Video & Transcript Research : 'Tier II'
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NM
New Mexico 2025 Regular Session
House - Chamber Meeting Mar 22nd, 2025
Transcript Highlights:
- This is the three-tier license, uh.
- With the 5000 increase to everybody, uh, in the teaching tiers and it adds the literacy amendment to
- Uh, yes, the amendment adds to the, um, three-tier bill.
- What is her favorite on the tier system? Thank you Mr.
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
Senate Floor Session - Part 1 - 05/18/25
Minnesota Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- President, as a tier 2 teacher, I want to talk first of all to the other two-tier teachers that I know
- President, as a tier 2 And uh Mr.
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2 of the stick, especially tier 2 of the stick, especially tier 2 teachers. - For years, tier 2 promise kept.
- I am a tier 2 teacher.
MN
Transcript Highlights:
- MDE also released a required screener and only approved it for tier one universal structured literacy
- She said she bristled at that a little bit because, as a licensed tier four teacher herself, there is
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four because as a as a licensed tier four because as a as a licensed tier four - Is it looking at how teachers are trained in the first place to go through a tiered three, tier four
- three, tier four lensure um tiered three, tier four lensure um excuse<00:57:48.720>
me <00:57:
Summary:
The Seclusion Working Group approved the minutes from its previous meeting by motion and vote. Members then began discussing a set of proposed recommendations submitted by Woodward, Havman, and Hull aimed at addressing concerns about the use of seclusion in special education settings.
The recommendations focused on several areas: requiring a mental health professional on the IEP team before seclusion is added to a student’s plan; replacing passive parental consent with explicit written consent in the parent’s native language; limiting seclusion to students receiving setting 3 or setting 4 services; requiring annual review of seclusion frequency and duration data by the IEP team; and creating stronger monitoring and accountability through a reporting system modeled on Minnesota’s existing disproportionality process. The group also proposed mandatory annual staff training, more preventive crisis-intervention supports such as CPI and Ukeru, direct funding and technical assistance for districts, and incorporating restraint/seclusion data into disproportionality calculations.
Members discussed how the proposed accountability system might work in practice, including whether a third party or parent reporting mechanism should be added. Woodward explained Minnesota’s current disproportionality framework, including year 1, year 2, and year 3 notifications and the possibility of required coordinated early intervening services if problems persist. Participants also raised concerns about whether schools should track law-enforcement involvement as an alternative or related response to student behavior; some noted that such data is already collected in certain district reporting systems and could be useful to monitor alongside seclusion data. The discussion remained ongoing, with no final action taken on the recommendations during this portion of the meeting.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
Committee to Study Long-Term Managed Care (10/27/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- research I've done around PACE, I understand that it would be feasible really only in the southern tier
- research I've done around PACE, I understand that it would be feasible really only in the southern tier
- think that, from the research I've done around PACE, it would be feasible really only in the southern tier
Summary:
The Committee to Study Long-Term Managed Care met to approve the prior minutes and then focused on its final report. The chair reviewed the committee’s earlier options—maintaining the status quo, adopting DNIP, adopting an HCBS carveout model, or moving fully to managed care for the aging population—and noted that ABD and developmental disabilities had already been excluded from consideration. He proposed a final recommendation that New Hampshire consider adopting DNIP as a voluntary option to better coordinate Medicare and Medicaid for dual eligibles, reduce duplication, and create a possible pathway toward future managed care, while acknowledging that a majority and minority report could be issued if needed.
Members generally supported the draft recommendation and asked questions about whether federal budget changes would incentivize states to move in that direction, how the proposal would align with current department efforts, and whether the program would remain voluntary. Director Henry Litman said he did not see a specific federal mandate in OB3, but noted incentives in rural health transformation funding and said the proposal aligned with existing managed care contract direction. He and others emphasized that DNIP should be voluntary and that implementation timing would need to account for federal deadlines and broader changes facing the department. Members also discussed PACE, with one member saying it appeared feasible mainly in more populous areas and expressing neutrality, while another raised concerns about county risk and the need to preserve patient choice and maintain three MCOs.
After discussion, members indicated agreement with the majority report approach and no further changes were proposed. The committee then moved to accept the draft language as presented and issue it as its report; the motion was seconded and approved by voice vote. The meeting then adjourned.
NV
Nevada 2025 Regular Session
Senate Committee on Commerce and Labor Jun 1st, 2025 at 08:00 am
Commerce and Labor
Transcript Highlights:
- But if you're not brewing on site, you know, our three-tier system generally says that a producer cannot
- How this currently works and how this would continue to work is because of the three-tier system, where
- businesses opportunities that their counterparts in other states already enjoy, all within the three-tier
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- To a Tier 1 or Tier 2 Coastal County, it removes the 100-mile limitation to Galveston Island.
- rate modeling, requiring annual meetings to set probable maximum loss (PML) and rates to occur in the Tier
Keywords:
Texas Department of Insurance, commission appointments, insurance regulation, oversight, consumer advocacy, insurance rates, property insurance, commercial automobile insurance, rate approval, consumer protection, windstorm insurance, Texas Windstorm Insurance Association, administrative penalties, coastal counties, 1184, house, all
AL
Alabama 2025 Regular Session
Alabama House Ways and Means Education Committee Apr 22nd, 2025
Ways and Means Education
Transcript Highlights:
- Chairman, I have a page from Tier Miller High School, a Page from Tier Miller High School, a student
- Kate Ram, as I said, is a student at Tier High School.
Keywords:
education funding, appropriations, local education boards, school safety, workforce development, Alabama, technology, higher education, career technology centers, public institutions, grants, local education agencies, RAISE Act, student outcomes, public schools, accountability, weighted allocations, special education, English language learners, gifted students
AL
Alabama 2025 Regular Session
Alabama House Education Policy Committee Feb 5th, 2025
Education Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- Additionally, they implemented a kind of sliding scale of weights, a tiered weight for... scale of weights
- , a tiered weight for English learners ranging from 20% to 70%.
- Regarding special education, we are actually looking at tiered funding, where you would allocate more
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
Senate Energy and Natural Resources (04/21/2026)
Energy and Natural Resources
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- But we do have in Acworth the old barrel mines, which were pretty well used during World War II.
- pretty pretty uh well used during World pretty pretty uh well used during World War<00:17:55.760>
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it <00:17:57.600>is <00:17:57.919>a <00:17:58.240>historical War II - Um and then it is a historical War II.
- The parts of the bill, Roman numerals I and II, as Representative Thomas pointed out, what this does
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Public Pension Oversight Board (4-28-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- Career threshold is defined for hazardous Tier 1 members as 20 years of service.
- If these CRS hazardous members in Tier 1 reach 20 years of service, their benefit amount will increase
- For hazardous members in Tier 2 and Tier 3, they must attain 25 years of service credit, and again, it
- CERS, again, just CS Tier 1 members with a participation date of July 1, 2003, through August 31, 2008
- Um, CERS, again, just CS tier<00:29:32.559>
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Meeting Start: 00:00:01
Attendance Roll Call: 00:01:26
Approval of Minutes: 00:02:27
Investment, Cash Flow, and Legislative Update:
Bo Cracraft – Judicial Form Retirement System: 00:03:12
Ryan Barrow – Kentucky Public Pensions Authority: 00:21:52
Beau Barnes – Teachers’ Retirement System: 00:34:31
Adjournment: 01:07:25, 958, all
Summary:
The meeting opened with the Pledge of Allegiance and prayer, followed by a roll call confirming a quorum and approval of the prior minutes. A special guest, Dave Eager, was welcomed before the committee moved to presentations from retirement system officials.
Bo Craycraft, executive director of the Judicial Form Retirement System, gave a quarterly update on investment performance, asset allocation, and cash flow. He said the plans had held up well amid market volatility, with fiscal year-to-date returns above benchmark and long-term returns remaining strong. He explained that the plans are targeted to a 70% equity/30% fixed-income allocation, that some cash is being held for cash-flow management, and that negative cash flow is expected because of funding and contribution levels. He also said Senate Bill 183, dealing with proxy voting and economic analysis for certain votes, was not expected to materially affect the plans because of their small number of holdings and Bear Trust’s long-term investment approach.
Ryan Barrow and Erin Surrod then presented for the Kentucky Pension Authority. They reported positive quarterly performance across the retirement and insurance funds, though results varied by period and remained tied to broader market conditions. They said recent asset-allocation changes had been completed and the funds were now within target ranges. On cash flow, they noted some plans remained negative or near zero, with one plan benefiting from a large appropriation. In the legislative update, they described House Bill 30 as codifying an exclusion from pension-spiking calculations for across-the-board raises, and Senate Bill 10 as increasing retiree health insurance subsidies and changing employee health insurance contribution rules for certain CERS members beginning in 2026. They also said Senate Bill 183 would likely have limited impact, though the agency would review voting policies and incorporate any required economic-analysis procedures.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- from their undergrad, and now I have my first graduate student getting a fully funded program in a Tier
- American Association of University Professors from Texas making a statement that Texas having more top tier
- associate professors, even some of the full chair, and the more difficult ones are in fact the top tier
- Texas has more top tier research universities and health institutions than any other state because of
- To gain these top tier distinctions, faculty graduate the doctoral students and win billions of dollars
Bills:
SB 37
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- undergraduate studies, and now I have my first graduate student getting a fully funded program in a tier
- Even some of the full-tier professors.
- The more difficult ones are, in fact, the top-tier candidates we are trying to bring in to endow a chair
- Texas has more top-tier research universities and health institutions than any other state because of
- service as teachers, social workers, or clergy. non-profit administrators or artists to receive top-tier
Bills:
SB 37
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Housing Finance and Policy Committee 2/26/25
Housing Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- which was a new program, and we're really excited and we remain excited about this program and the tier
- which was a new program, and we're really excited and we remain excited about this program and the tier
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2 <00:38:39.079>housing <00:38:40.079>uh program and the tier - 2 housing uh program and the tier 2 housing uh unfortunately<00:38:41.400>
one <00:38:41.560>< - The Tier 2 housing just opened up their RFP recently.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Public Pension Oversight Board (8-26-25)
Transcript Highlights:
- We had this tiered approach where, like, first five years the assumption was super low, and then it kind
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we <00:14:02.639>had <00:14:02.720>this <00:14:02.959>tiered - tried to simplify it. we had this tiered tried to simplify it. we had this tiered approach<00:14
- approach and we had kind of a tiered approach and we were<00:14:55.279>
kind <00:14:55.440> - long term, we can perform as a top tier long term, we can perform as a top tier investor.<00:56:
Summary:
The meeting opened with a quorum call, the Pledge of Allegiance, a prayer, and approval of the prior meeting minutes. The first presentation was from Bo Craycraft of the Judicial Form Retirement System, who gave an update on investment performance, asset allocation, cash flow, and projected employer costs. He reported strong fiscal year 2025 investment results, with both the legislative and judicial retirement plans outperforming their actuarial assumed rates of return and benchmarks, driven largely by U.S. equity performance. He also noted the plans remained near their target asset allocation and continued to experience negative cash flow, though he said that was manageable in context of strong asset growth.
Craycraft then discussed a recent experience study and actuarial assumption changes, especially a revised salary growth assumption and a higher cash balance interest credit rate. He said these changes increased projected employer costs, with contributions rising from about $700,000 to a projected $2 million in later years, though he expected the eventual 2025 valuation and investment gains to reduce that estimate. Members asked about mortality assumptions, the impact of the experience study on liabilities, and the sharp increase in the judicial plan’s projected employer cost. Craycraft explained that the increase was driven mainly by the updated assumptions and that no other major plan changes were involved.
At the chair’s request, Craycraft also addressed the recent rise in Medicare Advantage premiums for the plan’s health coverage, saying the 2025 increase was largely tied to Part D changes and the Inflation Reduction Act and had been about 45%, but that future growth was expected to be under 5%. After his presentation, the committee moved to the Kentucky Public Pensions Authority update, where the next speaker began by saying the funds had exceeded actuarial assumed returns for the fiscal year.
NH
Transcript Highlights:
- the seven-year rule, which cuts Tier A.
- And these Tier B's, as they meet the new vesting dates that are proposed and essentially become Tier
- And it says that if applied to tier A.
- the seven-year rule, which cuts Tier A.
- And these Tier B's, as they meet the new vesting dates that are proposed and essentially become Tier
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- For unincorporated areas, you could provide a tiered set of provisions depending on the type of sanitary
- minimum lot size of 5,000 square feet, and that was developed back in the '30s and '40s after World War II
- affordability of these impact fees, the state could incentivize or ask municipalities and utilities to adopt tiered
Summary:
The committee met to monitor implementation of several housing-related bills from the 89th session, with the chair emphasizing Texas’s housing shortage and the need to review land-use laws. For House Bill 24, witnesses from the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Reason Foundation, a church-affordable housing project, Habitat for Humanity, developers, and housing advocates said the bill’s higher protest threshold and simpler council override had reduced procedural barriers to rezoning, helped projects move forward, and supported lower rents and more multifamily development. Public testimony largely praised HB 24 as working as intended, and the chair noted it had passed the committee 6-1, the House 83-56, and the Senate unanimously.
The committee then heard testimony on Senate Bill 1567, which preempted certain municipal occupancy limits based on unrelated-adult restrictions. Supporters, including Texas Public Policy Foundation, Texas Realtors, Texans for Housing, and Texas A&M student leaders, said the law improved clarity, reduced arbitrary local limits, and helped students and property owners use existing housing more efficiently. Opponents from College Station and Bryan-College Station neighborhood groups argued the law has encouraged investor purchases, tear-downs, and “stealth dorms,” displaced working-class residents, and harmed family homeownership. The chair noted SB 1567 had passed the committee 5-1, the House 101-19, and the Senate 30-1.
The committee also reviewed Senate Bill 15, which reduced minimum lot sizes in covered jurisdictions. Ed Pinto of AEI said the law had already led to thousands of new small lots and lower-cost starter homes, while recommending expansion to more counties and broader application to attached housing. Other witnesses from builders, Pew, and housing advocates said smaller lots can increase affordability, but some cities, such as College Station and Grand Prairie, were adding local standards that could blunt the bill’s effect. City representatives from El Paso described how they implemented the law by reducing lot sizes and widths, while urging broader applicability to more of the city. The chair said SB 15 had passed the committee 7-0, the House 86-43, and the Senate 24-7.
Finally, the committee began hearing testimony on Senate Bill 840, a by-right multifamily redevelopment measure. City officials from Garland and Plano described how they had updated local standards to comply while preserving design and setback rules, and said the bill could help redevelop built-out commercial corridors and add housing without expanding city footprints. The transcript ended as the committee continued taking testimony on SB 840.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- HB 2806 updates the law by creating a tiered penalty system.
- It would simply create a second tier provider class with limited utility and greater dependency on physician
- My name is Douglas Massey II and I am a Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA) practicing in San
Bills:
HB3772, HB1656, HB4504, HB1896, HB4420, HB4421, HB4076, HB3708, HB2806, HB3540, HB1586, HB5459, HB4553, HB4535, HB3811, HB3749, HB4255, HB4051, HB5098, HB3554, HB4539, HB5274
Keywords:
e-cigarettes, health and safety, regulations, directory, penalties, regulation, certification, compliance, manufacturers, FDA, nicotine, mental health, emergency detention, paramedic authority, mental illness, healthcare facility, public health, covenants not to compete, health care practitioners, physicians
VT
Vermont 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Session - 2026-05-15 - 10:00AM
Vermont Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
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three requirements under the tier three requirements under the tier three and - And the significant thing that section two does is that it leaves data centers covered even in Tier 1A
- And, so, the theory of course here is that, you know, Tier 1A towns have the regulatory apparatus to
- So the committee felt it wise to retain Act 250 jurisdiction for data centers even in Tier 1A settings
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1A <01:46:58.880>um tier 1A um tier 1A um uh<01:47:00.360>settings.
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
Committee on State and Local Government - 03/13/25
State and Local Government
Transcript Highlights:
- So the input that was put in front of us really lays out this tiered approach to it, and we have the
- lays out this tiered approach to it<00:07:33.160>
and <00:07:33.800>um <00:07:34.199>- been talking about is that tiered been talking about is that tiered approach<00:37:36.720>
and - Chair, there is that second part to this which does that tiered piece.
- Chair, there is that second part to this which does that tiered piece.
- been talking about is that tiered been talking about is that tiered approach<00:37:36.720>
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- It's a percentage and there's a tier one. Ninety-seven percent of our families fell into tier one.
- It's a percentage and there's a tier one. Ninety-seven percent of our families fell into tier one.
- Jordan: What is tier one defined as?
- Jordan: What is tier one defined as?
- Jordan: What is tier one defined as? Three hundred and fifty percent of poverty.
Bills:
SB 2