Video & Transcript Research : 'needs assessment'

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TX

Texas 89th Regular

Senate Session (Part II) Aug 26th, 2025

Texas Senate Floor Meeting

TX

Texas 89th Regular

Senate Session (Part III) Aug 26th, 2025

Texas Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • This bill ensures that statutory probate courts receive the resources they rightfully are owed and need
  • But it may not, and I hope that this amendment would help the discussion about the fact that we need
  • Things that need to be fixed immediately after the legislative session.
  • But I would say that we need to stay with the same pattern. So with that, I oppose.
  • Making the process, because we really need to, the bill is specifically notifying a taxpayer.
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Transcript Highlights:
  • Visit to a property if it jumps a certain level or is it just they can strictly make that assessment
  • chair as an assessor and we were using these personally, I would be using these to help me decide what needs
  • But if it's, we need to talk About that before the next hearing. Yes, sir. Thank you.
  • low-income housing tax credit from that and requires the new developments for the purposes of tax assessment
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Ways and Means Apr 27th, 2026

Ways & Means

Transcript Highlights:
  • I do need you, too, to fill out cards, if you don't mind, before you leave the committee.
  • So, you know, one of the things that we need to do is work through the numbers.
  • So, you know, one of the things that we need to do is work through the numbers.
  • So there wasn't any sort of need to... I don't know. Was the case?
  • So there wasn't any sort of need to, I don't know, disclose it or anything like that, right?
Bills: HR118, HB1039, SB436, SB442
Summary: Yes. This appears to be a meeting of the House Ways and Means Committee, based on the chairman’s roll call, the committee’s tax-related agenda, and the motions to report bills favorably. The committee first announced that SB 436 by Senator Cloud was deferred. It then heard SB 442 by Senator Stein, which would extend and clarify a local sales and use tax exemption in Calcasieu Parish for repairs, upgrades, and overhauls of certain aircraft at qualifying facilities like Chennault. Testimony from Citadel Completions emphasized the bill’s economic-development purpose, competitiveness with other states, and job retention/expansion in Southwest Louisiana. Representative Orgeron moved favorable passage, and the bill was reported favorably without objection. The committee next considered HR 118 by Representative Wright, which would create a legislative subcommittee to study a possible state income tax credit for certain water utility customers affected by high rates tied to private water system upgrades and brown-water/manganese issues in parts of the Florida parishes and elsewhere. Members questioned the fiscal impact, eligibility, and whether the proposal would merely be a Band-Aid or a fair way to offset costs; Wright said it was only a study and not an automatic trigger for a tax credit. Representative Jackson moved to report the resolution favorably, and it was adopted without objection. Finally, HB 1039 by Representative Desotel was not presented and was held in committee. The committee then adjourned.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Judiciary Finance and Civil Law Committee 2/26/26

Judiciary Finance and Civil Law

Transcript Highlights:
  • a more accurate assessment.
  • a more accurate assessment.
  • So we need this information. defend. So we need this information.
  • about how the assessment process works? about how the assessment process works?
  • a tax assessment. a tax assessment.
Bills: HF3676, HF2959, HF3233
HI

Hawaii 2026 Regular Session

EEP Public Hearing - Tue Feb 3, 2026 @ 9:30 AM HST

Energy & Environmental Protection

Transcript Highlights:
  • We don't need to do any more assessment.
  • needs to be protected. needs to be protected.
  • properties assessment.
  • general um activity assessments. general um activity assessments.
  • Geothermal is a big push, and this really needs to be stopped and really needs to be looked at.
Summary: The committee heard testimony on several measures related to waste, recycling, and environmental review. On HB 1924, which would establish a mattress stewardship program, the Department of Health said it stood on written testimony and offered comments, while Hawaii Reef and Ocean Coalition and one individual supported the bill and the International Sleep Products Association opposed it. No questions were raised and the committee moved on. A large portion of the hearing focused on HB 2121, which would prohibit the sale of disposable vapes in Hawaii. The Department of Health supported the measure but suggested the bill may be better placed in a different part of state law because the cited waste-management section regulates products after consumption, while still praising the effort to remove disposable vapes from the market and environment. Testimony in strong support came from the Coalition for Tobacco Free Hawaii Youth Council, Hawaii Public Health Institute, Hawaii COPD Coalition, Hawaii Health and Harm Reduction Center, the City and County of Honolulu, and many individuals; supporters emphasized youth vaping, toxic waste, lithium battery fire risks, and environmental harm. There was at least one opposing individual and the International Sleep Products Association was listed in opposition. The committee noted there were many written testimonies and no immediate vote was taken. The committee also heard HB 1928 on the deposit beverage container recycling program. The Department of Health stood on written testimony. The Solid Waste Task Force of Hawaii Environmental Change Agents and Upstream supported the bill but urged amendments to better integrate reuse and reusables, strengthen enforcement, clarify definitions, and protect existing redemption centers. The Hawaii Food Industry Association supported the concept of a backdrop program but preferred strengthening the existing program and raised concerns about undefined fees, existing infrastructure, and future audit costs. The Chamber of Commerce Hawaii supported the bill, and the chair said the measure needs work and that decision-making would occur in a few days. Finally, the committee took up HB 979 on environmental review and HB 1650 on environmental assessments. For HB 979, OPSD offered amendments, HCDA supported the bill but suggested clarifying the affordable-housing definition, Kauai Island Utility Cooperative supported it, and Earthjustice was asked about the court process for environmental challenges; the chair asked about shortening the challenge period and the relationship between environmental court, the intermediate court of appeals, and the Supreme Court. For HB 1650, OPSD and the State Historic Preservation Division stood on written testimony, OHA asked to retain historic sites, and several groups and individuals testified in support or opposition. Opponents argued that removing Wiki special district and historic sites from Chapter 343 trigger language would weaken environmental review and risk impacts to iwi kūpuna and historic resources.
KY

Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Senate Legislative Session Day 56 (3-31-26)

Kentucky Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • assessments process review committee. assessments process review committee.
  • <00:08:38.880> process to the standards and assessments process to the standards and assessments
  • President, I need to make a couple Mr.
  • treatment they need in a timely fashion. treatment they need in a timely fashion.
  • <05:12:52.400> for continuing to uphold the need for continuing to uphold the need for America
Bills: HB567, HB776, HB2, HB568, HB619
AL

Alabama 2026 Regular Session

Alabama House Insurance Committee Jan 14th, 2026

Insurance

Transcript Highlights:
  • So, we'll typically take as much time as the committee members need on an issue.
  • So, we'll typically take as much time as the committee members need on an issue.
  • So, we'll typically take as much time as the committee members need on an issue.
  • It just needs a little further discussion on that one. So, um we will call HB 27.
  • It just needs a little further discussion on that one. So, we'll call HB 27.
Bills: SB19, HB40, HB27, HB40, HB27, HB40, HB27
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Transcript Highlights:
  • It's going to need to be close by so that we're not doing... ...place across the state, it's going to
  • need to be close by so that we're not doing, 'Oh, I'm going to homeschool so that I can school shop
  • And if we're not doing anything wrong, why would they need to waive that right?
  • If you needed help from your math teacher, you could go do that.
  • And we need to have more of that.
FL

Florida 2026 Regular Session

Education Postsecondary Jan 13th, 2026

Education Postsecondary

Transcript Highlights:
  • They definitely cannot obtain a driver's license, which is why we need Senate Bill 720.
  • Had my parents and I not found what we needed, Had my parents and I not found what we needed, the person
  • They need to be able to enroll in college immediately.
  • serious about helping people rehabilitate their lives and they have paid their debt to society, we need
  • serious about helping people rehabilitate their lives and they have paid their debt to society, we need
Bills: S0176, S0372, S0720, S0816
Summary: The Committee on Education Postsecondary met with a quorum present and considered several bills and one confirmation. Senate Bill 720, relating to resident status for tuition purposes for previously incarcerated Floridians, was presented by Senator Osgood and supported by testimony from Eddie Fordham, who described his own reentry and college experience and the difficulty of proving residency after long incarceration. Senators Jones and Rodriguez spoke in favor, emphasizing rehabilitation and access to education. The bill was reported favorably by roll call vote. The committee then approved Senate Bill 372, which would extend the state employee tuition waiver program to sheriff’s office employees on a space-available basis, with support noted from the Florida Sheriffs Association. Senate Bill 176, dealing with campus emergency management, conduct, and workplace violence policies, was also reported favorably after discussion focused on clearer reporting protocols, protective measures, and timely updates for students, faculty, and staff; several groups waved in support. Members also voted to recommend confirmation of Douglas Broxton to the Board of Governors of the State University System. Finally, Senate Bill 816, establishing the University of Florida Diabetes Institute in statute to advance research, prevention, care, education, collaboration, and outreach on diabetes, received supportive testimony from medical and university representatives and favorable comments from senators, including remarks about research, federal funding, and improved outcomes. The bill was reported favorably, and the committee adjourned without objection.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • Permitting support is where we all need to share the risk.
  • The DOE, when they heard of it, had us fly to D.C. and say, we need to beat China and we need to beat
  • We haven't needed reactors until we started.
  • We need to make absolutely sure they're safe.
  • We could also reduce the need for more energy.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • It's sorely needed, actually, in the past.
  • We do worry, of course, about the assessments.
  • half a billion dollars assessed to insurance companies.
  • assessments and public securities—or over-reliance on assessments and reliance on public securities—creates
  • The growing amount because the overall amount of insurance needed increases.
AL
Transcript Highlights:
  • or assessment value.
  • . the predictability of the assessment collections.
  • owe the entire assessment over the 20, 30, or 40-year period at once.
  • We maintain assessment rolls for over 100,000 lots in Florida right now.
  • They send it to us in Excel spreadsheets, and we've calculated the assessments.
Bills: HB145, HB311