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MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Children and Families Finance and Policy Committee 3/18/25

Children and Families Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • child welfare services in the country. child welfare services in the country.
  • same services as perhaps another county. same services as perhaps another county.
  • Most people who are receiving public services are happy to receive those public services.
  • Most people who are receiving public services are happy to receive those public services.
  • <01:37:15.360> We and Human Services Committee. We and Human Services Committee.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Health Committee Meeting - 2026-03-25

Health Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • HF 4595 mental health care services.
  • obesity treatment under fee for service obesity treatment under fee for service as<00:50:42.080>
  • And if we consume all of our spending in And if we consume all of our spending in one<01:17:45.520>
  • um needs such as oncology services, etc. um needs such as oncology services, etc.
  • 52.680> are Again, the consumer protections are Again, the consumer protections are already<01
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Land & Resource Management Apr 17th, 2025 at 09:04 am

Land & Resource Management

Transcript Highlights:
  • the sale or Archives Commission and the Health and Human Services Commission have requested the sale
  • The second property is operated by the Health and Human Services Commission and comprises two buildings
  • Cemeteries require municipal services like street maintenance, utilities, and public safety, but due
  • I'm the chair of the Texas Funeral Service Commission, but today I am testifying on my own behalf.
  • Currently, I work for Service Corporation International in Houston, Texas.
Summary: The committee heard testimony and took action on several land use, housing, municipal utility district, and cemetery-related bills. House Bill 447, dealing with transportation impact analysis requirements tied to MUD bond issuance, drew opposition from a witness who argued it would duplicate work, strain agency resources, and delay development; after the sponsor’s closing remarks, the committee substitute was withdrawn and the bill was left pending. Senate Bill 1202, on third-party review of home backup power installations, was substituted and reported favorably to the full House by a unanimous roll call. House Bill 2494, on disannexation for failure to provide municipal services, and House Bill 1835, removing barriers to HUD-code manufactured homes, were also substituted and reported favorably; HB 1835 passed on a 5-1 vote. Senate Bill 15, limiting lot size and density requirements in certain large municipalities, was substituted and reported favorably unanimously. The committee also heard House Bill 897, which would authorize the sale or long-term lease of two state-owned Austin properties used by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission and HHSC. The sponsor said the properties are in poor condition and that proceeds would benefit the state; after questions, the committee substitute was withdrawn and the bill was left pending. Several template MUD bills were then laid out, including HB 5652, HB 5654, HB 5661, and HB 5656, each creating or authorizing municipal utility districts in Montgomery or Fort Bend counties for water, wastewater, drainage, road, and recreational improvements. These bills drew limited testimony in support and were left pending without objection. A major portion of the meeting focused on House Bill 2673, which would repeal last session’s change allowing new cemeteries within certain distances of municipalities and restore the prior rule limiting cemetery placement near growing urban areas. The sponsor and supporters argued the 2023 change created unintended consequences, removed valuable taxable land from future use, and complicated city planning; opponents, including a funeral service industry representative, argued the current law gives communities local control and helps address cemetery land shortages. After extensive testimony, the bill was left pending. The committee also heard HB 4753, a bill allowing a property owner to use a municipal record showing a certificate of occupancy was issued when the original document is lost; it was left pending. Finally, HB 3680, a Cameron County-specific bill modifying subdivision/model rule procedures to reduce replatting burdens while preserving colonia protections, and HB 4812, clarifying that condominiums follow Chapter 82 of the Property Code rather than full subdivision platting, both received supportive testimony and were left pending.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Land & Resource Management Apr 17th, 2025 at 09:04 am

Land & Resource Management

Transcript Highlights:
  • I’m the chair of the Texas Funeral Service Commission, but today I am testifying on myself.
  • Currently, I work for Service Corporation International in Houston, Texas.
  • So people are always really, really concerned, and we need these services, but not in my backyard.
  • So people are always really, really concerns, and we need these services, but not in my back here.
  • I also consulted with Development Services from our city, the City of Corpus Christi Development Services
Summary: The committee heard testimony on a series of land use, housing, and local government bills. House Bill 447, relating to TIA requirements for certain MUD bond issuances, drew opposition from a witness who argued it would duplicate work already done, strain agency resources, and delay development; after the author’s closing, the committee substitute was withdrawn and the bill was left pending. The committee then voted out Senate Bill 1202 (third-party review of home backup power installations), House Bill 2494 (disannexation for failure to provide services), House Bill 1835 (removing barriers to HUD co-manufactured homes), and Senate Bill 15 (lot size and density limits in certain municipalities), with House Bill 1835 receiving one no vote and the others passing unanimously. House Bill 897, authorizing sale or lease of two state-owned Austin properties, was laid out and left pending after brief questions and no public testimony. The committee also heard and left pending several MUD creation bills for Montgomery and Fort Bend counties, including House Bills 5652, 5654, 5661, and 5656, each presented as template district bills with local support and no opposition recorded at the table. A major portion of the meeting focused on House Bill 2673, which would restore prior restrictions on new cemeteries near growing urban areas by repealing changes made last session. Representative Lujan and supporters argued the current law created unintended consequences, including loss of developable land, tax-exempt property in urban cores, and conflicts with infrastructure planning; they said cities already have authority to establish their own cemeteries if needed. Opponents, including a funeral services industry representative, argued the 2023 change was intended to let communities decide and that the bill would take local decision-making backward. After extensive testimony from both sides, the bill was left pending. The committee also heard House Bill 3680, which would create a Cameron County-specific process allowing local discretion under the model subdivision rules. Supporters said the bill would preserve colonia protections while reducing costly platting and replatting burdens on families trying to sell or pass down land; county officials and realtors testified in favor. The bill was left pending after closing. House Bill 4812, a clarification to the Texas Uniform Condominium Act to prevent counties from imposing subdivision platting requirements on condominiums, received support from builders and a condominium attorney who said current county practices create duplicative hurdles and higher costs; it too was left pending. Finally, House Bill 5148, which would allow certain single-stair apartment buildings up to six stories, generated the most detailed policy debate. Supporters, including housing advocates and architects, said the bill would lower costs, improve unit design, and expand affordable, family-friendly housing while maintaining safety through sprinklers and other safeguards. Fire officials from Corpus Christi opposed the bill, warning that a single stairwell could hinder firefighting and occupant evacuation, especially if sprinklers fail or smoke spreads. The author said the bill was aimed at new construction only and was part of a broader effort to reduce outdated housing regulations; the committee substitute was withdrawn and the bill was left pending at adjournment.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Land & Resource Management Apr 17th, 2025

Land & Resource Management

Transcript Highlights:
  • I'm the chair of the Texas Funeral Service Commission, but today I am testifying on myself.
  • I'm the chair of the Texas Funeral Service Commission, but today I am testifying on myself.
  • Currently, I work for Service Corporation International in Houston, Texas.
  • So people are always really, really concerned, and we need these services, but not in my backyard.
  • I also consulted with Development Services from our city, the City of Corpus Christi Development Services
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Land & Resource Management Apr 17th, 2025

Land & Resource Management

Transcript Highlights:
  • providing fire protection and emergency medical services.
  • services. district.
  • unable to provide services?
  • as long as they can provide the service. ...service when they decide to annex.
  • That's all it's about: service levels and reducing those service gaps created by annexation.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • Consumers also may want to purchase a damage waiver, which is offered by rental car companies to protect
  • Senate Bill 72 would provide financial security to consumers by providing them the option to purchase
  • We support Senate Bill 72 because consumers and businesses... ...businesses that rent from us have asked
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • At the end of the day, I don't believe consumer protection is here yet.
  • going to get hurt in terms of seeing other investments in this industry, and there's just not enough consumer
  • Ethereum and other technologies, or Bitcoin should change their technology. because the effect for consumers
  • We want to make sure the consumer... ultimately is protected. And with that, I'll be quiet.
  • telephone call to include mobile phone numbers and text messaging, since 302 has no such definition, and consumers
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Transcript Highlights:
  • Please join me in welcoming and thanking Mary Eutzler for her Service to our state and for serving as
  • country, House Bill 3901 would establish a five-year pilot project to develop psychological autopsy services
  • He brought comfort to service members stationed around the world.
  • Claremore's question, would you believe that all the federal student loan forgiveness programs for public service
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Transcript Highlights:
  • The contract, per se, between the negotiated reimbursement rate is no longer available to the consumer
  • And if the insurance company is not providing that covered service, they should not have a be a party
  • I mean, if they can tell you how much you can charge for services they don't cover, can they tell you
  • I mean, we are talking about services they do not cover. Is that correct?
  • So with this bill, are the dentists required to post their pricing ahead of time so that consumers can
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Intergovernmental Affairs May 13th, 2025

Intergovernmental Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • It would significantly impact your ability to serve your city with safety services.
  • Yes, sir, it would dramatically impact us with safety services.
  • The state resources, certainly in the Panhandle wildfires, come from the forest service.
  • That is not part of their role or the service they provide.
  • They provide a valuable service to our city, but I just can't...
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Health Committee Meeting - 2025-04-07

Health Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • In my small city, big corporations have the power to uproot and rearrange critical health care services
  • Adopted already in the Human Services Committee.
  • Services are available to youth through the age of 24.
  • rates, which don't even come close to covering the cost of providing these services.
  • Requiring medical assistance to cover this service at a sustainable rate is critical.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Health Finance and Policy Committee 4/7/25

Health Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • <00:37:33.240> about about the availability of services about about the availability of services
  • <01:31:47.760> that of the equipment and the services that of the equipment and the services
  • <01:32:09.760> requirements for the additional service requirements for the additional service
  • 01:35:03.440> is Unfortunately, providing this service is Unfortunately, providing this service
  • medical assistance to cover this service medical assistance to cover this service at<01:35:26.080
KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • <00:02:59.320> So, service services authorized an RFP.
  • cost-effective services we deliver. cost-effective services we deliver.
  • service.
  • Zayo does not provide cellular service or residential service.
  • will have service needing service will have service through<01:03:19.920> the<01:03:20.000>
Summary: The committee first focused on a disputed KCNA procurement for a statewide network-related RFP. Members questioned why the RFP had been labeled non-technical, whether COT should have reviewed it, and whether the KCNA board could direct that it be withdrawn. Finance and Administration Cabinet counsel Barbie Dickens said the RFP was authorized by KCNA working with procurement services after termination of the prior contract and breach notices, was issued in November 2025, paused during a protest, later resumed, and remained an open procurement. She said the agency—not the board—directs the procurement process, though she acknowledged an agency and OPS could cancel or reissue an RFP if needed. Legislators pushed back, citing KRS 154 and House Bill 314 as evidence that the KCNA board controls contracts and operations, and one member said the board had requested the RFP be withdrawn. Dickens said she could not predict the outcome and was not KCNA’s counsel. The discussion also touched on whether the current director had asked to stop the RFP and whether that request had been denied, with no final action taken during the exchange. The committee then turned to Kentucky Wired Infrastructure Corporation and the Kentucky Wired refresh project. Jim Barnhart described the structure of the nonprofit corporation, the role of Quick and Quack in the financing and operations arrangement, and the board membership, noting that the refresh funding had been approved in the 2024-26 capital budget. He said the equipment upgrade is necessary because of end-of-life hardware and software support issues, and that the refresh would expand capacity, lower risk, and reduce operating costs. Barnhart said some equipment had already been received, the rest would be purchased later, and the project should begin before September and take about a year to complete. When asked about contract disputes involving Ledcor and whether the vendor had an ongoing contract, Barnhart and the authority representative said they had not been notified of any issues and were not directly involved in that contract dispute. Committee members also raised concerns about a prior market test and whether a lower-cost bidder had been blocked from a previous RFP process. Barnhart said he understood Quack could make that decision and that the Commonwealth did not have input so long as the network was maintained, but he was not involved at the time. A legislator then read from the KCNA statute and argued that the board, not agency staff, is supposed to direct KCNA contracts and operations, saying House Bill 314 did not change those duties. The chair agreed the committee’s intent was for the board to control KCNA and direct contracts, and the discussion ended with a transition away from the KCNA dispute toward future testimony, including a presentation from Zayo Networks on open access networks and broadband infrastructure.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Human Services Finance and Policy Committee 3/17/26

Human Services Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • and members of the Human Service and members of the Human Service Committee.<00:02:43.600> For
  • about the services our members provide. about the services our members provide.
  • providing service. providing service.
  • Services are excessive. Services are excessive.
  • So, we need to be more services.
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Regulated Industries Feb 3rd, 2026

Regulated Industries

Transcript Highlights:
  • I see Senator Martin is with us, so we will pick up tab two, which is SB 1724 on utility services.
  • On utility services, Senator Martin, there is a late-file delete-everything amendment.
  • But this bill deals with utilities and municipal services, specifically.
  • Upon application for service, a utility must expand its service territory to a property outside its current
  • service territory if the property is not within the service territory of another water or wastewater
Bills: S0936, S1724, S1014, S1498
Summary: The Committee on Regulated Industries met with a quorum and took up four bills. First, it considered SB 1724 on municipal utility services. Senator Martin offered a late-filed delete-everything amendment that would require annual customer meetings for extraterritorial utility customers, cap use of gross utility revenues for general government at 10%, eliminate a 25% surcharge on customers outside city limits, reduce the rate differential cap from 50% to 25%, remove municipal natural gas utilities from the bill, and preserve certain existing bond-related surcharges until debt is retired or refinanced. The League of Cities raised implementation concerns about the July 1, 2026 effective date and the need for rate studies and budget adjustments. The amendment was adopted and the committee reported CS/SB 1724 favorably. The committee then heard SB 936 on temporary door locking devices from Senator McLean. The bill would define temporary door locking devices, allow them to be installed at any height, require the Florida Building Commission to add standards to the Florida Building Code, and require their use to be incorporated into safety plans, drills, and training. With no opposition or amendments, SB 936 was reported favorably. Next, the committee considered SB 1014 by Senator Mayfield, which would prohibit municipalities from refusing water or wastewater service solely because a property owner will not annex, and would require service expansion when a property is near a municipal main line, not served by another utility, and the utility has capacity. A committee amendment narrowed the bill to properties near a main line and reduced the distance threshold from 2,000 meters to one-half mile. The Florida League of Cities opposed the bill as amended, citing concerns about property size, annexation conflicts, enclave creation, and possible revenue impacts, but the bill was reported favorably. Finally, the committee heard SB 1498 on community associations from Chair Bradley. A strike-all amendment revised technical provisions on video conference recordings, turnover inspection reports, SIRS references, and electronic voting, and added two major policy changes: requiring associations to provide records to law enforcement and prosecutors and creating a second-degree misdemeanor for willful refusal, and prohibiting mandatory club or amenity fee schemes controlled by developers or third parties that generate profit beyond proportional expenses. Testimony in support described homeowner disputes involving concentrated board control, lack of transparency, and mandatory fees in communities such as Rosedale. The amendment was adopted and CS/SB 1498 was reported favorably. At the end of the meeting, Senator Bracey Davis asked to be recorded voting in the affirmative on tabs 1, 2, and 3, and the committee adjourned.
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Fiscal Policy Jan 28th, 2026

Fiscal Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • The state of Florida is better for your service, and the Florida Senate is better for you being here,
  • The state of Florida is better for your service, and the Florida Senate is better for you being here,
Bills: S0578
Summary: The Committee on Fiscal Policy heard CS for SB 57A, the Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Initiative by Senator Simon. The bill would create a statewide public health awareness campaign through the Department of Elder Affairs to promote early detection and diagnosis, brain health education, awareness of research and clinical trials, and outreach to older adults and higher-risk populations, with the department contracting with nonprofits for education and awareness efforts. Senator Simon and the bill’s supporters emphasized Florida’s high Alzheimer’s prevalence and the need for public education and early intervention. John Strader, representing the Alzheimer’s Association in South Florida and speaking as a caregiver, testified in support and described how early diagnosis and recent medical advances make awareness campaigns more important. He said a local pilot campaign in Miami-Dade led to a more than 30% increase in calls to the association’s helpline. Karen Morillo of AARP Florida and Tyler Jefferson of the Alzheimer’s Association waived in support. Several senators voiced support and personal reflections on the impact of Alzheimer’s on families and caregivers. Senator Osgood asked about funding and whether the initiative would require new appropriations, and Senator Jones urged that the bill be fully funded and recognized Senator Simon’s personal connection to the issue. In closing, Senator Simon spoke emotionally about his mother’s diagnosis and the need to help families find resources earlier. The committee then approved the bill by roll call vote and reported CS for SB 57A favorably before adjourning.
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