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MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Energy Finance and Policy Committee 2/25/25
Energy Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- Two weeks before school started last year, the notification went out that we were on a max generation
- 46:11.760><c> last</c><00:46:12.280><c> year</c><00:46:13.280><c> um</c><00:46:14.040><c> the</c> school
- started last year um the school started last year um the notification<00:46:14.640><c> went</c><00:46
- Because the customers have no choice but to purchase their power from the utilities, it's not fair to
- their power from the but to purchase their power from the utilities<00:52:19.400><c> it's</c><00:52:
Committee:
House Energy Finance and Policy
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Transportation Finance and Policy Working Group 1/15/25
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- It's a 50-cent charge on delivery of, in general, tangible goods that are purchased from a retailer.
- from a retailer that are are purchased from a retailer um<00:21:00.880><c> so</c><00:21:01.120><c> the
- various other general fund appropriations: transportation management organization, Safe Routes to School
- :52:42.240><c> of</c> management organization safe routs of management organization safe routs of school
- and passenger rail um then on school and passenger rail um then on page<00:52:45.920><c> three</c><00
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
Senate Health and Human Services (01/15/2025)
Health and Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- He added that they also provide special education and an improved private school on their premises, as
- :02:52.960><c> for</c> of opportunities to find support for of opportunities to find support for purchases
- <01:02:53.880><c> of</c><01:02:54.119><c> pharmaceutical</c><01:02:54.960><c> products</c> purchases
- of pharmaceutical products purchases of pharmaceutical products mention<01:02:57.920><c> was</c><01:02
- This would include the town and school employees under RSA 5B.
Committee:
Senate Health and Human Services
WA
Transcript Highlights:
- If a van is purchased by an owner who lives in Pierce, King, or Snohomish County for $122,000, they pay
- That total of taxes alone are $13,542, an additional 11% of the purchase price on the day of delivery
- My 2022 RAM ProMaster 3,500 cargo van chassis had a purchase price of $53,685.
- That total of taxes alone are $13,542, an additional 11% of the purchase price on the day of delivery
- My 2022 RAMPro Master 3,500 cargo van chassis had a purchase price of $53,685.
Committee:
House Transportation
Keywords:
vehicle registration, travel vans, motor homes, transportation regulation, HB2601, motorcycle weight fee, motorcycle registration, vehicle licensing, Department of Licensing, weight-based fee, motor home fee, RV registration, scale weight, vehicle weight, RCW, Washington state, registration fees, license fees, vehicle fee schedule, fee distribution
AR
Transcript Highlights:
- He said the amendment concerns the Mountain View, Jasper, and Cossetot school districts, and that Timbo
- then paused to adjust the sound and continued that the amendment is taking students away from three school
- establishment of millage, property transfers, assumption of debt, and the other items needed to have a school
- This is one that funds our public schools. Any question? This is one that funds our public schools.
- And then the other major transfer is $5 million to purchase vehicles.
AR
Transcript Highlights:
- the types of supports and services that they maybe have had from K through 12, particularly in high school
- Food 2, Foundations of Baking and Pastry, Foundations of Culinary Art, Product ID and Quantity Purchasing
- impetus was really that services cliff that can exist in adulthood: Where will they live after high school
- She ended up not being able to graduate from Fayetteville High School.
- lots of services and plans for children, but we call that the services cliff after they leave high school
Committee:
All TASK FORCE ON AUTISM
ID
Idaho 2026 Regular Session
Agenda Feb 3rd, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- reinvested those surpluses into capital projects mostly, like putting money on the roads, or the purchase
- Over that same time period, though, public schools has almost doubled as well.
- directly related to House Bill 1 when the legislature added an additional $330 million of public school
- The Idaho Associated Cosmetology Schools, which is the only barber and cosmetology-related association
- The Idaho Associated Cosmetology Schools, which is the only Barber and Cosmetology Related Association
Summary:
The committee first received a lengthy briefing from JFAC Chairman Grow and budget analyst Keith Bybee on the state’s fiscal outlook for fiscal years 2026-2028. They said revenues had been revised upward, but uncertainty remains around tax conformity, sales tax softness, and pending policy decisions that could affect the bottom line. Bybee explained structural balance, noted that ongoing revenues are projected to lag ongoing spending, and reviewed long-term growth in Medicaid, public schools, and other state programs, much of it driven by policy changes. Members asked about the Delaware model for research and development expensing, the use of one-time money versus budget cuts, the impact of tax cuts, reserve levels, bond ratings, and the effects of Medicaid expansion and prior recession-era cuts. Chairman Grow closed by emphasizing that the budget is not structurally balanced and that rainy-day funds are meant for temporary shocks, not recurring gaps.
The committee then approved the January 27, 2026 minutes and advanced several gubernatorial appointments with recommendations for confirmation: Brett Thomas to the Idaho Health Insurance Exchange Board, Erica Malman to the Idaho Personnel Commission, and Dr. Karen Cabell to the Idaho Health Insurance Exchange Board. Representative John Weber appeared for reappointment to the Idaho State Insurance Fund Board, and Robert Cuoio appeared virtually for reappointment to the Your Health Idaho board; both were thanked and told their appointments would likely be voted on at a later meeting.
The remainder of the meeting was devoted to DOPL rule dockets. The committee approved fee-increase dockets for the Contractor Registration Board, the Board of Liquefied Petroleum Gas Safety, and the Barber and Cosmetology Services Licensing Board. DOPL representatives said the increases were needed to bring boards into compliance with statutory cash-balance requirements after consolidation costs, new licensing software, and other one-time expenses, and noted that the rules included “not to exceed” language. Several senators questioned whether the fee increases reflected broader inefficiencies within DOPL and argued that some boards were being asked to raise fees because of agency-wide costs. Despite those concerns, each docket was approved, and the committee adjourned after completing the agenda.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- This couple purchased a three-and-a-half-acre homestead, envisioning a self-reliant life with a garden
- That is specific to school district bonds and taxes, though. This is a bit more comprehensive.
- I represent the Texas Association of School Boards. I'm here to testify on the bill.
- I represent the Texas Associations of School Boards. I'm here to testify on the bill.
- He noted that SB 843 would require school districts to submit this information to TA, HB 35 and HB 36
Bills:
HB103
Committee:
Senate Local Government
Summary:
The Senate Committee on Local Government heard a series of local and special-purpose bills, mostly with brief sponsor explanations and little or no public opposition. Topics included fireworks sales near the Texas-Mexico border for Cinco de Mayo (HB 1629), allowing larger counties to use their own inspectors for county buildings (HB 3234), updating governance and financial rules for the Wood County Central Hospital District (HB 5664), clarifying firefighter collective bargaining and impasse procedures (HB 3171), and exempting certain Fort Worth ETJ properties from release rules to protect infrastructure investments (HB 2512). The committee also heard bills on border subdivision rules in Cameron County (HB 3680), extending a property tax exemption to surviving spouses of certain veterans affected by the PACT Act (HB 2508/HJR 133), drainage district election timing and procedures (HB 5693, HB 2694), utility transparency for municipally owned systems (HB 1991), and management district and hospital district election or appointment changes (HB 5698, HB 2293). Another major bill, HB 1449, would expand a food truck permitting pilot program to counties over one million population; witnesses supported the concept but asked the committee to coordinate it with related fee and standards bills, and the bill was left pending for further work. The committee also heard HB 3732, which would let fire departments obtain extensions to comply with new NFPA protective equipment standards, and HB 5431, which would clarify that mayors and at-large council members do not need new elections after reapportionment; both were left pending after questions about their scope. Several transparency and tax-related bills were also discussed, including HB 103, creating a statewide database of local bond and tax election information, and HB 851, requiring reporting on homestead tax ceiling properties; both drew support and were later voted out. After testimony, the committee reported multiple bills favorably, often unanimously, and recommended many for the local and uncontested calendar. The committee also used procedural swaps to substitute House companions for Senate bills on several measures, then recessed with plans to return later to process additional bills.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- In 2019, a law was passed requiring school districts and other governmental entities to give architects
- , cost savings, which was the original intent of the bill that was passed back when I was in high school
- When the school year starts and football season begins, historically, year over year, we see many more
- that a constituent of mine had a horse that was cared for at Texas A&M University at the veterinary school
- I am the school director for the Texas Notary Training Forum, and I fully support this measure.
Bills:
HB2242 , HB2446 , HB2799 , HB4502 , HB2920 , HB2790 , HB5620 , HB5060 , HB5076 , HB5080 , HB5081 , HB5128 , HB5130 , HB3847 , HB5116 , HB2969 , HB4546 , HB4202 , HB5624 , HB3964 , HB4803 , HB872 , HB4775 , HB4777 , HB4961 , HB5570 , HB2988 , HB4260 , HB1375 , HB5009 , HB5411 , HB5134 , HB4388 , HB3095 , HB1387
Committee:
House Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence
Keywords:
constables, civil rights, local government, law enforcement, policy-making authority, affidavit, medical bills, civil actions, reasonable charges, healthcare services, judicial statistics, court performance, family law, civil cases, efficiency reporting, court security, emergency management, harassment penalties, judicial safety, court committee
MO
Transcript Highlights:
- We have great engineering schools. We have great engineers in the St. Louis metro.
- Louis High School is being converted to permanent studio space right now.
- I went to film school in Chicago. I was able to stay in Chicago.
- We're also losing high school kids going to either coast.
- We're also losing high school kids going to either coast.
Committee:
House Economic Development
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Eggs donated past 'best by' date 3/23/26
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- either a you're seeing in the stores has either a best<00:10:00.320><c> if</c><00:10:00.560><c> purchased
- <c> you</c><00:10:01.839><c> know</c><00:10:02.160><c> it's</c><00:10:02.399><c> not</c> best if purchased
- by you know it's not best if purchased by you know it's not nec<00:10:03.040><c> necessarily</c><00:
- fertilizer goes up, food costs are going to rise, and if food costs rise, people aren't able to purchase
- fertilizer goes up, food costs are going to rise, and if food costs rise, people aren't able to purchase
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- I have six car dealerships right now that would like to purchase my property, but because of the mayor's
- I have 6 car dealerships right now that would like to purchase my property, but because of the mayor's
- Ten years ago, we purchased a property located about one mile east of here.
- So, with the intention to develop this property, we purchased the property.
- Holdings acquire and purchase and demolish, and generally vacate East 12th Street for a decade.
Committee:
House Land & Resource Management
Summary:
The committee first heard Senate Bill 2215, which would clarify that property owners may challenge municipal zoning ordinances that are adopted without following Chapter 211 procedures, and would expressly waive municipal sovereign immunity for declaratory, injunctive, and mandamus actions in those cases. The bill sponsor and witnesses argued it would simply enforce existing notice, hearing, and due process requirements and give landowners a practical remedy when cities fail to comply. Testimony in support came from attorneys and a landowner describing alleged zoning actions in Selma that they said occurred without proper notice or hearings and caused significant financial harm. After questions, the committee substitute was withdrawn and the bill was left pending.
The committee then took up Senate Bill 2639, which would add disclosure and compensation requirements for local historic designations, including compensation based on the greater of repair/restoration costs or the difference in appraised value with and without the designation. The bill author said it was intended to address situations where historic designation delays or blocks redevelopment and to ensure property owners are fairly compensated. A property owner testified in support, describing an Austin case in which a demolition permit led to historic designation and what he said was a costly forced rehabilitation. Opponents, including a preservation advocate and an East Austin resident, argued the current process is already rigorous, rare, and balanced, and that the bill would undermine cities’ ability to preserve historic places and community heritage.
During closing on SB 2639, the chair raised a concern that Section 3B appeared to apply retroactively to pending cases, which he said could be unconstitutional under the Texas Constitution’s prohibition on retroactive laws. The committee did not resolve that issue during the hearing, and the bill was left pending. The committee then adjourned.
AZ
Arizona 2026 Regular Session
01/12/2026 - House Floor Session - Opening Day Ceremony
Arizona House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- School Board.
- I went to graduate school with him in Syracuse, the Maxwell School.
- Union School District.
- And also shout out to our five kids who are at school, either ASU, public school, Please proceed.
- five kids who are at school, either at ASU, public school, and then working.
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
Carbon Sequestration Programs Study Commission (04/17/2026)
Transcript Highlights:
- So, who purchases credits?
- </c><00:21:49.280><c> Um</c> So, who purchases credits? Um So, who purchases credits?
- These are forward purchases agreements.
- But spot purchases management projects.
- </c><01:00:24.680><c> and</c> when tons have been purchased and when tons have been purchased and retired
Summary:
The meeting began with introductions, approval of the March 6 minutes as amended to add an attendee list, and a brief overview of the day’s agenda. The committee heard two presentations from carbon project developers, with the first from Dylan Jenkins of Finite Carbon. He described Finite Carbon’s work in improved forest management projects, its role in developing carbon methodologies and protocols, and its experience with projects in New England, Appalachia, Alaska, and Canada. He also outlined the difference between compliance and voluntary carbon markets, the role of registries and intermediaries, and the types of buyers in the market, including large corporate buyers and long-term off-take partners.
A major focus of the presentation was how forest carbon projects are structured and how credits are monetized. Jenkins distinguished between removals and reductions, explaining that removals come from new forest growth while reductions are tied more closely to baseline assumptions and standing stock. He said improved forest management projects can generate both types of credits, and that removals generally command higher prices because they are easier for buyers to understand and verify. He also emphasized that carbon project commercialization can occur before, during, or after credit issuance, and that landowners may be paid through a variety of structures, including leases, advance fees, per-unit payments, or off-take agreements.
Jenkins then addressed the committee’s tax-related questions, saying House Bill 123 appeared intended to treat carbon credit sales similarly to timber sales for local tax purposes. He argued that carbon credits are a forest product and that taxing them can be reasonable in principle, but he stressed that lawmakers should distinguish between commoditization and commercialization when deciding what event to tax. He noted that credits may be created but never sold, and that in some programs landowners retain timber and carbon rights while in others the developer has deeper control over those rights. In response to questions, he said the industry uses protocols, verification, and third-party oversight to address baseline and quality concerns, but acknowledged that baseline setting remains a major point of debate in the market.
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><02:30:07.840><c> from</c> illnesses in meat that I purchased from illnesses in meat that I purchased
- My name is River Sutton, and I'm a law student here at the Law School in Concord.
- </c><02:37:33.040><c> in</c> student here at the Law School in student here at the Law School in Conquered
- You mentioned you're in law school. >> Yes, ma'am. >> You're going to be a fabulous lawyer. >> Thank
- You mentioned you're in law<02:45:55.840><c> school.</c> law school. law school.
Committee:
Senate Commerce
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Ways and Means (01/07/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- I'm currently on the school board and I'm also a police commissioner in the town of Northwood.
- </c> 21 years I'm currently on the school 21 years I'm currently on the school board<00:19:16.640><c>
- </c> work I spent six years on the school work I spent six years on the school board<00:24:32.559><c>
- </c><03:16:23.920><c> I</c> funding CTE centers at high schools I funding CTE centers at high schools
- </c> the property tax covers the school the property tax covers the school issues<03:39:23.520><c> yada
Summary:
The meeting was an introductory Ways and Means Committee orientation led by Chair John Janigian. Members went around the room introducing themselves, with several returning legislators and several freshmen describing their backgrounds in business, education, public service, finance, transportation, journalism, military service, and nonprofit work. Janigian explained his own legislative history and professional background, and other members, including Bill Bolton, Fred Doucette, Mary Ford, Jim Tierney, Scott Brier, Thomas Oppel, Mary Murphy, Representative Spar, Susan Elberger, Dennis Malloy, Jordan Ulery, and Julius Soti, briefly described their prior experience and reasons for serving on the committee.
The chair then outlined the committee’s role. He said Ways and Means is responsible for revenue estimates that Finance will use to determine how much the state can spend over the next biennium, and that the committee would spend the next five to six weeks developing its best revenue estimate, due around February 15. He also explained that the committee hears from state agencies and departments about how taxes are created, collected, and performing against expectations, and that it reviews bills affecting state revenue, including tax increases, tax decreases, tax removals, and fee-related measures.
Janigian noted that the committee had five bills at the time of the meeting and expected more to be referred. He explained that most would be first-committee bills, though some second-committee bills could come over if they involved taxes or fees after passing policy committees. He used marijuana-related legislation as an example of a bill that might first go to another committee and later reach Ways and Means if it had fiscal implications. No votes were taken; the meeting was informational, and members were told how to participate in hearings and follow-up questions during regular committee work.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- But uh, so just so you know, other local levies here, that's your cities, your school districts, your
- ,<00:20:09.280><c> to</c><00:20:09.520><c> counties,</c> schools, to counties, schools, to counties,
- </c> Association of Metropolitan School Association of Metropolitan School Districts.<01:19:50.719><c
- So, um, they can do a county-based purchasing on that.
- I mean, I'm sorry purchasing on that.
Bills:
HF3396
Committee:
House Taxes
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee Apr 15th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- A family now needs an annual income of roughly $221,000 to purchase that.
- An annual income of roughly $221,000 to purchase that home.
- And I'll just end with this: It takes me back to my days as a California school teacher in the third-grade
- I started using drugs my junior year of high school.
- I started using drugs, my junior year of high school.
Summary:
The Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee heard a long agenda of housing-related bills, beginning with AB 1892 on HOA/Davis-Stirling Act cleanup provisions. The author and sponsor said the bill would clarify HOA responsibilities for utility service repairs in common areas, align election notice timelines, and require electronic voting ballots to be sent at least 30 days before an election. No opposition was presented, and the bill was set aside to be taken up later when a quorum was available.
The committee then heard AB 1708, which would revise the Homeless Housing, Assistance and Prevention (HHAP) program to give smaller cities a clearer role in regional homelessness planning and access to funding. Mayors and city representatives from Bellflower, Paramount, and other cities testified that smaller jurisdictions are spending significant local funds on shelters and services but lack direct access to HHAP dollars. Some larger-city and housing advocates opposed or were opposed unless amended, arguing the bill could add administrative burden, but committee members broadly supported the goal of including smaller cities in regional responses.
Members also heard AB 2058 on factory-built housing, AB 2576 on historic-resource protections under SB 79, AB 1751 on missing-middle townhomes, AB 1924 on homelessness prevention, AB 2626 on waiving certain monitoring fees for at-risk affordable housing developments, and AB 2089 on welfare-exemption and recertification procedures for affordable housing. Testimony generally emphasized reducing duplicative local permitting for factory-built housing, protecting state and national historic resources while still allowing housing near transit, expanding ministerial approval for townhomes, creating a statewide homelessness-prevention strategy with accountability measures, giving HCD flexibility to waive fees to preserve financially stressed affordable housing, and streamlining property-tax exemption recertification. Several bills were voted out of committee, including AB 1751 and AB 2626, both passing on 8-0 and 7-0 votes respectively, while other measures were discussed with motions pending or held open for absent members.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Courts, Corrections and Justice Jun 30th, 2025
Courts, Corrections & Justice Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- Historically we always purchased on the private market, um, or there's a, there's a, a carrier that's
- We would purchase our reinsurance elsewhere so that we could get up to the dollar figure we were wanting
- We've had a successful recruiting pipeline from the law schools, and I think overall my office has fantastic
- At the UNM School of Law in which law students learn the very basics of prosecution and determine whether
- kept in the juvenile in the juvenile center in the D home just so that he'd get his finish his high school
FL