Transcript Highlights:

• So the state could help reimburse and bring both up to an equal... and this would be a little bit more
• Reimbursements for grants is another financial challenge.
• </c> identified and then the reimbursement identified and then the reimbursement rate<00:06:42.680><c
• help excuse me reimburse and bring both<00:07:07.759><c> up</c><00:07:07.879><c> to</c><00:07:08.039
• and many people don't have reimbursement and many people don't have that<00:08:56.720><c> money</c><

Committee: House Children and Families Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:

• And the union can reimburse the districts if they want to send these employees off.
• I’ve talked with a lot of school districts about this bill and that they reimburse—the union reimburses
• Chairman, I never pass out a training opportunity.
• Do you realize that districts reimburse for the sub, the unions reimburse the district for your substitute
• I mean, that is part of the bill that says they do reimburse.

Committee: House Commerce and Human Resources

Transcript Highlights:

• That is internal to FDEM, but we use those as resources out into the fields and help to train the profession
• Preparedness Bureau trained over 10,000 emergency managers just last year.
• You know, this is important to understand: a lot of the activities we do are reimbursable.
• And then with debris removal, there is a reimbursable portion through FEMA, which is coordinated also
• And then the other reimbursements come from FEMA.

Summary: The Natural Resources and Disaster Subcommittee met to continue its review of hurricane impacts and state response. The committee first heard from the Florida Division of Emergency Management, which described its four core functions—preparedness, response, recovery, and mitigation—and highlighted its 24/7 State Watch Office, regional training efforts, and disaster assistance work. Deputy Executive Director Keith Pruitt detailed the state’s 2024 storm response, including Hurricanes Debby, Helene, and Milton, citing large-scale mission support, flood-control deployments, meal and water distribution, power restoration, debris removal, and billions in disaster funding and mitigation dollars. He also discussed debris management challenges and recommended that local governments update and exercise debris plans and maintain contingency contracts.

Transcript Highlights:

• This is because the system has a 15- to 24-month lag in data to update reimbursement rates.
• The current reimbursement is about $79 per day.
• </c><00:43:20.880><c> 171%</c> you're going to get reimbursed 171% you're going to get reimbursed 171%
• </c><00:48:28.920><c> rates</c> medical assistance reimbursement rates medical assistance reimbursement
• </c><00:51:12.240><c> but</c><00:51:12.359><c> also</c> Workforce reimbursement but also Workforce reimbursement

Committee: House Human Services Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:

• And then it says in there that the department may reimburse.
• The 1200 is the part of the reimbursement, 1204, and it says the department may reimburse up to 50% for
• What would they have to do to get reimbursed?
• You answered a little bit of the reallocation, reimbursement for 50 percent.
• no reimbursement measures for anyone else, like the communication providers.

Committee: Senate Transportation

Summary: The Transportation Committee heard and acted on a series of transportation, licensing, and memorial bills. The first major item was CS/SB 462, the Department of Transportation agency package, which included provisions on transportation trust fund revenue for electric vehicles, county project reporting, speed limits, workforce grants, procurement and utility relocation procedures, airport participation, metropolitan planning, and related DOT administration. The committee adopted a substitute amendment after extensive discussion, especially over utility relocation reimbursement, penalties, and whether the bill was too rigid while stakeholders continued negotiating. Testimony came from industry and utility representatives both supporting the need to address delays and opposing the bill’s prescriptive approach. The bill passed 8-3. The committee then approved several specialty license plate and memorial measures. CS/SB 1024 added a United States Military Academy plate alongside the Naval Academy plate. CS/SB 824 created a Florida Highway Patrol specialty plate. CS/SB 666 created a Miami Northwestern Senior High School alumni plate, with supporters emphasizing the school’s history and scholarship uses for the revenue. CS/SB 916 authorized indemnification and insurance arrangements for commuter rail operations on the Brightline corridor, modeled on SunRail law, and was reported favorably after technical amendments. CS/SB 1290 updated DHSMV rules to conform to IFTA and federal motor carrier standards, raised the crash-damage reporting threshold, and made other registration and email-notification changes; CS/SB 1292 created a public-records exemption for certain email addresses used in motor vehicle and vessel notifications. CS/SB 1408 designated memorial highways for fallen officers Jesse Madsen and Elio Diaz, and CS/SB 1502 authorized FDOT blanket permits for mobile cranes to travel at night under specified conditions. All of these bills were reported favorably. The committee also received a lengthy informational presentation from FDOT on aggregates and the state’s construction-material supply chain. The witness described aggregate sources, transportation methods, recycling efforts, the importance of the Lake Belt and out-of-state imports, and the department’s supply-chain grant program. Senators asked about long-term reserves, stranded reserves, pricing, and the impact of regulation on future supply, and requested the study and a summary of regulatory impacts for members. The meeting concluded with no further business and adjournment.

Transcript Highlights:

• Local education agencies could get reimbursed for paying the local law enforcement entities for the training
• Training on cybersecurity for staff.
• County to do all of that training.
• We actually sent two of our training people to a training... ...actively looking into this dynamic security
• We actually sent two of our training people to a training to learn more about it and to see how we could

Committee: Joint Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Interim Committee

Transcript Highlights:

• More money is provided from the abandoned vehicle RV program for reimbursements for removal of abandoned
• And there's money... ...for reimbursements for removal of abandoned RVs from public property.
• This is very important given the rollout of the new Siemens trains coming later this year.
• They'll be great trains to ride, but what will be even better is if they arrive on time. Thank you.
• Regarding the RTTO reimbursement program for indigent tow, the program is delayed to July 1st of 2027

Bills: HB2306 , HB2711

Committee: House Transportation

Keywords: transportation budget, capital budget, operating budget, appropriations, Washington State Department of Transportation, WSDOT, Washington State Patrol, Department of Licensing, ferry funding, state ferries, highway maintenance, road preservation, bridge replacement, tolling, express toll lanes, traffic safety, speed cameras, ignition interlock, transit grants, public transit

Transcript Highlights:

• It promotes Florida as a destination for law enforcement training.
• to train law enforcement and federal immigration enforcement.
• Line 8.42, speaks to reimbursement read and procedure.
• The reimbursement rate from the federal government will be the same.
• And the bill promotes Florida as a destination for law enforcement training by supporting training needs

Transcript Highlights:

• This proposed rule amendment sets forth the requirements for dealers, applicators, training, and record
• Training and record keeping related to the sale and use of Class J pesticides.
• Good morning, I'm Amber Sartain, Assistant Director of Policy Practice and Training with the Division
• So that is not related... ...that is not related to the reimbursement rate itself.
• I am before you this morning regarding changes to the rules for our nurse aide training program.

Committee: All ALC-ADMINISTRATIVE RULES

Summary: The Arkansas Administrative Rules Subcommittee met to review a large set of agency rules and reports. Early items were routine filings: emergency-rule reports, subcommittee review reports, and administrative directive reports were filed without objection. One rule from the Department of Agriculture on maternal health providers and remote monitoring was noted as pulled by the agency and not considered. The committee then reviewed and approved several Agriculture rules, including repeal of equine ID-chip rules after Act 703 of 2025, updates to finance rules adding a new water and sewer treatment facilities grant and consolidating revolving-fund rules, and a pesticide rule creating a Class J pesticide category for feral hog toxicant use. It also approved a Commerce/Insurance rule removing duplicative workers’ compensation plan provisions, and a Corrections rule creating a unified visitation rule for correctional facilities and community correction centers. A member asked about prison visitation hours during COVID, and staff said they would check on that. The committee next approved multiple Department of Human Services rules. These included marketing rules for provider-led organizations under Act 301 of 2025, a comprehensive revision of the DCFS policy manual, changes to Medicaid eligibility to include fictive kin placements and to expand ABLE account eligibility under Act 875, presumptive eligibility changes for pregnant women to align with federal rules, and a follow-up SNAP/TEA/Work Pays rule with updated work requirements, mandatory employment and training, alien eligibility changes, and job-search requirements for certain applicants. DHS also presented a rule implementing federal coverage for certain incarcerated youth before and after release, and the committee approved it. Another DHS rule updated nurse aide training requirements to match federal CNA hour standards and moved criminal-records-check procedures to the agency website. The most extended discussion involved DHS Division of Medical Services’ dental rate rule under Act 1025. The agency explained that it was increasing pediatric dental rates and certain oral-surgery-related rates, but not orthodontic rates or a broader special-needs benefit limit because CMS would not approve a diagnosis-based limit. Members debated whether the statutory language was intended to cover general dentists performing oral surgery procedures, with legislators, the Dental Association, and DHS discussing legislative intent, fiscal impact, and whether a future fix or emergency rule might be needed. Despite the disagreement, the committee approved the rule. The committee also approved other DHS medical rules: adverse-decision appeal changes and prior-authorization posting requirements, an increased RSV administration fee for children, expanded emergency treat/triage/transport ambulance authority, and clinic-based physical and occupational therapy coverage. Later, the committee approved permanent rules for the new state insurance program under Shared Administrative Services, procurement rule revisions recommended after an ACASO review, and commodity-management rule updates including a new revenue distribution model. Under Act 595 of 2021, the committee granted two Department of Commerce/Insurance requests to be excluded from rulemaking requirements: one for Act 772 on forced organ harvesting, and one for restorative reproductive medicine, with the department saying it would promulgate rules later when clinical guidelines are available. Finally, the committee accepted a recommendation to keep and extend the Department of Education, Division of Career and Technical Education rules, filed outstanding rulemaking updates, and adjourned without further business.

Transcript Highlights:

• This bill promotes Florida as a destination for law enforcement training.
• facilities to train law enforcement and federal immigration enforcement.
• Line 842 speaks to reimbursement, read and procedure. I guess my first question is...
• And the bill promotes Florida as a destination for law enforcement training by supporting training needs
• facilities to train law enforcement and federal immigration enforcement.

Committee: Senate Appropriations

Summary: The Senate Appropriations Committee took up SB 2-C, a major immigration enforcement bill sponsored by Senator Gruters and co-introduced by Senator Fine. Gruters described the measure as a broad crackdown on illegal immigration that would replace a single immigration officer with a State Board of Immigration Enforcement, create a $250 million grant program for local law enforcement, fund additional Department of Agriculture interdiction staff and facilities, expand pretrial detention for certain unauthorized immigrants, increase criminal penalties, require more cooperation with ICE, and eliminate in-state tuition eligibility for undocumented students. He and supporters framed the bill as a way to support law enforcement, deter illegal immigration, and align Florida with federal enforcement efforts. Committee questioning focused heavily on the bill’s education, detention, and enforcement provisions. Senators pressed Gruters and Fine on why the bill did not address employer sanctions or E-Verify, whether the tuition changes would affect students who had grown up in Florida, how sanctuary-policy enforcement would work, and whether the bill would create practical burdens for prosecutors, jails, and local officials. Gruters said he was open to working on E-Verify in regular session but not to amending this bill, and Fine argued the tuition repeal would apply to undocumented students who had qualified under existing law. Sheriff Bob Gualtieri testified in support, saying ICE bed capacity was still insufficient and that county jails needed more resources to honor detainers. Mark Schlachman of FSU Law offered historical context, noting prior state-federal cooperation efforts and warning of unintended consequences, while several public witnesses opposed the bill as unconstitutional, costly, and harmful to immigrant families and the economy. Opponents from the Southern Poverty Law Center, ACLU of Florida, Florida Center for Fiscal and Economic Policy, Florida Policy Institute, AFL-CIO, and immigrant advocacy groups argued the bill would invite litigation, encourage racial profiling, harm the workforce and higher education, and punish law-abiding immigrants and their families. They emphasized that immigration is a federal matter, that K-12 education must be provided regardless of status, and that removing in-state tuition would reduce access to college and hurt Florida’s economy. Some speakers urged the committee to grandfather current students if the tuition waiver is repealed. The meeting ended with continued public testimony and no final vote reflected in the transcript provided.

Transcript Highlights:

• We do think the higher reimbursement rate that the Legislature approved for three-year-old children has
• They also require specialized training.
• I'm not trained, and I have my own things I need to deal with.
• So when we think about reimbursement to teachers and covering those costs, without extensions of the
• In terms of the approval of training posting, that's another component of the registry.

Summary: The joint hearing focused on California’s child care, preschool, and transitional kindergarten oversight, with chairs emphasizing the state’s Master Plan for Early Learning and Care and the need to break down silos between programs. CDSS and CDE reported progress toward the plan’s goals, including universal access to TK for all four-year-olds next school year, expanded access for low-income three-year-olds, and more children with disabilities being served in state preschool. They also noted ongoing work on quality rating/review reform, funding structure changes, and the need to address rates, workforce shortages, and federal uncertainty around Head Start. Testimony from advocacy groups and providers largely supported expanding access while simplifying the system. Children Now, Every Child California, and the California Budget and Policy Center argued that California still has uneven access, especially for infants, toddlers, and three-year-olds, and urged investments in mixed delivery, inclusion, full-day options, and a cost-of-care rate methodology. Every Child California recommended consolidating part-day and full-day contracts, streamlining eligibility priorities, making the two-year-old option permanent, and funding staffing incentives. Parent testimony highlighted how child care gaps and county-to-county transfer delays can disrupt work, safety, and children’s stability, and providers described low reimbursement rates, the need for health and retirement benefits, and support for delinking subsidy rates from private pay. The second panel addressed universal transitional kindergarten. The Learning Policy Institute reported rapid TK expansion, with most districts now offering TK, but said access still depends on facilities, staffing, and whether programs are available at all school sites. The Department of Finance said the governor’s budget would fully implement TK by adding funding for all eligible four-year-olds and lowering the adult-to-child ratio from 12:1 to 10:1. The Legislative Analyst’s Office said the administration’s enrollment and cost assumptions were optimistic and estimated lower TK enrollment growth and lower costs for the ratio change. CDE supported the expansion and urged continued funding for UPK coordinators, teacher development, and mixed-delivery planning grants. Members questioned facilities shortages, staffing competition, and how to ensure TK expansion does not displace CSPP or Head Start classrooms. No formal votes or actions were taken in the hearing.

Transcript Highlights:

• Other burial reimbursements. Other burial reimbursements. Home care allowance.
• Judicial Education and Training, 4.0 FTE. Judicial Education and Training, 4.0 FTE.
• </c> This amount shall be from training fees. This amount shall be from training fees.
• State employee tuition reimbursement, 3,360,166. Training services, 61,200.
• Training services, 6.3 FTE.

Transcript Highlights:

• We will do these trainings for free. We have six trainings.
• They've been trained to train, so that's the beauty of this thing.
• We often talk about a training culture where our members crave quality, relevant training.
• We often talk about a training culture where our members crave quality, relevant training.
• We often talk about a training culture where our members crave quality, relevant training.

Bills: HF1082 , HF1042 , HF1295 , HF1686 , HF1998 , HF1775 , HF1163

Committee: House Public Safety Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:

• It'll provide excellent training and information around the wage supplement.
• We're setting our reimbursement rates using cost models that reflect the true cost.
• And so, are reimbursement rates improving childhood outcomes? Not proven.
• They have to have CPR and first aid training.
• There's still reimbursement rates based on the star levels.

Transcript Highlights:

• for costs associated with reimbursement for costs associated with removing<00:34:12.399><c> vehicles
• ><c> the</c><00:34:20.800><c> owner</c> reimbursement either through the owner reimbursement either through
• </c><00:38:14.400><c> equipment</c> some equipment, some training equipment some equipment, some training
• That's the payments and reimbursement of the funds to the counties. And that's a lot of money.
• </c><01:00:32.480><c> the</c> agreement should have reimbursed the agreement should have reimbursed the

Committee: Senate Finance

Transcript Highlights:

• our our future uh ones who are training our our future uh ones who are training our our future uh is
• I am who are trained in workers comp. I am who are trained in workers comp. I am not.
• in workers the cases that are trained in workers the cases that are trained in workers comp law and
• These by the way are reimburseable at These by the way are reimburseable at These by the way are reimburseable
• That's state department then reimburses. That's state department then reimburses. That's right.

Bills: SB199 , HB142 , SB86 , HB152 , HB297 , SB1 , SB1

Committee: House Ways and Means Education

Keywords: parental leave, state employees, local education agencies, adoption, work-life balance, family support, portable benefits, portable benefit account, independent contractor, gig worker, 1099 worker, freelancer, app-based worker, rideshare, delivery driver, worker benefits, health insurance, retirement benefits, life insurance, income replacement insurance

Transcript Highlights:

• </c><00:05:39.680><c> counties</c> uh and are able to reimburse counties uh and are able to reimburse
• So we had to reduce those reimbursements back to the counties.
• , reimbursement, reimbursement, we<00:14:12.000><c> we</c><00:14:12.399><c> have,</c><00:14:12.959><c
• They go off to training, but they come back.
• They go off to training, in the state.

Bills: HB0032

Committee: Senate Transportation, Highways & Military Affairs

Transcript Highlights:

• We don't know what kinds of things they consider in approving or denying those reimbursements.
• Department of Emergency and Military Affairs to fully justify $759.7 million in reimbursements.
• It wasn't reimbursement number that you would ask. Thank you.
• This $759 million is what the state of Arizona is asking to be reimbursed.
• . ...to be used on border-related expenses and reimbursements.

Summary: The committee met to review the governor’s fiscal 2027 budget presentation, with the chair repeatedly asking members to keep questions brief and avoid speeches. The discussion focused first on the overall revenue and spending outlook, including concerns from members that the executive forecast was more optimistic than the JLBC baseline and that the budget appeared to front-load revenue and expenditure growth. The governor’s budget team said the forecast was close to JLBC’s, that the budget was structurally balanced, and that differences were roughly $100 million per year on ongoing revenue. Members asked for follow-up calculations in writing, including the total multi-year gap and the amount of revenue enhancements above base revenues. A major portion of the meeting centered on tax and fee proposals tied to data centers, water use, and sports betting. The governor’s team defended eliminating the existing data center tax incentive as the removal of a loophole rather than a new tax, arguing the incentive had already succeeded in attracting major investment. They also described a proposed Department of Water Resources fee-setting authority for data centers to support a new Colorado River Protection Fund, and said the proposal would apply to existing and future facilities without a grandfather clause. Members raised concerns about fairness, competitiveness, and whether the changes would require a supermajority vote. The team also discussed increased sports betting fees, saying the revenue forecast did not include dynamic behavioral effects. The committee then moved through major spending areas, including corrections, public safety, border security, cybersecurity, K-12 education, Medicaid, and developmental disabilities. The governor’s budget includes ongoing funding to prevent correctional officer pay cuts, money to comply with prison health care court orders, probation funding, body-worn cameras, law enforcement staffing, fentanyl task forces, and cyber readiness grants. Members questioned the lack of funding for a prison oversight committee and asked for corrections spending totals over the administration. On border security, the executive said it was seeking about $759.7 million in federal reimbursement for border-related costs and that the governor had met with federal officials, including Secretary Noem and Tom Homan, about the request. In education, the budget proposes renewing Prop. 123, adding K-12 base funding, and issuing $1.5 billion in school facilities bonds over three years; members debated whether the proposal was appropriate and whether Prop. 123 revenues could support the debt service. The meeting also covered AHCCCS cost growth and federal HR1 impacts, with the executive warning of major coverage losses and hospital funding reductions, and DDD funding, where the governor’s team said the budget fully funds services and includes about $120 million in supplemental needs. No votes were taken; the meeting was a presentation and question-and-answer session only.

Transcript Highlights:

• What are the restrictions around Medicare reimbursement? Here's what I mean.
• Is it really just the reduction in reimbursement rates? Ms. Jericho.
• Is it really just the reduction in reimbursement rates?
• There's a substantial reduction in the reimbursement rates.
• He also trains officers, investigators, and law enforcement executives.

Committee: Senate Criminal Justice

Transcript Highlights:

• More money is provided from the abandoned vehicle RV program for reimbursements for removal of abandoned
• This is very important given the rollout of the new Siemens trains coming later this year.
• They'll be great trains to ride, but what will be even better is if they arrive on time. Thank you.
• For the Department of Licensing, since the indigent tow reimbursement program is delayed to the next
• For the Department of Licensing, since the Indigent Toe reimbursement program is delayed to the next

Summary: The House Transportation Committee held public hearings on a proposed substitute for House Bill 2306, the 2026 transportation supplemental budget, and on proposed substitute House Bill 2711, a transportation resources bill. Staff described HB 2306 as revising the enacted 2025-27 transportation budget, increasing spending by about $1.1 billion to $16.5 billion, largely through reappropriations and new funding for preservation, maintenance, rail, transit, active transportation, ferries, licensing, and State Patrol needs. The chair and ranking member emphasized caution because of downward revenue forecasts, uncertainty around major project bids and future fish passage costs, and the decision to use existing bond authority without new bonding. Public testimony on HB 2306 generally supported preservation, maintenance, rail improvements, dredging, transit access, and local safety projects, while some witnesses urged more support for EV incentives and long-term transportation funding stability. For HB 2711, staff explained that the bill responds to administrative issues in last year’s transportation resources law, including fuel tax inflation adjustments, luxury vehicle/aircraft/vessel taxes, the indigent tow reimbursement program, tire fee language, and other tax administration provisions. The proposed substitute would repeal the luxury aircraft tax, adjust peer-to-peer rental car tax administration, restore authority for the Transportation Commission to exempt transit buses from tolls, waive certain penalties and interest tied to early compliance with the luxury vehicle tax, allow lease payments to be taxed incrementally, add exemptions for tribal members and nonresidents, change transfer timing between accounts, and create a Preserve Washington Account for highway preservation and maintenance. Fiscal notes projected additional revenue from aligning use tax with sales tax and modest administrative costs, while delaying the tow reimbursement program reduced near-term expenditures. Testimony on HB 2711 was mixed. RV dealers asked for a delay to the luxury vehicle tax, arguing the industry is already in decline and the tax could push sales out of state. WFSE supported the new Preserve Washington Account and urged higher bid limits for highway maintenance work. Committee members asked for clarification on the peer-to-peer rental car tax and the transit bus toll exemption. The chair announced that executive session on the bills, along with one other measure, would occur Wednesday, and members were told to submit amendment requests by the next day.