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FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Environment and Natural Resources Feb 3rd, 2026

Environment and Natural Resources

Transcript Highlights:
  • hurricanes, and rising sea levels by increasing structural integrity and complexity within our reef systems
  • Hopefully, the system can remove those, but the last thing we want is 40 million gallons a day coming
  • to nutrient-reducing systems where central sewer is not available.
  • Placing a high-emission facility near these systems creates an unnecessary risk to water quality.
  • SB 912 will create the Safe Battery Collection and Recovery Act. That is the essence of the bill.
Bills: S0912, S1196, S1422, S1510, S7034
Summary: The Environment and Natural Resources Committee met with a quorum and took up several environmental bills and one appointment. SB 1422, as amended by a strike-all focused on coral reef protection and designating coral reefs as critical natural infrastructure, was reported favorably after support from Audubon Florida was noted. The committee then considered SPB 7034, a DEP rule ratification related to minimum flows and levels for the Lower Santa Fe and Ichetucknee Rivers and associated recovery strategy; witnesses from the Florida Springs Council and local river advocates criticized the plan as too delayed and too dependent on a single future water project, while committee members raised questions about funding and utility responsibility. Despite concerns, the committee approved the bill as a committee bill, with Senator Smith voting no. The committee next heard SB 1510, as amended, which made technical changes to DEP-related provisions including B-MAP notice and timing, septic system requirements in Florida Springs areas, biosolids, fees, land acquisition, and rulemaking procedures. The main public testimony came from the Florida Springs Council, which opposed the 60-day delay for B-MAP effectiveness as harmful to spring restoration, while DEP and others supported the measure. The bill was reported favorably. The committee also considered SB 1196, a targeted siting bill restricting new ash-producing incinerators or waste-to-energy facilities within two miles of large federally authorized water impoundment areas, with an amendment narrowing the practical effect to Miami-Dade and Broward counties. Supporters, including the City of Miramar, argued it would protect water resources and communities; opponents from the Florida Waste-to-Energy Coalition argued it would limit local waste-disposal options and could force more landfilling. The bill was reported favorably. Finally, the committee heard SB 912, the Safe Battery Collection and Recovery Act, which would require battery stewardship organizations and related recycling plans to keep batteries out of the waste stream. Industry and recycling representatives supported the bill, citing growing battery volumes and fire risks at recycling facilities. The committee also recommended confirmation of Gary Jennings to the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission. All measures were approved favorably except that Senator Smith voted against SPB 7034; the meeting then adjourned.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Retirement and Government Resources REVISED Feb 17th, 2026 at 10:30 am

Retirement and Government Resources

Transcript Highlights:
  • here in the police retirement system.
  • anyway into the system.
  • System, you're exactly right.
  • The net of a person coming into the system versus a person coming out of the system.
  • Are you open to looking at some kind of a graduated system or a gradual system to move that Up and again
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama Senate Finance and Taxation General Fund Mar 18th, 2026

Finance and Taxation General Fund

Transcript Highlights:
  • This is one of the processes we're going through trying to get all the supernumeraries out of the system
  • Supernumerary system. It does away. It is not a supernumerary.
  • This is for only those individuals that pay into the system.
KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • That includes county employees retirement system. So cities, county, special districts.
  • And we collected just over $29.5 million in employer contributions for those rehired retirees.
  • In addition, we collected just over $12 million in health insurance premiums.
  • System, the troopers. System, the troopers.
  • So, saying that too, can you give us kind of the levels of all of our funding for the systems?
Summary: The committee held its first official interim meeting after merging the General Government and Finance, Personnel, and Public Retirement committees, establishing a quorum and opening with the pledge and prayer. Members then received a briefing from KPPA representatives Ryan Barrow and Aaron Sarock on the state retirement systems, including KERS, CERS, and SPRS, and on the importance of fully funding the actuarially determined employer contribution, supplemental appropriations, and investment earnings in reducing unfunded liabilities. They said the systems have made progress toward a statutory closed amortization target of 2049 and emphasized that supplemental funding lowers current employer contribution rates but does not change that end date. A major topic was federal and state reemployment-after-retirement rules for retirees who return to work with participating employers. KPPA explained that retirees must have a bona fide separation from service, no prearranged agreement to return, and generally a one-calendar-month break in service for retirees on or after January 1, 2024. If a member fails to comply, retirement benefits can be voided, payments stopped, health coverage ended, and benefits repaid. The presenters also noted that rehired retirees do not earn a second retirement account, and employers rehiring them must pay employer contributions and, in non-exempt cases, reimburse health insurance costs. Members asked about the scale of rehired retirees and the difference between employer contribution and health insurance reimbursement amounts. KPPA said that in fiscal year 2025 there were over 3,500 rehired retirees in CERS and over 5,000 in SPRS, with substantial employer contributions and health reimbursement payments collected. They also explained that some positions are exempt from these chargebacks, including school resource officers and certain law enforcement positions that meet statutory criteria. The committee discussed House Bill 213, which allows cities, sheriffs’ departments, and post-secondary institutions to offer health insurance to rehired officers if authorized by the governing body, effective August 1, 2026, and clarifies the fiscal-year basis for certain exemption limits. No votes were taken.
HI
Transcript Highlights:
  • <00:12:06.280> Corporation, uh Hawaii Health Systems Corporation, uh Hawaii Health Systems
  • , and we are actually asked to start training at the prison system for the adult prison system.
  • our prison system for for adult<00:26:13.520> prison<00:26:13.880> system.
  • adult prison system. adult prison system.
  • <00:49:15.160> Um health system. Um health system.
Summary: The committee heard testimony on SCR 21 SD1, which asks Hawaii Health Systems Corporation’s East Hawaii Regional Health Care System to study the feasibility of a rural health clinic or similar access point for the Volcano community. Testimony in strong support came from HHSC representatives, Volcano residents, the Volcano Health Collaborative, the Rotary Club of Volcano, and others, who said the area has a clear need and that local primary and urgent care would align with regional plans. HHSC said it had already looked at the area, found no suitable temporary buildings, and would need a longer-term, capital-intensive solution, but that the study could help accelerate next steps. The committee then took up SCR 50 SD1, proposing a Hawaii Health Plan Working Group to design a basic affordable health plan for residents. Dr. Jack Lewin of SHIPTA said the state faces a growing uninsured population and argued for a short-term, lower-cost plan focused on preventive and primary care, drawing on the old State Health Insurance Plan as a possible model. Members asked about whether that prior program still exists and whether the working group should include the Hawaii Medical Association and Hawaii Primary Care Association; Dr. Lewin said the statute still exists but is unfunded, and that the group should be inclusive. The Department of Labor and other organizations also provided comments. For SCR 75 SD1, which urges a coordinated interdepartmental effort to reduce fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, Dr. Lewin and others said prevention, prenatal screening, and early intervention are needed because FASD is often hidden until later problems appear. Amanda from Hawaii FASD Action Group said current implementation under Act 192 is still largely a landscape analysis and that Hawaii lacks the infrastructure and specialists for a full system. Darlene Chance Govor urged adding the judiciary as a partner so juvenile justice and probation staff can be trained and referral pathways improved, while the Department of Health said it supports prevention but prefers a broader, systems-based approach focused on child needs and upstream care. The Disability Rights Center supported the resolution and asked for an earlier reporting date. The committee also heard SCR 149 SD1, which seeks an informal working group to address complex patients with multiple diagnoses involving substance use, mental health, or chronic physical illness. The Hawaii Substance Abuse Coalition and Ke Nui Malo strongly supported the measure, saying current siloed systems leave people bouncing between medical, mental health, and substance use providers without coordinated care, often ending up in crisis, emergency rooms, or the justice system. They said integrated residential care and a coordinated working group could improve outcomes and align with federal funding opportunities. The transcript ended before any final vote or action on the measures was announced, and SCR 109 was noted as withdrawn from the agenda.
HI
Transcript Highlights:
  • In effect, it affects how lifeguards are integrated into the public safety systems.
  • public safety systems. public safety systems.
  • First to testify on Zoom, Deborah Hubbard, VP for Academic Strategies for the University of Hawaii System
  • 24:37.040> University<00:24:37.400> of<00:24:37.480> Hawaii<00:24:37.720> System
  • ,<00:24:38.120> in the University of Hawaii System, in the University of Hawaii System, in
Bills: HCR112
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Ways and Means Committee 3/3/25 - Part 1

Ways and Means

Transcript Highlights:
  • something of this magnitude, a Cadillac version, without having reasonable conversations about what collective
  • reasonable conversations about<00:33:00.320> what<00:33:00.480> about<00:33:00.799> collective
  • <00:33:01.200> bargaining about what about collective bargaining about what about collective
Bills: HF11
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Ways and Means Committee 3/3/25 - Part 2

Ways and Means

Transcript Highlights:
  • if you could confirm in your own words whether the system will be ready in 2026.
  • Row, I heard that some states apparently they can collect UI and also paid family medical leave, and
  • Yes, so I think the paid leave law is very clear that you may not both collect unemployment insurance
  • <00:04:39.720> UI states apparently they can collect UI states apparently they can collect
  • <00:26:43.279> bargaining earlier the collective bargaining earlier the collective bargaining
Bills: HF11
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Transportation, Utilities and Infrastructure Committee Feb 26th, 2025

Transportation, Utilities and Infrastructure

Transcript Highlights:
  • commodities from the requirement of obtaining an oversized permit for movement on the state highway system
Bills: SB42, HB323
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Pensions, Investments & Financial Services Apr 23rd, 2025

Pensions, Investments & Financial Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • Particularly in the ERS system and also the TMRS system.
  • There is no reason why we need to have a TRS system and an ERS system; we can combine that, save money
  • in administration, and bring us all together under one system.
  • We have seven tiers now in the TRS system since it has been adjusted.
  • Every major police system in Texas that has a pension system provides for disabilities for officers like
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Pensions, Investments & Financial Services Apr 23rd, 2025

Pensions, Investments & Financial Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • We thank him for acknowledging the needs... ...of retirees in the ERS system to receive a supplemental
  • In the last legislative session, employees... ...with the Teacher's Retirement System received both a
  • retired state employee with over 35 years of service, and I retired from the Employees Retirement System
  • The stability of the Teacher Retirement System. That is correct, by about $13 million. Thank you.
  • Unfortunately, it's the retirement system and the members of the trust fund that are subsidizing that
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Finance Jan 22nd, 2026 at 02:41 pm

Senate Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • It is a big system change.
  • that data within the 911 and the 988 system. ...communities and also collecting that data within the
  • 911 and the 988 system.
  • Appropriated from Congress into the federal system.
  • This workshop focused on the youth system. Or no, region, so. Focused on the youth system.
Bills: HB1
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Appropriations and Finance Jan 22nd, 2026 at 02:01 pm

House Appropriations & Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • data system.
  • Chair, when you do that, are you going to collect data on that?
  • But the reality is that our systems are high-target systems for bad actors.
  • the business filing system itself.
  • and case management system. ...which is our new e-docketing system and case management system, delivered
Bills: HB1
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Chamber Meeting Jan 22nd, 2026 at 11:06 am

New Mexico House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Public Regulation Commission Act, creating the utility oversight fund, changing distribution of collected
  • institutions of higher education to collect and report to the Higher Education Department demographic
  • data pertaining... ...collect and report to the Higher Education Department demographic data pertaining
  • Of a global positioning system. House Bill 134.
  • managed care providers to load information on credentialed providers into their provider payment systems
Bills: HB1
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Finance Jan 22nd, 2026 at 09:36 am

Senate Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • Local governments kind of control the system.
  • is all for this new system.
  • So I Think our collective goal, if we can make it happen, is to wrap it up. Thank you.
  • It's about how you create this online system in two weeks.
  • Go build this system for me from front door to back door.
Bills: HB1
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Appropriations and Finance Jan 20th, 2026 at 04:16 pm

House Appropriations & Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • Phase three is delivery of the 2030 Census redistricting data, and phase four is collection of post-2030
  • government, and then the federal government verifies how they have included that data into their system
  • We know there's been a system to request those.
  • Chair, the capital outlay integrated data system is that the system through which municipalities request
  • And I really believe that an upgraded system is going to be a benefit to legislators, to local bodies
Bills: HB1