Transcript Highlights:

• Boise State is proof that performance, investment, and innovation are not enough under the current structure
• concern in Senate Bill 1326, where we inadvertently restricted publicly employed land surveyors from performing
• unable to establish property boundaries, conduct right-of-way surveys for infrastructure projects, or perform

Committee: House State Affairs

Summary: The committee first heard Senate Joint Memorial 114, which asks Congress to address changes in college athletics caused by NIL and related lawsuits. Representative Brent Crane said the memorial seeks six federal actions to create more predictability in the college sports landscape. Boise State interim president Jeremiah Shinn, athletic director Jeremiah Dickey, head football coach Spencer Danielson, and women’s golf coach Kailen Downs testified in support, emphasizing the economic impact of Boise State athletics, the need for a uniform national framework, and the importance of preserving opportunities for student-athletes across all sports. The committee moved SJM 114 to the floor with a due pass recommendation, and the motion carried unanimously. The committee then considered Senate Bill 1389, a bill revising liability protections for private property owners who allow their land to be used as polling places. Representative Britt Raifold said the bill is a cleaner solution than earlier versions and preserves tax exemption status while avoiding state indemnification. The committee briefly discussed the changes from prior drafts, and the bill was moved to the floor with a due pass recommendation and passed. Next, Senate Bill 1391 was presented as a trailer bill to correct an unintended restriction in prior legislation affecting publicly employed land surveyors. Senator Mark Harris explained that the bill restores lawful entry authority for surveyors to perform boundary, right-of-way, and other required work while maintaining notice requirements for property owners. Bruce Bain of Highway District 4 testified in support, saying the measure is needed so highway districts can complete their statutory duties efficiently. The committee sent the bill to the floor with a due pass recommendation. Finally, the committee heard House Bill 948, which would direct the Legislative Services Office to provide a revenue estimate to help the legislature meet its constitutional balanced-budget obligation. Representative Jeff Ehlers said the bill would give lawmakers another data point alongside existing projections from other agencies and experts. Representative Mickelson questioned whether the bill solved a real problem, arguing that revenue projections already come from DFM and the Governor’s office. Despite one nay vote, the committee approved a motion to send HB 948 to the floor with a due pass recommendation.

Transcript Highlights:

• Over the long term, our investment performance has outperformed our discount rate, which has strengthened
• Over the long term, our investment performance has outperformed our discount rate, which has strengthened
• They perform micro-gravimetric weighing of our PM2.5 filters, which is required by the National Ambient

Keywords: 965, house, all

Summary: The Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget met on February 19, 2026, and first received an unchanged fiscal status statement and five-year baseline projection from the Office of Planning and Budget. Members approved the fiscal status statement, and the baseline budget was noted as unchanged from the prior month. The committee also approved Facility Planning and Control’s request to add five higher education deferred maintenance projects to the Act 751 eligible list, and reviewed four change orders over $50,000 for informational purposes. The committee then approved the Louisiana Lottery Corporation’s fiscal year 2026-2027 operating budget. Lottery officials reported $610 million in projected gross revenue, emphasized 29 consecutive years without legislative auditor findings or management comments, and noted the corporation’s long-running transfers to the MFP and State General Fund. Members also approved the 2026-2027 operating budgets for LASERS, TRSL, the School Employees’ Retirement System, and the State Police Retirement System en bloc. The retirement systems described modest budget increases or decreases, strong investment performance, and continued progress in reducing unfunded liabilities; members discussed COLA prospects, UAL paydown, and the impact of surplus dollars on retirement debt reduction. The committee approved prior-year deputy sheriff supplemental pay expenditures of $20,262.32 and then approved several legislative intent clarifications for prior appropriations, including items for Tangipahoa Parish, Harahan, Allen Parish, Morgan City, and DeSoto Parish. It also approved the Water Sector Commission’s recommendation for an additional $2.8 million for four ongoing water and sewer projects. Several contract items were reviewed without action, including DEQ’s extension with RTI International, Tourism’s marketing contract amendments, and the Office of Risk Management’s Sedgwick claims administration amendment. The meeting concluded with adjournment after no further business.

Transcript Highlights:

• It says the department shall perform at least two unannounced visits per year to each child care facility
• We have also been notified that we're going to have a performance, thanks to Senator Munoz, by Kid Silver
• And also, we have been notified that we're going to have a performance, thanks to Senator Munoz by Kid

Keywords: 996, all

Transcript Highlights:

• Rouson, and the entire Senate Black Caucus, we have students from the FAMU Marching 100 who will perform
• qualified to hold office under the Constitution of the State, and that I will well and faithfully perform
• Perform the duties of State Senator for District 11, on which I am now about to enter.

Keywords: 999, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• And they're always ready to perform when it counts.
• And they're always ready to perform when it counts.
• The department quickly moves resources to its highest-performing tactics if programs are not hitting

Summary: The Agriculture and Natural Resources Budget Subcommittee met to hear member-led presentations on agency budget requests after prior meetings with the agencies. Representative Barnaby summarized the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services’ fiscal year 2025-26 request, highlighting major funding for the Rural and Family Lands Protection Program, Florida Forest Service wildfire and land management needs, citrus disease and research efforts, a new Conner Complex facility and lab, agricultural water and BMP projects, agricultural law enforcement staffing and equipment, maintenance and vehicle needs, and federal grant-related spending. No vote was taken on the department’s request during the meeting. Representative Bartleman presented the Department of Environmental Protection request and said the subcommittee supported it fully. The request emphasized Everglades restoration, water quality grants, springs, harmful algal bloom and red tide response, alternate water supplies, resilience and flood prevention, beach and coral reef restoration, land acquisition and state parks, and cleanup of petroleum, dry cleaning, and hazardous waste sites. Representative Alvarez asked DEP to provide a list of the most contaminated lakes, along with estimated costs, so the committee could prioritize cleanup efforts. Representative Black summarized the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission request, which included additional law enforcement funding in high-demand areas, oyster and reef restoration, habitat restoration, heavy equipment for land management and prescribed burning, a water survival training center, and red snapper data research. Representative Salzman then presented the Department of Citrus request, describing a lean agency budget focused on operations, PALM readiness, marketing and consumer awareness, greening-resistant plant material, and building repairs; the workgroup recommended fully funding the request. The meeting ended with members thanking the chair and staff for the more member-driven budget process, and the subcommittee adjourned without objection.

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• So in the Clean Air Act, are you familiar with the Safety and Performance Preemption Clause?
• So in the Clean Air Act, are you familiar with the Safety and Performance Preemption Clause?
• If our priority is reduced pollutants and not favor performance, they were afraid that the jet engine
• So they gave this preemption on performance for jets. That's why it's 3,000.
• It's so much more because they wanted to make sure that the engine performed to keep people alive.

Committee: House Special Committee on Intergovernmental Affairs

Keywords: 959, house, all

Transcript Highlights:

• Safe communities depend on the ability of law enforcement officers to perform their duties without fear
• If they are performing their duties on us while intoxicated, what a betrayal of that faith.
• If they are performing their duties on us while intoxicated, what a betrayal of that faith.
• And they didn't have a physician there who could perform a C-section.
• Midwives can't perform C-sections.

Summary: The committee first took up House Bill 61, which would raise aggravated battery on a peace officer from a third-degree to a second-degree felony in cases involving great bodily harm or a deadly weapon. The sponsor and supporters said the bill fixes an inconsistency in current law, where aggravated assault on an officer can be punished more severely than aggravated battery causing serious injury. Law enforcement representatives, the Chiefs Association, CBRC, and chamber representatives testified in support, and the New Mexico Sentencing Commission was noted as having endorsed the bill by a 6-3-4 vote. After questions about proportionality and plea bargaining, the committee voted due pass on HB 61 without objection. The committee then returned to House Bill 99, a medical malpractice reform bill, and several members made conflict-of-interest disclosures before debating amendments. The discussion focused heavily on the patient compensation fund, surcharge setting, and whether an advisory board or the superintendent should control rates. Amendments to segregate future fund money, require surcharges no lower than the advisory board’s recommendation, and create a commission with more actuarial and financial expertise were debated at length; the committee rejected the first two amendments. Members and witnesses argued over whether past undercharging of hospitals and doctors led to insolvency and taxpayer bailouts, and whether the bill should require more transparency and oversight. The committee also debated amendments on punitive damages. One proposal would have delayed punitive damage claims until after substantial discovery; opponents said it would conflict with civil procedure, prolong litigation, and likely be struck down. Another would have tied punitive damages to a multiple of compensatory damages or a percentage of net worth; supporters said that would better deter harmful conduct, while opponents said it would create uncertainty and more discovery. That amendment also failed. A final punitive-damages amendment would have removed caps in cases involving sexual assault or intoxication by a health care provider and protected the first $5 million of an independent provider’s personal assets; it too was rejected after members said it would shield egregious misconduct and go beyond the bill’s purpose.

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• Uh, requires a candidate committee or political committee to report any service, performance of service
• </c><00:31:08.960><c> of</c> report any service performance of report any service performance of service
• But if a Secretary of State candidate is being investigated, the Ethics Commission then will perform
• ethics commission then that will that ethics commission then that will that will<00:35:21.359><c> perform
• that investigation because will perform that investigation because obviously<00:35:22.960><c> you</c

Committee: Joint Elections

Keywords: Elections - Room 210; 29 January, 2026: 2:30 PM, 925, all

Transcript Highlights:

• It has better political performance, from my perspective, than the enacted plan, the current district
• And again, as I mentioned, my understanding is that these five districts—9, 28, 32, and 35—should perform
• So it accomplishes what were my two objectives: first, that it it performs better on a partisan basis
• Or HB4, because I saw that it complied with the law and that it, from a partisan perspective, performed
• Of improving compactness and, most importantly, performing better from a partisan perspective.

Keywords: 1185, senate, all

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• 30 establishes requirements that must be met for health professionals, students, and residents to perform
• for optometrists and require optometrists to obtain approval from the Board of Optometry before performing
• <00:30:47.200><c> and</c><00:30:47.440><c> residents</c><00:30:47.919><c> to</c><00:30:48.159><c> perform
• </c> students, and residents to perform students, and residents to perform sensitive<00:30:49.399><c>
• </c> before performing permitted injections. before performing permitted injections.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• Performing as Team USA, the University of Minnesota dance team took home a gold medal for palm and a
• And if you haven't seen the Gophers Gopher dance team perform, I highly recommend that you do.

Keywords: 1183, house

Transcript Highlights:

• a comparison between the cast vote record, or how the ballot was counted, and the ballot image, performed
• on a statistically significant performed on a statistically significant sample<00:04:06.959><c> size
• It's specifying that witnesses shall be there to ensure that it's actually performed.
• And because there were performed at all?
• </c> was performed at all. was performed at all.

Bills: HB0085 , HB0086

Committee: Senate Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions

Keywords: elections, audit procedures, ballot integrity, political party observation, transparency, county officials, election code, misconduct, removal, government accountability, 916, all

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• that principals who have gone through this program show measurable improvement in overall school performance
• </c><00:29:38.240><c> Lawson</c><00:29:38.640><c> with</c> performance. And Dr.
• Lawson with performance. And Dr.
• A high-performing school district, a district that I believe has sustainable leadership.
• performance and all other<00:55:40.960><c> things</c><00:55:41.119><c> in</c><00:55:41.440><c> the</

Committee: Senate Education

Keywords: 958, all

Transcript Highlights:

• , and other performance equipment, and other expenditures.<00:25:49.279><c> Costs</c><00:25:49.679><c
• Our city band performs year-round at city-led and community events, making itself an integral part of
• Our local city band stepped up and performed for them at their playoffs.
• ><c> them</c><00:27:12.720><c> at</c><00:27:12.960><c> their</c> and performed for them at their and
• performed for them at their playoffs.<00:27:14.240><c> So</c><00:27:14.880><c> that's</c><00:27:15.120

Committee: Senate Taxes

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• This is an individual license type that can be acquired to perform a limited scope of electrical work
• DLI is already required to investigate when work is performed without a permit.
• This is an individual license type that can be acquired to perform a limited scope of electrical work
• DLI is already required to investigate when work is performed without a permit.
• </c> investigate when work is performed investigate when work is performed without<00:41:29.200><c> a

Bills: HF4598 , HF4884 , HF3732

Committee: House Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy

Keywords: workers' compensation, Minnesota workers' compensation, Workers' Compensation Advisory Council, reinsurance association, Workers' Compensation Reinsurance Association, WCRA, occupational disease, presumption, first responders, firefighter cancer, PTSD, post-traumatic stress disorder, police officer, paramedic, emergency medical technician, correctional officer, security counselor, public safety dispatcher, temporary total disability, permanent partial disability

Transcript Highlights:

• We have some great-performing public schools.
• And we need to get the performance model done. We need to get it in place.
• We need to get the performance model done.
• That used to be a part of the performance funding process that was never funded.
• The performance funding process was never funded.

Summary: The committee first heard the Office of State Treasurer’s FY27 budget presentation from Treasurer Vivek Malik. He highlighted record investment earnings, growth in MOBUCK$ linked deposits, record unclaimed property returns, expansion of the MOST 529 plan, and changes to the MoABLE disability savings program. Members then focused heavily on two budget requests: $750,000 for the Show Me My Retirement Savings program and additional spending authority for the Missouri Empowerment Scholarship Accounts (MOST Scholars) program, along with a staffing request for compliance and communications positions. Much of the discussion centered on MOST Scholars’ rapid growth, how applications are prioritized, whether income is reverified, how funds flow through educational assistance organizations, and concerns about marketing, geographic distribution, and the use of public dollars for private schools. The treasurer also answered questions about the 529 plan, the pending lawsuit over the ESA general-revenue transfer, and whether funds should be swept back to general revenue when unused. Several members raised policy objections to MOST Scholars, including concerns about discrimination by participating private schools, the lack of annual income requalification, and whether the program shifts money away from public education. Other members defended the program as a parent-driven choice option and asked about expanding access, improving outreach, and ensuring the program is fully funded. The treasurer said the office was following the statute as written, that the program’s demand could exceed available resources, and that the office would continue to seek more funding and better outreach. The committee then concluded the treasurer’s budget hearing. The committee next began the FY27 budget hearing for the Department of Higher Education and Workforce Development. Commissioner Bennett Boggs introduced the department’s leadership team and gave a brief overview of the department’s role in aligning postsecondary education with workforce needs through its coordinating board and strategic planning. The hearing had just started when the transcript ended, and no votes or final actions were taken in the portion provided.

Transcript Highlights:

• . performed. performed.
• This way, with this new system I'm doing, when they hit arrive and perform, I'm going to know.
• </c> arrive and perform, I'm going to know. arrive and perform, I'm going to know.
• So, the subcontractor is required to perform drug testing.
• They are uh they perform drug testing.

Keywords: 958, all

Summary: The Medicaid Oversight Advisory Board first approved the September 24 minutes and then heard a presentation from four certified community behavioral health clinic providers: Pathways, NorthKey, Seven Counties Services, and NewVista. The presenters explained the difference between traditional community mental health centers and CCBHCs, describing CCBHCs as an enhanced model that integrates behavioral health, primary care, wraparound services, and crisis response. They reviewed the federal history of the model, Kentucky’s entry into the Medicaid demonstration in 2022, and the scheduled end of the enhanced federal match on December 31, 2027. They also emphasized required services such as 24-hour mobile crisis, care coordination, and services for veterans, and described care coordination as a key feature that helps patients follow up after hospital or emergency discharge, manage medications, and connect to transportation and other supports. The presenters gave examples of improved outcomes, including a patient who was able to remain living independently because of coordinated home-based and telehealth support, and they argued that CCBHCs are helping Kentucky build a more responsive crisis system through 988, mobile crisis teams, and crisis stabilization units. They said the model is data-driven, uses performance metrics, and has led to stronger collaboration among community partners. One speaker said more than 100 agencies participated in a Jefferson County community health needs assessment and continued meeting afterward to reduce redundancies and barriers to care. They also said crisis call hub compliance and mobile crisis outreach compliance improved significantly over the past year. Members asked about how navigators and connectors fit into the model, how CCBHCs work with managed care organizations, and how the program could expand statewide. The presenters said navigators are not built into the CCBHC model but may be used through referrals, while the CCBHCs continue to bill MCOs the same way and receive a Medicaid wrap payment for the enhanced rate. They said the goal would be for all community mental health centers to become CCBHCs, but that a state plan amendment would be needed and could not be limited only to CMHCs if submitted to CMS. They estimated about $28 million would be needed statewide to continue the program in the next biennium, combining the loss of enhanced federal match and the state share of enhanced service costs. The board also discussed transportation, with one presenter explaining that their program arranges Medicaid transportation for eligible appointments, and members raised concerns about mental inquest warrant transport and whether sheriffs should remain involved. No votes were taken on the CCBHC or transportation items during the discussion.

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• A reuse study was performed a few years ago that would have some more specific figures for us.
• study was performed a few years<01:20:37.040><c> ago</c><01:20:37.320><c> that</c><01:20:37.400><c>
• We currently don't have any ability to, I guess, perform those activities.
• this R1 I gu guess um to perform this R1 I gu guess um availability availability availability and<01
• </c><01:25:43.520><c> those</c> any ability to um I guess perform those any ability to um I guess perform

Committee: House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs

Keywords: 910, house, all

Summary: The committee heard a series of transportation and public safety bills, beginning with HB 706, which would require skateboard users under age 16 to wear helmets. The Department of Transportation supported the measure, and the chair noted written support from AAA Hawaii, Kulani Medical Center for Women and Children, and several individuals. No opposition was mentioned, and the bill appeared to draw no questions. Members then heard HB 860, which would grant immunity to the state or county that repairs or maintains a street when ownership or jurisdiction is disputed. DOT and DLNR supported the bill, with county support from Maui and a Hawaii Island county representative, while the Hawaii Association for Justice opposed it. The committee also heard HB 1162, requiring applicants for a motorcycle instruction permit to complete an approved basic rider course, with DOT support and a recommended amendment to exempt motorcycles used for training; the Public Defender asked about the current process, and DOT explained the bill was intended to improve safety given motorcycle fatalities. HB 1259, allowing speed-limit reductions within 10 mph of the current limit without an engineering study, also drew DOT support and support from the AAHU Metropolitan Planning Organization and individuals. The committee next considered HB 1158, a governor’s package bill limiting civil liability for people who provide firefighting services with vessels at commercial harbors or roadsteads to gross negligence or wanton conduct. DOT Harbors said the bill was prompted by lessons from the Lahaina fires and was intended to encourage privately owned firefighting-equipped vessels to assist without hesitation; the Hawaii Harbor Users Group and an individual supported it. HB 54, which would make a third or subsequent excessive speeding offense a Class C felony and allow vehicle forfeiture, drew DOT support but strong opposition from the Public Defender, who argued the bill was overly harsh, would force jury trials, and could create sentencing problems; the Public Defender also said existing penalties were already significant. The committee then heard HB 1334, which would exempt donations of wild game meat, including axis deer, to charitable and nonprofit organizations from certain meat inspection and transportation laws; DLNR and multiple community and food-related groups supported it, and no opposition was noted. Finally, the committee took up HB 698 on animal cruelty, which would increase criminal penalties for various offenses. The Public Defender opposed the bill, arguing the cases are rare, enforcement is limited, and the proposed penalties—up to Class A felony treatment in some cases—were too severe; animal welfare advocates strongly supported the measure, saying cruelty cases are widespread, underreported, and under-enforced, and that stronger penalties are needed as a deterrent. No votes or final actions were taken on any of the bills in the portion of the hearing provided.

Transcript Highlights:

• And there's very little, if any, correlation between performance and spending.
• above $29,000 per student that have above-average performance.
• So there is not necessarily a strong correlation, if any, between spending and performance, but there
• but there is spending and performance but there is between<03:02:22.200><c> spending</c><03:02:22.800
• </c> know are expecting a um performance know are expecting a um performance audit<04:07:53.199><c> from

Keywords: 928, house, all

Summary: The executive session focused primarily on HB 563, which revises the school funding formula, especially the adequate education grant amounts for special education students and the treatment of fiscal capacity disparity aid. Representative Ladd moved OTPA on Amendment 06508, explaining that FY 26 would largely hold the current formula steady, while FY 27 would increase several per-pupil amounts, including base cost, free and reduced-price meals, English language learner aid, and special education differentiated aid. He said the special education change was based on estimated case loads across disability categories and that the amendment also reinstates fiscal capacity disparity aid, using a formula intended to better assist property-poor communities. Several members supported the amendment as a step in the right direction, saying it better recognizes special education costs and separates property wealth from low-income student counts. Others raised concerns about the lack of time and the absence of a printed spreadsheet showing how the fiscal capacity disparity aid would affect each town. In response, sponsors said the spreadsheet existed, that the LBA had copies, and that the amendment would help about 40 target towns, while Manchester would be the main community receiving less under the new formula because of prior shifts in the extraordinary needs grant. Discussion also covered the broader impact of the bill, with members noting that about 200 of the state’s 245 cities and towns would see an increase and 45 a decrease under the proposed FY 27 changes. Supporters argued the bill was a compromise given limited revenues and that it should move forward so it can be considered by the full House and then Finance. No final vote on the amendment or bill was taken in the portion provided, and the chair indicated the committee was still deciding whether it had enough information to proceed.

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• individual NCAA titles, while Mitchell Mesenbrank claimed his first national title with an outstanding performance
• individual NCAA titles, while Mitchell Mesenbrank claimed his first national title with an outstanding performance
• 04:36:37.520><c> and</c> don't exist in any other state, and don't exist in any other state, and evaluate
• 36:38.959><c> they</c><04:36:39.279><c> have</c><04:36:39.600><c> on</c><04:36:39.840><c> the</c> evaluate
• the impact they have on the evaluate the impact they have on the incentive<04:36:40.400><c> to</c><04

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Thursday, March 27, 2025, 1012, house, all