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ID
Transcript Highlights:
- unemployment above the statewide average; five-year population trend is stagnant or declining; or the user rates
- Five-year population trend is stagnant or declining, or the user rates exceed one and a half MHI.
- So Tier 2 is your higher rate burden, and they must meet your Tier 1 and the user rates, including the
- They need to be able to raise rates, so they do that a couple of times a year through their bond attorneys
- That then closes in January, and then we go through, and we're doing that right now, a rating and ranking
Committee:
House Environment, Energy and Technology
NM
Transcript Highlights:
- There is money in the recurring operating budget for rate increases for personal care services, where
- There is a rate increase for those services, as well as rate increases for people who are living in group
- Is money in the recurring operating budget for rate increases for personal care services, where people
- There is a rate increase for those services, as well as rate increases for people who are living in group
Committees:
Senate Senate Finance , Senate House Appropriations & Finance
Keywords:
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WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Ways & Means Jan 12th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- Spokane County has the highest domestic violence rate in Washington State, significantly higher than
- workforce or continued education in an area outside of their training, leaving a 3.9% unemployment rate
- We know this is an extremely low unemployment rate for people ages 18 to 25 years.
- Unemployment rate.
- We know this is an extremely low unemployment rate for people ages 18 to 25 years of age.
Summary:
The Ways and Means Committee held its first meeting of the 2026 session to hear Governor Ferguson’s proposed supplemental capital budget from OFM. Budget staff said the proposal uses nearly all of the roughly $400 million in available bond capacity, leaving about $5.4 million unused, and includes additional funding from the Common School Construction account, the Climate Commitment Account, and federal funds. OFM described housing as the largest priority, with $237 million total, including $225 million for the Housing Trust Fund for affordable rental housing, homeownership, preservation, and manufactured home community acquisition; it also highlighted urgent state facility needs, climate and clean energy investments, natural resource projects, and education funding for school seismic safety, small district and tribal compact school modernization, lead pipe remediation, and higher education preservation projects.
Committee members asked about the timing of housing production, and OFM said the proposed supplemental projects would not be completed within the biennium. Public testimony in the housing section strongly supported the governor’s housing investments, especially the Housing Trust Fund, manufactured housing preservation, and homeownership programs, while several speakers asked for larger appropriations for workforce housing, community land trusts, right-to-counsel, and specific local projects such as Thrive Center Tacoma, Alliance Place, Casa Mia, and Native and immigrant community facilities. One testifier criticized overall state tax policy, but the chair clarified that the capital budget is bonded and does not directly raise taxes.
Testimony on K-12 education generally supported the proposed funding for small school modernization, seismic safety, and Healthy Kids, Healthy Schools lead remediation, with rural districts emphasizing the importance of planning and construction grants for aging facilities. Higher education witnesses supported preservation and deferred maintenance funding but asked for additional support for projects at Cascadia College, WSU Spokane, UW’s decarbonization work, and other campus infrastructure needs. Natural resources testimony backed Salmon Recovery Funding Board and community forest investments, while asking for more funding for ranked RCO projects. In the final section, local governments and utilities opposed a proposed $75 million transfer from the Public Works Assistance account to the operating budget, warning it would reduce infrastructure lending capacity; other speakers supported the Washington State Green Bank, public works financing, and several local economic development and utility projects. No votes or formal committee action were taken at the meeting.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- Obviously, when you have a main event like this, it's not even categorized as a hurricane, but the rate
- Complement the current effective Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs) that data, but not replace it.
- On the flood mapping and modeling, Brian, you said they're not going to replace the Flood Insurance Rate
- But right now, the recharge rate is whatever water is falling in those outcroppings.
- areas, which basically force a detention of water to allow that water to recharge at a more rapid rate
Committee:
House Natural Resources
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- grade science teacher at Salvador Garcia Middle School, a rural campus that has excellent retention rates
- As mentioned previously, my campus has excellent retention rates.
- and low teacher retention rates.
- Additionally, this study found that if all first-year teachers in Texas had the same retention rates
- We know that suicide rates are up among young people. Pressure is up.
Committees:
Senate Education , Senate Education K-16
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Emergency Management Committee Apr 7th, 2025
Emergency Management
Transcript Highlights:
- actually allowed to run down to close to their lowest because at midnight is when the electricity rates
- are involved in they thought they might need to and they thought that that cost spread over their rate
- payers wasn't a great big large district but spread over those rate payers would be about $2 a month
- do all three of the things described here it should be standard practice should be built into the rate
- find a way to give flexibility to our water agencies so that they're not passing on the cost to the rate
Committee:
House Emergency Management
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- And so if you were to ask the people, the rate payers for the BPU to pay for these upgrades, what would
- So we are very conscious of trying to keep our rates low.
- also appreciate the fact that a lot of the folks there are lower income and you're trying to keep the rates
- facility, but obviously we follow proper accounting standards, so we do keep track of the depreciation rates
- I also want to point out that if I understand correctly, the rates are significantly lower than the rates
Committee:
House Energy Finance and Policy
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Transportation Committee Mar 24th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- those wider, multi-lane streets that encourage higher speeds for all vehicles, again increasing the rate
- Children ages 8 to 12 have the highest fatality rates and crashes among the birth to 14 age group.
- Children ages 8 to 12 have the highest fatality rates and crashes among the birth to 14 age group.
- that are out there, I was also shocked to learn that the age range of 8 to 12 has a higher fatality rate
- And the reason I'm asking is because it specifically talked about the elevated rate of incidents for
Summary:
The Assembly Transportation Committee met and began without a quorum, first hearing AB 612 by Assembly Member Rogers and later AB 435 by Assembly Member Wilson. AB 612 would direct Caltrans to update the highway design manual so local jurisdictions consult with fire departments on major road improvements. Supporters, including the California Professional Firefighters and labor representatives, said the bill would improve emergency response and prevent road designs from hindering fire apparatus. County representatives said they were not opposed but wanted the bill narrowed to avoid mandatory consultation on minor maintenance projects or in areas without a local fire district. Several members praised the bill as common-sense safety legislation, and it was moved forward to Appropriations.
The committee then adopted its rules and approved a seven-bill consent calendar. AB 435 would update California child passenger safety law to require children under 10 to be properly restrained in the back seat, require children ages 10 to 13 to remain in the back seat unless they pass the five-step seat belt fit test, and require the five-step test before a child may ride in the front seat. The author and supporters, including Safe Kids Greater Sacramento, Safety Belt Safe USA, AAA, the Automobile Club, and hospitals, argued the bill would align state law with national best practices and improve child safety. Committee members raised concerns about enforceability, implementation timing, pickup trucks, large families, and low-speed vehicles, and the author said he was open to amendments and additional data, including California-specific information.
AB 435 was advanced to the Committee on Appropriations after discussion. AB 612 also received a due pass recommendation to Appropriations. The committee held rolls open to allow additional members to add on, then later confirmed the votes and adjourned.
FL
Transcript Highlights:
- As of right now, our teaching positions, we have about a 5.5% vacancy rate, which means 94% of our teaching
- As of right now, our teaching positions, we have about a 5.5% vacancy rate, which means 94% of our teaching
- Graduation, looking at, again, cohort graduation rates, credits earned.
- That model over the last three years, we've had our highest rates of an average of about 66% of the eligible
- heard—I mean, this presumably maybe not tracking the same sort of release and turnover and transient rates
Committee:
Senate Criminal Justice
Summary:
The committee heard a presentation from Department of Juvenile Justice Secretary Eric Hall on the Florida Scholars Academy, a new unified education model for youth in residential commitment programs. He explained that the academy replaced the prior decentralized district-run system with a contracted model through Florida Virtual School, allowing individualized blended learning, real-time progress monitoring, expanded special education services, and a broader course catalog including dual enrollment, CTE, GED testing, and postsecondary pathways through the Florida Youth College partnership with Tallahassee State College. Hall said the department is using data to focus on academic achievement, workforce credentials, and peer-group change as strategies to reduce recidivism, and reported early results including 60 diplomas or GEDs, a 5.5% teacher vacancy rate, and progress-monitoring gains for most students.
Hall also reviewed implementation of House Bill 1181 on swift accountability and juvenile justice reforms. He said the law strengthened pre-arrest delinquency citation use, raised the target for eligible citations to 70%, required written justification for releasing youth charged with certain felony firearm offenses, and directed the department to develop a firearm-offending curriculum focused on avoidance and consequences. He described a new statewide graduated sanctions matrix for probation technical violations, intended to provide quicker and more consistent responses without overburdening courts. He said early data showed reductions in weapons/firearm offenses and auto theft, and that the department had conducted circuit-level outreach to law enforcement, courts, and providers to support implementation.
Members asked about the number of unauthorized alien children in detention or residential care, teacher vacancies and whether instruction continues when staff are absent, screen-time and supervision concerns with laptops, and whether students are reentering local schools with improved academic performance. Hall said he did not have data on immigration status, that FLVS and classroom staff provide continuity when teachers are absent, that devices are checked in and out and security has been tightened, and that the department is still early in implementation but is hearing positive anecdotal feedback from parents. Vice Chair Smith asked for more detail on the firearm curriculum, and Hall offered to provide it. The committee took no formal votes and adjourned after no public testimony was offered.
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Monday, June 29, 2026)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- They wanted to actually let the tax rate regress back to the old Obama rates, which would have been an
- have not kept up with the rate of Physicians work incredibly hard every day to care for us, our loved
- rates of anxiety and depression among teens.
- But it continues to face maternal mortality rates, infant mortality rates, Mortality rates and pre-term
- birth rates that are worse than any other industrialized nation.
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- mr. president a committee on appropriation technology having under consideration said to bill 1840 rating
- President, the Committee on Public Service, Corporation Rates and Voter..., having under consideration
- Bill 2305, amending Section 9-4905 and 11-251.04, relating to private towing and care's regulation rates
- We do keep losing $2 billion each year with the Ducey single-rate income tax because the billionaires
- So when the Republicans cut the top income tax rate, it left the wealthiest few paying a lower rate overall
Summary:
The meeting began with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, attendance, and a guest introduction for Deputy Frank Sloop. The Senate then moved through multiple Committee of the Whole calendars, with most measures receiving do-pass recommendations after brief explanations and, in several cases, floor amendments. Topics included public records, capital outlay review, local government, taxation, state budget implementation, higher education appropriations, utility regulation, towing regulation, homeowners association disclosures, nursing board regulation, veteran services, criminal justice, human services, K-12 education, state property management, and the continuation of the Arizona State Board of Nursing.
Several bills were amended on the floor before receiving favorable recommendations. House Bill 2114 on motorcycle-related provisions was amended to require that at least one registered owner be legally licensed to operate a motorcycle in Arizona. House Bill 2397 on HOA/condominium disclosures was amended to change disclosure timing and fee rules and make other conforming changes. House Bill 2408 on nursing board regulatory action was amended to remove a clear-and-convincing-evidence burden in disciplinary matters and clarify complaint-sharing procedures. House Bill 2957 on driver’s license/handheld provisions, House Bill 2305 on towing regulation, and House Bill 2321 on DCS-related reporting also received amendments before do-pass recommendations.
The largest item was Senate Bill 1847, the 2026-2027 General Appropriations Act. Senators offered extensive floor amendments affecting agriculture, corrections, criminal justice, school safety, law enforcement equipment, vehicle theft task force funding, liquor licensing, and other budget items. During third reading and debate on the budget, Democratic senators praised negotiated gains such as funding for aging services, food assistance, civil legal aid, school meals, heat relief, and a three-year moratorium on new data center tax incentives, while criticizing border-related funding, ESA/voucher policy, and cuts to higher education and adult education. One member’s remarks were ruled dilatory after repeated off-topic comments, and the ruling of the chair was sustained by a 16-12 vote. The transcript ends with additional budget-related explanation of votes continuing after the budget’s third reading.
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations & Revenue. (6-3-26)
Appropriations & Revenue
Transcript Highlights:
- That nearly matches the 47% economic disadvantage rate in Northern Kentucky public schools.
- That nearly matches the 47% economic disadvantage rate in Northern Kentucky public schools.
- Uh, corporation tax rate for Kentucky is 5% on net income.
- Um that rate has is 5% on net income.
- ,</c><00:45:02.480><c> would</c> if we didn't have a flat rate, would if we didn't have a flat rate,
Committee:
Joint Appropriations & Revenue
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- That's correct so it's a vacancy rate of about four and a half five percent for the agency.
- Would you pay your regular employees overtime at the rate of time and a half?
- With regards to overtime, it would be based on their hourly... rate, depending on whether or not they
- are time and a half, or if they're not time and a half... would pay based on that rate.
- There is a chart noting the turnover rates at the bottom of page 3. turnover rates, also field staff
Committee:
Senate Finance
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
AEN-HOU, AEN, AEN DEFER, AEN DEFER Public Hearings 02-03-2025
Agriculture and Environment
Transcript Highlights:
- as A or B under the land study bureau rating.
- as A or B under the land study bureau rating.
- I just want to add that, given the incredibly high rate of food insecurity, a third of our families in
- interest rates in increasing and<00:21:29.159><c> standardizing</c><00:21:29.840><c> loan</c><00:21:
- </c> program by lowering interest rates program by lowering interest rates increasing<00:43:44.400><c
Committee:
Senate Agriculture and Environment
Summary:
The committees heard several agriculture and food-system bills. SB 1562 would create a Combined Housing Operational Agricultural Mobilization Program to help bona fide farmers live and farm on agricultural lands and provide a tax credit for donated land. Testimony generally supported the goal of housing for farmers and farm workers, but raised concerns about placing the program within the Department of Agriculture, possible constitutional and drafting issues, land-quality standards, lease structure, and whether another agency might be better suited. The committees recommended passing SB 1562 with amendments, including clarifying DOA authority to acquire agricultural lands and establishing an advisory committee within the department; the recommendation was adopted.
The committees also heard SB 1171 on providing monofilament netting through hardware stores to help slow coconut rhinoceros beetle spread, SB 1186 on creating a statewide interagency food systems coordination team and working group, SB 1250 on a Farm to Families program, SB 1303 on agricultural loans, SB 1395 on a climate mitigation and resiliency special fund, SB 504 on a local agricultural transportation cost reimbursement program, SB 1185 on reviewing and repealing obsolete agricultural laws, and SB 187 on funding permanent agricultural biosecurity positions. Most testimony on these measures was in support, with some suggested refinements: for SB 1186, a youth advisory seat and clearer performance benchmarks; for SB 1250, broader eligibility for food pantries, cold storage, and staffing support; for SB 1303, support for lower interest rates and expanded loan tools; for SB 1395, debate over the fund’s structure and revenue source; for SB 504, clearer eligibility for small and beginning farmers, cooperatives, and food hubs; and for SB 1185, interest in joining the working group but concern about overbroad deregulation.
No roll-call votes were taken on the other measures in the excerpt, but the chair reported testimony counts on some bills, including 89 in support and none opposed for SB 1250, 13 in support and one opposed for SB 504, and 14 in support with one comment for SB 1395. SB 1303 and SB 187 also drew supportive testimony from the Department of Agriculture, farm groups, food banks, and industry organizations, with SB 187 emphasizing the need to make Act 231 biosecurity positions permanent and fully funded.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House lawmakers OK bill to bring Minnesota into compliance with 'One Big Beautiful Bill' 5/7/26
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> framework to a flat tiered rate system. framework to a flat tiered rate system.
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- The change in the rates.
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- :15:59.840><c> we</c><03:16:00.160><c> have</c> less error rates the more money we have less error rates
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Education Jun 21st, 2026 at 11:00 am
Joint Committee on Education
Transcript Highlights:
- In 2024, high school gaps in MCAS pass rates by race, income, disability, and language are largely the
- First, that kids attending charter public schools were growing and excelling at high rates, including
- Our students are growing and achieving at extraordinary rates.
- Despite the fact that our kids are growing and achieving at among the highest rates in the state, despite
- We have one of the lowest teacher retention rates in the state due to our collective bargaining rights
Committee:
Joint Joint Committee on Education
Summary:
The Joint Committee on Education heard testimony on several bills centered on school accountability, receivership, graduation requirements, charter school access, community schools, school libraries, and student voting rights. Much of the discussion focused on the Thrive Act, S. 374, which would end state receivership and change the state’s accountability approach. Supporters, including educators, parents, advocacy groups, and students, argued that receivership has not improved outcomes in districts such as Lawrence, Holyoke, Southbridge, Boston, and the Dever, and that local communities should have more control, with greater emphasis on community schools, wraparound services, and broader measures of school quality. They also supported related bills on community schools and school library standards, and several witnesses backed a bill to expand student representative voting rights on school committees.
Opponents of S. 374, especially charter school leaders, parents, students, and some education advocates, focused on Section 4 of the bill, which would change the charter school net school spending cap in the lowest-performing districts. They argued that the provision would reduce access to charter seats in communities where families are seeking more options, and that schools such as Roxbury Prep, Excel Academy, Brook, Veritas Prep, and Libertas Academy have produced strong results for students, including students of color, low-income students, and students with special needs. Several witnesses said the section would force schools to shrink or close and would remove opportunities for families in districts with long waitlists.
Committee members questioned witnesses on both the effectiveness of receivership and the charter school cap language. Chair Lewis and Chair Gordon emphasized the need for a better accountability system and noted concerns about whether current measures, including MCAS-based designations, accurately reflect school quality. Some witnesses said they had discussed the possibility of removing Section 4 from the Thrive Act and suggested it might be addressed in separate charter reform legislation. No votes were taken during the hearing; testimony was received and the committee later closed testimony on S. 374 and several related bills before moving on to the student voting rights bill, S. 367.
CA
Transcript Highlights:
- California has been rated needs assistance for two more consecutive years, meaning we have not fully
- California trails behind the nation in inclusion rates of students with disabilities.
- Currently there is no statewide coalition where we can work together to improve inclusion rates for our
- California trails behind the nation in inclusion rates of students with disabilities, California trails
- behind the nation in inclusion rates of students with disabilities.
Committee:
House Education
LA
Louisiana 2026 Regular Session
Labor and Industrial Relations Apr 9th, 2026
Labor & Industrial Relations
Transcript Highlights:
- In Florida and Arkansas, the unemployment rate is 3.2%. Those states have higher minimum wages.
- We have the highest poverty rate in the country.
- Rates of domestic violence.
- Louisiana has maintained the $7.25 rate since the federal rate was set in 2009.
- Louisiana has maintained the 725 rate since the federal rate was set in 2009.
Committee:
House Labor & Industrial Relations
Summary:
The House Labor and Industrial Relations Committee met on April 9 and first took up Senate Bill 162, which would change the workers’ compensation medical treatment schedule appeal process. The bill, presented as a collaboration between the Attorney General’s office and trial lawyers, would require additional medical evidence submitted on appeal to be sent back to the medical director for review before court review continues. Members discussed the 30-day turnaround for the medical director and whether the process would delay injured workers’ cases. After testimony from injured workers’ representatives and support cards from several business and labor groups, the committee adopted the technical amendments and reported SB 162 favorably.
The committee then heard House Bill 353, which would establish a state minimum wage beginning at $12 per hour in 2027, rising to $15 in 2029 and then indexed to inflation. Supporters, including the sponsor, Invest in Louisiana, the Workplace Justice Project, 10,000 Women Louisiana, the AFL-CIO, and a young witness from People’s Promise, argued that Louisiana’s wages have lagged behind costs of living, that many workers remain in poverty, and that the bill would help families, reduce reliance on public benefits, and improve economic stability. Opponents, including NFIB and small-business advocates, argued that the market should set wages, that the bill would raise labor costs, compress pay scales, reduce hours or hiring, and potentially increase prices. After extended debate, the committee voted and HB 353 failed.
The committee next considered Senate Bill 383 on the incumbent worker training program. Senator Bass and Louisiana Works officials said the bill would expand and make the existing program more flexible, increase available funding, shorten the business eligibility period from three years to two, and allow unused funds to roll over. Members focused on how the program would reach workers, how businesses and employees would learn about training opportunities, and how it would support workforce development in growing regions. Support came from business and economic development groups, and the committee reported SB 383 favorably with amendments.
Finally, the committee began Senate Bill 382, which would repeal the Workers’ Compensation Advisory Council, described as the Senate version of a bill the committee had already considered. The transcript cuts off during discussion of the prior vote on the similar House version, and no final action on SB 382 is shown in the excerpt.
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Floor Session Mar 10th, 2026 at 01:45 pm
Washington House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Madam Speaker, this idea came out just after we passed the bill that rated the left one pension.
- To certain rates. And so when taxes go up on them, they can't recover that.
- on rather than higher rates.
- 8th talk about one of the rates going from 1.22 up to 7.5.
- They all pay relatively high B&O rates. They all have pretty high grocery seats as companies.
Keywords:
behavioral health, emergency services, health insurance, provider access, mental health funding, premium assistance, funding, healthcare, subsidies, juice grapes, agriculture, commerce, state regulation, market access, fire safety, insurance incentives, best practices, community protection, voluntary measures, mortgage modification
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Legislative Audit Committee Jun 18th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- In March of this year, an additional fiscal health risk analysis conducted by FCMAT rated the district
- This high rate of turnover is not limited to the superintendency.
- And our flagship high school is at 95% graduation rate. And so test scores have improved.
- While my research shows a collection rate of about 13%, the most comprehensive statewide survey found
- exactly A finite amount of rate and taxing capacity exists in the State Water Project service areas.
Summary:
The committee heard several audit requests and related testimony. The first major item was an audit of Coachella Valley Unified School District’s contract and fiscal management. The author and supporters described long-standing fiscal mismanagement, large budget shortfalls, layoffs, contracting concerns, and questions about the district’s foundation and use of public funds. District representatives and the Riverside County Office of Education said the district is already under fiscal oversight, has a stabilization plan, and is working to reduce deficits and improve student outcomes. After extensive debate and public comment, the motion to approve the audit was put on call because the committee did not have the required votes from both houses at that moment.
The committee then approved an audit of East Bay transit agencies in Alameda and Contra Costa counties. Senator Wahab argued the region’s many overlapping transit agencies create fragmentation, duplication, and inefficiency, especially amid a fiscal cliff and possible future tax increases. Transit agencies and labor representatives opposed the audit, saying the agencies already undergo multiple audits, serve distinct local needs, and are implementing regional coordination efforts. After testimony from agency leaders and public commenters, the committee voted to approve the audit.
The next item was an audit of California Community Colleges’ unrestricted reserves. Senator Archuleta and supporting faculty representatives said reserves have grown substantially and may be diverting resources from student services, instruction, and workforce programs. They argued there is little oversight when reserves become too high. The Chancellor’s Office and Calbright College were invited to respond, and the audit objectives focused on reserve growth, reasons for high balances, oversight by the Chancellor’s Office, and effects on students and staff. The transcript cuts off during the Chancellor’s Office response, so the final committee action on this item is not shown.