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MO

Missouri 2026 Regular Session

Special Committee on Property Tax Reform Mar 5th, 2026 at 08:00 am

Special Committee on Property Tax Reform

Transcript Highlights:
  • The Special Committee on Property Tax Reform will now come to order.
  • to deduct that percentage from what's applied to personal property when they're working out their budgets
  • of talking about property tax reform, we talked about that the blind pension fund was the only fund
  • And if we move that out into the budget process, As a few of us served together on budget, we know how
  • , but yet allow them that ...this year of tight budgets to become more lean, but yet allow them that
MA

Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Session (Full Formal with Calendar) Jul 1st, 2026

Massachusetts Senate Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • President, binding powers to approve, modify, or reject the statewide decarbonization plan, its budgets
  • The information the board reports will guide future oversight or structural reform and governance of
  • for them, all we are doing today is continuing to provide unaffordable services under the guise of reform
  • it more crucial if Massachusetts... continuing to provide unaffordable services under the guise of reform
  • Every budget that we have taken up has also been a housing budget.
Summary: The Senate continued debate on House 5175, An Act Relative to Energy Affordability, Clean Power, and Economic Competitiveness, taking up a series of amendments focused on clean energy procurement, oversight, gas infrastructure, housing impacts, and ratepayer costs. Amendment 22, offered by Senator Rogers, was rejected 5-34 after he argued the underlying bill already improves clean energy procurement and reduces utility middlemen. Senator Tarr then offered Amendment 34 to expand reporting, oversight boards, and consumer representation, and to strike provisions on consumer choice, gas program frameworks, and municipal procurement authority; it was also rejected 5-34 after supporters of the bill said the legislation already strengthens oversight through the EEAC, a new review board, and DPU audits. The chamber also considered Amendment 77 by Senator Eldridge to end ratepayer-funded gas line extension subsidies for new construction. Supporters said the subsidy unfairly shifts costs to all ratepayers, favors gas over cleaner alternatives, and could save about $1.6 billion over ten years; opponents argued it could raise housing construction costs, especially for gateway cities and large projects. After extended debate, the amendment failed 19-20. Senator Moore withdrew Amendment 65, which would have created a commission on reducing emissions from medium- and heavy-duty vehicles while preserving long-term zero-emissions goals. Several other amendments were adopted, including measures on low-income discount charges, environmental justice protections, data and tax printing, and increased access to plug-in solar. The Senate also adopted the Ways and Means amendment, ordered the bill to a third reading, and then passed it to be engrossed by a roll call vote of 32-8. Separately, the Senate adopted a Judiciary extension order after removing two bills from it, and agreed to adjourn in memory of Robert G. Najarian.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session 3/23/26 - Part 2

Minnesota House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • It could use some reform, but the reform that we need is not voting down this bill.
  • It could use some reform, but the reform that we need is not voting down this bill.
  • It could use some reform, but the reform that we need is not voting down this bill.
  • It could use some reform, but the reform that we need is not voting down this bill.
  • It could use some reform, but the reform that we need is not voting down this bill.
US
Transcript Highlights:
  • So, we're here to pass a budget bill.
  • The Senate Budget Committee will mark up a budget resolution for fiscal year 2025 today.
  • Wicker and Moran back in 1998 had a very bipartisan budget; we'd have a balanced budget.
  • That's the Chairman's budget.
  • Now to the budget for today.
AZ

Arizona 2026 Regular Session

01/21/2026 - House Appropriations

House Appropriations Committee of Reference

Transcript Highlights:
  • We do need to do some reforms.
  • I hope we have some reforms that the executive would agree to and we're making the budget, because we
  • Other executive budgets that are far closer together in terms of base revenue budgets. Haven't you?
  • He's giving us the baseline budget.
  • Want to talk about the executive budget? Their budget is $18.7 billion.
Summary: The Committee of Appropriations met on January 21, 2026, and first considered House Bill 2116, which would appropriate $1 million in fiscal year 2027 to the Colorado River Litigation Fund. The sponsor and Arizona Department of Water Resources both supported the bill, describing it as a backup measure to protect Arizona’s Colorado River entitlements if post-2026 negotiations among the basin states fail. Members discussed how the bill relates to the governor’s separate Colorado River Protection Fund proposal, and staff clarified the two funds serve different purposes. The committee approved HB 2116 on a 17-1 roll call vote. The committee then took up House Bill 2053, which would provide $100,000 for updated stormwater recharge mapping and expand the work beyond state trust lands to private lands. An amendment in the chair’s name was adopted to extend the coordination timeline, broaden the agencies involved, and revise language about mapped sites and appropriable surface water. The sponsor said the bill is intended to identify more places to capture stormwater for recharge rather than letting most rainfall evaporate. ADWR testified neutrally, supporting the mapping effort but raising a concern about language that could be read as requiring the department to determine whether water is appropriable, which it said is a legal question for the courts. The amended bill passed 11-7. House Bill 2148, as amended, was then heard and approved 11-7. The bill would give the legislature authority to appropriate non-custodial federal monies and set requirements for those appropriations. The chair’s amendment excluded federal research grants to universities, university employees, and the Arizona Board of Regents. The sponsor framed the bill as a transparency measure, saying the legislature should know how federal funds are being spent. No outside testimony was offered, and the committee approved the measure after debate about legislative oversight of federal funds. After the bills, the committee received a lengthy JLBC presentation comparing the executive budget with the JLBC baseline. Discussion focused on revenue forecasts, tax conformity, sports betting, lottery and tourism revenue assumptions, SNAP administrative costs and error-rate penalties, developmental disability and Access caseload growth, and K-12 enrollment and ESA spending. Members repeatedly questioned the executive budget’s use of one-time funding for ongoing costs, especially for SNAP administration and DES staffing, and expressed concern about rising supplemental needs and the lack of long-term budget capacity. No votes were taken on the presentation.
NM

New Mexico 2025 Regular Session

House - Appropriations and Finance Mar 20th, 2025

House Appropriations & Finance

Transcript Highlights:
  • We have the budget. We also have the LSC summary here.
  • reform funds?
  • Will that have any impact on next year's budget, or is that gonna work? Mr.
  • So we did not address it within the budget.
  • It's the highest cost to every state budget across the 50 states.
WA

Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Ways & Means Feb 5th, 2026 at 01:30 pm

Ways & Means

Transcript Highlights:
  • , but raising the current excise tax isn't reform.
  • And in order to do that, we need some pretty comprehensive tax and market reform.
  • We've asked them how they're making room in their budgets.
  • This may be another year of constrained budgets.
  • Costs will vary depending on county size, budget, and the agreed-upon solutions.
Committee: Senate Ways & Means
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Legislative Leader Media Availability 6/6/25

Minnesota House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • So there's more policy than we would like in these budget bills, but they are mostly budget bills and
  • So there's more policy than we would like in these budget bills, but they are mostly budget bills and
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  • </c> complete budget agreement passed. complete budget agreement passed.
  • </c><00:18:36.559><c> for</c> there are things in this budget for there are things in this budget for
MA

Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session

Joint Committee on Public Service Jun 21st, 2026 at 01:00 pm

Joint Committee on Public Service

Transcript Highlights:
  • I hope to do two things today: explain how police reform has affected harbormasters, and speak to the
  • During the passage of police reform, the council worked directly with the newly formed Massachusetts
  • This simple change would allow Neshoba to budget for this expense during the normal budgeting period.
  • Our current operating budget is $1.8 million every year.
  • Reforms are needed, and they're needed now.
Summary: The Joint Committee on Public Service heard testimony on a wide range of retirement, municipal workforce, and public employee labor bills. Early testimony focused on H. 2749, a Plymouth home rule petition to classify Plymouth harbormaster employees as Group 4 for retirement purposes. Supporters, including local officials and retirement board representatives, argued the employees perform law-enforcement and rescue duties comparable to police and fire personnel, that the change would be fair, and that it would have little or no fiscal impact on the town. A separate harbormaster-related bill, H. 2743, was also introduced later in the hearing. The committee also heard testimony on provisions of the Municipal Empowerment Act (H. 56), including a temporary critical-shortage exemption allowing retired state or municipal employees to return to work in hard-to-fill positions, and a renewed OPEB commission to study retiree health care costs. Administration and municipal officials said the measures were needed to address staffing shortages and rising benefit liabilities, while emphasizing the shortage exemption would be time-limited and require proof of recruitment efforts. Related retirement bills drew support and caution: advocates for higher COLA bases and enhanced COLA benefits urged relief for retirees, but some asked the committee to wait for recommendations from the special COLA commission before acting. A major portion of the hearing concerned labor rights at the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority and the Committee for Public Counsel Services. Union representatives and employees backed bills to extend just-cause protections, promotional rights, and collective bargaining rights to MWRA and CPCS workers, arguing they currently lack protections available to most other public employees. Testimony described unfair discipline, delayed promotions, and high turnover, and committee members indicated prior favorable action on similar MWRA bills and expressed support for addressing CPCS labor rights. The committee also heard from representatives of the Massachusetts Municipal Association and public higher education employees in support of H. 2820, which would require timely funding of ratified state employee contracts, with witnesses describing long delays in receiving negotiated raises and back pay. No votes were taken during the hearing, and the chair repeatedly invited written testimony and closed each panel after questions.
MA

Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session

Joint Committee on Public Service Jun 21st, 2026 at 01:00 pm

Joint Committee on Public Service

Transcript Highlights:
  • chief doing a lot of work not only with the public safety building but also in the midst of other reforms
  • chief doing a lot of work not only with the public safety building but also in the midst of other reforms
  • As a point of reference, the governor had included this language in Section 25 of her FY26 budget.
  • As a point of reference, the governor had included this language in Section 25 of her FY26 budget.
  • Due to pension reform changes in 2013, the cost to buy Section 3 service purchases are calculated using
Summary: The committee heard testimony on several public service and retirement-related bills. Senator Kelly Dooner and Rep. O’Rourke supported a Taunton home rule petition to extend Chief Walsh’s service during the city’s transition to a new public safety facility, citing the need to manage new equipment, cameras, and 911 systems smoothly. Senator Lovely testified in favor of bills expanding retirement savings access through the SMART Plan and the CORE Plan, arguing that automatic enrollment and broader eligibility would help state, municipal, and nonprofit workers save for retirement. No questions were raised on the Taunton petition, and the hearing later moved through the remaining testimony without any votes taken during the transcript. Mary Waldron of the Old Colony Planning Council and Jeffrey Walker of the Southeast Regional Planning and Economic Development District urged support for legislation protecting regional planning agencies from being required to make retroactive payments to the State Retirement Board for past employer contributions. They warned that the costs would be unsustainable, could force layoffs or closures, and would jeopardize their ability to provide transportation, housing, economic development, and planning services. Bill Keith and Patrick Charles of PEREC testified on several retirement administration bills, including measures to ease statement-of-financial-interest filing rules, require payment for certain creditable service purchases, and clarify the definition of wages to include sick, vacation, and personal time; committee members asked questions about regional transit authorities joining retirement systems and about adding local retirement board representation to a proposed commission. Jonathan Osimo and Rob Fabino of the Massachusetts Teachers Retirement System supported bills to penalize delinquent pension reporting by employers and to create a special commission to study retirement credit purchases, saying better reporting would improve retirement processing and that a broader review could improve fairness and sustainability. Eddie Boynton of the Braintree Education Association backed the SMART Plan bill, describing how automatic enrollment and low-fee fiduciary oversight could protect educators from high-cost supplemental retirement products. Matthew Nugent testified for a bill to divest public pension funds from firearms and ammunition. After the final witnesses, the chairs asked if anyone else wished to testify, heard none, and then adjourned the hearing.
MA

Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session

Joint Committee on Revenue Jun 21st, 2026 at 10:00 am

Joint Committee on Revenue

Transcript Highlights:
  • With this bill, we propose a package of common-sense reforms and new tools that will help cities and
  • We know our residents' budgets are also being stretched by the costs of housing, electricity, heat, and
  • Municipal budgets are under enormous strain.
  • Changes to state aid helped us meet rising costs that we have to contend with each budget year.
  • Municipalities have few ways to address these budget constraints.
Summary: The Joint Committee on Revenue held a hybrid hearing on several property and local tax bills. The main focus was H.56, the Municipal Empowerment Act, which the Healey-Driscoll Administration, the Massachusetts Municipal Association, MAPC, and Salem Mayor Dominick Pangallo supported as a package of local options and administrative reforms. Supporters said municipalities need more tools to relieve pressure on property taxes and fund services, citing proposed increases to local meals and lodging taxes, a new local vehicle excise surcharge, senior property tax relief, one-year override flexibility for emergencies, and central valuation of telecom and utility property by DOR. The administration said the bill was based on municipal listening sessions and was intended to give cities and towns optional, not mandatory, revenue tools. Opponents, including the National Federation of Independent Businesses, argued the tax increases would hurt restaurants, hotels, tourism, and small businesses and add to affordability concerns. The committee also heard testimony on H.3211, dealing with deeds excise receipts, from Norfolk County Commissioner Richard Staidi. He said Norfolk County is financially stable but needs additional revenue for major capital needs at its agricultural school, especially a new cafeteria and other aging facilities, and also to support county programs such as veteran transportation services. On S.2020, a bill to allow settlements of tax liability, Greater Boston Legal Services, the Asian American Civic Association, and several individual taxpayers urged creation of a more workable offer-in-compromise process at DOR. They said the current system is too subjective, requires an unaffordable $5,000 threshold, lacks clear standards and appeal rights, and leaves low-income taxpayers stuck with unmanageable debt, license suspensions, or business closures. Supporters said the bill would give both taxpayers and DOR a practical way to resolve liabilities and bring people back into compliance. The committee also took testimony on S.1966, which would require nonprofits selling property to disclose any back-tax obligations to buyers. Senator Peter Durant said the bill was prompted by a personal experience in which a tax bill arrived after a nonprofit property purchase was already completed, and he argued the disclosure would prevent buyers from being surprised by retroactive tax liability. No votes were taken during the hearing, and the chair closed the session after hearing from all scheduled witnesses.
CA

California 2025-2026 Regular Session

Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee Feb 11th, 2026

Budget and Fiscal Review

Transcript Highlights:
  • Current budget year or the budget we're considering this year, but it's important to remember a couple
  • For CalFresh, the Governor's budget reflects a net increase of $300 million General Fund in the budget
  • in the 2025 Budget Act.
  • The budget reflects them?
  • As mentioned before, the governor's budget maintains mostly a workload budget.
VT

Vermont 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Session - 2026-03-19 - 1:00PM

Vermont House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
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MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

Committee on Education Finance - 01/22/25

Education Finance

Transcript Highlights:
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CA
Transcript Highlights:
  • We are here to discuss the California Earthquake Authority's SB 254 report and options for reforming
  • But inverse reform is agnostic to municipal versus investor-owned.
  • We put inverse reform there as a continuing discussion.
  • And then the second pillar is targeted damages reform and modifications to subrogation.
  • Nossier Hernandez here on behalf of the Utility Reform Network.
Summary: The Assembly Committee on Utilities and Energy held a hearing on the California Earthquake Authority’s SB 254 report and broader options for reforming California’s utility wildfire recovery system. The chair framed the discussion around the Palisades and Eaton fires, the scale of wildfire-related costs on utility bills, and the need to weigh trade-offs among survivors, ratepayers, utilities, insurers, and taxpayers. The first panel featured wildfire survivors William Abrams and Joy Chen, who described long delays in compensation, housing insecurity, and what they viewed as a system that protects utility shareholders more than victims. They urged greater transparency, clearer accountability for utility spending and safety performance, faster and fuller compensation for survivors, and reforms such as independent audits and better alignment of utility incentives with wildfire prevention and restitution. The second panel began with Tom Welsh of the California Earthquake Authority, who explained that the SB 254 report was intended as a broad inventory of policy pathways rather than recommendations. He described the report’s process, including stakeholder submissions, workstreams, and a convergence process, and outlined the current wildfire fund structure: utilities remain liable, the fund reimburses eligible claims after a covered wildfire, and the CPUC later determines prudency and possible reimbursement back to the fund. RAND’s Lloyd Dixon summarized compensation data, saying utilities paid about $38 billion between 2017 and 2024, with major shares going to injured parties, insurers, and public entities, while litigation costs and survivors’ own losses remain substantial. He noted that legal fees and delays reduce the amount survivors ultimately receive. Utility and public-interest witnesses offered differing views on the report’s pathways. PG&E’s Tyson Smith said the report shows inaction is the worst outcome and argued for community wildfire risk reduction, equitable allocation of catastrophe costs, and state-led resilience tools. LADWP’s Fernando Valero emphasized the vulnerability of municipal utilities and cities, and supported inverse condemnation reform, a state-sponsored liability insurance framework, damages and subrogation limits, and stronger insurance access. Consumer Attorneys of California’s John Fisk argued that IOU-caused fires are not natural disasters but the result of negligence and sometimes criminal conduct, and opposed reducing utility liability while supporting stronger oversight and audits. The Public Advocates Office’s Nathaniel Skinner focused on affordability, saying ratepayers already bear large and growing wildfire costs and warning against shifting more costs onto bills without measurable risk reduction and tighter accountability. Committee members then began questioning witnesses about what counts as measurable mitigation, how to define full and fair compensation, and how any fast-pay process should work.
MA

Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session

Formal House Session 40 Apr 29th, 2026

Massachusetts House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • This is not targeted reform. This is a broad exclusion.
  • Many of our local cities and towns are facing budget crises.
  • This House Ways and Means budget increases local aid over last year’s final budget and over the governor
  • Our budget before us allows us to be nimble.
  • This budget provides $6.68 million This budget provides $6.68 million for the Commonwealth Zoological
MA

Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session

Formal House Session 40 Jun 21st, 2026 at 10:51 am

Massachusetts House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Because the reforms are already in place.
  • So today, I am proud to support this budget. I am proud to support this budget and this provision.
  • This House Ways and Means budget increases local aid over last year's final budget and over the governor's
  • Our budget before us allows us to be nimble.
  • This budget provides $6.68 million This budget provides $6.68 million for the Commonwealth Zoological
Summary: The House began with routine business, including the Pledge of Allegiance and adoption of three congratulatory resolutions honoring Eagle Scouts Charles Goodman, Jack Goodwin, and Liam LaCrooy. Members also adopted a House-Senate concurrence on House 4359, a Milford alcohol-license bill, after amending it to repeal Chapter 289 of the Acts of 2022 and set an effective date. The chamber then passed Senate 2596, establishing maintenance of private roads in Gloucester, and engrossed House 4887. The House also observed moments of silence for former Lynn City Councilor Richard Rick Ford, Louise M. Pedroso, and Mildred “Millie” Cox, and welcomed several guests, including students, civic visitors, and British Minister of State Stephen Doughty. The bulk of the session focused on budget amendments related to housing and emergency assistance. Amendment 1579, which would have tightened HomeBASE eligibility by requiring citizenship-status inquiries, was debated at length and defeated 26-130. Amendment 1582, which would have barred Housing and Livable Communities from conditioning grants on MBTA Communities Act compliance, was also rejected 27-126. Amendment 1583, which would have limited right-to-shelter eligibility to U.S. citizens with six months’ Massachusetts residency, was defeated 26-122. Supporters argued these changes would reduce costs and prioritize taxpayers; opponents said they would exclude lawful residents and undermine existing housing and shelter reforms. The House then adopted Consolidated Amendment F, covering energy, environmental affairs, and housing, by a vote of 154-0. Speakers highlighted major funding for rental vouchers, emergency shelter, HomeBASE, public housing, clean water, climate and agricultural programs, and food assistance. The chamber also considered and defeated Amendment 1218 on creating a data center commission, Amendment 1234 on eliminating certain energy surcharges, and several education-related amendments from Ms. Sullivan-Almeida: changes to special education reimbursement thresholds and rates, and a proposal to make regional school transportation funding mandatory rather than subject to appropriation. Those education amendments were all rejected after roll-call votes. Amendment 1580 on ending vocational school lottery admissions was withdrawn by its sponsor before a vote. The transcript ends as debate continues on Amendment 1308, which would increase a budget line item, but no final action on that amendment is shown.
FL

Florida 2025 Regular Session

FL House Floor Session - 2025-03-04 (10:00AM Session)

Florida House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • Speaker: Let's pass actual reforms rather than symbolic gestures.
  • : A couple of years ago, the insurance industry came to the legislature and said without sweeping reforms
  • I am challenging our Budget Subcommittee chairs to dive into the budget and find real savings in recurring
  • Where we find waste let us bring reform. Where there is injustice let us bring accountability.
LA

Louisiana 2026 Regular Session

Education Apr 29th, 2026

Education

Transcript Highlights:
  • I'm not aware that that's been budgeted for at this point.
  • No, it has not been budgeted at this point.
  • Florida, Texas, and North Carolina have implemented similar reforms, and the results are clear.
  • Florida, Texas, and North Carolina have implemented similar reforms, and the results are clear.
  • HB 1063 is the higher education equivalent of that reform agenda.
Committee: House Education
Summary: The House Education Committee met on April 29, 2026, with a quorum present and heard several higher education and K-12 bills. SB 234 by Sen. Presley, which would provide grading for medical school students, was briefly discussed and reported favorably without objection. SB 142 by Sen. Reese, dealing with continued management and oversight of Board of Regents support fund matched endowments if a related constitutional amendment passes, drew questions about endowment matching, oversight, and the roughly $75 million in unmatched requests; it was also reported favorably without objection. SB 482 by Sen. Reese, expanding the role of career coaches in middle and high school graduation planning and reporting on career development fund spending, received support from BESE and others, with committee members discussing counselor workload and district flexibility; it was reported favorably without objection. The committee then took up SB 64 by Sen. Hodges, which would require two people to review initial video/audio recordings from cameras in self-contained classrooms when complaints arise, and the bill was reported favorably without objection. HB 1063 by Rep. Owen, a broad higher education governance bill that would increase board oversight of curriculum, hiring, faculty senates, and discipline, generated extensive discussion and testimony from Rep. Owen and a representative of Parents Defending Education Action, but the author said he did not want to vote on it yet and moved to voluntarily defer it; the committee agreed without objection. HB 818 by Rep. Riser, as amended, was converted into a reporting bill requiring public inventories and state reporting on assessments, with Cynthia Posey of the Louisiana Federation of Teachers explaining the amendments; the committee adopted the amendments and reported the bill favorably with one opposition card noted. Finally, SB 28 by Sen. McMath, carried by Rep. Carver, would lower the age for associate teachers from 25 to 21 to help address the teacher shortage; Department of Education staff said the change could expand the pipeline, and the bill was reported favorably without objection. The committee also announced it would meet the following week on Wednesday, May 6, and then adjourned.
MN

Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session

House Floor Session 3/12/25

Minnesota House Floor Meeting

Transcript Highlights:
  • According to this, the licensing board has made no changes to reform teacher preparation in the area
  • According to this, the licensing board has made no changes to reform teacher preparation in the area
  • According to this, the licensing board has made no changes to reform teacher preparation in the area
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