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AR
Transcript Highlights:
- These are American Rescue Plan Act appropriation requests.
- This is pay plan appropriation and performance fund transfer requests.
- Twelve agencies are requesting $442,000 in pay plan appropriation to pay salaries and match.
- All four cite the new pay plan as a reason for the transfer. Members, are there any questions?
- All four cite the new pay plan as a reason for the transfer. Members, are there any questions?
Committee:
All JOINT BUDGET COMMITTEE
Summary:
The committee considered and approved several temporary appropriation requests in Section B, including spending authority for the Court of Appeals to pay appointed counsel in criminal appeals, Commerce/Aeronautics airport and aviation grants, and Insurance Department items for workers’ compensation benefits and premium tax refunds. It also approved ARPA-related requests in Section C to return unused federal funds from DHS aging, mental health, substance abuse, and Older Americans Act grants.
In Section D, the committee reviewed and approved Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act requests, including Agriculture grants for wildfire preparedness and forestry capacity, a large Commerce broadband BEAD request, environmental recycling-related reallocations, and Oil and Gas Commission grants for facility repairs and sample preservation. Members questioned the broadband program’s audit process and performance safeguards; the State Broadband Director said the funds are federal, subject to audits, and payments are released only after engineering certification of completed work. The committee also approved DHS reallocations in Section E, including major transfers within Medical Services from hospital medical appropriations to private and public nursing home lines, as well as transfers for children and family services, developmental disabilities, and youth services.
The committee then reviewed cash fund requests, miscellaneous federal grants, pay plan and performance fund transfers, methods of finance, and a large set of contracts. A Northwest Arkansas Community College official explained storm-damage repairs and insurance settlement issues, and DHS explained its hospital medical transfer was moving excess appropriation rather than cash. Members also questioned several UAPB tobacco prevention subgrants, especially arts-based outreach, and asked for more data on effectiveness; the committee later voted to expunge and re-refer the J-2 item for further review at a later ALC meeting. Additional discussion covered a DEQ grant to Free Geek of Arkansas for e-waste recycling, a UAPB tobacco program, and various contracts for universities, DHS services, corrections, and public safety. The meeting ended with reports filed for information and a brief member comment thanking others for concern after a tornado in Stone County; no one was injured.
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- to do on... ...three-year strategic plan, and we all collectively develop these on what we're going
- Just a little bit about our process on how we budget and how we plan, so a little bit more about our
- We have an annual operating plan that kicks off in January.
- And we begin our strategic planning for our next year’s annual operating plan that the board is involved
- And then in November we ratify that and move forward into our next plan.
Committee:
Senate Agricultural Affairs
AR
Transcript Highlights:
- Department of Health and Human Services, and their plan is to build a new allied health building.
- see it later on, but this is their first initial contract stating the method of finance, how they plan
- Those programs, as well as the pay plan increases in the actual salary that took place last July, have
- The first part of what we were doing was pay plan. This is kind of the final act of the pay plan.
- This is kind of the final act of the pay plan.
Committee:
All ALC-REVIEW
Summary:
The subcommittee reviewed multiple methods of finance and construction items, including projects for Arkansas State University, Black River Technical College, UAMS, the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, and UCA. The UAPB Allied Health and Sciences Building appeared both as a method of finance and as an alternative delivery construction project, with East Harding Construction selected and AMR Architects as designer. Members approved the methods of finance, the alternative delivery project, and several discretionary grants, including Department of Health grants for a heart attack center designation and community health worker training, and DHS grants related to homeless services, behavioral health transition support, and an enabling technology pilot.
The committee then reviewed service contracts, including RFQs, construction-related contracts, intergovernmental agreements, and a large number of out-of-state and in-state contracts. Testimony focused heavily on DHS staffing and state hospital contracts, the Arkansas State Police seatbelt survey, AEDC’s lithium supply chain analysis, and Shared Administrative Services’ new SuccessFactors performance-management contract. Members asked detailed questions about contract nursing costs, turnover, hiring timelines, and whether some contracts were being renewed or amended beyond their original projected costs. DHS and Veterans Affairs officials explained staffing shortages, retention incentives, and the use of contract labor as a supplement to state employees.
Several contracts drew scrutiny and were held for further review. Representative Wardlaw raised concerns about projected costs and repeated amendments on the Department of Education security contract and on DHS staffing contracts, arguing that some had exceeded their original projected totals. The committee voted to hold contracts 5, 7, and 8 until Friday, while adopting the remaining contracts. The meeting ended after informational reports on service contract amendments without material change, executed contracts, and emergency procurements were presented, with no further business before adjournment.
ID
Idaho 2026 Regular Session
Agenda Mar 12th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- And the support expressed in here for the integrated resource plan process is probably the best tool
- Once again, these were plans laid out until the year 2100, 75 years down the road.
- Once again, these were plans laid out until the year 2100, 75 years down the road.
- The University of Washington made headlines in 2025; researchers quietly planned to test dimming the
- Researchers quietly planned to test dimming the sunlight. They wanted to avoid scaring the public.
Summary:
The Environment, Energy, and Technology Committee met with a quorum and first took up HCR 32, a resolution on Idaho’s energy future. Representative Leavitt said the measure emphasizes baseload generation, transmission, energy sovereignty, and private property rights, citing Idaho’s reliance on imported energy and concerns about projects such as Lava Ridge and the Southwest Intertie Project North. Public testimony included support from Renewable Northwest, whose representative praised the resolution’s recognition of regional market participation, ratepayer protection, and the need for more generation and transmission, while noting that regional market access can reduce the amount of baseload generation needed. The committee then voted to send HCR 32 to the floor with a due pass recommendation.
The committee next considered H.J.M. 18, a memorial urging opposition to solar geoengineering. Representative Hostetler explained that the memorial had been revised to focus specifically on solar geoengineering rather than weather modification generally. A long line of public testimony supported the memorial, with witnesses arguing that solar geoengineering poses risks to health, agriculture, water, soil, wildlife, and property rights, and calling for Idaho to assert state sovereignty and urge federal action. Several witnesses cited federal reports, research plans, and alleged environmental and health impacts, while others described personal observations and sampling results they believed showed harmful particulates in rain or air.
One witness, a federal trial practitioner, argued that airplane trails are not merely water vapor and urged independent scientific study, while other speakers claimed links between geoengineering and infertility, neurological illness, bee decline, drought, and crop impacts. A sponsor clarified the memorial’s language in response to a question about the term “generally,” explaining it was intended to distinguish solar geoengineering from broader weather modification. After testimony ended, the committee voted to send H.J.M. 18 to the floor with a due pass recommendation and then adjourned.
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Legislative Republican Leaders Media Availability Feb 24th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- What is the Republicans’ plan for that legislation when it comes to the Senate?
- Because last year, Senator Gildon proposed a similar step in his Save Washington plan by taking $2.5
- Because last year, Senator Gildon proposed a similar step in his Save Washington plan by taking $2.5
- We put forward many amendments and proposals to make sure, like Plan 1 retirees get an ongoing COLA.
- We put forward many amendments and proposals to make sure, like plan one, presenters, plan one retirees
Summary:
House and Senate Republican leaders held a media availability focused on the final stretch of the legislative session, with most of the discussion centered on budget proposals, a proposed income tax on high earners, and several policy bills they oppose. They criticized the operating budget for relying on a new income tax, using one-time fund sweeps and pension-related financing, and drawing down the rainy day fund, while saying the capital budget was more bipartisan and the transportation budget had some positive emphasis on road preservation but still included concerns such as Public Works Trust Fund sweeps and ferry funding.
A major topic was allegations that sign-ins on the income tax bill included duplicates or fraudulent entries. Republicans said they took the issue seriously, supported verification improvements, and argued that even after removing duplicates the bill still drew over 100,000 unique emails opposing it. They rejected claims that their side had manipulated the process and said the Legislature should fix the sign-in system, possibly with more IT safeguards, while also arguing the bill should lose its emergency clause so voters could weigh in through a referendum.
Republicans also criticized bills they described as anti-police or anti-law-enforcement, including measures related to face coverings and sheriff qualifications, and they opposed a bill requiring arbitration before claims against the state or local governments can go to jury trial, saying broader tort reform is needed instead. They said the state’s liability problems stem from harm done in areas like juvenile rehabilitation and child welfare. On the budget side, they objected to cuts to Medicaid, child care, transitional kindergarten, rural school funding, and other programs, while also warning against using pension funds to balance the budget and against a proposed 75-year Sound Transit bond, which they called financially irresponsible. No votes were taken in this media availability.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Committee on Revenue Jan 27th, 2026
Joint Committee on Revenue
Transcript Highlights:
- and long-range planning with community support that started decades ago really... ...really brought
- So I just wanted to highlight how it takes decades to kind of be here and how that pre-planning... ..
- We think we can do that if we very carefully continue to plan, as much as we carefully continue to plan
- Very carefully continue to plan, as much as we carefully continued to plan in the past.
- We've deployed 16 electric buses in that time, with up to another 16 planned next year.
Committee:
Joint Joint Committee on Revenue
Summary:
The Joint Committee on Revenue held a hybrid hearing on 17 miscellaneous and late-file bills, with testimony focused on several local tax and policy measures. The first major item was H. 4687 for Watertown, which would make permanent a temporary tax classification adjustment allowing the city to maintain a 50% minimum residential factor and a 175% commercial shift. Watertown officials and legislators said the change is needed because the city’s commercial growth has triggered an old statutory formula that would otherwise push a larger share of the tax burden onto homeowners, especially seniors and fixed-income residents. They said the current temporary relief expires in fiscal 2027 and warned that, without permanent action, residential tax bills could rise sharply; committee members asked about the regional business impact, commercial taxpayers such as Alexandria Real Estate, and Watertown’s stabilization and free cash balances.
The committee also heard H. 4435, a Charlemont bill authorizing a tax on commercial recreation services. Town officials said the measure would help a small rural town with a large tourism and recreation economy cover increased police, fire, and EMS costs caused by visitors, while reducing pressure on local property taxpayers. A committee member questioned whether the proposal fit within existing tax law and whether it was more like a tax on entry than on services; town witnesses responded that it would apply to recreation-related services such as guides and lifts and was modeled on the meals and rooms tax.
Finally, testimony was taken on H. 4722, which would promote fair tax treatment for zero-emission medium- and heavy-duty vehicles, including electric school buses and trucks, by capping sales and excise taxes at the level of comparable diesel vehicles. Supporters said the bill would remove an unintended tax penalty, help school districts and transportation providers afford electrification, and remain revenue-neutral. Representative Gentile also testified in support of H. 4722 and H. 4755, a Sudbury bill to amend the town’s means-tested senior citizen property tax exemption so the local program can continue without requiring a new special act if it lapses. No votes were taken; the hearing concluded after testimony and questions.
WA
Transcript Highlights:
- It also prohibits staff members from using isolation as a planned behavior intervention.
- It provides that, in addition to requiring more specific advanced educational planning and parent or
- guardian agreement, restraint may be used as a planned behavior intervention only if a licensed health
- goals and guiding principles outlined in the legislatively directed Washington Thriving Strategic Plan
- So the caucuses will plan to be at minimum 35 minutes, so the caucuses will plan to be at minimum 35
Committee:
House Education
Keywords:
restraint, isolation, public schools, educational programs, student rights, mental health, behavioral support, education, school districts, student assistance, education agencies, administrative independence, superintendent, education reform, agency authority, school boards, district adjustments, administrative boundaries, educational governance, 904
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- I plan to graduate high school this year.
- So those are my plans for the next few years. Excellent, wonderful. Any other questions?
- Senator future plans are. I know you have a couple things in mind. Charlie.
- I plan to graduate high school this year.
- So that's, those are my plans for the next few days, a few years. Excellent, wonderful.
Committee:
Senate Agricultural Affairs
Summary:
The Agricultural Committee held its first meeting of the session with member introductions, welcome remarks, and introductions of two committee pages. The chair also noted that committee rules would be reviewed later and that the session would likely be busy. No formal legislation was considered or voted on at this meeting.
The main presentation focused on Idaho’s sugar beet industry. Growers described sharply lower crop prices, rising input costs, and the resulting strain on farm finances, especially for small and family farms. They said the downturn is largely tied to federal sugar policy and trade issues rather than state policy, and emphasized that reduced farm income will also hurt rural businesses and communities. Committee members asked about the volatility of sugar prices and whether any Idaho-level changes could help.
A second presentation highlighted regenerative agriculture practices such as strip-till, cover crops, and manure application. The speaker argued these methods can improve soil health, reduce costs, and conserve water, while also noting that cover crops may be cut back when farm finances tighten. Members asked about cover crop choices and whether similar practices are used internationally. The final presentation from Amalgamated Sugar explained the federal sugar program, the role of import controls and loan rates, and why the company believes the current system is failing because of excess imports, inflation, and an outdated high-tier duty. The presenter said the industry is working with federal officials to raise the duty, improve demand estimates, and protect domestic sugar production and food security.
AL
Alabama 2025 Regular Session
Alabama House Ways and Means Education Committee Feb 19th, 2025
Ways and Means Education
Transcript Highlights:
- So this would need to be one of their priorities within their plan going forward.
- I realize if you're the local school board, you may say, "Well, we already have plans for that," but
- We also offer some optional plans, flex plans, and other things.
- So, PIP uses a Medicare Advantage prescription drug plan.
- At the same time, this isn't all the money that the plan would need to fund.
Committee:
House Ways and Means Education
Keywords:
sales tax, use tax, exemption, tax conformity, tangible personal property, Alabama Department of Revenue, retail tax, consumer use tax, nonresident, religious publications, church magazines, Bible class materials, Sunday school materials, tax administration, indirect tax, state revenue, HB226, homestead exemption, ad valorem tax, property tax
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
Senate Energy and Natural Resources (02/03/2026)
Energy and Natural Resources
Transcript Highlights:
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- </c> things are brought before the planning things are brought before the planning advisory<00:49:49.680
- </c><01:45:31.280><c> that</c> do have future expansion plans that do have future expansion plans that
Committee:
Senate Energy and Natural Resources
AR
Transcript Highlights:
- do, the governor's directive or statement, was get yourselves as constitutional offices on her pay plan
- And it's a discussion and then a plan, and it doesn't make financial sense to do.
- Plan, be able to get the Lieutenant Governor's Office consistent with other constitutional offices who
- are already in other state agencies who are on the pay plan and the current market rates.
- we did was we took the request, and I think it stays in my right mid-range from the governor's pay plan
Committee:
All JBC-PERSONNEL
Summary:
The committee met to consider several requests related to constitutional offices and court security staffing, with opening remarks noting that the fringe-benefit percentage had been updated to 40–45% and that the bills already filed would be amended if the committee approved the requests. Item B, from the Supreme Court, requested one new Supreme Court police chief position at LESO5 with no appropriation change; the committee approved it. Item C, from the Secretary of State, requested five additional State Capitol Police corporal positions, a reclassification and consolidation of several job titles, and salary maximum adjustments, along with a $498,000 appropriation increase for salaries and matching funds; after questions about how the office would absorb the changes and whether the new security role would replace a contract, the committee approved the item.
Item D, from the Lieutenant Governor’s Office, sought to move from line-item maximum salaries to state pay-plan grades, with no change in the number of positions but an estimated $349,000 increase in salaries and matching funds. Office representatives said the change was intended to align with other constitutional offices, address a long period without raises, and improve retention, but Senator Hill placed the item on hold until the next day for follow-up questions. Item E, from the Auditor’s Office, requested a realignment of classifications, salary maximum increases, one UCP claims examiner position, and one UCP compliance agent, for a total increase of $579,468; the auditor said the office had withdrawn a government relations position from the request, that the new positions were revenue-neutral or needed to handle increased workload, and that salary increases were based on market comparisons and long-term stagnation. The committee approved item E, and the meeting adjourned after no further business.
CA
Transcript Highlights:
- Olga Shiloh, here on behalf of the California Association of Health Plans, respectfully in opposition
- While recognizing health plans play a real role in managing care responsibly and safeguarding against
- It also encourages a shared responsibility where patients are protected and plans remain empowered to
- It also encourage a shared responsibility where patients are protected and plan remains empowered to
- Cassidy Heckman on behalf of the California Association of Health Plans, respectfully opposed to the
Committee:
House Appropriations
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Environment & Energy Feb 24th, 2026 at 04:00 pm
Environment & Energy
Transcript Highlights:
- These assessments are a plan that's due to Ecology that, or essentially a plan or an assessment of potential
- And if I'm also not mistaken, I believe that the plan or assessment that the EITE must do can be done
- While we're planning ahead for the industries that are energy-intensive and trade-exposed and trying
- to develop a decarbonization plan, what we're... ...to develop a decarbonization plan, what we're seeing
- is that you're asking them to spend resources developing those plans, but nothing in the materials that
Bills:
SB6291
Committee:
House Environment & Energy
Keywords:
SB6291, on-site wastewater treatment, onsite wastewater treatment, septic system, sewage treatment, wastewater inspection, environmental health, local board of health, public health, professional engineer, land surveyor, certificate of competency, inspection standards, design review, supervised practice, certification, licensing, RCW 18.88A, Washington State, 904
NY
Transcript Highlights:
- Health Law in relation to data reporting required on the administration of managed long-term care plans
- Bottom line, we're talking about transparency for MLTC plans.
- ...reports for managed long-term care plans. Any questions or comments on the bill? Move the bill.
- Also self-explanatory, to ease the enrollment and re-enrollment in MLTC plans, to make it so that people
- So this would be to create a quality pool specifically for Medicaid managed care plans.
Committee:
Senate Health
Summary:
The committee considered a series of health-related bills, many of which were described as repeat measures previously passed by the Senate. Topics included expanding telehealth coverage, increasing Department of Health oversight of correctional health services, improving transparency for managed long-term care plans, requiring written consent for psychotropic medications in nursing homes and adult care facilities, extending Medicaid inpatient coverage for childbirth, expanding abortion travel funding eligibility for active-duty military families, simplifying Medicaid enrollment and recertification, adding certified recovery peer advocates to standard coverage, strengthening protections against sexual misconduct by medical providers, covering medically tailored meals and nutrition therapy, regulating retail clinics, requiring nurse representation on hospital governing boards, creating a blood clot and pulmonary embolism work group, testing potable water in parks, setting PFAS drinking water standards, improving lead service line identification, creating a quality incentive program for Medicaid managed care, expanding concussion information requirements to additional youth sports, setting a residency requirement for funeral director licensure, and changing Medicaid Inspector General audit practices.
Most bills were briefly explained by sponsors or the chair, with limited debate. Several members asked clarifying questions on specific provisions, including the frequency of park water testing, how concussion information would be distributed, and details of the nurse representation requirement. The chair also noted pulling one correctional health bill from the agenda in favor of a more comprehensive measure, and one bill on correctional health was formally removed from consideration.
The committee voted on each remaining bill, generally with unanimous or near-unanimous support. Most measures were reported to either first reading or finance, while the bill on psychotropic medications was sent to aging. The correctional health bill that remained on the agenda was approved despite one opposition, and the bill on funeral director licensure was also advanced with one abstention. The meeting concluded after all listed bills were acted on.
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Environment & Energy Feb 24th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- These assessments are a plan that's due to Ecology that, or essentially a plan or an assessment of potential
- And if I'm also not mistaken, I believe that the plan or assessment that the EITE must do can be done
- , what we're... ...to develop a decarbonization plan, what we're seeing is that you're asking them to
- spend resources developing those plans, but nothing in the materials that we've seen so far says how
- So the question is, you know, while they're planning that, they know that by a certain date they are
Summary:
The Environment and Energy committee met to executive three bills. SB 6291 would extend from two to four years the period a non-certified person may review designs and inspect on-site wastewater treatment systems under supervision of a certified individual; the committee adopted a striking amendment making a technical correction to the definition of an on-site wastewater treatment system and then passed the bill 18-0 with three excused. ESB 6246 concerns no-cost allowance allocations for emissions-intensive, trade-exposed facilities under the Climate Commitment Act; the striking amendment added an Ecology-contracted independent third-party report due in 2028 on emissions and job leakage, revised reporting and disclosure provisions, required unaffiliated licensed professional engineers for certain assessments, and clarified penalty language. Members discussed leakage, third-party review, and costs to industry, and the bill passed 11-7 with three excused after the amendment was adopted.
The committee also took up ESSB 5975, which sets lead standards for certain cookware and adjusts the Safer Products for Washington process. Members described the bill as the result of multiple years of negotiation balancing public health concerns about lead exposure with industry concerns, and noted the striking amendment set specific 2030 and 2034 standards for pots and pans. After brief supportive discussion, the committee adopted the striker and passed the bill 18-0 with three excused.
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- Yesterday at the conclusion of our hearing, I indicated that the plan was to meet today and to have a
- This new one, on page one starting on line 17, is based on a plan that Delaware did.
- Under what we've been calling the Delaware plan, now our Idaho plan, some of that bump from the R&E is
- But there's also an impact on the Delaware plan in that same fiscal year.
- But there's also an impact on the Delaware plan in that same fiscal year.
Committee:
House Revenue and Taxation
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
State government omnibus policy bill approved in committee 4/3/25
Transcript Highlights:
- to the Non-Represented Employees Compensation Plan.
- 03:52.360><c> of</c><00:03:52.519><c> the</c><00:03:52.640><c> commissioner's</c><00:03:53.159><c> plan
- </c><00:03:53.400><c> to</c><00:03:53.519><c> the</c> name of the commissioner's plan to the name of
- </c> non-represented employees Compensation non-represented employees Compensation Plan<00:03:57.959>
- and members these are the changes Plan and members these are the changes that<00:04:00.000><c> are</
Summary:
The committee considered House File 1837 and first adopted the A6 amendment to the DE2. Staff explained that the A6 made several technical and policy changes, including fixes to compensation council language, grants management changes drawn from prior legislation and the governor’s fraud package, clarifying revisions to state contracting language, revival of the 2025 compensation council so it could address judicial salaries in 2026, changes requested by Minnesota Management and Budget to personnel management statutes, and a conforming change renaming the commissioner’s plan to the Non-Represented Employees Compensation Plan.
After discussion, the committee adopted the DE2 as amended to House File 1837. Members and the chair described the bill as a bipartisan policy package reflecting work from both sides of the aisle. No opposition was recorded on the final motion.
The committee then voted to re-refer House File 1837, as amended, to the General Register. The motion carried by voice vote, and the bill was reported out of committee.
AL
Alabama 2025 Regular Session
Alabama House Alzheimer's Task Force Innovation & Research Subcommittee Mar 17th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- In looking at other state plans, Georgia has a check-off on their tax forms... Plans.
- Looking ahead, I’m kind of jumping ahead in how I plan to talk about this...
- Looking ahead, I plan to talk about this today, but they have a program called the Georgia Memory...
- This includes care plans and schedules for tests like MRIs.
- It just seemed like a great... great plan. I know Dr.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> they plan for crises. they plan for crises.
- ><c> for</c><01:09:17.480><c> every</c> Emergency planning must work for every Emergency planning must
- </c><01:09:18.920><c> for</c> student and thoughtful planning for student and thoughtful planning for
- . planning. planning.
- </c> effective school emergency planning effective school emergency planning typically<01:09:43.560><
Committee:
Senate Education Policy
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
FIN Info Briefing - Mon Jan 13, 2025 @ 9:00 AM HST
Hawaii House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- How is the cancer center planning to make up for the shortfall?
- So the plan that we provided as a business plan last year, we have over the five years to increase the
- :16.200><c> we</c> provided as a business plan last year we provided as a business plan last year we
- </c><01:54:07.960><c> at</c> redevelopment that we have planned at redevelopment that we have planned
- The first one is our greenhouse gas reduction plan.
Summary:
The House Finance Committee held an informational briefing with the University of Hawaiʻi, led by new President Wendy Hensel and Vice President for Budget and Finance Calbert Young. Hensel outlined the university system’s scope, student demographics, research activity, and campus missions, emphasizing four strategic priorities: serving Native Hawaiians and Hawaiʻi, student success, workforce development, and economic diversification through innovation and research. She highlighted the system’s enrollment, research funding, and the roles of Mānoa, Hilo, West Oʻahu, the community colleges, and specialized institutions such as JABSOM and the Cancer Center.
Young then reviewed the budget request, focusing largely on making prior one-time appropriations permanent and supporting recurring needs. Items included funding for Mānoa athletics, the Hawaiʻi Institute for Marine Biology, K-12 teacher education, Pamantasan Council support, Hilo programs, Windward’s mental health technician certificate, Maui’s practical nursing bridge program, and student support positions such as financial aid and admissions counselors. He also described workforce-related requests tied to nursing expansion at Mānoa and West Oʻahu, as well as facilities support at West Oʻahu.
A major portion of the testimony addressed the university’s two Kakaʻako medical facilities. Young explained that declining tobacco settlement and cigarette tax revenues are no longer sufficient to cover debt service for JABSOM and the Cancer Center, so the governor’s budget includes general fund support to supplement those obligations. He also described a regents-approved request not included in the governor’s proposal: expanding the Hawaiʻi Promise financial aid program to the four-year campuses, estimated at about $11–12 million. No votes or formal committee actions were taken during the briefing.