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AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate County and Municipal Government Committee Feb 11th, 2025

County and Municipal Government

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  • Additionally, it includes a timeline for filing the intent to protest a contract or a bid, to just speed
  • A contract or a bid to just speed things up a little bit. Thank you, sir.
  • So what happens is those Public Works contracts are being rebid, and when they are rebid...
Bills: SB36, SB39, SB40, SB12, SB29, SB121, SB131, SB12
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

House Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy Committee 5/6/25

Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy

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  • Through a competitive process, nonprofit economic development organizations contract with DEED to offer
  • Direct appropriations have the same accountability measures as competitive grants: negotiated contracts
  • Direct appropriations have the same accountability measures as competitive grants: negotiated contracts
Bills: HF3228, HF2441
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • It will ensure that the big banks and credit card networks cannot use contracts.
  • It started at $4.2 billion, rose to $9.3 billion, and eventually they canceled the contract.
  • In a previous career, we contracted with a company called MCI Worldcom, where we built a million square
  • massive expansion of liability for owners, both personal liability and cutting through privity of contract
  • There are proven examples of that. a smart, common-sense way to reduce energy demands and help our constituents
TX
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  • unilaterally disregards these agreements by imposing an indefinite moratorium, it not only violates the contract
  • Subsequently, we had to cancel that contract, leaving the landowner to continue maintaining their property
  • We simply had people that were literally approaching these individuals for private contracts without
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Elect Committee Meeting - 2026-03-11

Elections Finance and Government Operations

Transcript Highlights:
  • > contracts These are private contract contracts These are private contract contracts almost<00
  • <00:29:32.080> So don't have a contracts clause issue.
  • So don't have a contracts clause issue.
  • Um, because if every private contracting issue, whether it was a labor contract or whether it was a land
  • use contract, went through Judiciary, no bills would be heard.
Bills: HF4077, HF3798, HF3886
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama House State Government Committee Feb 25th, 2026

State Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • "This contract review is a committee that all the professional service contracts have to be laid on the
  • The committee cannot kill a contract.
  • service contracts have the professional service contracts have to<00:14:23.279> be<00:14:23.360
  • And there's a reason kill a contract.
  • single professional service contract single professional service contract over<00:14:36.079>
Bills: HB97, HB455, HB97, HB455
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate County and Municipal Government Committee Feb 25th, 2025

County and Municipal Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • The following guidelines: a 911 center may enter into a contract with another for a time frame not to
  • way that contracts were sent in.
  • Contracts were sent in and there was legislative change.
  • We were sunset on these excessive contract amounts that come through the contract review.
  • Contract review has been flooded with these high percent amounts.
Bills: SB174, SB180, HB196, HB25, SB193, HB25
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

GVO DEFER, GVO Public Hearings 02-05-2026

Government Operations

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  • Contracts of 10% and wanting it to 15%, we think that with these extra resources there might be a way
  • This prohibits a state agency from entering into any contract to procure goods and services with any
  • This prohibits a state agency from entering into any contract to procure goods and services with any
  • <00:21:31.840> to from entering into any contract to from entering into any contract to procure
  • incorporating this in that contract section keeps everything in one area.
Summary: The committee met for decision-making on measures heard earlier in the week and took up a series of government operations, procurement, public records, public meetings, and related bills. Several measures were deferred one week to February 12, 2026, including bills on state construction projects, government accountability, gubernatorial appointments, the legislature, public procurement, and a bill on Hawaiian lei sales, largely so the committee could compare similar measures, address concerns, or integrate related reports. The committee also deferred SB 2449 on public meetings for the year, citing concerns that the proposed business-day definition was overly prescriptive and unnecessary. The committee passed several bills with amendments. These included measures clarifying UIPA applicability to records created or maintained by agencies, with amendments changing “government function” to “agency function” and committee report language noting Attorney General concerns and exempting ERS for now; SB 2811 on state building projects with technical amendments and a delayed effective date; SB 2809 on budget-related reports; SB 2336 on trees, with a Senate draft and removal of “political subdivision”; SB 2308 on small purchase vendor compliance, setting the threshold at $5,000 and adding a delayed effective date; SB 2601 on procurement, reorganizing misdemeanor language and leaving funding/FTE issues to Ways and Means; SB 2219 on a capital visitor center working group; and SB 2849 on public meetings, with technical amendments and a delayed effective date. Bills on neighborhood board concerns and public notice were also adopted, with SB 2929 drawing testimony both for and against. Testimony was generally supportive on procurement and small business measures, especially SB 2928 establishing permanent small business procurement coordinator positions, which drew strong support from the State Procurement Office, DBEDT, the Chamber of Commerce, DOT, the Ethics Commission, and others. On public notice, the County of Maui supported allowing website posting, while another witness raised concerns about accessibility, centralized notice locations, and impacts on kūpuna and people with disabilities. On search and rescue, the committee heard support for creating a statewide coordination structure, along with discussion of where such an office should reside; the Attorney General raised constitutional and placement concerns, while witnesses suggested law enforcement, DLNR, or DoD as possible homes. The committee also heard support for a bill protecting home addresses of covered public servants and candidates, though the Public First Law Center urged broader coverage and a better fit with existing law.
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

GVO Public Hearing 02-03-2026

Government Operations

Transcript Highlights:
  • 2312 relating to government contracts. 2312 relating to government contracts.
  • <00:08:44.159> that Well, typically in our contracts that Well, typically in our contracts
  • , approving post-award contract changes, and terminating contracts.
  • 10 million is the range in contracts. 10 million is the range in contracts.
  • contracts I whatever contracts, right? contracts I whatever contracts, right?
Summary: The committee heard several government operations measures, beginning with SB 2064 on state construction projects, which would create an office of the state architect within DAGS to oversee design review and approvals for state construction. DAGS said it stood on its written testimony, DECAB supported the bill, DOT supported it, and HGA opposed it. No audience testimony or member questions were taken, and the chair moved on. The committee then took up SB 2312 on government contracts, which would make records held by private contractors performing government functions subject to UIPA. The State Procurement Office, Attorney General, OIP, ERS, DHS, and HGA offered comments or opposition, while the League of Women Voters, Public First Law Center, All Hawaii News, Grassroots, and several individuals supported the bill. Public First Law Center argued the bill closes a loophole and does not expand or reduce existing exemptions, while OIP and others raised concerns about privacy, confidential information, and the need for clearer procedures. Members discussed possible clarifying amendments, including changing “government function” to “agency,” and the bill was left for further consideration. Other measures discussed included SB 2662 on government accountability, which would require justification and caps for external consultants; ERS and DOT opposed it, while the American Council of Engineering Companies of Hawaii and Airlines Committee of Hawaii argued consultants are often more efficient and necessary for major projects. The committee also heard SB 2744 on due process, for which no testimony was received; SB 2809 on budget-related reports, with comments from B&F and the Tax Foundation; SB 2862 on gubernatorial appointments, opposed by the Governor’s Office and the Hawaii Correctional System Oversight Commission and supported by one individual; a bill on continuous legislative sessions, with comments from B&F, LRB, and Hope for Hawaii; SB 2336 on tree management standards, supported by an individual and the Outdoor Circle; and SB 2075 on public procurement local preferences, which drew broad support with comments from SPO and the Attorney General and discussion of simplifying the preference structure. No votes were taken in the excerpt, and the chair repeatedly moved measures along after testimony and questions.
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Transportation Apr 8th, 2026 at 10:30 am

Transportation

Transcript Highlights:
  • this authorization to put this turnpike back in will go away after five years if an approved design contract
  • I just believe that we can actually put together an actual design Project, contract, plan within five
  • So, the design project, having the approved design and contracted out with the mean, they've gone out
  • forbids, they've gone out for everything, and they've got the contract Written and signed.
  • hires a design engineer to begin the design, and then that addresses the sunset provision, so the contract
OK

Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session

Aeronautics and Transportation Mar 2nd, 2026 at 10:00 am

Aeronautics and Transportation

Transcript Highlights:
  • The transportation commission currently has to approve all contracts, they approve awarding bids, they
  • approve change orders to contracts.
  • get into debate right Now, but along that same line, there are a lot of state agencies that let contracts
  • like that if we go with this, there are some agencies that probably do not go through the mess for contracts