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FL

Florida 2025 Regular Session

February 4, 2025 - 03:00 PM

Transcript Highlights:
  • the grant and got through it, they either had renewed their policy, they changed companies, other factors
  • There are other factors pushing it up. So to...
  • Trying to pull rates down, there are other factors pushing it up.
  • But to your point, all these other factors played into it, that could still potentially be a win.
  • Some of my recommendations, quite frankly, are not going to be wow factors.
Summary: The State Administration Budget Subcommittee heard presentations from the Department of Financial Services on the My Safe Florida Home program, the My Safe Florida Condominium Pilot, and the Florida PALM financial system replacement project. For My Safe Florida Home, Stephen Fielder explained the wind-mitigation grant program, including its inspection-first process, two-to-one matching grants for most homeowners, low-income exemptions from the match, and eligible improvements such as roofs, clips/straps, water barriers, and opening protection. He reported roughly 109,000 initial inspections, nearly 59,000 grants approved, 31,000 final inspections, 25,000 reimbursements, and about $240 million paid out through the end of 2024. Members asked about premium savings, contractor pricing, fraud, owner-builder eligibility, reimbursement timing, and whether the program should have a dedicated funding source; Fielder said the program is currently closed, more than 40,000 people have signed up for updates, and the office has seen some price-gouging and impersonation issues but no major fraud trend. The committee also discussed the new prioritization rules that took effect July 1, 2024, which direct grant awards by age and income. Fielder said the program used a survey of existing applicants to implement the new priority groups and that the first group was over age 60 and low-income. Members raised questions about how premium reductions are measured, whether insurance company changes or rising insured values affect the data, and whether the program can track long-term outcomes after reimbursement. Fielder said the office reports raw premium changes based on declarations pages, knows the insurer for participants, and has validated results with multiple insurers, but does not track homeowners after they leave the program or enforce continued insurance coverage. For the My Safe Florida Condo Pilot, Fielder said the program is modeled on the home program but uses association-level applications, a maximum grant of $175,000 per association, and a similar two-to-one match. He said the application window opened briefly in November and was closed quickly because available funding could be exhausted and the department is prohibited from creating a waiting list. He identified several needed statutory changes, including better distinguishing condos from single-family homes, adjusting roof requirements for flat concrete roofs, and revisiting the unanimous unit-owner vote requirement, which he said has been a major obstacle. Chair Lopez noted the pilot is intended to be a learning process and thanked DFS staff for identifying implementation issues. The final presentation covered Florida PALM, the state’s effort to replace the 40-year-old FLAIR accounting system with a PeopleSoft-based financial management system. Fielder and PALM Director Jimmy Cox said the project began in 2014, the state contracted with Accenture in 2018, cash management went live in 2021, and the project was paused in 2022 for legislative review and remediation. They said the system is expected to go live in 2026, possibly in July rather than January, and that the project has spent about $225 million to date, with a current-year budget of about $60.9 million and a projected next-year request of about $64 million. Members asked about cybersecurity, cloud hosting, project scope, and whether the system is unique to Florida; staff said the system is not Florida-specific, access is credentialed through agency identity management, and the cloud host location is confidential. After the presentations, Chair Lopez assigned members to work with specific agencies on budget review meetings, asked them to discuss agency structure, priorities, staffing, waste reduction, and other budget issues, and set a deadline to report findings in the first week of regular session. The meeting then adjourned without objection.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Appropriations Feb 19th, 2025 at 10:30 am

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • So content knowledge is sort of factor number one.
  • Those are your three key factors that.
  • It's a very important factor.
  • Could that be a contributing factor to it, or is there something else?
  • And, uh, And I think those factors are helping to drive a reduction in fatalities that we hope.
Summary: During this committee meeting, the focus was on discussing critical infrastructure funding, especially related to water supply and flood mitigation projects. Chairwoman Stepney and the Water Development Board presented extensive details regarding the Texas Water Fund, which included $1 billion appropriated to assist various financial programs and tackle pressing water and wastewater issues. Additionally, funding allocations aimed at compromising the state's flood risk and improving water conservation were hotly debated, emphasizing collaboration among committee members and the necessity of addressing community needs in such projects.
CA

California 2025-2026 Regular Session

Assembly Public Safety Committee Apr 7th, 2026

Public Safety

Transcript Highlights:
  • Yeah, that's always a factor that the court can consider. That's in 1001.36.
  • By requiring judges to give great weight to broad mitigating factors, essentially tying judges' hands
  • I think it's a combination of factors.
  • Speeding kills, and we know that it is the single most common behavioral factor in crashes.
  • Speeding kills, and we know that it is the single most common behavioral factor in crashes.
Committee: House Public Safety
Keywords: 988, house, all
NH
Transcript Highlights:
  • In fact, many will likely see their fiduciary responsibilities above all other factors, and the economics
  • , and the economics are only factors, and the economics are only getting<00:11:47.920><c> worse</c><00
  • So for every 100 you get another 220—that's the labor economic factor on that.
  • So for every 100 you get another 220—that's the labor economic factor on that.
  • </c><00:38:57.760><c> on</c> the that's the labor economic factor on the that's the labor economic factor
Keywords: 928, house, all
Summary: The meeting opened with roll call and approval of the prior minutes, including a requested correction to Thomas Han’s statement about a Granite State Division of the Society of American Foresters subcommittee studying the timber yield tax and current use forest land tax assessment formula. The correction was adopted, and the minutes were then approved as amended. The main agenda item was a hearing of landowners on forest taxation and carbon credits. Several scheduled speakers canceled, so the committee received a letter from Ross Karen, a Coos County landowner and forester, who opposed carbon credit sales because of “leakage” and argued that diverse local markets and productive forests are better than carbon sales. Aean Kelly of White Mountain Lumber and the Randolph Town Forest also testified, saying many Coos County landowners and forest managers have declined carbon credit offers because they do not fit New Hampshire’s working-forest tradition. He argued that carbon agreements should be treated on a level playing field with traditional harvesting and that, if they are to be encouraged, they should face a fiscal adjustment comparable to the timber tax. Kelly also gave a detailed history of the timber tax, explaining that it was created in 1948 to replace uneven local property taxation on standing timber, discourage clearcutting, and stabilize the tax base while preserving working forests. He said the tax was intended to be collected when timber is harvested, not to stop logging, and that a later commission found the 10% rate roughly matched the revenue towns lost. In response to questions, he said pre-1948 assessments varied widely by town and tax collector, and that carbon projects today are already being valued by sophisticated models, so he believes carbon should be included in the assessment system. He also said short-term carbon agreements may simply monetize existing forest value, while 100-year agreements raise enforceability concerns. No votes or other formal actions were taken beyond approving the amended minutes.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Transportation Finance and Policy Committee 1/22/25

Transportation Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • and in 2023 some sort of growth factor and in 2023 it<00:27:30.279><c> appeared</c><00:27:30.880><c>
  • But this source of funding has been squeezed in recent years by three factors.
  • The first factor is inflation.
  • The second factor is improved fuel economy.
  • </c><00:40:40.839><c> is</c> The third factor is electric vehicles.
Keywords: 1183, house
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Public Safety Finance and Policy Committee 2/25/26

Public Safety Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • He added, for the record, that if nonpartisan staff can describe “substantial factor,” or at least note
  • Representative Johnson responded that “substantial factor” is a term frequently used, particularly in
  • </c><00:27:54.640><c> or</c> um, can describe substantial factor or um, can describe substantial factor
  • Um,<00:28:14.799><c> substantial</c><00:28:15.360><c> factor</c><00:28:15.760><c> is</c><00:28:16.000
  • Johnson said that “substantial factor” does not have to be the sole cause or the only cause of a form
Bills: HF2358 , HF3496 , HF3504 , HF2169 , HF3440
ND
Transcript Highlights:
  • I believe that that would help because our case in particular, and this was also a confounding factor
  • Then we turn to the best-interest factors, and we use those best-interest factors to decide why should
  • You know, we have to look at all of the best-interest factors to decide how much time should these kids
  • Then I have to decide based on all the rest of those factors, who's best suited to have the children
  • And the purpose of the best-interest factors and a family court is to get to what is best for all the
Keywords: 908, all
Summary: The Child Custody Review Task Force met with a quorum, approved the prior meeting minutes, and reviewed a memorandum compiling member suggestions for possible legislation. The memo grouped ideas into topics including creation of a family court, expanded education for parents, attorneys, and judges, expedited hearings for parenting-time violations, limiting law enforcement involvement in custody disputes, creating parenting time expediters, and adopting more uniform court procedures. Members also discussed whether to form subcommittees, but the task force decided to continue working as a full committee rather than create subcommittees at this time. The committee then heard testimony from Dr. John Perez, a mental health professional, who described his personal custody experience and his professional work with families he believes have been affected by parental alienation. He argued for stronger education, faster court response times, and better tools to address intentional interference with parenting time. Members questioned him about his case history, the concept of parental alienation, and whether specialized family courts or judges with family-law training could help. Dr. Perez said a dedicated family court and faster hearings would likely have helped his situation. The task force spent substantial time discussing the possible creation of a family court. Judge Hovey supported the idea of a specialized family court or at least a study of one, saying family cases are distinct from ordinary adversarial litigation and that judges with family-law experience could better handle them. Several members agreed that a family court could improve consistency, expertise, and speed, but others cautioned that the task force’s current directive is focused on enforcement of existing orders rather than broader custody policy, and noted that voters had previously rejected equal shared parenting proposals. The group also discussed expedited procedures for parenting-time disputes, with Judge Hovey suggesting a 30-day hearing timeline may be workable. On education, members generally supported requiring parents to complete a parenting education course and adding educational materials explaining court process, child support, and what judges can and cannot do. Mr. McLean suggested a short instructional video for litigants and more family-law education for judges and attorneys, while Ms. Moldenhauer said education could be incorporated into scheduling orders or mediation orders. Members also discussed the Parents Forever course, including whether it should be mandatory in all counties and whether cost is a barrier; no vote was taken on any of these proposals.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Mar 4th, 2025

Alabama House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • are seven factors are seven factors for um the the seven factors for dealing for um the the seven factors
  • for dealing for um the the seven factors for dealing with youu offender right the seven for with youu
  • right and said these different factors right and said these different factors right and said that judge
  • to show out all these different factors to show out all these different factors to show how they reach
  • situation where you have those factors situation where you have those factors and giving the judges
Keywords: 1136, house, all
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Appropriations Feb 18th, 2025

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • Tax Collections are the product of two factors, one price, second production.
  • I know the need is only going to increase given a. number of factors economic factors a toxic political
  • Citizenship, alien status, and there's some other factors.
  • And at the time, I think some of the factors were. are a little bit different than the factors we see
  • that's absolutely a factor.
Keywords: 1184, house, all
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • We've added a 20% factor in for routing issues that may occur.
  • Three factors primarily explain the current situation.
  • I mean, those are two main factors for reinsurance. Yes.
  • We've added a 20% factor in for...
  • I mean those are two main factors for us regarding reinsurance.
Keywords: 1185, senate, all
ID

Idaho 2026 Regular Session

Legislative Session Day 78 Mar 30th, 2026

Idaho Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • We also ask: what are some factors in your environment that might be creating problems?
  • But we have to be able to talk about geographic factors and all kinds of factors that impact an individual's
  • Those are factors, geographic factors, that impact access, care, and your ability to do a positive health
  • and all kinds of factors that impact an individual's physiology.
  • Those are factors, geographic factors, that impact access, care, and your ability to do a positive health
Summary: The Senate convened with a quorum present, approved the journal, and moved through routine orders before taking up committee reports, gubernatorial messages, House messages, and first and second reading calendars. Several bills were advanced, including appropriations measures and enrolled bills transmitted to the House, Governor, or Secretary of State. The chamber then proceeded to third reading and final action on a series of bills, with debate focused largely on budget priorities, Medicaid, firearms preemption, medical education funding, rural health, and kratom regulation. The Senate passed Senate Bill 1420, creating a dedicated funding source for medical education beginning in 2028; Senate Bill 1430, strengthening state firearms preemption enforcement and authorizing penalties and injunctions against local violations; Senate Bill 1432, an appropriation for Health and Welfare indirect support and related modernization items; Senate Bill 1433, a large Medicaid enhancement budget with discussion of MMIS procurement, estate recovery, program integrity, hospital assessment fund alignment, and population/cost growth; Senate Bill 1434, the Division of Welfare budget reflecting SNAP administrative cost changes and Medicaid eligibility system updates; Senate Bill 1437, an appropriation for Idaho State Police tied to DNA collection for sexual battery and domestic violence offenses; Senate Bill 1439, delaying a school facilities model report deadline to 2027; and Senate Bill 1264 as amended, creating a rural health transformation account and legislative oversight committee for federal rural health funds. Most of these measures passed on party-line or split votes, while SB 1437 and SB 1439 passed unanimously. The most extended debate centered on Senate Bill 1264, where supporters said the bill would give the Legislature oversight over already-awarded federal rural health money and help ensure sustainable uses, while opponents argued it would deepen federal debt and create a process that could still leave control with the executive branch. Another major debate was on Senate Bill 1418, the kratom consumer protection bill, which would restrict sales to adults 21 and older, set product limits and labeling standards, and allow inspections and enforcement against synthetic or adulterated products. Supporters framed it as a consumer protection and harm-reduction measure; opponents raised concerns about warrantless inspections, lack of pharmacy board support, and whether the bill would effectively normalize kratom. The transcript ends during continued debate on SB 1418, before a final vote is taken.
KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • One of the challenges we faced, based on the continuing inflationary factors and other unanticipated
  • > other</c><00:11:59.360><c> unanticipated</c><00:12:00.240><c> costs</c><00:12:01.279><c> is</c> factors
  • and other unanticipated costs is factors and other unanticipated costs is that<00:12:02.320><c> uh</
  • <00:15:45.360><c> the</c> current fiscal year. uh some of the current fiscal year. uh some of the factors
  • that that are relating you know factors that that are relating you know to<00:15:47.600><c> this</c>
Keywords: 958, all
Summary: The Interim Joint Budget Review Subcommittee on Justice and Judiciary met without a quorum and heard an update from the Administrative Office of the Courts on the judicial branch budget. AOC Director Zach Ramsey and budget director Carol Henderson outlined the branch’s current funding structure, noting that fiscal year 2026 general fund support is about 2.77% of the state general fund, below the National Center for State Courts’ typical 2% to 4% range. They emphasized Kentucky’s unusual responsibility for courthouse facilities, with the judicial branch directly involved in construction, maintenance, and operations across 229 facilities in all 120 counties. AOC said nearly 91% of its general fund is spent on personnel and other non-discretionary costs, and that the branch has long relied on agency revenue, restricted fund carryforwards, and vacancy credits to balance court operations. Members were told that Senate Bill 25 required a $34.5 million transfer into a reserve account, part of which was used to purchase the Chamberlain Avenue building in Frankfort. AOC reported that only $11.9 million remains in restricted funds, while it projects needing about $13.5 million to cover fiscal year 2026 obligations, not including roughly $9 million in flood-related remediation costs for Hardin and Franklin counties, much of which it expects to recover through insurance and FEMA. Looking ahead to the next biennium, AOC said it will seek full funding of court operations at $341 million annually, a $13.5 million increase to bring current services into the base appropriation rather than relying on reserves. It also previewed additional requests, including a 15% across-the-board pay parity plan for Kentucky Court of Justice personnel, replacement of declining master commissioner fee revenue tied to 141 deputy circuit court clerk positions, funding for technology subscription and case management system costs, JAV audiovisual system upgrades, AEDs and medical kits for courthouses, and other staffing and operational needs. Senator Funky Frommeyer asked whether the 15% salary proposal was included in the $13.5 million increase; AOC said it was not, and that it would be an additional request. No votes or formal actions were taken.
HI
Transcript Highlights:
  • Yes, I am. determinants and environmental factors determinants and environmental factors of<00:14:24.160
  • So that's why it's important for me at least to see these environmental factors.
  • They're like, "Oh, there's so many different factors of cancer, right?"
  • </c><00:36:32.400><c> But</c> different factors of cancer, right?"
  • But different factors of cancer, right?"
Keywords: 912, senate, all
Summary: The committee heard three University of Hawaiʻi-related measures. HB 718 HD1 would appropriate funds for faculty and staff positions at the John A. Burns School of Medicine in cardiovascular, law, biology, tropical medicine, quantitative health/biostatistics, and environmental health and safety. Testimony was in support, including from university representatives and others who submitted written testimony. Members asked whether the positions were additional and how they would affect enrollment; the university said the hires would teach medical students and conduct biomedical research, helping increase the class size to about 77 and eventually 80, and noted a workforce paper requested by the committee would be provided soon. The committee then discussed SB 1170 HD1, which would grant resident tuition at any UH campus to certain graduates of Hawaiʻi high schools enrolling in undergraduate programs. UH supported the bill and said it had adjusted its testimony in response to prior committee concerns. Members focused on the proposed four-year window, asking why that timeframe was chosen and whether the change was needed at all. UH explained that four years would allow students who left the state to return and still complete an undergraduate degree or prepare for graduate school, and said the bill would help students who come back after one or two years but otherwise would have to wait a year to reestablish residency under current rules. UH also said it was discussing possible administrative rule changes as an alternative if the bill did not pass. Finally, the committee heard HB 1300 HD1, which would fund a University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center pilot study on cancer disparities among Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders, Filipinos, and people living near landfills in Nanakuli, focusing on social determinants of health, lifestyle, environmental exposures, and resilience factors. Testimony from researchers and advocates strongly supported the measure, saying the study could help explain cancer disparities and support future research funding. Members questioned the cost, the reliance on future federal or foundation funding, and the practical outcome of the study. The Cancer Center said the pilot would cost about $500,000 per year for two years, with later funding sought from federal, nonprofit, or private sources; it said the study would produce longitudinal data that could help identify at-risk groups and provide evidence for policy decisions, though members expressed concern that the project needed a clearer end goal and stronger case for public investment.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Affordable Housing Efforts – Senator Eric Lucero Feb 20th, 2026

Minnesota Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • One of the major contributing factors for that is government regulation.
  • One of the major contributing factors<00:02:54.400><c> for</c><00:02:54.640><c> that</c><00:02:55.440
  • ><c> is</c><00:02:56.480><c> government</c> factors for that is government factors for that is government
Keywords: 1187, senate, all
NM

New Mexico 2025 Regular Session

IC - Legislative Council Sep 29th, 2025

Legislative Council

Transcript Highlights:
  • We can disregard their ability as staff and not worry about any other factors about them—only for session
  • One is the implementation of multi-factor authentication for legislators.
  • Multi-factor authentication (MFA) will be based on the implementation of multi-factor authentication.
ND

North Dakota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Judiciary Committee Aug 18th, 2026

Transcript Highlights:
  • Risk assessment tools use factors like age, criminal history, employment stability, and education to
  • This, I believe, is one of the more important factors that I think gets glossed over, that people tend
  • Factors that I think get glossed over, that people, that we tend to kind of not look at as much when
  • I think we all think of texting and cell phones as being the main distracting... ...factor.
  • They can say, I think this is a contributing factor, but I don't have enough to cite this person for
Summary: The Judiciary interim committee met with a full quorum and approved the June 17 minutes. The main discussion centered on a detailed Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation presentation about prison population, placement authority, classification, recidivism, and the role of transitional facilities. Director Colby Braun emphasized that DOCR’s job includes incarceration, supervision, victim services, and reentry, and said the department is operating over capacity, with people waiting in county jails and deferred placements. He described current and planned bed expansions, including added beds at MRCC, a proposed 600-bed minimum-custody men’s facility, and broader campus studies, while stressing that minimum, medium, and maximum custody are different security levels and that transitional facilities are tightly controlled placements, not releases. Committee members questioned the meaning of “release” versus “placement,” the use of terms like inmate and resident, and whether state law should be clarified to distinguish incarceration from supervision or placement in community-based settings. Braun said the parole board controls release authority, while DOCR controls placement, and explained that people who reoffend while in community placement are generally returned to prison after due process. He also reviewed data showing lower one-year recidivism in recent years, the impact of GPS monitoring, and statistics indicating that most people released never get a transitional-facility placement, while those who do generally have better outcomes. Members also discussed whether transitional facilities and work-release programs should be considered halfway houses and how much freedom and security they involve. The committee then heard a report from the Attorney General’s office on House Bill 1193 funding for law enforcement retention bonuses and tuition assistance. The office said all funds had been distributed, 73 of 101 recipients had reported back, 1,490 officers had received bonuses, and the average bonus amounts differed by agency size. Members generally viewed the program positively. Representative Steve Vetter also presented a pretrial services report, describing constitutional and statutory limits on pretrial detention, the use of risk assessment tools, court reminders, victim-notification practices, and North Dakota’s pilot pretrial programs. He suggested possible future legislation to expand detention authority for certain serious offenses and to require the Judiciary Committee to receive updated jail-population data before sessions. Finally, Megan Gordon from Legislative Council began her annual technical corrections bill presentation, outlining a series of non-substantive Century Code fixes such as cross-reference corrections, punctuation changes, and obsolete-reference removals.
ND

North Dakota 2026 1st Special Session

Higher Education Institutions Committee Apr 9th, 2026 at 08:30 am

Higher Education Institutions Committee

Transcript Highlights:
  • And factored into our funding formula, so the completed Credits factor into a funding formula as well
  • The differences in funding have to do with the size factor.
  • So it sounds like summer school is the defining factor here.
  • I know the institutions use a formula, but we use factors. We use size factors.
  • We use a formula, but we use factors. We use size factors.
Keywords: 908, all
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety - 09/25/25

Judiciary and Public Safety

Transcript Highlights:
  • Health needs first, then treatment and education needs and other factors.
  • They factored some of this into planning as part of the one-time costs associated with disclosure.
  • He said he is aware of maybe one or two cases where this may become a factor, but right now that is the
  • He said he is aware of maybe one or two cases where this may become a factor, but right now that is the
  • He said he is aware of maybe one or two cases where this may become a factor, but right now that is the
Keywords: 1187, senate, all
KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • </c> do you anticipate requiring multi-factor do you anticipate requiring multi-factor authentication
  • </c> so they can opt in to the multi-factor so they can opt in to the multi-factor authentication<00:
  • Do you have MFA now, multi-factor authentication? No. Okay. Uh, okay. Um, very good.
  • The multi-factor authentication is required based on the application.
  • The multi-factor authentication rollout.
Summary: The meeting began with approval of the prior minutes and then focused first on the Commonwealth Office of Technology’s legacy systems and two specific projects. COT officials said many agencies have made progress moving off legacy applications, with remaining mainframe systems slated to be retired through RFPs or other work orders. They also described a legacy funding pool of $10 million per biennium used to help agencies transition. The two projects discussed were the Kentucky aerial photography and elevation data program, which provides statewide aerial imagery and lidar data for GIS, E911, environmental, transportation, and other uses, and a citizen identity and access management system intended to give residents a single login for state services. Officials said the GIS program costs about $1.2 million annually to host and maintain, with data acquisition costing several million more per year, and that the citizen identity system would cost about $2.5 million per year after an initial three-year COT investment. Members asked about duplication of funding, licensing, local government use, and whether multi-factor authentication would be required; COT said the GIS data is being acquired as statewide unlicensed data and that MFA would be available but not yet mandated statewide. Committee members pressed COT on costs, overlap with cabinet-level IT spending, and the practical benefits of the GIS and identity projects. COT explained that GIS hosting is generally covered through enterprise assessments billed quarterly to agencies, while the new aerial data is intended to benefit the whole state and local partners. On the identity project, officials said it would centralize authentication for citizens who use state systems, improve compliance with zero-trust and NIST-related security expectations, and reduce help desk and maintenance burdens through self-service account tools. Members also discussed whether the system would extend to local governments; COT said it would be a Kentucky.gov-style state login for users inside the state identity infrastructure, not a local-government system. The Department of Education then testified that it does not operate mainframes or major legacy systems, having moved long ago to cloud-based, off-the-shelf products and vendor-supported services. KDE officials described a strong emphasis on staff cybersecurity awareness, standardized statewide systems, vendor risk-sharing, and reducing sensitive data exposure, including efforts to move away from student Social Security numbers. They also highlighted a transition from Microsoft Active Directory to Identity Automation, which they said will improve identity management and make multi-factor authentication universal across K-12. In response to questions about Kentucky Wired and internet service, KDE said all 171 school districts and KDE agencies have been moved to a new next-generation internet service through ENA by Zayo, with strong satisfaction, e-rate savings, and better reliability. Officials warned that any internet disruption would immediately affect attendance, grades, student records, payroll, security systems, and communications across the K-12 system.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Committee on Taxes - 04/16/26

Taxes

Transcript Highlights:
  • Now the capital improvements uh that fund it grows at an annual adjustment factor based on sales tax
  • Now the capital improvements fund grows at an annual adjustment factor based on sales tax growth.
  • Now the capital improvements fund grows at an annual adjustment factor based on sales tax growth.
  • Now the capital improvements fund grows at an annual adjustment factor based on sales tax growth.
  • Now the capital improvements fund grows at an annual adjustment factor based on sales tax growth.
Committee: Senate Taxes
Keywords: 1187, senate, all