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NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Finance Feb 6th, 2026 at 05:01 pm

Senate Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • In terms of this, with the ongoing need for areas like the fire and flood areas of both in San Miguel
  • I am here with Department of Information Technology Cabinet Secretary Mani, but at us, and we are here
  • It also allows for better planning by departments, by the Department of Information Technology.
  • So that's an example of where centralization of things really did motivate the interlands to want to
  • , and loving every minute of it.
Bills: SB193, SB132, SB35, SB145
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Finance Feb 6th, 2026 at 09:18 am

Senate Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • The project has become kind of a very big project for the state of New Mexico, and it is directly related
  • There was a number of additions in the area of the State Engineer, which begins on line 127, including
  • That's one of the trust funds managed by the department.
  • There was a number of additions in the area of the state engineer, which begins online 127, including
  • Department of Transportation.
Bills: SB193, SB132, SB35, SB145
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama Senate Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development Committee Jan 14th, 2026

Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Development

Transcript Highlights:
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  • I'm working with the Department of Health on that and some other issues right now.
  • with the department of health on that with the department of health on that and<00:11:19.120>
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Ways and Means Committee 4/20/26

Ways and Means

Transcript Highlights:
  • Minnesota Department of Education. Minnesota Department of Education.
  • see Department of Health. see Department of Health.
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  • of Veterans Affairs for the United States Department of Veterans Affairs has a process where they determine
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Transcript Highlights:
  • You know, we've got this looming danger of them closing the state-run facilities.
  • We know that the Department of Defense did this several years ago.
  • What it would be is I've discussed this with Director Reid over at the Department of Health.
  • We're we're state government. We spend a lot of money on a lot of things.
  • Is there a way that the Department of Mental Health could do these psychological autopsies instead of
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Transcript Highlights:
  • It passed the Senate 450, but Senate Bill 843 amends state law that prohibits individuals from serving
  • So, current law provides that exception for districts with ADM of 400 or fewer.
  • It's a request bill from the Department of Agriculture and it simply places the program into statute
  • The Department of Ag sees it's it's advantages. It's good that it's done for so many years.
  • There's a but we will be back next week with a little bit bigger list of bills.
KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • I'm commissioner for the Department of Employee Insurance in the Personnel Cabinet.
  • I am the Kentucky State Auditor. To my left over here, I have my chief of staff, Lauren Ferguson.
  • I am the Kentucky State Auditor. To my left over here, I have my chief of staff, Lauren Ferguson.
  • First of all, um, I want to say thank you for all the work that your office is doing in our state.
  • The witness said they are able to track any check written on behalf of the state.
Summary: The committee first heard from Personnel Cabinet officials on House Bill 6, which required the Kentucky Employees Health Plan to offer a qualified high-deductible health plan by the 2026 plan year. Officials said the plan was already added for 2025, described it as the lowest-premium option with higher deductibles, and explained that federal rules prevent first-dollar coverage except for limited preventive services. They said 264 members had selected the plan out of about 142,000, and noted it also allows health savings accounts. Members asked about the plan’s benefits, what “catastrophic” meant, the deductible amounts, and whether employees were aware of the option; the cabinet said it would continue to highlight the plan in communications and that the deductible is above $8,000 for individuals and above $16,000 for families. The committee then received an update from the Kentucky Department of Veterans Affairs on the Bowling Green veterans center. Officials said the current target is to move into the building on October 28, with first admissions about two months later, pending final fixes and certification steps for Medicare, Medicaid, and the VA. They explained that about $7 million in FY25 appropriations lapsed because of construction delays, staffing ramp-up was postponed to avoid unnecessary spending, and the unspent funds should be considered in the next budget request. Members praised the project and asked about annual operating costs; officials said the current operating budget is about $15 million, though they do not expect to spend all of it this year. The commissioner also announced the fifth annual state commanders conference in Lexington, focused on veterans issues and featuring state, federal, and advocacy leaders. State Auditor Allison Ball then outlined her office’s budget priorities. She said the office is primarily a billing agency that charges audited entities for its work, and warned that some agencies are now signaling they may refuse to pay for audits related to kinship care and the medical cannabis application process. She said the office plans to continue requesting outlier credits for unusually burdensome county audit fees, funding for the ombudsman office’s transition and expanded in-office operations, and revenue replacement for local government audits and possibly state audits and special examinations. Ball also said the office conducts about 500 audits, reviews, and examinations a year and wants to restore performance audits with seed funding, as well as add investigators to the ombudsman office to focus more on child abuse and neglect cases. Members discussed the value of performance audits, the possibility of raising certain board thresholds to account for inflation, and the need for additional capacity to handle more audits.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

Senate Special Committee on COVID-19 - March 30, 2020

Hawaii Senate Floor Meeting

OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Appropriations and Budget Natural Resources Subcommittee Apr 6th, 2026 at 10:30 am

A&B Natural Resources Subcommittee

Transcript Highlights:
  • The land that we're talking about, of our 35 state parks, there are splotches of land that would cost
  • of Oklahoma, the state of Oklahoma, but also to meeting the need of that deferred maintenance in a secure
  • land is designated by the department of tourism to go up for sale ClO has right of first refusal so
  • But this land is land that is owned by the people of Oklahoma, of course, under the Department of Tourism
  • that have oversight for the finances of the Department of Tourism.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Appropriations and Finance Feb 6th, 2026 at 04:27 pm

House Appropriations & Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • I'm the General Counsel of the Department of Finance and Administration.
  • It's a lot of land, a lot of country. Nine million acres in New Mexico are state trust lands.
  • Park Rangers, with the Department of Wildlife, whether as State Park Rangers, with the Department of
  • And I'd only also add that this is one of those... whether as State Park Rangers, with the Department
  • Department of Agriculture under NRCS.
Bills: HB2, SB193, SB132, SB35, SB145
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama House Transportation, Utilities and Infrastructure Committee Feb 25th, 2026

Transportation, Utilities and Infrastructure

Transcript Highlights:
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  • One makes presence or uses of public document with knowledge of the falsity of the document and with
  • seriousness of it meets the criteria of seriousness of it meets the criteria of failing.<00:05:19.199
  • of hazard.
Bills: SB205, SB242, SB205, SB242
WY

Wyoming 2026 Regular Session

House Transportation, Highways & Military Affairs Committee, February 17, 2026

Transportation, Highways & Military Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • state of Wyoming, you're driver in the state of Wyoming, you're probably<00:03:39.400> charging
  • So it will be a the state of Wyoming.
  • <00:24:46.600> EV while ensuring that out-of-state EV while ensuring that out-of-state EV
  • We administer the county side of that equation on behalf of the Department of Family Services.
  • We administer the county side of that equation on behalf of the Department of Family Services.
Bills: SF0095, SF0107, SF0112
ND

North Dakota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Transportation Apr 3rd, 2025 at 10:00 am

Transportation

Transcript Highlights:
  • I mean, we will have lots of problems with the chief of police and with all of the municipal courts,
  • Just kind of loading a Christmas tree up.
  • So what we're going to be able to be in the box here, so what was kind of... you're kind of whispering
  • Chairman, there's lots of discussion. You were kind of whispering. Mr.
  • And I don't want to get ahead of myself, or we shouldn't get ahead of ourselves here. Okay?
Bills: HB1053
Summary: The committee took up House Bill 1298 and first discussed an amendment from Senator Paulson that would add variable electronic speed limit signs to the bill while leaving the 80-mile-an-hour provision unchanged. Members said the signs would be used on interstates I-29 and I-94 in selected problem areas, based on weather or accident conditions, and that the proposal would not require a fiscal note. The discussion then broadened to Senator Rummel’s concerns about related bills, especially 2243, 1250, and 1229. He argued that the House changes were removing municipal authority to double fines, lowering or eliminating points for serious traffic violations, and undoing prior Senate positions. Several members said they were willing to use HB 1298 as the vehicle to restore the earlier fine and point provisions, including the 29 violations previously assigned three points, and to avoid concurring with the House versions. Members did not take final action on the amendments or the bill. Instead, they agreed more work was needed and asked Legislative Council to prepare a combined amendment and options for the next meeting. The committee recessed and scheduled further discussion for the next morning.
HI
Transcript Highlights:
  • Kurt Lager, Chief of the Honolulu Ocean Safety Department of the City and County of Honolulu.
  • First to testify in person, Keith Hayashi, Superintendent for the Hawaii State Department of Education
  • Keith Hayashi, Superintendent for the Hawaii State Department of Education, in person.
  • Kenneth Fink, Director of Health, Hawaii State Department of Health. On Zoom? Oh, on Zoom?
  • Hello, uh, this is Garrett Hall, on behalf of the Department of Health, the State Chief of Emergency
Bills: HCR112
KY
Transcript Highlights:
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  • of State that they with the Secretary of State that they would<00:53:14.720> close<00:53:15.040
  • <00:53:28.640> of but it may not get to Department of but it may not get to Department of
  • <01:20:42.880> alarming Department of Education is very alarming Department of Education is
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.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Agriculture and Wildlife Mar 2nd, 2026 at 10:00 am

Agriculture and Wildlife

Transcript Highlights:
  • That's just it's going to be composed of five members appointed by the State Board of Agriculture, and
  • That wheat contaminated other wheat that was in the bin, and the Department of DEcu and the Department
  • This bill's clarifying that it will be a problem of the Department of Ag.
  • What they can do from either DEcu or Department of Ag. So, we've put this in Department of Ag.
  • I'm checking with the Department of Ag right now, but that might be something we look at putting in
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Taxation and Revenue Feb 14th, 2026 at 10:35 am

House Taxation & Revenue

Transcript Highlights:
  • That were published by the Tax and Revenue Department, and they include the impact of certain types of
  • of the state fair.
  • So it's gone through the New Mexico State Board of Finance.
  • And the state fairgrounds are an asset of the state.
  • And the state fairgrounds are an asset of the state.
Bills: HB248, HB309, HB332, SB48
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Taxation and Revenue Feb 13th, 2026 at 08:35 am

House Taxation & Revenue

Transcript Highlights:
  • This allows the state to confidently market as part of the overall incentive for continued economic growth
  • I'm the Secretary of the Taxation and Revenue Department, and I'm proud to speak in support of this bill
  • I'd also like to state that the department is in support of the committee substitute.
  • The department is in support of the committee substitute.
  • I have to tell you, this is one of those areas that if we want to help people in the state of New Mexico
Bills: HB248, HB309, HB332, SB48