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HI
Transcript Highlights:
- We have technologies changing. Um, and new business models are springing up.
- </c> We have technologies changing. We have technologies changing.
- It's just that we as a community need to ensure HEO remains solvent and viable.
- I'm a vice president of government community relations at Hawaiian Electric.
- </c> communicating and engaging the public. communicating and engaging the public.
Summary:
The Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection Committee held an informational briefing on the Public Utilities Commission’s performance-based regulation (PBR) framework and the Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs’ whistleblower complaint process. Chair Jared Kohole opened the meeting, noted it was informational only with no public testimony, and explained that members would hear presentations and then have an opportunity for questions. The committee heard first from Ulupono Initiative, which provided background on why utilities are regulated, how Hawaii’s cost-of-service model and rate cases work, and why PBR was adopted to shift utility incentives away from a capital-investment bias and toward performance, efficiency, cost control, and policy goals such as renewable energy and reliability.
Ulupono described Hawaii’s PBR structure as a five-year multi-year rate plan with annual revenue adjustments, a customer dividend, a Z factor for extraordinary exogenous events, and an exceptional project recovery mechanism for large projects. It also outlined performance incentive mechanisms tied to renewable portfolio standard progress, interconnection speed, reliability, and shared savings. The presentation said the current docket is evaluating a possible hybrid approach that would combine forward-looking forecasting with historical results, and Ulupono advocated for stronger incentives, arguing the current rewards are too small relative to utility revenues and should be more meaningful to better align utility behavior with legislative intent.
The PUC then presented its own overview, emphasizing that the PBR docket is open and active and that the briefing was limited to the record to avoid ex parte concerns. The commission described the development of PBR in Hawaii through multiple phases beginning in 2018: an initial collaborative phase to set goals, a formal contested-case phase that produced the initial framework, later phases adding scorecards, reported metrics, and additional performance incentive mechanisms, and subsequent refinements including sunset of some mechanisms and adjustments after the August 2023 Maui wildfires. The PUC said the framework is intended to be customer-centric, administratively efficient, and protective of utility financial integrity, and that current work includes evaluating how to balance forward-looking and historical test-year approaches within the rebasing process. No votes or formal actions were taken at the briefing.
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
House Standing Committee on Small Business & Information Technology. (3-11-26)
Small Business & Information Technology
Transcript Highlights:
- >> The second meeting of the House Standing Committee on Small Business and Information Technology Services
- Particularly as new technologies emerge, increasing use and development of artificial intelligence and
- just other technologies that really just may not exist yet.
- I just want to thank you personally for your commitment to staying on top of this ever-changing technology
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- I know we have a lot of technology out there that helps us run plates and do those things.
- And I know we have a lot of technology out there that helps us run plates and do those things, but a
- And the last point I want to make is sometimes when we can do things with technology doesn't mean it's
- And the last point I want to make is sometimes when we can do things with technology doesn't mean it's
Committee:
Senate Transportation
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- We might be able to make technological breakthroughs in desalination.
- You may also hear where community outreach—20 people in a private community meeting—was held, and this
- is not community outreach in my book.
- We have a right to develop and prosper without the threat of losing our communities.
- So, just like you, I serve my community.
Bills:
HB2014 , HB2031 , HB2078 , HB2102 , HB2103 , HB2117 , HB2261 , HB2262 , HB2264 , HB2278 , HB2428 , HB2494 , HB2756 , HB2758 , HB2762 , HB2782 , HB2932 , HB2933 , HB2986
Committee:
Senate Natural Resources
Keywords:
air emissions, fuel blends, environmental quality, feasibility study, Arizona Department of Agriculture, water rights, groundwater, Willcox, active management area, certificate of grandfathered rights, Arizona legislature, aggregate mining, reclamation plans, environmental protection, public safety, land use, domestic water, improvement district, water delivery, water hauling
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Floor Session 4/28/25 - Part 2
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- You know, locally elected leaders in my community from Excelsior to Shorewood to other communities like
- </c><00:26:16.080><c> as</c> clarity for our local communities as clarity for our local communities as
- </c> infrastructure, and our communities. infrastructure, and our communities.
- </c> communities have felt from highways. communities have felt from highways.
- And as a small community, it's growing, but it's pretty small community.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Elections Finance and Government Operations Committee 4/2/25
Elections Finance and Government Operations
Transcript Highlights:
- There are technological solutions.
- There are technological solutions.
- There are technological solutions.
- There are technological solutions.
- There are technological solutions.
MS
Mississippi 2026 Regular Session
MS Senate Floor - 18 March, 2026; 10:00 AM
Mississippi Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- It's a lot of the community. It's a lot of power for a lot of life.
- The communication and religion. It's a little bit better. And the opportunity.
- And so much more than the community.
- We're going to be interested in the community. And then we're living in the community.
- And I think you're going to work for the community and you're going to go ahead.
FL
Transcript Highlights:
- there's arguments that governing bodies need to have discretion to best address the needs of their communities
- doing mass appraisal, we have to make sure we've got the budget, the staff, the resources, and the technology
- past nine years, so we're trying to be smarter, trying to be more and more efficient, and put more technology
Committee:
Senate Finance and Tax
Summary:
The Committee on Finance and Tax met with a quorum present and heard a presentation from the Property Appraisers Association of Florida on ad valorem valuation, exemptions, and the property tax process. Lauren Levy reviewed the legal and historical framework of Florida property taxation, including Save Our Homes, the 10% cap on non-homestead assessments, portability, tangible personal property exemptions, TRIM notices, and the distinction between taxable value and millage rates. He emphasized that property appraisers are independent constitutional officers who assess just value, administer exemptions, and are overseen by the Department of Revenue, with values and exemptions generally determined as of January 1 and subject to challenge through the Value Adjustment Board or circuit court.
Mike Twitty described the mass appraisal process in Pinellas County, explaining how property appraisers value large numbers of parcels using the same core approaches as fee appraisals but with statistical testing, field reviews, aerial imagery, and technology. He discussed the importance of budget, staffing, and the January 1 valuation date, and noted that recent hurricanes caused significant damage, increased petitions, and required new procedures to help property owners with value reductions and FEMA-related issues. Paul Polk focused on Department of Revenue oversight, explaining sales ratio studies, uniformity measures such as COD and PRD, time adjustments, sales qualification reviews, and in-depth studies that can lead to corrective action if assessment standards are not met. He also noted that the Department reviews property appraiser budgets to preserve independence from county pressure.
Senators asked about the supersized homestead concept, DOR review and rejection standards, value trends, and the impact of storms and new construction on taxable value. Twitty and Polk said value growth has been driven by a mix of new construction, market appreciation, cap resets, and storm-related adjustments, while noting that some counties saw market value decline even as taxable value rose. They also said some property tax relief proposals would be easier to implement than others depending on how local tax bills are structured, especially where law enforcement millage is separately identified. No votes were taken on legislation, and the committee adjourned after the presentation.
AL
Alabama 2025 Regular Session
Alabama House Ways and Means Education Committee Feb 12th, 2025
Ways and Means Education
Transcript Highlights:
- Her major is Communication, which can help down here sometimes. We’re happy to have you.
- The Rolling Reserve Fund today has a balance of $823 million, and then the Education Advancement Technology
- the Rolling Reserve Act passed the Budget Stabilization Fund instead of the Education Advancement Technology
Committee:
House Ways and Means Education
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Floor Session - Part 1 - 05/09/25
Minnesota Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- <c> information</c> commission, including the information commission, including the information technology
- technology technology requests.<00:13:27.680><c> We</c><00:13:28.000><c> were</c><00:13:28.160><c> presented
- The policy in the bill includes a sunsetting of Minnesota's community solar garden program.
- For that reason, the bill proposes to sunset the community solar garden program in 2030.
- </c><00:15:17.360><c> solar</c> proposes to sunset the community solar proposes to sunset the community
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Session (Full Formal with Calendar) Apr 15th, 2026
Massachusetts Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- The housing quality problems disproportionately harm communities of color.
- In that legislation, we created protections for environmental justice communities.
- Protections for environmental justice communities.
- Currently, 96 additional communities across the Commonwealth are organizing to do the same.
- And even in my own district, I have communities with water supplies that are drying up.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Agriculture Finance and Policy Committee 2/18/26
Agriculture Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- So, it's really optimally put there and a welcome part of the community.
- So, it's really optimally put there and a welcome part of the community.
- So, it's really optimally put there and a welcome part of the community.
- So, it's really optimally put there and a welcome part of the community.
- So, um we are community.
Committee:
House Agriculture Finance and Policy
TX
Texas 89th 2nd C.S.
The July 2025 Flooding Events, General Investigating Apr 28th, 2026
The July 2025 Flooding Events, General Investigating
Transcript Highlights:
- I want to talk about communication.
- We know that it's a close-knit community and a really unique community, and y'all certainly know that
- But the communications that took place after that, when you were trying to evacuate the girls, any communication
- and interoperable communications, and the emergency management and volunteer fire. communications and
- They needed a clearly communicated plan.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
CPC Public Hearing - Wed Apr 2, 2025 @ 2:00 PM HST
Consumer Protection & Commerce
Transcript Highlights:
- Our resident pharmacy has integrated into the community, and our community has become reliant on him.
- Our resident pharmacy has integrated into the community, and our community has become reliant on him.
- Our resident pharmacy has integrated into the community, and our community has become reliant on him.
- Our resident pharmacy has integrated into the community, and our community has become reliant on him.
- Our resident pharmacy has integrated into the community, and our community has become reliant on him.
Committee:
House Consumer Protection & Commerce
Summary:
The committee heard several measures, beginning with SB 1046 SD1 on condominiums. Testimony on that bill focused on reserve funding and enforcement of reserve study requirements. The Community Associations Institute opposed the bill, saying it would create hardship, confusion, and be difficult to administer, while also urging stronger penalties for boards that fail to comply with reserve study rules. The Real Estate Commission offered comments, and one testifier spoke in support. No vote was taken during the portion provided.
The committee then heard SB 532 SD2 HD1 relating to the Department of Education, which would improve access to pre-approved medications for students with health conditions at school and during off-campus activities. The Department of Health, University of Hawaiʻi nursing and medical programs, and the Department of Education all supported the measure, with DOH suggesting amendments to better identify the correct student and improve medication safety. Members had no questions, and the bill moved on.
Next was SB 1245 SD2 HD1 relating to pharmacists, a bill to allow reimbursement for clinical services pharmacists are already trained and licensed to provide. The University of Hawaiʻi, Board of Pharmacy, Walgreens, Mikai Drugs, and the Hawaiʻi Pharmacists Association supported the bill, emphasizing improved access to care, recruitment and retention of pharmacists, and better chronic disease management. The Hawaiʻi Pharmacists Association also discussed proposed amendments to prevent plans from denying coverage or network participation when pharmacists meet credentialing requirements. Members questioned whether insurers would actually use pharmacists and how the bill would affect pay and contracting; no vote was taken in the excerpt.
The committee also heard SB 1279 SD2 HD1, another pharmacists bill focused on telepharmacy and 340B-related issues. The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation supported it, saying telehealth could reduce costs and avoid travel for audits, while the Board of Pharmacy opposed it. Lānaʻi representatives opposed the bill and asked for an exemption, arguing the island already has close in-person access to a resident pharmacist and clinics. The Hawaiʻi Primary Care Association supported the measure, citing large patient savings from 340B pricing, while Mikai Drugs opposed it, arguing that mail-order and telepharmacy are not necessary on some islands and can create delivery and medication-safety problems. Members asked questions about insurer participation, scope of practice, and whether the bill would meaningfully change reimbursement; the transcript ends before any final action or vote.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Education Policy and Administration (05/27/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> unfold in the home education community unfold in the home education community and<03:05:25.600><
- :33.359><c> the</c> There's communication between in the There's communication between in the instance
- So there are issues that have lasting impacts to communities, and oftentimes it is communities who are
- community? community?
- </c> multiple and could impact communities multiple and could impact communities that<03:40:50.080><c
Summary:
The committee heard testimony on SB 69, including a germane amendment about local school boards’ acceptance or rejection of gifts and donations and a non-germane amendment creating a virtual early childhood readiness family engagement program for preschool children not yet in kindergarten. Rep. Cordelli said the early literacy proposal was a modified version of an earlier kindergarten readiness bill, would rely on gifts and donations rather than state appropriations, and would include reporting requirements. Members questioned the shift from a broader technology program to an online-only model, the lack of detailed evaluation metrics, how long children would use the program, and whether it was appropriate for very young children. Cordelli said the change was intended to avoid government dependence and still allow the program to be offered next school year.
Several members raised concerns about the gift-acceptance language on the underlying bill, including whether school boards would need to vote on small donations, whether gifts could be handled in blocks or at regular meetings, and how anonymous donations would work under right-to-know laws. Rep. Han noted that some gift discussions might belong in non-public session under RSA 91-A, while Rep. Cornell said acceptance or rejection of gifts could be handled at regular meetings and suggested a dollar threshold could be added later. The New Hampshire School Boards Association said it was not taking a position but wanted clearer guardrails, policy guidance, and clarification on timing, anonymity, and public-meeting requirements.
Supporters of the early childhood program, including Waterford.org, said the proposal would provide an evidence-based, adaptive online literacy program with family engagement for four- and five-year-olds, and that it could help close early learning gaps. Waterford said it could work collaboratively with school districts and IEP teams, and that it would provide devices and internet access for families who need them. Committee members pressed on how the program would interact with existing special education services and whether districts could use it as part of an IEP; the response was that it would be supplementary and not an approved special education service. No votes were taken during the hearing; the chair indicated the committee would later executive the bills and try to get reports filed promptly.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- When needing to communicate regarding financial assistance or the issuance of revenue bonds.
- Not all communities may see the same level of benefit from recording meetings and require the process
- , community engagement services, these kind of things.
- , and different modes of communication because um.
- Um, these are again small towns, small communities, um, but if we don't have broadband access.
Committee:
House Natural Resources
Keywords:
HB 279, uranium mining, uranium permit, production area authorization, production zone, Texas Water Code, TCEQ, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, contested case hearing, administrative hearing, groundwater restoration, groundwater baseline, water quality, mining permit, restoration values, natural resources, environmental regulation, in-situ uranium mining, permit amendment, public hearing
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- So before 1925, so these beautiful downtown communities are completely restricted now.
- So before 1925, so these beautiful downtown communities are completely restricted now.
- Beautiful downtown communities are completely restricted now.
- their schools and change the character of the community in a negative way.
- </c> communities have lengthly waiting list. communities have lengthly waiting list.
Committee:
Senate Commerce
LA
Transcript Highlights:
- But the goal at the end of the day is to turn the community around. Exactly.
- I am thankful for the local investors in our community who are taking a chance.
- rebuilding the communities they were raised in.
- We can't sell our homes in our community.
- We not. not getting now, we can't sell our homes in our community.
Bills:
HB214 , HB217 , HB253 , HB411 , HB440 , HB514 , HB515 , HB543 , HB614 , HB620 , HB658 , HB812 , HB898 , HB961
Committee:
House Ways & Means
Keywords:
property tax, blighted properties, urban rehabilitation, tax exemption, local government, financial incentives, blighted property, derelict property, property tax exemption, local redevelopment plans, rehabilitation standards, ad valorem tax, community development, income tax, tax repeal, individuals, estates, trusts, tax reduction, state revenue
MS
Mississippi 2026 Regular Session
Appropriations - Room 409, 28 January, 2026; 1:30 P.M.
Appropriations
Transcript Highlights:
- And so what we're asking for is about $40,000 just to get the technology up to date.
- And so what we're asking for is about $40,000 just to get the technology up to date.
- And the technology in medicine altogether. We're scrambling to keep up. >> Yeah.
- in medicine altogether. technology in medicine altogether.
- Um, so there is a lot of technology going on.
Committee:
Joint Appropriations
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- statewide coalition of 1,600 and 150 members across 180 health care, public health, academic, and community
- workplace culture, and help ensure health professionals can continue to deliver high-quality care to communities
- So this bill essentially guts the ability of our communities to respond to true emergencies at a time
- because this gender-affirming care is for everybody, and we are just prohibiting it for the trans community
- We have put our faith in the development of new technologies for putting people to death and debated
Summary:
The Senate opened with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, approval of the journal, electronic roll call, and several guest introductions, including recognition of Health Workforce Wellbeing Day of Awareness, the Doctor of the Day, educators visiting the Capitol, and student guests. The President also made temporary committee appointments for the day and announced the day’s calendar of bills and committee referrals.
The chamber then took up third-reading votes on several measures. Senate Bill 1014, relating to health insurance, passed 17-9. Senate Bill 1016, on employment practices and religious exemptions, also passed 17-9 after debate about workplace safety and public health. Senate Bill 1050, concerning state parks and veteran access, passed 19-9, with supporters citing benefits for disabled and retired veterans and opponents warning about impacts on park fees. Senate Bill 1054, relating to referendum power and emergency measures, passed 16-10 amid debate over local emergency authority. Senate Bill 1177, relating to public monies and health care services, passed 17-9 after sharp partisan debate over transgender-related medical restrictions. Senate Bill 1194, also on health care services and vaccination-related medical decisions, passed 17-9. Senate Bill 1398, relating to AHCCCS, passed 17-9. Senate Bill 1751, relating to capital punishment, passed 16-9.
The Senate also passed SCR 1049, a concurrent resolution proposing a constitutional amendment on capital punishment, by a 16-9 vote. Throughout the floor debate, members offered explanations of vote focused on public health, religious liberty, veterans’ benefits, emergency powers, transgender rights, vaccination policy, and the death penalty. The Senate then announced a Health and Human Services Committee meeting for the following day and adjourned until Thursday, March 19, 2026, at 10 a.m.