yes, the bank would still evaluate the loan and could reject it if it was not sound.

Transcript Highlights:

• They've got a ton of cash.
• Third, Texas should consider establishing a payment stablecoin focused on select government payments,
• a state payment stablecoin would allow the state to responsibly use next-generation payment infrastructure
• The victim deposits their cash into the kiosk.
• tips, contractors that get paid in cash.

Committee: Senate Business & Commerce

Keywords: 1185, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• this bill is to increase the allocation that is contained in what we call warrants, which is the payment
• And so I take those just like I would cash, and then at the end of the market, I take them to...
• Witness: Just like I would cash.
• You're talking about the entity that would receive the payment through that card? Uh-huh.
• It's a cash allocation to your entity.

Bills: HCR41 , HB11 , HB227 , HB243 , HB278 , HB335 , HB424 , HB454 , HB455 , HB492 , HB623 , HB641 , HB660 , HB708 , HB719 , HB940 , HB1029 , HB1053 , HB1069 , HB1077

Committee: House Judiciary

Keywords: coupons, rebates, alcohol regulation, malt beverages, Louisiana Department of Revenue, remembrance, Charlie Kirk, state recognition, October 14, memorial day, court filings, electronic filing, letter size paper, privacy, legal procedure, recusal, district attorney, substitute attorney, appointment process, legal proceedings

Summary: The committee first took up H.C.R. 41, which would direct the ATC to allow electronic rebates for beer purchases and clarify that rebates are the manufacturer’s responsibility. The author and supporters said it would align beer with wine and other liquor rules. With no opposition, the resolution was moved forward. The committee then advanced H.B. 1029, which extends a moratorium on certain alcoholic beverage permits in House District 3 to give Shreveport and the MPC more time to revise local ordinances; it also moved forward without objection. The committee next considered two related bills by Rep. Egan on district attorney funding. H.B. 660, as amended, raises the state warrant amount used to support assistant district attorneys from $50,000 to $60,000 and sets district attorney salaries at $65,000 effective July 1, 2026. The Louisiana District Attorneys Association and several DAs supported the bill, saying it would help recruit and retain prosecutors. H.B. 719, also amended, increases the number of assistant district attorney warrants in many judicial districts statewide, with supporters describing it as a response to crime, population changes, and local workload needs. Both bills were reported favorably as amended. Rep. Ventrella’s H.B. 227, allowing court filings on letter-sized paper instead of only legal-sized paper, was also moved favorably. The committee then heard extensive testimony on H.B. 335 by Rep. Henry, which would expand citizenship verification requirements for entities administering public benefits. Supporters said it was meant to ensure state dollars go to U.S. and Louisiana citizens and to add accountability for NGOs; opponents, including farmers, food-access nonprofits, and health providers, argued it would create administrative burdens, chill participation in SNAP-related programs, and discourage vulnerable people from seeking food or medical help. After an amendment exempting nonprofit food distribution was adopted, the bill was reported favorably by a 12-5 vote. Finally, the committee took up H.B. 623, a tobacco and vapor products permitting bill. After adopting a three-minute rule, the committee accepted an amendment removing tobacco products from the proposed three-tier permitting system and excluding lawful marijuana products authorized by LDH. The amended bill was then reported favorably. The transcript ends as the committee was beginning H.B. 708.

Transcript Highlights:

• this bill is to increase the allocation that is contained in what we call warrants, which is the payment
• And so I take those just like I would cash, and then at the end of the market, I take them to...
• Just like I would cash.
• You're talking about the entity that would receive the payment through that card? Uh-huh.
• It's a cash allocation to your entity.

Bills: HCR41 , HB11 , HB227 , HB243 , HB278 , HB335 , HB424 , HB454 , HB455 , HB492 , HB623 , HB641 , HB660 , HB708 , HB719 , HB940 , HB1029 , HB1053 , HB1069 , HB1077

Committee: House Judiciary

Keywords: coupons, rebates, alcohol regulation, malt beverages, Louisiana Department of Revenue, remembrance, Charlie Kirk, state recognition, October 14, memorial day, court filings, electronic filing, letter size paper, privacy, legal procedure, recusal, district attorney, substitute attorney, appointment process, legal proceedings