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FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
Judiciary Mar 4th, 2025
FL
Florida 2026 Regular Session
Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development Feb 5th, 2025
Appropriations Committee on Transportation, Tourism, and Economic Development
Transcript Highlights:
- But again, allow us the opportunity to assess... ...the county.
- If some of them had flood insurance, I'm going to make an assessment... to get that out of there.
Summary:
The committee received a program review from the Florida Division of Emergency Management on the 2024 hurricane season and FEMA reimbursement process. Deputy Director Keith Pruitt described the impacts of Hurricanes Debby, Helene, and Milton, including major storm surge, flooding, tornadoes, debris removal, power restoration, flood-control deployments, sheltering, and logistics missions. He emphasized that Florida’s approach is “federally funded, state managed, locally executed,” and said the division has already obligated large amounts of public assistance funding and mitigation dollars while continuing to work on remaining missions and reimbursements.
A major focus of the discussion was how local governments can better document and vet debris-removal and other disaster costs so they are eligible for FEMA reimbursement. Chair DiCeglie and other senators raised concerns about local planning, commercial debris collection, and whether counties and municipalities that spend money up front will be reimbursed. Pruitt explained that eligibility depends on documentation, scope of work, insurance, and FEMA rules, and that the state’s FROC process is intended to help counties identify eligible work before costs are incurred. He also said commercial debris may be eligible in some cases but is not guaranteed, and that counties should coordinate early with FDEM and FEMA.
Senators also asked about possible FEMA reforms, the age of outstanding reimbursement claims, and a proposed state fund to advance money to fiscally constrained counties while they wait for FEMA payments. Pruitt said Florida’s system is a national best practice, but that more county-level training and clearer coordination would help reduce de-obligations and audit problems. He said the reimbursement-advance idea is still being developed, and that the state continues to look at ways to streamline mitigation through programs like Elevate Florida. The committee took no formal action beyond hearing the presentation, and the meeting adjourned after closing comments from senators praising FDEM’s work.
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
Education Postsecondary Feb 4th, 2025
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
House - Agriculture, Acequias And Water Resources Jan 28th, 2025
House Agriculture, Acequias And Water Resources
Transcript Highlights:
- This is only allowing our water management systems to declare that for the purpose of tax assessment.
- I think about whether the Tax Department has room to uniformly assess our property.
OK
Transcript Highlights:
- is a large load electric user, their impact on our grid, and how it mandates a cost allocation assessment
Committee:
House Utilities
Keywords:
high-demand facilities, electric utilities, public infrastructure, water management, taxpayer-funded subsidies, decommissioning plans, local control, citizen initiative, referendum, electric utility, large load customers, infrastructure, utility planning, electricity rates, cost allocation, data centers, artificial intelligence, advanced manufacturing, ratepayer protection, HB3466
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- The Economic Outlook and Revenue Assessment Committee will meet today at 1:15 p.m.
Summary:
The House convened with 67 members present and 3 absent and excused, then opened with prayer and the Pledge of Allegiance. The main business was approval of the House Journal for the second legislative day, which was adopted without objection after a favorable report from the Committee on Judiciary, Rules and Administration.
The House also received a standing committee report that House Concurrent Resolution No. 20 had been enrolled and would be signed by the Speaker and returned to the Senate for the Senate President’s signature. No substantive debate or votes on legislation occurred beyond the journal approval.
During announcements, members noted several upcoming events and committee meetings, including a Boise Metro Chamber luncheon, an Economic Outlook and Revenue Assessment Committee meeting, a geoengineering presentation, and a Bible study on the Ten Commandments. The House then adopted a motion to adjourn until 11:00 a.m. on Thursday, January 15, 2026.
ID
TX
Texas 89th 1st C.S.
89th Legislative Session - First Called Session Jul 21st, 2025
Texas House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Legislation to eliminate the SAR test and replace it with effective tools to assess students' progress
AL
Alabama 2025 Regular Session
Alabama House Local Legislation Committee Mar 19th, 2025
Local Legislation
Transcript Highlights:
- Section five includes a civil penalty of up to $1,000 per day to be assessed per resident for each violation
Bills:
HB422
Committee:
House Local Legislation
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House Science, Technology and Energy (01/27/2026)
Science, Technology and Energy
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:16:26.639><c> on</c> "No penalties shall be assessed on "No penalties shall be assessed on performance
- Then on lines 34 and 35, no penalties shall be assessed for non-performance.
- That position could be paid through the assessment as well.
- Um in addition, an a special assessment.
- We would through the assessment as well.
Committee:
House Science, Technology and Energy
FL
Florida 2026 4th Special Session
February 11, 2026 - 12:00 PM
Transcript Highlights:
- There was a provision in the original bill that allowed for tax abatement up to 100% of the assessed
HI
Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
CPC Public Hearing - Thu Apr 9, 2026 @ 2:00 PM HST
Consumer Protection & Commerce
Transcript Highlights:
- regulatory process and I think that the special overseer is a great individual to maybe make it easier to assess
- regulatory process and I think that the special overseer is a great individual to maybe make it easier to assess
- :23:13.560><c> to</c> individual to maybe make it easier to individual to maybe make it easier to assess
- 14.440><c> rate</c><01:23:14.600><c> increase</c><01:23:14.960><c> should</c><01:23:15.120><c> be</c> assess
- what the rate increase should be assess what the rate increase should be on<01:23:15.600><c> an</c><
Committee:
House Consumer Protection & Commerce
Keywords:
SB3302, homemade food products, farm kitchens, home kitchens, Department of Health, DOH, food safety, food labeling, value-added agriculture, small farms, agricultural land, commercial food establishment permit, cottage food, direct-to-consumer sales, local food systems, Hawaii Revised Statutes, chapter 91, farm-to-table, food processing, public health regulation
Summary:
The committee on Consumer Protection and Commerce met on April 9, 2026, and heard testimony on several measures. SB 3302 SD1 HD1, dealing with homemade food products, would require the Department of Health to adopt rules for farm kitchens producing homemade food products that are no more stringent than rules for home kitchens. The Department of Health said it supported the bill with technical amendments, and the Hawaii Food Industry Association and Grassroot Institute of Hawaii also supported it. No opposition was heard.
A lengthy discussion focused on SB 2061 SD2 HD1, which concerns a 99-year leasehold residential condominium project and HCDA’s rules for sales, income restrictions, and buyback pricing. HCDA supported the bill and said the House draft clarified unclear provisions and would help move the project to pre-sales. Testimony and committee questions centered on whether the project should remain owner-occupied in perpetuity or allow investor purchases after an initial sales period. HCDA explained that the bill was revised to make the project feasible in the market, that 60% of units would be income-restricted for buyers at or below 140% of area median income, and that the remaining units could be sold without owner-occupancy restrictions. Some members and testifiers expressed concern that the bill had shifted away from the original owner-occupancy vision and could become an investment property model, while others argued the changes were necessary for the project to pencil out and compete with fee-simple developments. No vote was taken during the discussion shown.
The committee also heard SB 2050 SD1 HD1, which would allow chiropractic students in accredited programs to engage in clinical practice beginning July 1, 2028. The Hawaii Board of Chiropractic and the Hawaii State Chiropractic Association supported the measure, and one testifier described personal experience with student chiropractic care in California. Members questioned why the board requested delaying implementation until 2030, and the board said it needed more time to develop rules because it meets only a few times a year and rulemaking is lengthy. Finally, SB 2102 SD2 HD1, on industrial hemp in commercial feed, was introduced; the Department of Agriculture and Biosecurity offered comments, the Department of Health raised concerns about regulating pet food and possible jurisdictional conflict, and a farmer testifying in support suggested narrowing the bill to federally approved livestock feed rather than pet food.
MD
Transcript Highlights:
- And the idea is for those projects, MDOT will do an assessment on whether or not the project itself will
- MDOT will do an assessment on whether or not the project itself will have a result in a net increase
- And so, what this bill is going to say is they're going to focus on those projects, assess the greenhouse
- The bill also requires that damages assessed by a circuit court for illegal cutting or clearing of the
- </c> bill also requires that damages assessed bill also requires that damages assessed by<00:52:49.480
Summary:
The House convened with 124 members present, offered a prayer, and recognized foster youth visiting the chamber. Members then adopted two House resolutions honoring Dr. Sonja Santelises for 10 years as CEO of Baltimore City Public Schools and recognizing Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Incorporated, for 104 years of service, scholarship, and sisterhood. The House also received Senate bills and began taking up committee reports.
Several bills were reported favorably and advanced to third reading, including measures on higher education grants, public safety pay restrictions, retirement and pension system work group extensions and cost-of-living adjustments, synthetic turf and aquaculture studies, rail crew requirements, Howard County speed limits, election address confidentiality, IT investment fund uses, ethics financial disclosures, Public Information Act divorce records, aging-in-place grants, judicial assignments, clerk and register salaries, and firearm literature distribution. House Bill 428, concerning temporary assignment of former judges, was special ordered until the next day after the minority whip requested time for an amendment.
The chamber also considered and adopted amendments on several bills. House Bill 437, the Transportation and Climate Alignment Act of 2026, was amended to exempt the Chesapeake Bay Bridge project and then special ordered after questions about greenhouse gas impacts on major highway expansion projects. House Bill 457 on menstrual hygiene products at higher education institutions, House Bill 538 on student enrollment disclosures, House Bill 561 on child care credential funding, House Bill 720 on a veterans scholarship, and House Bill 212 on out-of-state vehicle registration all received amendments and favorable reports as amended. HB 212 drew extended debate about Maryland residents using out-of-state tags, with supporters saying it would help enforce registration laws and opponents raising concerns about legislative вмешательство in vehicle regulation and enforcement discretion.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
November 2025 State Budget and Economic Forecast Presentation - 12/04/25
Minnesota Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- /c><00:14:41.600><c> to</c> making it more difficult for us to making it more difficult for us to assess
- c> the</c><00:14:42.560><c> reasonleness</c><00:14:43.519><c> of</c><00:14:43.839><c> SPGMI's</c> assess
- the reasonleness of SPGMI's assess the reasonleness of SPGMI's monetary<00:14:45.360><c> policy</c><
- Uh, there will certainly be difficult decisions ahead as policymakers assess their priorities.
- </c><00:32:28.399><c> their</c> ahead as policy makers assess their ahead as policy makers assess their
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Finance Division II (03/17/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- uh, but that sort of begs the question that the language needs to be such that they don't have to assess
- a fee, that there's the option to assess a fee, and it doesn't seem that it's complicated to give them
- uh, but that sort of begs the question that the language needs to be such that they don't have to assess
- a fee, that there's the option to assess a fee, and it doesn't seem that it's complicated to give them
- for impacts on threaten and assessments for impacts on threaten and endangered<00:40:17.200><c> species
Summary:
The Finance Division II work session focused on Fish and Game’s budget-revenue proposals and several statutory changes the department said it needs to support its operations. The department recommended raising the fisheries habitat fee and wildlife habitat fee to $5 each, estimating additional annual revenue of about $640,000 and $144,000 respectively. Members clarified that these are habitat fees added on top of licenses, not reduced by senior or youth license categories, and discussed the need for RSA changes to allow the revenue to be transferred into the Fish and Game Fund. The department also said it would work internally on any broader license fee increases through the commission process.
The committee then reviewed proposals to cap several dedicated accounts and transfer excess balances to the unrestricted Fish and Game Fund. Those accounts included the fisheries and wildlife habitat funds and the game management account, with the department proposing a $750,000 cap on each and transfer of amounts above that threshold. The department said the cap was based on several years of expenditures and the fact that dedicated funds are often used as match for federal funds. Members asked for reports on fund activity and questioned whether the cap and mandatory transfer language should be “shall” or “may,” with the department indicating it would prefer “may” for flexibility. The committee also discussed a Pheasant Management Program account, where the department said current law limits use of the money to buying and propagating pheasants and it wants authority to use it for broader program management.
A substantial portion of the meeting addressed Fish and Game’s environmental review unit and the transfer of ARPA-funded positions to DEES under the governor’s initiative. The department said four positions are currently ARPA-funded, that DEES supports keeping them in place through the end of the year, and that the transition will require time because environmental review work is intertwined across the agency. The department explained that before the ARPA positions, biologists handled the work and that current staffing has helped eliminate a backlog and meet deadlines. Members also discussed a proposal to expand environmental review fees beyond private developers to state, federal, municipal, and local governments, with the department saying it would need rulemaking and stakeholder input. Additional requests included authority to conduct raffles to raise funds, creation of a revolving account for donations and raffle proceeds, and repeal of the obsolete fish food sales statute because the vending machines are no longer functional and the account generates no revenue.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Policy Committee 3/4/25
Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- review program and are required every three years to provide a list of the mandatory environmental assessment
- grateful for the collaborative efforts from MPCA over the past year; they've worked diligently to assess
- grateful for the collaborative efforts from MPCA over the past year; they've worked diligently to assess
- </c><01:08:16.640><c> the</c><01:08:16.839><c> impact</c> worked diligently to assess the impact worked
- diligently to assess the impact of<01:08:17.400><c> posos</c><01:08:18.000><c> in</c><01:08:18.199><
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Commerce and Consumer Affairs (02/12/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- Insurers can adjust their risk assessments and policy terms, which can lead to more favorable conditions
- The disclosure of third-party litigation can enhance transparency, support better risk assessment and
- </c><00:27:01.559><c> and</c><00:27:01.840><c> policy</c> adjust their risk assessments and policy adjust
- <00:28:24.200><c> and</c><00:28:24.640><c> management</c><00:28:25.640><c> Foster</c> assessment and
- management Foster assessment and management Foster competition<00:28:26.880><c> and</c><00:28:27.080>
Summary:
The committee heard testimony on HB 733-FN, a bill concerning third-party litigation financing (TPLF). Representative Cole, the prime sponsor, described TPLF as outside investors funding lawsuits in which they have no personal stake, arguing that the practice is largely unregulated, can involve foreign entities, increases litigation abuse, and contributes to higher insurance and consumer costs. He said the bill is modeled on an NCOIL proposal and would require disclosure of TPLF agreements, with guardrails and reporting requirements on specified pages of the bill. He also noted a couple of drafting fixes, including adding the word “knowingly” and incorporating a missing section later.
Members raised questions about the bill’s foreign-entity language, especially the provision allowing a governor or the Department of Safety to designate a country as a threat to critical infrastructure. Representative Cole said he would have lawyers review that issue. Another member asked whether the bill would prohibit a party from obtaining outside funding for a lawsuit; Cole clarified that the bill is intended as a reporting measure, not a ban, and that disclosure would be required. He also said the bill is aimed at American citizens rather than foreign-backed financing, and that some states had considered caps on such arrangements, though this bill does not.
Brandon Gratz of the Attorney General’s office testified that the enforcement language appears too limited, because it would allow only civil penalties and not broader Consumer Protection Act remedies such as injunctions or restitution. He suggested the Attorney General may not have meaningful authority under the bill as written and raised possible insurance-law issues. Commissioner D.J. Benton-Court of the Insurance Department said the disclosure could help insurers better assess risk and potentially soften the hard insurance market by improving transparency, competition, underwriting, innovation, and claims management. He also said the bill likely needs further work on jurisdiction and enforcement, and that the committee may need to coordinate with the Attorney General, Insurance Department, and possibly banking regulators. No vote was taken in the portion provided.
HI
Transcript Highlights:
- But there is an assessment done on the home that can be used by that person in other jurisdictions.
- example is that someone who might not be able to afford the down payment for a home can get an assessment
- But there is an assessment done on the home that can be used by that person in other jurisdictions.
- </c><00:55:30.599><c> value</c><00:55:30.920><c> would</c><00:55:31.119><c> be</c> on what the assessment
- value would be on what the assessment value would be and<00:55:32.200><c> it</c><00:55:32.319><c> would
Committee:
House Housing
Summary:
The House Committee on Housing held a public hearing and moved quickly through a long agenda, beginning with HB 606 on the Department of Hawaiian Homelands. DHHL and several community testifiers strongly supported the bill, describing it as a way to fulfill long-standing promises to Native Hawaiians, reduce the DHHL waitlist, keep families in Hawaii, and support housing production and the broader economy. Testifiers emphasized the cultural and economic importance of stable housing and noted the large number of people still waiting for DHHL homes.
The committee then heard HB 1086, also relating to DHHL, which would allow the department to use a $75 million appropriation from the dwelling unit revolving fund as collateral for loans. DHHL, HHFDC, and other supporters said the measure would help DHHL obtain better loan terms and preserve trust funds for other uses. Members asked detailed questions about how the collateral would work, whether other agencies use similar structures, and what would happen if the collateral were drawn upon; staff explained that the funds would be encumbered for the loan and that a similar model had been used for a HUD-backed project.
The committee also heard HB 739, which would create the COM homes program to fund counties to buy voluntary deed restrictions from eligible homeowners or buyers. Supporters said the program could help keep local workers in Hawaii by using existing housing stock and cited examples from places like Aspen and Vail. The Attorney General’s office recommended amendments to remove duration requirements to avoid right-to-travel concerns, and the Tax Foundation suggested clarifying the conveyance tax exemption so it also covers the instrument imposing the restriction. Members asked whether tax dollars would be used to buy homes, who would be eligible, and how enforcement would work; supporters said the program is voluntary and income-blind, with restrictions tied to living and working in the state. No votes were taken during the hearing.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- And/or have we assessed the effect of the cessation of these kinds of tax credits on the industry and
- <c> the</c><00:13:23.480><c> effect</c><00:13:23.920><c> of</c><00:13:24.440><c> the</c> have we assessed
- the effect of the have we assessed the effect of the cessation<00:13:25.240><c> of</c><00:13:25.519>
- My understanding is that the Minnesota Enterprise real property facilities condition assessment, which
- which is identified condition assessment which is identified there<00:33:49.240><c> uh</c><00:33:49.360
Committee:
Senate Taxes
WY
Wyoming 2026 Regular Session
Joint Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions, May 21, 2026 - AM
Corporations, Elections & Political Subdivisions
Transcript Highlights:
- And so governments can't assess, you know, what they call the true cost.
- And so governments can't assess, you know, what they call the true cost.
- And so governments can't assess, you know, what they call the true cost.
- And so governments can't assess, you know, what they call the true cost.
- </c> to to assess a fee. to to assess a fee. >> Mr.<01:47:56.880><c> Downing.