Transcript Highlights:

• committee then discussed passing the bill and tabling it, with concern raised about a $10 million surplus
• capital surplus amount and uncertainty about where that money would go.
• </c> nice bag of $10 million of surplus nice bag of $10 million of surplus capital<00:41:27.480><c> surplus
• </c> capital surplus dollars. capital surplus dollars.
• In which case, we haven't figured out what the surplus is all for the year.

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• Starting with land availability, the housing element, the arena process, the amendments to the Surplus
• Where is the master plan in surplus property with school districts and then creating the financing?
• Where is the master plan in surplus property with school?
• where is the master plan in surplus property with school districts and then creating the financing?
• And so I think exploring that space in addition to the surplus land the state might have and working

Summary: The Assembly Select Committee on Housing Finance and Affordability held its first hearing of 2025 to examine California’s housing finance system, with opening remarks emphasizing the state’s severe housing shortage, high costs, and the need for practical recommendations to the Legislature and Governor. Co-chairs described the committee as an educational and problem-solving forum focused on financing housing production, first-time homeownership, mixed-income developments, and affordability across the income spectrum. Witnesses from state agencies and the development sector were invited to explain how housing is financed and where the system is breaking down. Panelists from the California Housing Partnership, the Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency, the Tax Credit Allocation Committee/State Treasurer’s Office, CalHFA, and Related outlined the “capital stack” used to finance affordable housing, stressing that projects typically rely on multiple public and private sources, including federal and state low-income housing tax credits, tax-exempt bonds, state subsidies, local funds, and rental income. Speakers noted that affordable housing rents generally cannot support full project costs without public subsidy, and that recent federal changes—especially the expansion of the 4% and 9% tax credit programs and the reduction of the bond financing threshold for 4% credits—should allow California to finance substantially more units. CalHFA also described its homeownership programs, including My Home, Dream For All, and disaster-related mortgage assistance, as well as its multifamily lending and bond issuance programs. Several witnesses and committee members emphasized that the system remains too complex, too slow, and underfunded. They pointed to the need for more state funding, a housing bond, a permanent funding source, and better coordination among agencies, while also citing recent streamlining efforts such as AB 434’s SuperNOFA, AB 519’s one-stop-shop working group, and the planned California Housing and Homeless Agency reorganization. Members raised concerns about equity, access, missing-middle housing, gender and racial disparities, and whether current programs adequately serve extremely low-income households and those at risk of homelessness. No formal votes or actions were taken during the hearing; the discussion ended with committee members and witnesses agreeing that both funding and administrative reform are needed to increase production and improve affordability.

Transcript Highlights:

• by removing the annual requirement for the OIC to determine whether a nonprofit health carrier's surplus
• by removing the annual requirement for the OIC to determine whether a nonprofit health carrier's surplus
• It redefines excessive surplus as the amount of a nonprofit health carrier's surplus that is 100 times
• , 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

Summary: The committee first received staff briefings on amendments for a series of bills, including measures on child care workforce standards, homelessness programs, community preservation authorities, domestic violence survivor relief, public defense funding, student behavioral health supports, water system ownership changes, nonprofit health carrier surplus assessments, 340B drug pricing reporting, Secretary of State filing fees, step housing, campaign security reimbursements, digital equity programs, a Boys and Men’s Commission, a waste-to-energy facility’s Climate Commitment Act obligations, 6PPD tire substitutes, and an early education scholarship. Staff described the policy changes and, where available, the expected fiscal effects of each proposed substitute or line amendment. The committee then went into caucus before returning for executive session. In executive session, the committee voted out House Bill 1073, then adopted a Couture line amendment to House Bill 1128 exempting private K-12 schools with licensed child care programs from the child care employer definition before reporting the bill out as Second Substitute House Bill 1128. House Bill 1316, 1408, 1591, 1592, 1634, 1906, 1960, 2073, 2145, 2248, 2266, 2301, 2333, and 2365 were also reported from committee, with several amendments adopted along the way. Notable actions included adopting an emergency clause for House Bill 1408, rejecting proposed amendments to House Bill 1591 that would have narrowed relief for survivors and removed retroactivity, adopting a narrower amendment to House Bill 1592’s public defense funding formula, and adopting a substitute to House Bill 2145 that limited 340B reporting to hospitals. The committee also debated and rejected several amendments to the step housing bill, House Bill 2266, including proposals for larger school/daycare buffers, more local oversight, and broader local government authority; the bill still advanced on a 16-13 vote. House Bill 2073, which requires nonprofit health carriers to contribute surplus funds to Cascade Care Savings, advanced over concerns about using one-time money for an ongoing program. House Bill 2248 advanced after an amendment redirected annual license fee deposits to the state treasury rather than the Secretary of State’s revolving fund. House Bill 2333 was narrowed to allow use of campaign funds for personal security reimbursements, and House Bill 2365 advanced with some amendments adopted and others rejected as the committee began discussing additional digital equity oversight provisions.

Transcript Highlights:

• The other concern I have relates to candidate surplus funds, because these can't...
• The other concern I have relates to candidate surplus funds because these committees are a lot different
• kind of like you guys were suggesting with the proposed amendment, that would be good, or maybe have surplus
• campaigns could face dozens of additional monthly filings, potentially including both campaign and surplus
• generation, all of those are time-consuming activities across multiple candidates, their possible surplus

Bills: SCR8406, SB5825, SB5842, SB5863, SB5840

Keywords: civic health, community engagement, committee reestablishment, public participation, governance, Washington State Leadership Board, WSLB, gift acceptance, grants, endowments, private funding, public funding, fundraising, state board, youth leadership, civic engagement, leadership development, Washington World Fellows, sports mentoring, Boundless Washington

Transcript Highlights:

• What we didn't want was DOE to include the surplus plutonium at Savannah River for a variety of reasons
• , but one of them being that one, surplus plutonium does not meet the waste acceptance criteria, it has
• 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.
• So what we're asking DOE again is to exclude surplus plutonium as identified in the plan as legacy waste

Transcript Highlights:

• And LBA will carry it as a surplus statement on the Schedule Two for us to know what bills are pending
• So it all came off the surplus statement. It's just a big negative number.
• So it all came off the surplus statement. It's just a big negative number.
• So it all came off the surplus statement. It's just a big negative number.
• So it all came off the surplus statement. It's just a big negative number.

Keywords: 1191, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• We now project to end fiscal years 26 and 27 with a surplus of $3.7 billion, which is 1.3 billion more
• Left unspent, that surplus will carry forward into fiscal years 28 and 29.
• , that are improving people's the surplus, that are improving people's lives,<01:02:58.960><c> but</c
• </c><01:26:38.239><c> That</c><01:26:38.400><c> is</c> surplus and our reserve account.
• That is surplus and our reserve account.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• So the A2 amendment is just another conversation and trying to unlock surplus dollars and getting us
• I would again contend that my proposal is just removing the surplus dollars, however we want to look
• But those surplus dollars exist and they are not feeding anybody; they are a surplus.
• </c><00:54:12.520><c> dollars</c><00:54:13.040><c> um</c> is just removing the Surplus dollars um is
• </c> not feeding anybody they are a surplus not feeding anybody they are a surplus um<00:54:20.000><c

Bills: HF51, HF1161, HF2201, HF2786, HF1053

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

Bills: SB1627, SB227, SB366, SB1193, SB1433, SB1450, SB1481, SB1749, SB1810, SB1812, SB1921, SB1948, SB2044, SB2178, SB169, SB1877, HB1409, SB1266, SB1432

Keywords: criminal code cleanup, duplicate statutes, statutory consolidation, repealer bill, emergency clause, Title 21 crimes, Title 47 DUI, child abuse reporting, child neglect, child sexual abuse material, child pornography, sex offenses, rape, stalking, domestic abuse, domestic violence, human trafficking, sex trafficking, gang-related offense, eluding police

Bills: SB1627, SB227, SB366, SB1193, SB1433, SB1450, SB1481, SB1749, SB1810, SB1812, SB1921, SB1948, SB2044, SB2178, SB169, SB1877, HB1409, SB1266, SB1432

Keywords: criminal code cleanup, duplicate statutes, statutory consolidation, repealer bill, emergency clause, Title 21 crimes, Title 47 DUI, child abuse reporting, child neglect, child sexual abuse material, child pornography, sex offenses, rape, stalking, domestic abuse, domestic violence, human trafficking, sex trafficking, gang-related offense, eluding police

Summary: The Senate convened, established a quorum, offered prayer, and recognized several guests, doctors, nurses, pages, student shadows, and visitors in the gallery. Members also adopted a motion to request the House’s consent for the Senate to adjourn for more than three days, with Senator Hicks opposing the motion because of the number of bills still available for consideration. The motion passed. The chamber then considered several bills. Senate Bill 1627, a cleanup measure to eliminate duplicate criminal code sections and clarify the law for legal research, passed 45-0 and was advanced as an emergency. Senate Bill 227, dealing with gross production tax and ad valorem taxation on oil and gas means of production, drew extensive questioning and debate over possible revenue impacts, county assessors, schools, and economically at-risk wells; it passed 37-9. Senate Bill 366, which gives charter schools a first right of refusal to buy or lease public school buildings sold or leased by districts, also generated debate over local control and lack of resale guardrails, and passed 40-6 as an emergency. Later, Senate Bill 1193 to remove general fund carryover caps for school districts passed 46-0 as an emergency after supporters argued it would reduce “use it or lose it” spending and allow more local flexibility, while opponents questioned fiscal effects and accountability. Senate Bill 1433, the Guidance Transparency Act requiring agencies to publicly disclose guidance documents in a searchable database, passed 37-7 after concerns about attorney-client privilege, administrative burden, and whether guidance could function like law. Senate Bill 1450, expanding relief from fines, fees, and court costs for certain people in the criminal justice system, was advanced and passed unanimously; Senate Bill 1481, increasing minimum recess time for K-5 students from 20 to 40 minutes, was advanced as an emergency measure; Senate Bill 1810, allowing expert testimony in human trafficking cases, passed 45-0; Senate Bill 1812, requiring school districts to make benchmark testing information available to parents, passed 46-0 as an emergency; Senate Bill 1921, increasing OSBI background-check fees, passed 39-7; and Senate Bill 1948, updating fireworks laws and limiting county restrictions on private outdoor consumer fireworks displays, was taken up with significant safety and local-control questioning.

Bills: SCR 22, SB 53, SB 204, SB 266, SB 268, SB 291, SB 292, SB 296, SB 304, SB 305, SB 413, SB 447, SB 455, SB 462, SB 493, SB 504, SB 519, SB 522, SB 532, SB 541, SB 667, SB 670, SB 673, SB 681, SB 687, SB 711, SB 746, SB 765, SB 783, SB 827, SB 850, SB 860, SB 888, SB 897, SB 901, SB 927, SB 955, SB 963, SB 984, SB 989, SB 993, SB 996, SB 1023, SB 1033, SB 1058, SB 1062, SB 1101, SB 1119, SB 1172, SB 1173, SB 1215, SB 1220, SB 1227, SB 1228, SB 1229, SB 1238, SB 1239, SB 1245, SB 1248, SB 1254, SB 1259, SB 1273, SB 1277, SB 1302, SB 1332, SB 1341, SB 1346, SB 1350, SB 1352, SB 1353, SB 1355, SB 1358, SB 1370, SB 1371, SB 1378, SB 1403, SB 1404, SB 1415, SB 1437, SB 1448, SB 1450, SB 1464, SB 1493, SB 1494, SB 1537, SB 1566, SB 1569, SB 1589, SB 1598, SB 1644, SB 1709, SB 1719, SB 1729, SB 1733, SB 1744, SB 1772, SB 1810, SB 1841, SB 1895, SB 1930, SB 2039, SB 2289, SB 2312, SCR 1, SCR 6, SCR 27, SCR 32, SB 2232

Keywords: mental health, court proceedings, notice requirements, legal filings, electronic documents, parental rights, education, school trustees, training, handbook, tax collection, managed audits, taxpayer rights, dispute resolution, penalty, health care, licensing, complaint procedure, disciplinary action, law enforcement

Transcript Highlights:

• So, even back when there was an $18 billion surplus, Democrats chose not to invest in the upgrading of
• :07:26.440><c> dollar</c> when there was an 18 billion dollar when there was an 18 billion dollar surplus
• 28.280><c> chose</c><00:07:28.680><c> not</c><00:07:29.080><c> to</c><00:07:29.280><c> invest</c> surplus
• , Democrats chose not to invest surplus, Democrats chose not to invest in<00:07:29.840><c> the</c><00

Keywords: 1183, house

Transcript Highlights:

• Um, and that gave us a larger than expected surplus at the end of this biennium. memorialize uh the Hortman's
• ><c> expected</c> and that gave us a larger than expected and that gave us a larger than expected surplus
• </c> surplus at the end of this bianium. surplus at the end of this bianium.

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• And if you count that with the $32 billion surplus we had in financial 2020.
• and many others across the state should be in crisis while our leg is sitting on a record budget surplus
• Vasquez stated the surplus is a result of underfunding our public school system.
• The population has surged while Texas has enjoyed a multi-billion dollar surplus, but basic funding per

Bills: HB2, HB2

Keywords: public education, teacher compensation, certification, funding, school finance, educator rights, education funding, charter schools, staff compensation, state aid, retention allotment, disaster preparedness, emergency management, flooding, mass fatality, mass casualty, fatality tracking, body recovery, autopsy, justice of the peace

Transcript Highlights:

• I’m sure people have mentioned on your show that we had a $18 billion surplus and they spent $10 billion
• we had a$1 mentioned on your show that we had a$1 18<00:07:53.639><c> billion</c><00:07:54.159><c> Surplus
• and</c><00:07:54.759><c> they</c><00:07:54.919><c> spent</c><00:07:55.080><c> $10</c> 18 billion Surplus
• and they spent $10 18 billion Surplus and they spent $10 billion<00:07:56.080><c> more</c><00:07:57.080

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• they don't want to do some of the hard decisions that are going to be made after having a record surplus
• they don't want to do some of the hard decisions that are going to be made after having a record surplus
• they don't want to do some of the hard decisions that are going to be made after having a record surplus
• they don't want to do some of the hard decisions that are going to be made after having a record surplus

Keywords: 1183, house

Transcript Highlights:

• House Bill 467 addresses important issues related to the responsible management and disposal of surplus
• stateowned property, which by of surplus stateowned property, which by definition<00:22:59.360><c> is
• is by that controlling agency surplus is by that controlling agency declaring<00:23:11.039><c> it</c
• </c><00:23:42.720><c> property</c> identifies a potential surplus property identifies a potential surplus
• ,</c><00:23:55.200><c> it</c> property be identified as surplus, it property be identified as surplus

Keywords: 958, all

Transcript Highlights:

• I really am very happy we put that amendment on about the Everglades, about the surplus land, but I want
• to make sure that we clarify and everyone understands the surplus land procedure.
• 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.
• So does the surplus lands get voted on by ARC and the governor and the Cabinet? Senator Trumbull.

Summary: The Senate convened with an opening prayer, pledge, and a series of member and guest introductions recognizing visitors, local delegations, and honorees. The chamber then took up a report from the Committee on Ethics and Elections on 42 executive appointments; the report was adopted and the appointments were confirmed by a 36-0 vote. The Senate also adopted a resolution honoring the Ripple Project for childhood cancer awareness and fundraising. The body then moved through a long special-order calendar of bills, largely focused on public records exemptions, public safety, education, agriculture, health care, and licensing. Measures passed included bills to extend or consolidate exemptions for aquaculture records, trade secrets, and cybersecurity information; a child-abuse reporting statute-of-limitations bill; regulation of commercial driving schools; human trafficking training for nursing graduates; a new injunction for protection against serious violence by a known person and its companion public-records bill; nature-based coastal resiliency and mangrove infrastructure; chiropractic patient trust funds; specialty license plates; waiver of late financial disclosure fines; public school personnel compensation; the Florida Farm Bill/Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services package; homestead exemption clarification for long-term leases; disability presumption clarifications for first responders; reinsurance intermediary manager conformity; patriotic displays in public schools; ADS-B aviation fee restrictions; autism-related law enforcement training and the Blue Envelope program; campus safety policy transparency at public colleges and universities; and veterinary prescription disclosure. Several bills drew debate or amendments. The Farm Bill received amendments protecting Everglades restoration lands from surplus sale and clarifying biosolids timing, and it passed 38-0 after extensive discussion. The HCSM/nonprofit religious organizations bill prompted debate over whether allowing licensed insurance agents to market faith-based health care sharing ministries would create consumer confusion or free-speech concerns; it passed 32-5. The patriotic displays bill also drew discussion and passed 36-2. The athletics bill allowing coaches to provide good-faith support to student-athletes, prompted by the Teddy Bridgewater situation, passed 38-0. The affordable housing bill clarifying Live Local Act definitions to exclude farms from certain commercial/mixed-use/industrial categories passed 38-0 after a technical amendment. Several other measures were temporarily postponed, and the session concluded with the Senate continuing through the remaining calendar.

Transcript Highlights:

• I really am very happy we put that amendment on about the Everglades, about the surplus land, but I want
• to make sure that we clarify and everyone understands the surplus land procedure.
• 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.
• So does the surplus lands get voted on by ARC and the governor and the cabinet? Senator Truenow.

Keywords: 999, senate, all

Transcript Highlights:

• I want to say I'm very happy we put that amendment on about the Everglades, about the surplus land, but
• I want to make sure that we clarify and everyone understands the surplus land procedure.
• 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.
• So does the surplus lands get voted on by ARC and the governor and the cabinet?

Summary: The Senate convened with an opening prayer, pledge, and a series of gallery introductions recognizing visitors, local officials, students, and public safety personnel. The chamber first took up a report from the Ethics and Elections Committee on 42 executive appointments; after Senator Gaetz explained that the committee had reviewed the appointees’ qualifications and suitability, the Senate adopted the report and confirmed the appointments by a 36-0 vote. The Senate then moved through a long special-order calendar focused largely on open-government sunset reviews and other policy bills. It passed measures to continue or consolidate public records and meeting exemptions for aquaculture records, agency-held trade secrets, and cybersecurity information, with one technical amendment adopted on the cybersecurity bill. The chamber also approved bills extending the statute of limitations for failure to report child abuse, strengthening regulation of commercial driving schools, requiring human trafficking education for nursing graduates, creating a new injunction for protection against serious violence by a known person, and making the related public-records exemption. Additional bills passed included a nature-based coastal resiliency measure with an amendment restricting dredge-and-fill in Terra Ceia Aquatic Preserve, a chiropractic trust-funds bill, specialty license plates, a one-time waiver of late financial disclosure fines, public school personnel compensation changes, the annual Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services “Farm Bill,” homestead exemption clarification for long-term leaseholders, disability-presumption clarifications for first responders, reinsurance intermediary manager changes, patriotic displays in public schools, ADS-B fee restrictions, autism-related law enforcement training and a Blue Envelope program, campus safety policy transparency at public colleges and universities, and veterinary prescription disclosure. Several bills were temporarily postponed, including local vessel restrictions, temporary certificates for practice, and domestic animals. The Senate also debated and passed a bill allowing licensed insurance agents to market health care sharing ministries, despite concerns raised by Senator Polsky about consumer confusion, commissions, and the sale of non-insurance products; supporters argued it restored free speech, religious liberty, and consumer choice. The chamber approved the bill 32-5 after debate. Most other measures passed with strong bipartisan support, often by unanimous or near-unanimous votes, and several companion House bills were substituted in place of Senate bills before final passage.