Video & Transcript Research : 'PERA'
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MN
Transcript Highlights:
- While state aid is about helping us with PERA to help us with our retirement contributions, training
- it's<00:23:35.360>
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help <00:23:37.200>us <00:23:37.440>with it's help us with PERA - to help us with it's help us with PERA to help us with our<00:23:37.720>
retirement <00:23:38.280 - Does the run take a... doesn't include PERA, um, and then we doesn't include PERA, um, and then we get
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Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Minnesota House passes omnibus pensions and retirement bill 5/13/26
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Uh I want to mention also like the PERA folks that watch over these funds, do an amazing work.
- Uh I want to mention also like the<00:04:49.440>
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Summary:
House File 4074, the second engrossment of the retirement bill, was presented as a broad pension package with changes affecting multiple public retirement systems. Rep. Lilly described provisions including bringing St. Paul teachers closer to parity with TRA, reducing the COLA waiting period for police and fire retirees from two years to one, lowering the retirement age for certain probation, corrections, and 911 telecommunicator workers from 60 to 55, addressing a State Board of Investments fix, and creating or continuing work on Secure Choice and other retirement-related issues. Members also noted help for volunteer firefighters, EMS-related workers, and a local fix for Maple Plain’s volunteer fire system. The bill was repeatedly described as bipartisan and the product of successful working groups and negotiations with the Senate.
Several members spoke in support, emphasizing the importance of public pensions, the impact of inflation on retirees, and the value of the bill’s targeted improvements for workers who are often not covered by Social Security. Rep. Johnson, Rep. Hill, Rep. Vega, Rep. Robbins, Rep. Cha, and others praised the work of the pension commission, staff, and the co-chairs. They highlighted the St. Paul teachers changes, the police and fire COLA adjustment, and the bill’s efforts to honor promises made to public employees. Some members also pointed to the importance of work groups as a way to develop better long-term solutions.
The main point of debate centered on the duty disability amendment, which would have addressed disability issues for first responders. Supporters said the issue is serious and needs a work group solution rather than piecemeal changes, while Rep. Johnson and others warned that the proposal could create problems by treating psychological injuries differently from physical injuries. Rep. Roach said the body should not have passed the prior law and urged a fix for disabled law enforcement and first responders. After discussion, Rep. Lilly withdrew the A3 amendment. Earlier technical amendments A9 and A10 were adopted by voice vote, with members noting they were non-substantive and intended to keep House and Senate language identical and avoid a conference committee. The bill then moved to third reading as amended, with members urging a green vote.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- already it's passed please because we're already hurting<00:59:36.039>
for <00:59:36.319>peras - our wages are horrible hurting for peras our wages are horrible and<00:59:38.880>
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- Would you have any thoughts on that, Miss Pera?
- Miss Pera, I think we would need to consult with the department.
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Investments and Pensions Oversight Aug 13th, 2025
Investments & Pensions Oversight Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- How are we ensuring that, para, so if we go to the next slide, how are we ensuring that PERA, SIC, MFA
- If they take the hundred from PERA, let's say it's only going to be an $800 million fund.
- You take a hundred from PERA, a hundred from SIC, a hundred from ERB, and then maybe MFA. we're already
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- Miss Pera would actually be the expert on exactly all the cases that are ongoing.
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actually <01:24:00.320>be <01:24:00.520>the um uh Miss Pera - would actually be the um uh Miss Pera would actually be the expert<01:24:01.199>
on <01:24:01.719 - but can be bus drivers and others peras but can be bus drivers and others that's<01:41:55.520>
that
Summary:
The Education Finance Committee met on January 21, 2025, for its first hearing of the session and began with organizational business. Members and staff introduced themselves, described their districts and backgrounds, and the chair reviewed committee procedures, including how to request bill hearings, amendment deadlines, and handout deadlines. The committee also heard introductions from nonpartisan and partisan staff, including House Research and House Fiscal Analysis personnel who will support the committee’s work this session.
The main substantive item was an overview presentation on the state budget and education finance process. Staff explained how Minnesota’s general fund is forecast twice a year, how the committee should read the budget documents and aid/levy tracking sheets, and how the current biennium compares with the upcoming budget window. They described the November forecast, noted that the committee will later receive the February forecast, and outlined the committee’s role in reviewing K-12 state aid spending, school district revenue, and property tax impacts.
Staff walked through the aid appropriation summary spreadsheet and explained its columns, including end-of-session spending, fiscal year 2024-25 actuals and estimates, and the 2026-27 and 2028-29 planning horizons. They emphasized that many education programs are forecast-driven and can change with enrollment and other data. The presentation also summarized the state’s overall revenue mix and spending priorities, noting that K-12 education is the largest general fund category and that state aid makes up the majority of school revenue. No bills were heard and no votes or formal actions were taken.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- Trent would get up in the mornings, go next to our door, look out the window, and wait for Gail or Pera
- Trent would get up in the mornings, go next to our door, look out the window, and wait for Gail or Pera
- Trent would get up in the mornings, go next to our door, look out the window, and wait for Gail or Pera
- Trent would get up in the mornings, go next to our door, look out the window, and wait for Gail or Pera
- Trent would get up in the mornings, go next to our door, look out the window, and wait for Gail or Pera
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
House - Chamber Meeting Feb 9th, 2026 at 11:52 am
New Mexico House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- I'd like to introduce Greg Trujillo, the executive director of the New Mexico PERA, and Anthony Montoya
- Speaker, this is basically a PERA cleanup bill of the statute.
- The legislation does not intend to make drastic changes to the law, but rather ensure that the PERA Act
- The PERA Act is a long and complex set of laws, with many of those statutes being enacted decades ago
- PERA retirement is a topic very important to many New Mexicans, over 100,000 retirees, and that topic
Bills:
HB111, HB61, HB43, HB156, HB70, SB3, HB103, HB109, HB128, HB247, HJM2, HJM3, HM7, HM17, HM4, HM22, HM23, HM24, HM26, HM2, HM16, HM32, HM11, HM14, HM21, HM34, HM50
Keywords:
water law, state engineer, civil penalty, compliance order, water rights, overdiversion, illegal diversion, groundwater storage and recovery, well license, permit violation, water enforcement, New Mexico water code, irrigation district, conservancy district, water diversion, unauthorized water sales, measuring device, district court appeal, water resources, water compliance
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
IC - Legislative Finance Apr 27th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- So looking at PERA and the language at the end of the memorial talks about LFC leave.
- I want to draw your attention to, on page 84, the PERA performance and the ERB performance; the 10-year
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety - 02/05/25
Judiciary and Public Safety
Transcript Highlights:
- With regard to retirement in our pension, in the PERA Police and Fire Pension, we currently have those
- We could lose over 2,000 to retirement in the next couple of years, and our PERA Police and Fire Pension
- The fund itself right now, as advised by PERA, cannot sustain that increase.
MN
HI
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
House - Labor, Veterans and Military Affairs Feb 12th, 2026 at 05:32 pm
Transcript Highlights:
- also just wanted to mention that we did work with workers' compensation for the state, as well as the PERA
Summary:
The committee met with a quorum and took up its only bill, House Bill 132, which would create workers’ compensation presumptions for police officers for certain conditions, including noise-induced hearing loss/tinnitus, PTSD, and heart injury or stroke occurring within 24 hours of responding to or returning from a call or emergency. The sponsor described the bill as a bipartisan effort developed with input from workers’ compensation officials, PERA, and the Albuquerque Police Department, aimed at easing the burden on officers to prove causation while still allowing employers to rebut claims. An amendment was adopted first, refining definitions and adding language that preserves an officer’s ability to prove causation even when the presumption does not apply, and tying the heart/stroke presumption to the existence of a physical training program and medical screening requirements.
Supporters included representatives of the Albuquerque Police Officers Association, the Workers’ Compensation Administration, New Mexico State Police, AFSCME/NMFL, and a workers’ compensation attorney. They argued the bill recognizes the cumulative physical and psychological toll of law enforcement, could improve treatment and retention, and would reduce disputes over causation while remaining balanced. One supporter asked the sponsor to consider changing the 20-year requirement tied to PTSD coverage so officers in smaller departments could access benefits earlier. Committee discussion focused on the amendment’s physical training and medical screening condition for the heart/stroke presumption, with questions about whether all departments have such programs and whether the language could limit coverage.
Workers’ compensation staff testified that, from 2016 through 2025, there were 75 statewide claims potentially covered by the bill’s provisions before amendment, including about 20 hearing-loss claims, 11 heart-related claims, and about 44 mental-injury claims. A medical witness said research supports a correlation between law enforcement work and these conditions, though no New Mexico-specific study was available yet. After discussion, the committee voted to give House Bill 132, as amended, a do-pass recommendation, with no opposition recorded.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- It is not mutually exclusive, and so we are working with Christina Pera and with Representative Jordan
- It is not mutually exclusive, and so we are working with Christina Pera and with Representative Jordan
- It is not mutually exclusive, and so we are working with Christina Pera and with Representative Jordan
- It is not mutually exclusive, and so we are working with Christina Pera and with Representative Jordan
- So we are working with Christina Pera and with Representative Jordan and Representative Clarity to come
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Jobs and Economic Development - 03/12/25
Jobs and Economic Development
Transcript Highlights:
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and testifying today my name is Aro Pera and testifying today my name is Aro - Pera and I<00:08:21.479>
serve <00:08:21.800>as <00:08:21.879>the <00:08:22.039> - My name is Aro Pera, and I serve as the farm services director for regenerative agriculture.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on State and Local Government - 03/26/26
State and Local Government
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Rep. Ron Kresha departing member remarks 5/18/26
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Pera, and Ms.
Summary:
Representative Kresha delivered his final House floor speech as he finished his seventh term and retired from the legislature. The remarks were largely reflective and humorous, with thanks to House leadership, nonpartisan staff, education committee colleagues, constituents, and his family. He spoke about how he entered office during redistricting, described the legislature as challenging but rewarding, and emphasized humility, public service, and the importance of listening to others’ stories.
He also offered personal anecdotes about colleagues and staff, including Representatives Swedzinski, Schumacher, Joe Hoppe, Sarah Anderson, Davids, Jen Loon, Roger Erickson, and others, and praised the professionalism of nonpartisan staff and education committee personnel. He thanked Speaker Damuth, Chair Youakim, and his education members for both disagreements and collaboration, saying there was still important work to do.
No legislation was debated or voted on in this segment. The only action was the conclusion of his farewell speech, followed by applause.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Mario Perae. Good morning. I want to thank you for allowing me to speak in favor of hospitals.
Bills:
HCR114, HB137, HB283, HB1398, HB1960, HB2153, HB2431, HB2638, HB2699, HB2999, HB3208, HB3389, HB3413, HB3510, HB3642, HB3859, HB3974, HB3986, HB4142, HB4173, HB4174, HB4542, HB4605, HB4663, HB4731, HB5064, HB5216, HB5218, HB5332, HB5453, HB5577, HB137, HB283
Keywords:
memorial, pedestrian bridge, Houston, Sergio Ivan Rodriguez, city council, oversize vehicles, transportation permits, Hidalgo County, port authority, highway routes, healthcare, insurance, mental health, treatment access, state funding, transportation, axle weight, aggregates, regulations, Texas law
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
AGR Public Hearing - Fri Mar 7, 2025 @ 10:30 AM HST
Agriculture & Food Systems
Transcript Highlights:
- and if you had an opportunity to provide a reply here, or if you wanted to do that, Representative Pera
- and if you had an opportunity to provide a reply here, or if you wanted to do that, Representative Pera
- and if you had an opportunity to provide a reply here, or if you wanted to do that, Representative Pera
NM
Transcript Highlights:
- Chair, Charles, for the PERA Association, we talked about this yesterday.
Keywords:
child care, child care assistance, child care subsidy, early childhood education, early childhood care, daycare, preschool, pre-K, Head Start, Early Head Start, Children's Code, early childhood education and care department, ECECD, child care facilities, licensed child care, registered child care, copayments, waitlist, subsidy, federal poverty level
NM