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MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Housing Finance and Policy Committee 3/24/26

Housing Finance and Policy

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  • Uh, there's been two on aging privately owned infrastructure, on aging privately owned infrastructure
  • rehab $ 1.7 million infrastructure rehab $ 1.7 million infrastructure rehab project<00:40:34.800
  • There's too much at infrastructure.
  • access to infrastructure improvements. access to infrastructure improvements.
  • <00:53:55.200> is ownership where that infrastructure is ownership where that infrastructure
Bills: HF4234, HF484, HF483, HF2614
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Education Feb 13th, 2026 at 08:35 am

House Education

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  • continue to center our students with disabilities, and when we invest in strong special education infrastructure
  • And when we invest in strong special education infrastructure, we invest in opportunity, dignity, and
Bills: HB30, HB120, HJR1, SB210, SB306
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Health and Public Affairs Jan 30th, 2026 at 03:13 pm

Senate Health & Public Affairs

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  • Our Social Security COLA did not cover the increase in our Part B Medicare and our Medigap policies,
  • events with partner organizations focused on our priority areas of health, safety, and economic security
Bills: SB21, SB42, SB81, SB101, SB139
KY
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  • I'm Sandy Williams, executive director with the Kentucky Infrastructure Authority.
  • "Moving to our infrastructure revolving fund, Fund B.
  • Kentucky Infrastructure Authority. Kentucky Infrastructure Authority.
  • "Moving to our infrastructure revolving fund, Fund B.
  • <00:32:18.320> fund, to our infrastructure revolving fund, to our infrastructure revolving fund
Summary: The committee first approved the November minutes and received information items on University of Kentucky medical and research equipment purchases, five school districts reporting upcoming bond issues with no additional tax levies needed, and a School Facilities Construction Commission list of prior debt issues for fiscal year 2026. It then considered an appropriation increase for a University of Kentucky project at the Central Kentucky Regional Airport in Richmond. University officials said the project is 100% federally funded and will construct a terminal building tied to EKU’s airport operations and planned flight school. Members asked about the relationship to aviation expansion and whether the flight school would be publicly operated; the witnesses said EKU would operate it, public appropriations had already been applied, and student revenue would help offset costs. The committee approved the item by roll call vote. Next, the committee approved a University of Kentucky lease purchase for property at 415 West Sun Street in Morehead, Rowan County, for $6.4 million. UK said the property, which includes an 85,000-square-foot facility on 9.6 acres, is directly across from UK St. Clair and was offered by the Rowan County Board of Education after it moved to a new location. Members questioned why the payment schedule was structured as quarterly installments and why the price was below two appraisals; UK said the board requested the arrangement and did not want the full amount upfront, and there was no interest on the purchase price. The committee also approved this item. The deputy state budget director then reported three appropriation increases in the Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet: a Ballard Wildlife Management Area pump station project, Lake Barkley State Resort Park emergency repairs, and Lake Barkley lodge wing exterior repairs. After questions, staff explained the Lake Barkley increases were mainly to cover construction contingencies because bids came in close to available funding. The committee approved the action items, then heard four no-action pool projects: HVAC upgrades at the FFA leadership training center in Hardinsburg, Kentucky School for the Blind’s McDaniel Scoggin building, KSD’s Brett Brady Hall, and a Kentucky State University Shanty Hall renovation for the School of Engineering Technology. Finally, the committee heard two real property items: a new CHFS lease in Wayne County and a Transportation Cabinet lease modification in Christian County. The Wayne County lease drew the most discussion, with members questioning the high per-square-foot cost and whether another county location could be used; CHFS said it maintains offices in every county seat, this lease would replace an existing 1977 office, and the new construction was negotiated down from a higher initial bid. The Christian County item was described as a replacement site for driver licensing space, with renovation costs partly absorbed by the lessor and the remainder amortized over the lease term.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Pensions, Investments & Financial Services Mar 24th, 2025

Pensions, Investments & Financial Services

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  • Although COs are oftentimes used to finance public infrastructure.
  • The Department of Homeland Security has identified the healthcare sector. country's 16 critical infrastructure
  • The sole security for the bonds is... The property.
  • These are not folks that are unemployed, primarily; maybe also security.
  • That's my date of birth, that's my social security number.
TX
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  • development is critical for domestic consumption, export markets, and the economy. and national security
  • and of course, develop the state. 397 those operators that have done great things to bring old infrastructure
  • SB 1198 would add spaceports to this list. of designated critical infrastructure facilities.
  • America's leadership in both space and national security.
  • It formally designates baseball as a critical infrastructure under Texas law, ensuring they receive the
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Senate Session (Part I) Aug 6th, 2025

Texas Senate Floor Meeting

TX
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  • This bill includes critical infrastructure projects.
  • We are sure that a wise, forward-looking investment in Texas infrastructure will help secure a strong
  • sectors identified in the president's directive called Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience
  • infrastructure in the state to create a resilient grid.
  • This is my sixth time to do so in favor of securing the grid.
TX
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  • You know, my system... ...is that that's also a safety issue in terms of revealing the infrastructure
  • That includes Space Power, Generate Grid Services, and Power Secure alongside Enchanted Rock to testify
  • It specifically, as you can see there, says easy, safe, and secure.
  • Easy, safe, secure. So it really is addressing your issues.
  • They're saying it's easy, it's convenient, it's safe, it's secure. We can do it in this modern age.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Business and Commerce (Part II) Apr 1st, 2025

Business & Commerce

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  • My suspicion is that that's also a safety issue in terms of revealing the infrastructure, and so I do
  • That includes Space Power, Generate Grid Services, and Power Secure, alongside Enchanted Rock.
  • Easy, safe, secure. Yeah.
  • They're saying it's easy, it's convenient, it's safe, it's secure. We can do it in this modern age.
  • We are very reduces their any security risk that they might be worried about.
Summary: The Senate Committee on Business and Commerce heard Senate Bill 2021 by Senator Johnson, as substituted, on distributed energy resources (DERs). Johnson said the bill was intended to create a regulatory framework for DERs and virtual power plants, address interconnection and registration issues, and prevent regulatory capture as the industry grows. Testimony was split: Texas Electric Cooperatives asked for clarification so co-ops would not be unintentionally excluded from owning or operating DERs; AECT supported the bill as providing needed rules and customer protections; TABA, Texas Solar and Storage Association, Sierra Club, Texas Solar Energy Society, and several others opposed it or raised concerns that it was too utility-centric, imposed red tape, and could burden homeowners and small businesses with registration and interconnection requirements. Johnson repeatedly said the bill was not meant to stop rooftop solar or backup systems and that he was open to specific redlines and further changes. SB 2021 was left pending after testimony. The committee then took up Senate Bill 2330 by Senator Parker, which would end government payroll deduction for dues to certain public employee organizations, while exempting first responders under Chapters 143 and 147 and making other conforming changes in a committee substitute. Parker argued the bill was about government neutrality, transparency, and employee freedom from coercion, and said organizations can collect dues directly using modern payment methods. Supporters from Texas Public Policy Foundation, Texas Business Coalition, Freedom Foundation, ABC Texas, and Texans for Fiscal Responsibility said taxpayer-funded payroll systems should not be used to collect dues for private organizations, especially ones involved in political activity. Opponents, including ATPE, Texas Classroom Teachers Association, Texas Public Employees Association, and correctional employees, said payroll deduction is a convenient, secure service that helps professional associations and employee groups, and argued the bill would burden teachers and other public employees. Several witnesses and senators focused on the bill’s exemptions and whether it treated teachers differently from first responders. Senator Menendez questioned why some public employees were excluded while others were not, and a Houston police union representative said he moved from opposing to supporting the bill after being told the substitute would preserve meet-and-confer deductions under Chapters 143 and 147. Senator Parker closed by saying the bill was not meant to eliminate associations or payroll deduction entirely, only to remove the state as a middleman. SB 2330 was left pending, and the committee then recessed subject to call.