Video & Transcript Research : 'fee structures'

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MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Hied Committee Meeting - 2025-03-27

Higher Education Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • North Star Promise Base is a last dollar scholarship program that covers up to 100% of tuition and fees
  • And then two things to note: these projections for fiscal year 26 and 27 do not include the structural
  • We can't change the North Star Promise program to cover anything other than resident tuition and fees
  • Also, as noted, we do not play a role in estimating tuition and fee and enrollment changes.
  • That structural deficit will increase year after year.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama House Boards, Agencies and Commissions Committee Feb 12th, 2025

Boards, Agencies and Commissions

Transcript Highlights:
  • There is absolutely inconsistent usage of fines, fees, and...
  • Inconsistent usage of fines, fees, and penalties.
  • This is addressed by providing clarity to the real fees, the late fees, and the delete fees.
  • We're cleaning up penalties and fee structures... ...cleaning up penalties and fee structures there that
  • Also, it cleans up the fee structure on page 14. I'm moving on; I'm not going to take much longer.
FL

Florida 2025 Regular Session

February 11, 2025 - 03:30 PM

Transcript Highlights:
  • Apples to apples, what are your fees?
  • So are your fees, you know, are your fees comparable to what I-Budget is paying or not?
  • So our fees and the payment structure and the payment mechanism that we utilize for providers is done
  • It's a different payment structure, is what I would say to that.
  • So are you taking that into consideration when you are coming up with the fee that you provide, the fee
Summary: The Health and Human Services Committee received an overview of Florida’s intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) managed care pilot, created by legislation in 2023 to test whether a managed care model could integrate Medicaid medical services with iBudget waiver home- and community-based services for adults in pre-enrollment categories. AHCA explained the existing system, the pilot’s scope in Regions D and I, and the rollout timeline, including federal approval, contract execution with Florida Community Care, and the October 2024 go-live. Officials reported that, as of early February, 370 individuals had been sent for onboarding and 168 more were in queue, with about $35.8 million of the appropriation remaining. APD also clarified the difference between the pre-enrollment categories and the waiver waitlist, and noted that crisis cases can be enrolled more quickly depending on eligibility and funding. Florida Community Care described the pilot as a comprehensive managed care model offering medical, long-term care, and iBudget services, plus enhanced benefits such as bed-hold days, caregiver transportation, and help with legal guardianship costs. The plan said it uses one care coordinator, a 1:18 coordinator ratio, a face-to-face assessment within five days of enrollment, and 180 days of continuity of care for existing providers. The company emphasized that it is recruiting providers by offering higher rates than some iBudget rates, lower administrative burden, and network adequacy incentives, while APD said it continues to monitor provider supply and demand and recruit across service types and regions. Members repeatedly questioned whether the pilot’s costs, provider rates, and service levels were truly comparable to the iBudget system, and AHCA and APD said it was too early to draw firm conclusions because claims data are still lagging. Committee members also raised concerns about communication, enrollment delays, provider shortages, and whether the pilot could scale statewide. APD said it has used letters, phone calls, texts, emails, and community meetings to reach eligible individuals, and that some delays stem from required assessments, Medicaid eligibility checks, and level-of-care determinations. Several members asked for more detailed comparisons of costs and provider reimbursement between the pilot and iBudget, and APD said it would provide additional data. Public testimony at the end was strongly critical of managed care, with a participant and his mother describing poor service, transportation failures, and loss of control under prior managed care arrangements, and urging the committee not to expand such a model without safeguards. No votes or formal committee action were taken before adjournment.
NH

New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session

Senate Finance (04/14/2025)

Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • And just to mention the motor fee increase, the vanity plate fee increase, uniquely among all the fees
  • license fee.
  • license fee.
  • One of those fees that fines, fees, etc.
  • fees.
Keywords: 1191, senate, all
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence Apr 23rd, 2025 at 10:04 am

Judiciary & Civil Jurisprudence

Transcript Highlights:
  • Fees.
  • He paid a flat fee.
  • Instead of replacing the current attorney's fees section, awarding fees...
  • fees for a frivolous motion.
  • I'm just trying to say, basically, judges will let the lawyer collect the fee from the fee for whoever
Summary: The committee heard House Bill 4961, which would bar uninsured motorists from recovering non-economic damages after a collision. The author said the bill is intended to create incentives to maintain insurance and to address what he described as an unfair system for insured drivers. Texans for Lawsuit Reform and Texas Eagle Forum testified in support, while the Texas Trial Lawyers Association opposed it, warning the bill could also affect pedestrians, passengers, children, and others who did not choose whether a vehicle was insured. The bill author clarified that passengers would be included in the bill’s coverage. No vote was taken and the bill was left pending. House Bill 5570 would extend a legislative attorney CLE exemption to attorneys appointed by the governor and confirmed by the Senate to boards or commissions. The author said the measure is meant to ease time burdens and encourage service, and a witness supported it as a modest incentive for public service. A committee member noted a discrepancy in the number of affected attorneys, and the author agreed to verify the correct figure. The bill was left pending. The committee also heard House Bill 2969, which would restrict the State Bar from adopting rules or penalties that unreasonably burden attorneys’ religious exercise or free speech based on sincerely held beliefs. The author and several witnesses from Texas Values, Alliance Defending Freedom, and Cecilia Wood argued the bill protects lawyers of faith from an ABA model rule they described as a speech code. No one testified against the bill, and it was left pending. House Bill 4260, which would prohibit county judges and county commissioners from practicing law in courts over which they have jurisdiction, drew opposition from the County Judges and Commissioners Association, which argued existing ethics rules already address conflicts and that the bill would burden rural officials. The author said the bill was prompted by concerns about judges using their office to pressure others. The bill was left pending. House Bill 5134 would limit Rule 202 pre-suit depositions to people who have suffered or reasonably expect actual damages and would allow attorney’s fees against abusive petitioners. The author said the bill is aimed at preventing harassment and fishing expeditions, especially in family-law disputes. Questions focused on how the standard would work and how it differs from current law; the author said the main change is fee-shifting and a clearer legislative directive. The bill was left pending. House Bill 3095, a committee substitute version of a similar uninsured-motorist bill, would bar uninsured motorists from recovering non-economic damages and limit economic recovery, with several exceptions. Trial lawyers argued it was unconstitutional because it capped economic damages and could unfairly affect innocent drivers, pedestrians, and older people who no longer drive. The author acknowledged constitutional concerns and said the bill would need further work; the committee withdrew the substitute and left the bill pending. Finally, House Bill 4388 would require all judges, including county judges who perform administrative duties, to remain subject to the Code of Judicial Conduct. Supporters said some elected judges avoid accountability by relinquishing judicial functions, while opponents argued the bill is too rigid and unnecessary because existing remedies already exist. House Bill 3964 would limit public nuisance claims to their historical role and bar such claims against lawful conduct, conduct already covered by other remedies, and products. The author and supporters said the bill is meant to prevent courts from using public nuisance to make policy, while opponents argued it would eliminate useful remedies and could affect local actions against environmental or product-related harms. The author said the bill would not affect statutory nuisance claims, private nuisance claims, or other causes of action, and would be amended to clarify some provisions. The bill was left pending.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Health Finance and Policy Committee 3/3/25

Health Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • Our board has held the line for as long as we can against raising our fees, but a fee increase is now
  • Our difficulty is that our current fee structure is insufficient to raise enough revenue to fulfill that
  • I mean, that's good. committee does because of the fee committee does because of the fee component<00
  • Like, what is the fee now and what is the fee that you want to raise it to?
  • We hope to raise several fees. We're changing 14 of the fees.
Keywords: 1183, house
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Committee on Judiciary and Public Safety - 03/05/25

Judiciary and Public Safety

Transcript Highlights:
  • reduced um civil marriage licensing fee reduced um civil marriage licensing fee uh<00:19:21.600>
  • If the fee is increased to the regular $125 marriage fee, there would be a lot of money to decide how
  • If the fee is increased to the regular $125 marriage fee, there would be a lot of money to decide how
  • If the fee is increased to the regular $125 marriage fee, there would be a lot of money to decide how
  • If the fee is increased to the regular $125 marriage fee, there would be a lot of money to decide how
Keywords: 1187, senate, all
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

House of Representatives Apr 13th, 2026

Louisiana House Floor Meeting

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Transcript Highlights:
  • The question I have is related to the additional fees.
  • There's an install permit fee or initial permit fee, then also an annual Fee.
  • Basically, they're just saying that the fee is just going to help offset the cost.
  • So, in addition to those two fees, it seems like there's another fee in section 5, subsection B, related
  • Clerk fees activate the machine sergeant's roll call in the House for a recorded vote.
NE

Nebraska 2025-2026 Regular Session

Legislative Morning Session Apr 7th, 2026

Nebraska Unicameral Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • But, again, I'm not hell-bent on opposing every fee.
  • You've got to raise fees once in a while when costs go up. Otherwise, you're just ignoring reality.
  • And if that happens, that person would be able to vote to control the public service fees. Okay.
  • And if that happens, that person would be able to vote to control the public service fees. Okay.
  • They pay their licensing fees. They pay the insurance.
CA
Transcript Highlights:
  • It was also very costly, not just the permit fee, but the consultant fees.
  • They have a greater permit fee.
  • don't have that big upfront fee.
  • So they paid the Water Board their fees, they paid the consulting engineer their fees.
  • I'm intrigued by the fees and the idea of perhaps changing the structure, but we'd have to look at what
Summary: The hearing focused on oversight of AB 658 and the State Water Resources Control Board’s five-year temporary permits for groundwater recharge. Assembly Member Arambula and committee members discussed how the permits are intended to help capture high flows during wet periods, support SGMA implementation, and store water underground for later use. The State Water Board chair said the five-year permits have become an important tool, with seven five-year permits issued this season and over 43,000 acre-feet authorized, but noted that actual recharge depends on hydrology and that the board is open to improvements. Members and witnesses discussed several possible changes to make the program more effective: allowing a two-year delay before the five-year permit clock starts, codifying CEQA exemptions that have been used through executive order, and shifting from a public objection model to a public comment model to reduce delays. There was also discussion of water availability analyses, with some members asking whether the state could develop a broader statewide assessment to reduce consultant costs and make permitting more predictable. The board said such an effort would be large and costly, but could potentially save applicants money and improve consistency. District representatives described their experiences. Stockton East said the five-year permit was more cost-effective than repeated 180-day permits, but that the 90-20 methodology, consultant costs, and a burrowing owl survey condition made use difficult. Omaha-Hartnell Water District said its recharge work depends on simple, low-cost infrastructure and that five-year permits, CEQA reform, and lower upfront fees would help small districts. A consultant working with Scott Valley and Sierra Valley said five-year permits can work well in different basins, but local infrastructure, stakeholder coordination, streambed alteration agreements, and upstream flow constraints can limit recharge. Members also raised concerns about basin connectivity, downstream water rights, and the need to pair recharge with sustainable groundwater pumping and broader water storage planning.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Committee on Human Services - 03/04/26

Health and Human Services

Transcript Highlights:
  • Um, a room change fee, MA billing fee, excessive emails fee, $15 per email.
  • Um, a room change fee, MA billing fee, excessive emails fee, $15 per email.
  • Um, a room change fee, MA billing fee, excessive emails fee, $15 per email.
  • Um, a room change fee, MA billing fee, excessive emails fee, $15 per email.
  • A room change fee, MA billing fee, excessive emails fee, $15 per email.
Keywords: 1187, senate, all
NH
Transcript Highlights:
  • So, we operate within a larger structure and we're a component piece of a larger structure.
  • So, we operate within a larger structure and we're a component piece of a larger structure.
  • <00:22:10.320> and operate within a larger structure and operate within a larger structure
  • ,<00:33:26.720> um<00:33:26.880> the a larger structure, um the a larger structure,
  • So that's the nice thing about the way we're structured: we're part of a larger structure.
Keywords: 1189, house, all
Summary: The committee chair opened by explaining that the committee has expanded from a traditional audit-follow-up role into an oversight role focused on whether audit recommendations are implemented and whether controls are in place to detect fraud. He said the committee was concerned about fraud uncovered in social service programs in other states and wanted to understand New Hampshire’s safeguards, especially around major contracts and program performance. Charles Buchanan, director of the New Hampshire Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, and investigator Tim Brackett described the unit’s structure and mission. Buchanan said the unit, housed in the Attorney General’s Criminal Justice Bureau, investigates and prosecutes fraud by health care providers serving Medicaid beneficiaries, as well as abuse, neglect, and financial exploitation of residents in health care facilities. He outlined common Medicaid fraud schemes such as billing for services not rendered, upcoding, using unqualified staff, drug substitution, kickbacks, supplemental charges, and inflated customary charges. He also described resident abuse/neglect and drug diversion in hospitals, nursing homes, and assisted living settings. Brackett said his role is financial investigator/auditor and noted the unit is grant-funded and must include a prosecutor, investigator, and auditor. The witnesses then explained how cases reach the unit and how they are handled. Most referrals come from the state Department of Health and Human Services’ program integrity unit and from managed care organizations’ special investigations units, which look for fraud, waste, and abuse and refer credible allegations. Other sources include qui tam whistleblower actions, the national Medicaid Fraud Control Units association, citizen complaints, provider referrals, adult protective services law-enforcement referrals, local law enforcement, and federal agencies. Once a referral is received, the unit can accept or deny it; accepted matters may be investigated criminally or civilly, while nonviable matters can be referred back to HHS or other agencies for administrative action, including repayment demands and reimbursement offsets. No votes or formal committee actions were taken in the portion provided.
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

S/C on Defense & Veterans' Affairs Mar 31st, 2025

S/C on Defense & Veterans' Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • and the storage fees.
  • Selling it for fees and storage fees. So it wouldn't be on the driver's license first.
  • And so now they're, they don't want to pay that fee because it's some of the fees are a little bit heavy
  • Currently there is no, uh, uh, matching grant structure codified in statute.
  • What this bill does is codify that structure. Currently it's there today.
Bills: HB101
MS

Mississippi 2026 Regular Session

Finance - Room 216, 3 February, 2026; 10:30 AM

Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • It's a fee.
  • It's a fee.
  • It's a fee.
  • It's a fee.
  • It's a fee.
Summary: The committee first considered Senate Bill 2191, which would expand the allowable uses of municipal use tax funds. The bill would add sidewalks to the list of eligible projects and remove remaining restrictive language that limited use tax spending to roads and bridges. A senator asked for confirmation that the funds would be limited to publicly owned property of the local government, and the sponsor confirmed that was the intent. The committee approved the bill and reported it out. The committee then took up Senate Bill 2257, the Mississippi Land Bank Act, which would create a local land bank tool for cities and counties to acquire, manage, and return vacant, abandoned, and tax-forfeited properties to productive use. The sponsor said the bill is intended to help address blight, especially properties held at the Secretary of State’s office, and emphasized that land banks would be locally created, subject to public accountability requirements, and barred from using eminent domain. The committee adopted the bill and reported it out. Members also discussed Senate Bill 2828, a committee substitute that would impose a fee on international wire transfers, with a credit available to Mississippi income taxpayers. The sponsor said half of the revenue would go to DPS for 287(g) programs and half to the general fund. An amendment was adopted to exempt certain transactions funded through U.S.-issued debit or credit cards or withdrawn from federally insured accounts. The committee adopted the substitute and reported the bill out. Later bills included SB 2863, creating a Jackson County industrial zone exempt from municipal annexation, and SB 2862, a related annexation measure brought forward with a reverse repealer; both were advanced after brief discussion. The committee also approved SB 2909, which lowers the unreduced retirement threshold in Tier 5 from 35 years to 30 years, and SB 2885, the Mississippi Work and Save program, a voluntary state-treasurer-run retirement savings option for small employers and employees. Throughout, the committee generally asked limited clarifying questions and then voted to adopt committee substitutes and report the bills out.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Local Government Jun 11th, 2026

Transcript Highlights:
  • This is the one that allows structures up to three stories and six units to be in the IRC.
  • So they will collect the permit fees, they will collect the impact fees, they will allow for development
  • A really good example of this, an obvious one, is impact fees.
  • The cost of impact fees can be an impediment. The cost of impact fees can be an impediment.
  • Code enforcement is not fee-based.
Summary: The committee held a work session on local government issues, beginning with an update from the State Building Code Council on four legislatively mandated code amendments now in CR-102 rulemaking: temporary emergency shelters, reduced minimum dwelling unit size, multiplex housing up to three stories and six units, and single-exit apartment buildings up to six stories. Council staff also described a separate embodied-carbon appendix proposal that remains under public review, with testimony both supporting and opposing it. Members asked about the rationale for some of the code limits, including the restriction on connecting multiplex buildings. The committee then heard a panel on annexations from MRSC, Pierce County, and the Association of Washington Cities. Witnesses reviewed annexation methods, including petition, election, and interlocal agreement approaches, and said larger annexations are increasingly using interlocal agreements because they can address infrastructure, revenue sharing, and public process concerns. They described barriers such as inconsistent local standards, the cost of infrastructure, referendum risk, census requirements, and the difficulty of persuading residents and local officials to support annexation. Members asked about the five-year restriction on residential zoning changes in one annexation method and whether a hearing examiner could reduce political pressure on local decision-makers. A second panel discussed subdivision reform. The Master Builders Association urged raising the short-plat threshold within urban growth areas to 30 lots as a simpler first step, citing permitting delays and added housing costs. The City of Spokane described implementation problems with recent housing laws, including uncertainty about how to review plats under HB 1110, lot-splitting administration, and added notice requirements for unit lot subdivisions. AWC said there was broad agreement that subdivision decisions should be more administrative, but public hearings remained a point of disagreement. The committee also heard from FutureWise, the Washington State Association of Counties, and Lewis County on county development regulation and enforcement, with witnesses emphasizing underfunded code enforcement, inconsistent standards between counties and cities, and the need for better coordination, incentives, and possibly stronger enforcement tools. No votes were taken; the chair said the committee would continue working on possible solutions in future sessions.
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

S/C on Telecommunications & Broadband Mar 31st, 2025

S/C on Telecommunications & Broadband

Transcript Highlights:
  • Some broadband providers report application fees up to $250 per pole.
  • Fee that serve more as a barrier to entry than a meaningful administrative cost.
  • A predictable framework is far more effective than arbitrary or secretive rate structures.
  • Their, their any study fees need to be, uh, recovered. All of that must take place.
  • The increased pole rental fees by the time we pay all the legal to go with 5 different entities.
AL

Alabama 2026 1st Special Session

Alabama House Mar 19th, 2026

Alabama House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • card fees. card fees.
  • c><04:16:48.640> not<04:16:48.880> mean<04:16:49.040> that fees, how does that fee
  • not mean that fees, how does that fee not mean that they'll<04:16:49.520> have<04:16:49.600><
  • If ABC is not allowed to collect the credit card fees, those fees have to come from somewhere because
  • If ABC is not allowed to collect the credit card fees, those fees have to come from somewhere because
Keywords: 1136, house, all
MA
Transcript Highlights:
  • I think the employer has to pay this fee to be able to join this apprenticeship program and bring in
  • They had a higher fee before, so I think they were sort of giving an olive branch, like they were going
  • And also implied, where is this fee going? Right, right. Okay. Chris, you have a question?
  • program, then they might want to look at some sort of titrated fee schedule where, you know, if a Bank
  • But a discussion on the engagement of people with disabilities in the apprenticeship structure and how
Keywords: 995, all
Summary: The Workforce Support Subcommittee met with ASL and CART interpretation, took roll call, and approved the prior meeting minutes by motion and second. The main discussion focused on a proposed apprenticeship-related presentation and outreach to the Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development (EOLWD), including a draft letter and follow-up communication with Undersecretary Josh Cutler and Amara Ram. Members said the draft looked good and discussed keeping trade partners informed, as well as the need to coordinate with the broader commission before moving forward. A substantial portion of the meeting centered on apprenticeship opportunities for people with disabilities and how to frame the topic. Members discussed a recent Apprenticeship Week event, noting employer interest, Governor Healey’s goal of expanding apprenticeships to 100,000, and concerns raised by employers about a $250 annual fee and the complexity of the registration process. Participants also discussed the need to include people with disabilities in apprenticeship conversations, challenge stereotypes about suitable jobs, and possibly involve the Commission for the Blind, higher education partners, and behavioral health apprenticeship models. The subcommittee generally agreed to focus first on child care and home health as initial apprenticeship fields, with direct support, house managers, and program managers also identified as important workforce roles. Members discussed inviting trade representatives and state liaisons, but emphasized that scheduling should not become overly complicated. They leaned toward a Zoom-only format, likely around 90 minutes, and agreed to continue coordinating offline on dates, format, and outreach before the next step.
UT

Utah 2025 Regular Session

Business and Labor Interim Committee - November 19, 2025

Business and Labor Interim Committee

Transcript Highlights:
  • I think, well, there can only be one name in the statute for what the structure is.
  • with the Structural Engineers Association of Utah.
  • And also to help prevent those fires from being communicated from structure to structure of those that
  • Well, they would go back to the local jurisdiction to set those fees, fines, and things.
  • other than their trust fees.
Keywords: 985, all