Transcript Highlights:

• actually robust and not a money grab by private investors that are deeply interested in just absorbing cash
• actually robust and not a money grab by private investors that are deeply interested in just absorbing cash
• . through the fund to get their tuition reimbursement recovered or their loan payments recovered.
• where the fund is, obviously there's the strategy that is being used, which is to stop additional payments
• essentially puts a policy in place that makes sure that graduates can actually afford their debt payments

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• And one of the things that might make it harder to buy on top of the prices is competing against all-cash
• And one of the things that might make it harder to buy on top of the prices is competing against all-cash
• single-family homes that hard-working Washingtonians who are putting skin in the game with a down payment
• These are all the folks who are not ready for homeownership yet because they're getting their down payment
• Tricon, for example, offers positive credit score reporting, down payment grants, not assistance, but

Committee: House Housing

Transcript Highlights:

• Not just cash in hand now.
• Not just cash in hand now.
• Not just cash in hand now.
• Not just cash in hand now.
• Not just cash in hand now.

Committee: House Primary and Secondary Education

Transcript Highlights:

• TARGET RATE OF 6 PERCENT ON THE DEBT RATIO WHICH IS CALCULATED BY USING THE CURRENT DEBT SERVICES IS PAYMENT
• WAYS THEY PAY FOR THEMSELVES THEM SELF AND SO ARE NOT TRYING TO RETIRE THE THINGS THAT ARE TAKING IN CASH
• THE EMERGENCY DOES OCCUR IT CLEARLY LAYS OUT HOW WE CAN IF WE HAVE A REVENUE SHORTFALL CAN SUSPEND PAYMENTS
• AT ONE TIME THAT NUMBER CAPPED AT 10 PERCENT AND I THINK THIS YEAR, AS A SIDE NOTE, I THINK YOUR PAYMENT
• THE FIRST TWO PAYMENTS ON I UNDERSTAND THAT 750 MILLION EACH WOULD TECHNICALLY HAPPEN BEFORE VOTERS WOULD

Transcript Highlights:

• Currently, CalRecycle has interpreted the law to require these payments even on charitable donations.
• Currently, CalRecycle has interpreted the law to require these payments even on charitable donations,
• These are workers who get picked up from Home Depot by labor brokers, taken to these sites, paid cash
• Assembly Bill 1793 by Assembly Member Ward and others, an act relating to cash payments.
• Assembly bill 1793 by assembly member ward and others in appellating the cash payments.

Summary: The Assembly met on May 7, 2026, after an initial delay caused by the absence of a quorum, then proceeded with prayer, a moment of silence for victims of a hate-motivated attack at the Islamic Center in San Diego, and the Pledge of Allegiance. The Speaker pro tempore then moved through the daily file, repeatedly urging members to be on time and at their desks as the House of Origin deadline approached. Procedural actions included dispensing with the journal, deferring some items, and moving AB 1667 to the inactive file. The bulk of the session was devoted to floor consideration of many bills, most of which passed with little or no opposition. Measures approved included bills on artificial intelligence provenance information (AB 2713), community college trustee compensation (AB 2528), transit camera enforcement and privacy (AB 1837), excess proceeds claims in taxation (AB 2705), HOA technical cleanup (AB 1892), hepatitis C treatment access (AB 1843), child care planning in local general plans (AB 1914), greenhouse energy code flexibility (AB 2200), rent-now-pay-later consumer protections (AB 2350), housing cleanup and density bonus measures (including AB 2390, AB 2480, AB 1567, AB 1751, and others), spay/neuter access (AB 2010), workforce housing financing tools (AB 2110), supportive housing and homelessness-related changes (AB 2146), mental health and health plan notification measures (AB 1598, AB 2613), student aid and education bills (AB 1534, AB 1636, AB 1669, AB 1728, AB 1784, AB 1871), public safety and criminal justice bills (AB 1546, AB 1572, AB 1872, AB 1877, AB 1932), and several health and social services measures (AB 1602, AB 1628, AB 1680, AB 1825, AB 1845, AB 1906, AB 1907, AB 1925). Most bills were described as support measures, often with bipartisan backing and no opposition, and passed by wide margins. A few bills drew more discussion, especially AB 1751, a housing/townhome bill that sparked extended debate over wages, prevailing wage, stakeholder engagement, and whether the measure could depress pay for construction trades; despite concerns and an opposition speech, it ultimately passed 44-0. AB 1793, which would allow symmetrical rounding of cash transactions to the nearest nickel in light of the penny’s phaseout, also drew light debate and passed 47-1. AB 1932, an urgency measure expanding community-based crisis response, passed with one no vote on both the urgency and the bill. Several urgency or 54-vote bills, including AB 1534 and AB 1932, required later roll calls or calls to be lifted, but all measures described in the transcript were ultimately approved.

Transcript Highlights:

• Currently, CalRecycle has interpreted the law to require these payments even on charitable donations,
• Currently, CalRecycle has interpreted the law to require these payments even on charitable donations
• These are workers who get picked up from Home Depot by labor brokers, taken to these sites, paid cash
• Assembly Bill 1793 by Assembly Member Ward and others, an act relating to cash payments.
• Assembly bill 1793 by assembly member ward and others in appellating the cash payments.

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• The back of the house sees the front of the house count their cash. And you know they need it.
• </c> their cash. their cash.
• Because right now it’s the only person that the cash is handed to. That’s the law.
• Because right now it’s the only person that the cash is handed to. That’s the law.
• Um, and they're supposed to report their cash tips.

Bills: HF3127 , HF3524 , HF3525 , HF3754

Committee: House Taxes

Transcript Highlights:

• One question that I do have, just for those who don't know, when it comes to that retainage payment,
• job, and then once their stuff is done, what is their current method for getting their retainage payment
• While it can cause cash flow problems and delay payments for contractors, it can also provide incentive
• , or if we've dropped to 2.5% or whatever, and then you file a pay application for that retainage payment
• Like you alluded to, uh, that they're not getting their final payment either.

Committee: House A&B General Government Subcommittee

Summary: The committee held an interim study on retainage in public construction projects, with representatives from the Associated General Contractors of Oklahoma, the Subcontractors Association of Oklahoma, and construction firms discussing how retainage works and whether current law should be changed. AGC speakers said retainage is a statutory tool that helps ensure completion and closeout, and warned that eliminating it could create more problems by shifting leverage to owners or general contractors and leaving contractors with fewer remedies. Subcontractor representatives said retainage often functions as delayed profit, can tie up cash flow for one to two years, and can be especially burdensome for early-phase trades such as dirt work, concrete, and demolition. Several participants explained that retainage is typically withheld from monthly progress payments and paid at final closeout, with current law generally allowing retainage to drop from 5% to 2.5% after 50% completion on public projects. Subcontractors said that in practice they often still have to fight to get the reduced rate applied, and that some owners or construction managers do not follow the statute consistently. They also noted that bonding companies are a last resort but still an important enforcement tool, while AGC cautioned that bond claims and litigation are not ideal substitutes for a workable retainage process. The discussion focused on possible benchmarks or compromise approaches, including line-item or trade-specific release of retainage when work is complete, especially for demolition or other early-finish subcontractors. Committee members emphasized that owner, GC/CM, and subcontractor issues may need different solutions and that the study was intended to gather perspectives rather than produce immediate legislation. No vote was taken, and no formal action was announced.

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• So, in a lot of respects, it really hampers the provider's cash flow and disrupts that cash flow.
• So, in a lot of respects, it really hampers the provider's cash flow and disrupts that cash flow.
• So, in a lot of respects, it really hampers the provider's cash flow and disrupts that cash flow.
• So, in a lot of respects, it really hampers the provider's cash flow and disrupts that cash flow.
• The cash flow is greatly disrupted. That cash flow is greatly disrupted.

Summary: The committee began by discussing 15 retained bills and the chair’s preference to keep them alive through interim study rather than kill them, using them as vehicles for further discussion and possible later amendments. The chair said the bills would be executed out by November and then move to the House floor in January, and members generally agreed that interim study was the prevailing motion for the retained bills. Several health-related bills were then discussed. On Senate Bill 247, concerning pharmacy network exclusion when PBM reimbursement is below acquisition cost, members said the issue had been presented differently in prior discussions and noted unfamiliar intermediaries such as PSAOs; the bill was viewed as too complex to resolve immediately, so interim study was favored. A bill on treatment alternatives to opiates was said to need an amendment from the Insurance Department, and a bill on self-funded employer access to claims data was described as having changed substantially through amendment; the sponsor explained it was intended to incentivize self-funded plans to opt into the state’s all-payer claims database (CHIS) so their data could be used for cost analysis, and members indicated a separate bill would be brought later. The committee spent the most time on a glucose monitoring bill, with testimony from a sponsor and a parent of a type 1 diabetic describing the medical benefits of continuous glucose monitors, especially for preventing dangerous lows and managing fluctuations. Opponents and committee members raised concerns about the cost of a mandate, the effect on premiums in the individual and small-group markets, and whether the bill should require coverage without a prescription; one member cited medical literature suggesting limited evidence for non-insulin users. The chair concluded the bill was headed to interim study and said the committee would do further homework on the economic impact, especially for type 1 coverage. The meeting then moved on to a bill about insurer audits and clawbacks, where the Insurance Department commissioner explained that the issue involved several separate provider-payment problems that had recently come to the department’s attention and that the department would provide a report and work with the sponsor on next steps.

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• To each agency to be able to make a payment into the pension system.
• Those payments are distributed equally among all student populations regardless of enrollment.
• You know, the treasurer has limits to be cautious for cash flow, et cetera.
• , make a car payment, make tuition payments, whatever those things that you and your spouse has decided
• car payment, or we can't The event that we can't make the mortgage payment, or we can't make a car payment

Bills: HB3257 , HB3176 , HB3544 , HB3619 , HB3546 , HB1782 , HB2293 , HB4358 , HB3081 , HB3983 , HB3790 , HJR1023 , HB4139 , HB3297 , HB3041 , HB3673 , HB4105 , HB3338 , HB3048 , SR33 , SCR21 , SCR20 , HB4030 , HB4031 , HB4032 , HB4034 , HB4036 , HB4037 , HB4038 , HB4040 , HB4041 , HB4042 , HB4043 , HB4045 , HB4046 , HB4047 , HB4048 , HB4044 , HB4050 , HB4051 , HB4052 , HB4053 , HB4054 , HB4056 , HB4057 , HB4071 , HB4065 , HB4067 , HB4072 , HB2992 , HB4338 , HB4170

Summary: The Senate opened with roll call, prayer, and several gallery introductions recognizing guests and honorees, including the Medford Cardinals football team for their academic and athletic success, Guthrie Day, the Oscar J. Upham post office designation, the OKC Spark professional softball team, the Elks organization, and the YMCA’s 175th anniversary. Senators also welcomed a new intern and acknowledged Senator Carl McDowell’s return to the chamber. Most of the early floor time was devoted to ceremonial citations and concurrent resolutions, all of which were adopted without recorded opposition. The chamber then moved through a series of Joint Committee Reports and third-reading votes on appropriations and related measures. HB 4031 reauthorized $41 million for previously approved ODAA projects and passed 36-8, declared an emergency. HB 4032 redirected industry fees to the Department of Mines and passed 34-11, emergency. HB 4034 appropriated $142,137 for salary increases for certified shorthand reporters and passed 45-0, emergency. HB 4036 transferred $5 million from the Film and Oklahoma revolving fund to a new sitcom-related revolving fund and passed 30-15. HB 4037 raised the Ethics Commission Fund retention cap from $150,000 to $250,000 and passed 45-0, emergency. Several transportation, health, and public safety measures also advanced. HB 4038 moved $5 million for the eight-year road plan and additional project funding, passing 28-17 and then as an emergency measure after vote changes. HB 4040 set up cash-flow funds for the State Department of Health’s $223 million federal award and passed 45-0, emergency. HB 4041 appropriated $2.25 million to the Attorney General, including $2 million for a trafficking victim pilot program and $250,000 for a public safety technology fund, and passed as an emergency. HB 4042 appropriated $500,000 for the Commerce census revolving fund and passed 35-9. HB 4043 transferred $1 million to Emergency Management for Oklahoma Task Force 1 and passed 44-0, emergency. The most extended debate centered on HB 4045 and HB 4046, which expanded and funded the Military Readiness, Innovation, Education, and Aviation program. Supporters said the measures would help military bases, schools, infrastructure, simulation training, and defense-related economic development; critics questioned the broad language, lack of detail, and whether the projects fit a broader strategy. HB 4045 passed 37-7 and HB 4046 passed 39-7, both as emergency measures. HB 4047 funded Commerce projects including housing for aged-out foster youth, the State Fair, a university upgrade, and a COG-related economic development request; it passed 30-16 and then 40-6 as an emergency. HB 4048 appropriated $13 million for transportation infrastructure, drew criticism for bypassing the eight-year plan, and passed 36-10 before being declared an emergency. Finally, HB 4030, the Education Budget Limits Bill, was explained in detail, including $43.75 million for the Strong Readers formula, $5 million for literacy coaches, and $5 million for a charter school revolving loan fund; after questions about bonds, charter schools, and the revolving fund, it passed 39-5 and was declared an emergency measure.

Transcript Highlights:

• First, by consolidating payments, the program aims to lower administrative costs and reduce overall costs
• Bundled payment plans further encourage providers to work collaboratively, ensuring that all necessary
• To give more detail, the program ensures that a single payment covers all fees related to a surgical
• Under this program, our employees would not be required to pay deductibles, co-payments, co-insurance
• I was the accountant for the first cash-only clinic in Lubbock, Texas, and part of the management team

Bills: HCR141 , SB438 , SB1495 , SB1964 , HB 1225

Committee: House Delivery of Government Efficiency

Transcript Highlights:

• small clarification on parity and payment, just to clarify that it's an in-network payment, not out-of-network
• Federal payment error analyses, for example, only assess whether or not the capitation payment was made
• Florida currently has a SNAP error payment rate of over 15 percent.
• It provides up to five annual payments of $3,500, up to a total of $17,500.
• It also requires additional reporting, including projected year-end cash balances and cash flows.

Summary: The Appropriations Committee considered a large agenda of bills and reported several measures favorably. Early action included SB 6, a settled claim bill involving the Department of Children and Families and a trust for Leila Estrada and Sapphire Williams, and CS/CS/SB 1266, which creates a cybersecurity experiential learning and clearance-readiness program through the Department of Commerce and Cyber Florida. The committee also approved SB 532 on clerks of court funding, allowing clerks to retain all excess Article V revenue rather than returning half to the state and clarifying foreclosure sale procedures. In addition, the committee passed CS/CS/SB 1602 and CS/CS/SB 1604 to create and fund a pilot housing program for veterans through the Florida Housing Finance Corporation, and CS/SB 1110 to expand Medicaid and private insurance coverage for medically necessary orthotics and prosthetics, including testimony from affected families and advocates. The committee also adopted an amendment and then favorably reported CS/CS/SB 1012 on inmate services, removing the bill’s medical-services compensation provisions while retaining changes to the inmate welfare trust fund and related facility uses. It also adopted a delete-all amendment and then favorably reported CS/CS/CS/SB 1614, which was narrowed to remove a provision allowing local governments to use excess fees to construct new buildings. The committee spent substantial time on CS/SB 17, a Medicaid oversight and transparency bill. The sponsor said the measure would create a joint legislative Medicaid oversight committee, authorize the Legislature to retain its own actuary, modernize Medicaid statutes, strengthen managed-care performance standards, and increase accountability for pharmacy benefit managers and related entities. After amendment, the committee adopted changes removing several PBM-related provisions while retaining the broader oversight framework. Testimony from supporters emphasized transparency, fraud prevention, and cost control, while a PBM trade association asked to continue working on affiliate-manufacturer, network, and payment issues. The bill was reported favorably. The most extensive discussion centered on CS/SB 1758, which proposes major changes to Medicaid and SNAP. The sponsor described five reforms: stronger fraud and overpayment recovery authority, a Medicaid work requirement for certain able-bodied adults, expanded behavioral-health services through Medicaid waivers, pharmacy-program changes to obtain rebates and reduce institutional costs, and SNAP/EBT reforms including photo IDs and work requirements. The committee adopted two amendments: one adding a transitional “glide path” for people who gain employment but risk losing Medicaid, and another exempting hospice patients with six months or less to live. Supporters argued the bill would reduce fraud, improve accountability, and encourage work, while opponents warned it would increase administrative burdens, push eligible people off coverage, and conflict with federal law or guidance. The bill remained under debate with extensive public testimony from advocates, providers, and affected families, and the transcript ends before final disposition on the measure.

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• For the municipalities that the state keeps them whole so they never run out of cash flow.
• They collected another $10 million in delinquent payments.
• Eccles's point, in business it's not just about revenue, it's about cash flow.
• And if we can ensure that we're taking care of a cash flow issue and smoothing that out, I think that
• Eccles took, again, one of my comments about the cash flow, which I'm loving this because I can speak

Summary: The committee first took up HB 620, a constitutional amendment and companion legislation to centralize collection of state and local sales taxes. The author and supporters from the Tax Foundation, COST, NFIB, and LABI argued that Louisiana’s decentralized system creates high compliance costs, inconsistent administration, and lost revenue, especially for small businesses and out-of-state sellers. Several members raised concerns about the recent rollout of the hybrid e-file system, the effect on local cash flow and auditability, and whether the state could implement a fully centralized system without disrupting parish and municipal revenues. The author ultimately agreed to voluntarily defer HB 620 and its companion HB 658 so the committee could see how the current system performs and continue working with local stakeholders. The committee then heard HB 898, which would dedicate a portion of surplus revenue to reducing and eventually eliminating the state income tax. The author described it as a gradual, revenue-triggered approach to tax elimination, while another member suggested pairing it with reductions in tax exemptions and credits. The bill was voluntarily deferred for future consideration. Next, the committee considered HB 217 and HB 214, a bill and constitutional amendment creating an optional property tax exemption for rehabilitated blighted or derelict properties. Support came from local government and law enforcement groups, who said the measure would give parishes and municipalities a tool to encourage redevelopment and reduce blight. Members discussed safeguards, including local option, whether the exemption should follow the property for 20 years, and whether a step-down at the end of the exemption period should be considered. HB 217 was reported favorably as amended, and HB 214 was also reported favorably. The committee also advanced HB 514 and HB 561, both by Rep. Farnum, which expand property tax relief for seniors and certain trusts. HB 514 creates an optional additional ad valorem tax exemption for homeowners age 65 and older, and HB 561 extends eligibility to certain trusts when the qualifying owner occupies the home. Both measures were described as local-option tools to help seniors remain in their homes, and both were reported favorably as amended. Finally, HB 812, by the vice chair, was heard to allow limited annual compensation increases for parish assessors. Assessor representatives said their duties have expanded and their pay has fallen behind clerks of court; members questioned the lack of direct local voter input, but the bill was presented as optional and funded locally, with discussion of transparency and a possible task force to coordinate future compensation policy.

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• However, achieving these goals depends on whether implementation timelines and payment structures are
• Once a child is adopted, county child welfare agencies are only mandated to authorize AAP payments.
• The report provides detail about the families who received the pass-through payments.
• and not need the cash benefit faster than they would otherwise.
• For many families, these payments mean the difference between stability and hardship.

Summary: The Assembly Budget Subcommittee on Human Services heard an informational hearing on child welfare, foster care, community care licensing, child support, and related budget issues. CDSS described the Governor’s proposed child and family services budget, emphasized a family-centered and kin-first approach, and reported that foster care entries and congregate care placements have declined over the past decade. Witnesses also highlighted the importance of extended foster care to age 21, while noting persistent racial disparities for Native American and Black children and the need for stronger prevention, family finding, and community-based supports. A major focus was the proposed tiered rate structure (TRS), which CDSS said would shift funding from placement-based rates to child-centered supports, including care and supervision, strength-building dollars, and immediate needs funding paired with high-fidelity wraparound services. CDSS and county representatives said implementation is on track, with foundational policy guidance expected by the end of the year, CANS/CFT timeliness targeted by year-end, and the CWS CARES system nearing go-live in October 2026. Counties and providers raised concerns about whether the rate model and wraparound capacity will be sufficient, especially for higher-acuity youth, and asked for more data, clearer guidance, and continued collaboration. County Welfare Directors Association representatives also requested continued emergency response funding and an extension of flexible family supports, arguing both are needed to stabilize front-end child welfare work and bridge to TRS. Providers from FFAs and STRTPs warned that insurance costs, provider closures, and the transition to TRS could threaten service capacity unless the state addresses long-term insurance and reimbursement issues. LAO noted the Governor’s budget contains no new child welfare augmentations and said the main General Fund change reflects the expiration of one-time funding. No votes were taken; members instead asked for follow-up data, technical assistance, and possible future legislative or trailer bill solutions, including on insurance and implementation timelines.

Transcript Highlights:

• You can use that in cash. that in CIP. You can use that in cash.
• <00:49:09.040><c> when</c><00:49:09.280><c> we</c><00:49:09.520><c> can</c> cash when we can cash when
• >> Cash. >> No, no, no. The cash was all swept, and the CIP, I think. >> Yeah.
• bunch of cash all at once,<02:48:17.359><c> right?
• payments payments &gt;&gt; not<03:38:15.680><c> for</c><03:38:15.920><c> direct</c><03:38:16.319><c>

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• work. ...direct that payment to help me clearly understand why that wouldn't work.
• My first question is, does this bill contain a cash infusion for the Department of Transportation?
• Speaker, kind gentleman, has there been a large cash infusion? Mr.
• In the meantime, you also get regular interest payments or coupon payments.
• Coupon payments. Do you not agree with that? Mr. Speaker, gentlelady, yes.

Bills: HM3 , HM11 , HM14 , HM15 , HM21 , HM25 , HB9 , SB2 , SB19

Transcript Highlights:

• Senate Bill 1350 deals with cash rounding guidance.
• So if a person pays in, you know, credit card or a different means other than cash, it's all right to
• So if a person pays by credit card or a different means other than cash, it's all right to the penny
• The rounding only happens if there's a cash payment and there's no pennies available to provide that
• They get large cash withdrawals.

Committee: Senate State Affairs

Transcript Highlights:

• on and on two of those three areas we're in agreement and we will be working on it in terms of the payment
• Platforms of the venmos and cash apps of the world and we want to make sure we're fully dovetailing with
• implementation and agree with the comments that were pointed out in the analysis about online marketplaces and cash
• So when you're talking about the Venmos and cash apps of the world, it's one thing.

Committee: House Business and Professions

Transcript Highlights:

• The toll rates for cash Turnpike system.
• This increase would apply to cash users.
• This increase would apply to cash users.
• They with cash in the 80s and the '9s.
• method, um, credit card payment, etc.

Committee: Senate Transportation

Transcript Highlights:

• to the Medicaid base payment.
• to the Medicaid base payment.
• and directed payments is that DSH payments are for uncompensated care of the uninsured and Medicaid.
• > is</c> payments and directed payments is payments and directed payments is through<00:43:56.480><c>
• </c><00:43:58.000><c> are</c> through dish you it dish payments are through dish you it dish payments

Committee: Senate Finance