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• grants in addition to primarily legislatively named grants.
• For this audit, we reviewed all grant agreements, amendments, and then grant payments for 13 grants.
• </c> grants or awarding grants or grants or awarding grants or administering<00:46:32.600><c> these</
• grants.
• </c> grants at a time. grants at a time.

Bills: HF3564

Keywords: Greater Minnesota, regional parks, trails, grants, local government, 1183, house

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• So, with this language, that $10 million can be used for these grants that the chair outlined in his
• So, I do support this bill and have been a co-author. used for these grants that the chair used for these
• grants that the chair outlined<00:08:24.800><c> in</c><00:08:24.960><c> his</c><00:08:25.120><c> testimony
• the difference of the $1 million from what was appropriated to the amount that's being used for the grants
• budget is going to pay for state employee salaries versus what is going out in, you know, through grants

Bills: HF3425

Keywords: supportive housing, grants, housing assistance, funding, Minnesota Statutes, 1183, house

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• For example, in Lowell, you all have had one grant from the federal government for community schools,
• We cannot solve life problems on a grant cycle. We need the government to walk with us in this.
• We cannot solve life problems on a grant cycle. We need the government to walk with us in this.
• , gifts, and that kind of stuff.
• , gift for those kind of stuff.

Bills: S3022, H5187

Keywords: ENOUGH Act, ENOUGH fund, anti-poverty, poverty reduction, community development, place-based grants, distressed neighborhoods, economic mobility, housing and livable communities, community schools, cradle-to-career, child poverty, intergenerational poverty, social services, workforce development, education equity, public health, behavioral health, mental health, affordable housing

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• commissions, departments, or any entity within the Oklahoma Executive Department to implement a donation
• ... ...from an income tax proceeds that you were directing there, or would this be an additional donation
• This is any donation that you would like to make to ODVA. It's strictly voluntary.
• So if it's not an income tax aversion, it would be an extra donation. Is that correct? Correct.
• It'll be a donation that an individual would like to make to ODVA to support our veterans.

Bills: HB3940, HB3078, HB3043

Keywords: Oklahoma National Guard, compensation, education assistance, career technology, military benefits, veterans, donations, Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs, state agency, executive branch, HB3043, ODVA, seasonal employees, project labor, pro rata jobs, unclassified service, state personnel law, state employee benefits, paid leave, paid holidays

Summary: The committee took up three Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs-related House bills. House Bill 3940 was presented as a modernization and cleanup of Guard retirement-related provisions, with a confusing pay language removed; members noted it was similar to prior versions and that any fiscal impact would not occur until after 2027. After brief questions, the bill was advanced unanimously, 7-0. House Bill 3078 would allow state agencies and executive-branch entities to add voluntary donation options to payment forms so people could contribute to the ODVA Revolving Fund when paying for items such as licenses, registrations, and tax forms. Members clarified the donations would be extra, strictly voluntary, and not tied to tax proceeds. The bill passed 7-0. House Bill 3043 would authorize ODVA to hire PRN/as-needed staff as seasonal employees under defined limits to help staff veterans homes. Supporters said it would improve flexibility and staffing during peak periods, while the minority leader raised concerns about expanding temporary employment and reducing access to stable, benefit-eligible jobs. The bill passed 5-2. The committee then laid over another item pending Senator Woods’ availability and adjourned.

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• </c> the support services grant program. the support services grant program.
• ,</c> competitive workforce training grant, competitive workforce training grant, one<00:03:44.159><c
• </c> component of all the existing grant component of all the existing grant programs<00:04:10.000><c
• </c> different grants. different grants.
• </c> codify some of these grants last year. codify some of these grants last year.

Bills: HF3732

Keywords: workforce development, unemployment benefits, youth training, economic development, grants, job creation, 1183, house

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• Through innovative stewardship, we administer federal and state grants and provide technical assistance
• We expect to support the delivery of more than $3 billion in grant funds in the 2025-27 biennium.
• legislature that there was not going to be funding in the next two biennia for regional mobility grants
• We are thrilled to be getting our first new grant program in over 30 years at the county road board.
• where opportunity presents itself to perhaps put some of those funds into the Port Electrification Grant

Bills: HB2306

Keywords: transportation budget, capital budget, operating budget, appropriations, Washington State Department of Transportation, WSDOT, Washington State Patrol, Department of Licensing, ferry funding, state ferries, highway maintenance, road preservation, bridge replacement, tolling, express toll lanes, traffic safety, speed cameras, ignition interlock, transit grants, public transit

Summary: The Transportation Committee heard a presentation from Secretary of Transportation Julie Meredith on WSDOT’s mission, staffing, major projects, and the agency’s focus on preservation, safety, ferries, culvert replacement, and emergency response. Meredith highlighted storm and flood recovery, bridge strikes and aging infrastructure, ferry service improvements and fleet replacement needs, the Interstate Bridge Replacement Program, Revive I-5, the North Spokane Corridor, and preparations for the 2026 World Cup. Members asked about ferry service reliability, IBR cost uncertainty, staffing needs, and aviation assets. The committee then took public testimony on the governor’s proposed supplemental transportation budget and HB 2306, which would make supplemental transportation appropriations totaling $16.7 billion, about $1.2 billion above the enacted base budget. OFM staff said the proposal emphasizes preservation, maintenance, ferries, and some local and agency investments, with about $3.1 billion in bonding capacity used and roughly $2 billion remaining. The governor’s office proposed $2 billion for preservation, including bridge, paving, maintenance, and other asset work, $1 billion for Washington State Ferries, $2.2 million for the new county road grant program, and smaller investments for WSP communications, DOL access, and Columbia River dredging. Testifiers largely supported the budget’s preservation focus and ferry funding, including representatives from Bainbridge Island, cities, counties, ports, labor, construction, and business groups. Several speakers urged more investment in local roads, bridge repair, and freight infrastructure, while transit and rail advocates asked for more rail funding and less highway expansion. One ferry advocate criticized hybrid-electric ferry maintenance costs and questioned electrification, while another speaker warned against a pay-per-mile tax. The hearing ended after testimony with no votes taken and the committee adjourned early.

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• It's a state grant.
• Line 11 is the Tribal College Supplemental Assistance Grants.
• Line 60 is the Dual Training Competency Grants Program.
• A year's worth of grants in the state grant program was just a couple million more than that.
• worth of grants.

Bills: HF2312

Keywords: higher education, college finance, student aid, financial aid, state grants, North Star Promise, scholarships, tuition relief, Minnesota State, University of Minnesota, Office of Higher Education, work-study, child care grants, Indian scholarships, tribal colleges, Hunger-Free Campus, student parents, pregnant students, parenting students, sexual misconduct

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• It's the state grant.
• The child care grants on line six grant.
• </c> traumatic brain injury grants. traumatic brain injury grants.
• worth of grants.
• worth of grants.

Bills: HF2312

Keywords: higher education, college finance, student aid, financial aid, state grants, North Star Promise, scholarships, tuition relief, Minnesota State, University of Minnesota, Office of Higher Education, work-study, child care grants, Indian scholarships, tribal colleges, Hunger-Free Campus, student parents, pregnant students, parenting students, sexual misconduct

Bills: SF1832

Keywords: economic development, small business, workforce training, grants, entrepreneurship, equity, community support, 1187, senate, all

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• commissions, departments, or any entity within the Oklahoma executive department to implement a donation
• agency from an income tax proceeds that you were directing there, or would this be an Additional donation
• This is any donation that you would like to make to ODVA. It's strictly voluntary.
• It would be an extra donation. Is that correct?
• It'll be a donation that an individual would like to make to ODVA to support our veterans.

Bills: HB3940, HB3078, HB3043

Keywords: Oklahoma National Guard, compensation, education assistance, career technology, military benefits, veterans, donations, Oklahoma Department of Veterans Affairs, state agency, executive branch, HB3043, ODVA, seasonal employees, project labor, pro rata jobs, unclassified service, state personnel law, state employee benefits, paid leave, paid holidays

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• Statewide elected officials, including members of the legislature, are authorized to solicit gifts, grants
• , or donations to the account, and money from the account may only be spent after appropriation for the

Bills: SB6215, SB6160, SB6313, SB6049, SB6164, SB5046, SB5842, SB6035, SB5853, SB5888

Keywords: fraud prevention, identity theft, consumer protection, security measures, legislation, government efficiency, state agencies, reporting, bureaucracy, transparency, Capitol Centennial Stewardship, funding, gifts, grants, donations, legislative support, student privacy, employee confidentiality, public disclosure, data protection

Summary: The Senate State Government, Tribal Affairs & Elections Committee held public hearings on several bills and then took executive action on three measures. At the start, the committee suspended the five-day notice rule for Senate Bills 631 and 5046. Senate Bill 6215, a fraud-prevention bill, would require the state auditor to compile an inventory of audited state programs and later produce an annual statewide high-risk list; staff and the State Auditor’s Office raised concerns about scope, funding, record-retention limits, and the timeline, while the sponsor said the bill would improve transparency around anti-fraud controls. Senate Bill 6160 would eliminate or modify dozens of agency reporting requirements; the sponsor and OFM said it was an efficiency measure to remove outdated or duplicative reports, while some senators said they wanted to preserve reports they still find useful. Senate Bill 6313 would create a Capitol Centennial Stewardship Account for repairs and improvements to the Capitol campus ahead of its 2028 centennial, and Senate Bill 5046 would designate November 22 as Kimchi Day to recognize Korean culture; both drew supportive sponsor testimony and no substantive opposition during hearing. The committee also heard Senate Bill 6049, which expands public-records exemptions to protect survivors of hate crimes, individual responses to employee engagement surveys, and individual student responses to the Healthy Youth Survey. The sponsor, OFM, and several student witnesses argued the bill would protect privacy and encourage honest participation, while the hearing record showed substantial opposition sign-in. Senate Bill 6164 would exempt information submitted to Washington Technology Solutions for digital experience platform services, such as the WA.gov portal, from disclosure; WOTEC and a newspaper association supported the bill as a narrow privacy protection, while another coalition opposed it as overly broad and warned about centralized records and retention practices. In executive session, the committee adopted proposed substitute B for Senate Bill 6035 and sent it to the Rules Committee with a due-pass recommendation. The substitute would further delay and condition implementation of an electronic ballot portal, add cybersecurity and testing requirements, and require annual reporting. The committee also adopted proposed substitute C for Senate Bill 5853 and sent it to Ways and Means; the substitute shifts administration of the statewide emergency public official notification system from the Secretary of State to the Military Department. Finally, the committee passed Senate Bill 5888, which removes Senate confirmation for members of the Washington State Women’s Commission, and sent it to the Rules Committee. All three executive-action votes passed subject to signatures.

Bills: HB2306, HB2711

Keywords: transportation budget, capital budget, operating budget, appropriations, Washington State Department of Transportation, WSDOT, Washington State Patrol, Department of Licensing, ferry funding, state ferries, highway maintenance, road preservation, bridge replacement, tolling, express toll lanes, traffic safety, speed cameras, ignition interlock, transit grants, public transit

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• the funding you were able to do to reimburse transit agencies for their certain regional mobility grants
• TCC appreciates the hard work to restore the regional mobility grant funding that was reduced last year
• TCC appreciates the hard work to restore the regional mobility grant funding that was reduced last year
• Transportation demand management grants in the 2027 to 2029 biennium.
• The bike education grant program centers safety as a key learning outcome for the next generation of

Bills: HB2306, HB2711

Keywords: transportation budget, capital budget, operating budget, appropriations, Washington State Department of Transportation, WSDOT, Washington State Patrol, Department of Licensing, ferry funding, state ferries, highway maintenance, road preservation, bridge replacement, tolling, express toll lanes, traffic safety, speed cameras, ignition interlock, transit grants, public transit

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• Paul and Duluth in conjunction with federal grant opportunities identified enough recoverable thermal
• Paul and Duluth in conjunction with federal grant opportunities identified enough recoverable thermal
• 35.800><c> conjunction</c><00:39:36.320><c> with</c><00:39:36.480><c> federal</c><00:39:36.800><c> grant
• </c> Duluth in conjunction with federal grant Duluth in conjunction with federal grant opportunities<
• The bill also establishes a grant program within the Department of Commerce to assist building owners

Bills: HF4560, HF4559, HF2317, HF3179, HF4880, HF2862, HF4374

Keywords: Public Utilities Commission, PUC, energy regulation, utility regulation, electric utility, public utility, rate case, multiyear rate plan, decoupling, rate decoupling, greenhouse gas, social cost of carbon, environmental cost, resource planning, certificate of need, distributed renewable energy, interconnection, budget billing, electronic filing, contested case

Bills: SB 1493, SB 1598, SB 1895, SB 1919, SB 2039, SB 2226, SB 2243, SB 2425

Keywords: sidewalk user, pedestrian safety, traffic laws, bicycles, electric scooters, mobility devices, transportation, aviation, economic development, grants, loans

Bills: SB843, SB1410, SB1317, SB1338

Keywords: school boards, educational governance, conflict of interest, employee relations, Oklahoma statutes, SB1410, Oklahoma agriculture, Ag in the Classroom, agricultural education, K-12 curriculum, teacher incentives, rural schools, urban schools, Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and Forestry, State Department of Education, OSU Cooperative Extension Service, classroom grants, farm education, ag literacy, school outreach

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• Section 9 is a grant program.
• Section 9 is a grant program.
• And there specifically says a special counsel may apply for and receive gifts, grants, contributions,
• or other Specifically, it says a special counsel may apply for and receive gifts, grants, contributions
• Furthermore, the special counsel may apply for and receive grants, contributions, gifts, and other money

Bills: SB156

Keywords: gun violence, firearm safety, special counsel, data collection, community initiatives, grants, Attorney General, public safety, suicide prevention, 909, all

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• Um, grants relating to child care from Representative Lee and Representative Lesnikar that adds to a
• Um a uh grants relating to $900,000.
• Um a uh grants relating to child<00:04:06.480><c> care</c><00:04:06.640><c> from</c><00:04:06.799><c>
• programs and have made competitive grant programs and have made a<00:04:50.720><c> adjustment</c><00
• so they can work as effectively grants so they can work as effectively as<00:05:01.520><c> possible.

Bills: SF1832, HF2440

Keywords: economic development, small business, workforce training, grants, entrepreneurship, equity, community support, labor market, employment, funding, data analysis, 1183, house

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• Office of Grants along the way.
• </c> met to receive public television grants. met to receive public television grants.
• </c> be eligible to receive state grants. be eligible to receive state grants.
• </c> state dollars from other grant programs. state dollars from other grant programs.
• </c> So, right here this is our federal grant So, right here this is our federal grant grants<01:20:35.520

Bills: HF3643, HF4470, HF4462, HF4366, HF4172, HF3629, HF4356, HF3093

Keywords: Melissa Hortman, Mark Hortman, memorial park, state park, working group, Minnesota Historical Society, Capitol Area Architectural and Planning Board, Saint Paul, Department of Natural Resources, Department of Administration, Legislative Coordinating Commission, general fund appropriation, park planning, interpretive services, public engagement, state memorial, land use, natural resources, commemorative legislation, HF4470

Bills: HB 537, HB 594, HB 1629, HB 2014, HB 2273, HB 3733, HB 1862, HB 2413, HB 3335

Keywords: noise regulation, criminal offense, public health, residential areas, county authority, Texas, local governance, sheriff's department, civil service, exempt positions, local government, police oversight, fireworks, retail sales, permits, Texas-Mexico border, seasonal sales, election, hospital district, board of directors