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KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • We will move on in our agenda to our committee report to LRC and my co-chair, Mr.
  • Um, would like to add a few remarks about our committee report. Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
  • to LRC and my uh to our committee report to LRC and my co-chair,<00:18:18.720><c> Mr.
  • </c> committee report. committee report.
  • Any comments about the report? Anything you'd like to ask or point out?
Summary: The committee heard testimony from Michael McCurley, president of Zo Education and a senior vice president with Zo Group, about the company’s role in providing broadband and managed network services to Kentucky schools. He said Zo Education serves all Kentucky K-12 public school districts in partnership with the Kentucky Department of Education, offering more bandwidth at lower cost than the prior provider and also providing cybersecurity and network protection. He emphasized that reliable connectivity is essential for instruction, testing, remote coursework, and school administration. McCurley also addressed the ongoing contract dispute involving the Kentucky Communications Network Authority and Open Fiber Silicom, saying Zo Education is not a party to the litigation but is concerned about possible disruption to schools and students. In response to committee questions, he said the company incurred unexpected costs when it had to reroute connections and build alternate network paths, including one school move that cost more than $50,000 to serve a site generating under $2,000 per month. He said outages and incidents are more frequent when Kentucky Wired access is unavailable, and that Zo could not have bid at its current price without access to Kentucky Wired. Committee members discussed the broader implications of the dispute and the state’s broadband structure. Senator Williams said the committee’s priority is avoiding disruption to students and noted concerns about infrastructure purchases and upgrades tied to the network, saying he had not seen clear contractual support for some of the expenditures. He also referenced a future audit and said the committee should preserve options and taxpayer funds. The committee then reviewed its report to LRC, including changes related to infrastructure purchases and water asset management technology, and agreed to submit the report without a committee vote. The chair announced the next meeting would be in January, with no December meeting scheduled, and the committee adjourned.
AL

Alabama 2025 Regular Session

Alabama Senate Finance and Taxation General Fund Committee Apr 24th, 2025

Finance and Taxation General Fund

Transcript Highlights:
  • Um, and hopefully we have made the appropriate changes through there.
  • All we're doing with this is appropriating.
  • The bill is given a favorable report. Now let's go to the next bill.
  • The bill is given a favorable report. Call the next bill, HB312.
  • The bill is given a favorable report.
KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • It helps support and appropriations.
  • </c> year behind of y'all's appropriation. year behind of y'all's appropriation.
  • </c> So, we just received the appropriation So, we just received the appropriation for<00:07:33.280><
  • </c> those recommendations and appropriates those recommendations and appropriates and<00:08:02.800><
  • </c> them back and kind of give them a report them back and kind of give them a report or<00:09:34.080
Summary: The Tobacco Settlement Agreement Fund Oversight Committee met on June 11 but did not have a quorum, so it could not approve the prior minutes. The committee then received a compliance and program update from Brandon Reed and Bill McClowski of the agricultural development board, who said the office is fully staffed, has digitized most records, and has added a Facebook page to share board actions, projects, and compliance work. They also reported that the board and finance corporation continue to operate with strong county-council participation and that the office had completed numerous site visits, program reviews, and project closeouts over the reporting period. The presenters reviewed monthly funding actions from December through May, including board approvals ranging from hundreds of thousands to several million dollars, with a December finance meeting delayed by a snowstorm. They highlighted that the Kentucky Agriculture Finance Corporation now has 57 loans generating more than $2 million per month in payments, and that the revolving loan program has grown to support more than $24 million annually in repayments available for relending. They also noted that 75% of the portfolio is in beginning farmer loans and that the office had recently surpassed 1,000 active loans. Several projects were discussed in detail. These included a grain facility in Callaway County supporting organic corn production for expanding egg-layer operations, a Union County cattle business expansion, a West Liberty Veterinary Clinic project to build a working cattle facility, a Grayson County farmers market project, a Casey County veterinary services project, and a packing warehouse for the Kanye family to support specialty crops. The presenters emphasized that county and state tobacco settlement funds are often combined, sometimes with participation loans, to leverage local investment. They also stressed the importance of supporting greenhouses, farmers markets, specialty crops, and large-animal veterinary services as key agricultural priorities. No votes or formal actions were taken beyond the lack of quorum and the informational presentations.
KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • We had a report and just take a minute.
  • And complete with our 120 uh reports.
  • Uh we'll try to give you that report.
  • We always look forward inspiring report.
  • </c> almost like an audit or a review report almost like an audit or a review report from<00:14:00.320
Summary: The committee met with a quorum, approved the June 12 minutes, and then received a presentation from Brandon Reid and Bill McCloskkey of the Agricultural Development Board on the June report and the 25th anniversary of the Agricultural Development Fund. They described a joint anniversary meeting held at the Kentucky Historical Society, thanked staff, and noted that the board presented members with a token of appreciation. They also reported a clean annual audit, with the audit report to be shared more fully at a later meeting. The presenters reviewed June activity and funding decisions, saying the development board approved about $3.3 million and the finance board about $5 million in loans. They highlighted program activity such as advisory council meetings, site visits, project reports, and county comprehensive plans. Specific projects discussed included the Food Chain project, which sought support for equipment and improvements to expand Kentucky product marketing; Miller Rockbridge Farms LLC, which sought county support for a barn for an education program; and Thompson Family Farm LLC, which sought funding for a livestock buying station. The board approved reduced or county-only funding in some cases, including $45,643 for the Food Chain project and county money for the farm projects. Members asked about the meaning and purpose of the county comprehensive plans and how counties use them to guide funding decisions. The presenters explained that House Bill 611 created a structure in which each county council develops a comprehensive plan, updated on a five-year cycle, to prioritize local agricultural investments and evaluate applications. They said county councils work with extension agents and the Agricultural Development Office, and that staff attend meetings, provide training, and help new agents and council members understand the program. Members emphasized that the planning process helps ensure funds are targeted to local needs and supports diversification of agriculture beyond tobacco.
KY

Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

House Legislative Session Day 26 (2-12-26)

Kentucky House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Next order of business, report of committees, please report.
  • Clerk, please report. its passage. Clerk, please report.
  • Clerk, please report.
  • Cler, please report.
  • Please report.
Summary: The House convened with an invocation, the Pledge of Allegiance, a quorum present, and approval of the prior day’s journal. Committee reports were read for a range of bills and resolutions, including measures on privacy protection, theft by deception, social work, licensed occupations, an adult workforce diploma pilot program, parole board changes, alternative high school diplomas, campaign finance, child care, mental health treatment, gubernatorial transitions, unclaimed property, and state contracts. Those items received first reading and were placed on the calendar. The chamber then considered House Bill 253, relating to reading and language arts instruction. Supporters said the bill follows the earlier Read to Succeed law by requiring instruction grounded in the science of reading and phasing out the three-cueing system, which they argued encourages memorization rather than phonics. A member from House District 93 opposed the prohibition, saying teachers need flexibility and that some district-approved methods remain useful in classrooms. The House adopted the committee substitute and passed the bill 94-1, then laid a motion to reconsider on the table. House Bill 508, relating to the protection of veterans benefits, was also debated and passed unanimously 93-0. The sponsor said the bill regulates paid veterans-claims services, requires clear disclosures about free services, limits fees, bars certain practices, and adds annual reporting, while exempting attorneys and law firms. Several members spoke in support, citing personal experiences and the need to protect veterans from bad actors, though some also expressed concern about access to help and urged future federal accreditation language. House Concurrent Resolution 44, urging Congress to create a VA accreditation pathway for private claims companies, was adopted 95-0, and House Bill 436, creating a PGA HOPE-related state parks benefit for veterans and active-duty military participants, passed 94-0. At the end of the session, the House received Senate Bill 172, relating to utility fuel adjustments and declaring an emergency, for first reading and return to committee. Members also made announcements about upcoming breakfasts, meetings, guest groups, and other events.
KY

Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

House Legislative Session Day 11 (1-21-26)

Kentucky House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • </c> Next order of business, report of committees. >> Clerk, please report. >> The Agriculture Committee
  • </c> have it reported and then moved. have it reported and then moved. adoption House Resolution 35,
  • Clerk, please report again.
  • ,</c> employees, making an appropriation, employees, making an appropriation, therefore,<00:29:48.000
  • Clerk, please report.
KY

Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

House Legislative Session Day 10 (1-20-26)

Kentucky House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Next order of business, report of committees. >> Clerk, please report. >> The Postsecondary Education
  • Clerk, please report. committees. Clerk, please report.
  • </c><00:05:23.440><c> House</c> met and reports the following. House met and reports the following.
  • Clerk, please<00:06:40.479><c> report.</c> please report. please report.
  • Next order of business, report of committee on committees. Clerk, please report.
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Finance Jan 22nd, 2026 at 02:41 pm

Senate Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • are appropriated from Congress into the federal system.
  • Appropriated from Congress into the federal system.
  • Looking at the funding areas, you can see the HCA appropriation.
  • Report. So it's another sort of look at where each region is.
  • These reports are about 60 pages.
Bills: HB1
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Appropriations and Finance Jan 22nd, 2026 at 02:01 pm

House Appropriations & Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • So in this last year, they reviewed 674 audit reports, 90% on-time They reviewed 674 audit reports, 90%
  • Some of the things that we've done: we finished our annual report, we do an annual findings report, and
  • I'm looking at reporting, I guess, in reporting time, Mr. Chair.
  • I'm looking at reporting. I'm looking at reporting. who is my other question?
  • I'm looking at reporting, I guess, in reporting time, Mr. Chair.
Bills: HB1
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Chamber Meeting Jan 22nd, 2026 at 11:06 am

New Mexico House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • So it's appropriate.
  • I sent it to appropriations; it should go to tax, and then HB 56 would go to labor and then appropriations
  • , and making an appropriation.
  • , making an appropriation.
  • Appropriations and Finance Committee.
Bills: HB1
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

Senate - Finance Jan 22nd, 2026 at 09:36 am

Senate Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • So what the bill would do is limit appropriations to one-time extension per appropriation, but keeping
  • You'll see all of the open appropriations, and you'll be able to filter by those open appropriations.
  • You can filter by any one of these project titles, the appropriation ID if you have it, appropriation
  • quarterly reports from the beginning of that appropriation.
  • We don't have special appropriations in here. She is tracking special appropriations.
Bills: HB1
NM

New Mexico 2026 Regular Session

House - Appropriations and Finance Jan 20th, 2026 at 04:16 pm

House Appropriations & Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • House Bill 1 appropriates for the expenses of the 2026 legislative session and appropriations for the
  • So Sections 1 and 2 are appropriations for the expenses as of the 2026 regular session.
  • My My question was regarding each of the phases now that's reported back to us the legislature, Mr.
  • However, all of the district staff Offices, all of that appropriation was from the general fund.
  • Anything that is not expended out of these appropriations does revert to the general fund.
Bills: HB1
KY

Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

House Legislative Session Day 28 (2-17-26)

Kentucky House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Clerk, please report. report. report.
  • Clerk, please report. upon its passage. Clerk, please report.
  • Cler, please report. passage. Cler, please report.
  • Clerk, please report.
  • Clerk, please report. resolutions. Clerk, please report.
KY

Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

House Legislative Session Day 15 (1-28-26)

Kentucky House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Next order of business, report of committees. >> Clerk, please report.
  • Thank you. appropriation. Uh it merely uh increases appropriation.
  • Clerk, please report.
  • Clerk, please report.
  • Clerk, please report.
Summary: The House convened with prayer and the pledge, recorded 96 members present, excused absences, and approved the journal from January 27, 2026. The Senate clerk announced passage of Senate Bills 17 and 181 and requested concurrence. Committee reports advanced a number of bills on health insurance, judiciary, local government, and transportation topics, including measures on pharmacist reimbursements, hearing aid coverage, feeding and eating disorders, grooming a minor, local government liability, water fluoridation, cigar bars, chickens on residential property, highway pavement markings, motor vehicle titles, and pedestrian issues; all favorable reports were treated as first readings and placed on the calendar. The House then took up and passed House Bill 320 on human trafficking, with the sponsor explaining it would equalize penalties for promoting human trafficking with those for trafficking itself and increase the penalty when the victim is under 18. A member asked whether the bill included additional funding for cyber enforcement; the sponsor replied it was not an appropriation and would not require new funding, though prior budgets had increased support for anti-trafficking efforts. The House adopted a title amendment changing the bill’s title to combating human trafficking. The chamber also passed House Bill 366, which clarifies that materials portraying a sexual performance by a minor include computer-generated images and requires 85% service of the sentence before probation or parole; the sponsor said it was supported by law enforcement and prosecutors. House Bill 389 on reading and writing in schools also passed as amended by House Committee Substitute 1. The sponsor said it would require annual updates to the state dyslexia toolkit, expand professional development and coaching, require local school boards to develop processes for universal screening and diagnostic tools, and add dyslexia instruction to teacher preparation programs; the substitute added conformity with IDEA and revised the instructional language. Members spoke in support of early dyslexia detection and one member noted the bill updated prior legislation associated with former Rep. Bam Carney. House Bill 56, an omnibus Department of Agriculture bill, then passed; it addressed amusement ride inspections, grain warehousing penalties, egg handler licensing renewal timing, exemptions for small producers, and repealed obsolete tobacco and egg marketing board provisions. All three bills passed by roll call with 95 or 94 votes in favor and none opposed, and clinchers were applied. During announcements, members noted upcoming committee meetings and events, including a suits-and-sneakers day and cancer-related breakfast, caucus meetings, and committee meetings. New bills and resolutions were introduced, including measures on local occupational license fees, early learning and child care, tuition waivers, an adult workforce diploma pilot, motor vehicle usage tax, contract procurement, Fish and Wildlife Resources, adoption, veterans’ benefits, Cabinet for Health and Family Services operations, organ donation safety, hate crimes, prescription drugs, and resolutions on the Kentucky-Japan partnership and veterans’ benefits accreditation. The clerk also reported a petition of impeachment filed against Judge Julie Goodman. The House then referred a group of bills to committees, reported floor amendments for House Bills 321 and 416, and adjourned until 2:00 p.m. Thursday, January 29, 2026.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Education Finance Committee 4/14/26

Education Finance

Transcript Highlights:
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  • </c><00:05:01.680><c> Say</c> anonymous reporting system through Say anonymous reporting system through
  • </c> school safer by the anonymous reporting. school safer by the anonymous reporting.
  • </c> intervention, anonymous threat reporting intervention, anonymous threat reporting systems,<00:52
  • </c><01:19:39.120><c> These</c> provide appropriate education. These provide appropriate education.
Bills: HF3493, HF4114
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Higher Education Finance and Policy Committee 3/10/26

Higher Education Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • proceedings efficiently while ensuring everyone has the opportunity to observe and participate appropriately
  • proceedings efficiently while ensuring everyone has the opportunity to observe and participate appropriately
  • Chair, I wanted to ask if Co-Chair Wolgamott could assist me first for the appropriate terminology for
  • But at this point, I think asking a member to yield for question is not in the appropriate setting in
  • </c> for question is not in the appropriate for question is not in the appropriate setting<00:07:51.680
Bills: HF1323, HF3500
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Human Services Finance and Policy Committee 4/8/25

Human Services Finance and Policy

Transcript Highlights:
  • The total appropriations spending by this bill to align with the February forecast is 137 million 99,000
  • The total all appropriations<00:01:38.000><c> um</c><00:01:38.320><c> spending</c><00:01:38.720><c> by
  • </c><00:01:38.960><c> this</c><00:01:39.200><c> bill</c> appropriations um spending by this bill appropriations
Bills: HF2995, HF2434