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AL
Alabama 2025 Regular Session
Alabama House Education Policy Committee Feb 26th, 2025
Education Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- internet on district-owned devices and require students to receive instruction on the risks and benefits
- of... ...instruction on the risks and benefits of social media and how to use social media safely prior
- I believe this bill does that by limiting... ...believe this bill does that by limiting smartphone use
Committee:
House Education Policy
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Arts, Entertainment, Sports, and Tourism Committee Apr 21st, 2026
Arts, Entertainment, Sports, and Tourism
Transcript Highlights:
- bill and the significance of that, to be clear, our concern is to ensure that we don't inadvertently limit
- It will also be a practical and sustainable way to strengthen fighter retirement benefits beyond what
- state in the country, but the only location in the world that provides fighters with a retirement benefit
- And for those who are able to access these funds, it can... ...with a retirement benefit.
- And thanks to your support, when we extended those benefits to our mixed martial artists, fighters, we
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Joint Hearing Assembly Public Employment and Retirement And Senate Labor, Public Employment And Retirement Mar 4th, 2026
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- We use that rate to discount future benefit payments. It's also...
- We use that rate to discount future benefit payments.
- Funded and on course to provide benefits for everyone, and all the retirees will be able to manage that
- The retirees receive their payments as set when they retire, and it's based on their benefit formula,
- But then there's also what we call the triple P, the purchase power protection, which limits how far
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Joint Hearing Senate Labor, Public Employment and Retirement and Assembly Public Employment and Retirement Mar 4th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- We use that rate to discount future benefit payments. It's also...
- We use that rate to discount future benefit payments.
- Yeah, in terms of keeping the pension plan funded and on course Funded and on course to provide benefits
- The retirees receive their payments as set when they retire, and it's based on their benefit formula,
- But then there's also what we call the Triple PA, the purchase power protection, which limits how far
MN
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- </c> gain access to their education benefits. gain access to their education benefits.
- And even under Medicare, the Part D drug plan, which is open enrollment, also they limit the time.
- And even under Medicare, the Part D drug plan, which is open enrollment, also they limit the time.
- Every one of these programs would benefit in a better way.
- I I'm um benefit in a better way.
ID
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- Representative Shepherd asked whether there is a limit on yard sales, regardless of how many they have
- So yard sale sales tax, isn't there a limit of yard sale? sales tax.
- Isn't there a limit of yard sale, regardless of how many yard sales they have, that they can do a money
- the rules that can be presented and... ...trying to limit the rules that can be presented.
- Again, it is with always keeping the benefit of the taxpayer in mind and leaning that direction.
Committee:
House Revenue and Taxation
MO
Missouri 2026 Regular Session
Health and Mental Health Jan 15th, 2026 at 08:00 am
Health and Mental Health
Transcript Highlights:
- So it's just benefits to them.
- I don't know that many of us realized that those limitations existed.
- of their borders, it limits some of that collaboration.
- And right now we are very limited in terms of governmental-backed securities with that five-year time
- And right now we are very limited in terms of governmental back securities with that five-year time frame
Committee:
House Health and Mental Health
MD
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- The rest of the counties we haven't heard from, and it's very limited the number of licenses.
- </c><00:22:47.640><c> the</c> heard from and it's very limited the heard from and it's very limited the
- On the other hand, it says that benefit.
- Um, a lot of times realtors will tell you... benefit and on the flip that by doing benefit and on the
- </c> environmental benefits of the practice. environmental benefits of the practice.
LA
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- The state of Iowa conducted a pharmacy benefit manager.
- The state of Iowa conducted a pharmacy benefit manager reverse auction 25.
- I'm the Vice President of Pharmacy Benefit Administration, or PBA, Markets at Capital Rx.
- What we see as the role of a PBM is really to be the PBA, a pharmacy benefit administrator on behalf
- I am supporting HB 938 because Louisiana's patients need pharmacy benefit manager reform.
Committee:
Senate Insurance
Keywords:
automobile repairs, insurance transparency, repair shop liability, non-OEM parts, policyholder rights, automobile insurance, appraisal process, insurance policyholders, dispute resolution, claim valuation, behavioral health, crisis services, mental health care, insurance coverage, healthcare access, pharmacy benefit managers, reimbursement standards, local pharmacies, drug pricing, regulation
LA
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- It has some potential to create a future liability that's offset by the funds in the benefit account.
- Again, members, HB 1236 has gone over to y'all's side from our side concerning PBMs, pharmacy benefit
- Any cost to the overall benefit is going to ultimately get put into premiums. Okay. Okay.
- or annual plan of benefits for life, health, or other benefit programs offered by the Office of Group
- Benefits.
Committee:
Senate Finance
Summary:
The Senate Finance Committee met with eight members present and deferred HB 127. It then considered a series of bills, most of which were reported favorably without opposition. HB 22 revised COLA rules for the clerks of court retirement system, allowing more frequent COLAs when the system is better funded; HB 324 made judicial stipends permanent and added future COLAs subject to available funding; HB 233 increased jury mileage reimbursement; HB 47 reorganized assessor retirement COLA statutes; HB 533 allowed St. Tammany Parish to transfer unused witness-fee account balances to the 22nd Judicial District Court; HB 980 adjusted eligibility for the Firemen’s Supplemental Pay Board; HCR 45 urged Congress to clarify ARPA deadlines for water projects; HB 559 increased court costs in the 4th Judicial District; HB 290 recreated the Department of Treasury and related entities in statute; and HB 382 addressed Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget review authority over Group Benefits plans. The committee also reported HB 1157 favorably, creating a financing bank mechanism for infrastructure projects, and HB 575 favorably, giving youth aging out of foster care preferred access to surplus state vehicles through the Louisiana Property Assistance Agency.
Several measures drew more discussion. HB 1236, dealing with pharmacy benefit managers and professional dispensing fees, prompted extensive testimony from the sponsor, the Legislative Fiscal Office, the Department of Insurance, independent pharmacies, and PBM representatives. Supporters said it clarifies and strengthens enforcement of existing PBM law and protects independent pharmacies; opponents argued the bill’s requirement that PBMs bear dispensing-fee costs would be difficult to implement and could raise premiums. The sponsor said he would work on amendments, including clarifying language and a delayed effective date, and the bill was nevertheless moved favorably. SB 25, on registrar of voters compensation, was amended to a revised pay structure and then reported favorably. HB 47 and HB 533 were also presented as funding and administrative cleanups for retirement and court-related accounts, with local support noted.
The committee also heard HB 233 on jury duty mileage reimbursement, which the sponsor said updates a 1961 rate and would be funded locally at an estimated average increase of about $4,000 per judicial district. HB 324 on judicial salaries was described as self-funded by the judiciary and subject to available funding, with no budget impact. HB 575 on foster youth transportation was presented as a non-appropriation measure aimed at helping youth aging out of foster care by giving them preferred access to surplus vehicles. HB 382, which concerns the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget’s role in approving Group Benefits plans, was reported favorably with little discussion. The meeting ended after a motion to adjourn.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Health, Human Services and Elderly Affairs (03/03/2025)
Health, Human Services & Elderly Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- have significant health benefits for the have significant health benefits for the mental<01:21:03.520
- We have to limit testimony to three today. Yep, I understand.
- Um, so there are limits that are placed on people all the time.
- Um, so there are limits that are placed on people all the time.
- There are limits that are placed on people all the time.
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- I just wanted to comment for the benefit of the conversation that we're having here.
- doing and teaching us how to think and not what to think, and how respectful I was of that, how that benefited
- And I guess maybe just for my benefit and for all of us who teach in elementary schools, talk to us about
- I've made my preference noted that we limit it to a great degree in those early years where it is important
- I've made my preference noted that we limit it to a great degree in those early years where it is important
Committee:
House Education
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Floor Session Jan 16th, 2026
California Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- The doors that were opened then did not benefit only one group.
- Today, California's reliance on unstable stock markets driven by revenue has limited our ability to sustain
- California's reliance on unstable stock markets driven by revenue has limited our ability to sustain
- They constantly rallied and performed benefit shows to lift up people and help critical causes across
- The Dead were among the first to hold a benefit concert for the survivors, raising tens of millions of
TX
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- And the state would have missed an opportunity with the limited funds available to actually address a
- And I think we need to have a conversation about the benefits today that will supplement again where
- the future, that as we develop new sources of water in the state, we are offsetting pressure on our limited
- years—I know for sure they will get funding, so it's a misnomer to say that those projects won't really benefit
- state's produced water issues and turning that water into something of value that can be put to the benefit
Committee:
Senate Finance
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- number of witnesses who have registered and to accommodate all who wish to testify, the chair... ...may limit
- You remembered the two-minute limit. I did. We appreciate your testimony.
- Although this is a past conversation, additional benefits are firmly implanted in our present.
- That's the benefit of education.
- It was human beings who had the benefit of education, thereby combining their efforts to make it better
Bills:
HB370 , HB738 , HB2935 , HB3227 , HB4103 , HB5259 , SB519 , SB1350 , SB1247 , SB1248 , SB2112 , HCR81 , HCR83 , HCR84 , HCR59 , HCR109 , HCR111 , HCR135 , SCR6
Committee:
House Culture, Recreation & Tourism
Keywords:
HB 370, Events Trust Fund, Texas events funding, sports eligibility, women's sports, girls' sports, biological sex, transgender athletes, sex-segregated sports, athletic competition, event subsidies, tourism funding, site selection organization, anti-trafficking plan, female athletes, public funding, economic impact, sports policy, Rosenwald Schools, historical preservation
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 4 on Climate Crisis, Resources, Energy, and Transportation Feb 19th, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- Public comments will be limited to one minute.
- So there's an equity benefit from making these investments as well.
- And then lastly, we want to be coordinated and focus on multiple benefits.
- These are multi-benefits that can have long-term, healthier outcomes.
- So that's just one counterpoint of the benefit of multi-year budgeting.
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Formal House Session 19 Jun 21st, 2026 at 11:00 am
Massachusetts House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Now, we are limited in where we can draw from to immediately offer savings.
- energy charges. ...recover any public benefit energy charges.
- The programs that are run by public benefits like Mass Save are large programs.
- Twenty-one percent of the average gas bill right now is public benefit charges.
- A program that returns three dollars in benefits for every dollar invested.
Summary:
The House opened with the Pledge of Allegiance and then took up several procedural matters, including adopting a resolution recognizing the work of Ukraine Forward and suspending Joint Rule 12 for a number of petitions. The chamber also scheduled several bills for later consideration, including measures on unemployment insurance for fluctuating work schedules, the Medical Society mission statement, a youth training wage, bridge and intersection namings, handicapped parking fines, public-way safety, excavation restoration, motor vehicle safety, and a Newton police age requirement. Two engrossed local bills were passed to be enacted: one authorizing retired police officers as special police in Plainville and another allowing Orange to increase its Board of Selectmen membership.
The main policy debate centered on House No. 5151, An Act relative to energy affordability, clean power, and economic competitiveness. Supporters described it as a broad affordability and clean-energy package that would cut costs for ratepayers, reform Mass Save, speed clean-energy procurement and interconnection, return a portion of alternative compliance payments to customers, and address biomass and other energy issues. Opponents argued the bill relied too heavily on long-term programs and new administrative structures while offering little immediate relief, and raised concerns about costs being shifted to consumers, impacts on natural gas, and the pace of implementation. Several amendments were debated and rejected, including proposals to shift public benefit charges away from peak hours, pause public benefit charges for a year, require greater utility disclosure before rate increases, and add a forest-clearing penalty for solar development.
One amendment to the energy bill was adopted: a consolidated amendment that included budget-billing consumer protections for gas customers, requiring notice and conservation recommendations when usage rises significantly. The House also adopted an amendment to a separate conservation-restriction bill for Hanson, changing a figure in the underlying law, and passed that bill to be engrossed as amended. The energy bill’s consolidated amendment passed by roll call, while several other amendments failed by roll call votes. The House observed multiple moments of silence honoring Jaden Booker, Thomas Skip Karam, former Freetown Police Chief Carlton Abbott, and former Representative and Senator William Q. “Biff” McLean, Jr.
ID
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- pilot program, to define terms, to provide for authorized activities, safety requirements, and limitations
- To provide for authorized activities, safety requirements, and limitations; to establish licensing and
- million in personnel costs and they were requesting a $10 million increase for CEC and insurance benefits
- that said for every public dollar, every single public dollar we put into BSU, it yields $2.40 in benefit
- And this included the budgets, the process, air flights, ingredients, even including but not limited
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
House - Appropriations and Finance Jan 30th, 2026 at 09:51 am
House Appropriations & Finance
Transcript Highlights:
- So line number 60 on the $6 million of the community benefit fund appropriation—can I think, let's get
- Item number 60 is $6 million from the Community Benefit Fund, which you all set up last year.
- Item number 60 is $6 million from the Community Benefit Fund, which you all set up last year.
- additional $500,000 to Women, Infants, and Children and senior farmers market nutrition program benefits
- that if you had a school-age kid that needed care, children, there would be a limited expansion that
Committee:
House House Appropriations & Finance
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
House - Agriculture, Acequias And Water Resources Jan 27th, 2026 at 09:05 am
House Agriculture, Acequias And Water Resources
Transcript Highlights:
- It sets penalties at twice the economic benefit...
- The sale of illegally diverted water sets penalties at twice the economic benefit gained, or $25 per
- down the page, line 13, it talks about the water being sold without a permit, double the economic benefit
- high-quality, diverse, culturally relevant, and nutritious foods to regions where such options are limited
- due pass to help ensure a predictable year-round sales outlet for New Mexico farms that not only benefits