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HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

AEN-HHS-WAM, JDC-WAM DEFER, WAM-JDC, WAM, WAM Public Hearings 04-09-2026

Agriculture and Environment

Transcript Highlights:
  • And allowing fund managers to actively pursue outside funding.
  • :18.080><c> funding.
  • </c> actively pursue outside funding. actively pursue outside funding.
  • <c> funding.
  • </c> reliance on state funding. reliance on state funding.
Bills: HB1618
Summary: The committees held a joint hearing on HB 1618 HD1, which would create and fund a cesspool conversion revolving loan fund administered by the Hawaii Green Infrastructure Authority to help homeowners upgrade, convert, or connect cesspools. Testimony was overwhelmingly in support from state agencies and advocacy groups, with witnesses emphasizing that cost is the main barrier to cesspool conversion and that recent Kona flooding underscored the public health and pollution risks of cesspools. One testifier suggested the fund should actively pursue outside funding sources, and another urged an effective date that would allow counties to contribute sooner. A member raised concerns about whether loans would be affordable and whether other financing tools, such as tax credits, should also be considered; another member opposed the bill as not adequately addressing district-level sewer and septic issues. The committees ultimately recommended passage with amendments, including changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, and the motion was adopted. The joint Judiciary and Ways and Means committees then considered HB 2592 on the Mauna Kea Stewardship and Oversight Authority. The chair outlined amendments to clarify that the authority would assume property and liability associated with transferred assets, preserve existing liability rules, transfer conditional use permits if not already transferred, allow lease extensions before transfer, and set reversion triggers if the authority fails to adopt a management plan by June 30, 2028, or administrative rules by December 31, 2029. Members asked about preserving the public trust and whether the amendments would keep the Board of Land and Natural Resources’ role intact; the chair confirmed the fee and board role would remain unchanged. The committees voted to pass the bill with amendments, and the recommendation was adopted. The committees also took up HB 2033, making further amendments to clarify the definition of state, delay certain effective dates, allow rental and U-Drive lessors to avoid liability by identifying renters, delete one section, and add administrative hearing language and bus-camera clarifications. HB 1888 was amended to expand protections for educational workers to include sports officials, define sports official, make intentional bodily harm a felony with enhanced penalties for repeat offenses, and authorize the attorney general to assist with restraining orders. Both measures were recommended for passage with amendments and adopted. Later, several bills were moved with little or no discussion: HB 1515, HB 1713, HB 1718, HB 2022, and HB 2385 were recommended for passage unamended; HB 2375 was deferred; and HB 1741 was amended to reflect Honolulu’s concerns, narrow study requirements, add exemptions and a delayed implementation date, and was recommended for passage with amendments. The committees adopted the recommendations on these measures, with some members noting reservations or prior opposition on certain bills.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Cap Committee Meeting - 2025-04-30

Capital Investment

Transcript Highlights:
  • All right, so first up, we've got a busy day today.
  • We have tried to get funding from everywhere.
  • Funding for a $22.6 million project.
  • Could it fall into other sources of funding, like highway trunk funding, that kind of thing?
  • Funds, trail funds, anything else since there are so many projects out there for bonding?
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Capital Investment Committee 4/30/25

Capital Investment

Transcript Highlights:
  • get a funding package.
  • Uh, Representative Ston, as far as other funding sources, USDA funds, trail funds, anything else?
  • sources, USDA funds, trail funds, anything else?
  • </c> can do it with bonding fund here. can do it with bonding fund here.
  • funded?
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Leg Committee Meeting - 2025-04-09

Legacy Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • If you turn to the fourth page, you'll see the clean water fund, and the clean water fund is largely
  • Fund.
  • . fund.
  • The DE1 amendment would shift funding to the Parks and Trails Fund, which presents a number of challenges
  • It's tough for us to fund everybody.
Bills: HF2563
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Legacy Finance Committee 4/9/25

Legacy Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • This is the Parks and Trails Fund.
  • This is the Parks and Trails Fund.
  • Uh in of those each of those funds.
  • Fund.
  • funding for can reconsider the funding for children's<00:35:32.960><c> museums</c><00:35:33.760><c>
Bills: HF2563
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Chamber Meeting Feb 9th, 2026 at 11:52 am

New Mexico House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Reserve Fund.
  • Fund?
  • General Fund—we'll call it the capital outlay development fund, I guess—the reserve fund, excuse me—that
  • Fund, Local Community Capital Funds, Colonial Infrastructure Fund, Water Project Fund, Tribal Infrastructure
  • Project Fund, Higher Ed Capital Fund.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Chamber Meeting Feb 9th, 2026

New Mexico House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Fund?
  • Fund, Local Community Capital Fund, Colonias Infrastructure Fund, Water Project Fund, tribal infrastructure
  • Fund, Local Community Capital Fund, Colonious Infrastructure Fund, Water Project Fund, tribal infrastructure
  • Local Community Capital Funds, Colonias Infrastructure Fund, Water Project Fund, Tribal Infrastructure
  • The Tribal Infrastructure Project Fund funds revert to the tribal project infrastructure fund.
Summary: The House convened with a quorum, opened with prayer and pledges, and spent much of the session on memorials and recognitions. Members honored former Senator Clint Hardin with a certificate and extended condolences, with several representatives sharing personal remembrances of his work on autism coverage, second chances for formerly incarcerated people, rural issues, and bipartisan dealmaking. The chamber also recognized Council of Governments Day, 4-H Day, NMSU Day, scouting groups, and several student and community guests, including youth from 4-H, NMSU CAMP, folklórico, and the La Cueva boys soccer team. The House received messages from the governor and Senate, including authorization for House Bill 320, the Industrial Carbon Reduction Act, and Senate passage of several bills. Committee reports were adopted on a long list of measures, including House Bills 145, 158, 180, 49, 164, 256, 287, 60, 120, 166, 306, 124, 314, 185, 253, 195, 259, 295, 296, 338, and others, along with several joint resolutions and memorials. The chamber also ordered certain bills germane and referred them to committees, and enrolled and engrossed multiple memorials. On third reading, House Bill 43, a PERA cleanup bill, passed 65-0. The House Judiciary Committee substitute for House Bill 70, updating the Public Regulation Commission and hearing officer structure, passed 66-0 after brief debate. House Bill 247, which modernizes capital outlay procedures and limits reauthorizations, was then taken up; the sponsor explained it would send unspent general fund capital outlay money to a Capital Development and Reserve Fund and tribal project balances to the tribal infrastructure fund. An amendment was offered to redirect the reserve fund money to the state road fund, and debate began, with members discussing road conditions and the purpose of the reserve fund.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Appropriations May 18th, 2026

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • It requires the state treasurer to create the fund and allows additional funding from grants, donations
  • It just standardizes the language in the fund to make it conform to other funds in the statutes.
  • allocations are made, to be deposited in the new fund.
  • allocations are made, to be deposited in the new fund.
  • The bill creates a fund.
Bills: SB143, SB367, SB388, SB398
HI
Transcript Highlights:
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  • /c> Alzheimer's research funding increased Alzheimer's research funding increased by<00:27:36.880><c>
  • </c><00:28:06.000><c> in</c> bring kind of a base level of funding in bring kind of a base level of funding
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Summary: The committee heard testimony on several health-related bills. HB 1864, which would require health insurance coverage for standard fertility preservation services for people undergoing medically necessary treatment, drew broad support from SHIPA, the Department of Health, HMSA, the Hawaii Association of Health Plans, and others. Testifiers emphasized that fertility preservation is routine coverage on the mainland and important for patients facing infertility from cancer or other treatment; one patient described incurring more than $20,000 in costs. The Insurance Division flagged possible Affordable Care Act issues, a potential conflict in the bill’s language about using patient history to determine limits, and a mismatch with state medical-necessity standards. Committee discussion also focused on whether the bill should apply to all women of childbearing age rather than a narrower age-based category. HB 2305 would require nutrition and metabolic education as part of physicians’ continuing medical education. The Hawaii Medical Board opposed the measure, arguing that CME should remain flexible and tailored to each physician’s specialty and warning that topic-specific mandates can expand over time. The Office of the Governor supported the bill, saying it would help the state’s rural health transformation application and could improve federal funding prospects, though the exact impact was unclear. Members questioned whether nutrition is already covered in medical training and whether the requirement should be limited to primary care physicians; the board said Hawaii currently has no topic-specific CME mandates and that physicians can already choose relevant courses. The committee also heard strong support for HB 1597, which would establish an Alzheimer’s disease research center at the University of Hawaii. Supporters from the university, the Alzheimer’s Association, AARP, and others said the center could attract federal research dollars, expand clinical trials, and help address the state’s high Alzheimer’s-related health costs. HB 2159, which appropriates funds for health care workforce development, also received broad support from the University of Hawaii, health systems, and advocacy groups, with no opposition noted. Finally, HB 2121, which would prohibit the sale and distribution of disposable electronic smoking devices, drew support from the Department of Health, youth advocates, and public health groups citing youth addiction, environmental waste, and fire hazards; the department said a separate bill, HB 1573, would be more comprehensive and better defined for enforcement and penalties. The committee ended with HB 1913, creating a veteran services mental health coordinator position at Tripler Army Medical Center, which was supported by veteran services officials and others who said veterans need better navigation and coordination for behavioral health care.
AL

Alabama 2026 Regular Session

Alabama House Ways and Means General Fund Committee Feb 25th, 2026

Ways and Means General Fund

Transcript Highlights:
  • House Ways and Means General Fund.
  • Which creates about a little over $600,000 line item for the general fund.
  • redirected to this committee because that's this committee's responsibility to look after the general fund
  • so,</c><00:15:17.519><c> I</c><00:15:17.680><c> think</c><00:15:17.760><c> that's</c> the general fund
  • And so, I think that's the general fund.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Finance Feb 12th, 2026 at 05:47 pm

Senate Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • Everybody looked at the funding sheet questions on the funding sheets.
  • The general fund.
  • contingency fund.
  • So, $2.5 billion of that is locked because it's in what we used to call the Larian Yaga fund—the rainy
  • day fund, yes.
Bills: SB190, HB247, HB8
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Finance Feb 12th, 2026 at 10:24 am

Senate Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • The legislative decision would be to reappropriate those funds.
  • We had to show up on a certain day. We had to bring all of our stuff.
  • I was speaking at the broadband day just now. I guess I'm not...
  • I was speaking at the broadband day just now. But I guess I'm not...
  • Good day. Thank you. Good day. Charles, let's get up here. We're going to wrap up language.
Bills: SB190, HB247, HB8
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

02/11/2026 - House International Trade

International Trade

Transcript Highlights:
  • And if I get my signing day, we can come over in May and not have to wait until July, so remember that
  • But from our reading of the bill, under current law, this fund goes away.
  • The Commerce Authority and this fund have a litany of issues going back decades.
  • Beyond that, specifically with the Competes fund, we see it as essentially a slush fund to hand out grants
  • This continues the fund, but with oversight from the legislature. If we don't do this, it elapses.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

03/10/2026 - Senate Appropriations, Transportation and Technology

Appropriations, Transportation and Technology

Transcript Highlights:
  • Corrections Oversight Fund.
  • Guards missed rounds, and he hanged himself on day two.
  • River litigation fund.
  • fund since we're so short on general fund dollars at this moment.
  • Chairman and Senator, I believe that... ...fund dollars at this moment. Mr.