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CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Local Government Committee Mar 18th, 2026
Local Government
Transcript Highlights:
- a safety net for those communities that are traditionally the most disproportionately impacted by budget
- We currently have $25 million in HR1 impacts that we do not have budget solutions for, and that's just
- And it helps that you're the budget chair.
Committee:
Senate Local Government
Summary:
The Senate Committee on Local Government met and first adopted a consent calendar covering SB 1005, SB 1080, SB 935, and S.J.R. 11 by a 4-0 vote, with those items remaining on call until later in the hearing. SB 992 was pulled at the author’s request. The committee then heard SB 922, which would clarify that local governments may recover street maintenance and repair costs caused by public service operations, such as waste hauling, through rates, fees, or franchise agreements. Supporters included the League of California Cities, county groups, cities, waste haulers, and legal counsel who argued the bill restores a long-standing practice and reduces litigation risk after a recent court decision; the California Building Industry Association opposed unless amended, warning the bill could affect construction impact fees. The bill passed the committee 7-0 to the Senate floor.
The committee also heard SB 1078, which would allow Santa Cruz County voters to consider raising the county’s local tax cap to help fund health care, food assistance, and other safety-net services in response to federal cuts. The County of Santa Cruz and the Central California Alliance for Health supported the measure, emphasizing Medi-Cal enrollment, CalFresh needs, and potential impacts on hospitals and clinics. Senator Choi raised concerns that the bill effectively authorizes a tax increase and questioned the fairness of county-by-county exceptions, while other members supported giving local voters the choice. The bill passed 5-2 and was sent to the Senate Revenue and Taxation Committee.
After those actions, the committee returned to and approved the consent calendar items 7-0. The meeting concluded with thanks to the public and adjournment.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Local Government Committee Mar 18th, 2026
Local Government
Transcript Highlights:
- a safety net for those communities that are traditionally the most disproportionately impacted by budget
- We currently have $25 million in HR1 impacts that we do not have budget solutions for, and that's just
- And it helps that you're the budget chair. Well, it helps and hurts sometimes.
Committee:
Senate Local Government
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- Once the decision was made to propose the integration, we looked at the staff, we looked at the budget
- And I know the budgets are going to merge, and that makes sense to me.
- And I know the budgets are going to merge, and that makes sense to me.
Committee:
Senate Education
Summary:
The committee first approved the March 4, 2026 minutes without objection. It then heard House Bill 712, which would create a civics seal or endorsement on high school diplomas for students who meet specified academic and civics requirements, including coursework in U.S. history and government, a civics test score, and a civics project or related activities. The sponsors described it as a voluntary recognition to encourage civic knowledge and engagement, and testimony from the Idaho Family Policy Center and Dr. Samuel Lair supported the bill as a way to promote citizenship and public service. Committee members asked about how the coursework requirement is defined and whether the seal could be earned alongside other diploma endorsements; the Department of Education clarified that the required coursework is two credits each in U.S. history and American government. The committee voted to send HB 712 to the floor with a due pass recommendation.
The committee then took up House Bill 761, which would consolidate the Idaho STEM Action Center into the Workforce Development Council. Senator Lent and Workforce Development Council/STEM Action Center Director Wendy Seacrest explained that the merger is intended to streamline operations, reduce administrative overlap, and better connect STEM education with workforce development. Seacrest said the combined structure would continue most STEM programs, including teacher professional development, community partnerships, and career awareness efforts, while tying them more closely to careers and workforce needs. She also said the consolidation would save more than $300,000 annually and eliminate two staff positions, and that private donations and foundation support would still be available, including direct support to local districts or organizations and a 50% match requirement for new programs. With no public testimony against the bill, the committee voted to send HB 761 to the floor with a due pass recommendation and then adjourned.
AR
Transcript Highlights:
- procurement director when I came on board, and that's something that we put and got approved for in the budget
- That's something that we put and got approved for in the budget for this year.
- We changed it so that the budget amendments, which didn't fall under resolutions, now are required to
Committee:
All LEGISLATIVE JOINT AUDITING
WA
Transcript Highlights:
- going to be $18 million going into this account starting in that biennium, and in the version of the budget
- And that account right now in your Senate proposed budget, or the Senate-passed budget, is the account
Committee:
Senate Transportation
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Transportation Mar 4th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- going to be $18 million going into this account starting in that biennium, and in the version of the budget
- And that account right now in your Senate proposed budget, or the Senate passed budget, is the account
Summary:
The Transportation Committee met in executive session on Gross Substitute House Bill 2711, a transportation resources measure, after a staff walkthrough of the Senate striking amendment S-5820.4. Staff explained that the striker largely replaced the bill with provisions from Senate Bill 6352 and related transportation revenue and policy changes, including updates to mobile driver’s licenses, account interest provisions, recreational vessel and luxury vehicle tax clarifications, peer-to-peer tax administration changes, fuel tax timing changes, aircraft fuel tax and account changes, bicycle education grants, ferry payment-card fee authority, traffic safety camera revenue and rebuttable presumption rules, online driver education regulation, transit annexation tax/liability clarification, Sound Transit 75-year bond authority limits, stolen copper protections for light rail and DOT communications infrastructure, and a highway contracting threshold change. Staff also reviewed fiscal impacts, including revenue gains from trade-in value clarifications and aircraft fuel changes, and losses from the diesel tax delay, motorhome exemption, and repeal of the luxury aircraft tax.
Members asked several clarifying questions, including the luxury RV tax threshold, how trade-in value is treated under the luxury vehicle tax, whether ferry debit-card fees are authorized, and the legality of passing card-processing fees to customers. Staff and counsel said the luxury vehicle tax applies to value over $100,000, trade-in value is added back for the luxury tax calculation, and the ferry provision is intended to clarify that both credit and debit card surcharges may be passed through. On the traffic safety camera section, staff described a revised approach that would require stronger proof from registered owners to rebut presumed responsibility, and on Sound Transit bonds, staff clarified that bonds over 40 years would be limited to federal transportation loan purposes and would affect eligibility for certain state grants.
After caucus, the committee returned to executive session, waived the amendment posting deadline under Senate Rule 45, adopted the striking amendment, and then voted to advance ESHB 2711 as amended with a do pass recommendation to the Rules Committee. The motion carried, and the chair thanked staff before adjourning the meeting.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Floor Session Feb 17th, 2026
California House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Pursuant to Assembly Rule 96, I request unanimous consent to withdraw SB 107 and SB 117 from the Senate Budget
- Budget Committee will meet Following committees meet today.
- Budget Committee will meet right now upon adjournment in Capitol Room 437.
Summary:
The Assembly convened after a quorum call and brief procedural business, including approval of a motion to withdraw SB 107 and SB 117 from the Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee and place them on third reading. Members also approved procedural requests for adjournment-in-memory remarks and guest seating, and later took up the daily file.
The main floor item was H.R. 80, a resolution recognizing Lunar New Year. Assembly Member Fong presented the resolution, and several members from different caucuses spoke in support, emphasizing the holiday’s cultural significance, themes of renewal and family, and California’s large AAPI community. The resolution was opened for coauthors, received 62 coauthors, and was then adopted by voice vote. Fong also distributed prosperity cookie boxes to members after passage.
The chamber also observed moments of silence for Reverend Jesse Jackson and later for Babatunde Akinlola and Harold Tripp during adjournments in memory. Members gave tributes highlighting Akinlola’s film and education career and Tripp’s leadership in the Karuk Tribe and work on tribal restoration and natural resources. The session ended with announcements of upcoming committee meetings and adjournment until Thursday, February 19 at 9 a.m.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Floor Session Feb 17th, 2026
California House Floor Meeting
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Children, Youth and Family Services REVISED: Links added Feb 4th, 2026 at 03:00 pm
Children, Youth and Family Services
Transcript Highlights:
- We just went through budget hearings last week of the Department of Mental Health that is still...
- And I'm going to ask the chairman and the vice chairman to do everything we can to increase the budget
- When you're working on the budget, and uh, representative Hill is he's wanting to move to the second
Committee:
House Children, Youth and Family Services
Keywords:
immigration, public assistance, legal status, food assistance, state benefits, family resource center, community support, employment services, kinship families, social connections, child care, criminal history, background checks, child safety, licensing, Oklahoma laws, advisory committees, daycare, licensed child care facility, child care subsidy
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- Further, the bill requires the ACA by December 1 annually to submit a report to the Joint Legislative Budget
- And each time I requested for a trade office in the budget, I got it, and it was specific.
- Each time I requested for a trade office in the budget, I got it, and it was specific.
Bills:
HB2754
Committee:
House International Trade
AZ
Arizona 2026 Regular Session
01/29/2026 - House Rural Economic Development
Rural Economic Development
Transcript Highlights:
- I think in the context of the broader budget we're going to have to make more targeted investments for
- through a committee first and then still go through appropriations first and then be hashed out on the budget
- do know that the amount, the price tag on here, is significant and it does have to go through the budget
Committee:
House Rural Economic Development
Keywords:
appropriation, housing, Apache Junction, affordable housing, rehabilitation, blight abatement, broadband, fiber optic, technology, connectivity, infrastructure, rural development, workforce hub, health services, transportation tax, county excise tax, regional transportation authority, public transportation authority fund, regional transportation fund, ADOT
HI
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Appropriations Committee Apr 9th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- The Dream Loan Program has a fixed budget of roughly $2 million annually, and AB 681 would allow existing
- The Dream Loan Program has a fixed budget of roughly $2 million annually, and AB 681 would allow existing
- The state budget includes an annual $2.5 million appropriation for UC's portion of the Dream Loan Program
Summary:
The Assembly Appropriations Committee met on April 9, 2025, with a large regular-order agenda and a consent calendar. The committee first approved a set of unanimous consent bills, then heard and acted on several measures, generally with authors describing them as having minor or absorbable fiscal effects. Bills discussed included AB 439 on Coastal Act streamlining, AB 322 on school-based health and mental health reimbursement participation, AB 679 on state park land acquisition exemptions, AB 482 updating the California Table Grape Commission law, AB 681 increasing the Dream Loan Program cap, AB 40 clarifying emergency services include reproductive health care, AB 454 making the California Migratory Bird Protection Act permanent, AB 572 creating protections for families of people killed or seriously injured by peace officers, and AB 639 narrowing the definition of dams to avoid extra regulation for certain water operators.
Testimony was largely in support of the bills. Supporters included representatives from the University of California, the California Table Grape Commission, Audubon California, Sempervirens Fund, emergency physicians, health equity groups, water districts, and several impacted family members and advocacy organizations on AB 572. AB 572 drew especially emotional testimony from family members describing police-involved deaths and the need for transparency and protection from coercive questioning. No organized opposition was raised on most of the bills heard in committee, though AB 439 drew no-votes from some Republicans, and AB 572 and other measures were framed as low-cost or cost-neutral.
The committee reported the bills out on roll calls after motions and seconds, with several measures passing on B-roll calls and AB 482 passing on an A-roll call. After the hearing on presented bills, the committee also approved the suspense calendar and accepted brief public comment on bills not heard that day, including opposition to AB 339 and support for AB 335. The meeting then adjourned.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Vets Committee Meeting - 2025-03-12
Veterans and Military Affairs Division
Transcript Highlights:
- Our budget shortfalls as our membership declines.
- So, the fiscal note states that it would be $828,000 for this current fiscal year that will be budgeted
- Thank you, and we'll just be laying this over for negotiations and budget.
Committee:
House Veterans and Military Affairs Division
NM
Transcript Highlights:
- the district legislative aides, and one of the most recent additions to that policy was that travel budgets
- That budget to ensure that the legislature has the proper technology to address that issue.
- There is a request within this budget, not specifically for webcasting, but in terms of upgrades that
Committee:
Senate Senate Finance
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House Municipal and County Government (01/20/2026)
Municipal and County Government
Transcript Highlights:
- Any budgets must be funded through the normal municipal appropriation process.
- Any budgets must be funded through the normal municipal appropriation process.
- </c> council that adopts the budget directly. council that adopts the budget directly.
- So I I said governing body, the budget.
- The budget process should be in an open, transparent discussion.
Committee:
House Municipal and County Government
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Commerce and Consumer Affairs (03/12/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> when I I think in our in our um budget when I I think in our in our um budget request<01:28:31.040
- </c> so what I'm thinking about is the budget so what I'm thinking about is the budget process<01:34:
- :47.320><c> is</c> million 70% of that operating budget is million 70% of that operating budget is going
- So you had to segment that off somehow, so my operating budget...
- The proposed operating budget last year, no, it was the past operating budget, was $3.55 million.
Summary:
The subcommittee first took up several bills and repeatedly chose to retain or table them rather than advance them. House 167, dealing with past wax, was voted ought to pass; House 312 was retained because members said NCAA-related advertising and uniform policy issues were still unresolved; House 434, requiring insurers to provide rental cars for at least seven days, was voted inexpedient to legislate; and House 454, on biodegradable packaging claims, was also voted inexpedient to legislate after members said the proposal lacked a workable enforcement mechanism and would likely be only a symbolic state-by-state measure. House 721, making gold legal tender, was retained, with members saying the bill needed more work and that the issue was less compelling in New Hampshire because the state has no sales tax.
The committee then discussed House 310, which was amended to create a study commission on blockchain and related regulatory issues. The amendment expanded the commission’s charge to include legal, regulatory, financial, technological, and environmental considerations, added review of federal developments, included blockchain-based trust and stable token issues, broadened membership, and extended the repeal and report dates by a year. Members said the commission would help New Hampshire develop expertise and a report for future legislation, while also noting that federal action could affect the state’s role. The amendment was adopted 8-1, and the bill itself was then retained.
Finally, the subcommittee heard a revised amendment to House 406 on business filings and registered agents. The Secretary of State’s office explained that the amendment, drafted with input from the Business and Industry Association, narrows the bill to address fraudulent or unauthorized entity filings after a written complaint and sworn statement, sets minimum requirements for registered agents, bars use of commercial mail-drop addresses as registered offices, and allows removal or cancellation of fraudulent filings with penalties for false filings. Members asked about which entities must maintain registered offices and how the rules would affect home-based businesses; the sponsor said most New Hampshire business entities must have a registered office, with some exceptions such as domestic nonprofits and trade names. The discussion emphasized concerns about synthetic entities, identity misuse, and the need for a physical in-state registered agent address.
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- We didn't put anything in our budget for that. A and I have a series of questions, Mr. Chairman.
- in your budget. $40,000.
- in your budget. $40,000.
- . budget. budget. $40,000.<00:39:54.240><c> And</c><00:39:54.400><c> I'm</c><00:39:54.640><c> not</c>
- , budget of the department, you<00:40:23.280><c> know.
Committee:
House Ways and Means
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> State Patrol and Capitol security budget State Patrol and Capitol security budget items. items.
- I am the Enterprise Director for Workforce Development at Minnesota Management and Budget.
- I am the Enterprise Director for Workforce Development at Minnesota Management and Budget.
- And I just want you to know it was already completed on time and under budget.
- And the highlight is and under budget.
Committee:
Senate Transportation
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Energy Finance and Policy Committee 2/24/26
Energy Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- tell you a little bit about Mensifa, explain what that acronym is, talk about our operations and our budget
- A little bit about our operations and budget.
- To date, or before our FY26 budget, our budget is $3.3 million and our revenue cash revenue is $3.6 million
- is 3.3 million and our our uh budget is 3.3 million and our revenue<00:08:34.000><c> cash</c><00:08:
- So the overall budget is a larger amount.
Committee:
House Energy Finance and Policy
Keywords:
virtual power plant, VPP, distributed energy resources, DER, demand response, load management, grid modernization, peak demand, peak shaving, battery storage, energy storage, solar photovoltaic, solar panels, electric vehicles, smart thermostats, heat pumps, aggregator, public utilities commission, PUC, rate recovery