Transcript Highlights:

• The last adjustment for non-leadership staff, which includes custodial, security, administrative, and
• changes in health departments including IT, security, and administrative, those rates have been adjusted

Transcript Highlights:

• 7.2% request as part of the 10.2% request, but we also need a reasonable amount of cost-of-living adjustment
• These include the annualization of recent FY2026 collective agreement adjustments, the FY2027 scheduled
• But that didn't encompass the 4.5% adjustment raises to bargaining.
• doesn't even get us to an operational number to pay the cost-of-living raises and cost-of-living adjustments
• DPPC also teamed up with the Executive Office of Health and Human Services' Medicaid administrative claiming

Committee: Joint Joint Committee on Ways and Means

Keywords: 995, all

Summary: The Joint Committee on Ways and Means held its sixth public hearing on the Governor’s H-2 budget proposal for fiscal year 2026, focused on public safety and judiciary agencies, at the Foxborough Community Center. After opening remarks and local welcomes, the committee heard first from the Executive Office of Public Safety and Security, led by Secretary Gina Kwan, who outlined a $1.72 billion budget, up $69.8 million from FY26. She said the proposal emphasizes core operations, readiness, and partnerships with municipalities, and highlighted work on firearms-law implementation, State Police reform, DOC reentry efforts, hate-crimes prevention, emergency response, and planning for major events including the World Cup. Members also raised concerns about DNA backlog reporting, State Police academy boxing and training standards, ICE communication, disaster relief funding, crime lab staffing, EMS placement, and diversity in public safety leadership. Several exchanges focused on specific operational issues. Secretary Kwan and her team said the State Police are tracking the influx of forensic work from local sheriffs, that the boxing program remains suspended pending an IACP review and likely will not return in its prior form, and that EOPS has no direct communication with ICE but supports law-enforcement coordination where appropriate. On disaster preparedness, officials said the new disaster relief fund is being developed with MEMA and A&F, currently capitalized at $14 million with another $14 million expected, though members urged a more permanent funding source. On the crime lab, staff said the roughly $4.5 million increase is intended to cover core operations and a structural funding gap rather than expand services. The secretary also said EOPS is not ready to absorb OEMS from DPH at this time, though she would keep an open mind. The committee then heard from district attorneys, led by Suffolk County DA Kevin Hayden, who said the Massachusetts District Attorneys Association is seeking a 10% increase in operating budgets, including about $16.7 million for staffing salaries, to recruit and retain prosecutors, advocates, and support staff. He said the request reflects rising workload and the need to keep the criminal justice system functioning efficiently and fairly. The hearing was recessed briefly after the district attorneys’ opening remarks, with additional testimony expected to continue afterward.

Transcript Highlights:

• So the only option really is to adjust the delivery fees.
• 28:21.799><c> to</c> the only option necessary really is to the only option necessary really is to adjust
• <00:28:23.240><c> the</c><00:28:24.159><c> delivery</c> adjust the delivery adjust the delivery fees<
• That credit was fully utilized in 2022, and every year thereafter the full $5 million was claimed within

Committee: House Agriculture & Food Systems

Keywords: 910, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• We're always going to have to be adjusting to that world as well as the needs of the state.
• were involved in the process as well to make sure that you're able to hear their feedback and make adjustments
• were involved in the process as well to make sure that you're able to hear their feedback and make adjustments
• that once you put something into place you're going to learn along the way, there may need to be adjustments
• hear that feedback, to be able to know what's working and what's not, and how you... ...make those adjustments

Committee: House Housing and Community Development

Keywords: 988, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• And so this final packet are basically additional adjustments to what you've already adopted as a committee
• And these are final adjustments to.
• And these are final adjustments to either the recurring budget or the non-recurring budget.
• We'll go through those final adjustments for those agencies that you can see listed on your packet as
• The next set of lines, so that has an adjusted cost estimate.

Committee: House House Appropriations & Finance

Keywords: 996, all

Transcript Highlights:

• Adjusted for inflation, that penalty should be about $3,400 a day.
• We've adjusted the $100 a day for inflation from 1907, which is when that law was first enacted. ...from
• And a big part of it, too, was not just adjusting for inflation, because that's what that number represents
• Representative, the original versions of the bill last year and the year before had those automatic adjustments
• The original versions of the bill last year and the year before had those automatic adjustments.

Committee: House House Agriculture, Acequias And Water Resources

Keywords: 996, all

Transcript Highlights:

• Note that these dollars are not adjusted for inflation. The next slide addresses that.
• So in this one, the 2008 figures were adjusted for inflation so that they can be compared to the 2023
• So the spending on preservation in Washington between 2008 and 2023, for inflation-adjusted spending,
• things that was told to me were project scopes for the 10-year plan projects will be developed and adjusted
• things that was told to me were project scopes for the 10-year plan projects will be developed and adjusted

Summary: The committee first received a presentation from NCSL staff on national transportation funding trends and alternative user-fee options as gas tax revenue declines. The presentation covered declining fuel-tax purchasing power, the effects of more fuel-efficient and electric vehicles, and a range of state responses including indexed gas taxes, EV and hybrid registration fees, voluntary and mandatory road usage charges, transportation network company fees, retail delivery fees, and per-kilowatt-hour EV charging fees. Members asked about Virginia’s mileage-fee program, enrollment rates, and whether states had reduced gas taxes alongside new fees; the presenters said they would follow up with additional information. Committee staff then presented a comparison of Washington’s transportation budget with Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, and Utah, focusing on population, lane miles, road condition, fuel taxes, preservation spending, mega-projects, and governance structures. The discussion highlighted Washington’s unique transportation pressures, including ferries, fish-passage obligations, high debt service, and major capital projects. Members asked follow-up questions about debt service, interest costs, CCA impacts on fuel prices, and whether project costs differed by state. The committee held public hearings on three bills. House Bill 2109 would allow vehicles being towed on trailers to use coverings to contain mud, rocks, or debris instead of requiring prior cleaning; the bill’s sponsor and construction witnesses supported it as a practical solution, and the fiscal note showed modest costs to WSP and WSDOT. House Bill 2139 would raise snowmobile registration fees to support snow park and trail grooming; State Parks, DNR, and several snowmobile advocates supported it, while some snowmobile users opposed it, arguing that enforcement of unregistered sleds should be addressed first. House Bill 2192 would expand the Washington Traffic Safety Commission’s fatal crash review authority and allow it to collect certain health data; the sponsor and agency supported the bill as a public-health tool, while one attorney raised concerns about limiting civil discovery and evidentiary access in fatal crash litigation.

Transcript Highlights:

• receive They receive a preliminary allocation in October of each year, and then that allocation is adjusted
• So if their production is above or below, then the number of allowances they got gets adjusted in retrospect
• This is currently the most effective leakage mitigation policy, but it needs to be adjusted to align
• There are four recommendations in this category: develop a cap adjustment factor or equivalent to align
• Develop methods for making adjustments to allocation as needed in the event of significant changes in

Bills: HB2272 , HB2285 , HB2296

Committee: House Environment & Energy

Keywords: ski areas, winter sports, terminology update, recreation, regulatory changes, carbon capture, clean energy, environmental regulation, sustainability, green technology, distributed energy, renewable energy, energy resources, energy policy, 904, all

Transcript Highlights:

• Second, the MFTE policies, the property tax exemption policies, need to be right-sized and adjusted for
• So right now, policies need to be right-sized and adjusted for local market conditions.
• standards could be raised, which I can get to you in a second. policies need to be right-sized and adjusted
• For things like the MFTE affordability, we suggest in our report that these things might need to adjust
• developers agreed that if affordability requirements are set too high or they're not allowed to be adjusted

Summary: The Senate Housing Committee heard a series of work-session presentations focused on transit-oriented development, commercial-to-residential redevelopment, building code implementation, housing market trends, and the Covenant Homeownership Program. The first presentation, from the Urban Institute, reviewed research on HB 1491 and TOD feasibility, arguing that Washington has made major progress but faces diverging conditions across transit areas. The presenter said rising construction costs, higher interest rates, and lower rents in some markets have made many projects less feasible, and recommended targeted infrastructure funding for lower-market communities, adjustments to MFTE and affordability requirements by local market conditions, more support for very low-income housing in high-market transit areas, minimum density standards near stations, expanded public land/joint development tools, and better tracking of TOD outcomes over time. Committee members asked about AMI calculations, immigration’s effect on construction labor, developer input, and whether a tracking mechanism had been removed from the bill. The Department of Commerce then outlined implementation of HB 1491 and demonstrated the new Washington Zoning Atlas, which is live and intended to help visualize zoning, overlays, and station-area conditions. Commerce said local governments will designate station areas, update zoning and MFTE policies, and handle anti-displacement measures, with Vancouver and Spokane first to implement and Puget Sound following later. Staff described a timeline for updated MFTE guidance, station-area implementation guidance, a TOD model ordinance, and later rulemaking on variances. The committee also heard from the Lieutenant Governor’s office on a report about converting commercial properties to housing, which found substantial potential for redevelopment on vacant or underused commercial land, especially near transit, but noted barriers such as ground-floor retail mandates, affordability requirements, infrastructure costs, private covenants, and slow implementation. The office urged by-right residential use on commercial land and faster rollout of new housing laws. The State Building Code Council updated the committee on its three-year code cycle and several legislatively directed actions, including minimum dwelling size, emergency shelters, and especially single-exit stairs and multiplex housing. Council staff said those code changes are nearing completion and will provide prescriptive solutions, while noting that elevator size and requirements were not changed and would require separate legislative direction if the committee wanted to revisit them. Members discussed the cost impacts of building and energy codes and the council said it is required to consider economic impacts and is increasingly looking at performance-based approaches. Later, the Washington Center for Real Estate Research presented its annual housing report, showing that higher mortgage rates have sharply reduced affordability, flattened house prices in many cities, and slowed single-family permitting and completions, while multifamily construction has recently cooled after a prior surge. Finally, the Washington State Housing Finance Commission reported strong first-year results for the Covenant Homeownership Program, which provides zero-interest down payment assistance to eligible first-time buyers with family ties to Washington before 1968; the program assisted 547 homebuyers in its first fiscal year, with more than $60 million loaned, and the agency said participation has continued to grow after income-limit changes enacted in 2025.

Transcript Highlights:

• SB 129 our labor trailer bill which makes various technical and cleanup adjustments to the 2025 Budget
• Among other adjustments this bill authorizes supplemental pension payments to the Public Employees Retirement
• I request an amendment to SB 131, specifically ask for the adjustment of the housing first provision.
• This bill implements negotiated and agreed upon general salary and benefits adjustments, as well as negotiated
• This bill implements general salary and benefit adjustments, as well as personal leave programs for this

Keywords: 988, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• This includes adjusting the 2024-25 deposit to the Public School System Stabilization Account.
• This bill further adjusts funding to the Middle Class Scholarship to make sure that no student has their
• please raise this with the Governor, please raise it with budget discussions as we come back and adjust
• present AB 137, the General Government Trailer Bill, which makes various technical and cleanup adjustments
• Among other adjustments, this bill expands eligibility for the Hope for Children Trust Account Act, modifies

Summary: The Assembly met on June 4, 2025, first establishing a quorum and then moving through a long budget and concurrence session. After procedural motions, the house took up several budget trailer bills and related measures presented by Assembly Member Gabriel. SB 103, a technical budget cleanup bill addressing the Public School System Stabilization Account, a CDCR shortfall, and Middle Class Scholarship funding, passed 52-16. SB 120 on child care and preschool funding passed 65-1; SB 124 on natural resources and wildfire response passed 69-1; SB 127 on climate change and zero-emission transportation passed 53-17; SB 128 on transportation and DMV/LA Olympics implementation passed 53-17; SB 132 on taxation, veterans, wildfire settlements, film tax credits, and housing passed 64-1; SB 141 on cannabis enforcement and illicit market suppression passed 71-1; and SB 142 extending the Deaf and Disabled Telecommunications Program passed 68-1 on both urgency and the measure. The Assembly also approved a motion to re-refer several bills to committees and later suspended rules to take up Senate-amended bills without reference to file. The chamber then considered AB 102, the main budget bill reflecting the final three-party agreement with the Governor. Supporters said it balanced compassion and fiscal responsibility while preserving housing, health care, child care, education, wildfire resilience, and public safety funding. Opponents criticized it for unsustainable spending, insufficient Prop. 36 funding, and other omissions. After extended debate, the Assembly concurred in the Senate amendments by a 55-16 vote and sent the bill to the Governor. The Assembly then concurred in Senate amendments to AB 116 on health care, AB 118 on human services, AB 121 on TK-12 education, AB 123 on higher education, AB 134 on public safety, AB 136 on courts, AB 137 on general government, and AB 143 on developmental services, with each bill passing on largely party-line or broad bipartisan votes. Debate on AB 116 focused on Medi-Cal, HIV program backfills, pharmacy benefit managers, and health care cuts; opponents objected to funding for undocumented immigrants and to hospice prior authorization. AB 118 drew support for child welfare, CalFresh disaster readiness, and CalWORKs simplification. AB 121 emphasized record K-12 funding and a $1.7 billion block grant. AB 123 extended the Golden State Teacher Grant Program and supported higher education and fire-impacted career technical education. AB 134 updated CDCR and tribal policing provisions, AB 136 streamlined court reporting and funded courthouse facilities, AB 137 made technical budget adjustments and fee changes, and AB 143 made developmental services reforms while preserving the state’s entitlement commitment. The final item shown was AB 470 on telecommunications, which was presented and discussed as a transition away from copper landlines toward fiber and modern networks, with supporters emphasizing public benefits and labor concerns, but the transcript cuts off before a final vote is shown.

Transcript Highlights:

• AB 8 is complex, and while it has many positive elements, Section 340112, the tax adjustment repeal,
• A number of states have higher taxes at or above the 19% post-adjustment, such as Washington with 37%
• will not be sufficiently replaced by higher sales, as noted in revenue estimates on the required adjustment
• A number of states have higher taxes at or above the 19% post adjustments such as Washington with 37%
• will not be sufficiently replaced by higher sales as noted in revenue estimates on the required adjustment

Summary: The Assembly Committee on Revenue and Taxation met as a subcommittee and heard several bills, with members explaining that measures with significant fiscal impacts would be held for suspense or taken up later. AB 761 would let the Monterey-Salinas Transit District place a local sales tax measure on the ballot with approval from two-thirds of its board rather than needing approval from each member jurisdiction; supporters said it would preserve transit funding for veterans, seniors, and people with disabilities, while an opponent argued it would make it easier to raise a regressive tax. The bill was voted out 5-2 after being called for absent members. AB 1253, which would clarify property tax treatment for wildfire reconstruction beyond substantial equivalence, drew support from the Los Angeles County Assessor and the California Assessors Association but was sent to suspense. AB 8, dealing with hemp enforcement, intoxicating hemp products, and integration of hemp cannabinoids into the cannabis supply chain and tax system, drew strong support from cannabis operators and labor groups and opposition from small cultivators and public health advocates concerned about supply, tax revenue, and voter intent; it was also sent to suspense. The committee then heard AB 1138, a major expansion and modernization of the film and television tax credit program. Supporters, including entertainment unions, workers, studios, and local officials, said the bill would help keep production and jobs in California amid competition from other states and countries; opponents criticized it as picking winners and losers and argued broader business costs were the real problem. The bill was referred to suspense. AB 829, which would create a California Parkinson’s Disease Research Fund and voluntary tax contribution program to support research and services, received unanimous support from advocates and was approved 6-0 to Appropriations. AB 474 would exempt rental income from nonprofit home-sharing programs for low-income homeowners from state income tax and protect participants’ eligibility for certain benefits; supporters said it could help older adults age in place and address housing shortages, and the bill was sent to suspense after members asked for clarification on the fiscal estimate. The committee also heard AB 376, which would exempt wildfire settlement payments from state income tax for certain disaster survivors; supporters from rural counties said the money is meant to help victims rebuild and should not be taxed, and the bill was referred to suspense. Finally, AB 480 would allow developers using low-income housing tax credits to switch from allocated to certificated state credits after an award, with supporters saying it would maximize private investment and stretch housing dollars further; it too was sent to suspense. Throughout the hearing, members repeatedly emphasized the need to balance policy goals with fiscal impacts, and several bills were held or referred to suspense rather than voted out immediately.

Transcript Highlights:

• The Governor's budget request is a 2.8% operating adjustment.
• One of those is the operating adjustment, which other agencies have already spoken to you about, recommended
• What I'll talk about today includes, number one, the operating adjustment.
• We're seeing an increase that will help us adjust and react to increases in pay.
• Next, the DOC is operating, requesting, and the Governor's RECs are an operating adjustment of $4.43

Bills: HF2432

Committee: House Public Safety Finance and Policy

Keywords: HF2432, judiciary finance bill, public safety finance bill, corrections policy, crime victims, victim services, Minnesota victims of crime account, court fees, marriage license fee, financial crimes, fraud investigations, insurance fraud, Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, BCA, Commerce Fraud Bureau, wage theft, automobile theft prevention, nonprofit security grants, 911 funding, POST Board

Transcript Highlights:

• So wage claim process, informally helping an employee who has maybe been misclassified and, as a result
• So wage claim process, informally helping an employee who has maybe been misclassified and, as a result
• So wage claim process, informally helping an employee who has maybe been misclassified and, as a result
• So wage claim process, informally helping an employee who has maybe been misclassified and, as a result
• Wage claim process, informally helping an employee who has maybe been misclassified and, as a result,

Committee: Senate Labor

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• Speaker, I rise to claim time in opposition to the gentleman's amendment. >> Gentlelady is recognized
• Chairman, I rise to claim time in opposition to the gentleman's amendment. >> Thank you, Mr.
• Chairman, I rise to claim time in opposition to the gentleman's amendment. >> Thank you, Mr.
• To honor the lives of those we claim to protect while refusing to destroy them.
• to claim to protect while refusing to destroy<02:08:15.360><c> them.

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Friday, May 15, 2026, 1012, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• This company is based in Georgia, and you claim that it's foreign manufacturing.
• This company is based in Georgia, and you claim that it's foreign manufacturing.
• This company is based in Georgia, and you claim that it's foreign manufacturing.
• This company is based in Georgia, and you claim that it's foreign manufacturing.
• This company is based in Georgia, and you claim that it's foreign manufacturing.

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Thursday, February 27, 2025, 1012, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• Paragraph five, beginning on line 1.23, provides allowances for technical adjustments to ranges to keep
• 03:27.560><c> technical</c> provides allowances for technical provides allowances for technical adjustments
• 29.320><c> to</c><00:03:29.440><c> keep</c><00:03:29.680><c> them</c><00:03:30.600><c> where</c> adjustments
• to ranges to keep them where adjustments to ranges to keep them where they<00:03:30.920><c> need</c>

Committee: Senate Rules and Administration

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• The third instance of amendment amends subdivision C to adjust the powers and duties of the committee
• instance of amendment amends subdivision<00:17:27.439><c> C</c><00:17:27.679><c> to</c><00:17:27.919><c> adjust
• c><00:17:28.240><c> the</c><00:17:28.400><c> powers</c><00:17:28.720><c> and</c> subdivision C to adjust
• the powers and subdivision C to adjust the powers and duties<00:17:29.520><c> of</c><00:17:29.760><c

Keywords: 927, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• it proved that it put us in an incredible spot because if you looked at the numbers that we not adjusted
• numbers<00:06:33.240><c> that</c><00:06:33.400><c> we</c><00:06:33.560><c> not</c><00:06:33.760><c> adjusted
• /c><00:06:34.360><c> to</c><00:06:34.520><c> it,</c><00:06:35.040><c> we</c> numbers that we not adjusted
• to it, we numbers that we not adjusted to it, we would<00:06:35.320><c> have</c><00:06:35.400><c> been

Keywords: 1183, house

Transcript Highlights:

• really hard last year to make some really painful decisions around what levers to pull and what adjustments
• ><00:17:40.960><c> pull</c><00:17:41.160><c> and</c><00:17:41.240><c> what</c><00:17:41.360><c> adjustments
• </c> what levers to pull and what adjustments what levers to pull and what adjustments to<00:17:41.920

Committee: Senate Higher Education

Keywords: 1187, senate, all