Transcript Highlights:

• We're empowering thousands of students each year to earn college credit, transfer to 4-year colleges
• </c><00:41:37.520><c> to</c> year to earn college credit, transfer to year to earn college credit, transfer
• </c> credit transferred opens another path. credit transferred opens another path.
• c><00:46:09.280><c> programs</c><00:46:09.920><c> and</c><00:46:10.240><c> courses,</c> academic transfer
• programs and courses, academic transfer programs and courses, from<00:46:11.440><c> GED</c><00:46:12.000

Keywords: 924, joint, all

Transcript Highlights:

• 23:06.640><c> to</c> state controller would be required to state controller would be required to transfer
• sufficient funds from the transfer sufficient funds from the general<00:23:09.039><c> fund</c><00:23
• If you look at what goes to Department of Administrative Services, it's all public transferred over.
• If you look at what goes to transfers.
• </c> it's I mean it's all public transferred it's I mean it's all public transferred over. over. over

Keywords: 928, house, all

Summary: The commission met to approve the November 21, 2025 minutes, making several clerical corrections before adopting them as amended. The edits included adding the date, correcting a misspelled name, clarifying references to a scholarship fund representative’s title, removing an incorrect “DOE” reference, and fixing a few wording errors. The minutes were approved with one abstention from members who were absent. The bulk of the meeting focused on organizing the commission’s work under SB 57 and identifying which special education cost issues should be prioritized for research and reporting. Members discussed a long list of topics, including student referral rates, why students are classified as other health impaired, increases in referrals since school closures, interventions before referral, costs of non-medically necessary services in IEPs and 504 plans, differences between federal and state requirements, reporting of special education costs, out-of-district and residential placements, dispute resolution, Medicaid and insurance use, graduation rates, and adult learning participation. Several members emphasized the need to combine or narrow topics and to gather better data before the report due July 1, 2026. Representative Ames highlighted HB 742, which would eliminate prorated special education aid payments when state appropriations fall short, and explained that the Education Funding Committee recommended interim study. He argued that local districts are bearing too much of the cost and that the state and federal governments should provide more support. Other members raised concerns about rising special education identification rates, possible overidentification, school climate and mental health factors, bullying, staffing, speech therapy access, and residential placements. One member cautioned that DOE website numbers may be inflated or at least difficult to interpret because of how students are counted. Department of Education staff then explained how special education data and costs are monitored. They said student counts are tied to IEPs and SASIDs in the state system, districts are checked through both desk audits and on-site monitoring, and billed services are compared against IEP requirements. They also described IDEA funding, noting that most DOE special education staffing is federally funded, with a large share of federal money flowing through to local education agencies and the remainder supporting administration, monitoring, and training initiatives. Members discussed whether more staff and more robust oversight would improve accuracy and accountability.

Transcript Highlights:

• And last but not least, transfer payments. We typically do not do a line graph for these.
• But you can see that we are assuming growth in the near term in transfer payments and then continuing
• </c> And last but not least, transfer And last but not least, transfer payments.<00:36:57.119><c> We<
• payments and then uh continuing transfer payments and then uh continuing decline<00:37:20.800><c> in
• </c><00:39:16.880><c> payments</c> outweigh again the transfer payments outweigh again the transfer payments

Keywords: 958, all

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.

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• data in back and forth between transfer data in back and forth between uh<00:12:22.079><c> branches<
• </c><00:12:28.320><c> So</c><00:12:28.480><c> we</c><00:12:28.639><c> don't</c> on transferring that
• So we don't on transferring that data.
• They might have ownership of that fiber that they want to transfer to someone else.
• </c><01:04:57.280><c> to</c> that fiber that they want to transfer to that fiber that they want to transfer

Keywords: Meeting Start 00:00:00 Roll Call 00:00:27 Legislative Research Commission 00:01:15 KentuckyWired Operations Company 00:17:30 Wireless Internet Service Providers Association 00:40:15 Administrative Office of the Courts 01:08:55 Kentucky Auditor of Public Accounts 01:33:00, 958, all

Summary: The committee first approved the July 9 minutes without objection and heard from Jay Hartz and Jonathan Harris of the Legislative Research Commission. Members asked about Capitol and legislator security in light of recent targeted shootings in other states. Hartz said LRC had removed members’ home addresses from its website, was reviewing other state-government records for similar information, and was working with the Speaker, Senate President, Kentucky State Police, and outside security experts on broader safety measures. He also said LRC is exploring commercial products to help block personal contact information from public view, but declined to name vendors publicly. Harris added that driver’s license scans at the Capitol are handled by Kentucky State Police, while LRC has a process for flagging high-volume or concerning contacts for police review. The LRC also reported that redistricting work has already begun, with census coordination underway, evaluation of redistricting software including Mapitude and open-source tools, and plans to make the same tools available to the public in the LRC library. The committee then heard from Kentucky Wired Operations Company CEO Robert Morphonius, COO Tom Snyder, and counsel Patrick Hughes about the Kentucky Wired network. They explained the corporate structure: Kentucky Wired Operations Company is a private for-profit special purpose entity that designs, builds, operates, and maintains the network; Kentucky Wired Infrastructure Company is a nonprofit instrumentality used for financing; and Open Fiber Kentucky handles commercialization of excess capacity under a wholesale agreement. They said Kentucky Wired Operations is in the operations and maintenance phase, with those obligations continuing until 2045, and that technical changes to the network generally require KCNA approval through formal change-order processes. They also said the company conducted a market test in June 2023 under Schedule 19 of its contract, considered proposals including Open Fiber and the incumbent service provider, and retained the existing provider. Members asked about KCNA’s role, procurement, network customers, and revenue. The witnesses said Quac operates outside normal state procurement because its process is governed by contract, while KCNA acts as the Commonwealth’s oversight authority and filter for changes. They identified current network users as including AOC, KCTCS, postsecondary education, and other Commonwealth agencies, with all requests routed through KCNA; they also said a separate change process for Exceliccom is in litigation. On funding, they said the operation is paid through monthly appropriations, with roughly a million dollars a month for the service provider and a couple hundred thousand for Quac’s oversight, not including debt service, which is bundled into the availability payment. The discussion ended as members began asking about responsibility for damage-related costs such as squirrel-related outages.

Transcript Highlights:

• And if you have only can grow your business so much, you're not going to be able to transfer wealth to
• And if you have only can grow your business so much, you're not going to be able to transfer wealth to
• And if you have only can grow your business so much, you're not going to be able to transfer wealth to
• And if you have only can grow your business so much, you're not going to be able to transfer wealth to
• And if you have only can grow your business so much, you're not going to be able to transfer wealth to

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• So my question is, with the transfer of certain sections of Corridor 19 and others from your department
• </c><01:34:45.120><c> of</c><01:34:45.600><c> certain</c> um with uh with the transfer of certain um
• with uh with the transfer of certain sections<01:34:46.800><c> of</c><01:34:47.199><c> corridor</c><01
• I know yesterday at, or Wednesday at GNC, we just did a transfer through fiscal the week before, about
• uh or or through fiscal the transfer uh or or through fiscal the week<01:40:26.880><c> week</c><01:40

Committee: Senate Capital Budget

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• In 2018, you all, as policymakers, transferred the duty to issue administrator licenses to the...
• In 2018, you all, as policymakers, transferred the duty to issue administrator licenses to the...
• In 2018, you all, as policymakers, transferred the duty to issue administrator licenses to the...
• In 2018, you all, as policymakers, transferred the duty to issue administrator licenses to the...
• the duty to policy makers transferred the duty to issue<01:39:03.560><c> administrator</c><01:39:04.080

Committee: Senate Education Finance

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• The change would properly identify the account into which transfers from the Health Care Access Fund
• The fiscal year 2025 appropriation directs the commissioner of MMB to transfer $100,000 to the incorrect
• The dollar should instead be transferred to the insulin repayment account in the special revenue fund
• from the health care access transfers from the health care access fund<00:23:40.480><c> should</c><00
• $100,000 to the incorrect transfer $100,000 to the incorrect program<00:23:52.960><c> account</c><00

Committee: House State Government Finance and Policy

Keywords: 1183, house

Transcript Highlights:

• </c><00:16:44.319><c> to</c> lands uh are deemed transferred to lands uh are deemed transferred to adjacent
• The only thing is the roadway was owned by the association and wanted to transfer the roadway to the
• The only thing is the roadway was owned by the association and wanted to transfer the roadway to the
• With knowing what counties do, if the private association owns the road and wants it transferred, in
• With knowing what counties do, if the private association owns the road and wants it transferred, in

Keywords: 912, senate, all

Summary: The joint committees first heard SB 1146, which would appropriate funds to the University of Hawaiʻi to develop an action plan and pre-engineering concept plan for debris management and water quality control in the Ala Wai Watershed. Testimony was largely supportive from DLNR, a UH student, and a special improvement district representative, while one speaker suggested the work should be coordinated with existing efforts to avoid duplication. Committee discussion focused on the multi-jurisdictional nature of the watershed, existing debris-trap work that captures only about 20 to 30 percent of debris, the role of the university in capstone projects and recommendations, and the relationship to the existing Geni project and other community efforts. Members also asked about costs, tracking progress, and the difference between water-quality improvements and the larger debris problem. The committees then voted to pass SB 1146 with amendments, including blanking out the appropriation and deferring the effective date to July 31, 2050. The motion passed in both committees, with votes recorded in support and no opposition noted during the decision-making. The committees also heard SB 321, which would deem certain fee simple privately owned lands transferred to adjacent property owners or community associations if specified conditions are met. Testimony was in support from several individuals, but members raised concerns about the lack of input from counties and the state, and about how the bill might affect roads already used by the public or maintained by local governments. After discussion, the committees voted to advance SB 321 unamended to the next committees, with the measure adopted in both committees despite one recorded no vote in the Water and Land committee.

Transcript Highlights:

• from taxable to exempt status transfer from taxable to exempt status and<00:18:55.240><c> so</c><00:
• In 2020, the legislature enacted a change that allows surviving spouses to make a one-time transfer of
• </c><00:40:53.280><c> of</c> spouses to make a one-time transfer of spouses to make a one-time transfer
• We're going to transfer it all to the general fund.
• </c><00:54:17.079><c> it</c><00:54:17.280><c> all</c> instead we're going to transfer it all instead

Committee: Senate Taxes

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• This funding was used for the implementation office to successfully transfer staff and resources to the
• staff and resources to the new transfer staff and resources to the new agency<00:10:13.880><c> ensuring
• The same contracting authority is not available when a child's permanency plan is transfer of permanent
• of permanent legal and physical transfer of permanent legal and physical custody<00:12:45.839><c> to
• It would be complicated to create a new state bureaucracy where we transfer funds back and forth for

Committee: Senate Health and Human Services

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• Uh, because many of those homes were not even legally transferred because they didn't have the seal on
• because they didn't legally transferred because they didn't have have have the<00:35:49.160><c> seal
• . transferred. transferred.
• But if you were allowed to carry over from other parts of the agency, that's carryover transfer, the
• But if you were allowed to carry over from other parts of the agency, that's carryover transfer, the

Committee: Senate Finance

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• It's the public-facing transfers.
• I think at the moment we are leaning toward exploring the ability to transfer a data file from the DSP
• Changing this now would cause delays and inefficiencies before the knowledge transfer is complete.
• Changing this now would cause delays and inefficiencies before the knowledge transfer is complete.
• You said you were asking how this transfer of oversight responsibilities will change the experience of

Keywords: 987, senate, all

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• whole financial eligibility process and recommend in a future year how any of those functions could transfer
• </c> toileting, positioning or transferring toileting, positioning or transferring or<01:05:34.800><c
• They haven't stood in a doorway at 2:00 in the morning watching a staff member help someone transfer
• Equipment fails, fatigue worsens, cognition declines, transfers become unsafe.
• </c> declines, transfers become unsafe. declines, transfers become unsafe.

Committee: House Human Services Finance and Policy

Keywords: 1183, house

Transcript Highlights:

• privacy and security is something we still care about, and it prevents data from being sold or transferred
• privacy and security is something we still care about, and it prevents data from being sold or transferred
• privacy and security is something we still care about, and it prevents data from being sold or transferred
• </c><00:25:56.360><c> to</c><00:25:56.480><c> a</c> data from being sold or transferred to a data from
• being sold or transferred to a third<00:25:56.880><c> party</c><00:25:57.600><c> unrelated</c><00:25

Committee: Senate Labor

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• </c><00:46:57.680><c> We</c><00:46:57.920><c> are</c> transferable across industries.
• We are transferable across industries.
• addition to the deadweight loss normally associated with distortions to labor supply by tax and transfer
• distortions to labor supply by tax with distortions to labor supply by tax and<01:09:10.880><c> transfer
• , we have and transfer systems, we have considerable<01:09:13.920><c> additional</c><01:09:14.560><c>

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

Keywords: 1183, house

Transcript Highlights:

• The difference is due to the transfer of these funds to the newly established Department of Tourism.
• Those transferred funds include salary, travel, commodities, contracts, equipment, and subsidies.
• </c><01:40:14.480><c> from</c> which I mentioned before transfers from which I mentioned before transfers
• </c><01:40:22.560><c> included</c><01:40:23.000><c> salaries,</c> those uh transfers included salaries
• , those uh transfers included salaries, travel, travel, travel, uh<01:40:24.960><c> commodities,</c><

Keywords: MS Senate Floor - 19 February, 2026; 10:00 AM, 925, all

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• Economic Research that came out in July of 2024, the control group versus the people who got the transfer
• , there was a 3.9% decrease in labor market participation by the people who got the transfer, and they
• , there was a 3.9% decrease in labor market participation by the people who got the transfer, and they
• , there was a 3.9% decrease in labor market participation by the people who got the transfer, and they
• And so I just wanted to make those points. ...who got the transfer and they were worse off by $2,000

Bills: HF1833 , HF148 , HF1127 , HF1227 , HF1681 , HF1974 , HF1106 , HF1016 , HF2197

Committee: House Taxes

Keywords: sales tax, education funding, construction, Aitkin Public Schools, tax exemption, refundable credit, HF148, use of force training, deadly force, peace officer training, police training, law enforcement, POST Board, Board of Peace Officer Standards and Training, scenario-based training, de-escalation, defensive tactics, force-on-force training, stress management, officer wellness

Transcript Highlights:

• Work requirements in CalFresh: we think the data that we're transferring will be uploaded in the middle
• Let me phrase the question: it's the public-facing transfers.
• I think at the moment we are leaning toward exploring the ability to transfer a data file from the DSP
• Changing this now would cause delays and inefficiencies before the knowledge transfer is complete.
• You said you were asking how this transfer of oversight responsibilities will change the experience of

Summary: The subcommittee heard an overview of the governor’s IHSS budget proposals and extensive testimony from the Department of Social Services, Department of Finance, the Legislative Analyst’s Office, county representatives, labor, consumer advocates, and advocates for older adults and people with disabilities. The administration described IHSS as a large and growing program serving more than 900,000 recipients, and outlined three proposals: shifting the cost of growth in authorized hours per case to counties, eliminating the backup provider system, and aligning IHSS terminations with Medi-Cal terminations. The LAO said the overall budget estimates appeared reasonable but raised concerns about the hours-per-case proposal, including the lack of a comprehensive root-cause analysis, the limited control counties have over statewide cost growth, and uncertainty about how the baseline and savings would work. CWDA, SEIU, and consumer advocates strongly opposed the hours cost shift, arguing that counties use state-designed tools, that demographic changes and rising need explain much of the growth, and that the proposal would pressure counties to cut services and destabilize care. The chair and members repeatedly questioned the administration about the proposed baseline, the claimed savings, and whether the measure effectively circumvents the county maintenance-of-effort agreement. On the backup provider system, the administration said the statewide program is underutilized and administratively expensive, and proposed eliminating it to save about $3.5 million. The LAO suggested the Legislature consider whether administrative costs could be reduced while preserving some version of the program. County and consumer advocates opposed the cut, saying the system is a critical safety net when regular providers are unavailable, especially in rural areas and for people with complex needs. They argued that low utilization reflects the difficulty of finding emergency backup care, not lack of need, and that many counties already rely on local backup systems or other models. Committee members also pressed for better data on requests, fulfillment, and administrative costs, and discussed whether the state could support local alternatives instead of eliminating the program. The final topic was the proposal to align IHSS terminations with Medi-Cal terminations by automating the process when recipients fail to complete Medi-Cal redeterminations. The administration said this would reduce General Fund costs by about $86 million by preventing payment of IHSS in the residual program when recipients are no longer eligible for Medi-Cal, while also automating reinstatement when Medi-Cal is restored. The LAO noted the proposal has been rejected in prior years and suggested improved notice and communication to recipients as an alternative. CWDA and advocates warned that the change could create gaps in care, especially for people who lose Medi-Cal for procedural reasons, and urged additional safeguards such as better notices, faster reprocessing, and automatic reinstatement. Members questioned how many people would be affected, how the residual program currently works, and whether providers could go unpaid during the gap; the department said the automation is already built and would be activated if the proposal is approved. No votes were taken during the discussion, and the committee moved through public comment and questioning without final action on the proposals in the excerpt provided.

Transcript Highlights:

• Line three is a governor's recommendation to do a one-time transfer of 550,000 within the State Airports
• items for that air transportation services account transfer of $550,000.
• On lines 70, 72, and 82 on page three of the spreadsheet are the related transfers and revenue items
• for that air transportation services account transfer of $550,000.
• from the aircraft the one-time transfer from the aircraft capital<00:21:25.280><c> account</c><00:21

Committee: Senate Finance

Keywords: 1187, senate, all