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AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House County and Municipal Government Committee Feb 26th, 2025

County and Municipal Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • He's referring to fortified construction, and it is available.
  • We have over 75,000 homes that are built to fortified construction standards in the state of Alabama.
  • ..the wood frame construction manual.
  • It takes an engineer to read that wood frame construction manual.
  • wood frame construction manual.
Bills: HB324, HB252, SB80, HB241
ND

North Dakota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Appropriations - Education and Environment Division Apr 9th, 2025 at 10:30 am

Appropriations - Education and Environment Division

Transcript Highlights:
  • Section 5 is the exemption to spend the various funds that were appropriated for construction of CTE
Bills: SB2019, HB1369
Summary: The committee met to finalize and advance the Career and Technical Education budget in Engrossed Senate Bill 2019. Representative Richter walked through Amendment 2004, which included increases for salaries and wages, inflationary operating expenses, a $2.5 million federal grant increase, $12.7 million for secondary grant programs and related work-based learning support, a $100,000 increase for Marketplace for Kids, and removal of the STEM initiative and adult farm management from the CTE budget because that program funding was moved to the Department of Agriculture. The amendment also included $750,000 for workforce training branch office positions and set the total general fund appropriation at $64 million. Members also discussed a $1 million virtual reality career exploration item, which remained in the bill but was shifted to SIF one-time funding. A new $150,000 one-time general fund appropriation was added for CTE moving expenses because the agency must relocate after Legislative Council expands into its current space. Committee members noted that amount may need to be revisited in conference committee once more accurate relocation and rent costs are known. Levi from legislative staff explained that the exemption language in the bill applies to remaining coronavirus capital projects fund dollars for CTE center construction, allowing those federal funds to be spent before they expire. The committee adopted Amendment 2004 on a 5-0 roll call and then passed Engrossed Senate Bill 2019 as amended on a 5-0 roll call. Representative Richter was named the carrier, and the committee adjourned after noting that higher education and congressional budgets were the remaining items to resolve.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Transportation, Highways and Public Works May 26th, 2026

Transportation, Highways & Public Works

Transcript Highlights:
  • Florida tested multiple bidding award methods, including average bid price.
  • high or low bids to skewer that average bid amount.
  • high or low bids to skewer that average bid amount.
  • The bottom, the lowest bid and the highest bid would be thrown out.
  • The lowest bid and the highest bid would be thrown out.
Summary: The House Transportation Committee met on May 26 with a quorum present and took up several resolutions and one Senate bill. SCR 64 created a task force to study construction management at risk (CMAR) in Louisiana public works; an amendment added representatives from the Louisiana Associated General Contractors and Associated Builders and Contractors, and the resolution was reported with amendments. HR 282 created a task force to study utility terrain vehicles with state agencies; an amendment added the State Fire Marshal, and it was also reported with amendments. The committee then considered SB 513 on public works project delivery methods. The bill originally included an average-bid award method for certain pilot projects, along with airport design-build provisions. Testimony from a Reason Foundation analyst and from the Louisiana Associated General Contractors raised concerns that average-bid contracting could encourage collusion, raise costs, and lacked supporting data or use by U.S. transportation departments, while airport design-build was supported. The committee adopted an amendment in concept to strike the average-bid provisions, leaving the airport-related design-build language in place, and SB 513 was reported with amendments by a vote of 11 yeas and 4 nays. The committee also reported SCR 62 favorably, which urges DOTD to evaluate school zones on state highways in response to safety concerns and near misses, including a fatal incident referenced by the author. HCR 112 was reported favorably to study flooding on Louisiana Highway 1 in Shreveport, and HR 275 was reported favorably to study an interstate highway signage maintenance and reporting program. The meeting concluded after all items were disposed of and the committee adjourned.
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy Committee 2/18/25

Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • them as workforce housing because we realize the cost of housing these days—it can’t all be new construction
  • can't all cost of housing these days it can't all be<00:29:13.159> new<00:29:13.440> construction
  • > and<00:29:14.279> this<00:29:14.399> will<00:29:14.679> help be new construction
  • and this will help be new construction and this will help preserve<00:29:15.880> some<00:29:16.039
Bills: HF110, HF111, HF263, HF105
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama House Economic Development and Tourism Committee Mar 17th, 2026

Economic Development and Tourism

Transcript Highlights:
  • still going to allow for sales and use tax and non-educational taxes to be abated during their construction
  • /c><00:09:54.480> their taxes to be abated during their taxes to be abated during their construction
  • 56.720> But<00:09:56.959> once<00:09:57.360> that<00:09:58.080> um construction
  • But once that um construction period.
Bills: SB265, HB593
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Health and Public Affairs Jan 26th, 2026 at 01:45 pm

Senate Health & Public Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • kind of recognize that through the support of the state, particularly through the way that we've constructed
  • Senate Bill 6 supports the new construction of a School of Medicine to replace the University of New
  • This bill provides a mechanism for the necessary advancement and construction of a three-year project
  • I need it to go to bid. I need it to get built. And so how do we do that?
Bills: SB5, SB6, SB8
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

House and Governmental Affairs May 6th, 2026

House and Governmental Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • And with the way it’s constructed, it’s going to only happen in an extreme case.
  • It provides relative to the Uniform Construction Code and Inspector Licensing.
  • Please understand that the Uniform Construction Code Council appeared last year as a standalone entity
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence Mar 26th, 2025

Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence

Transcript Highlights:
  • House Bill 113 amends the Code of Construction Act and the construction of laws provisions to ensure
  • Second, the Code of Construction Act and construction of laws provisions contain numerous interpretive
  • What if the agency's interpretation was not the most plausible construction of the statute?
  • Instead, Texas courts are not to give deference to any agency construction of a statute.
  • So I'm a 20-plus year construction lawyer who deals with construction litigation disputes and construction
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence Mar 26th, 2025

Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence

Transcript Highlights:
  • 1999, the right of repair statute was established for contractors to have the right to repair construction
  • I don't know, given the constructs of how we do this now, I don't think there's...
  • Chairman Schofield raises... that in some cases the law creates a... a constructive easement.
  • Or at least make that available so that a constructive easement is created if it happens to be landlocked
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Delivery of Government Efficiency Apr 2nd, 2025

Delivery of Government Efficiency

Transcript Highlights:
  • bill, 3623, seeks to repeal and update sections of the government code related to the solicitation of bids
  • The comptroller and each state agency making a purchase to solicit bids for goods.
  • So really what we're going for by replacing. these vehicles, equipment, construction equipment in areas
  • requirement for many many years including diesel vehicles that are yellow as you call them the construction
  • In the interest of helping housing get constructed.
WY

Wyoming 2026 Regular Session

House Appropriations Committee, February 12, 2026 PM 2

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • Um, and would that be construction?
  • <01:36:25.360> um that for construction in that area. um that for construction in that area
  • apply when someone wants to construct apply when someone wants to construct something.
  • You weren't able to see all 1,700 of those doors, but you also saw some of those doors being constructed
  • We're on track doors being constructed.
Bills: HB0111, HB0112, HB0122
WY

Wyoming 2026 Regular Session

House Appropriations Committee, February 12, 2026 AM

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • Chairman. construction department. Uh no comments construction department.
  • He said the administrator for construction management in the State Construction Department is sitting
  • > construction construction department, construction construction department, construction management
  • Suzanne Norton, construction administrator for State Construction Management Division.
  • <00:13:37.920> bill state funded capital construction bill state funded capital construction
Bills: HB0111, HB0112, HB0122