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MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Ways and Means Jun 21st, 2026 at 12:00 pm
Joint Committee on Ways and Means
Transcript Highlights:
- presented this afternoon offers us valuable insight into the state of the Commonwealth's finances and grants
- People in every state, millions of people use this program, right?
- And then I think the second one, which is the challenging one, is whatever this program is, right?
- And then I think the second one, which is the challenging one, is whatever this program is, right?
- There was a lot said about its impact on research grants and employment in different sectors.
Summary:
The Senate and House Ways and Means chairs opened the FY 2027 consensus revenue hearing by emphasizing the need for a balanced, fiscally responsible budget amid federal funding cuts, health care cost pressures, and uncertainty around the federal tax law changes referred to as OB3. They also noted the state’s current revenue performance is slightly above benchmark and paid tribute to the late Representative Anne Margaret Ferranti. Secretary of Administration and Finance Matthew Gorkowitz echoed the call for caution, saying Massachusetts has protected core services while building reserves and that the FY27 budget process begins with a careful revenue estimate.
Department of Revenue Commissioner Jeff Snyder, along with DOR staff, presented FY26 and FY27 tax forecasts and identified major drivers and risks: OB3’s negative impact on state revenue, surtax collections, labor market conditions, capital gains, and corporate/business excise taxes. DOR estimated OB3 would reduce FY26 revenue by about $664 million and FY27 by about $282 million, while surtax and capital gains were expected to remain strong in FY26 but soften in FY27. Members questioned the outlook for surtax, capital gains, and the potential fiscal effect of a ballot question reducing the income tax rate from 5% to 4%; DOR said that proposal could cost roughly $4.2 billion to $4.8 billion annually, with a smaller but still significant impact in FY27 because of phase-in timing.
Treasurer Deb Goldberg testified next on the stabilization fund, lottery, PRIM, unclaimed property, and the Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission. She reported the rainy day fund at about $8.1 billion, said the lottery was on track for $1.5 billion in FY26 net profit and projected $1.25 billion in FY27, and highlighted that iLottery is expected to launch in summer 2026 with revenue beginning in FY27 and dedicated to child care initiatives. She also described strong PRIM performance and record unclaimed property returns, while members asked about the child care use of iLottery revenue, multilingual outreach, and the economic impact of expanded liquor licensing.
Mass Taxpayers Foundation President Doug Howgate and Tufts’ Evan Horowitz then offered differing revenue outlooks and policy warnings. Howgate projected modest growth, cautioned against overusing reserves for ongoing obligations, and urged caution on federal tax conformity changes and health care spending pressures. Horowitz projected higher FY26 and FY27 revenues than other witnesses, warned that the surtax and capital gains make the tax system more volatile, and said a 4% income tax ballot question could reduce FY27 revenues by roughly $800 million to $1 billion. He also flagged the rent control ballot question as a potential risk to municipal finance and suggested the state consider giving a permanent home to the independent revenue model used by Alan Clayton-Matthews.
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Community Safety Jan 27th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- Also, the person has been assessed as low risk to the community at the time of release, and granting
- But this is a program, as staff said—thank you, Lena, for the great work you've done on this bill—that
- So this adds some expansion to the EMP program.
- Yet despite passage of the bill, DOC's own 2024 data shows that only five people were granted EMP.
- But, of course, we're a unique agency, and this is a new program.
Summary:
The House Community Safety Committee held public hearings on several bills. House Bill 2508, concerning the Office of Independent Investigations (OII), would expand OII’s jurisdiction over deadly-force and related use-of-force incidents, require broader notification and records access from law enforcement and emergency responders, and exempt certain OII investigative records from public disclosure. Rep. Deborah Entenman and OII staff supported the bill as a way to improve independent, transparent investigations, while committee members raised questions about when cases are considered “closed” and how to protect against repeated or harassing investigations. OII representatives said formal reviews are referred to prosecutors, administrative closures are not, and the bill would clarify existing public records protections. Law enforcement and public-interest witnesses were split, with some supporting the expansion and others objecting to added secrecy provisions and questioning safeguards and oversight.
House Bill 2539, as amended by a proposed substitute, would raise the Department of Corrections inmate indigency cap from $25 to $100 so incarcerated people can retain more money for hygiene and basic necessities before deductions are taken. Rep. Chappala Street said the change would help people buy essential items and reduce conflict, while incarcerated witnesses and advocates testified that current deductions leave too little for basic needs and place burdens on families. A committee member questioned whether DOC already provides those items, and Street and supporters responded that provided items are often low quality or insufficient. No vote was taken.
House Bill 2490 would expand extraordinary medical placement for incarcerated people with serious, chronic, or terminal conditions, extending the expected life-expectancy threshold from six months to approximately 18 months and adding clearer DOC review criteria and appeal rights. The prime sponsor and supporters argued the bill would improve humane care, reduce costs, and allow more people to receive treatment in the community when they no longer pose a public-safety risk. DOC said the revised language would reduce legal concerns and allow more time to develop safe placement plans, while opponents of the current system said EMP is underused and people die waiting for decisions. The committee also heard extensive testimony on House Bill 2387, which would tie certain sheriff decertification actions to recall procedures and preserve an elected sheriff’s office unless voters remove them. Supporters, including the sponsor and several sheriffs, said the bill protects voter control and local accountability; opponents, including civil rights and immigrant-rights groups, argued it weakens certification standards, creates unequal accountability for sheriffs, and improperly uses recall-like consequences through statute rather than constitutional process. The chair indicated the committee intended to act on House Bill 2508 the following Monday, February 2.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Correctional Consolidation and Collaboration May 4th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- What would those new programming be if you get the money allocated?
- We already did one program with Hampden County Tech.
- So those programs you don't have available for them now?
- Officers play pivotal roles supporting our expansive program and education.
- My job and... ...roles supporting our expansive program and education.
Summary:
The special commission on consolidation and cooperation among public safety agencies held a hearing focused on correctional labor perspectives, with testimony from union representatives and correctional officers from state and county facilities. Chair Dan Hunt and Senator Brownsberger opened by noting the commission’s extensive site visits and prior testimony, and they recognized Correctional Officers Week. Witnesses emphasized that officers are central to any reform discussion and described the daily realities of staffing shortages, violence, mental health crises, substance use, and the need for better wellness support.
Kevin Flanagan of the correctional officers’ union said officers face serious safety risks, citing weapons recovered, assaults, suicides, and the spread of synthetic drugs like K2 that are often introduced through paper soaked with chemicals. He urged stronger contraband controls, including paperless systems and technology to detect synthetic drugs, and criticized policies he said can be manipulated in gender-identity housing and search situations. He also argued that staffing shortages, forced overtime, and low morale are worsening retention, and that officers need more support after traumatic incidents, including fuller use of the OnSide Academy program.
Other union representatives, including NCU and county officers, opposed consolidating sheriffs’ offices or merging them with the Department of Correction, warning it could weaken collective bargaining, reduce local accountability, and harm programming and reentry work. They argued that county facilities are distinct and should be funded and staffed based on local needs, not a one-size-fits-all model, and several speakers supported expanding vocational and reentry programming. Commissioners responded with support for officer wellness and asked for more information on EMS transports, medical interventions, and possible models from other jurisdictions, including Norway and Germany.
At the end of the hearing, the commission discussed extending its reporting deadline beyond September 30, with members agreeing to seek an extension to November 30. The commission also agreed to continue site visits, including the upcoming Barnstable visit, and adjourned after adopting the motion to request the extension.
CO
Colorado 2026 Regular Session
Colorado Senate 2026 Legislative Day 050 Mar 5th, 2026
Colorado Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- . >> Granted. >> Thank you very much, Madam President.
- Members, join me in welcoming the First Tee program. [Applause] >> Can you sign it?
- Requesting a moment of personal privilege. >> Granted. >> Thank you. Uh, thank you, members.
- >> Granted. >> Granted. >> Granted. >> Thank<00:27:12.000><c> you.
- >> Granted. >> Thank you. Colleagues, please help me welcome Habitat for Humanity of Colorado.
MD
Transcript Highlights:
- >> Permission<00:05:13.199><c> granted.</c> >> Permission granted.
- >> Permission granted.
- do this program in our county
- </c> um providing grants to organizations. um providing grants to organizations.
- </c> Permission granted. Thank you. Permission granted. Thank you.
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
Senate Chamber Feb 13th, 2026 at 11:25 am
New Mexico Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Grant, O Lord, to the Senate of our own. beyond our making.
- Grant, O Lord, to the Senate, the spirit of discernment.
- education program for youth, housed at the University of New Mexico's law school.
- President: it doesn't change the law, and it does not create new programs.
- President, it doesn't change the law, and it does not create new programs.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
House Standing Committee on State Government (3-6-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:41:50.640><c> review</c><00:41:51.000><c> and</c> to be a program review and to be a program
- I mean, there was so we did have this Program Review and Investigations Committee.
- It's making it to where we, as a government, are not taking our current spending levels for granted,
- But ultimately, it gives us this opportunity to urge programs to prioritize just examining whether or
- </c><00:46:20.000><c> review</c> mistaken I I think that program review mistaken I I think that program
Keywords:
Consideration of HB 491 02:14
Consideration of HB 738 07:58
Guest presentation by Taiwan Consul General Elliott Wang 25:20
Consideration of HCR 50 36:37
Consideration of SB 19 49:29, 958, all
Summary:
The House State Government Committee met with a quorum and first considered House Bill 491 by Representative Steve Riley. The committee adopted a proposed committee substitute, then heard that the bill would raise the threshold for certain capital project and equipment purchases from $200,000 to $500,000, remove a requirement for a special board meeting when replacing a board of regents member, allow certain employees or contractors to perform capital construction work up to $500,000, remove limits on retired police officers working at postsecondary institutions, and speed release of pension information to employers. Members asked about reporting and oversight of the higher threshold, and the witness said the records are maintained by institutions and available upon request. HB 491 passed on a 19-0 roll call vote.
The committee then heard House Bill 738 by Representative Griffey, relating to state personnel and the constitutional officers. The bill would give independently elected constitutional officers more flexibility to hire unclassified employees and set salaries for classified employees up to the midpoint without Personnel Cabinet approval, while leaving pay scales, appropriations, and funding limits unchanged. Representative Griffey and witnesses from the auditor’s office said the measure was intended to reduce red tape, address salary compression, improve pay equity, and help recruit and retain staff; they also said it would allow offices to fill policy roles needed for audits and other work. Members questioned the fiscal note, salary caps, and whether the bill would affect future budget requests. The bill passed 18-1, with one pass, and the chair noted it would move favorably to the House floor.
After those bills, the committee briefly welcomed Taiwan’s consul general, Elliot Wang, and Representative Adam Bowling spoke about Kentucky’s relationship with Taiwan, including trade, investment, and prior assistance during disasters. Wang described Taiwan’s economic ties with the United States, ongoing trade and investment developments, defense and education cooperation, and people-to-people exchange programs, noting Kentucky was the first state to sign an education cooperation MOU with Taiwan in 2021.
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Senate SessionReading and Referral of Bills Feb 7th, 2025
Texas Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- relating to the identification of underpayments and overpayments under the Medicaid managed Care Program
- Senate Bill 722 by Colorado relating to a mobile stroke unit grant program to Health and Human Services
- Senate Bill 728 by Johnson relating to an incentive program to promote beverage container recycling to
- Senate Bill 733 by Menendez relating to the creation of a medical cannabis research program to help.
- to reimburse certain supplemental nutrition assistance program.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Environment, Climate and Legacy - 04/14/26
Environment, Climate, and Legacy
Transcript Highlights:
- The next one is a grant for the Oxbow Park. It was originally just over a $2 million grant.
- The next one is a grant for obligated.
- </c> million-dollar grant million-dollar grant and<00:10:09.200><c> I</c><00:10:09.320><c> believe</c
- ><c> there's</c><00:10:31.240><c> about</c> million-dollar grant and there's about million-dollar grant
- These both deal with grant programs for tree planting.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Finance Division III (01/27/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- We're not doing dollars today; we're doing programs, growth of programs, plans for programs, effectiveness
- c> programs</c> growth of programs plans for programs growth of programs plans for programs Effectiveness
- That depends on the program, but some of our programs go for youth from 0 to 18.
- That depends on the program, but some of our programs go for youth from 0 to 18.
- How in the dental program, the adult dental program, we included a preventive dental program, absolutely
Summary:
The committee convened an informational Division 3 Finance hearing focused on DHHS programmatic issues rather than budget line items. The chair emphasized that members should avoid questions requiring dollar figures and noted that the coming budget cycle would likely be difficult because revenues are expected to be tighter. Commissioner Lori Weaver said the department wanted to use the session to explain its functions at a high level, with more detailed presentations to follow, and to collect questions for later responses.
Weaver outlined DHHS’s mission of supporting optimal health for state residents and described the department’s three main responsibilities: protection and prevention, client service delivery, and regulatory oversight. She said DHHS has eight divisions, a $3.6 billion total budget, about $1.217 billion in general funds, roughly a quarter of state positions, and personnel costs that are less than 11% of the budget. She also noted a recent hiring freeze, explained that the department did not request new positions except where required by law, and said vacancy rates had improved from 22% to 14% over the last two years but could rise again because of attrition and the hiring freeze.
Weaver and CFO Nathan White then discussed why the DHHS budget is complex, explaining that it is built from multiple funding sources and is shaped by assumptions made months before the fiscal year begins, actual service demand, and cost allocation rules used to draw down federal funds. White highlighted maintenance-of-effort requirements, including TANF, where state spending is needed to secure federal matching funds and shortfalls can trigger penalties. At the committee’s request, DHHS agreed to provide a simplified historical accounting of TANF contributions to show how the match is assembled across positions, contracts, and other factors.
The department also reviewed its roadmap, which Weaver described as a framework developed with staff and stakeholders around three themes: culture, community, and customer service. She highlighted priorities such as Mission Zero to end emergency department boarding, expanding access to community-based and residential behavioral health services, reducing reliance on institutional care, improving contract management with nonprofit and provider partners, using data dashboards to guide decisions, and investing in workforce stability and culture. No votes were taken; the main action was DHHS’s commitment to provide additional follow-up materials, including the TANF contribution breakdown.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Housing and Homelessness Prevention - 02/11/25
Housing and Homelessness Prevention
Transcript Highlights:
- So this program provides no-interest deferred loans or grants to for-profit and nonprofit developers
- So this program provides no-interest deferred loans or grants to for-profit and nonprofit developers
- So this program provides no-interest deferred loans or grants to for-profit and nonprofit developers
- So this program provides no-interest deferred loans or grants to for-profit and nonprofit developers
- So this program provides no-interest deferred loans or grants to for-profit and nonprofit developers
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- And to avoid raising user fees, users feel some tweaks to code will free up unused funds or grant programs
- And to avoid raising user fees, users feel some tweaks to code will free up unused funds or grant programs
- The program maintenance bill, the majority of this budget was found in the program maintenance bill that
- The enhancements include funding for enterprise security, funding for the E-CORE federal grant program
- They’re not able to build out their nursing program.
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- asset and program that we could offer to our kids.
- These training programs must be approved by the Auditor General.
- Another example would be the Yavapai Community College Teacher Program.
- So this affects only projects awarded through the Building Renewal Grant Program.
- We would like to close that loophole for the Building Renewal Grant Program.
CO
Colorado 2026 Regular Session
Colorado Senate 2026 Legislative Day 017 Feb 2nd, 2026
Colorado Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- and loans from this program.
- and loans from is a recipient of grants and loans from this<00:18:13.280><c> program.
- </c> this program. This is a strong program. this program. This is a strong program.
- </c> such program existed. such program existed.
- </c> have been granted. have been granted.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Interstate teacher mobility compact established 3/3/26
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- ,</c> enrolled in a teacher prep program, enrolled in a teacher prep program, whether<00:13:46.160><c
- </c> programs are entirely competencybased. programs are entirely competencybased.
- </c> national accredititors for uh programs national accredititors for uh programs of<00:15:58.880><c
- </c><00:18:09.039><c> to</c> to enroll in a teacher prep program to to enroll in a teacher prep program
- </c> pro Minnesota based approved programs pro Minnesota based approved programs and<00:18:26.720><c>
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- We call that the contract deputy program.
- So that's how the program works.
- That's the way the program is designed.
- Have this type of program.
- If we lose that grant, if that grant goes away, we're not going to defund our office. ...officers, but
Keywords:
HB26, law enforcement contracts, sheriff, constable, county commissioners court, commissioners court, private security, special law enforcement district, property owners association, POA, municipal utility district, school district, junior college district, local government, contract policing, supplemental police services, large counties, population over 3.3 million, Texas Local Government Code, Harris County
CA
Transcript Highlights:
- By codifying these advisory committees, AB 52 ensures that CDFA designs and implements programs that
- with my fellow farmers to advise Secretary Ross to support clearer and faster turnaround times for grants
- Well, I love this program and to see the success that has brought us since 2017, and codifying it means
- Whether it was grants for first-time women farmers, whether it was grants for certain commodities, and
- So that consumer protection program, she mentioned in 1973, this program was put into place with a $40
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Health and Human Services Jun 25th, 2025
Legislative Health & Human Services Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- effort and what it did was it created um the behavioral the Behavioral Health Trust Fund and the program
- The nutrition assistance programs that bill did pass, um, but it was vetoed by the governor.
- Has rolled up under a grant program in that department called Destination Forward that will allow public
- spaces to be able to get grants from $5000 to $50,000 to be able to make and if they have a um a uh
- but not this program or vice versa, so.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Science, Technology and Telecommunications Aug 25th, 2025
Science, Technology & Telecommunications Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- The federal program supports affordability; currently, the state program does not.
- That grant program was canceled by the current federal administration this year, so we do not have direct
- We are proposing that there could be a program here, a broadband support program, and we have a mechanism
- One of the things I would say is there's already a program, the Low-Income Telephone Assistance Program
- The efficacy of those programs is unknown.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Informal House Session 68 Jun 21st, 2026 at 11:00 am
Massachusetts House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- resolutions filed by Representative Vieira of Falmouth, congratulating the Sport Fish Restoration Program
- House Bill 4273, authorizing the town of Maynard to grant an additional license for the sale of all alcoholic
- House Bill 4273, authorizing the town of Maynard to grant an additional license for the sale of all alcoholic
- House Bill 4272, authorizing the town of Hudson to grant one additional license for the sale of wine
- not to be drunk on the premises, House No. 4273. ...Hudson to grant one additional license for the sale
Summary:
The House first adopted a Rules Committee resolution congratulating the Sport Fish Restoration Program on its 75th anniversary. It then suspended Joint Rule 12 to allow a Senate petition for a sick leave bank for Carlos Borges, a Department of Corrections employee, to be referred to the Committee on Public Service.
The Steering, Policy and Scheduling Committee reported several local bills for consideration, including measures for Quincy, Arlington, Maynard, and Hudson. The House suspended Rule 7A, took the bills through second reading, and ordered them to a third reading. The bills included a Quincy lease extension, an Arlington town clerk appointment and management change, and additional alcohol license authorizations for Maynard and Hudson.
The House also took up House No. 801, a bill relative to the town of Cheshire’s special election, and passed it to be engrossed. Finally, the House adopted an order to meet again Monday at 11:00 a.m., and then adjourned to that time in informal session.