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ID
Transcript Highlights:
- We spent over 400 hours processing those receipts, and it was a very big ask for the service providers
- we found from this analysis was that almost half of supplemental learning funds in this group were spent
- Any of the funding that isn't spent on staffing is allowed to be used as discretionary funding.
- In total, ILA's education service providers spent $12.5 million providing supplemental learning funds
- They did have more control over how that money was spent and distributed across their various schools
Summary:
The committee first approved the January 26 minutes by voice vote, then was reminded to review draft rules in their folders and on their drives, with rules expected to be taken up the following week. The main presentation was from the Office of Performance Evaluations on the Idaho Home Learning Academy (ILA), a district-authorized virtual public charter school based in Malad City that serves students statewide and has grown rapidly since the pandemic.
OPE described ILA’s model, including its use of three education service providers, part-time certified teachers, and supplemental learning funds for families to buy curriculum, technology, and enrichment. The report found that ILA students generally lag the state average on standardized tests, though their achievement gaps are similar to other large virtual schools. OPE also said most instruction is asynchronous and parent-led at home, and that many families choose ILA for customization and access to supplemental funds; in a survey, 71% said they would leave ILA if those funds were eliminated.
The second part of the presentation focused on virtual school funding. OPE said ILA uses existing state funding formulas in ways that create large discretionary balances, including through staffing, health benefits, and attendance rules, and that it paid $12.5 million in supplemental learning funds through its providers in 2024-25. OPE raised concerns about inconsistent provider policies, limited oversight, and unclear statutory guidance for virtual schools, and recommended clearer rules for supplemental funds and a funding framework tailored to virtual education. Committee members asked about per-student costs, dual enrollment, testing integrity, private providers’ finances, and whether students can use ILA without paying supplemental fees; ILA representatives said the school provides a free base curriculum, follows state testing rules, and is working on improvements and forthcoming legislation to increase accountability and transparency. No formal action was taken beyond approving the minutes.
NM
Transcript Highlights:
- So how much total has the governor spent out of that fund? What do we fund it with originally?
- And then what has it been spent? For?
- years, and I still never got the total of what we actually appropriated to that, but the governor spent
- Last session, but we approved $150 million; she spent $380 million. That's correct.
- taxpayer dollars, and we must continue to demonstrate that we're being responsible in how they are spent
ND
North Dakota 2026 1st Special Session
Water Topics Overview Committee Mar 26th, 2026
Water Topics Overview Committee
Transcript Highlights:
- I'm just curious how much has been spent. I better ask the expert.
- We've actually spent 663 out of me. Chairman Swiontek, Senate.
- I'm just curious how much has been spent. I better ask the expert.
- We've actually spent 663 out of me. Chairman Swantec, Senate.
- So we would have all those funds spent by 2030.
Summary:
The Water Topics Overview Committee met with a quorum and heard updates from Department of Water Resources Director Reese Haas and Lieutenant Governor/State Water Commission Chair Michelle Strinden on statewide water funding, major projects, and two legislative studies requested in House Bill 1020. Haas reviewed the status of the Northwest Area Water Supply and Southwest Pipeline projects, noting NAWS construction is expected to move water by fall and Southwest’s Hebron-Rugby expansion phase one is in final design with bids expected next month. He also summarized the department’s budget outlook, including Resources Trust Fund and Water Project Stabilization Fund balances, the effect of oil price volatility and stripper well exemptions on revenues, and the status of project buckets, carryover, lines of credit, regionalization, bid trends, and administrative/process updates.
Committee members asked about project prioritization, municipal funding demand, maintenance expectations, replacement versus deferred maintenance, and whether the 2025 session may have underfunded municipal water supply needs. Haas said the commission uses the same high/medium/low prioritization process across all buckets, reviews maintenance plans as part of policy, and is seeing strong demand in the municipal bucket. He also explained that the department’s 14-year projection is based on the next seven legislative sessions and that the state faces a projected $1.3 billion shortfall over that period if all planned projects are funded under current assumptions.
Deloitte then presented draft findings from the cost-share policy study and the governance/finance study. For cost share, Deloitte said the model shows a roughly $1.3 billion shortfall over 14 years and about $1.8 billion through 2031 under current policy, and offered seven options including tighter eligibility for replacement projects, state funding caps for the Mouse River and Red River Valley projects, a priority-based cost-share scale, timing shifts, use of existing lines of credit, and delayed reimbursement timing. For governance, Deloitte outlined draft options for Southwest, NAWS, and Red River ranging from maintaining current structures with stronger planning to transferring ownership or adding formal oversight, and recommended broader use of performance metrics, long-term financial planning, and clearer decision trees. No votes or formal actions were taken; the commission discussed the scenarios and the studies will return in revised form later in the spring.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Finance Division I (02/24/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- probably wasn't spent no it wasn't<01:27:15.840><c> spent</c><01:27:16.360><c> uh</c><01:27:16.600><
- But really, when you're looking at what was budgeted and what was spent, you know, spent is actual.
- </c><01:38:12.280><c> actual</c> what was spent you know spent is actual what was spent you know spent
- </c> was budgeted in um fy2 will not be spent was budgeted in um fy2 will not be spent and<01:38:40.960
- </c><01:38:51.800><c> gotcha</c> Not be spent.
Summary:
The committee first heard the Banking Department’s fiscal year 2026-2027 budget presentation from Commissioner Amelia Galeri. She described the department as a self-funded consumer protection regulator overseeing two main areas: the Banking Trust Division, which supervises state-chartered banks, credit unions, and trust companies, and the Consumer Credit Division, which oversees more than 7,000 licensees including mortgage and money transmitter businesses. She said the department’s budget is about 86% salaries and benefits, with 53 positions all filled, and explained that the agency funds itself through fees, fines, and end-of-year assessments on regulated entities.
Galeri said the department is facing workload growth from several directions: continued growth in the trust industry, increased fintech supervision, and a new requirement to regularly examine auto dealers that take finance applications, which adds about 300 exams over two fiscal years. She said the department was directed to flat-fund its budget based on 2025 levels but was allowed to increase travel and training. To stay within that limit, she said the department reduced office space, went paperless, converted administrative and licensing positions into examiner positions, and expects to defund an embedded DOJ database administrator position once a new SharePoint system is fully implemented.
Members asked about how the department’s revenue and assessments work, including whether fees were increasing and how much existing banks would pay. Galeri said fees are not being raised, most banks pay little or no fines, and assessments are based largely on asset size, with trust companies paying the bulk. She also explained that fines are set by statute, generally capped at $2,500 per violation for consumer credit entities, and said she would not recommend increasing that cap. The committee then voted to accept the Banking Department’s budget proposal as presented in HQ1, with a motion and second and no discussion.
The transcript then moved to the Department of Energy budget. Commissioner Jared Chakin and Chief of Operations Lenny Radio discussed federal program funding, including LIHEAP fuel assistance and weatherization. They said the apparent drop in fuel assistance funding from FY 2024 actuals to the budgeted amount is due to the loss of ARPA and CARES Act supplemental funds, while weatherization remains a federally constrained program with a waiting list and limited flexibility. Members also asked about a proposed transfer from the renewable energy fund; staff said the transfer would still allow the department to carry out its statutory duties for the year, though the committee deferred deeper discussion until House Bill 2.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy Committee 2/10/25
Fraud Prevention and State Agency Oversight Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> state senator Jason Ric and I've spent state senator Jason Ric and I've spent over<00:03:35.360>
- </c> I wonder if that money has been spent or not spent, or, you know, we don't even have square one
- You care about how it's spent, whether it's spent efficiently.
- </c> your money you care about how it's spent your money you care about how it's spent whether<01:31:
- </c> ensuring that money's being spent ensuring that money's being spent efficiently<01:32:08.600><c>
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Higher Education Finance and Policy Committee 3/17/26
Higher Education Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- We have a proven track record, and historically we ensure that 90% of our appropriations are spent or
- How much have we already spent on that project? >> Vice President Roberts Davis. >> Mr.
- How much have we already spent on that project? >> Vice President Roberts Davis. >> Mr.
- How much have we already spent on that project? >> Vice President Roberts Davis. >> Mr.
- How much have we already spent on that project? >> Vice President Roberts Davis. >> Mr.
Bills:
HF4266
Keywords:
higher education, state grants, financial aid, college affordability, Office of Higher Education, Minnesota State Grant, need analysis, expected family contribution, student aid, grant formula, living and miscellaneous expense allowance, dependent student, independent student, parental contribution, student contribution, surplus appropriation, biennium, summer 2026, 1183, house
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Tuesday, June 9, 2026)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- </c><00:33:58.960><c> In</c> spent her life building bridges. In spent her life building bridges.
- He spent time with Hendrickk Racing.
- Republicans spent years represents.
- I've spent the past two Air Force.
- ><c> for</c><06:04:57.520><c> improved</c> spent my career fighting for improved spent my career fighting
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House State Government Finance and Policy Committee 3/12/26
State Government Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- </c> This is money well spent This is money well spent on<00:31:06.200><c> socialization</c><00:31:07.200
- And for me, this is money well spent.
- </c><00:33:56.240><c> The</c> for me, this is money well spent.
- The for me, this is money well spent.
- Um as a result, they've spent out of it.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- We spent all last week hearing about how the basic allotment needs to be higher, that our schools are
- When the appropriation is when the money is spent, that's—no more kids can enter the program.
- There is a lot of money being spent because people genuinely think this is a good idea.
- And we have spent public funds. We have done the Texas Equalization Grant.
- Right, but the remainder could be spent on marketing and that's state money, right?
Bills:
HB 3
Keywords:
emergency communication, public safety, interoperability, Texas Interoperability Council, grant program, emergency communications, public safety radio, first responders, radio system, dispatch, 911, emergency management, Texas Division of Emergency Management, public safety infrastructure, Project 25, P25, broadband emergency alerting, outdoor warning sirens, homeland security, disaster response
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Human services budget bill aimed at 'restoring trust' passes House 5/11/26
Minnesota House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Speaker. to be spent from all of the members of to be spent from all of the members of the<00:17:29.440
- </c><00:28:47.279><c> in</c> these dollars that are being spent in these dollars that are being spent
- So again, another amendment spent.
- hours and hours and hours have spent hours and hours and hours working<00:31:12.559><c> on</c><00:31
- Literally spent all winter long doing it, Mr. Speaker. That's what Representative No did.
WY
Wyoming 2026 Regular Session
House Floor Session-Day 2, February 10, 2026-AM
Wyoming House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- I spent two years in hospitals before finally being released.
- hospitals</c><00:37:46.960><c> before</c> spent two years in hospitals before spent two years in hospitals
- </c><01:08:37.359><c> over</c> session and uh the committee spent over session and uh the committee spent
- </c> wouldn't be able to store that spent wouldn't be able to store that spent fuel<01:23:19.199><c>
- </c><01:24:30.800><c> nuclear</c> number three, storage of spent nuclear number three, storage of spent
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Transportation Finance and Policy Committee 2/24/25
Transportation Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
- Interestingly, the 2023 legislature actually spent $4 million on this extension study.
- Interestingly, the 2023 legislature actually spent $4 million on this extension study.
- Interestingly, the 2023 legislature actually spent $4 million on this extension study.
- Interestingly, the 2023 legislature actually spent $4 million on this extension study.
- Interestingly, the 2023 legislature actually spent $4 million on this extension study.
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
Committee of Conference on SB 534 (05/22/2026
Transcript Highlights:
- So, the House committee spent probably about 2 and 1/2 to 3 hours overhauling the bill.
- But we spent a little more time being a little more careful with the statute.
- Um Um Um but<00:07:17.080><c> we</c><00:07:17.400><c> spent</c><00:07:18.040><c> a</c><00:07:18.080><
- 18.320><c> more</c><00:07:18.520><c> time</c><00:07:18.840><c> being</c><00:07:18.960><c> a</c> but we spent
- a little more time being a but we spent a little more time being a little<00:07:19.160><c> more</c><
Summary:
The Committee of Conference on Senate Bill 534 met to reconcile House and Senate versions of a bill dealing with foreign influence in elections and related election-law provisions. The House members explained that they had spent several hours revising the bill line by line to better fit existing statute, while preserving the substance of the Senate bill. Senator Lang reported that, after meeting with the Secretary of State, his concern about a foreign entity using a lobbyist for procurement matters was resolved, and he said the House language addressed election-law and warrant article issues rather than procurement issues.
Senator Rosenwald raised concerns that the House version broadened the bill too far into local elections and could burden or discourage candidates for local offices such as select board, library trustee, or fire commission. In response, House members said the bill does not require local candidates to form committees or file new reports; instead, it prohibits foreign entities from donating to local campaigns and makes enforcement complaint-driven through the Attorney General’s public integrity unit. They said an earlier affirmation requirement had been removed and characterized the change as closing a loophole for foreign funding of local candidates and measures.
After discussion, the Senate voted to accede to the House position, with the chair calling the vote and announcing that the ayes had it. The committee then discussed placing the measure on the consent calendar, but that plan was dropped because of an anticipated objection. The meeting concluded with adjournment.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
Resuming the Fight Against Fraud – Senator Heather Gustafson Mar 13th, 2026
Minnesota Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- recipients are operating accordingly and just another set of hands to make sure that our dollars are being spent
- >> Yeah, I mean, so in my first term, I've spent almost all of the years working on fraud prevention.
- >> Yeah, I mean, so in my first term, I've >> Yeah, I mean, so in my first term, I've spent
- 06.480><c> the</c><00:03:06.720><c> years</c><00:03:07.040><c> working</c><00:03:07.360><c> on</c> spent
- almost all of the years working on spent almost all of the years working on fraud<00:03:08.000><c> prevention
NM
Transcript Highlights:
- gonna have start tracking with the not the ethics, the counsel to make sure that that money's being spent
- But we have spent how much do we have in FIREs between the Northern FIRE and the one in Riosa, FIREs
- So we spent 500 million in cash roughly, probably pockets here and there 500 million in cash on fires
- We had a lot of money, and we spent a lot of money to improve things.
- And so I hope everything in this budget is very clear that people can see where their money is being spent
MA
Massachusetts 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Session (Full Formal without Calendar) Jun 4th, 2026
Massachusetts Senate Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- out that, like amortization, it is important and perhaps more important than the dollars that are spent
- out that, like amortization, it is important and perhaps more important than the dollars that are spent
- And perhaps more important than the dollars that are spent in this document, like that, perhaps more
- There are merely additional dollars being spent to subsidize what is currently occurring.
- Thanks to Bianca Hoffman of the Senate Counsel's office, who has spent untold hours trying to resolve
VT
Transcript Highlights:
- And then finally, this might be the piece that both committees of jurisdiction spent the most significant
- the conference committee is is actually, you know, what I, when we got this after the whole time we spent
- That's the kind of thing that we spent time on, making sure we had those little provisions thought through
- It was a monumental task, and I so appreciate all of the many, many hours that you spent on this, as
- So, here's one of the biggest sticking points, I'd say, was that between the House and Senate spent the
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Floor Session Feb 23rd, 2026
California House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- In Detroit, Grace Lee Boggs spent decades organizing Black workers and neighbors, building multiracial
- That's years spent searching for answers while symptoms worsen and conditions progress.
- And as someone who's come through the other side and found treatment and hope, who spent all morning,
- thank you to my colleague from West LA, talking about insurance denials, I spent all morning on the
- In 1996, he joined a community-based organization by the name of Acorn, where he spent a decade helping
FL
Florida 2026 5th Special Session
Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice Feb 18th, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- Most of my 26-year career with the phone company was spent in the role of a union steward.
- Most of my 26-year career with the phone company was spent in the role of a union steward.
- I also served. ...career with the phone company was spent in the role of a union steward.
- Every dollar spent housing the frail and medically fragile is a dollar not invested in infrastructure
- Two years ago, we spent $5 million on the... In our Florida state prisons.
Summary:
The Appropriations Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice met with a quorum and took up several bills before returning to the budget and public testimony. CS/SB 600 on bail bonds was explained as revising bail bond agent training, limiting solicitation, clarifying partial release procedures, and directing clerks to automatically discharge certain bonds when detention is ordered; an amendment adjusted cash bond return rules, charitable bail fund treatment, forfeiture remission timing, and clerk procedures. The bill and amendments were adopted, and CS/SB 600 was reported favorably after supportive appearances from clerks and industry stakeholders.
The committee then approved CS/SB 436 on felony battery, which expands qualifying prior offenses for felony reclassification and adds felony battery resulting in bodily injury to prison release offender status, after a technical amendment and supportive testimony from law enforcement. CS/SB 928, known as Missy’s Law, requiring immediate remand to custody upon conviction of dangerous crimes, drew both support and opposition; defense lawyers warned of unintended effects on co-defendants and docket management, while the victim’s family supported the measure. The bill was reported favorably. CS/SB 1332 on career offender registration, requiring more frequent in-person registration and stricter reporting, also passed favorably.
The committee next approved a substitute amendment and then CS/SB 682 on violent criminal offenses, which strengthens domestic violence penalties, electronic monitoring, injunction protections, and related procedures, including military protective orders and body camera use. CS/SB 1072 creating an anti-Semitism task force in the Attorney General’s Office was reported favorably after extensive public debate over definitions, free speech concerns, and representation on the task force; the sponsor said the bill does not criminalize criticism of Israel but addresses threats and intimidation. CS/CS/SB 532 on clerks of the court was also approved, authorizing clerks to retain more revenue and, through amendment, clarifying foreclosure sale procedures and clerk administration of judicial sales.
Finally, the committee heard the criminal and civil justice budget overview, described as a $7.9 billion proposal focused on corrections, juvenile justice, law enforcement, and courts. Public testimony centered heavily on prison conditions, staffing, heat, infrastructure, and inmate care, with speakers urging higher pay, better transparency, and more investment in facilities and air conditioning. The chair announced that SB 1632 and its conforming bill would be temporarily postponed and read into the record the many registered supporters and opponents. The committee then adjourned.
WA
Washington 2025-2026 Regular Session
Senate Local Government Jan 22nd, 2026
Transcript Highlights:
- If you want to talk with me about it, I spent a decade getting funding down here in Olympia for parks
- In Birch Bay, we have spent three years researching and engaging the public, and even with an organized
- In my area, we've spent $187 million on salmon habitat, which is basically their argument is beneficial
- In my area, we've spent $187 million on salmon habitat, which is basically their argument is beneficial
- He spent a lot of time advocating for it in the House and was successful.
Summary:
The committee heard several local government bills. Senate Bill 6181, sponsored by Senator Conway, would let county legislative authorities in certain large western Washington counties file a city incorporation petition without collecting resident signatures if the area is fully within an urban growth boundary and has more than 25,000 people. Supporters from Pierce County said the current signature requirement makes incorporation too difficult for large urban unincorporated areas like South Hill, while opponents argued the signature threshold is an important test of community support and raised concerns about boundaries, taxes, and the adequacy of the bill’s details. Senate Bill 6132 would give the Port of Moses Lake additional bonding authority tied to a tax increment financing area to help finish a rail project; the port said rising costs and a pending federal grant made the extra flexibility necessary.
The committee also heard Senate Bill 6154, which would give local governments more flexibility in how they use hydraulic project approval permits for culvert replacement. Counties and cities testified that many emergency culvert repairs are expensive and that some sites provide little fish habitat benefit, so they want the option to redirect equivalent resources to higher-priority fish passage projects elsewhere in the watershed. A few commenters supported the bill as a practical way to improve habitat and flood resilience, while one remote witness objected to the broader legal framework for salmon habitat projects. Senate Bill 6189 would extend from July 1, 2026 to July 1, 2028 the deadline for creating an additional public facilities district for regional aquatics and sports facilities; Olympia, Tumwater, and regional partners said they need more time to complete feasibility and coordination work for a proposed aquatic center.
In executive session, the committee took action on several bills. It adopted a substitute and passed Senate Bill 6037 to Ways and Means, adopted a substitute and passed Senate Bill 5983 to Rules, and passed Senate Bills 5995 and 6013 to Rules without amendments. For Senate Bill 6066, the committee adopted an amendment into a new substitute and passed the bill to the Transportation Committee. The committee did not take action on Senate Bills 5820 or 6064.