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MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Minnesota House passes SF2298, the housing finance bill 4/29/25
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- And $100 million—that's the number we're able to finance in housing infrastructure bonds, which will
- And $100 million—that's the number we're able to finance in housing infrastructure bonds, which will
- That’s a win. $100 million allocated for housing infrastructure bonds with a near 50/50 split favoring
- 100 million allocated for housing 100 million allocated for housing infrastructure<00:31:02.559><c> bonds
- with</c><00:31:03.679><c> a</c><00:31:03.840><c> near</c><00:31:04.240><c> 50/50</c> infrastructure bonds
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband and Rural Development - Subcommittee on Veterans - 04/02/25
Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband, and Rural Development - Subcommittee on Veterans
Transcript Highlights:
- Section 2 increases the total aggregate bond debt the State Armory Building Commission can carry from
- Section 2 increases the total aggregate bond debt the State Armory Building Commission can carry from
- provision, really modifying for the MSABC, allowing us to move from $15 million to $45 million in bonding
- from 15 to 45 allowing us to move from 15 to 45 million<00:13:15.680><c> in</c><00:13:15.839><c> bonding
- Uh and then million in bonding capacity.
MD
Transcript Highlights:
- threatening to tell people and to make sure that as this amendment is being offered that this environmental
- is being offered amendment is being offered that<02:28:58.120><c> this</c> that this that this environmental
- efficacy group is out environmental efficacy group is out there<02:29:01.040><c> saying,</c><02:29:01.360
- You know, it's driven by environmental advocacy groups, as we've seen before, that just want to see talking
- impacts of this health and environmental impacts of this type<03:28:28.160><c> of</c><03:28:28.240><
AL
Transcript Highlights:
- May the Senate confirm Jim Massey to the Dry Cleaning Environmental Response Trust Fund Advisory Board
- May the Senate confirm Jason Windham to the Dry Cleaning Environmental Response Trust Fund Advisory Board
- May the Senate confirm Alexander Atwater to the Dry Cleaning Environmental Response Trust Fund Advisory
- May the Senate confirm Charles Dean to the Dry Cleaning Environmental Response Trust Fund Advisory Board
- May the Senate confirm Steve McKinnon to the Dry Cleaning Environmental Response Trust Fund Advisory
Summary:
The Alabama Senate convened with prayer, the pledge, and a quorum present, then quickly handled routine business including excusing absent senators, adopting the prior journal, and recognizing several guests in the gallery. The chamber also paused to honor Dr. Mark Sullivan, superintendent of Birmingham City Schools, with a Senate resolution commending him as the Alabama Education Association’s 2025-26 outstanding superintendent of the year. Senator Smitherman and Dr. Sullivan both spoke, with Sullivan highlighting Birmingham’s academic gains, reduced failing schools, and lower chronic absenteeism.
The Senate then processed a series of House messages and confirmations. It concurred in SB 288 on agriculture authorities and SB 317 on the Alabama Commission on the Evaluation of Services, but non-concurred and sent SB 174 on natural resources and SB 32 on solid waste collection fees to conference. The chamber confirmed numerous appointments, including Rex Jones, William Donahue, Jim Massey, Jason Windham, Alexander Atwater, Charles Dean, Steve McKinnon, Bonnie Temple, Shaniqua Johnson-Enam, Dwayne Jenkins, Troy Skipworth, Gloria Watts, Tracy Doughty, Kevin Ball, Joe D. Briggs, Josh Bryant, Dylan Turk, David R. Pruitt III, and Carol Smitherman, with most confirmations passing on near-unanimous rolls.
Committee reports advanced several House bills, including favorable reports on HB 224, 591, 614, 609, 444, 248, 611, 622, 92, and 556, with HB 248 amended. The Senate also adopted a resolution honoring the University of Alabama women’s wheelchair basketball team for winning the 2026 national championship, and another resolution recognizing the seriousness of the national debt and urging Congress to establish regular budget order. A resolution honoring retired Brigadier General Vandiver H. Carter as the 2026 Marion Military Institute Alumnus of the Year and a resolution commending John R. Cooper were also adopted.
In local legislation, the Senate passed HB 635 for Choctaw County, HB 639 for Escambia County, SB 10 for Tuscaloosa County, HB 315 for class one municipalities after adopting a committee substitute and a friendly amendment, and HB 404 for class one municipalities. Finally, the Committee on Rules reported and the Senate adopted a special order calendar for the next legislative day, listing a wide range of bills for priority consideration, including measures on solar power facilities, homestead exemptions, education, guardianships, tax increment districts, legal tender, college tuition, crime victims compensation, motor vehicles, entertainment industry issues, campus chaplains, tax abatements, alcoholic beverage producers, data privacy, constables, insurance, municipal audits, income tax, public high schools, taxation, state health planning, and University of Alabama matters.
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Tuesday, January 21, 2025)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- She's been the champion of the Piedmont Environmental Council for decades and led the successful fight
- </c><00:11:32.800><c> Council</c><00:11:33.120><c> for</c> the pedmont environmental Council for the
- pedmont environmental Council for decades<00:11:34.160><c> and</c><00:11:34.279><c> led</c><00:11:34.519
- Today's action is putting the needs of Americans ahead of an out-of-touch environmental elite.
- Today's action is putting the needs of Americans ahead of an out-of-touch environmental elite.
LA
Transcript Highlights:
- account language just to conform with our standard language that we use in all funds to account for the bond
- account language just to conform with our standard language that we use in all funds to account for the bond
- I want to thank your staff, as well as Treasury and Bond Commission.
Committee:
House Appropriations
Keywords:
literacy, adolescent, teacher education, high-dosage tutoring, reading intervention, workforce development, training programs, Bayou Growth Opportunity, funding, employment, skills gap, qualified employer, credential recognition, government growth limit, recurring revenue, state finance, Louisiana Income Tax Elimination Fund, fiscal responsibility, legislative sessions, regular sessions
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Early Learning & K-12 Education Feb 24th, 2026 at 08:00 am
Early Learning & K-12 Education
Transcript Highlights:
- House Bill 1796 authorizes school districts to contract indebtedness and issue bonds without a vote of
- The amendment specifies that if a district issues non-voted bonds for new construction, the voter-approved
- districts to use the voter-approved capital levy funds to fully repay indebtedness from the non-voted bonds
Committee:
Senate Early Learning & K-12 Education
MO
Missouri 2026 Regular Session
Special Committee on Tax Reform Feb 19th, 2026
Special Committee on Tax Reform
Transcript Highlights:
- Both of them exempted the bonded and indebtedness part, largely because of advice from different organizations
- It ensures the credit does not reduce assessed valuation or impair bonded indebtedness.
- I think the issue that we were dealing with with the senior property tax credit was bonded indebtedness
Committee:
House Special Committee on Tax Reform
Summary:
The Special Committee on Tax Reform heard three measures focused on property tax relief and tax administration. House Bill 2869, sponsored by Rep. Mike Jones, would authorize counties to offer up to a 100% property tax credit on the primary residence of 100% permanently and totally disabled veterans, with a $500,000 value cap, surviving-spouse carryover, no stacking with other credits, and protections for bonded indebtedness. Jones and supporting witnesses from Missouri veterans organizations said the bill is a practical, county-option approach that recognizes veterans’ service and could help keep federal retirement and disability income in Missouri. The Department of Revenue noted the bill could reduce eligibility for the existing property tax credit and urged timely fiscal-note review. No opposition testified.
The committee also heard H.J.R. 115, sponsored by Rep. Dave Griffith, which would place a constitutional amendment before voters to exempt 100% disabled veterans from personal property tax and homestead-related taxes, with surviving-spouse protections. Griffith said the measure has been pursued for years, would affect a relatively small number of veterans, and should be treated as a common-sense benefit for service-connected disabilities. Veterans’ groups strongly supported the resolution, describing it as overdue relief for veterans on fixed incomes and urging the committee to move it forward. Several members discussed whether the policy should be in the Constitution or statute, but all testimony was in favor.
Finally, the committee heard HB 3303 from Rep. Cecily Williams, a cleanup bill to clarify that state and local sales or use taxes are exempt when the General Assembly purchases goods or lodging for official business and is reimbursed with public funds. Williams said the current statute lists outdated tax categories and leaves some local taxes on reimbursable expenses, causing the state to pay unnecessary taxes. Members generally supported the concept, and the Department of Revenue testified only on the need for timely fiscal-note requests and said the fiscal impact appeared minimal. No one testified in opposition to any of the three bills, and the committee concluded its hearing without taking final action or votes in the transcript provided.
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Finance Feb 6th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- Typically, under TIF, a local government issues bonds to finance public improvements.
- Just a little reminder: TIF gives local governments the ability to bond against future development in
- The local governments have the ability to bond against future development in order to pay for infrastructure
Summary:
The committee heard several public hearings on tax and housing-related bills. HB 2451 on local tax increment financing was briefed as a negotiated trailer bill adding new limits and consultation requirements for increment areas, including restrictions on using areas that already have needed public improvements, earlier sunset rules, more detailed project analysis, and stronger notice, mediation, and arbitration procedures for affected taxing districts. Supporters from cities, ports, and fire districts said the bill rebalances the process and protects impacted jurisdictions; the hearing then closed.
HB 2322 would change the alternative jet fuel tax incentive program by replacing the current production-capacity trigger with a fixed effective period beginning in 2031 and ending in 2046, while clarifying carbon-intensity requirements. The sponsor said the change adds certainty and supports cleaner aviation fuel. A refinery representative supported the program but asked for clarification to include Pierce County or define “blender,” while a climate-health opponent argued the bill subsidizes continued fossil-fuel combustion and should be rejected. HB 2590 would revise the limited equity cooperative definition and exempt such cooperatives from WUCIOA unless they opt in, while preserving the property-tax exemption requirements; supporters said it would reduce red tape and better fit cooperative housing, while members raised concerns about unintended restrictive membership rules and asked for fair-housing guardrails.
HB 2655 would create a new sales and use tax exemption for construction and equipment at certain new data centers in eastern Washington, subject to labor, wage, apprenticeship, employment, and sustainability requirements. Supporters framed it as a jobs and clean-energy opportunity tied to hydrogen development and regional competitiveness, while opponents said it was a subsidy for large corporations and could strain water, power, and public revenues. The committee then moved to executive action and advanced HB 1983, the second substitute for HB 1974, the substitute for HB 2334, HB 2367, and the substitute for HB 2650, all with due pass recommendations. Amendments were adopted on HB 1974 and rejected on HB 2367; the other bills were advanced without amendment. Votes were recorded on each measure, with HB 1974 passing 10-4, HB 2334 passing 13-1, HB 2367 passing 11-3, and HB 2650 passing 14-0.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Science, Technology and Telecommunications Sep 22nd, 2025
Science, Technology & Telecommunications Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- And then presented to the New Mexico Outlay GO Bond Committee.
- We did present that as our first priority in our capital outlay and for the GEO bond this year.
- We can't use a geo bond for student housing. So we're exploring several different options.
AL
Transcript Highlights:
- as part of which allows the... the words as part of which allows the judge in a case to do partial bonds
- and percentage bonds.
- I've reached out because I don't know bonds or anything about them.
Committee:
Senate Judiciary
Keywords:
law enforcement, immunity, civil liability, use of force, recruitment, bail reform, cash deposit, judicial discretion, criminal justice, Alabama law, youthful offender, capital murder, public safety, victims' rights, juvenile offenders, delinquent acts, juvenile court, nonfelony offenses, water safety offenses, HB285
TX
Texas 89th 2nd C.S.
S/C on Defense & Veterans' Affairs Apr 7th, 2025
S/C on Defense & Veterans' Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- Um, I've heard concerns that, uh, some of these tolling authorities have, uh, bond covenants or contracts
- debt under well then, no, so the, the state gives them the authority to issue, they give them the bonding
- was the whole concept around tolls is that they can be self-sustaining because they pay for, they bond
Bills:
HCR7
Committee:
House S/C on Defense & Veterans' Affairs
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
Community Affairs Mar 25th, 2025
TX
Texas 89th Regular
S/C on County & Regional Government Mar 17th, 2025
S/C on County & Regional Government
Transcript Highlights:
- The county can do bonds, revenue bonds for parks, and this Parks Board can kind of supersede those being
- spent, but again... and they can't approve the bond, that's all set by the commissioner's court.
Committee:
House S/C on County & Regional Government
Keywords:
law enforcement, sheriff, constable, contracts, county governance, HB 554, fireworks, Juneteenth, Juneteenth holiday, retail fireworks permit, Texas Occupations Code, Local Government Code, county commissioners court, drought conditions, Texas A&M Forest Service, fire safety, holiday sales, seasonal fireworks sales, Fourth of July, Independence Day
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure Jun 21st, 2026 at 01:00 pm
Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure
Transcript Highlights:
- the struggle it is to find government accounting and auditing professionals, risking some of their bond
- And it also requires us to get a $25,000 bond and such.
- It's helping me and has helped me grow a stronger bond with my two young daughters.
- It's helping me and has helped me grow a stronger bond with my two young daughters.
- Requiring thousands of dollars in licensing bonds and state-approved training programs would force many
Summary:
The committee opened a hearing of the Joint Committee on Consumer Protection and Professional Licensure and reviewed a broad agenda including credit card fees, event ticketing, music therapy licensure, senior psychologist licensure, CPA pathways, school mental health licensure, and a bill regulating alternative healing therapies. The chairs explained hearing logistics, including three-minute testimony limits and submission of written testimony, and noted that more than 70 people had signed up to testify. Legislators and advocates were heard out of order throughout the day.
A major portion of the hearing focused on credit card surcharge and interchange legislation. Restaurant owners, the Massachusetts Restaurant Association, NFIB, and other small-business witnesses supported bills allowing merchants to add convenience fees and, in one proposal, preventing card companies from charging fees on tax and tip portions of transactions. They argued that swipe fees are a major and growing cost, especially for restaurants, and that Massachusetts is one of only two states that bars surcharges. Opponents from the Cooperative Credit Union Association, the Electronic Payment Coalition, and the Electronic Transactions Association warned that the proposals would create compliance burdens, fragment the payment system, raise legal preemption issues, and disrupt a system they described as efficient and secure.
The committee also heard competing testimony on ticket transferability and ticket resale. Supporters, including the National Consumers League and Sports Fans Coalition, said bills on ticket transferability would protect consumers who cannot attend events and would increase competition and savings in the secondary market. Opponents, including United Musicians and Allied Workers and theater owners, argued that mandatory transferability would weaken artists’ and venues’ ability to prevent scalping and predatory resale, and that some ticket sellers should be exempt from the broader ticketing regulations. Separate testimony supported music therapy licensure, senior psychologist licensure, and new CPA education pathways, with witnesses saying these measures would expand access to care and strengthen the workforce while maintaining professional standards. The hearing also drew extensive opposition to S.261 on alternative healing therapies, with practitioners and clients arguing it would overregulate spiritual and holistic practices and was not an effective response to human trafficking concerns.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- Our district recently passed an $8.7 million building bond referendum.
- Our district recently passed an $8.7 million building bond referendum.
- an $8.7 Our district recently passed an $8.7 million<00:15:58.320><c> building</c><00:15:58.680><c> bond
- </c> million building bond referendum. million building bond referendum.
Committee:
Senate Labor
FL
Florida 2026 Regular Session
FL House Floor Session - 2026-02-17 (1:00PM Session)
Florida House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Representative Valdez: House Bill 271, a bill to be entitled an act relating to foreign and alien bail bond
- Representative Valdez: House Bill 271, a bill to be entitled an act relating to foreign and alien bail bond
- Florida domestic insurers must report at least 6.5% of the bond amount as premium, even though much of
- Representative Valdez: House Bill 271, a bill to be entitled an act relating to foreign and alien bail bond
- that many municipalities have pledged local business tax revenue towards general revenue obligation bonds
Summary:
The House opened with prayer, a moment of silence for the Reverend Jesse Jackson and Joseph Di Alessandro, the Pledge of Allegiance, and announcements confirming a quorum. Members also adopted the special order report and recognized several guests in the gallery, including former Speaker Dan Webster and law enforcement and civic visitors. The chamber then moved through a long special-order calendar of bills, mostly on third reading, with several measures passing unanimously or by wide margins.
Among the bills considered were measures on civil procedure and estates, including C.S. HB 1407 on commencement of civil actions, HB 895 on trustee settlement and discharge, C.S. HB 1337 on estates, HB 131 on curators of estates, and C.S. HB 351 on concurrent legislative jurisdiction over military installations. The House also passed C.S. HB 441 on conservation lands, which would lengthen notice and increase transparency for land swaps involving conservation property, and C.S. CS HB 919 on commercial service airports, which created a statutory definition for major airports and preempted local naming authority for several airports. HB 919 drew extensive debate over the proposed naming of Palm Beach International Airport after President Donald J. Trump, with amendments to delay or alter the naming failing before the bill passed.
Other bills approved included HB 409 requiring K-12 schools to observe Veterans Day, CS HB 461 allowing certain students to volunteer at polling places for community service hours, CS HB 1115 creating grants for genetic counseling education, HB 569 revising forensic client services, CS HB 505 regulating virtual currency kiosks to address fraud, and HB 271 on foreign and alien bail bond insurers. The House also passed HB 191 on re-employment assistance eligibility verification after extended questioning about its effects on benefits, appeals, and suitable work standards. One bill, CS HB 243 on electric bicycles, was temporarily postponed, and CS HB 1073 on school districts was also postponed.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Veterans and Military Affairs Division 4/9/25
Veterans and Military Affairs Division
Transcript Highlights:
- 11 of the DE2, this is also a Representative Olsen bill, House File 1443, and this increases the bonding
- We're extremely grateful for the operating increase and the increase to the bonding authority in the
- ><00:15:30.880><c> increase</c><00:15:31.120><c> to</c><00:15:31.279><c> the</c><00:15:31.440><c> bonding
- </c> and the increase to the bonding and the increase to the bonding authority<00:15:32.079><c> in</c
Committee:
House Veterans and Military Affairs Division
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Floor debate of HF24 3/13/25
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- bill is a misrepresentation of medical care and will complicate neonatal and postpartum care and bonding
- complicate neonatal and postpartum<00:02:03.000><c> care</c><00:02:03.399><c> and</c><00:02:03.680><c> bonding
- c><00:02:04.520><c> time</c><00:02:05.520><c> in</c><00:02:05.640><c> the</c> postpartum care and bonding
- time in the postpartum care and bonding time in the heartbreaking<00:02:06.520><c> circumstance</c><
- the baby away and it's going to be hooked up to machines, and the mom is not going to have time to bond
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
TRN Public Hearing - Tue Feb 11, 2025 @ 9:30 AM HST
Transcript Highlights:
- right, seeing none, we will go to the next measure on the agenda, HB 1164, relating to highway revenue bonds
- HB 1164 restores a revenue bond authorization for the Department of Transportation to issue highway revenue
- bonds for highway capital improvement projects authorized in Act 164, Session Laws of 2013, as amended
- HB 11164 relating to highway revenue bonds, we're going to adopt HD1 and we'll do technical amendments
- 00:56:19.720><c> to</c><00:56:19.880><c> Highway</c><00:56:20.280><c> revenue</c><00:56:20.640><c> bonds
Summary:
The House Transportation Committee met on February 11, 2025, and heard a series of bills focused on transportation funding and roadway safety. HB 1154 would cap Central Services assessments from the state highway, airport, and harbor funds, with a CPI-based process for additional deductions; the Department of Transportation supported it and the Department of Budget and Finance offered comments. HB 1164 would restore highway revenue bond authorization for DOT capital projects, and HB 1286 would prohibit pedestrians from walking along interstate and certain state highways except for authorized duties; both drew DOT support, with Ulupono Initiative and an individual offering comments or support on HB 1286. HB 1162 would require motorcycle instruction permit applicants, beginning July 1, 2026, to complete an approved basic rider course before becoming eligible, and HB 537 would require helmets and chin straps for all operators and passengers of two-wheel motorized vehicles; both had DOT support, with HB 537 also drawing support from AAA Hawaii and Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety, and opposition from one individual.
The committee then took up HB 387, which would expand negligent injury in the first degree to include injuries negligently inflicted by intoxicated drivers. The Office of the Public Defender opposed the bill, arguing current law already covers drunk driving and that the proposal would turn alcohol-caused negligence causing injury into a felony; prosecutors from Honolulu and Hawaiʻi counties and DOT supported it, saying serious injuries short of “substantial bodily injury” are not adequately punished and that circuit court would better handle restitution and related proceedings. Members asked about data on cases that might fit the new felony category, and prosecutors said they did not have exact numbers but could try to provide more information.
The committee also heard HB 1084 and the related HB 1387, both of which would lower Hawaiʻi’s per se DUI blood alcohol limit from 0.08 to 0.05. Support came from DOT, police departments, the Department of Health, prosecutors, the Governor’s office, MADD Hawaii, the Hawaii Public Health Institute, the Hawaii Alcohol Policy Alliance, AAA Hawaii, and the National Transportation Safety Board, all citing research that lower BAC limits reduce impaired driving and fatalities. The Public Defender opposed the change, and some testimony raised concerns about enforcement and the need for an amendment in HB 1084. Several individuals and advocates gave emotional testimony about crashes and losses tied to impaired driving, while supporters emphasized that a 0.05 standard would save lives and would not harm alcohol sales or the tourism economy. No votes were taken during the portion of the hearing reflected in the transcript.