Video & Transcript Research : 'budget amendment'
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NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Finance Division II (03/14/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- to like the budget lines.
- And then, for them to get into the budget, they'll require an amendment; that'll require a vote.
- And then, for them to get into the budget, they'll require an amendment; that'll require a vote.
- I would budget that noticed-required work session to be brief, so that we can budget a regular budget
- I would budget that noticed-required work session to be brief, so that we can budget a regular budget
Summary:
The Finance Division II work session focused on organizing the committee’s remaining budget work and reviewing a set of recommended changes to House Bills 1 and 2. Mr. Landrian explained the committee’s tracking sheets and draft amendment package, noted that the division was being asked to find roughly $200 million in reductions, and said the governor’s lottery proposal in House Bill 2 could help offset part of that target. Members also discussed how revenue estimates tied to fee changes would be handled, with the chair saying the committee could seek Ways and Means input but would ultimately decide the estimates itself.
The committee then considered four mostly technical amendments to House Bill 2. It voted unanimously to delete Section 81, which duplicated CCSNH dual and concurrent enrollment language already moving in House Bill 192; to delete Sections 143 and 144, which duplicated police standards and training extra-duty language already in House Bill 778; to adopt a correction to Section 151 that removed an inadvertently repeated sentence; and to delete Section 178 because the same Lottery Commission language already appears in House Bill 1. The committee also agreed to approve Section 4 of House Bill 1, the Lottery Commission boilerplate language, while deferring action on Section 2 of House Bill 1 until the university and community college budget is settled.
A substantial portion of the meeting was spent planning upcoming work sessions and discussing possible revenue measures. The committee planned to invite Fish and Game on Monday to review a large set of follow-up materials and to discuss a possible amendment requiring hunters and trappers to pay the license fee before taking free training classes, with a second chance to retake the class if needed. Members also discussed possible fee adjustments for Safety and Fish and Game, including using dedicated-fund fees to reduce reliance on general funds and help stabilize the Highway Fund and Fish and Game Fund. The chair emphasized that all actions were recommendations until the committee’s final deadline and encouraged members to review draft language carefully before voting.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Finance Division III (03/28/2025)
Transcript Highlights:
- This is a budget math principle. This is a budget process.
- What I'm confused about is whether this amendment deferred any financial impact beyond the current budget
- Ripple to get an amendment, and the amendment to the amendment is before us.
- Walner amendment. Walner amendment.
- No, the amendment doesn't specify a figure, but we are carrying 300,000 on the budget sheet.
Summary:
The Division 3 work session focused largely on amendment 1176 to HB 2, which would have incorporated the substance of HB 548FN, a House-passed bill creating a direct-pay or membership-based model for health care facilities. Representative Mlan described the proposal as a way to increase competition in health care by extending the direct-care model used in primary care to facilities, arguing it could encourage innovation and that concerns about widespread harm to critical access hospitals were overstated. He pointed to Oklahoma’s long-standing Surgical Center model as evidence that the approach had not spread broadly or displaced hospitals there.
Several members and witnesses raised concerns. Representative Stringham questioned whether the model would shift profitable services and patients away from existing hospitals, potentially worsening their finances and affecting Medicaid-related funding. David Ross, speaking for county nursing homes, opposed the language because it also removed moratoriums on nursing home, skilled nursing, inpatient rehabilitation, and self-pay beds, warning that it could increase pressure on Medicaid rates and undermine community-based care. Ben Bradley of the New Hampshire Hospital Association said the proposal appeared to create a separate regulatory framework for direct-pay facilities and raised concerns about patient safety, CMS participation rules, and a separate patient bill of rights.
The chair concluded that, because HB 548 was already moving through the Senate, the HB 2 process was not the best vehicle for the policy and that the issue should be left to the Senate’s more deliberative committee process. Representative Ferski moved to not accept or remove amendment 1176 from the agenda, and the committee approved the motion by roll call, 9-0, withdrawing the item from HB 2.
NH
New Hampshire 2025 Regular Session
House Municipal and County Government (03/10/2025)
Municipal and County Government
CA
California 2025-2026 Regular Session
Assembly Floor Session Jun 29th, 2026
California House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- Budget Chair.
- amendments.
- budget agreement.
- This includes amending the budget to adjust state funding to conform to actual program costs and utilizes
- Senate Bill 111 by Senator Laird, an act to amend the state budget and making an appropriation therefor
Summary:
The Assembly convened after a quorum call, prayer, and pledge, then moved through a largely procedural session with several unanimous-consent motions, guest introductions, and budget-related trailer bills. Members also adopted resolutions recognizing June as Dairy Month and June 2026 as Electronic Dance Music Month, and later approved H.R. 88 commemorating the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Guest introductions highlighted the Los Angeles Dodgers, San Diego Kappa League, Assembly staff member Mukhtar Ali, and Jennifer Levy, who is advocating against drunk driving after the death of her son.
On the floor, the Assembly considered a series of Senate budget trailer bills presented by Assembly Member Gabriel. SB 170 reorganizes housing and homelessness agencies; SB 171 makes labor-related cleanup changes; SB 172 addresses general government, broadband, and NextGen 9-1-1; SB 174 extends remote court hearings and related court provisions; SB 177 advances options related to Medi-Cal and employer contributions; SB 180 extends the California Competes tax credit and conforms tax treatment for certain savings accounts; SB 169 covers transportation and DMV-related provisions; SB 168 creates a zero-emission vehicle incentive program and other clean-energy changes; SB 166 implements natural resources and environmental protection budget items; SB 165 extends the skilled nursing facility financing framework; SB 163 updates developmental services; and SB 135 funds higher education initiatives, including community college enrollment and Cal Grant changes. Most of these measures passed with bipartisan support, though several drew opposition over concerns about bureaucracy, fees, oversight, or policy direction.
The Assembly also passed SB 719, which updates vehicle-related protections for domestic violence survivors, SB 97, an urgency bill making clarifying changes to digital financial asset law, SB 1350, which supports hydrogen and clean energy development, and SB 1344, which aims to reduce meritless lawsuits delaying affordable and supportive housing projects. AB 182, which sets the order for proposition numbers on the November ballot, was approved despite criticism that it manipulates the ballot numbering process. Votes on the measures were recorded, with many passing on strong margins and several transmitted immediately to the Senate or Governor as noted in the proceedings.
AR
Transcript Highlights:
- Budget.
- So with that, we'll go to Amendment 1 on Senate Bill 29. Amendment 1 to Senate Bill 29.
- Amendment is adopted. Please send to engrossing. Amendment 1 to Senate Bill 51.
- House Bill 1050 by Joint Budget, an act for the Office of the Treasurer of State, Amendment 74 property
- We, your committee on joint budget to whom was referred Senate Bill 77, recommend due pass as amended
Summary:
The Senate convened, took the roll, offered prayer and the Pledge, and then moved into budget business. The chamber adopted amendments to Senate Bills 29 and 51, then approved several groups of appropriation and supplemental appropriation bills from Joint Budget. The first batch included Senate Bills 76, 10, 16, 23, 24, 55, and 59; the second batch included House Bills 1006, 1013, 1016, 1033, 1048, 1050, 1054, 1065, 1078, 1081, 1082, 1084, 1085, 1086, 1087, and 1088; and the third batch included House Bills 1091, 1092, 1094, 1095, 1096, and 1097. All passed by 33-0, and the corresponding emergency clauses were adopted.
The Senate then adopted Senate Resolution 23 honoring longtime Senate public information officer John Pendleton Reed upon his retirement after more than 35 years of service. Reed and several senators spoke briefly about his career and institutional knowledge. After a recess, the Senate also adopted Senate Resolution 26 congratulating Justin Tate of Elkins for being selected as a Special Olympics “guardian of the flame,” and Senate Resolution 27 recognizing the Elkins High School Elks as the 2025 Class 4A football state champions.
Later, the Senate adopted an amendment to Senate Bill 77 removing a proposed GAD transfer tied to AETN/PBS matching funds, and then approved a supplemental budget calendar containing Senate Bills 8, 20, 30, 36, 41, 43, 58, 63, 67, and 73. Those bills also passed 33-0 with emergency clauses. The body received additional committee reports and notices, including Senate Bill 1’s return from the House, and members discussed upcoming scheduling, including possible Revenue and Tax Committee action on a homestead tax credit measure, before adjourning until Monday at 3 p.m.
MN
Minnesota 2025-2026 Regular Session
House Human Services Finance and Policy Committee 4/10/25
Human Services Finance and Policy
Transcript Highlights:
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- This budget is a challenge.
- This budget is a challenge.
- This budget is a challenge.
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NH
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
House Rules and Legislative Administration Committee 3/5/25
Rules and Legislative Administration
Transcript Highlights:
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to Minnesota Constitution be amended to Minnesota Constitution be amended to - This constitutional amendment takes away the ability of Minnesotans to influence the tax and budget decisions
- So I will not make that amendment today. We do not have an amendment deadline.
- So I will not make that amendment today. We do not have an amendment deadline.
- Does that include budget reserves?
WY
Wyoming 2026 Regular Session
House Floor Session-Day 4, February 12, 2026-PM
Wyoming House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
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- Wyoming's budget process allows for amendment and addition to the original recommendations by the chief
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WY
AR
Transcript Highlights:
- It is Amendment JAR 143.
- Members, do we have any questions on the amendment to Senate Bill 31 or the amendment to Senate Bill
- I move that we hold Amendment JAR 133. We hold Amendment JAR 133 on House Bill 1034.
- Amendment to House Bill 1050 or the amendment to House Bill 1033? All right.
- There's this budget here, and then there is the local county budget.
AR
Transcript Highlights:
- We, your Committee on Joint Budget, to which was referred Senate Bill 10, recommend due pass as amended
- Amendment 1 to Senate Bill 4.
- I move we adopt Amendment 1 to Senate Bill 59. Amendment 1 to Senate Bill 59.
- So basically, members, this resolution, this non-budget resolution, is a budget bill.
- When I came in, Medicaid was, I think, 24% of the budget. It got up to 32% of the budget.
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House Finance Division III (04/20/2026)
Transcript Highlights:
- So, the amendment to Senate Bill 481 FNA, as amended by Amendment 1503H, ought to pass as amended.
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- Senate Bill 663, FNA, amendment including Amendment 528 H, ought to pass as amended.
Summary:
Division Three of the Finance Committee met in work session on April 20, 2026, to consider Senate Bills 481, 603, and 663, with the discussion focused primarily on SB 481, relative to the sale of the Sununu Youth Services Center property. The chair explained that the bill was advisory only and that the committee’s recommendations would go to full Finance on April 27. For SB 481, members reviewed conflicting provisions in the prior budget law about whether sale proceeds should go to the general fund or the Youth Development Center Claims and Administration Settlement Fund, and the bill was described as a compromise that would direct proceeds to the general fund before June 30, 2027, and to the settlement fund after that date. It was noted that the settlement fund had originally received about $20 million and had roughly $10 million remaining.
The committee also received an extensive update from DCYF Director Marie Noonan on the new Youth Development Center in Hampstead. She reported that construction remained on schedule, with major structural and interior work complete, substantial completion expected in late summer or early fall 2026, and occupancy anticipated in early 2027. The presentation highlighted the facility’s design features, including single-occupancy bedrooms, sensory rooms, an education wing, medical and clinical suites, visitation space, a gym, and multiple outdoor courtyards, all intended to support a trauma-informed setting. Members asked about the facility’s funding, square footage, fencing, and scanner; staff said the building is about 34,000 square feet, funded entirely with federal ARPA state recovery funds to date, and that the scanner is on site but not yet operational pending policy and staff training.
Committee members also raised concerns about the facility’s design and security. In response, DCYF said some concrete walls are required for structural and safety reasons, but they are being painted to maintain a brighter environment, and that the fencing will be about 15 feet high with privacy netting because the campus is shared with Hampstead. Officials said the new facility is legislatively limited to a maximum of 12 youth, while the current center can house 12 to 18, and emphasized that courts ultimately determine placements. No votes or final actions were taken during the work session.
VT
Transcript Highlights:
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- The amendment makes it very clear that the hospital budget process is under the purview of the Green
- Their budget process, and comes down with their budget orders and decides how much of hospital budgets
Summary:
The House took up S. 190, a health care cost-containment bill relating to the Green Mountain Care Board, reference-based pricing, and a study of a public employee health benefit authority. The House first suspended rules to take the bill from the notice calendar, then heard committee reports from Health Care, Ways and Means, and Appropriations. The Health Care committee chair described the bill as a strike-all amendment intended to carry out Act 68’s hospital reference-based pricing timeline, saying it would let the Green Mountain Care Board begin implementation for fiscal year 2027, expand reference-based pricing to qualified health plans and the Vermont Education Health Insurance program, and address hospital pricing transparency, outsourcing, and critical access hospital Medicare outpatient cost-sharing issues.
Supporters argued the bill would lower insurance costs, help reduce property taxes, and improve hospital sustainability by reducing the need for hospitals to limit access as they approach revenue caps. The Ways and Means committee said the bill could reduce education spending by lowering health care costs for school employees and reported the bill favorably on a 7-4 vote. The Appropriations committee said it reviewed the bill and an amendment, and noted that much of the detailed language would be changed by the appropriations amendment; it also discussed a possible state innovation waiver under the Affordable Care Act. The Health Care committee reported its strike-all amendment favorably on a 10-0 vote.
The bill’s provisions were described in detail, including requiring hospitals and insurers to express rates as a percentage of Medicare, setting a path toward national median hospital prices by 2030, limiting certain reimbursements for QHP and VHI plans, requiring a report on hospital outsourcing and provider tax impacts, and creating a public health system performance tool if funding is available. The speaker also noted that the bill would not affect critical access hospitals or Vermont’s Medicare-dependent hospital in the reimbursement cap provisions, and that critical access hospitals were already working with the Green Mountain Care Board on solutions to Medicare outpatient cost-sharing concerns.
AZ
Transcript Highlights:
- SB 1835, an act amending section 5572, as amended by Laws 2024, chapter 210, repealing section 5572,
- So does this budget, or what parts of this budget, address the groundwater crisis, the drought?
- They're all in this budget.
- So this budget... ...live in their homes and have self-sufficiency. So this budget falls short.
- budget bill.
Summary:
The Senate convened with prayer, the Pledge of Allegiance, roll call, and several guest recognitions, including a student honored for a national Mandarin speech contest, a Ms. Black Arizona candidate, and a Madison Elementary School reusable-tray pilot program. The body also recognized interns and approved the prior journal. The chamber then moved through Committee of the Whole calendars and adopted committee reports recommending passage of a series of budget-related bills.
The main legislative business centered on the 2026-27 budget package and related omnibus measures, including appropriations, budget implementation, capital outlay, commerce, criminal justice, environment, health care, higher education, human services, K-12 education, state property, revenue/taxation, and transportation bills. Most of these measures were advanced with do-pass recommendations, with repeated debate focused on the tax omnibus and the overall budget’s policy choices. Supporters argued the package provided affordability, tax relief, conformity with federal tax changes, reduced government spending, and reforms to entitlement and other programs; opponents argued it favored corporations and wealthy taxpayers, cut health care, food assistance, housing, tourism, wildfire response, and education, and would forfeit federal matching funds.
Several members specifically criticized the failure to close the data center tax exemption and to raise sports betting taxes, while supporters defended those provisions as pro-business and pro-growth. There was also discussion of fund sweeps, including university research funds, housing trust funds, and other agency balances, with opponents saying the sweeps targeted encumbered or already-committed money. After debate, the Senate adopted Committee of the Whole reports and advanced the bills, and later took up House bills introduced and placed on third reading, with members explaining their votes on HB 4138, the General Appropriations Act, largely along party lines.
At the end of the session, the Senate processed messages from the House requesting the return of SB 1160 and SB 1786 for reconsideration, and the Senate requested the House return HB 2415 for reconsideration. The chamber also introduced and placed several House budget bills on third reading, including HB 4138 through HB 4153, continuing the budget process.
NH
New Hampshire 2026 Regular Session
House Finance Division III (02/13/2026)
Transcript Highlights:
- . amendment. amendment.
- . budget. budget.
- Oh, a second to ought to pass with amendment. amendment. amendment.
- Um, as amended, all this bill does is remove the directive that the department put this into their budget
- HP 1515 FNA as amended with amendment HP 1515 FNA as amended with amendment 0690H 0690H 0690H passes.
Summary:
The House Finance Division 3 work session opened on February 13, 2026, with the chair outlining the committee’s advisory role and the possible motions available under House Rule 45. The committee then took up House Bill 1569, concerning the Philbrook Center/state hospital campus property, and heard extensive testimony from Commissioner Charlie Arlinghouse. He explained that the property is currently one parcel and state law prevents subdivision unless a separate Senate bill, identified as SB 572, is enacted to fix the legal issue. He said HB 2 directed the sale of the property but did not address subdivision or marketing details, and he characterized the $5 million revenue estimate as speculative. He also said the state would first offer the property to the city or county, which he viewed as the most practical buyer and potential partner for any subdivision work.
Members asked whether the building should be retained for transitional housing or sold, what would happen after July 1, 2026, and whether other vacant state buildings could absorb the current occupants. Arlinghouse said there are no firm plans for the building if it is not sold, and that HHS would remain until a sale occurs. He described the building as not especially historic or attractive and noted plumbing issues, while also acknowledging HHS’s view that it could serve as transitional housing. He said there is no reserve stock of office space, that the state already rents substantial office space in Concord, and that some nearby state buildings are either under renovation or only partially usable. He also said the Executive Council would have to approve any sale and that moving costs are usually not budgeted in advance, leaving the using agency to absorb them.
Several members raised concerns about relying on asset sales to balance the budget, citing past examples where projected real estate revenue did not materialize on schedule. Arlinghouse agreed that one-time revenue should generally be used for one-time expenses, but said the state sometimes has legitimate reasons to sell assets and that such decisions depend on the state’s needs. He estimated the state rents roughly 100,000 square feet of office space in Concord at about $25 per square foot, and said he would provide a more exact figure later. In response to a question about whether the state should include a right of first refusal if the property is later resold, he said that idea had not been considered but could make sense, especially if the buyer is the city or county. No votes were taken during this portion of the work session.
US
US Federal 2025-2026 Regular Session
US House Floor Proceedings (Wednesday, March 18, 2026)
US Federal House Floor Meeting
Transcript Highlights:
- They present this unbalanced budget amendment.
- Uh I budget constitutional amendment.
- It it doesn't balanced budget amendment.
- budget amendment. I yield back. budget amendment. I yield back.
- budget amendment before. budget amendment before.
HI
Transcript Highlights:
- A floor amendment to House Bill 2275 CD1. >> Madam Clerk, please identify the amendment. >> Floor Amendment
- please identify the amendment. >> Floor Amendment number nine, proposing an amendment to House Bill
- please identify the amendment. >> Floor Amendment number 10, proposing an amendment to Senate Bill 2471
- the amendment.
- I wish to offer a floor amendment to HB 1823 CD1. Madam Clerk, please identify the amendment.
MN
Minnesota 2025 1st Special Session
Committee on State and Local Government - 04/03/25
State and Local Government
Transcript Highlights:
- and Budget.
- Management and Budget. Management and Budget.
- The amendment is adopted. say no. The amendment is adopted.
- , services budget and the budget omnibus, services budget and the budget omnibus, there<01:28:48.320
- and uh and will budget out of our budget and uh and will budget out of our budget for<01:29:52.320
TX
Transcript Highlights:
- As chair of Article 3, the largest share of the Texas budget, I'm proud of this budget.
- Article 3, the largest share of the Texas budget. I'm proud of this budget.
- Updated budget forecasts for certain programs created new costs to the budgets.
- This is Mike Morrissey's 40th year, his 20th budget. budget.
- Questions on the amendment? Purpose? Questions on the amendment or the, yes.
Summary:
The Senate opened with an invocation and then took up several conference committee matters and resolutions. It granted the House request for a conference committee on House Bill 46 and adopted a conference report on Senate Bill 37, which was described as higher education governance reform, including stronger board authority, changes to faculty senates, general education requirements, and a new ombudsman office. Senators also adopted a large package of resolutions and HCRs by voice vote.
A major focus was Senate Bill 12, the “Parental Bill of Rights,” whose conference report was adopted after extended questioning. The bill was described as giving parents more access to school materials and grievance procedures, requiring parental consent for student clubs, and restricting school district employees from assisting with social transitioning or related gender-identity instruction. Senators raised concerns about effects on students already socially transitioned and on parental rights in medical or psychological decisions; the author said the House language was retained in key areas and that districts would need policies and parent notification. The report passed 20-11.
The Senate then adopted a resolution allowing the conference committee on Senate Bill 1, the state budget for fiscal years 2026-2027, to go outside the bounds, and later adopted the budget conference report. Senators highlighted major funding for public education, property tax relief, public safety, health and human services, child care, water and transportation infrastructure, and the Texas Energy Fund. The budget discussion also covered higher education, mental health facilities, community attendant wages, rural hospitals, DFPS case management, child care assistance, and a study rider on TRS. The report passed unanimously, 30-0.
Finally, the Senate suspended rules to take up Senate Bill 8 and adopted its conference report. The bill requires counties with jails or jail contracts to participate in the federal 287(g) immigration enforcement program, with sheriffs choosing among available models and counties receiving tiered grants to help cover costs. Supporters framed it as a public safety measure targeting criminal illegal aliens, while opponents questioned whether it would divert local resources and increase fear in immigrant communities. The report was adopted after debate.