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WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Consumer Protection & Business Feb 24th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- This bill, again, requires the disclosure of...
- As a reminder, among the requirements are disclosure requirements for information to consumers about
- The account always has a surplus, and it can go up to about $10 million surplus.
- Surplus, and when there is a surplus, that is credited back to the insurance companies for their next
- kiosks: a daily transaction limit, restrictions on fees, new disclosure requirements, a receipt requirement
Summary:
The committee heard public testimony on several insurance and consumer protection bills. On engrossed substitute Senate Bill 5928, staff and the Office of the Insurance Commissioner described wildfire risk score and model disclosure requirements for homeowners, including notices when policies are nonrenewed, canceled, or premiums are adversely affected, plus insurer website disclosures about mitigation discounts and rate filing transparency. Supporters, including the OIC, AARP, the mayor of Medical Lake, and a fire chief, said the bill would improve transparency, help homeowners understand and reduce wildfire risk, and protect consumers facing cancellations and rising premiums. Industry witnesses said they supported the goal but warned the bill could add regulatory cost and complexity, and some urged narrower, simpler disclosure language and a delayed implementation date.
On engrossed substitute Senate Bill 6031, which would expand the insurance fraud program and create a standalone Class B felony for insurance fraud, the OIC and AARP supported the bill as a tool against organized fraud and restitution for victims. A criminal defense representative raised concerns that the new felony language overlaps with existing misdemeanor insurance fraud law and could create conflicting statutes and harsher penalties for the same conduct. The committee also heard testimony that the bill had already incorporated amendments limiting criminal investigators’ role in regulatory investigations and focusing them on complex schemes.
The committee then heard substitute Senate Bill 6248 on travel insurance, described as largely mirroring a House bill already passed by the committee. Testimony from the travel insurance industry said agreed-upon amendments had been incorporated, including changes addressing conflict-of-interest concerns, and urged the bill’s advancement. Finally, the committee heard substitute Senate Bill 6079, which would create the Strengthen Washington Homes grant program to fund wildfire home-hardening and prohibit insurers from using wildfire risk as a disqualifying factor for homes meeting IBHS wildfire-prepared standards. The OIC, fire commissioners, AARP, and the prime sponsor supported the bill as a way to reduce nonrenewals and improve insurability, while insurers opposed Section 7, arguing it could interfere with underwriting and should be removed if the bill is to remain a grant program. The committee also began hearing engrossed Senate Bill 5280 on virtual currency kiosks, with staff and the Department of Financial Institutions describing daily transaction caps, fee limits, disclosures, and receipts to curb fraud; consumer protection and law enforcement witnesses supported the bill, while industry witnesses raised concerns about burdens on compliant businesses and passive retail hosts.
MO
Missouri 2026 Regular Session
Special Committee on Property Tax Reform Jan 13th, 2026 at 12:00 pm
Special Committee on Property Tax Reform
Transcript Highlights:
- And my question is, to them, is, what do you do with all the surplus you got? Well, it was spent.
- But I'd also like to ask them how much the last five years they've received in a surplus over that same
- In the general surplus money, there's over five—there's right at $5 billion.
- And it continues to be—it’s going to continue; that surplus is going to continue.
- A real physical inspection must be required, right?
NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
IC - Radioactive and Hazardous Materials May 29th, 2025
Radioactive & Hazardous Materials Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- Um, we do believe that there's, uh, there are likely natural resource injuries that require, um, our
- Um, The reference that surplus plutonium plus the adulterant would then become transuranic waste.
- And so, surplus plutonium being one of those that's identified in the, the disposal plan.
- Um, they, they have very strict requirements, and part of those requirements we helped DOE establish
- It created required cooperation. I don't know it, but maybe a task force came out of that, Mr.
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- This will be the first budget will that be required, so hopefully there won't be that, uh, there'll be
- This will be the first budget will that be required, so hopefully there won't be that, uh, there'll be
- Just an example of a surplus statement: this is a requirement.
- </c> a surplus statement this is a require a surplus statement this is a require state<00:16:37.319><
- ><c> pass</c><00:16:38.519><c> a</c> state has a requirement to pass a state has a requirement to pass
Committee:
Senate Finance
MN
Transcript Highlights:
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- But those surplus dollars exist and they are not feeding anybody; they are a surplus.
- </c> not feeding anybody they are a surplus not feeding anybody they are a surplus um<00:54:20.000><c
- </c> uh filings required with the Minnesota uh filings required with the Minnesota AG's<01:18:04.679>
- </c><01:19:19.560><c> for</c> meet the IRS reporting requirements for meet the IRS reporting requirements
Committee:
House Education Finance
Keywords:
HF51, Sibley County, State-Aid Highway 21, capital investment, bonding bill, general obligation bonds, transportation infrastructure, road improvements, sanitary sewer, water main, storm sewer, local infrastructure, county grant, Minnesota Department of Transportation, bond proceeds fund, public works, utility infrastructure, education finance, school district funding, tax base adjustment
FL
Transcript Highlights:
- For monitoring, inspecting, reporting, and application requirements.
- Does the surplus land procedure require DEP to find that the land no longer serves conservation purposes
- A surplus land procedure required DEP to find that the land no longer serves conservation purposes?
- The requirements require the department to publish the statewide report on its website by December 1
- The licensee for noncompliance, and it requires the division to adopt rules implementing a requirement
Summary:
The Senate convened with an opening prayer, pledge, and several introductions recognizing visitors, students, local officials, and professional groups in the gallery. The chamber then took up a report from the Ethics and Elections Committee confirming 42 executive appointments; the report was adopted by a vote of 36-0. The Senate also adopted a resolution honoring the Ripple Project for childhood cancer awareness and funding.
The bulk of the meeting was spent on special-order bills, many of them open-government sunset review measures and policy bills. The Senate passed bills preserving or updating public records exemptions for aquaculture records, trade secrets, and cybersecurity information; a child-abuse reporting statute of limitations bill; a commercial driving schools bill; a human trafficking training requirement for nursing graduates; a new injunction for protection against serious violence by a known person and its companion public-records bill; a nature-based coastal resiliency bill with an amendment restricting dredge-and-fill in Terra Ceia Aquatic Preserve; a chiropractic patient-funds bill; specialty license plate legislation; a one-time waiver for late financial disclosure fines; public school personnel compensation changes; the Florida Farm Bill with amendments protecting Everglades lands and technical corrections; homestead exemption clarification for long-term leaseholders; disability presumption clarifications for firefighters and law enforcement; reinsurance intermediary manager conformity changes; patriotic displays in public schools; ADS-B aviation fee restrictions; autism-related law enforcement training and a blue envelope program; public post-secondary safety policy requirements; and a bill allowing licensed agents to market health care sharing ministries. Several bills were temporarily postponed, including local vessel restrictions, temporary certificates for practice, and domestic animals.
Members debated a number of measures, especially the health care sharing ministries bill, where opponents raised consumer-protection and commission concerns and supporters argued for free speech, religious liberty, and expanded consumer choice; it passed 32-5. Other debated bills included the autism law enforcement bill, the school athletics bill addressing coach support for student-athletes, and the Farm Bill, where senators discussed surplus land safeguards and biosolids timing. Most bills passed overwhelmingly, often 37-0 or 38-0, with a few closer votes such as the patriotic displays bill (36-2) and the health care sharing ministries bill (32-5).
FL
Florida 2026 Regular Session
FL House Floor Session - 2026-02-19 (10:00AM Session)
Florida House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- For monitoring, inspecting, reporting, and application requirements.
- So, does the surplus land procedure require DEP to find that the land no longer serves conservation purposes
- A surplus land procedure required DEP to find that the land no longer serves conservation purposes?
- DEP already has a mechanism in place to recognize surplus lands today.
- It requires space. And thank you, Chair Hooper, for giving us that space.
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
Fiscal Committee (05/15/2026)
Transcript Highlights:
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- A lot of those reviews are required by natural disasters, such as culvert repairs, enlarging culverts
- <00:13:54.800><c> uh</c><00:13:55.080><c> by</c> required uh by required uh by um<00:13:56.880><c> natural
- </c><00:16:52.080><c> So</c> lapse that we have on that surplus.
- So lapse that we have on that surplus.
Summary:
The Joint Fiscal Committee met on May 15 at 10:00 a.m. and first approved the April 17 minutes. It then took up a consent calendar covering tabs three through seven, with items 089 and 097 removed for separate discussion. The committee approved the remainder of the consent calendar and then adopted item 089, which involved Department of Safety/Homeland Security grant funding for active shooter incident management and school reunification training. Officials said the project is a mandatory Homeland Security grant set-aside, with training for public safety officials and school districts and internal social media used only to promote training schedules; members asked about marketing, outcomes, and how success would be measured.
The committee next considered item 097 for the Division of Historical Resources. Agency officials said the request was driven by a decade-long increase in Section 106 and state historic preservation reviews, many tied to disaster-related infrastructure work such as culvert and road repairs, and that the grant would add capacity to handle roughly 1,000 to 1,500 reviews per year. The committee approved the item after brief discussion.
Under the regular calendar, the Department of Transportation presented a fuel-related transfer. Members questioned the decline in the highway fund balance, which staff said was being affected by rising expenses, flat-to-moderate revenue, and a rough winter that increased maintenance costs. DOT officials said they were considering toll rate increases and noted the agency pays market wholesale fuel rates; they also discussed prior fuel hedging decisions and said they have authority to hedge again if it makes sense. The committee approved the DOT item, then approved a miscellaneous action item to fill a position at the LBA. Members also asked the chair to remind the Attorney General to appear at a future meeting regarding the YDC claims report. The committee set its next meeting for Friday, June 19 at 11:00 a.m., and adjourned after a brief note of appreciation for recent corrections and changes reported by the liquor commission.
ID
Transcript Highlights:
- Section 2 covers mail-in ballots for precincts that require mail-in ballots. We have a couple.
- Law now requires that the election canvassing must be concluded within nine days.
- So we're looking to avoid unnecessary delays with that requirement.
- So we're looking to avoid unnecessary delays with that requirement.
- to do. ...when agencies fail to report or do what they're required to do.
Committee:
House State Affairs
AR
Transcript Highlights:
- of you are very familiar with, but it's going to go retroactive so that we can utilize some of the surplus
- Right now, Arkansas has critical needs that require our attention and our investment.
- Right now, Arkansas has critical needs that require our attention and our investment.
- The pay plan that you passed last year will continue to require investments.
- that surplus that we're operating with.
Committee:
All REVENUE & TAX - SENATE
Summary:
The Senate Revenue and Tax Committee met to consider Senate Bill 1, sponsored by Senator Jonathan Dismang, which continues the state’s long-running effort to reduce Arkansas income tax rates. Dismang said the bill would lower the personal income tax rate retroactive to January 1, 2026 and delay the corporate income tax change until the following January, bringing the rate down from 7% to 3.7%. He also said the bill would use existing surplus funds and estimated that a person making $65,000 would see their effective tax burden reduced by about 45% compared with earlier rates.
The committee heard several witnesses in opposition, including a United Methodist pastor/social worker, a parent describing her son’s disability and need for supported living services, representatives from Arkansas Appleseed and Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, and a Marshallese community advocate. They argued that Arkansas should preserve revenue for public schools, health care, food assistance, housing, rural hospitals, early childhood education, and disability services, and said the tax cuts would disproportionately benefit higher-income taxpayers while providing little relief to working families. Several speakers cited low state spending relative to national averages and warned that further cuts would worsen existing service gaps.
In closing, Dismang and other supporters said the state can be both compassionate and competitive, that no essential services would be cut by the bill, and that Arkansas has continued to grow revenue despite prior tax reductions. Members emphasized balancing service funding with economic competitiveness and noted the legislature’s focus on lower-income tax brackets in earlier reforms. The committee then voted to do pass SB1, and the bill was approved.
WA
Transcript Highlights:
- House Bill 2073 requires nonprofit health carriers to pay a percentage of their surplus toward the Cascade
- It redefines excessive surplus as the amount of a nonprofit health carrier's surplus that is 100 times
- For calendar year 2025, instead of as surplus greater than 600% of the carrier's risk-based capital requirements
- , and requires carriers to pay 10% instead of 3% of the excessive surplus to the OIC for deposit into
- If we had a $5 billion surplus or we eliminated wasteful programs that don't move the needle, then surplus
Bills:
HB1073 , HB1128 , HB1316 , HB1408 , HB1591 , HB1592 , HB1634 , HB1906 , HB1960 , HB2073 , HB2145 , HB2248 , HB2266 , HB2301 , HB2333 , HB2365 , HB2401 , HB2416 , HB2421 , HB2438 , HB2474 , HB2475 , HB2515 , HB2517 , HB2523 , HB2548 , HB2597 , HB2637 , HB2640 , HB2660 , HB2675 , HB2685 , HB2720 , HB1742 , HB2104 , HB2186 , HB2405 , HB2557 , HB2593 , HB2636
Committee:
House Appropriations
Keywords:
national guard, military support, defense, state security, veteran services, child care, workforce standards, education, child development, training requirements, postsecondary education, homelessness, foster youth, education access, support programs, community preservation, development authorities, funding, local governance, state resources
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Legislative Commission on Pensions and Retirement - 02/24/26
Minnesota Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Paul teacher employees were making their required contribution rates.
- </c><01:01:42.319><c> Um,</c> their required contribution rates.
- Um, their required contribution rates.
- So our asset or investment requirements.
- </c> with all of the statutory requirements. with all of the statutory requirements.
AR
Transcript Highlights:
- of you are very familiar with, but it's going to go retroactive so that we can utilize some of the surplus
- Right now, Arkansas has critical needs that require our attention and our investment.
- Right now, Arkansas has critical needs that require our attention and our investment.
- The pay plan that you passed last year will continue to require investments.
- that surplus that we're operating with.
Committee:
All REVENUE & TAX - SENATE
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
Long Range Capital Planning and Utilization Committee (09/29/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- As a condition of sale, the grantee will be required to commission a licensed land surveyor to prepare
- <00:20:40.720><c> grantee</c><00:20:41.039><c> will</c><00:20:41.200><c> be</c><00:20:41.280><c> required
- </c><00:20:41.520><c> to</c> of sale, the grantee will be required to of sale, the grantee will be required
- </c><00:22:05.360><c> to</c> sale, the grantee will be required to sale, the grantee will be required
- </c><00:26:41.600><c> land</c> memorandums regarding surplus land memorandums regarding surplus land
Summary:
The Long Range Capital Planning and Utilization Committee met and first approved the June 30, 2025 meeting minutes. The committee then took up a series of Department of Transportation property actions, including authorization to grant an access point in Exeter, sell two small tracts in Keene, amend a prior Guilford disposal based on a revised survey and appraisal, sell 0.42 acres in Lincoln, list and sell 9.77 acres in Chesterfield, sell 0.54 acres in Fremont, and approve a permanent access easement in Belmont. The committee also approved a utility easement in Albany and a permanent access easement on Route 153 for the Bickfords. Most of these items involved direct sales or listings, administrative fees of $1,100, and conditions requiring surveys and local/state approvals; several were approved unanimously after brief or no questions.
Representative Faulkner declared a conflict of interest on the Chesterfield item, and Representative Newman sat in for that matter; later, Faulkner was recused from the Belmont item as well. The committee also approved a Department of Administrative Services request to grant a perpetual utility line easement to Public Service Company of New Hampshire for a facility under construction at the Hampstead hospital property, with the administrative fee waived because the grant was in exchange for utility service. During discussion of informational item LRCP25-038, staff explained that no committee action was needed because the item was only to notify members that a parcel’s fair market value had been reduced due to a change in access.
The committee received additional informational materials from the New Hampshire Council on Resources and Development, including minutes from its May 8 meeting and memorandums on surplus land review for Meredith and Hampstead. The next meeting was set for December 9 at 9:30 a.m. at Granite Place, Room 228, and the chair noted the meeting would be on a Tuesday because of building scheduling. The committee then adjourned.
AR
Transcript Highlights:
- of you are very familiar with, but it's going to go retroactive so that we can utilize some of the surplus
- Right now, Arkansas has critical needs that require our attention and our investment.
- The pay plan that you passed last year will continue to require investments.
- In fact, we're operating with a surplus right now, and what this is projected to do is absorb some of
- that surplus that we're operating with.
Committee:
All REVENUE & TAX - SENATE
Summary:
The Senate Revenue and Tax Committee considered Senate Bill 1, sponsored by Senator Jonathan Dismang, which would continue Arkansas’s phased income tax reductions, lowering the personal income tax rate to 3.7% and delaying the corporate income tax change until the following January. Dismang said the bill was part of a long-running effort begun in 2013 to reduce rates using conservative budgeting and surplus revenue, and he estimated the change would reduce the effective tax burden for a person making $65,000 by about 45%. Committee members supporting the bill emphasized that the measure would not cut state services and argued Arkansas should balance competitiveness with funding essential programs.
Several speakers opposed the bill, including a clergy member/social worker, a parent advocating for disability services, representatives from Arkansas Appleseed and Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, and a community advocate from the Arkansas Coalition of Marshallese. They argued the state should preserve revenue for public schools, health care, housing, food assistance, early childhood education, and supported living services, citing underfunded schools, a waitlist for pre-K, hospital and child care pressures, and the needs of low-income and vulnerable residents. Some speakers said the tax cuts would disproportionately benefit higher-income taxpayers while providing little relief to working families.
In closing, Dismang said Arkansas could be both compassionate and competitive and that no essential services would be cut because the state is operating with a surplus. After discussion, Senator Dismang moved do pass, Senator Petty seconded, and the committee approved SB 1 by voice vote. The committee then adjourned.
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Legislative Ethics Board Jun 8th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- Eisen Trout said that she used her campaign surplus funds to hire a friend while, quote, working with
- Every legislator has the ability to donate their campaign surplus accounts.
- The second thing that they were required to do is sanitize the education data. The education...
- , the campaign surplus funds.
- We should return it to the surplus, the campaign surplus funds.
Summary:
The hearing opened in a Washington State Office of Administrative Hearings matter involving Legislative Ethics Board complaint 2025-5 against Representative Tara Simmons. The ALJ outlined the process, the issues on appeal, and the burden of proof, which centered on whether Simmons violated the Ethics Act by using her legislative position for others’ benefit and by holding outside employment that conflicted with her duties, and what sanction would be appropriate. Several exhibits were admitted by stipulation or without objection, while Exhibit 2 was initially held for later ruling but was ultimately admitted after testimony from the witness who prepared it. The board also granted a motion to sequester witnesses and took under advisement a motion to exclude three defense witnesses until after the staff case-in-chief.
In opening statements, board staff alleged Simmons violated RCW 42.52.020 and RCW 42.52.070 by sponsoring a proviso that benefited her outside employer, Equity and Education Coalition (EEC), by using campaign surplus funds to help hire a friend, by intervening in a dispute over the proviso-funded work, and by sending text messages to influence others. Staff said it would seek penalties of up to $5,000 per violation plus costs. Defense counsel argued the allegations were technical ethics issues, denied Simmons profited personally, and contended the proviso funding her employer was permitted under prior board guidance; counsel also argued the campaign donation and later contract dispute were lawful and context-dependent.
The first witness, Kimberly Gordon of American Equity and Justice Group (AEJG), testified that AEJG received state proviso funding and donations from Simmons, including $10,000 and later $40,000, which Gordon said were intended to fund the hiring of Antoine Coleman, Simmons’s romantic partner. Gordon said AEJG returned the donations and terminated Coleman after learning of the relationship and potential conflict of interest. She also testified about a later 2024 proviso involving EEC, a subcontract between AEJG and EEC, and a dispute over EEC’s performance under that subcontract. Gordon said AEJG raised concerns with the Administrative Office of the Courts, met with contract manager Chris Stanley, and ultimately rewrote the subcontract after Stanley, allegedly after speaking with Simmons, directed them to do so. The hearing then recessed for lunch, and cross-examination of Gordon was set to continue afterward.
FL
Florida 2026 4th Special Session
February 3, 2026 - 02:30 PM
Transcript Highlights:
- The purpose of HB 943 is to require Citizens to create a commercial lines clearinghouse by January 1,
- The surplus lines market is one way that we're going to do that.
- And if it requires tweaks down the road, I'll be the first to bring those changes.
- Amendment barcode 969-469 requires DFS to notify a My Safe Florida Home Program applicant at least five
- Amendment barcode 969-469 requires DFS to notify a My Safe Florida Home Program applicant at least five
Summary:
The Insurance and Banking Subcommittee met with a quorum present and heard four bills. HB 1231, relating to final disposition, funeral, and cemetery services, was presented as a consumer protection and workforce modernization measure. After questions about hospice/funeral provider exclusivity, direct disposal licensing, causes of action, and funeral director/embalmer licensure, the bill was amended by strike-all to remove some provisions and add authorization and regulation of natural organic reduction. Support came from funeral industry representatives, and the bill was reported favorably with the committee substitute.
HB 943 would require Citizens Property Insurance Corporation to create a commercial lines clearinghouse by January 1, 2027, to move certain commercial residential and other commercial risks into the private market while maintaining current eligibility rules. The sponsor and members discussed Citizens’ remaining commercial exposure, surplus lines participation, and carrier financial-strength guardrails. A strike-all amendment conforming to the Senate version and making technical corrections was adopted, and the bill passed favorably with the committee substitute after supportive debate from members.
HB 1221, a Department of Financial Services bill, was described as streamlining DFS processes, improving licensing, updating the My Safe Florida Home Program, strengthening public adjuster protections, and modernizing unclaimed property rules. Three amendments were adopted: notice before a My Safe Florida Home application is deemed abandoned, removal of a misdemeanor disclosure requirement for certain licensure applicants, and a provision allowing public officials to appoint or promote relatives to firefighter positions through a competitive process in a collective bargaining agreement. Testimony was generally supportive, including from firefighters and unclaimed-property claimants’ representatives, and the bill was reported favorably with a committee substitute.
HB 99, concerning reinsurance intermediary managers, would exempt certain underwriting managers handling limited facultative reinsurance business from the intermediary manager statute and instead require an agency license. With no public testimony or debate, the bill was reported favorably. The meeting then adjourned.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Session Daily Update: Review of November 2025 Budget and Economic Forecast Dec 11th, 2025
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- The latest figures reflect an expected budget surplus of $2.47 billion for the current biennium, a roughly
- Uh, we have recognized challenges remain over the next four years, but we've grown the surplus.
- Uh, we have recognized challenges remain over the next four years, but we've grown the surplus.
- </c><00:02:28.480><c> a</c><00:02:28.640><c> deficit</c><00:02:29.440><c> and</c> there will be a surplus
- or a deficit and there will be a surplus or a deficit and then<00:02:29.840><c> the</c><00:02:30.080
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Session (Full Formal with Calendar) Jun 21st, 2026 at 01:00 pm
Massachusetts Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- But basically, this amends a provision in the recently enacted economic bond bill that required federal
- And we in Massachusetts are, in fact, the only state in the nation, as our research goes, that requires
- This is surplus, fair share, so-called millionaires tax. We're talking about two of them today.
- This is surplus, fair share, so-called millionaires tax. ...in spending.
- It's broken down as required by the Constitution for public education and public transportation.
Summary:
The Senate considered a series of amendments to a supplemental appropriations bill and related measures, with several adopted and several rejected or withdrawn. Early amendments on equitable approaches to public safety and a Holyoke local account clarification failed, while amendments providing $2.5 million for Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers technical assistance and expanding access to gender-affirming medications and mifepristone were adopted. The chamber also adopted a technical amendment on alternative protein grants, a clarification to ETF modernization, and an energy storage systems amendment. Other proposals on homeowner protections, La Casa funding, emergency contract reform, an energy dashboard, EV charging ratepayer impacts, hate crimes, distressed hospital payments, and task force membership were rejected or withdrawn.
A substantial portion of the debate focused on health care, food assistance, and public safety. Senators spoke in support of funding for community health centers, hospital relief, and EBT anti-skimming protections, including $15.5 million for chip-enabled EBT cards and related replacement-benefit support. One amendment to strengthen protections against impersonating federal officers was rejected, while another on professional protections was withdrawn after discussion of ballot address privacy and security concerns. The Senate also adopted amendments to continue prior appropriations for a North Shore food pantry and drought management efforts, and it later approved a sick leave bank for a Department of Mental Health employee.
The chamber then took up the fiscal year 2025 fair share supplemental budget conference report, which Ways and Means described as $1.39 billion in spending split between transportation and education, including MBTA improvements, Chapter 90 aid, regional transit authorities, special education circuit breaker reimbursements, higher education deferred maintenance, and career technical education capital grants. After a roll call, the bill passed, with one recorded negative vote. The Senate also adopted a separate Ways and Means amendment and ordered the bill to third reading before final passage. The session ended with adjournment motions and a moment of silence honoring Melissa and Mark Hortman and other victims of political violence, along with a memorial adjournment for firefighter Jeffrey DeSanchez.
FL
Florida 2025 Regular Session
October 8, 2025 - 01:00 PM
Transcript Highlights:
- THIS IS ANOTHER SOMEWHAT SIMILAR REQUIREMENT SPECIFIC TO ANY COMMUNICATIONS BUT ALLOWABLE PAYMENTS UNDER
- THE 1115 WAIVER THAT WHAT COULD REQUIRE THE PAYMENT OF FUNDS THAT HAVE BEEN IMPLEMENT IT.
- IT REQUIRED CERTAIN MANAGED-CARE REPORTS TO BE SUBMITTED TO LEGISLATIVE STAFF AND LEGISLATURE THAT HAS
- WELL, WE'VE EMBARKED ON LOOKING AT PROJECTING HOW MUCH OF A SURPLUS DO WE THINK WE'RE GOING TO HAVE AT
- THEN WE ARE LOOKING AT OKAY, HOW MANY PEOPLE CAN WE SERVE USING THAT SURPLUS RECURRING MONEY.