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MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on Housing and Homelessness Prevention - 04/14/26
Housing and Homelessness Prevention
Transcript Highlights:
- Alongside ongoing inflation and resourcing challenges, Minnesota's housing preservation framework could
- And yet, when I look at the agenda that the State of Minnesota pursues, we are inflating the cost of
- I know how hard it worked with all the stakeholders and residents and homeowners who are impacted by
- Agreement made that didn't include people who were directly impacted by that decision, and I will say
- Impacted. It does repeal that. Sen. Port, thank you, Madam Chair, and Sen.
Committee:
Senate Housing and Homelessness Prevention
FL
Florida 2026 4th Special Session
February 5, 2026 - 04:00 PM
Transcript Highlights:
- OUR HEALTH INSURER MEMBERS HAVE STRONG CONCERNS ABOUT THE INTENT OF THE BILL AND THE IMPACT ON THE AFFORDABILITY
- LET'S NOT ENCOURAGE ANYMORE CLAIMS TO A BROKEN HEALTH CARE SYSTEM THAT IS ALREADY INFLATING OUR HEALTHCARE
- THESE INFLATED WEREN'T RIPPLE THROUGH THE SYSTEM RAISING PREMIUMS AND OUT-OF-POCKET COSTS FOR EVERYONE
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Legislative Commission on Pensions and Retirement - 03/03/26
Minnesota Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> it was like disproportionately impacting it was like disproportionately impacting the<00:54:06.240
- Then we'll go to member questions. direct impact that this bill will have direct impact that this bill
- Distribution data makes this impact 50.
- And so when we're talking about the impact to members, we're talking about the impact of this bill and
- the impact of this bill talking about the impact of this bill and<01:36:40.560><c> how</c><01:36:40.719
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- And at least one option must be with minimal general fund impact.
- </c> that have a minimal general fund impact that have a minimal general fund impact because<00:06:29.640
- impact or minimal impact not there's no impact or minimal impact would<00:16:56.079><c> never</c><00:
- </c><00:38:02.080><c> factor</c> designate what inflator factor designate what inflator factor uh<00:
- </c> for pro rata impact. for pro rata impact.
Committee:
Senate Taxes
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:24:36.000><c> by</c> to the policyholders who are impacted by to the policyholders who are impacted
- </c><00:31:24.480><c> um</c> doesn't negatively impact um doesn't negatively impact um the<00:31:25.600
- </c> So, they don't ever reach the impact So, they don't ever reach the impact that<00:31:54.000><c>
- Um, this inflation.
- So, happy to take any inflation.
Committee:
Senate Ways and Means
FL
Florida 2026 Regular Session
Children, Families, and Elder Affairs Jan 14th, 2025
Children, Families, and Elder Affairs
Transcript Highlights:
- When we identify what works, we should prioritize and expand those efforts to maximize our impact.
- We have conducted impactful studies and published dozens of peer-reviewed journal articles both to inform
- We have conducted impactful studies and published dozens of peer-reviewed journal articles both to inform
- Inflation, geographical adjustments, things of that nature.
- And so is there anything that restrains the actual cost from inflating exponentially, really, without
Committee:
Senate Children, Families, and Elder Affairs
Summary:
The committee heard a presentation from Dr. Kelly O’Dare on first responder behavioral health access, peer support, and suicide prevention. She described UCF Restores, the Second Alarm Project, and related partnerships that provide culturally competent treatment, peer training, clinician education, disaster response support, and behavioral health navigation. She cited survey and state data showing significant rates of sleep problems, anxiety, depression, substance use, and suicide among Florida first responders, and said evidence-based treatment has helped many patients recover, including a reported 76% who no longer met PTSD diagnostic criteria after treatment. Senators asked about measuring outcomes, peer support standards, and whether the state should create more consistent statewide requirements; O’Dare said peer support training must be specialized, linked to higher levels of care, and supported by sustainable funding and statewide coordination. The committee also heard from a public commenter who supported the work and emphasized the need for adequate resources and peer support infrastructure.
The committee then received a Department of Children and Families presentation from Casey Penn on the proposed funding methodology for community-based care lead agencies under HB 7089. Penn explained that the new model is intended to be actuarially based, reimbursement-oriented, and more transparent than prior funding approaches, using historical expenditures, standardized reporting, and two main tiers: Tier 1 for largely fixed administrative and operational costs, and Tier 2 for direct child-serving costs based on per-child-per-month blended rates. He said the model includes a 2% risk corridor for Tier 2, hold-harmless funding in the first year, and optional Tier 3 performance incentives, with an estimated additional state appropriation need after offsets. Senators raised concerns about prevention, historical inequities, reasonableness of costs, administrative overhead, blended state and federal funds, adoption subsidies, high-acuity placements, and disaster-related disruptions. Penn said some of those issues could be addressed in future iterations as the child welfare information system is modernized, and he agreed to provide written responses to committee questions.
Representatives of the Florida Coalition for Children and CBCs responded that the model is a major improvement but urged additional safeguards, including an administrative cap, clearer separation of direct and indirect costs, and better treatment of federal and pass-through funds. They argued that the system already has oversight and that deficits reflect insufficient appropriations rather than excess spending, while also noting that higher-acuity children and regional differences can drive costs. No votes were taken on either topic, and the meeting ended with committee staff introductions and adjournment.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- In the finance arena, we are able to protect linking the general education formula to inflation and universal
- We make key fundamental investments, including the automatic inflator for the general education formula
- services like textbooks, testing, nursing, counseling, and transportation, all of which directly impact
- Nearly nine out of ten schools in Minnesota are severely impacted by the shortage.
- This creates instability in the educator workforce, which has the greatest impact on students of color
Bills:
HF1388
Committee:
House Education Finance
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Housing Finance and Policy Committee 4/8/26
Housing Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- It did not have an impact on the metro-wide sales tax dedicated to housing.
- This is a moment to preserve its integrity and the impact it delivers.
- </c><00:58:42.280><c> This</c><00:58:42.520><c> work</c> and the impact it delivers.
- This work and the impact it delivers.
- . inflation. inflation.
Committee:
House Housing Finance and Policy
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> that may impact business profits. that may impact business profits.
- </c> talked about this before where inflation talked about this before where inflation will<00:16:01.440
- </c> has us slightly concerned is the impact has us slightly concerned is the impact of<00:16:33.040>
- </c> had a significant impact on M&R revenue. had a significant impact on M&R revenue.
- </c><00:46:04.160><c> tobacco</c> How do you see that impacting tobacco How do you see that impacting
Committee:
Senate Ways and Means
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Thursday, March 19, 2026)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- They can't talk about inflation.
- This impact is clear.
- His impact on resources that they need.
- I know impact on all who knew him.
- If you told me to balance the impacts?
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Committee on State and Local Government - 05/01/25
State and Local Government
Transcript Highlights:
- We're still impacted by Bloomington.
- These mandates inflate costs.
- </c><00:20:58.240><c> They</c> These mandates inflate costs. They These mandates inflate costs.
- While we impacted by development.
- </c> environmental impact statement projects. environmental impact statement projects.
Committee:
Senate State and Local Government
HI
Transcript Highlights:
- We did submit testimony in opposition, primarily from the standpoint of the impact that it would have
- Many legacy restaurants continue to close weekly, and there is double-digit inflation in food costs,
- I mean, those are things that impact us as consumers, those are things that impact workers.
- </c><00:37:19.240><c> that</c><00:37:19.440><c> impact</c> consumers those are things that impact consumers
- But if it needs updating due to inflation, that definitely makes sense.
Committee:
House Labor
HI
Hawaii 2026 Regular Session
CPC Public Hearing - Thu Apr 9, 2026 @ 2:00 PM HST
Consumer Protection & Commerce
Transcript Highlights:
- inflation.
- ><c> environment,</c><01:23:56.880><c> inflation</c> a zero inflation environment, inflation a zero inflation
- So, um, it's not that inflation is not real. Inflation is real. We understand that.
- So, right now, unless inflation<01:29:58.560><c> raises</c> inflation raises inflation raises Unless<
- </c> where the inflation is. where the inflation is.
Committee:
House Consumer Protection & Commerce
Summary:
The committee on Consumer Protection and Commerce met on April 9, 2026, and heard testimony on several measures. SB 3302 SD1 HD1, dealing with homemade food products, would require the Department of Health to adopt rules for farm kitchens producing homemade food products that are no more stringent than rules for home kitchens. The Department of Health said it supported the bill with technical amendments, and the Hawaii Food Industry Association and Grassroot Institute of Hawaii also supported it. No opposition was heard.
A lengthy discussion focused on SB 2061 SD2 HD1, which concerns a 99-year leasehold residential condominium project and HCDA’s rules for sales, income restrictions, and buyback pricing. HCDA supported the bill and said the House draft clarified unclear provisions and would help move the project to pre-sales. Testimony and committee questions centered on whether the project should remain owner-occupied in perpetuity or allow investor purchases after an initial sales period. HCDA explained that the bill was revised to make the project feasible in the market, that 60% of units would be income-restricted for buyers at or below 140% of area median income, and that the remaining units could be sold without owner-occupancy restrictions. Some members and testifiers expressed concern that the bill had shifted away from the original owner-occupancy vision and could become an investment property model, while others argued the changes were necessary for the project to pencil out and compete with fee-simple developments. No vote was taken during the discussion shown.
The committee also heard SB 2050 SD1 HD1, which would allow chiropractic students in accredited programs to engage in clinical practice beginning July 1, 2028. The Hawaii Board of Chiropractic and the Hawaii State Chiropractic Association supported the measure, and one testifier described personal experience with student chiropractic care in California. Members questioned why the board requested delaying implementation until 2030, and the board said it needed more time to develop rules because it meets only a few times a year and rulemaking is lengthy. Finally, SB 2102 SD2 HD1, on industrial hemp in commercial feed, was introduced; the Department of Agriculture and Biosecurity offered comments, the Department of Health raised concerns about regulating pet food and possible jurisdictional conflict, and a farmer testifying in support suggested narrowing the bill to federally approved livestock feed rather than pet food.
CA
Transcript Highlights:
- Currently right now, it does say that they cannot increase it past the cost of inflation.
- Importantly, it also has a direct subsequent impact.
- SB 1090 will provide disaster-impacted survivors with the insurance and stability they need to focus
- This bill does not impact the ability of an investor... ...to strict scrutiny.
- This bill does not impact the ability of an investor to speak on housing and their viewpoints.
Committee:
Senate Judiciary
TX
Texas 89th Regular
S/C on Telecommunications & Broadband Apr 16th, 2025
S/C on Telecommunications & Broadband
Transcript Highlights:
- Things that I've recently learned, one client told me about the impact on their small company.
- We are already seeing skyrocketing roadway project costs impacted by inflation, which has caused significant
- It will delay roadway construction, further impacting future availability of funding due to increased
- costs associated with the continued inflation that we are witnessing. and taxpayers are funding the
- Give me a sense of what the range of impacts are on that roadway.
Committee:
House S/C on Telecommunications & Broadband
Keywords:
telecommunications, local exchange companies, universal service fund, rate maintenance, business expansion, broadband access, internet service, multiunit residential properties, urban areas, affordability programs, fiber-optic cables, public land, construction permits, environmental impact, notification requirements, municipal projects, infrastructure, facility relocation, public right-of-way
NM
Transcript Highlights:
- The bill intends to address the negative economic impacts of House Bill 9.
- Significant fiscal impact to the three counties affected by House Bill 9, and we urge your support.
- It does not impact the general fund. The money comes from the Public Project Revolving Fund.
- And so they try and keep up with inflation.
- Since Most of the tax goes to roads, attaching it to the actual index and inflation as it pertains to
Committees:
Senate Senate Finance , Senate House Appropriations & Finance
Keywords:
SB132, DOIT, Department of Information Technology, software replacement, equipment replacement, technology funding, revolving fund, capital equipment, enterprise services, state IT budgeting, software budgeting, amortization, depreciation, State Treasurer, Department of Finance and Administration, New Mexico, information technology, IT infrastructure, fund accounting, legislative appropriation
MO
Missouri 2026 Regular Session
2026 Legislative Session - Day Forty Two - Thursday, March 26
Missouri House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- It's going to impact employers who are struggling to hire. It's got to The region.
- It's going to impact employers who are struggling to hire.
- They enter the workforce, and their impact is felt all over the region.
- When we think about what the region... ...impact is felt all over the region.
- We are not touching the cap amounts or the inflation factor.
Summary:
The House opened with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, approval of the prior day’s journal, and numerous introductions of visiting groups and guests, including schoolchildren, Republican women’s organizations, county commissioners, and family members of legislators. Members also suspended House Rule 98 to allow baseball apparel in celebration of opening day, with the motion passing 118-22.
The chamber then took up the state budget bills. House Committee Substitute for House Bill 2002, covering elementary and secondary education and child care, drew the most debate. Supporters said it maintained record funding for the foundation formula, transportation, and early childhood programs, while critics argued it still fell short of fully funding the formula and underfunded child care subsidies by about $51 million. After extended debate over statutory obligations, school funding, and child care policy, the bill passed 85-70. House Committee Substitute for House Bill 2003, the higher education and workforce development budget, also prompted substantial debate over a proposed shift to an FTE-based funding model for colleges and universities. Supporters called it a fairer, more equitable system that follows students and encourages efficiency, while opponents warned it would sharply reduce funding for some institutions, including community colleges and regional universities. The bill passed 83-66.
The House then passed House Committee Substitute for House Bill 2004, covering revenue and transportation, 91-50, despite objections over a public transit cut and constitutional concerns raised about MoDOT appropriations. House Committee Substitute for House Bill 2005, the Office of Administration and employee benefits budget, passed overwhelmingly after members discussed state worker compensation, deferred compensation, and benefits funding. House Committee Substitute for House Bill 2006, covering agriculture, natural resources, and conservation, passed 133-17 after members highlighted restored funding for agriculture business development and food insecurity grants, while others criticized cuts to natural resources and parks funding. The chamber then moved on to House Committee Substitute for House Bill 2007, covering economic development, commerce and insurance, and labor and industrial relations, with the budget chair introducing the bill and outlining its major departmental appropriations.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- What's the true financial impact?
- It impacts our teachers and impacts the flexibility we also truly appreciate the cross-subsidy reduction
- <00:57:26.760><c> and</c><00:57:26.960><c> impacts</c><00:57:27.400><c> the</c> teachers and impacts
- The impact extends beyond finances.
- </c><01:48:42.760><c> to</c> to minimize the negative impacts to to minimize the negative impacts to
Committee:
Senate Education Finance
HI
Transcript Highlights:
- So what is the revenue impact of the bill, and what is your estimate of the revenue loss to the state
- </c><00:31:19.600><c> So,</c> return on investment and and impact.
- So, return on investment and and impact.
- for inflation today, we would<00:34:45.839><c> be</c><00:34:45.919><c> spending</c><00:34:46.159><c>
- Those dollars are smaller, and it makes that impact smaller, and it makes it more challenging for our
Committee:
Senate Economic Development and Tourism
Summary:
The committee heard testimony on a series of economic development, tourism, and tax measures. SB 2411 drew broad support from the Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism, the University of Hawaiʻi, the Chamber of Commerce, and Retail Merchants, with one technical amendment suggested to change a partnership term from six to seven years. Members asked about implementation and annual costs, and the department said it would follow up with cost information. HB 2583 HD1, relating to economic development and a loan loss program, also received support, but DBED noted the state already has the CBED loan program and suggested the proposal could be placed under that existing framework rather than creating a new program.
HB 1612, based on business revitalization task force recommendations, was supported by DBED and several business and advocacy groups, including the Small Business Regulatory Review Board and Grassroot Institute. Testimony emphasized improving Hawaii’s business climate and using a ranking/reporting tool to measure progress, while one senator questioned whether the bill would simply fund another study instead of direct improvements. HB 1613, relating to HTDC, was supported by HTDC, the Chamber of Commerce, and startup and industry representatives who said a permanent marketing/branding specialist would help attract tech talent, founders, and investors; a member asked why the position was not in the budget, and HTDC said federal NIST funding uncertainty affected the request. HB 1614, also on economic development, was supported by HTDC and business groups, and members discussed whether the state was missing federal funds due to lack of matching dollars; HTDC said it was difficult to know, but matching funds could help leverage more federal grants.
The committee then took up HB 2590 on taxation for creative industries. The Motion Picture Association and Hawaii Film Alliance strongly supported the bill, saying it would correct GET treatment for payroll service companies, restore motion picture and TV production as manufacturing, and repeal a 2022 provision affecting qualified expenses; the Department of Taxation said it would provide revenue-impact information later. Finally, HB 1950 HD1 on the transient accommodations tax drew strong support from DBED, HTA, the Hawaii Visitors and Convention Bureau, hotel and resort groups, and others, who argued for a dedicated tourism marketing fund and said the state needs more stable, long-term marketing investment. The Tax Foundation opposed the special fund approach, arguing it would reduce legislative flexibility. Members pressed witnesses on the appropriate percentage for the fund, with HTA suggesting 10% to 12% of TAT collections, and the discussion focused on how marketing spending relates to visitor spending, tax revenue, and long-term tourism competitiveness.
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Wednesday, January 21, 2026)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- And not only does it impact us in terms of health care in our district, it also impacts our number one
- </c> The impact of their work is undeniable. The impact of their work is undeniable.
- </c> of that misdiagnosis severely impacted of that misdiagnosis severely impacted the<04:59:24.560><
- </c> impact to the Commonwealth of Kentucky. impact to the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
- Inflation, which economic activity.