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• Adjusted for inflation, that penalty should be about $3,400 a day.
• We've adjusted the $100 a day for inflation from 1907, which is when that law was first enacted. ...from
• And a big part of it, too, was not just adjusting for inflation, because that's what that number represents
• Representative, the original versions of the bill last year and the year before had those automatic adjustments
• The original versions of the bill last year and the year before had those automatic adjustments.

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• Second, the MFTE policies, the property tax exemption policies, need to be right-sized and adjusted for
• So right now, policies need to be right-sized and adjusted for local market conditions.
• standards could be raised, which I can get to you in a second. policies need to be right-sized and adjusted
• For things like the MFTE affordability, we suggest in our report that these things might need to adjust
• developers agreed that if affordability requirements are set too high or they're not allowed to be adjusted

Summary: The Senate Housing Committee heard a series of work-session presentations focused on transit-oriented development, commercial-to-residential redevelopment, building code implementation, housing market trends, and the Covenant Homeownership Program. The first presentation, from the Urban Institute, reviewed research on HB 1491 and TOD feasibility, arguing that Washington has made major progress but faces diverging conditions across transit areas. The presenter said rising construction costs, higher interest rates, and lower rents in some markets have made many projects less feasible, and recommended targeted infrastructure funding for lower-market communities, adjustments to MFTE and affordability requirements by local market conditions, more support for very low-income housing in high-market transit areas, minimum density standards near stations, expanded public land/joint development tools, and better tracking of TOD outcomes over time. Committee members asked about AMI calculations, immigration’s effect on construction labor, developer input, and whether a tracking mechanism had been removed from the bill. The Department of Commerce then outlined implementation of HB 1491 and demonstrated the new Washington Zoning Atlas, which is live and intended to help visualize zoning, overlays, and station-area conditions. Commerce said local governments will designate station areas, update zoning and MFTE policies, and handle anti-displacement measures, with Vancouver and Spokane first to implement and Puget Sound following later. Staff described a timeline for updated MFTE guidance, station-area implementation guidance, a TOD model ordinance, and later rulemaking on variances. The committee also heard from the Lieutenant Governor’s office on a report about converting commercial properties to housing, which found substantial potential for redevelopment on vacant or underused commercial land, especially near transit, but noted barriers such as ground-floor retail mandates, affordability requirements, infrastructure costs, private covenants, and slow implementation. The office urged by-right residential use on commercial land and faster rollout of new housing laws. The State Building Code Council updated the committee on its three-year code cycle and several legislatively directed actions, including minimum dwelling size, emergency shelters, and especially single-exit stairs and multiplex housing. Council staff said those code changes are nearing completion and will provide prescriptive solutions, while noting that elevator size and requirements were not changed and would require separate legislative direction if the committee wanted to revisit them. Members discussed the cost impacts of building and energy codes and the council said it is required to consider economic impacts and is increasingly looking at performance-based approaches. Later, the Washington Center for Real Estate Research presented its annual housing report, showing that higher mortgage rates have sharply reduced affordability, flattened house prices in many cities, and slowed single-family permitting and completions, while multifamily construction has recently cooled after a prior surge. Finally, the Washington State Housing Finance Commission reported strong first-year results for the Covenant Homeownership Program, which provides zero-interest down payment assistance to eligible first-time buyers with family ties to Washington before 1968; the program assisted 547 homebuyers in its first fiscal year, with more than $60 million loaned, and the agency said participation has continued to grow after income-limit changes enacted in 2025.

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• point out that I think that these standards are set with a regulatory framework and they're not just adjusted
• Adjusting only for inflation, the cost is estimated at $3.1 billion.
• This is a justice system in which, working with MMIP, there are systems that need to be adjusted and
• Adjusting for inflation, that's $3.1 billion in 2023, or $3.93 per standard drink.
• making valiant efforts to deal with the homeless, with the substance use issue, and now trying to adjust

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• SB 129 our labor trailer bill which makes various technical and cleanup adjustments to the 2025 Budget
• Among other adjustments this bill authorizes supplemental pension payments to the Public Employees Retirement
• I request an amendment to SB 131, specifically ask for the adjustment of the housing first provision.
• This bill implements negotiated and agreed upon general salary and benefits adjustments, as well as negotiated
• This bill implements general salary and benefit adjustments, as well as personal leave programs for this

Keywords: 988, house, all

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• This includes adjusting the 2024-25 deposit to the Public School System Stabilization Account.
• This bill further adjusts funding to the Middle Class Scholarship to make sure that no student has their
• please raise this with the Governor, please raise it with budget discussions as we come back and adjust
• present AB 137, the General Government Trailer Bill, which makes various technical and cleanup adjustments
• Among other adjustments, this bill expands eligibility for the Hope for Children Trust Account Act, modifies

Summary: The Assembly met on June 4, 2025, first establishing a quorum and then moving through a long budget and concurrence session. After procedural motions, the house took up several budget trailer bills and related measures presented by Assembly Member Gabriel. SB 103, a technical budget cleanup bill addressing the Public School System Stabilization Account, a CDCR shortfall, and Middle Class Scholarship funding, passed 52-16. SB 120 on child care and preschool funding passed 65-1; SB 124 on natural resources and wildfire response passed 69-1; SB 127 on climate change and zero-emission transportation passed 53-17; SB 128 on transportation and DMV/LA Olympics implementation passed 53-17; SB 132 on taxation, veterans, wildfire settlements, film tax credits, and housing passed 64-1; SB 141 on cannabis enforcement and illicit market suppression passed 71-1; and SB 142 extending the Deaf and Disabled Telecommunications Program passed 68-1 on both urgency and the measure. The Assembly also approved a motion to re-refer several bills to committees and later suspended rules to take up Senate-amended bills without reference to file. The chamber then considered AB 102, the main budget bill reflecting the final three-party agreement with the Governor. Supporters said it balanced compassion and fiscal responsibility while preserving housing, health care, child care, education, wildfire resilience, and public safety funding. Opponents criticized it for unsustainable spending, insufficient Prop. 36 funding, and other omissions. After extended debate, the Assembly concurred in the Senate amendments by a 55-16 vote and sent the bill to the Governor. The Assembly then concurred in Senate amendments to AB 116 on health care, AB 118 on human services, AB 121 on TK-12 education, AB 123 on higher education, AB 134 on public safety, AB 136 on courts, AB 137 on general government, and AB 143 on developmental services, with each bill passing on largely party-line or broad bipartisan votes. Debate on AB 116 focused on Medi-Cal, HIV program backfills, pharmacy benefit managers, and health care cuts; opponents objected to funding for undocumented immigrants and to hospice prior authorization. AB 118 drew support for child welfare, CalFresh disaster readiness, and CalWORKs simplification. AB 121 emphasized record K-12 funding and a $1.7 billion block grant. AB 123 extended the Golden State Teacher Grant Program and supported higher education and fire-impacted career technical education. AB 134 updated CDCR and tribal policing provisions, AB 136 streamlined court reporting and funded courthouse facilities, AB 137 made technical budget adjustments and fee changes, and AB 143 made developmental services reforms while preserving the state’s entitlement commitment. The final item shown was AB 470 on telecommunications, which was presented and discussed as a transition away from copper landlines toward fiber and modern networks, with supporters emphasizing public benefits and labor concerns, but the transcript cuts off before a final vote is shown.

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• AB 8 is complex, and while it has many positive elements, Section 340112, the tax adjustment repeal,
• A number of states have higher taxes at or above the 19% post-adjustment, such as Washington with 37%
• will not be sufficiently replaced by higher sales, as noted in revenue estimates on the required adjustment
• A number of states have higher taxes at or above the 19% post adjustments such as Washington with 37%
• will not be sufficiently replaced by higher sales as noted in revenue estimates on the required adjustment

Summary: The Assembly Committee on Revenue and Taxation met as a subcommittee and heard several bills, with members explaining that measures with significant fiscal impacts would be held for suspense or taken up later. AB 761 would let the Monterey-Salinas Transit District place a local sales tax measure on the ballot with approval from two-thirds of its board rather than needing approval from each member jurisdiction; supporters said it would preserve transit funding for veterans, seniors, and people with disabilities, while an opponent argued it would make it easier to raise a regressive tax. The bill was voted out 5-2 after being called for absent members. AB 1253, which would clarify property tax treatment for wildfire reconstruction beyond substantial equivalence, drew support from the Los Angeles County Assessor and the California Assessors Association but was sent to suspense. AB 8, dealing with hemp enforcement, intoxicating hemp products, and integration of hemp cannabinoids into the cannabis supply chain and tax system, drew strong support from cannabis operators and labor groups and opposition from small cultivators and public health advocates concerned about supply, tax revenue, and voter intent; it was also sent to suspense. The committee then heard AB 1138, a major expansion and modernization of the film and television tax credit program. Supporters, including entertainment unions, workers, studios, and local officials, said the bill would help keep production and jobs in California amid competition from other states and countries; opponents criticized it as picking winners and losers and argued broader business costs were the real problem. The bill was referred to suspense. AB 829, which would create a California Parkinson’s Disease Research Fund and voluntary tax contribution program to support research and services, received unanimous support from advocates and was approved 6-0 to Appropriations. AB 474 would exempt rental income from nonprofit home-sharing programs for low-income homeowners from state income tax and protect participants’ eligibility for certain benefits; supporters said it could help older adults age in place and address housing shortages, and the bill was sent to suspense after members asked for clarification on the fiscal estimate. The committee also heard AB 376, which would exempt wildfire settlement payments from state income tax for certain disaster survivors; supporters from rural counties said the money is meant to help victims rebuild and should not be taxed, and the bill was referred to suspense. Finally, AB 480 would allow developers using low-income housing tax credits to switch from allocated to certificated state credits after an award, with supporters saying it would maximize private investment and stretch housing dollars further; it too was sent to suspense. Throughout the hearing, members repeatedly emphasized the need to balance policy goals with fiscal impacts, and several bills were held or referred to suspense rather than voted out immediately.

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• While such changes are acceptable within the budgetary constraints, this adjustment had exceeded the
• While such changes are acceptable within the budgetary constraints, this adjustment had exceeded the
• And so they adjusted his payment.
• And so they adjusted his payment.
• And so they adjusted his payment.

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Summary: The House convened with prayer, pledge, and roll call, establishing a quorum. It then took up a series of appropriations and policy bills, with the most extensive debate centered on Senate Bill 2025, the Department of Veterans Affairs budget. The House approved amendments that shifted governance of the department and veterans’ home from ACOVA to the governor, citing concerns about ACOVA’s salary-setting actions and broader appropriation oversight. Members opposed to the change argued ACOVA had studied compensation and acted within its role. The amended bill passed 57-34, and the final bill passed 69-22 with the emergency clause carrying. The House also passed Senate Bill 2001, the legislative branch budget, which funds the 2027 session, legislative staff, chamber upgrades, IT improvements, and salary adjustments for legislative leaders; the bill passed 62-29, but the emergency clause failed. Senate Bill 2019, the Career and Technical Education budget, passed 82-10 with emergency clause. Senate Bill 2021, the Information Technology Department budget, passed 75-17 after discussion of data center migration, service automation, mainframe transition, ERP study, and DPI’s move from PowerSchool to Infinite Campus. Other measures passed included Senate Bill 2228 for rural grocery store sustainability grants, Senate Bill 2390 creating a rural catalyst community grant program, Senate Bill 2188 adjusting the Clean Sustainable Energy Authority, and Senate Bill 2265 authorizing a veterans national cemetery grant and line of credit with added reporting safeguards. Several House bills returned from the Senate were concurred in and then passed, including House Bill 1361 on mandatory minimum sentences for human trafficking offenders, House Bill 1017 for the Game and Fish Department, House Bill 1588 on firearms and dangerous weapons provisions, House Bill 1429 on harassment and stalking involving robots, House Bill 1591 on county fair resiliency grants, House Bill 1537 on service agreement protection for water projects, House Bill 1203 on edible medical marijuana products, and House Bill 1027 transferring administration of the State Fire and Tornado Fund from the Insurance Commissioner to OMB. The House also rejected a motion to reconsider Senate Bill 2307, which dealt with library materials and obscenity-related restrictions, by a vote of 48-51. In addition, the chamber appointed conference committees on several House and Senate measures where concurrence had failed, and laid over Senate Bill 2340 for two legislative days.

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• The Governor's budget request is a 2.8% operating adjustment.
• One of those is the operating adjustment, which other agencies have already spoken to you about, recommended
• What I'll talk about today includes, number one, the operating adjustment.
• We're seeing an increase that will help us adjust and react to increases in pay.
• Next, the DOC is operating, requesting, and the Governor's RECs are an operating adjustment of $4.43

Bills: HF2432

Keywords: HF2432, judiciary finance bill, public safety finance bill, corrections policy, crime victims, victim services, Minnesota victims of crime account, court fees, marriage license fee, financial crimes, fraud investigations, insurance fraud, Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, BCA, Commerce Fraud Bureau, wage theft, automobile theft prevention, nonprofit security grants, 911 funding, POST Board

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• of $2.5 billion for the Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) to reflect a 2.43% cost-of-living adjustment
• community college side, there is an ongoing increase of $230.4 million to fund a 2.5% cost-of-living adjustment
• Fund revenue estimates, growth in local property tax revenue, and an adjustment for transitional kindergarten
• The way the state is calculating this adjustment, it has an estimate of the attendance generated by the
• But if it were to become a requirement, they would have very little time to adjust their schedules, hire

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• So, we'll ask for the LFC, and we'll look to adjust that as we go forward.
• For the two private facilities that we have, have the contract rates changed or been adjusted at all
• So I think the 2% adjustment on the per diem is less than...
• What we're seeing state agencies asking for that you're the contract adjustments on your private, so
• The salary for positions upgraded under the previous administrations was not adjusted to reflect the

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• must adjust the<00:38:35.160> capitation<00:38:35.800> rat<00:38:36.800> paid<00
• As examples, this bill's adjustments to supervision requirements would allow us to hire and retain more
• <01:31:42.040> to<01:31:42.239> supervision this bill's adjustments to supervision
• this bill's adjustments to supervision requirements<01:31:43.480> would<01:31:43.639> allow
• the care plan accordingly this adjust the care plan accordingly this model<01:40:44.280> has<

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• to speed limits in certain adjustments to speed limits in certain areas,<01:16:31.760> or<01:
• The most glaring adjustments are reflected in the amendment before you today.
• The most glaring adjustments amendment.
• The most glaring adjustments are<01:37:32.480> reflected<01:37:33.160> in<01:37:33.280>
• operator of a motor vehicle, to adjust his<03:21:19.600> speeds<03:21:20.720> depending

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Summary: House Transportation opened public hearings on three Senate bills and discussed a fourth scheduling issue. On SB 499, which would change Traffic Safety Commission reporting requirements, the sponsor’s representative said the bill would require annual aggregated data on the causes of traffic collisions in New Hampshire and recommendations to address them. Members asked about the added Trauma Medical Review Committee seat, and a representative explained that it is a longstanding state board of emergency and trauma professionals; the bill had already been amended and passed unanimously earlier in the process. On SB 500, concerning restroom access for certain commercial motor vehicle operators, the sponsor and trucking-industry supporters said the measure arose from concerns raised by female truck drivers and was intended to require larger commercial facilities with available public or employee restrooms to allow truck drivers to use them when there are no public safety concerns. Supporters from the New Hampshire Motor Transport Association said driver shortages make it important to recruit and retain women, and that lack of bathroom access is a significant barrier. Committee members asked about the scope of the problem and whether the issue affected male and female drivers differently. The committee then heard SB 559, which would reduce the minimum allowable speed limit on locally controlled roads. Supporters, including bicyclists and the Bike-Walk Alliance, testified that lower speeds improve safety for pedestrians, cyclists, and drivers, citing personal crash experiences and national guidance supporting lower urban speed limits where warranted by traffic or engineering studies. They emphasized the bill would not mandate lower limits statewide but would give towns local discretion. Members questioned whether the group would support 15 mph limits and how congestion and travel-time concerns were weighed. A Department of Transportation official testified neutrally, saying the agency had no formal position but had concerns about public perception and possible spillover to unnumbered state roads. The chair also noted an earlier scheduling problem that prevented immediate executive action on a bill until later in the day.

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• In fiscal year 2000, the formula was adjusted again, and compensatory revenue was combined with what
• 01:05:14.840> to reflection of the need for a path to reflection of the need for a path to adjust
• <01:05:51.320> for generated in FY 26 after adjusting for generated in FY 26 after adjusting
• And last, we have enough data to build a new system that contains a floor that would be adjusted for
• qualifying rate using the adjusted qualifying rate using the historical<01:13:02.560> correlations

Keywords: 1187, senate, all

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• And what is that ongoing expense after all of those adjustments and that new equipment?
• And I presume that there are adjustments that need to be accounted for.
• And I presume that there are adjustments that need to be accounted for.
• I think that'll be really helpful to see what it looks like after all adjustments.
• I think that'll be really helpful to see what it looks like after all adjustments.

Keywords: 959, house, all

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• And then on top of that, there's small numbers that do some adjustments based on English learner and,
• And so what you're saying, Senator Kun, is kind of what we did with small adjustments for where there
• Thank you. adjustments based on English learner and adjustments based on English learner and um<00:35
• of what we did with small adjustments of what we did with small adjustments for<00:35:30.800>
• Adjustments to meet community needs. Prior to 2023, the last funding increase was 2007.

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• If we are unable to secure the amount requested, we have a contingency plan in place to adjust the scope
• If we are unable to secure the amount requested, we have a contingency plan in place to adjust the scope
• If we are unable to secure the amount requested, we have a contingency plan in place to adjust the scope
• If we are unable to secure the amount requested, we have a contingency plan in place to adjust the scope
• <01:10:10.600> net jurisdictions based on the adjusted net jurisdictions based on the adjusted

Bills: HF220, HF230, HF240, HF241, HF295, HF429, HF490, HF505, HF574, HF576, HF581, HF865, HF918, HF1085, HF1449, HF1452, HF1454, HF602

Keywords: HF220, Minnesota transportation, highway user tax distribution fund, trunk highway fund, Minnesota Department of Transportation, MnDOT, transportation finance, dedicated funds, funding restrictions, arts in transportation, cultural strategies, transportation project planning, project design, project construction, placemaking, public art, infrastructure spending, state statutes 161.045, HF230, Wyoming

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• Nobody's saying we're going back and adjusting somebody's property by taking down solar panels.
• We're going back and adjusting somebody's property by taking down solar panels.
• The first proposal is an operating adjustment.
• is an operating adjustment this is an enterprise-wide<01:21:47.960> adjustment<01:21:48.560><
• c> proposed<01:21:48.840> to enterprise-wide adjustment proposed to enterprise-wide adjustment

Keywords: 1183, house

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• That usually shows up in an operating adjustment.
• We incorporate that into our operating adjustment asks, keeping up with technology.
• We try to put in our operating adjustment so that's why operating adjustments are so valuable, because
• asks uh keeping up with adjustment asks uh keeping up with technology<01:20:49.520> we<01:20:
• > adjustments<01:20:53.000> are<01:20:53.199> so why operating adjustments are so

Bills: HF1060, HF1062

Keywords: sports facilities, Minnesota, legislative commission, financial oversight, accountability, HF1062, driver and vehicle systems oversight committee, MNLARS, VTRS, vehicle title and registration system, driver's license system, Minnesota Department of Public Safety, MN.IT, legislative oversight, transportation finance, state government, committee repeal, sunset provision, information technology audit, vehicle registration

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• Although there are certain projects that we have the ability to discern whether that could be adjusted
• that could be adjusted based on where<00:24:47.760> it<00:24:48.000> is<00:24:48.640><
• So it is important to understand that's why sometimes we have to adjust our EDF and closing funds or
• So it is important to understand that's why sometimes we have to adjust our EDF and closing funds or
• We look at how do we adjust.

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Summary: The subcommittee met with Secretary Jeff Null and General Counsel Matt Wing of the Cabinet for Economic Development for an overview of the cabinet’s main economic development tools, strategy, and compliance practices. Null said the cabinet uses a data-driven approach focused on competitiveness, site readiness, wages, workforce training, and long-term assets such as roads, rail spurs, water, and sewer improvements. He emphasized that the cabinet tries to balance attracting new employers with supporting existing businesses, and said compliance is a core value of the agency. Null walked members through several programs, including the closing fund, Kentucky Business Incentive (KBI), Bluegrass State Skills Corporation training support, and the KIA sales-tax refund tool for construction materials and equipment. He said the closing fund has received $80 million over two years for projects generally involving at least $10 million in investment, though some flexibility exists. He also explained that Bluegrass State Skills funding is typically about $2,000 to $3,000 per job and can be used flexibly for training, including sending Kentucky workers to be trained elsewhere or paying trainers to come to Kentucky. He described KBI as a pay-as-you-go, incremental tax credit tied to actual jobs and investment, and said the legislature’s tiered refundable credit structure allows more targeted use of incentives in heritage and non-heritage counties. A substantial portion of the presentation focused on compliance and monitoring. Null said incentive agreements are written with commercial terms and spell out jobs, investment, wages, and training commitments. The cabinet requires regular reporting, invoices, and sampling, and can use clawbacks or suspend benefits if companies fail to meet obligations or lose required environmental permits. He said the Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority reviews incentive applications in public meetings and often requires company representatives to answer questions before preliminary approval is granted. No votes or formal actions were taken during the meeting.

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• A budget adjusted for an anticipated CPI of 2.7% would total $118.2 billion.
• A budget adjusted by official estimates for population growth of 1.4% would total $100,000,000.
• It was adjusted for CPI. I meant plus CPI. Sorry, I said plus CPI; I meant adjusted for CPI.
• It was adjusted for CPI. I meant adjusted for CPI.
• And you make adjustments.

Summary: The Senate took up Committee Substitute for Senate Joint Resolution 2F, a proposed constitutional amendment to expand homestead property tax relief, lower the assessment cap on non-homestead property from 10% to 5%, and limit county and municipal ad valorem tax revenues to specified uses. Senator Avila presented the measure as a major property tax reform intended to provide relief to homeowners and restrain local government spending, while opponents argued it would shift costs to fees, services, and state appropriations and could harm local budgets, public safety, schools, and other services. Several senators also raised concerns about the ballot language and the lack of a completed fiscal analysis. The chamber considered and rejected multiple amendments. Senator Sharif’s income-based “circuit breaker” amendment failed, as did Senator Smith’s sunset clause amendment and Senator Berman’s amendment to rewrite the ballot statement for greater accuracy. During questioning, Avila said the revised language was meant to preserve flexibility for local governments and that future legislatures could set implementing procedures and, if necessary, prohibit certain local expenditures by general law. He also confirmed that the proposal would not affect refinancing or portability, and said the measure would not prevent local governments from continuing to fund many services such as libraries, parks, animal control, code enforcement, mosquito control, public housing, county health departments, and elections. Debate on final passage was extensive. Supporters described the proposal as overdue relief for homeowners and a way to force local governments to prioritize spending, while critics called it a risky tax shift that could reduce local revenue by billions and force cuts or higher fees. Some senators emphasized concerns about public safety funding, mental health and social services, and the accuracy of the ballot summary; others argued the measure would give voters a chance to decide on property tax reform. After debate, the resolution was rolled over for third reading and the Senate continued discussion, but the transcript provided does not include a final vote on the joint resolution.