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HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

JHA Public Hearing - Thu Feb 12, 2026 @ 2:00 PM HST

Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs

Transcript Highlights:
  • a point that rather than having payment a point that rather than having payment capped<00:58:18.720
  • amount would fluctuate with the payments amount would fluctuate with the payments coming<01:02:12.640
  • And um the same thing happened payment.
  • Let's go on to the next measure: House Bill 2254 relating to court-ordered payments.
  • which is the contemacious non-payment which is the contemacious non-payment statute<02:16:48.240
Keywords: 910, house, all
Summary: The committee heard testimony on House Bill 2046, which would establish and fund an Olo Hawaii Commission to coordinate and promote initiatives supporting the use of Olo Hawaii. The Attorney General suggested adding an end date because the bill creates a temporary commission, and several supporters from the University of Hawaii, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, and the Hawaii Civil Rights Commission said the commission could improve coordination, funding decisions, and consistency across agencies. Members discussed whether the commission should include broader representation, including expertise on Niihau dialect speakers and other stakeholders, and the bill was then set aside as the committee moved to the next measure. The committee next considered House Bill 2438, creating the Hawaii Cultural Trust within DBEDT, authorizing an income tax credit for contributions to the trust and qualified cultural organizations, and creating a special license plate to support the trust. DBEDT said it would need additional resources, including staff, to administer the program. The Department of Taxation recommended changing the effective date to 2026 to allow time for implementation and adding a requirement that credits be claimed within one year. OHA supported the bill but objected to language that would require it to maintain a prequalified list of organizations, saying that could limit applicants and conflict with its grant process. The Tax Foundation said it supported cultural funding but preferred direct appropriations and grants over a trust fund and tax credit structure. The final measure discussed was House Bill 2584, which would temporarily increase public land trust revenues transferred to OHA while reaffirming the state’s obligation to the 20% pro rata share, with a repeal date of June 30, 2028. The Attorney General recommended deleting the bill’s requirement that OHA receive a minimum amount equal to the 20% share, arguing the constitution and Admission Act do not specify a precise dollar amount and that the legislature must determine allocation. OHA strongly supported the bill, arguing the state currently pays only about 5% and that historical records show much higher amounts are owed; OHA also pointed to a carry-forward account it said held about $55 million. DLNR opposed the bill because the fiscal impact was unspecified and could affect land management and special fund budgets. Several OHA trustees and supporters urged the committee to pass the bill, and one testifier criticized the state for underfunding Native Hawaiian obligations. No votes were taken in the portion provided, and the committee continued hearing testimony on HB 2584.
NH

New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session

House Session (03/06/2025)

New Hampshire House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • How does the payment work?
  • How does the payment work?
  • How does the payment work?
  • How does the payment work?
  • How does the payment work?
Keywords: 1189, house, all
NM

New Mexico 2025 Regular Session

IC - Legislative Finance Nov 18th, 2025

Transcript Highlights:
  • We have to process a lot of payments for jurors. We also pay for state and defense witnesses.
  • So I'd like to add administrative help there to assist with that payment. Processing.
  • These are payments for Forest Service.
  • So the majority of our small communities did not get those direct payments.
  • Not get those direct payments. So we have 106, 105 didn't get a direct payment.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Senate Session (Part III) May 27th, 2025

Texas Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • That means it does not exceed the lesser of ten dollars or five percent. of the payment.
  • by a method other than electronic payment that does not incur a fee that is not established.
  • Electronic payment is the expected form of payment, and inform the borrower of the amount of the fee
  • and that the holder may not establish an electronic payment as the expected form of payment.
  • House Bill 4134 relates to a convenience fee for processing electronic payments for motor vehicles.
Bills: SB801, SB867, SB2717, SB2919, HJR7, HB4, HB14, HB27, HB42, HB46, HB100, HB111, HB112, HB121, HB126, HB146, HB186, HB223, HB229, HB322, HB367, HB500, HB521, HB640, HB705, HB783, HB1052, HB1056, HB1105, HB1106, HB1178, HB1211, HB1234, HB1306, HB1403, HB1449, HB1506, HB1661, HB1690, HB1871, HB1960, HB2017, HB2078, HB2128, HB2240, HB2243, HB2348, HB2407, HB2512, HB2820, HB2844, HB2853, HB2854, HB2885, HB3000, HB3005, HB3053, HB3057, HB3181, HB3333, HB3372, HB3425, HB3441, HB3516, HB3749, HB3783, HB3812, HB3848, HB3923, HB3963, HB4070, HB4134, HB4157, HB4158, HB4211, HB4449, HB4623, HB4638, HB4687, HB4690, HB4748, HB4749, HB4795, HB4848, HB5093, HB5115, HB5129, HB5138, HB5294, HB5616, HB5629, HB5646, HB5661, HB5672, HB5674, HB5699, HCR40, SJR5, SJR27, SJR59, SB4, SB6, SB8, SB9, SB10, SB12, SB22, SB23, SB25, SB27, SB34, SB36, SB37, SB38, SB40, SB57, SB140, SB261, SB293, SB441, SB447, SB467, SB512, SB650, SB777, SB785, SB924, SB1188, SB1281, SB1318, SB1333, SB1398, SB1448, SB1566, SB1579, SB1621, SB1723, SB1838, SB1862, SB2167, SB2405, SB2406, SB2407, SB2878, SB3059, SB3070, SB1, SB17, SB21, SB260, SB379, SB509, SB1198, SB1405, SB1506, SB1637, SB1833, SB2155, SB2308, SB2601, SB2778, HB300, HB2011, HB2525, HB5246, SJR36, SJR50, SJR63, SCR12, SCR39, SB2023, SB62, SB666, SB847, SB284, SB854, SB810, SB1505, SB583, SB507, SB1434, SB1772, SB2016, SB1122, SB731, SB397, SB508, SB1436, SB287, SB1882, SB393, SB1791, SB209, SB2429, SB1085, SB1975, SB2717, SB1262, SB636, SB2056, SB884, SB1200, SB1845, SB2458, SB801, SB3014, SB3013, SB758, SB2797, SB2076, SB2876, SB1640, SB1449, SB1181, SB1234, SB2926, SB2841, SB1528, SB1854, SB317, SB1250, SB2082, SB1237, SB2819, SB629, SB2608, SB1602, SB2009, SB867, SB640, SB1698, SB2680, SB913, SB1071, SB1086, SB1087, SB1483, SB1444, SB1553, SB1556, SB1703, SB2133, SB2297, SB2298, SB2622, SB2955, SB2334, SB1367, SB2044, SB2363, SB2565, SB1888, SB3036, SB3057, SB3043, SB3063, SB3035, SB203, SB2688, SB2522, SB2459, SB2655, SB2251, SB1884, SB2928, SB2566, SB2549, SB2553, SB2919, SB1944, SB1232, SB1798, SB2603, SB2607, SB2683, SB1319, SB3045, SB3071, HJR7, HB5115, HB3053, HB1403, HB223, HB748, HB5652, HB3395, HB180, HB1306, HB322, HB126, HB5650, HB4894, HB1629, HB5698, HB3171, HB2694, HB5664, HB4690, HB4464, HB3623, HB2520, HB2213, HB252, HB146, HB5596, HB3619, HB5320, HB5651, HB5670, HB5665, HB5437, HB5679, HB5699, HB5661, HB5662, HB5654, HB5672, HB5656, HB3812, HB3057, HB2035, HB721, HB346, HB2512, HB5695, HB5694, HB5674, HB3185, HB2348, HB1871, HB1135, HB101, HB5666, HB5677, HB5682, HB5658, HB4144, HB3642, HB3815, HB2686, HB2012, HB1960, HB227, HB654, HB1690, HB2128, HB4158, HB4630, HB1523, HB2078, HB1973, HB3333, HB3697, HB3546, HB3225, HB3181, HB2820, HB1506, HB1234, HB640, HB521, HB229, HB186, HB119, HB4795, HB4466, HB3749, HB1106, HB4, HB4170, HB3909, HB4081, HB4145, HB4157, HB4285, HB4463, HB4995, HB5138, HB5624, HB1449, HB2598, HB3629, HB4361, HB824, HB1868, HB4848, HB2243, HB40, HB117, HB3686, HB500, HB3793, HB112, HB104, HB1056, HB42, HB3000, HB100, HB2240, HB718, HB27, HB4904, HB4202, HB2853, HB5129, HB5093, HB4765, HB4748, HB4559, HB4350, HB4214, HB3388, HB3112, HB5196, HB4211, HB3516, HB3092, HB4233, HB4687, HB705, HB1094, HB2037, HB3005, HB3848, HB1105, HB121, HB3372, HB367, HB783, HB3336, HB3441, HB4449, HB5616, HB2407, HB2854, HB3425, HB5294, HB1178, HB4623, HB14, HB3963, HB1211, HB5646, HB5629, HB3783, HB4236, HB46, HB4638, HB1052, HB4070, HB5509, HB5435, HB4134, HB3923, HB3520, HB3320, HB2517, HB2488, HB5663, HB2731, HB3073, HB2655, HB2399, HB541, HB4099, HB111, HB1532, HB3483, HB2963, HB4580, HB3748, HB713, HB632, HB426, HB4730, HB127, HB5690, HB5689, HB5655, HB3385, HB2757, HB4359, HB5381, HB20, HB123, HB549, HB5606, HB2217, HB2594, HB796, HB150, HB1057, HCR141, HCR40, HCR59, HCR76, HCR81, HCR46, HCR111, HCR83, HCR84, HJR7, HB4, HB14, HB27, HB42, HB46, HB100, HB126, HB150, HB322, HB367, HB500, HB640, HB705, HB783, HB1105, HB1178, HB1211, HB1234, HB1506, HB1690, HB1871, HB2078, HB2128, HB2240, HB2243, HB2407, HB2512, HB2853, HB2854, HB3000, HB3057, HB3181, HB3372, HB3425, HB3441, HB3749, HB3783, HB3812, HB3923, HB3963, HB4070, HB4134, HB4157, HB4211, HB4449, HB4623, HB4638, HB4687, HB4748, HB4795, HB5093, HB5129, HB5616, HB5629, HB5699, HB229, HB521, HB1056, HB1106, HB5138, SR583, SCR52, HB223, HB229, HB521, HB1056, HB1106, HB1403, HB3053, HB5115, HB5138
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Committee on Housing and Homelessness Prevention - 02/04/25

Housing and Homelessness Prevention

Transcript Highlights:
  • kinds of protections for individuals and assistance for individuals themselves, whether it's down payment
  • They don't qualify for traditional 30-year mortgages or most down payment assistance programs.
  • mortgages or most down payment mortgages or most down payment assistance<00:46:41.400> programs
  • <01:41:20.920> will HUD that that those payments will HUD that that those payments will continue
  • One is $1.8 million a year in down payment assistance.
Keywords: 1187, senate, all
NV
Transcript Highlights:
  • The other aspect of this bill is related to prompt payment.
  • And then Section 9 is the piece related to prompt payment.
  • The division establishes a program for rental payment reporting to credit agencies.
  • The division establishes a program for rental payment reporting to credit agencies.
  • The Advlorum taxes went on to the payments, and the payments were low.
Keywords: 909, all
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Committee on Finance - 05/01/25

Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • in the case of state to suspend payments in the case of Medicaid<00:35:41.760> fraud.
  • <00:36:58.000> where<00:36:58.240> they the court to suspend payments where they the
  • court to suspend payments where they have<00:36:58.560> a<00:36:58.720> reasonable<00:
  • <00:54:32.800> um<00:54:33.200> when<00:54:33.520> we're payment program, um
  • wick. um when we're payment program, um wick. um when we're addressing<00:54:34.079> these<00
Keywords: 1187, senate, all
MN

Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session

Committee on Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband and Rural Development - 04/02/25

Agriculture, Veterans, Broadband, and Rural Development

Transcript Highlights:
  • , farm to school, LFPA, farm payments, farm to school, LFPA, farm safety.<00:43:48.319> Uh<00:
  • Also, the depredation payments have gone up. Maybe have them get a little closer to the microphone.
  • to producers when uh support uh payments to producers when uh processors<01:05:48.960> don't<
  • <01:11:56.800> Um,<01:11:57.120> on<01:11:57.280> the payment could be made.
  • Um, on the payment could be made.
Keywords: 1187, senate, all
US

US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session

US House Floor Proceedings (Thursday, June 11, 2026)

US Federal House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • prevention fraud and improper payment prevention reforms will meaningfully improve the financial prosperity
  • of the United States and that federal program eligibility should be verified before payment. >> Pursuant
  • And when we talk about community, education, disability payments, poor people, helping widows, helping
  • describe the fraud controls, the law enforcement partnerships, and the steps to stop fraudulent payments
  • of the House of Representatives that governmentwide... ...that governmentwide fraud and improper payment
CA

California 2025-2026 Regular Session

Assembly Arts, Entertainment, Sports, and Tourism Committee May 5th, 2026

Arts, Entertainment, Sports, and Tourism

Transcript Highlights:
  • Most athletes don't understand self-employment tax, quarterly payments, multi-state tax obligations,
  • Most athletes don't understand self-employment tax, quarterly payments, multi-state tax obligations,
  • They will not tax, from a state income tax standpoint, their NIL or their rev share payments.
  • It's not just football and basketball, but it's some sort of payment plan usually.
  • It's not just football and basketball, but it's some sort of payment plan usually.
Keywords: 988, house, all
CA

California 2025-2026 Regular Session

Assembly Judiciary Committee Apr 28th, 2026

Judiciary

Transcript Highlights:
  • all these monthly payments.
  • We can't focus on all these monthly payments.
  • We see that your payments haven't gone through. Let's figure this out together.
  • And obviously, when Davis-Stirling was written, we didn't have things like automatic payment.
  • We do have a automatic payment. And so it is not covered in the code.
Keywords: 988, house, all
NM

New Mexico 2025 Regular Session

IC - Investments and Pensions Oversight Nov 5th, 2025

Investments & Pensions Oversight Committee

Transcript Highlights:
  • Include that 13th check payment in addition to any compounding COLA that we would provide.
  • In retiree benefits, we took out $454 million from the trust fund to subsidize those payments.
  • So about 30% of retiree payments came from the trust fund, and that's the lowest amount it has been,
  • Three years of 13th check payments, and there was no additional COLA issued.
  • This last year was 0.63%, but the 13th check payment stopped in 2020. So, Madam Chair, Mr.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Joint Select Committee on Health Care and Behavioral Health Oversight Nov 5th, 2025

Joint Select Committee on Health Care and Behavioral Health Oversight

Transcript Highlights:
  • So leveraging technology that we already have today through things like our ProviderOne, our payment
  • So leveraging technology that we already have today through things like our provider one, our payment
  • We are working with, And state-directed payment provisions that are in H.R. 1.
  • And again, just acknowledging that we do have some kind of payment-related provisions in statute.
  • As it sees reductions in payment from reductions in enrollment in the Medicaid space.
Summary: The committee met to hear introductory briefings from the Department of Health and the Health Care Authority on agency priorities, federal changes, and implementation challenges. Secretary of Health Dennis Worsham said his department’s listening tour is focused on strengthening governmental public health, improving health care quality and access, and responding to federal funding disruptions and the shutdown’s effects on programs such as WIC. HCA Director Ryan Moran said the agency is prioritizing coverage preservation, oversight of major contracts, affordability, behavioral health integration, rural health transformation, and internal agency operations. Members asked about licensure delays; Worsham said the backlog had been reduced from about four months to six weeks and should be caught up by January 1, with possible further process changes if needed. A major portion of the meeting focused on H.R. 1 and its Medicaid-related implementation. Governor’s health policy advisor Caitlin Stafford, HCA staff, and interim Medicaid Director Trinity Wilson said the state is working with DSHS, the Health Benefit Exchange, tribes, and other partners to prepare for eligibility changes, work requirements, and six-month redeterminations. They said the state expects up to 30,000 Apple Health enrollees could lose coverage under the law’s non-citizen eligibility changes, and that the work requirement/redetermination provisions could affect about 620,000 adults, with roughly 80,000 also enrolled in SNAP. HCA said it hopes to automate most verification, but about 15% to 20% of cases may require manual review, with technology costs estimated at up to $30 million. Staff also said they are trying to keep H.R. 1 implementation mostly in budget language rather than statute, and that communication and navigator support will be important to minimize confusion and coverage loss. The committee also received an update on the Rural Health Transformation Program created in H.R. 1. HCA said Washington submitted its application to CMS on November 5 after extensive stakeholder engagement, including more than 310 written comments, webinars, and tribal consultation. The application centers on six initiatives: rural hospital innovation, community care and prevention, tribal investments, technology and data, workforce development, and rural behavioral health. HCA said the state is likely to receive less than the full $200 million annual amount assumed in the federal program, and that an advisory committee may be created to help guide spending over the five-year program. Members asked about palliative care, small business impacts, and communication with enrollees; HCA said it expects to share outreach toolkits and that no 2026 statutory changes are currently anticipated, though that could change. The final panels covered organ donation and transplant services. Department of Health staff explained the 2023 “Lights and Sirens” law for organ transport vehicles, including licensing, driver qualifications, insurance requirements, and use of emergency lanes and traffic preemption; the department said one company is currently licensed and there have been no complaints. LifeCenter Northwest described the organ procurement process, the legal framework under the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act, and the rarity and complexity of deceased donation, noting Washington has seen strong growth in donation and transplants over the past decade. University of Washington Medical Center staff then outlined its transplant programs for kidney, liver, heart, lung, pancreas, and multi-organ transplants, describing the multidisciplinary evaluation and waitlist process and the coordination required with donor organizations and hospitals.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Housing Sep 16th, 2025

Transcript Highlights:
  • PILOT stands for payment in lieu of taxes.
  • And then the property lessee makes their PILOT payment on an annual basis in lieu of paying property
  • That is a way to schedule payments, but you ultimately...
  • So by having stable payments and stable housing, households are stabilized.
  • Payments and stable housing households are stabilized.
Summary: The Senate Housing Committee heard presentations on a range of housing finance, permitting, and affordability tools. Chattanooga described its affordable housing PILOT program, which uses a per-unit property tax abatement tied to the rent loss from providing affordable units, with a 15-year term and annual compliance monitoring. Committee members asked about the program’s structure, whether it had been used elsewhere, and who was participating; the presenter said the first mixed-income project would bring 278 units with 42 affordable units and that the model was attracting private market-rate developers. Shoreline then described its MFTE and inclusionary zoning approach, emphasizing that longer tax exemption periods and station-area zoning changes had helped spur development, with most current pipeline projects concentrated near light rail stations. The committee also heard from the Municipal Research Services Center and the Department of Commerce on tax increment financing, proportional impact fees, and permit timelines. Commerce explained that TIF can fund public improvements such as roads, utilities, broadband, and some affordable housing or child care facilities, while proportional impact fee guidance is intended to help jurisdictions charge fees more closely aligned with actual project impacts. On permit timelines, Commerce presented its first annual report under recent law changes, using 2024 as a baseline year and noting that reported timelines were generally longer than statutory goals; members asked about outliers, paper versus electronic processing, and whether back-and-forth between applicants and staff was driving delays. Commerce said it would follow up with more data, including on CHIP funding and permit reform practices. Several local governments then shared permitting process improvements. Auburn reported relatively short review cycles and described its move to fully electronic permitting, internal performance standards, and a stock plan program that speeds review for repeated home designs. Bellevue described an AI permitting pilot with a local startup to help with pre-application questions, document triage, and plan review, aiming to reduce incomplete applications and revision cycles. Seattle presented a pilot for accessory dwelling unit co-development in which a mission-driven partner would help homeowners split lots, finance, build, and manage ADUs, with the homeowner eventually buying out the partner and retaining ownership; committee members asked about rent setting, management fees, and default risk, and staff said they would follow up. The committee also heard brief overviews of community land trusts and limited equity cooperatives as permanent affordability models, with presenters urging continued state and local funding support and policy recognition for these approaches.
NM

New Mexico 2025 Regular Session

IC - Legislative Health and Human Services Sep 11th, 2025

Legislative Health & Human Services Committee

Transcript Highlights:
  • Care reimbursed at a slightly higher rate or have an additional payment that would go along with it.
  • That fund is then calculated for $60,000. 50% by volume per capita, you know, capitated payments, and
  • Direct payments are supposed to reach about $1.1 billion in FY 26, which would then be reduced by 10%
  • Directed payments actually start the ramp down in the second quarter of FY 28 and the third quarter of
  • So on page 14, H.R. 1 CAHPS Medicaid Directed Payment. H.R. 1 CAHPS Medicaid Directed Payment.
TX

Texas 89th Regular

Land & Resource Management May 8th, 2025

Land & Resource Management

Transcript Highlights:
  • And in both cases, there was an agreed abatement and a payment of attorney's fees.
  • But if you put in Senate Bill 291 and it doesn't specify legally what happens other than the payment
  • So if you were to double, on the front end, double the payment to landowners or property owners as a
  • It's an extra $100 that someone's paying at the current mortgage rates on their monthly payment.
  • They can't afford to pay the extra $10,000 right off the top and also make their down payment.
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

89th Legislative Session Apr 3rd, 2025

Texas House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • HB Number 1392 by Busey relating to the postponement of the delinquency date for a payment of adviarum
  • In the state for the Committee on Natural Resources, 4486 by Bonnie Eling to the directing payment of
  • HB 4549 by Paul relating to the prompt payment of health insurance claims for the Committee on Insurance
  • HB 4585 by Spiller relating to the submission, payment, and audit of certain claims for and utilization
  • HB 4601 by Cortez relating to the establishment of a down payment assistance grant program for veterans
TX

Texas 89th 2nd C.S.

Ways & Means Mar 31st, 2025

Ways & Means

Transcript Highlights:
  • Payments of refunds often result in local governments negotiate negotiating.
  • the financial sector, sorry, in the financial sector, exchanges often provide transaction rebate payments
  • , specifically transaction rebate payments from the total revenue of taxable entities that are either
  • on a house because I found that I could pay the payment for as much as the rent would cost.
  • Under current policy and sustained in this bill, Texas assistance payments are windfalls for the cities
CA
Transcript Highlights:
  • Additionally, on the alternative payment model side, it's crucial that we have structured ways of paying
  • We have also adopted a model for those alternative payment models (APMs).
  • As a public entity, most UC medical revenues are reimbursed through self-financed payments.
  • The only portion that we withheld was the Insulin Project milestone payment schedule.
  • Seeing no other public comment, we'll move on to issue 5: the Health Care Payments Data Program.
Keywords: 988, house, all
DE

Delaware 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Appropriations Committee Meeting Jun 23rd, 2026

Appropriations

Transcript Highlights:
  • The fiscal note associated with this bill reflects a reduction in co-payments for families receiving
  • This bill creates a separate co-payment for half-day care, aligning family co-payments with the state's
  • This bill creates a separate co-payment for half-day care, aligning family co-payments with the state
  • We expect that the hospital payment reforms in this bill will save the state employee group health insurance
Bills: SB219, SB9
Summary: The House Appropriations Committee met to hear several bills, with members repeatedly reminded to focus on fiscal impacts rather than policy merits. The committee first considered SB 9 on freshwater wetlands, which would combine tidal and non-tidal wetlands programs into one permitting framework; supporters said the bill resulted from a two-year consensus process and that the governor’s office and DENREC would absorb a significant share of the cost. Public testimony was largely supportive, emphasizing flood control and ecosystem services, though one speaker opposed the spending. The committee voted to release SB 9. The committee then heard SB 278 on child care assistance, which would preauthorize summer camp for eligible school-age children and create a separate lower co-payment for half-day care. The sponsor and the YMCA of Delaware said the change would better align family co-pays with provider reimbursement and make before- and after-school care more affordable for working families. The committee also released SB 278, SB 168 on alcohol delivery for package stores, SB 120 on health insurance coverage for certain testing and treatment, and HB 4, a pilot program for artificial intelligence and extended reality in schools; HB 4 was described as having a near-$3 million fiscal note and a one-year implementation delay because it was not funded in the budget. Later, the committee approved SB 219, which gradually increases the military pension income tax exclusion from $12,500 to $25,000 over three years and includes related joint-filing and residency changes. Supporters argued it would help attract and retain military retirees and bring federal dollars into the state. The committee also released SB 1, a major primary care reform bill that would increase primary care spending and implement hospital payment reforms, with projected long-term savings to the state employee health plan, and SB 325, which expands background checks and wrap-back monitoring for fire service personnel and adds an investigator position for the Fire Prevention Commission. In each case, public commenters and committee members generally supported the bills, and all were released from committee by recorded vote.