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• The question is: if there's more than if they're getting a backlog and it grows, all this language does
• <00:26:46.320> and<00:26:46.480> it than if they're getting a backlog and it than if
• they're getting a backlog and it grows<00:26:47.240> as<00:26:47.360> a<00:26:47.520><
• c> backlog<00:26:47.919> the<00:26:48.039> Attorney<00:26:48.360> General grows
• as a backlog the Attorney General grows as a backlog the Attorney General all<00:26:48.799> this<

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• > our<00:42:34.880> public capital needs backlog in our public capital needs backlog in
• We had such large capital backlog.
• We had such large capital backlog.
• have<00:48:54.240> another<00:48:54.640> avenue backlog.
• Now we have another avenue backlog.

Bills: HF4207, HF3639, HF3981, HF3064, HF2123

Keywords: housing aid, local housing trust, funding projects, income provisions, technical changes, landlord regulations, tenant rights, minor children, lease agreements, eviction, privacy protection, housing, lease termination, medical care, death, infirmity, landlord obligations, St. Paul, public housing, Minnesota Housing Finance Agency

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• everything with the process was followed through, that will end up qualifying for this just because of the backlog
• that Our state has a backlog, and why does our state have a backlog?
• for more school psychologists that have been proposed in the past years, then we wouldn't have a backlog

Bills: HB1675, HB3242, HB1739, HB3320, HB3047, HB4434, HJR1089, HB4432, HB3718, HB3705

Keywords: emergency management, severe weather, youth camp, summer camp, overnight camp, day camp, outdoor education, adventure camp, wilderness program, campground safety, tornado preparedness, flooding, flash flood, high winds, hail, lightning, extreme heat, extreme cold, wildfire smoke, evacuation plan

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• Impact fees can't pay for existing deficiencies or backlogs, and they cannot be used for maintenance.
• developers often are hesitant to challenge local fee calculations due to fear of retaliation and the permitting
• private side is obviously confronting a county or city where then we need to show back up and get permits

Summary: The Intergovernmental Affairs Subcommittee met for its first meeting of the 2026 session and took up impact fees, with an opening overview from Eric Poole of the Florida Association of Counties. Poole explained that impact fees are one-time charges on new development used only for new infrastructure capacity, not existing deficiencies or maintenance, and must satisfy the dual rational nexus test. He traced their history in Florida and described how comprehensive plans, concurrency, and later mobility fees relate to local infrastructure funding. He argued that impact fees are restricted, tied to capital improvements, and are one tool for paying for growth. Panelists representing counties, cities, builders, and community developers largely agreed that growth creates real infrastructure costs but differed on how those costs should be allocated. County and city representatives said impact fees are a necessary, targeted way to fund roads, water, sewer, fire, schools, and parks without spreading costs across all taxpayers. They pointed to long periods without fee updates, rising construction costs, and examples of large increases justified by studies. Builder and developer representatives argued that fees are often unpredictable, can be doubled or tripled, and contribute to housing affordability problems; they also said the system can be inconsistent across jurisdictions and may encourage sprawl. Several witnesses emphasized that fees must be transparent, proportional, and tied to actual benefits, and some suggested a statewide framework or mobility-fee model with more consistency and peer review. Members asked about how long local governments can hold fee revenue, whether fees can generate profit, what they can be spent on, and whether they can pay for police stations, fire stations, or other public safety facilities. Witnesses said the funds must be used for capital projects and cannot be used for salaries or unrelated purchases, and that refunds may be required if money is not spent within the local ordinance’s timeframe. The discussion also covered examples of local fee increases, the use of impact fees versus direct construction or “pipelining” of infrastructure, and concerns about level-of-service changes and extraordinary-circumstance increases. No votes were taken; the meeting ended after the panel discussion and member questions, with the chair noting the conversation would continue.

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• Hopefully, this will happen before these permits are accepted because we want to ensure that we are protecting
• One thing I noticed on the slide is you mentioned the CDC and the backlog, and then you talked about
• The council approved it and allowed us to rezone the area to permit camping on that property.

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• We will experience processing backlogs and delays in determinations.
• <02:20:20.000> I as far as environmental permitting.
• I as far as environmental permitting.
• environmental review and permitting. environmental review and permitting.
• in permitting to be done<02:25:39.280> expeditiously.

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

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• We'll call those and permit you to close. We have Todd Rathner. Mr.
• That improves on the gray areas that exist in law today that can see our courts backlogged, with ticket

Bills: HB 115, HB507, HB1765, HB1847, HB2046, HB2239, HB2328, HB2309, HB2417, HB2728, HB2794, HB3206, HB3566, HB3694, HB3744, HB4254, HB4697, HB4733, HB4915, HB5465, HB2813, HB115

Keywords: habeas corpus, postconviction, criminal procedure, indigent defense, scientific evidence, legal representation, judicial power, capital felony, criminal law, death penalty, attorney qualification, training standards, law enforcement, no-knock warrant, search warrant, peace officer, attorney workload, criminal justice, caseload limits, fair representation

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• The backlogs were unacceptable. I went to the president about this.
• programs by this Congress and by the Department does these programs proud and is appropriately deployed. permit

Keywords: Senator Flinstone, HB22, SB4, amendments, public testimony, legislation, environmental impact, economic implications

Summary: The meeting featured a thorough examination of various bills, including substantial discussions on HB22 and SB4. Key points included amendments proposed by committee members, particularly from Senator Flinstone, who emphasized the need for clarifications on certain provisions. The committee actively engaged with several witnesses providing public testimony, some in favor of the proposed legislation while others highlighted concerns and potential implications. The discussions were vibrant, showcasing different perspectives, especially on the environmental and economic impacts of the bills in question. The meeting concluded with a consensus to reconvene after a recess to further address the outstanding issues related to the bills.

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• Permits are valid no more than 3 years, and permits must clearly be defined by the specific product,
• Permit conditions include applications Permit conditions include applications must<01:25:42.720>
• no more than 3 years, Permits are valid no more than 3 years, and<01:25:51.520> permits<01:25
• and the duration of the permit. and the duration of the permit.
• <02:03:48.200> impose<02:03:48.760> a This permits a bank to impose a This permits

Keywords: 927, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• We have over $78 million of backlog, which continues to grow.
• c><00:09:24.400> $78<00:09:24.880> million<00:09:25.440> of<00:09:26.000> backlog
• , We have over $78 million of backlog, We have over $78 million of backlog, continues<00:09:27.720

Keywords: 1183, house

Summary: The Minnesota Zoo presented its infrastructure and animal health needs to the committee, beginning with an educational demonstration featuring Aspen, a North American porcupine. Staff used the animal to explain porcupine biology and correct common myths, including that porcupines cannot shoot their quills and that the quills are not poisonous. Members asked about the animal’s natural predators and care, and staff explained that porcupines are protected by their quills but can still be preyed on by animals such as bobcats, cougars, great horned owls, and fishers. Zoo leadership then shifted to the facility request, describing the zoo as a major state attraction and education center with about 1.4 to 1.5 million annual visitors, nearly 100,000 students served, and significant economic impact. They said the 50-year-old campus is in poor condition, with a third of its 125 structures in poor or crisis condition and more than $78 million in deferred maintenance, creating safety risks for visitors, staff, and animals. The zoo said it is seeking to use the governor’s recommended $4 million for critical life-support and infrastructure needs. The main funding request discussed was an additional $6 million for the zoo’s animal hospital project. Zoo officials explained that the original plan for a standalone new hospital was no longer affordable, so they are now proposing a new wing attached to the existing A Building hospital. The extra funds would renovate A Building for staff, storage, and support spaces, remove asbestos, meet code, and improve safety so the new hospital can function as intended. Members asked about incidents at the zoo, and staff described examples such as close calls with animal enclosures and injuries tied to aging facilities and outdated equipment. No vote or formal action was taken in the transcript.

Transcript Highlights:

• So there's a very large backlog for this program that is just over $400 million now, and this has been
• And so rather than continue to accrue a backlog, we have decided to clear that backlog, unrelated to
• The appropriation, but there is an amount sufficient to clear the backlog that is separately in the budget

Bills: HB42, HB 125, HB 1233, HB2853, HB3148, HB3326, HB3701, HB4066, HB4361, HB4762, HB4909, HB4912, HB42, HB125

Keywords: higher education, funding, financial allocation, state budget, Texas A&M University, University of Houston, education funding, medical education, osteopathic medicine, healthcare workforce, Tarleton State University, industry-recognized credentials, workforce development, career opportunities, feasibility study, student fees, university funding, student union, education, UT El Paso

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• And the capital backlog of the public housing portfolio in the country is in the tens of billions, and
• .<00:48:39.040> and<00:48:39.280> the<00:48:39.520> capital<00:48:40.000> backlog
• <00:48:40.559> of<00:48:40.720> the needed. and the capital backlog of the needed.
• and the capital backlog of the public<00:48:41.200> housing<00:48:41.599> portfolio<00:
• So, security, this would not permit you to skip over the SEC, in other words.

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

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• <00:03:23.519> in<00:03:23.760> certification address the backlog in certification
• address the backlog in certification surveys.<00:03:25.200> If<00:03:25.360> you<00:03:
• of our long-term care certification survey processes, as well as to address, uh, some of the, uh, backlog
• One reason is the backlog of facilities.
• Well, one reason we're not is because of the backlog of facilities.

Keywords: 958, all

Summary: The Budget Review Subcommittee on Health and Human Services met to review budget items carved out in the prior session budget, including long-term care surveyor contracts, funding for local health departments, and expansion of the central laboratory. The committee approved the June 4 minutes and then heard an update from the Office of Inspector General’s Division of Health Care on long-term care certification surveys and complaint investigations. Officials said the $1 million annual appropriation for contracted survey work, along with salary increases and other resources, helped the state reduce its backlog. They reported that Kentucky completed 101 long-term care certification surveys in fiscal year 2024, up from 28 in fiscal year 2023, and had completed 186 surveys by July 7, 2025, with a goal of 40 to 50 more before the end of fiscal year 2025. Outstanding complaints fell from 1,565 at the end of fiscal year 2024 to 695 by July 7, 2025, and outstanding priority-one or immediate-jeopardy complaints were reduced to zero. Members asked about the definition of priority-one cases, survey timing, the number of facilities still overdue, vacancy rates, federal funding reliance, and the use of contract surveyors. Officials said priority-one cases involve serious harm or high risk of harm, that surveys are required within a 12- to 15.7-month window, and that the agency now has 40 contract surveyors and an outside team option. Several members praised the progress but warned that delays in surveys can endanger residents and urged continued funding and monitoring. The committee then began hearing from Mike Tuggle of the Department of Public Health on the Public Health Transformation Initiative, with Tuggle noting the legislation’s importance to public health financing. The transcript cuts off as he began his remarks.

Transcript Highlights:

• Issue 10 is a BCP to address the waiver personal care services backlog.
• These backlogs can result in delays in access to care and in responding to legislative inquiries.
• So we're starting to improve the backlog on that side.
• And we have redirected resources, both Earlier on in the process compared to this backlog.
• Thank you. earlier on in the process compared to this backlog.

Keywords: 987, senate, all

Summary: The subcommittee first heard May Revision items for child support, child care, and related human services. The Department of Child Support Services described two technical adjustments, which the LAO said raised no concerns. The Department of Social Services then walked through child care proposals, including a shift in how federal and Proposition 64 funding reductions would be absorbed, a 2.01% COLA, disaster-related child care infrastructure grants, an increase in in-contract administrative support costs for alternative payment agencies, reversion of prospective-pay implementation funding after a federal rule change, a one-time allocation to cover the first quarter of Cost of Care Plus payments in the next fiscal year, reappropriation for existing infrastructure grant closeout work, and estimates of unspent child care funds. The department also outlined trailer bill language on a single rate structure, site safety and emergency procedures, CalWORKs child care data sharing, and child care oversight. The LAO recommended that the Legislature seek more justification for shifting reductions from General Child Care to the Alternative Payment Program, noting that CAP reductions affect more slots and that General Child Care has had significant unspent funds. It supported removing prospective-pay funding, but recommended rejecting the administrative cost shift to a percentage-based rate because it could create future General Fund pressure. It also suggested the Legislature review alignment between the disaster grants and the child care infrastructure program. Senators and members pressed the administration on why the budget would reduce child care slots and COLA percentages while the state still has waitlists and unspent funds, and questioned the need for early funding of Cost of Care Plus payments and the move from a flat administrative amount to a percentage. Public commenters, including providers, advocates, county offices, and infrastructure partners, urged full COLA funding, preservation of child care slots, support for prospective pay, and continued investment in child care access and facilities. After a short recess, the committee moved to Part B on health and heard the Department of State Hospitals. DSH presented a May Revision budget of $3.2 billion and described proposals for a central utility plant replacement at Metropolitan State Hospital, an electronic health record implementation, reduced county bed billing authority due to phased-in LPS bed capacity, limited contract exemption authority for online clinical subscriptions, reversion of prior-year unspent operating funds, and a workforce development proposal shifting some costs to Behavioral Health Services Act funds, including support for an additional psychiatric training cohort at Napa. The department also outlined IST-related savings and a trailer bill to remove the sunset on the independent placement panel program.

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• <03:01:09.760> is crossber permitting process that is crossber permitting process that is
• permitted and construction constructed? permitted and construction constructed?
• project which was fully permitted and project which was fully permitted and 80%<03:08:13.200>
• had received all of its final permits had received all of its final permits from<03:08:42.960>
• So, the idea that need for permits.

Keywords: U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings on Thursday, September 18, 2025, 1012, house, all

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• go in and buy software on disk still, you're still going to have direct allocation to the seller's permit
• profitable corporations pay no corporation tax in California beyond the $800 minimum tax due to large backlogs
• The reliance creates backlog, greatly slows the ability for similar projects to be completed, and forces

Keywords: 987, senate, all

Summary: The subcommittee heard several May Revision proposals, primarily from the Department of Food and Agriculture, the Government Operations Agency, the Department of Technology, and the Franchise Tax Board. CDFA presented funding for the animal care program under Proposition 12, a transition away from the state hemp program to USDA oversight by January 1, 2028, ongoing support for agricultural statistics reporting after USDA reorganization, and trailer bill changes to the department’s indirect cost cap. The LAO generally supported the animal care, hemp transition, and statistics proposals, while also urging future review of the Prop 12 funding once litigation is resolved. The indirect-cost-cap language was described as technical and not increasing charges to programs, and it was held open with no objections from the LAO or Finance. The committee also discussed the new federal Workforce Pell program and related Cradle to Career funding and trailer bill language. Finance said the state is still reviewing federal rules and is focusing on basic implementation steps, with the trailer bill assigning eligibility determinations to the California Student Aid Commission, requiring data sharing through Cradle to Career, and prioritizing public institutions first. The LAO urged caution because the federal rules were just finalized and said the Legislature should better define the process and costs before appropriating the $1.3 million requested for Cradle to Career. Members raised policy concerns about limiting the program to certain institutions and about aligning the proposal with pending legislation and broader workforce policy. The Department of Technology presented a $1 million request for Poppy, the state’s digital assistant, to expand a secure GenAI platform for state employees. Members asked detailed questions about data security, model training, bias controls, and whether the system could eventually support local governments; CDT said the system uses state-controlled cloud infrastructure, does not use user data for training, and quarantines new models for review. CDT also sought provisional authority for the Middle Mile Broadband Initiative to cover possible operating shortfalls while the network is still being built; the LAO remained concerned about broad spending authority, and several members questioned the revenue assumptions and oversight. FTB then proposed retaining a smaller set of CalFile resources after the federal Direct File program was discontinued, with the LAO saying the reduced staffing level was broadly reasonable but still worth legislative scrutiny. The committee also began hearing the administration’s revenue proposals, including a permanent limitation on business tax credits and a tax on electronically delivered prewritten software, with the LAO generally supporting the goal of raising ongoing revenue but recommending changes to the software proposal’s exemptions and business-use treatment.

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• We got all the permits during the Trump administration. Of course, Biden blocked those.
• I don't know if you've looked at the USPTO; the backlog of applications there is 820,000.
• The backlog is unacceptable, and my pursuit will be the rigorous reduction of that to get it down.

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• She then said that, as Representative Howard talked about the backlog, they have done a survey with their
• representative Howard talked<00:42:31.160> about<00:42:31.440> the<00:42:31.680> backlog
• <00:42:33.200> we've<00:42:33.480> done<00:42:34.040> a talked about the backlog
• um we've done a talked about the backlog um we've done a survey<00:42:34.920> with<00:42:35.240
• <00:42:36.800> a survey with our membership we have a survey with our membership we have a backlog

Bills: HF2148, HF2693, HF2542, HF1141, HF1770, HF1489, HF1709, HF244, HF1266, HF807, HF2619, HF1340

Keywords: affordable housing, local control, revolving loan fund, community partnerships, Minnesota housing policy, housing, locally controlled housing, Minnesota Housing Finance Agency, housing infrastructure bonds, state bonds, bonding bill, supportive housing, permanent supportive housing, homelessness, veterans housing, senior housing, manufactured home parks, community land trust, single-family housing, multifamily housing

Transcript Highlights:

• tremendous progress ensuring that recruitments are posted timely and we're nearly caught up on the backlog
• caught<00:03:42.000> up<00:03:42.159> on<00:03:42.400> the<00:03:42.640> backlog
• <00:03:43.120> of nearly caught up on the backlog of nearly caught up on the backlog of screening
• You know, like if it's planning or permitting versus construction, which is very expensive, and then

Bills: SB1, SB4, SB6, SB9, SB16, SB17, SB20, SB22, SB28, SB29, SB36, SB41, SB45, SB77, SB85, SB87, SB96, SB98, SB110, SB126, SB139, SB143, SB164, SB167, SB171, SB186, SB188, SB195, SB197, SB198, SB204, SB205, SB206, SB207, SB209, SB210, SB211, SB217, SB219, SB220, SB225, SB231, SB237, SB238, SB241, SB244, SB246, SB247, SB272, SB294, SB315, SB346, SB364, SB366, SB367, SB386, SB392, SB403, SB415, SB427, SB431, SB437, SB457, SB459, SB469, SB471, SB478, SB484, SB489, SB502, SB503, SB507, SB508, SB510, SB516, SB517, SB518, SB519, SB521, SB535, SB543, SB550, SB564, SB568, SB570, SB575, SB577, SB578, SB590, SB607, SB616, SB621, SB634, SB644, SB647, SB649, SB652, SB655, SB656, SB663

Keywords: agricultural lands, foreign ownership, state agriculture policy, real estate regulation, land conservation, SB4, Royal Mausoleum, Mauna Ala, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, OHA, Department of Land and Natural Resources, DLNR, stewardship, Hawaiian affairs, cemetery, burial site, ancestral remains, cultural preservation, state land management, agency transfer

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• to the FCC, but more and more states have moved to having it be a state authority just due to the backlog
• to the FCC, but more and more states have moved to having it be a state authority just due to the backlog
• This act also voids a permit to purchase and gives the Director of the State Bureau of Identification
• , better known as SBI, permission to revoke a permit to purchase if the person is no longer a qualified
• They acted, they created land use rules, and they denied the permit for that.

Keywords: 1064, all