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AL
Alabama 2025 Regular Session
Alabama House Montgomery County Legislation Committee Apr 15th, 2025
Montgomery County Legislation
Transcript Highlights:
- That's why I wanted to have a conversation about reallocating or changing some of the funding mechanism
- The county to say that they're going to change the one cent tax sale to go to the general fund or wherever
Committee:
House Montgomery County Legislation
Keywords:
HB424, Montgomery County, sheriff, county sheriff, salary increase, expense allowance, local act, county general fund, retirement contributions, public official compensation, law enforcement pay, elected official salary, Montgomery County legislation, sheriff compensation, term-based salary, retirement system, Montgomery City Council, constitutional amendment, employees, service credit
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy Committee 2/20/25
Workforce, Labor, and Economic Development Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- We're also set to receive $652 million in BEAD funding from the federal government, and with these dollars
- we can fund critical infrastructure projects from Mankato to Minneapolis, from Mahnomen to Moorhead.
- </c><00:09:13.839><c> and</c> are necessary to provide flexibility and are necessary to provide flexibility
- </c><00:35:06.320><c> is</c> that available Federal funding is that available Federal funding is deployed
- </c><01:36:36.000><c> from</c> without um the additional funding from without um the additional funding
Keywords:
telecommunications, installation, certification, safety, underground utilities, HF335, Greater Minnesota, economic development, public infrastructure, grant program, DEED, Department of Employment and Economic Development, business development, infrastructure grants, local government aid, general fund appropriation, rural development, site development, utilities, roads
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Appropriations and Budget Education Subcommittee REVISED: SB1262 added pursuant to Speaker's waiver of 48 hr rule Apr 8th, 2026 at 04:30 pm
A&B Education Subcommittee
Transcript Highlights:
- So, my general feeling is that what isn't as important as what it's called is what is...
- You know, if you go to a college student and say I'm going to give you some funding for this program.
- What is that private fund collection going to look like? That is a good question.
- It is a dedicated fund with the regions for the program, so that they would be acceptance of that.
- The funding is available through appropriations or private donations. So, that's the.
Committee:
House A&B Education Subcommittee
Keywords:
school funding, general fund carryover, State Aid, educational finance, budget penalties, emergency clause, tuition waiver, human trafficking, education, higher learning access, victims' rights, Oklahoma Tuition Equalization Grant, higher education, financial aid, income eligibility, student grants, scholarships, capital improvements, teacher incentives, Oklahoma Equal Opportunity Education Scholarship Act
IA
Committee:
Joint Transportation
Keywords:
vehicle title, certificate of title, replacement title, lost title, destroyed title, duplicate title, county treasurer, Department of Transportation, DOT, motor vehicle, lienholder, security interest, title fee, county general fund, retroactive applicability, Iowa Code 321.42, Iowa Code 321.152, school bus driver, authorization, education department
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House State Government Finance and Policy Committee 3/6/25
State Government Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- They don't have an end date because there's always a need—for example, general maintenance workers or
- It enables tribes to access the program, and it continues to fund the program.
- </c><00:23:34.360><c> where</c><00:23:34.679><c> counties</c> create a grant grant fund where counties
- create a grant grant fund where counties uh<00:23:35.799><c> can</c><00:23:36.320><c> more</c><00:23
- </c><00:31:33.000><c> the</c> Auditor Office uh the uh generally the Auditor Office uh the uh generally
Committee:
House State Government Finance and Policy
Keywords:
Office of Inspector General, inspector general, legislative audit, fraud prevention, waste and abuse, public funds, grant oversight, state grants, grant management, whistleblower protection, retaliation, subpoena power, data practices, government transparency, accountability, law enforcement referrals, sanctions, debarment, payment withholding, public assistance fraud
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- House Bill 2352 appropriates $2,385,900 from the general fund to the Auditor General for county treasurer
- It's really important that we fund the Auditor General. It is really...
- It's really important that we fund the Auditor General.
- House Bill 2418 appropriates the sum of $600,000 from the State General Fund in fiscal year 27 to the
- Arizona Criminal... ...thousand dollars from the State General Fund in fiscal year 27 to the Arizona
TX
Texas 89th Regular
Senate Committee on Water, Agriculture, and Rural Affairs Mar 17th, 2025
Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs
Committee:
Senate Water, Agriculture and Rural Affairs
Keywords:
water management, bond issuance, eminent domain, regional authority, fee structures, local governance, environmental quality, oyster cultivation, coastal management, natural resources, marine ecosystems, Texas Parks and Wildlife, Texas Water Development Board, guidance principles, flood plan, state water plan, rule review, infrastructure, water discharge, general permit
LA
Transcript Highlights:
- Plaquemines has produced severance taxes to the State General Fund and an enormous amount dating back
- And since that time period, Plaquemines has given about $2.7 billion into the State General Fund, just
- In the last five years, we average $65 million a year into the State General Fund. Excuse me. Sure.
- The state takes its state general fund down to somewhere between $79,000 and $100,000.
- If you go over the number of patients, what's it going to do to the State General Fund there?
Committee:
Senate Finance
Keywords:
TOPS-Tech, scholarship, education, eligibility, college credit, dual enrollment, state funding, HB 488, Belle Chasse Bridge, Belle Chasse Bridge Merit-Based Special Fund, Plaquemines Parish, severance tax, state general fund, special fund, transportation funding, DOTD, Department of Transportation and Development, public-private partnership, P3 contract, toll reduction
HI
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> with the Iron Worker Stabilization Fund. with the Iron Worker Stabilization Fund.
- </c> with the Iron Worker Stabilization Fund. with the Iron Worker Stabilization Fund.
- ,</c> Mark Tom, Deputy Attorney General, Mark Tom, Deputy Attorney General, Department<01:13:50.080><
- ><c> in</c> Department of the Attorney General in Department of the Attorney General in support.<01:13
- </c> the committee, Deputy Attorney General the committee, Deputy Attorney General Adrian<01:13:55.360
Bills:
SB2543 , SB2014 , SB2115 , SB3095 , SB3264 , SB2114 , SB2117 , SB2246 , SB2519 , SB3055 , SB3131 , SB3144
Committee:
House Labor
Keywords:
state construction, construction manager, design review, public works, capital improvement, DAGS, Department of Accounting and General Services, DOE, Department of Education, comptroller, pilot program, design review special fund, county permit review, accessibility compliance, Disability and Communication Access Board, state infrastructure, government construction, project oversight, civil service exemption, county agencies
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Policy Committee 3/27/25
Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- The MPCA has $17.5 million of ongoing base general fund spending.
- </c> did a an exercise related to the general did a an exercise related to the general fund<00:32:31.279
- </c> in the um MPCA's general fund spending. in the um MPCA's general fund spending.
- We barely get any of our budget from the general fund.
- /c> million from the general fund to the Met million from the general fund to the Met Council<01:19:41.360
Keywords:
HF1587, Cass County, Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, DNR, condemnation, eminent domain, state land, surplus land, public waters, tribal land transfer, federally recognized Indian Tribe, tribal ownership, land conveyance, no consideration, land appropriation, natural resources, U.S. Highway 2, Section 27 Township 145 North Range 28 West, land return, Tribal sovereignty
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
House - Appropriations and Finance Feb 13th, 2026 at 05:31 pm
House Appropriations & Finance
Transcript Highlights:
- We are on a prior year funding cycle, so that happens all the time. But again, Your funding cycle.
- Our funding formula essentially provides additional funding to school districts that are classified as
- Is it a state-funded rebate, Mr. Chair? Mr.
- So I know we've funded these before, and they've shut down, and now we're going to fund them again.
- existing funds into one unified public safety workforce capacity building fund.
Committee:
House House Appropriations & Finance
Keywords:
distance learning, virtual instruction, public education, student enrollment, school funding, education standards, pandemic education response, low-carbon construction, construction materials, rebate, environmental product declaration, EPD, embodied carbon, carbon intensity, greenhouse gas emissions, decarbonization, industrial incentives, clean manufacturing, cement, concrete
NM
Transcript Highlights:
- These bills were discussed and debated, and based on the funds generated by SB 151, we have approximately
- fund.
- And it says recurring general fund.
- And then at the bottom, the next-to-the-last line, you've got a general fund.
- It shows a negative impact to the general fund of $4,000,000, $750,000.
Committees:
Senate Senate Finance , Senate House Appropriations & Finance
Keywords:
corporate income tax, franchise tax, gross receipts tax, tax credit, tax deduction, controlled foreign corporation, CFC, bonus depreciation, interest expense, apportionment, unitary group, high-wage jobs tax credit, local journalism, news media, newspaper printer, physician incentive, health care workforce, affordable housing, multifamily housing, construction materials
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- General funding. Mr. Chair and members, Senate Bill 15, Mr.
- will go with your permission sir Sure general funding Mr.
- general fund.
- It wasn't a general fund. This proposal...
- It'll come from the general fund, unless we find another fund.
Bills:
SB1046 , SB1317 , SB1376 , SB1416 , SB1448 , SB1471 , SB1493 , SB1498 , SB1502 , SB1504 , SB1538 , SB1544 , SB1550 , SB1579 , SB1581 , SB1584 , SB1624 , SB1673
Keywords:
telecommunications, broadband, internet infrastructure, critical infrastructure, cybersecurity, national security, foreign adversary, China, Chinese equipment, supply chain security, network equipment, microchips, Arizona Corporation Commission, telecommunications provider, communications infrastructure, Huawei, ZTE, state-owned enterprise, sanctions, infrastructure security
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- They were asked to report on funding from the district, funding from the school, fundraising, PTA, PTO
- :28.000><c> funds</c><00:42:28.760><c> that</c><00:42:28.920><c> were</c> been used to supplant funds
- </c> any data to suggest that how the funds any data to suggest that how the funds were<00:42:52.640>
- </c> but of those who knew how the funds but of those who knew how the funds impacted<00:43:00.440><c
- A funding increase in my lifetime.
Committee:
Senate Education Finance
Keywords:
HF56, Minnesota bonding bill, capital investment, state bonds, bond proceeds fund, Hutchinson Area Transportation Services, Hutchinson, McLeod County, transportation facility, vehicle storage, equipment storage, fueling facility, temperate storage, local infrastructure, public works, general obligation bonds, education finance, school funding, state aid, appropriations
OK
Oklahoma 2026 Regular Session
Appropriations and Budget REVISED: SB1403 - ADDED TO AGENDA Apr 14th, 2026 at 04:30 pm
Appropriations and Budget
Transcript Highlights:
- Why would this not be a reclamation activity that would be funded by industry versus by funds provided
- would have to be repaid to the fund?
- And that money would stay in that fund, that revolving fund. Provenzano with the question.
- I think this is a one-time fund in a revolving fund where the legislature is not committed to continuing
- to fund it each year.
Committee:
House Appropriations and Budget
Keywords:
SB1319, Corporation Commission, Oklahoma, remediation, environmental emergency, brine contamination, oil contamination, oilfield pollution, residential property, home buyout, property acquisition, fair market value, revolving fund, remediation fund, state plugging funds, well plugging, abandoned well, natural breakout, Department of Environmental Quality, DEQ
AL
Alabama 2025 Regular Session
Alabama House Ways and Means General Fund Committee Mar 5th, 2025
Ways and Means General Fund
Transcript Highlights:
- referred to as the Cost Recovery Fund.
- Well, right now they hold the recovery funds.
- I would suggest that this committee, the ways and means and general fund, the ways and means and general
- fund committees actually have increased funding tremendously in mental health.
- fund.
Committee:
House Ways and Means General Fund
Keywords:
elections, post-election audit, election audit, risk-limiting audit, ballot audit, election integrity, voter confidence, Secretary of State, judge of probate, canvassing board, poll watchers, ballot containers, manual tally, recount, county election, statewide election, general election, absentee ballots, provisional ballots, election transparency
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- fund to the 2025 from the general fund to the commissioner<00:03:50.480><c> of</c><00:03:50.640><c>
- </c><00:09:49.079><c> fund</c><00:09:49.320><c> and</c> well so between the general fund and well so
- between the general fund and clean<00:09:49.680><c> water</c><00:09:49.839><c> fund</c><00:09:50.079>
- Have you considered the Legacy money, the Clean Water Fund, for this rather than the general fund?
- for this rather than the Water fund for this rather than the general<00:34:21.399><c> fund</c><00:34
Committee:
Senate Taxes
Keywords:
taxation, income tax, property tax, corporate tax, homestead credit, local government aid, tax credits, economic development, taxpayer assistance, tax credit outreach, tax preparation, free tax help, IRS, Department of Revenue, general fund appropriation, earned income tax credit, child tax credit, volunteer income tax assistance, VITA, low-income taxpayers
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Housing Finance and Policy Committee 3/4/26
Housing Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- Alliance owns and operates 374 flexible.
- </c><00:13:52.800><c> obligation</c> yes and we're doing general obligation yes and we're doing general
- </c><00:18:10.880><c> obligation</c> of bonding through general obligation of bonding through general
- </c> go into a process through MHFA to fund go into a process through MHFA to fund housing<00:18:23.919
- </c> mediation in general. I'm Beth Bailey. mediation in general. I'm Beth Bailey.
Committee:
House Housing Finance and Policy
Keywords:
housing, infrastructure bonds, funding, appropriation, Minnesota Statutes, HF2687, single-family homes, corporate landlords, corporate ownership, real estate investment trust, REIT, landlord registry, landlord database, tenant transparency, housing affordability, homeownership, deed tax, transfer tax, property tax, affordable housing
NM
New Mexico 2026 Regular Session
House - Appropriations and Finance Feb 10th, 2026 at 07:02 pm
House Appropriations & Finance
Transcript Highlights:
- was abolished, and the majority of the conservation tax was diverted to the general fund.
- This fund, uh, is, uh, is... This fund, uh, is funded by the general fund. Is that correct? Mr.
- Currently, the remaining 45% of the surtax is distributed to the general fund. Mr.
- In FY28, that general fund impact would be $91.6 million.
- Chair and Madam Leader, so if the federal subsidies get reduced, what happens to the general fund?
Committee:
House House Appropriations & Finance
Keywords:
child care, child care assistance, child care subsidy, early childhood education, early childhood care, daycare, preschool, pre-K, Head Start, Early Head Start, Children's Code, early childhood education and care department, ECECD, child care facilities, licensed child care, registered child care, copayments, waitlist, subsidy, federal poverty level
NM
Transcript Highlights:
- to balance out general fund recurring costs.
- So in other words, it gives you all the flexibility, and it also relieves the stress from the general
- So as we looked at that, if we began to infill with general fund, either in the $50 million to $100 million
- The additional billing is to balance out general fund. I will note something on this as well.
- So all of that, I think, suggests that funding has to be flexible enough to respond to actual needs.
Committees:
Senate Senate Finance , Senate House Appropriations & Finance
Keywords:
child care, child care assistance, child care subsidy, early childhood education, early childhood care, daycare, preschool, pre-K, Head Start, Early Head Start, Children's Code, early childhood education and care department, ECECD, child care facilities, licensed child care, registered child care, copayments, waitlist, subsidy, federal poverty level