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• haven't had a full budget committee Hearing since the mayor vision released so we haven't had a chance
• If they don't have to be done with the budget to implement and pass the budget by June 15th, June 30th
• Passing these bills as part of the budget would not only be an inappropriate use of the budget process
• about budget sub four, number one.
• last year's budget.

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• And I think this committee and the discussion around the budget, you know, it's relative because we are
• And I think this committee and the discussion around the budget, you know, it's relative because we are
• And I think this committee and the discussion around the budget, you know, it's relative because we are
• And I think this committee and the discussion around the budget, you know, it's relative because we are
• And I think this committee and the discussion around the budget, you know, it's relative because we are

Committee: Senate Environment, Climate, and Legacy

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• :48.399><c> as</c> that comes through their budget and as that comes through their budget and as much
• Just to start, I wanted to familiarize members with the budget periods in which this committee will be
• budget.
• previously enacted budget.
• Tails targets typically aren't listed in budget resolutions, but they are considerations that the Committee

Committee: House Higher Education Finance and Policy

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• That when we created our budget and looked at our budget, we were preparing it at a flat-budget status
• You know, our consistently underfunded budget, and I know this committee knows it well, many years you
• Rubien Esquivel with the Legislative Finance Committee, and my counterpart is here with DFA budget, Mr
• You're budgeted for those or you are not budgeted for... ...you or 40%, you're budgeted for those or
• Committee yesterday.

Committee: Senate House Appropriations & Finance

Summary: The committee heard budget presentations from the Secretary of State, the State Land Office, the Attorney General, and the State Auditor. The Secretary of State said its requested general fund budget of $15.88 million was intended to maintain baseline operations, replace lost federal cyber and election support, and address a 12% vacancy rate. Officials warned that the House recommendation still left major gaps for election security, tabulator replacement, campaign finance system upgrades, overseas and military ballot services, ballot tracking, and a new tax lien filing system. Senators pressed about the election fund, county burdens, and the risk of underfunding election administration; the office said the House had provided $15 million for the election fund for the primary and another $15 million for the general election, but not enough for operations or all capital needs. The State Land Office said it was satisfied with the House budget action and had no additional request. Staff described the office’s record revenues, low vacancy rate, clean audits, and proposed new positions tied to forestry, economic development, petroleum, geothermal, and royalty compliance work. Senators asked about long-term revenue trends, forest thinning and biomass opportunities, and bookkeeping around the land maintenance fund; the office said the new positions were intended to generate revenue and support land management, including fire mitigation. The Attorney General’s office presented a budget built around a 0% general fund increase, greater use of the Consumer Settlement Fund, and $4.5 million in special/extraordinary litigation funding. The AG emphasized active litigation and investigations involving consumer fraud, Medicaid fraud, federal funding cuts, Meta and other technology platforms, AI and child safety, gaming compacts, tobacco, and possible litigation over abandoned uranium mine cleanup. Senators asked about scam enforcement, the structure of settlement funds, and whether the office could take on uranium-related litigation; the AG said the office could prepare a litigation budget but warned such efforts would require sustained funding. The State Auditor said the House budget added only modest increases while the office faced about a 40% vacancy rate, difficulty recruiting auditors, and a shrinking pool of public accounting firms, creating risks for constitutional audit responsibilities.

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• relative to the Governor's budget.
• I also want to add that it's not included in the education budget, but on the other side of the budget
• And I'm glad we've got it in the budget, and I'm sure when it gets to the full committee, we'll promote
• And I'm glad we've got it in the budget, and I'm sure when it gets to the full committee, we'll promote
• Good afternoon, Chair and committee members.

Summary: The committee heard presentations on the Governor’s May Revision TK-12 education proposals, beginning with Proposition 98. The Department of Finance explained that the minimum guarantee rises by about $6.4 billion relative to the January budget across the three-year window, with a total of $124.9 billion in 2024-25, $125.1 billion in 2025-26, and $127.1 billion in 2026-27. Finance also described revised settle-up and reserve actions, including maintaining a $3.9 billion settle-up balance, increasing discretionary deposits into the Prop. 98 reserve, and ending with a projected reserve balance of about $10.3 billion. The Legislative Analyst’s Office said the overall estimates were reasonable but urged the state to fully fund the guarantee and use other budget actions or reserves to manage volatility rather than delay settle-up payments. Members questioned the rationale for leaving the $3.9 billion unsettled, and Finance said the amount reflects revenue uncertainty and the risk of overappropriating Prop. 98 if revenues later fall. The committee then reviewed the Department of Education portion of the May Revision. Finance said the budget adds positions and state operations funding for CDE and includes trailer bill changes affecting community schools, preschool, literacy, special education, charter accountability, and other programs. The LAO highlighted concerns and recommendations on several proposals, including the size and structure of the LCFF increase, the special education base-rate increase, additional one-time community schools funding, literacy coach and math professional development augmentations, the multilingual screener, inclusive college grants, homelessness grants, and the proposed paid pregnancy disability leave mandate. CDE supported the special education increase, paid pregnancy leave, community schools, homelessness funding, literacy and math investments, and preschool parity, while urging more support for county offices of education and clearer definitions and implementation details for some programs. Finance said the paid pregnancy leave proposal would cost an estimated $218 million annually and is intended as a recruitment and retention measure. In the Commission on Teacher Credentialing item, Finance proposed funding for legal staffing tied to SB 848 and educator misconduct cases, plus funding and fee changes to support a statewide transcript review platform for subject matter competency and additional support for the residency technical assistance center. The LAO said it had no concerns with the staffing for misconduct and SB 848, recommended the transcript review platform and related fee increase if the platform moves forward, and recommended rejecting the residency technical assistance center expansion because current funding lasts through 2029. CTC said the misconduct workload has grown over the last five to six years and that AI would be used only as a backstop to human review in the transcript system. Public commenters were split, with unions and education groups supporting special education, paid pregnancy leave, community schools, homelessness funding, and literacy investments, while opposing the $3.9 billion settle-up delay and the reduction to preschool COLA.

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• Committee, and Ms.
• I'm a jury court judge of Mendocino County, and I am also chair of the Judicial Branch Budget Committee
• A month ago, I told the Assembly Budget Committee, Subcommittee 6, how Ventura is using these resources
• In closing, the Court Executive Advisory Committee strongly supports the Governor's budget for trial
• The Senate Budget Subcommittee No. 5 on Corrections and Public Safety, The Senate Budget Subcommittee

Summary: The committee heard budget and workload presentations from the Office of the State Public Defender, legal aid organizations, and the Judicial Branch. OSPD requested permanent funding for positions that had been temporarily funded to implement the Racial Justice Act, explaining that the work has become ongoing and now includes additional Supreme Court briefing, habeas proceedings, investigations, expert analysis, and data requests. The State Public Defender also presented the AB 625 public defense workload report, which found statewide staffing shortages, caseloads above recommended standards, and major gaps in investigators and support staff. Senators asked about racial bias claims, the volume of data requests, and the impact of Prop. 36, and OSPD said it would provide additional written information. The legal aid panel asked for a $50 million increase to the Equal Access Fund, $20 million to restart homelessness prevention services, and $10 million for health care access work, while also supporting Access to Justice Commission requests for loan repayment assistance, immigrant family preparedness services, and innovation grants. Witnesses described legal aid as homelessness prevention and cited examples involving eviction defense, domestic violence survivors, and immigration detention cases. Los Angeles Superior Court Presiding Judge Sergio Tapia discussed eviction data, low tenant representation, and court pilots in Compton and at Stanley Mosk that combine mediation, rental assistance, and legal help. Senators asked for service maps, outreach materials, and more detail on funding needs and federal funding losses. For the Judicial Branch overview, the Judicial Council and trial court representatives supported the Governor’s proposed budget, including $70 million for trial court operations, $21.7 million for employee health and retirement costs, and funding for appellate counsel, case processing, and courthouse construction. They said rising costs, staffing retention, and interpreter shortages continue to strain the courts, and described efforts to reallocate interpreter funds and recruit hard-to-find languages such as Mixteco. Senators pressed the branch and the Department of Finance on courthouse facilities, noting that the long-term need is far larger than the current budget proposal; Finance said the branch’s facility needs were estimated at about $22.5 billion over 10 years to start 68 projects and $29.4 billion to complete the remaining projects. The committee requested follow-up information on facilities, judgeships, and interpreter needs.

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• This budget represents a total budget of $1.6 billion across all DNR funds.
• </c> to the committee. to the committee.
• on your budget.”
• </c> your budget. your budget.
• I will leave you with this: this committee, like all committees that are having to address a budget and

Committee: House Environment and Natural Resources Finance and Policy

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• That are going to have potential ramifications for our, our budget when you consider that our budget,
• budget.
• And basically, the budget resolution says we direct this committee to come up with this spending plan
• So that budget resolution.
• Discretionary budget versus the defense budget where they're kind of, well, they're breaking their own

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• The primary purpose of the Committee of the Whole on the budget bill over the next two days is to present
• The committee members then marked up the budget bill before you today.
• Your Joint Appropriations Committee has chosen not to include several appropriations in the budget bill
• Um, so budget to a standard budget.
• back</c><03:49:07.120><c> four</c> one budget back two budgets back four one budget back two budgets

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• The decisions made in this committee are important, and he encouraged the committee to look for policy
• Betsy Ritzer, I am the committee legislative assistant for the housing committee.
• The decisions made in this committee are important, and he encouraged the committee to look for policy
• Our primary responsibilities include staffing Finance committees, tracking legislative budget decisions
• Finance committees tracking legislative budget<00:04:57.720><c> decisions</c><00:04:58.400><c> providing

Committee: House Housing Finance and Policy

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• Supplemental budget number two affects the previously estimated funds available for budget operations
• The supplemental budget will be referred to the Budget and Tax Committee and for the conference committee
• to the Budget budget will be referred to the Budget and<00:03:56.680><c> Tax</c><00:03:56.920><c> Committee
• and for the conference and Tax Committee and for the conference committee<00:03:59.400><c> later</c>
• </c> committee later today. committee later today.

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• I'm chairing the Select Committee on Aging, LGBT Californians, and we will be doing a select committee
• So welcome to the committee.
• So welcome to the committee.
• This is the budget chair asking that in tough budget time, so I apologize.
• Welcome to the committee. Thank you, Senator.

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• dollar budget.
• I mean, is this off the budget?
• We do set the budgets.
• But my budget, my budget doesn't.
• the budget office questions.

Bills: HB26 , HB73 , SB 14 , HB46

Committee: House Intergovernmental Affairs

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• budget bills.
• So this is the budget resolution.
• aside from the uh finance Committee aside from the uh finance budget<00:04:46.360><c> bills.
• </c> bud res 2, the house budget resolution. bud res 2, the house budget resolution.
• The budget resolution is Thank you. The budget resolution is passed.

Bills: HF601

Committee: House Ways and Means

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• , school budgets?
• I urge the committee once more.
• Good afternoon, committee.
• Chair, members of the committee.
• in this proposed budget.

Summary: The committee first heard a presentation on strategic resource management in public education. LESC staff and PED officials argued that New Mexico has increased school funding, but local budgeting and planning remain fragmented and overly compliance-driven. They described long-term pressures including declining enrollment, rising special education costs, falling cash balances, changes in federal funding, and leadership turnover, and said schools need more intentional multi-year planning tied to student outcomes. They also outlined the many disconnected planning requirements schools must complete, compared New Mexico’s current approach with Ohio’s three-year budget forecasting model, and recommended continuing multi-year appropriations, adding $2.5 million for state grants in the unified application, and directing LESC, LFC, and PED to develop a long-term financial planning proposal. PED said it is working to reduce administrative burden through school accreditation, a unified application for federal and state funds, and internal alignment of guidance and coaching, with pilot schools reporting time savings and better alignment. Members raised concerns about four-day school weeks, the burden on small districts, the need for outcomes and return on investment, and whether the state should move toward a two-year or three-year planning cycle; staff clarified that the proposal was to streamline or eliminate redundant requirements, not add another layer. The committee then received an update on the Educator Fellows program. PED described it as a Grow Your Own pipeline that employs candidates as supplemental educational assistants while they work toward licensure, providing salary, benefits, paid leave, mentoring, and coursework support. Officials said the program helps address teacher shortages, improves student-to-teacher ratios, increases workforce diversity, and supports the Martinez-Yazzie action plan. They reported 370 current fellows across 86 LEAs and about 180 schools, with many fellows being people of color, first-generation college students, or second-career educators; roughly 85 are expected to become certified this year. A local HR director from Belen testified that the program has been especially valuable in small communities, where fellows are already rooted in the community and several have moved into teaching roles. Members asked about high school recruitment, tuition, retirement and benefits, the relationship to the Higher Education Department’s Grow Your Own scholarship, and the role of university partners. PED said fellows choose among accredited higher education partners, the program is separate from the scholarship but complementary, and the state is also building an apprenticeship model and seeking to expand the program to more LEAs, though some districts are on a waiting list because of funding and local match requirements.

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• The Senate Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review will come to order. We are a subcommittee.
• Budget Committee are members of, so there will be people coming in and out of the hearing.
• So I'm asking members of the budget committee to return to the committee room so we can get to the votes
• And let me just remind members of the Budget Committee, we're going to be... Thank you very much.
• And the Senate Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review stands adjourned.

Committee: Senate Budget and Fiscal Review

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• ’s Budget.
• In last year's budget?
• cycle versus the current budget cycle, which... ...budget cycle versus the current budget cycle, which
• You'll probably have more in the full budget committee, but across the budget overall, the May Revision
• been built into their budget.

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• These just move money around from one budget activity to the DHS budget after the various changes that
• I want to thank you and the committee for supporting direct care and treatment's operational budget and
• Chair, members of the committee.
• Therefore, we urge this committee and members of this committee to support this initiative.
• I appreciate the hard work your committee has undergone to create this bill in these difficult budget

Bills: HF2434

Committee: House Human Services Finance and Policy

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• As a reminder, the Health and Human Services maintenance budget includes the budgets for both the Idaho
• Chair, the first action setting the 2027 maintenance budget is before the committee.
• Chairman, members of the committee, Mr. Chairman, members of the committee, thank you.
• Chairman, the budget is before the committee and I would stand for any questions.
• Committee will be at ease. Thank you. I don't know. The committee will be back in order. Okay.

Summary: The joint Senate Finance and House Appropriations committee met to revisit the Health and Human Services maintenance budget after the prior appropriation bill failed. Members debated competing FY 2027 budget motions that adjusted the Department of Health and Welfare budget, including reductions tied to House Bill 863’s residential habilitation provider rate changes. One substitute motion to cut the program more deeply failed, while the original motion passed and received a do-pass recommendation. Several members voiced concern about the size of the residential habilitation cuts and the absence of funding for ACT teams, peer support, and other services, while others argued the program’s rapid growth and federal funding dependence justified the reductions. The committee also adopted unchanged standard language from the prior bill and approved new language requiring the department to report by year-end on rules citing Idaho Code 56-202 and to justify or repeal any unsupported rule sections. The committee then approved language for the Department of Water Resources, including filing-fee language and reappropriation authority for ARPA State Fiscal Recovery Fund money, by unanimous consent. It next considered the Workforce Development Council budget, including consolidation of the STEM Action Center into the council and a budget-neutral transfer among expenditure categories; that motion passed. The committee also approved a FY 2026 supplemental reduction for the STEM Action Center and then a FY 2027 reduction that zeroed out the STEM Action Center’s standalone budget in connection with the consolidation, both with do-pass recommendations. Finally, the committee considered language for the Office of the Attorney General restoring about $980,000 from the Consumer Protection Fund. After discussion, members removed “continuous appropriation” wording and replaced it with a regular appropriation for a two-year period. Some members objected that the language would divert dedicated consumer-protection money and reduce general fund reversions, while supporters said it would help cover personnel costs and avoid layoffs. The amended language passed with a do-pass recommendation. The chair then announced the committee would meet the next day to address public schools and IDLA and adjourned the meeting.

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• I think that when the town, the selectmen, city council, budget committee, whoever is working on this
• </c><00:51:21.040><c> committee,</c><00:51:21.440><c> whoever</c> city council, budget committee, whoever
• city council, budget committee, whoever is<00:51:21.920><c> working</c><00:51:22.079><c> on</c><00:51
• And what it does is it puts a cap on how much the select board or the budget committee can propose to
• </c> much the select board or the budget much the select board or the budget committee<01:19:56.960><

Committee: House Municipal and County Government