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MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Debating the Earned Sick and Safe Time Law / Northland Senators Share Their Priorities and Successes May 11th, 2025
Minnesota Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- We need to make sure that at the end of the day, we are providing folks the opportunity to provide for
- </c><00:06:56.400><c> the</c> revenue we need in order to provide the revenue we need in order to provide
- </c> at the end of the day, we are providing at the end of the day, we are providing uh<00:07:29.039>
- </c><00:07:30.560><c> for</c> uh folks the opportunity to provide for uh folks the opportunity to provide
- And they've never provided one.
TX
Texas 89th 2nd C.S.
Delivery of Government Efficiency Apr 30th, 2025
Delivery of Government Efficiency
Transcript Highlights:
- Uh, as well as maintain and provide that information to Sunset.
- And providing and maintaining all that information for us.
- I appreciate the transparency that y'all are providing to the taxpayers there in Koppel.
- , and provide transparent information for Texas families.
- ERG provides actionable information to help our district provide better outcomes for our students.
Committee:
House Delivery of Government Efficiency
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
The Senate's Special Election Results / The Spirit of Civility / Minnesota's Housing Needs Feb 2nd, 2025
Minnesota Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- There's a new idea on how to keep in-home child care providers in business, and it's getting support
- There's a new idea on how to keep in-home child care providers in business, and it's getting support
- </c> current inhome child care providers current inhome child care providers which<00:26:27.720><c> in
- </c><00:26:34.760><c> some</c> small way uh we can provide some small way uh we can provide some assistance
- </c><00:28:13.720><c> an</c> passed last year and provided an passed last year and provided an additional
NY
New York 2025-2026 Regular Session
New York State Senate Session - 06/04/2026
New York Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- While they provide tremendous—A.I. provides tremendous Opportunities, and we want to lead how much that
- The diversity this state provides, the opportunities it provides and has provided over the years, is
- Transparent at all, and I think that working on a bill to provide better oversight, to provide more transparency
- TO PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CRISIS, TO PROVIDE FOR VACCINATION PROGRAMS.
- But that business provides jobs that provide income for people to provide a roof over their family’s
Summary:
The Senate met on June 3, 2026, approved the prior day’s journal, and then moved through a long list of discharge motions and substitutions to place many bills on the third reading calendar. The chamber also adopted Resolution J.2314 honoring the New York chapter of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, with remarks emphasizing domestic workers’ role in care work, labor organizing, and protections such as paid sick leave and family leave. Another adopted resolution, J.2298, mourned labor and social justice advocate Minerva Solla, with senators highlighting her work with 1199, the Young Lords, Puerto Rican solidarity efforts, and women’s organizing. A third resolution recognized Olympic curler Daniel Casper for representing the United States at the 2026 Winter Games.
The Senate then confirmed a large slate of judicial and executive nominations. It accepted the Judiciary Committee report and confirmed four interim Supreme Court justices, seven Court of Claims judges, and 21 reappointments/extensions by a vote of 44-12. The Finance Committee report was also accepted, and the Senate confirmed a broad set of appointments to state boards and authorities, including the MTA, State Commission of Correction, Power Authority, NYSERDA, Financial Control Board, public health councils, SUNY and Cornell boards, gaming and bridge authorities, and others. One notable confirmation was Alexander Dockery to the State Commission of Correction; supporters called it the first time a formerly incarcerated person had been confirmed to that commission, while Senator Murray criticized the practice of voting on large nomination blocks rather than individually.
The chamber then took up and passed many bills, mostly by wide margins, covering labor, health, education, transportation, public service, criminal justice, municipal, tax, insurance, and environmental topics. Several members explained their votes on major measures: Senator Ramos supported a bill modernizing temporary disability benefits and another protecting construction workers from lost pay when jobs are canceled; Senator Baskin spoke about a correction bill tied to the death of India Cummings; Senator Skoufis described a family-court custody bill intended to prioritize child safety; Senator Mayer backed a proposal to reimburse parents of medically fragile children for providing care; and Senator Hinchey defended a bill requiring employers to report AI-related job impacts, while Senator Borrello opposed it as burdensome. Most bills were passed, some were laid aside, and the session concluded with multiple roll-call votes and confirmations before adjournment-related business.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Proposed $3 million grant considered to study turning waste water heat into energy 4/14/26
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- about figuring out how to use this free renewable heat, free in that we've already paid for it, to provide
- </c><00:01:24.920><c> thermal</c><00:01:25.320><c> energy</c><00:01:25.680><c> to</c> it, to provide
- thermal energy to it, to provide thermal energy to buildings.<00:01:26.520><c> Not</c><00:01:26.760><
- energy that can provide communities with affordable<00:03:31.400><c> low-carbon</c><00:03:31.959><c>
- </c> facilities, some of which may provide facilities, some of which may provide real<00:04:01.080><c
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Conference Committee: ESSB 5998 Mar 11th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- There is $1 billion in near-general fund outlook over the four years provided for the self-insurance
- Under this conference report policy, if a child attends for one to eight days, the provider gets paid
- If the child attends for 9 to 15 days, the provider gets paid for 15 days.
- And if the child attends for 16 days or more, the provider gets paid for 22 days, or a full month.
- In the conference budget, there is no additional funding provided to the University of Washington.
Summary:
The conference committee on Engrossed Substitute Senate Bill 5998 met to review the operating budget conference report. House and Senate budget coordinators walked through comparison documents showing the Senate-passed budget, House-passed budget, and the conference proposal, including statewide totals, agency detail, revenue assumptions, transfers, and the four-year outlook. They said the conference budget uses the February 2026 ERFC forecast, includes an $880 million transfer from the budget stabilization account to the general fund, and reflects a four-year net near-general-fund impact of about $800 million, with an ending fund balance of $231 million in 2025-27 and $563 million in 2027-29. They also noted that future collective bargaining agreements are not included in the outlook beyond those already settled.
The briefing highlighted major policy items across the budget, including Working Families Tax Credit expansion, a proposed city and county fiscal health account, changes to Working Connections child care attendance payments, behavioral health facility and staffing adjustments, long-term care funding for certain non-citizen residents affected by federal changes, Apple Health and other health-related responses to H.R. 1, K-12 changes such as free school meals contingent on related legislation, Running Start and transportation depreciation adjustments, higher education administrative reductions, corrections staffing and bed changes, wildfire response funding, and state employee compensation agreements. Members also discussed the budget’s reliance on revenue measures and transfers, including legislation referenced as 2487, 6228, 6231, and 6346.
After the presentation, Senator Robinson moved adoption of the conference report and passage of the bill as recommended by the committee. In discussion, supporters said the budget protected core services and responded to federal H.R. 1 impacts, while opponents criticized the size of the budget, the use of reserves, future outlook assumptions, and reductions in some K-12 and other programs. The committee then voted 4-2 to recommend the conference report and ESSB 5998 to the legislature, with Representatives Gregerson and Ormsby and Senators Robinson and Stanford in favor, and Representative Couture and Senator Gildon opposed.
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Transportation Mar 4th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- talking about in 1501 and 1503, the sections right here, is that there is a six-month exemption provided
- , went too far, so down here at the bottom in 1501, 1503 for the luxury tax other provisions, it provides
- There was an across-the-board fuel tax increase provided in 5801, and then there were two additional
- There was a across-the-board fuel tax increase provided in 50801, and then there were two additional
- It amends that to also provide that debit card charges could go to passengers as well.
Summary:
The Transportation Committee met in executive session on Gross Substitute House Bill 2711, a transportation resources measure, after a staff walkthrough of the Senate striking amendment S-5820.4. Staff explained that the striker largely replaced the bill with provisions from Senate Bill 6352 and related transportation revenue and policy changes, including updates to mobile driver’s licenses, account interest provisions, recreational vessel and luxury vehicle tax clarifications, peer-to-peer tax administration changes, fuel tax timing changes, aircraft fuel tax and account changes, bicycle education grants, ferry payment-card fee authority, traffic safety camera revenue and rebuttable presumption rules, online driver education regulation, transit annexation tax/liability clarification, Sound Transit 75-year bond authority limits, stolen copper protections for light rail and DOT communications infrastructure, and a highway contracting threshold change. Staff also reviewed fiscal impacts, including revenue gains from trade-in value clarifications and aircraft fuel changes, and losses from the diesel tax delay, motorhome exemption, and repeal of the luxury aircraft tax.
Members asked several clarifying questions, including the luxury RV tax threshold, how trade-in value is treated under the luxury vehicle tax, whether ferry debit-card fees are authorized, and the legality of passing card-processing fees to customers. Staff and counsel said the luxury vehicle tax applies to value over $100,000, trade-in value is added back for the luxury tax calculation, and the ferry provision is intended to clarify that both credit and debit card surcharges may be passed through. On the traffic safety camera section, staff described a revised approach that would require stronger proof from registered owners to rebut presumed responsibility, and on Sound Transit bonds, staff clarified that bonds over 40 years would be limited to federal transportation loan purposes and would affect eligibility for certain state grants.
After caucus, the committee returned to executive session, waived the amendment posting deadline under Senate Rule 45, adopted the striking amendment, and then voted to advance ESHB 2711 as amended with a do pass recommendation to the Rules Committee. The motion carried, and the chair thanked staff before adjourning the meeting.
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
December 4, 2025 - 01:30 PM
Transcript Highlights:
- Bartos will provide us with helpful information on the concepts and legal standards that guide the map
- One provides that representatives shall be apportioned among the states according to their respective
- numbers, and the other provides for an actual enumeration of the population of each state.
- Now, when the census provides, the Census Bureau provides data to states after the decennial census,
- it provides that data associated to states after the decennial census it provides that data associated
Summary:
The Select Committee on Congressional Redistricting held its first meeting, established a quorum, and opened with remarks from the chair outlining the committee’s purpose and scope. The chair said the committee will focus only on congressional redistricting, will not take public comment at this introductory meeting, and may consider whether to propose a new congressional map ahead of the 2026 session. He emphasized that the work would rely on the 2020 census data, the current congressional map, and the House’s map-drawing software, and he stressed transparency, record retention, and compliance with constitutional prohibitions on drawing districts to favor or disfavor a party or incumbent.
House outside counsel Andy Bartos then gave an educational presentation on redistricting basics and legal standards. He distinguished reapportionment from redistricting, explained that Florida was apportioned 28 congressional seats after the 2020 census, and reviewed the one-person, one-vote rule, noting that congressional districts must be drawn with near-exact population equality. He also described census geography and how counties, tracts, block groups, and blocks are used to build districts, and explained that congressional redistricting follows the ordinary legislative process rather than the special process used for state legislative districts.
Bartos also covered contiguity, explaining that districts must be one connected piece and that mere point-touching is not enough, while bodies of water within a district do not necessarily break contiguity. No questions were asked after the presentation, no votes were taken, and no public testimony was heard. The meeting ended after the chair thanked attendees and said the committee would meet again the following week.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
HF2039 hearing in the House workforce, labor and economic development committee 4/1/25
Transcript Highlights:
- Without this appropriation, our providers will be forced to limit work experience placements.
- The number of schools we provide career advising support to will be significantly diminished.
- will</c><00:03:43.519><c> be</c> appropriation, our providers will be appropriation, our providers will
- </c><00:03:51.760><c> career</c> The number of schools we provide career The number of schools we provide
- Um, and so it kind of provides, I think it's a minimum wage.
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Appropriations Committee Mar 19th, 2025
Appropriations
Transcript Highlights:
- While we fully support the intent of this measure to provide relief to borrowers in need, the bill as
- These programs are provided by groups like Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, the Federal Housing Administration
- Providing regulatory oversight will be challenging if servicers are forced to provide forbearance outside
- This would provide the Fair Plan with another financial tool in their toolbox that they do not have.
- AB 226 would provide the fare plan access to capital when needed to ensure the fare plan's ability to
Committee:
House Appropriations
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Rules and Legislative Administration Committee 1/23/25
Rules and Legislative Administration
Transcript Highlights:
- At the bottom of page five, House Rule 2.01 is amended to provide that members are not entitled to per
- 3.21, which is the rule related to durness, and there's new language on lines 11.8 and 11.9 that provides
- </c> house rule 2.01 uh is amended to provide house rule 2.01 uh is amended to provide that<00:01:39.920
- </c> language on line 11.8 11.9 that provides language on line 11.8 11.9 that provides that<00:02:00.640
- for Mr chair and I urge its provides for Mr chair and I urge its adoption<00:04:36.400><c> thank</c>
Committee:
House Rules and Legislative Administration
WY
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> provided the weapon. provided the weapon.
- Uh but if anyone's all been provided.
- </c> provide some protections to the officer. provide some protections to the officer.
- :15:41.520><c> federal</c> provides material aid to federal provides material aid to federal prosecutors
- </c><01:26:42.560><c> a</c> think this is going to provide a think this is going to provide a chilling
Committee:
Senate Revenue
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Air Mobility & Aviation Economic Development Task Force (10-28-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:11:19.360><c> um</c> really critical as it provides um really critical as it provides um guidance
- I've provided last four or five years.
- </c> provided just a little highlight here. provided just a little highlight here.
- </c><00:31:10.640><c> ideas</c> them be involved in uh providing ideas them be involved in uh providing
- </c> doesn't regulate those or nor provide doesn't regulate those or nor provide you<01:46:29.119><c>
Summary:
The task force approved the October 14, 2025 meeting minutes and then heard a presentation from Austin Kaylor of WSP on alternative aviation fuels. Kaylor described an ongoing feasibility study focused on Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport and the other four commercial airports in Kentucky, with an eye toward both near-term use of alternative aviation fuel in existing supply chains and longer-term in-state production using local feedstocks. He said Kentucky’s current jet fuel use at the five airports is about 609 million gallons annually and could approach 1 billion gallons by 2050, and he outlined potential feedstocks such as soybeans, corn, and waste oils, along with existing logistics assets like river terminals, trucking, rail, and some pipelines. He also discussed federal and state policy support, including renewable fuel credits and the recent 45Z tax credit extension, and said the study suggests significant economic-development potential if Kentucky can leverage existing infrastructure and incentives.
Members asked about the cost of sustainable aviation fuel, whether taxpayers would be subsidizing it, and whether food crops would be diverted from food use. Kaylor responded that the market is increasingly using second-generation and waste-based feedstocks, that federal incentives can cover much of the price differential, and that SAF is a direct substitute for conventional jet fuel with some efficiency benefits. He said demand comes from both U.S. and foreign carriers, including major U.S. airlines that have made emissions-reduction commitments. Members also raised the possibility of locating production in Appalachia to create jobs closer to feedstock sources; Kaylor said that approach has worked in other states and could fit Kentucky’s logistics network.
The committee then heard from Leif Elder of the Utah Department of Transportation, who introduced himself and said he would discuss advanced air mobility legislation in Utah. The transcript cuts off before his substantive presentation, and no further votes or actions were recorded after the question-and-answer discussion on alternative aviation fuels.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Energy, Utilities, Environment and Climate - 03/05/25
Energy, Utilities, Environment, and Climate
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:28:50.039><c> significant</c> Minnesota and provide significant Minnesota and provide significant
- We provide the auditable record backing up public claims. Mr.
- We provide the auditable record backing up public claims.
- </c><01:20:38.719><c> uh</c> sustaining uh careers that provide uh sustaining uh careers that provide
- </c><01:30:20.960><c> sustainable</c> stable rates it provides sustainable stable rates it provides sustainable
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
JHA Public Hearing - Fri Jan 31, 2025 @ 2:00 PM HST
Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- Next person that we know has requested to provide testimony is Cavo Havaiki Anaa.
- </c> department to come up to provide department to come up to provide testimony next<01:10:10.880><c
- </c><01:26:42.040><c> greater</c> 75% the ACT aims to provide greater 75% the ACT aims to provide greater
- Provided further that no services shall be denied to the Department of Hawaiian Homelands.
- Then you put in the words, “provided that no county shall charge or collect user fees.”
Committee:
House Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs
Summary:
The committee heard testimony on House Bill 410, the Office of Hawaiian Affairs’ biennium operating budget. OHA asked for a modest increase over its base budget, including $1.2 million to fund 13 new full-time positions for a strategy and implementation team tied to its long-term plan, with emphasis on housing, education, health, and economic resilience. OHA also described a broader effort to work directly with executive branch departments to improve outcomes for Native Hawaiians. Testimony was largely supportive, with several individuals speaking in favor and one testifier expressing strong frustration about Native Hawaiian rights and access to resources. The chair noted there were 38 additional written/supporting testimonies and three in opposition. Members asked about OHA’s funding sources and public land trust revenues; OHA said it is not receiving the full 20 percent share, described a public land trust working group and system issues, and said a related bill would seek funding to begin an inventory. No vote was taken in the portion provided.
The committee then considered House Bill 304, which would make the Hawaiian version of a law binding when the law was originally drafted in Hawaiian and later translated into English. The Judiciary supported the bill, saying it reinforces Hawaiian as an official language and looks to the original language for legislative intent. The Attorney General supported the intent but recommended narrowing the bill with a proviso to avoid ambiguities, limiting it to laws originally drafted in Hawaiian that were not later amended, codified, recodified, or reenacted in English. Public testimony was generally supportive, though one speaker raised broader sovereignty concerns. Members questioned how many laws would be affected and whether the proposed amendment would undercut the bill; the Attorney General said the amendment was meant to address uncertainty in interpretation. No final action was reported.
Finally, the committee heard House Bill 603, which would direct OHA to administer a Native Hawaiian business marketing program to promote Native Hawaiian-owned businesses through marketing and technical assistance. OHA supported the concept, saying a label or branding program could help consumers identify and support Native Hawaiian-owned businesses, but requested that funding be redirected to a working group to study program design, implementation, enforcement, and long-term viability. The chair noted four supportive testimonies had been received, and a member asked OHA to confirm that its programs serve all Hawaiians, not only those eligible for homelands; OHA said it serves all Hawaiians in the state. The transcript ends before any vote or further action on HB 603.
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
House Legislative Session Day 35 (2-26-26) - Reupload
Kentucky House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> appropriations measures providing appropriations measures providing funding<00:12:50.079><c> and
- </c><00:29:05.440><c> $369,600</c> we provide $369,600 we provide $369,600 in<00:29:08.720><c> FY227<
- <00:29:42.720><c> 2,318,100</c> providing 2,318,100 providing 2,318,100 in<00:29:44.960><c> FY27</c><
- It also provides 150 new year 28.
- </c><02:25:05.040><c> modest</c> relocation needs, and provides modest relocation needs, and provides
Keywords:
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Summary:
The House convened with 97 members present, declared a quorum, approved excusing absent members, and suspended the rules to allow co-sponsorships and vote modifications. The journal for February 25, 2026 was approved. The clerk also reported that the Senate had passed Senate Bills 98 and 122 and requested concurrence. The House then received second-reading reports on a range of bills, including measures on prison educational programs, respiratory care, dietitians, wildlife depredation, temporary structures, military families, civil rights, local boards of education, light pollution, controlled-substance prescribing licenses, youth health services, class sizes for exceptional children, the athletic trainer compact, limited commercial driver’s licenses, and Senate Bill 145 relating to the Department of Agriculture and Alcohol Beverage Control.
Committee reports moved several bills forward, including the main budget bills House Bill 500 and House Bill 504, along with measures on workforce investment, data centers, domestic violence, guardians ad litem, domestic relations, health delivery and “food is medicine” initiatives, state personnel, open records, and fish and wildlife resources. House Bill 500 and House Bill 504 were taken from the Rules Committee and placed on the orders of the day. House Bill 500, the executive branch budget bill, was then taken up for third reading and explanation.
Members presented extensive floor explanations of House Bill 500 and House Committee Substitute 1, describing it as a “good first draft” of the executive budget. Supporters said the proposal emphasizes restrained spending growth, base reductions with exemptions for key areas, employee salary increments, and deposits to the Budget Reserve Trust Fund for future one-time investments. They highlighted funding for K-12 education, postsecondary aid and workforce training, Medicaid and behavioral health, public health infrastructure, pensions, veterans, public safety, economic development, tourism, and state technology and facility maintenance. The budget substitute was adopted by voice vote, and the discussion continued with detailed descriptions of the bill’s provisions; no final passage vote was shown in the excerpt.
HI
Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
HRE, WTL-HRE, HRE-LBT Public Hearings 03-18-2025
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> sure if she's here uh she can provide sure if she's here uh she can provide further<00:05:35.360
- </c> including Filipinos will help to provide including Filipinos will help to provide much<00:14:30.240
- So it would provide key stakeholders.
- uh that we could provide or that we<00:42:24.880><c> should</c><00:42:25.200><c> provide</c><00:42:26.480
- So provides is a unique differentiator.
Summary:
The committee heard three University of Hawaiʻi-related measures. HB 718 HD1 would appropriate funds for faculty and staff positions at the John A. Burns School of Medicine in cardiovascular, law, biology, tropical medicine, quantitative health/biostatistics, and environmental health and safety. Testimony was in support, including from university representatives and others who submitted written testimony. Members asked whether the positions were additional and how they would affect enrollment; the university said the hires would teach medical students and conduct biomedical research, helping increase the class size to about 77 and eventually 80, and noted a workforce paper requested by the committee would be provided soon.
The committee then discussed SB 1170 HD1, which would grant resident tuition at any UH campus to certain graduates of Hawaiʻi high schools enrolling in undergraduate programs. UH supported the bill and said it had adjusted its testimony in response to prior committee concerns. Members focused on the proposed four-year window, asking why that timeframe was chosen and whether the change was needed at all. UH explained that four years would allow students who left the state to return and still complete an undergraduate degree or prepare for graduate school, and said the bill would help students who come back after one or two years but otherwise would have to wait a year to reestablish residency under current rules. UH also said it was discussing possible administrative rule changes as an alternative if the bill did not pass.
Finally, the committee heard HB 1300 HD1, which would fund a University of Hawaiʻi Cancer Center pilot study on cancer disparities among Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islanders, Filipinos, and people living near landfills in Nanakuli, focusing on social determinants of health, lifestyle, environmental exposures, and resilience factors. Testimony from researchers and advocates strongly supported the measure, saying the study could help explain cancer disparities and support future research funding. Members questioned the cost, the reliance on future federal or foundation funding, and the practical outcome of the study. The Cancer Center said the pilot would cost about $500,000 per year for two years, with later funding sought from federal, nonprofit, or private sources; it said the study would produce longitudinal data that could help identify at-risk groups and provide evidence for policy decisions, though members expressed concern that the project needed a clearer end goal and stronger case for public investment.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:03:44.280><c> a</c> by June 30th 2025 this provides a by June 30th 2025 this provides a onetime
- Madam Chair, this bill provides a solution that would remedy this lingering resentment and provide property
- Madam Chair, this bill provides a solution that would remedy this lingering resentment and provide property
- Wildlife lands and providing clean water Wildlife lands and providing clean water and<00:43:10.160><c
- </c> policy with greater fairness and provide policy with greater fairness and provide a<00:52:20.200
Committee:
Senate Taxes
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Subcommittee No. 2 on Resources, Environmental Protection and Energy May 28th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- I just want to provide support for a few items that were listed here today.
- First, I want to provide strong support for the $25 million for the Healthy Rivers and Landscapes.
- This is providing essential funding for supporting habitat and water supply projects that are already
- These are critical positions that provide really important functions for the state, and they're also
- And third, we want to provide support for the redistribution of the Proposition 1 funding.
Summary:
The Senate Budget Subcommittee No. 2 on Resources, Environmental Protection, and Energy met for a vote-only hearing on the Senate budget plan, with the chair noting a difficult budget year and the need for continued negotiations with the Assembly and administration. Public comment focused on several budget items, including support for $25 million for the Healthy Rivers and Landscapes Program, rejection of special fund position cuts at CDFW and the State Water Board, redistribution of Proposition 1 funds, support for local conservation corps and job projects, funding for offshore wind, and opposition to the Governor’s proposed Sustainable Aviation Fuel tax credit/incentive on the grounds that it would be costly and could raise fuel prices or benefit out-of-state refineries. There was also support for the safer consumer products program and for preserving vacant staff positions at CDFW.
The committee then took multiple roll-call votes on grouped budget issues. It approved staff recommendations for a first large set of items by a 4-0 vote, a second set by 3-1, and a third set by 3-0. The committee also approved Part B items in three grouped motions, including a 4-0 vote on one group, and additional groups approved by 3-0 votes. During discussion of Part B, the chair expressed concern about proposed changes to the cap-and-invest program and said the budget plan withholds Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund appropriations, including continuous appropriations, until specified conditions are met, citing the need to protect legislative priorities such as transit, affordable housing, air quality, and safe drinking water.
The hearing concluded with thanks to public witnesses, the LAO, and the Department of Finance, and the chair invited additional written comments for the record before adjourning the subcommittee.
LA
Louisiana 2026 Regular Session
Transportation, Highways and Public Works Mar 17th, 2026
Transportation, Highways & Public Works
Transcript Highlights:
- If you need to provide testimony, green cards for support, red cards for opposition, white cards for
- If you need to provide testimony, green cards for support, red cards for opposition, white cards for
- Or to be able to provide all these plates. And that's my only concern. Yes, sir.
- The private operator could operate those and then provide consistent...
- the department necessarily cannot provide on a day-to-day basis.
Keywords:
HB 129, Act 783, highway designation, memorial highway, Louisiana Highway 173, Louisiana Highway 3194, Shreveport, Caddo Parish, Dr. Harry Blake Sr., Virginia Green Evans, DOTD, Department of Transportation and Development, road signage, honorary naming, commemorative sign, transportation, HB 130, Act 124, Louisiana highway memorial, road naming
Summary:
The House Transportation Committee met on March 17 and first took up House Bill 129, which would designate a portion of Louisiana Highway 173 as the Dr. Harry Blake Senior Memorial Highway. An amendment package was adopted that also added a separate designation for a portion of Louisiana Highway 3194 in Shreveport as the Virginia Green Evans Memorial Highway. Representative Walters described both honorees as important figures in civil rights and community service. HB 129 was then reported with amendments.
The committee next considered House Bill 130, which redesignates the elevated portion of Interstate 220 in Caddo Parish as the American Legion Post No. 14 Memorial Bridge. Amendments were adopted to add “Memorial Bridge” to the name. Representative Walters spoke in support of honoring veterans, and HB 130 was reported with amendments. The committee then heard House Bill 854, a specialty license plate bill. Amendments added several schools, made technical changes, required OMV implementation when statutory and system requirements are met, removed a provision allowing OMV to retain $1 per annual fee, and redirected annual fees to the Louisiana chapters of the Alzheimer’s Association and the R. Tamney-Fleming Lupus Foundation. Members raised concerns about the growing number of specialty plates and OMV’s ability to produce them, but HB 854 was also reported with amendments.
After the bills, the committee received an update on the proposed privatization of the Cameron Ferry Service. The Secretary said the process began with an unsolicited proposal from Laborde and a competitive solicitation that produced a qualified bid, and that negotiations would focus on service improvements rather than guaranteed cost savings. Members asked about costs, maintenance, fuel, staffing, and the impact on travel times if the ferry is out of service. The Secretary said the goal is to complete the process by the end of the fiscal year, around July 1. The committee then adopted the minutes from the listed 2025 regular session dates and adjourned.