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MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Energy, Utilities, Environment and Climate - 04/08/26
Energy, Utilities, Environment, and Climate
Transcript Highlights:
- Um, and then this would be recaptured through the PUC's normal assessment process of their operating
- So, this would be come back to the state as a general fund assessment, so it'll net cost of zero.
- So, this would be come back to the state as a general fund assessment, so it'll net cost of zero.
- So, this would be come back to the state as a general fund assessment, so it'll net cost of zero.
- So, this would be come back to the state as a general fund assessment, so it'll net cost of zero.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- and how they're spending on community benefit, along with these assessments.
- </c> alliance with these assessments. alliance with these assessments.
- Gildemeister continued: affirmatively assess whether the patient is eligible for charity care.
- He was taken by ambulance to our local hospital and was assessed by an ER doc who said, "He needs to
- He was taken by ambulance to our local hospital and was assessed by an ER doc who said, "He needs to
Bills:
HF4343
Committee:
House Taxes
Keywords:
sales tax, use tax, advertising tax, taxable services, digital advertising, online marketing, marketing services, search engine marketing, lead generation, internet advertising, ad agency, media buying, campaign planning, Minnesota tax law, service tax, broadening tax base, web advertising, promotional services, 1183, house
MS
Mississippi 2026 Regular Session
MS House Floor - 5 March, 2026; 10:00 AM
Mississippi House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- It was I assume he got assessed that while he was in custody and it's on there when he gets out, correct
- It was I assume he got assessed that while he was in custody and it's on there when he gets out, correct
- </c><01:46:11.920><c> that</c> >> It was I assume he got assessed that >> It was I assume
- he got assessed that while<01:46:12.719><c> he</c><01:46:12.960><c> was</c><01:46:13.119><c> in</c><
- </c> assisted living, they're not assessed. assisted living, they're not assessed.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Jobs and Economic Development - 02/25/26
Jobs and Economic Development
Transcript Highlights:
- or something that may be going on right now to assess the statewide economic impact of all businesses
- </c><00:46:11.599><c> or</c> if there is an study or an assessment or if there is an study or an assessment
- that may be going on right now to<00:46:16.000><c> um</c><00:46:16.640><c> to</c><00:46:16.960><c> assess
- c><00:46:17.359><c> the</c><00:46:17.520><c> statewide</c><00:46:18.079><c> economic</c> to um to assess
- uh uh quite the way that you assessment uh uh quite the way that you are<00:48:16.000><c> laying</c>
Committee:
Senate Jobs and Economic Development
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Agriculture Finance and Policy Committee 2/23/26
Agriculture Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- I was made aware last week from somebody back home that they were being assessed an additional fee because
- I was made aware last week from somebody back home that they were being assessed an additional fee because
- They were being assessed an additional fee because their service was still with copper, and she wasn't
- the appropriate agencies, help guide them through the permitting requirements, conduct initial assessments
- </c> commissioner is going to have to assess commissioner is going to have to assess funds<01:36:16.239
Committee:
House Agriculture Finance and Policy
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Interim Joint Committee on State Government (10-21-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> assessments by the consultants. assessments by the consultants.
- Assessments are being made on the current marina.
- Assessments are being made on design.
- Assessments are being made on the<01:26:06.239><c> current</c><01:26:06.560><c> marina.
- </c><01:26:10.239><c> perform</c> assessment requires divers to perform assessment requires divers to
Keywords:
Discussion of SB 126 (2025 RS) 00:05:13
Discussion of HB 16 (2025 RS) 00:15:40
Kentucky Department of Parks – Overview 01:05:06, 958, all
Summary:
The committee met jointly for State Government, State and Local Government, and Elections and Constitutional Amendments, approved the minutes from the September 23 meeting, and then took up discussion of Senate Bill 126, a proposed constitutional amendment to restrict the governor’s pardon power. Senator Chris McDaniel said the measure was prompted by concerns over pardons issued in 2019 and would bar pardons for 60 days before a gubernatorial election through the swearing-in of a new governor, leaving the power otherwise intact. Members who spoke generally supported the proposal as a way to increase accountability, and McDaniel said he intended to place it on the 2026 ballot. No vote was taken on the bill during the discussion.
The committee then moved to House Bill 16 on water fluoridation. Representative Hart and Senator Greg Elkins said the bill would remove Kentucky’s fluoridation mandate and give local water districts the choice to add fluoride or not. They emphasized that the revised draft also adds immunity language to protect districts from civil litigation regardless of their decision. Dr. Jack Call, a Louisville dentist, presented against fluoridation, arguing that the main dental benefit is topical rather than from drinking water and citing studies and reports he said linked fluoride exposure to reduced IQ in children and other health concerns. Cindy Batson, a nurse and parent, also supported the bill and said she had testified on the issue for years.
During questions, Senator Rollins raised concerns about fluoride being an industrial byproduct and described fluoridation as forced medication. The discussion remained focused on the bill’s local-control and immunity provisions, with sponsors saying they were not trying to relitigate the broader science but wanted to remove the mandate. The transcript ends while questions and testimony on HB 16 were still underway, and no final committee action is shown.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Special Session - Senate Floor Session - Part 3 - 06/09/25
Minnesota Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- And we were primarily concerned with the water permitting and environmental assessment components of
- assessment components of data<00:15:34.079><c> center</c><00:15:34.560><c> sighting</c><00:15:35.279
- Without it, they face hard questions about raising taxes, water rates, and assessments.
- Without it, they face hard questions about raising taxes, water rates, and assessments.
- </c> taxes, water rates, and assessments. taxes, water rates, and assessments.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- Prior to that year, landowners could have their property tax assessment adjusted by their local county
- tax assessment adjusted by their<00:28:51.440><c> local</c><00:28:51.799><c> County</c><00:28:52.200
- </c> to have their property fairly assessed to have their property fairly assessed based<00:29:57.200
- at the full land are being assessed at the full land value<00:31:24.240><c> and</c><00:31:24.399><c>
- In turn, a couple of years later, they came to the tax court and said, 'Hey, our assessed value isn't
Committee:
House Taxes
Keywords:
property tax, exemption, leased land, public use, commercial property, HF632, Minnesota property tax, conservation easement, conservation restriction, assessed value, property valuation, tax assessment, real property, land conservation, farmland preservation, natural areas, riparian buffer, water quality, water quantity, county assessor
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- Well, when we get those questions as an agency, we assess them, and so the median actually was four,
- Well, when we get those questions as an agency, we assess them, and so the median actually was four,
- Well, when we get those questions as an agency, we assess them, and so the median actually was four,
- as an agency we assess them uh and<00:31:59.760><c> so</c><00:31:59.919><c> the</c><00:32:00.000><c>
- One is that, actually right now, we're assessing from our current participants how the program worked
Committee:
Senate Higher Education
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Health and Human Services - 04/07/26
Health and Human Services
Transcript Highlights:
- 00:20:43.800><c> during</c><00:20:44.080><c> our</c><00:20:44.280><c> legal</c><00:20:44.560><c> screening
- ,</c><00:20:45.080><c> we</c> sometimes during our legal screening, we sometimes during our legal screening
Committee:
Senate Health and Human Services
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Consensus Forecasting Group (12-16-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- . >> Numbers that you have on the screen, numbers that are in the book.
- >> Numbers that you have on the screen, >> Numbers that you have on the screen, numbers<01
Summary:
The meeting focused on reaching consensus on official Kentucky revenue estimates for fiscal years 2026 through 2028, using updated S&P Global economic forecasts compared with the September presentation. Staff explained that the updated forecast relied partly on alternative data because of the federal government shutdown, and they walked through changes in national and Kentucky economic assumptions across control, optimistic, and pessimistic scenarios. The control forecast was described as slightly more optimistic in the near term but more cautious in fiscal 2027 and 2028, with GDP growth revised up for the current year and down somewhat in the outer years. The pessimistic scenario now assumed a two-quarter recession beginning in the current quarter, while the optimistic scenario was given a higher probability weight than before.
The presenters highlighted several Kentucky-relevant variables that changed since September, including weaker manufacturing employment, weaker housing starts, weaker consumer sentiment, and lower expected non-farm employment in fiscal 2026. At the same time, wage and salary disbursements were revised upward in fiscal 2027, reflecting higher disposable income from tax changes, and real consumer spending was expected to be stronger in the near term. They also discussed assumptions about tariffs, business profits, the Federal Reserve, unemployment, oil prices, retail sales, vehicle sales, exports, and consumer sentiment, noting that some indicators were little changed while others shifted materially. Consumer sentiment was attributed to affordability concerns, tariff impacts, and a general sense of malaise, but was expected to improve in later years from a low base.
Members asked follow-up questions about why the forecast worsened in later years and about the consumer sentiment assumptions. Staff responded that the forecast assumed larger take-home pay and refunds from tax withholding changes, along with some easing of tariff effects, which they believed would help offset a negative wealth effect from stock market declines. They also noted that S&P Global’s December forecast, which had already been published, was essentially consistent with the presentation and that the firm believed its earlier assumptions had tracked recent data well. No vote or final action was recorded in the portion provided, but the discussion was aimed at settling the revenue estimates that will underpin the upcoming branch budget bills.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
Commission to Study Costs of Special Education (10/29/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- You have to have a screening for hearing and vision, and all of those would need to be reviewed before
- Um, of the, um, 84 students with disabilities that are attending these charter... have to have a screening
- for hearing and have to have a screening for hearing and vision<00:25:30.400><c> and</c><00:25:30.559
Summary:
The commission met to continue its study of the cost of special education, with the chair emphasizing that the group needs to narrow its focus over the coming year toward specific cost drivers, including the IEP process, Medicaid, charter schools, and EFAs. Members reviewed a draft first report due November 1 and agreed it would be a brief synopsis of prior meetings, with minutes attached. The September 30, 2025 minutes were amended to correct the number of federally funded department staff from 234 to 23, and to revise language about Senator Sullivan’s comments so they reflected concerns about IEP advocates and fees charged to families rather than support for the concept. The amended minutes were then approved unanimously, with abstentions noted for members who were absent.
The main presentation focused on how special education costs are handled for students attending charter schools. The DOE representative said there are 804 students with disabilities in charter schools across 88 of the state’s 176 districts, and that the district of residence remains responsible for all services and costs. She explained that students must meet IDEA criteria through district evaluation and parent consent, and that services are determined through individual IEP meetings rather than by a blanket charter-school decision. Members asked how those costs are tracked, whether any students are merely “monitored,” and whether districts separately identify charter-school special education expenses; the answer was that most districts fold those costs into their overall special education budget, though some may break them out as a line item.
The discussion then turned to transportation and mileage costs for staff providing services at charter schools. Testimony indicated that districts may use their own staff, contract staff, or contract with a charter school for certified services, and that travel costs are often either built into contracts or absorbed as part of staff time rather than separately reimbursed. Members questioned whether mileage is reimbursed when staff travel to distant charter schools and whether those costs can be isolated in district budgets; the response was that practices vary by district and are not usually broken out by special education function. Several members argued this makes it difficult to determine the true cost of delivering special education, especially given New Hampshire’s model in which the district of residence pays regardless of where the charter school is located. The chair noted the complexity of the system and compared it to the state’s separate tuition and transportation approach for career and technical education centers.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
CPC Public Hearing - Wed Mar 19, 2025 @ 2:00 PM HST
Consumer Protection & Commerce
Transcript Highlights:
- everything that was in this testimony because I haven't reviewed it, but what you shared here on the screen
- everything that was in this testimony because I haven't reviewed it, but what you shared here on the screen
- I haven't reviewed it, but what you shared here on the screen, patients are able to grow at a...
Committee:
House Consumer Protection & Commerce
Summary:
The committee met on March 19, 2025, and first heard SB 137 SD2 HD1 relating to electric utilities. The Division of Consumer Advocacy and the Public Utilities Commission said they stood on their written comments, IBEW Local 1260 supported the bill, and Ulupono Initiative also supported it. Hawaiian Electric supported the intent but asked for an amendment, saying the bill’s definition of “acquiring entity” was too broad and could unintentionally cover purely local utility transactions. A later witness from Life of the Land supported the bill only if the merger/acquisition language were removed, arguing the PUC would not have a workable mechanism to let a cooperative intervene in a utility sale process. Committee members questioned whether the bill could still work without that section, and Ulupono said it was open to clarifying language but did not seek to remove the provision; the discussion ended without a vote in the excerpt provided.
The committee then took up SB 1220 SD2 relating to a renewable gas tariff. The Division of Consumer Advocacy and the PUC again stood on written comments. HGas strongly supported the measure, saying it would create a faster, more cost-effective path for a voluntary renewable gas tariff without requiring a full rate case, while preserving PUC oversight and consumer protections. The Coalition for Renewable Natural Gas also supported the bill, emphasizing that it would expand consumer choice and help Hawaii’s clean energy goals while keeping the program voluntary and shielding non-participating customers from costs.
Henry Curtis of Life of the Land opposed the bill, arguing that HGas already had an active rate case and could have raised the issue there, and that the proposal did not increase renewable gas supply or speed up acquisition; he called it a gimmick. In response, HGas said the bill was mainly a mechanism to speed filing and that the details would be worked out in a PUC docket. Committee members pressed HGas on whether the measure would actually add renewable gas, what source would be used, and whether customers would simply be paying more for the same gas; HGas said it had two projects in development, including banagrass and hydrogen-related work, and that the tariff would be a voluntary opt-in rate for customers seeking renewable natural gas to meet sustainability goals. No vote was taken in the excerpt provided.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- are<00:24:21.880><c> seeing</c><00:24:22.400><c> on</c><00:24:22.520><c> their</c><00:24:22.760><c> screens
- </c><00:24:23.720><c> to</c><00:24:23.960><c> prevent</c> are seeing on their screens to prevent are
- seeing on their screens to prevent what<00:24:24.600><c> we</c><00:24:24.799><c> call</c><00:24:25.440
Committee:
House Taxes
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Jobs and Economic Development - 02/10/25
Jobs and Economic Development
Transcript Highlights:
- perspective and reassurance in a<01:52:55.679><c> way</c><01:52:56.040><c> a</c><01:52:56.239><c> screen
- </c><01:52:56.679><c> never</c><01:52:57.040><c> could</c><01:52:58.040><c> through</c> a way a screen
- never could through a way a screen never could through career<01:52:58.800><c> exposure</c><01:52:59.480
Committee:
Senate Jobs and Economic Development
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- I'm going to share my screen. as far as I know as far as States as far as I know as far as States coordination
- matrix of efficiency, how much revenue it can generate, transparency, and those five elements on the screen
- matrix of efficiency, how much revenue it can generate, transparency, and those five elements on the screen
Committee:
Senate Transportation
LA
Louisiana 2026 Regular Session
Water Sector Commission May 31st, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- So the first assess, after, I thought we brought someone in after the first assessment.
Summary:
The committee met with a quorum, approved the April 16 minutes, and then considered several water-system funding and deadline requests. For Magnolia Plantation Water System, members approved a deadline extension for plans and specifications to December 31, 2026, after hearing that the project still needed a test well, water-quality confirmation, and finalization of an LDH loan for matching funds. For St. Mary Parish Water and Sewer Commission No. 5, the committee approved an additional $619,850 to cover construction/engineering shortfalls and contingencies, bringing the grant total to $5,192,850 and requiring later JLCB approval.
Members also approved revised phase two guidance, which updated emergency subfund language to align with recently passed legislation and clarified eligibility and process for limited fiscal administrators and fiscal administration. The committee then took up an emergency subfund request for Tallulah’s water system: staff explained that a temporary filtration skid must remain in place while permanent filters are designed and bid, and that the lease is expiring soon. After discussion of the timing, the need for a new engineer, and the possibility of a lease-purchase arrangement, the committee approved $1.4 million in emergency funding contingent on appointment of a limited fiscal administrator.
Staff reported that the new payment process for the program is now moving funds more quickly and that updated expenditure projections will be provided at the next meeting. Members discussed the need to keep pushing projects toward closeout and acknowledged that some projects may need to be cut off if they cannot spend funds in time. The meeting ended with no further business and adjournment on a motion without objection.
LA
Transcript Highlights:
- and neglect reporting procedures, to provide for the assignment of reports for investigation and assessment
- So we adjusted that language of who would be doing that assessment. Let's see.
Bills:
SB237
Committee:
House Health and Welfare
Keywords:
child welfare, Department of Children and Family Services, mandatory reporting, abuse prevention, investigative teams, child ombudsman, forensic interviews, confidentiality
Summary:
The House Committee on Health and Welfare met on April 20 and took up Senate Bill 237 by Senator Barrow, a child welfare measure addressing the duties of the state child ombudsman, DCFS, public reporting, confidentiality, critical incident reviews, multidisciplinary investigative teams, forensic interviews, mandatory reporter training, and related child abuse and neglect procedures. Before discussion, the committee reconsidered and withdrew a previously adopted amendment set, then heard the bill re-read and reviewed a new amendment package developed through meetings among Senator Barrow, Representatives Spell and Berault, DCFS, and the ombudsman’s office.
Members described the revised bill as narrowing and clarifying several provisions: reducing the number of law enforcement liaisons, limiting death/near-fatality notifications to legislative leadership and committee chairs with later notice to affected district members if substantiated, adjusting medical review language, and adding quality-improvement and training components. Other changes included keeping school-related reports routed to law enforcement, changing some mandatory language to discretionary language for certain child-on-child sexual abuse situations, aligning multidisciplinary team procedures with existing interagency protocols, and making technical revisions to reduce burden and likely lower the fiscal note. The committee also adopted a separate amendment to include recreation language for the Department of Children and Family Services.
Senator Barrow and several representatives emphasized that the goal was to improve child protection and review processes while making the bill workable for DCFS and other agencies. They noted the importance of outside review, ombudsman access to records, and using review findings to drive implementation changes. After no objections, the committee adopted the amendment sets and reported Senate Bill 237 favorably with amendments. The meeting then adjourned.
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- only way that they can add that exemption for the rest of the year is to cancel the tax that's been assessed
- And so then that is the amount, that assessment, that total value is what the taxpayer uses to determine
Committee:
House Revenue and Taxation
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Appropriations and Budget Public Safety Subcommittee Feb 11th, 2026 at 04:30 pm
Public Safety
Transcript Highlights:
- what I was reading here, to release, yeah, prior to release, but there's a need, there's a needs assessment
- that goes on You all know this, the needs assessment, when they come in, to determine where they, where
Committees:
House Public Safety , House A&B Public Safety Subcommittee
Keywords:
rural law enforcement, grant fund, public safety, financial assistance, coordination districts, grant funding, law enforcement coordinators, municipal assistance, education, inmates, literacy, high school equivalency, Department of Corrections, parole, rehabilitation, HB3595, Safer Counties Revolving Fund, Oklahoma Department of Public Safety, county grants, traffic barrier equipment